Finally a war cheered on by both a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a FIFA Peace Prize laureate. #warispeace #bonespursforpeace

it is time to undue to mistake that was the reconquista and usher in a second al-Andalus #Deconquista

As someone who learned Polish in the 1990s and who regularly works with pre-1936 texts, I now have 3 ways to “correctly” spell several words in Polish. #luckyme Gonna raise my translation fee, though…

Why just hold their feet to the fire when you can chuck in the whole leg?

First eight hours of the new year is always spent updating my kill list.

This could be us but we’re too basic.

Overheard in my own home: “2026—a fresh start with all the same stinking shit of 2025.”

The word of the year for 2026 needs to be "Nope" and the phrase of the year needs to be "Fuck that noise."

I read some things in 2025: frankgarrett.online/2025/12/book...

Final sunrise of 2025.

“…The case is that those of us older than forty are sick at soul.” #sickatsoul Szczęśliwego nowego roku. Happy new year. Feliz año nuevo.

Do I need to translate this Witkiewicz gem?

All of the celebrities I’ve interacted with were well above the age of majority.

The new aesthetic was old hat the last two times.

Wrote a new dramatic work when I was showering. Actor enters. She evokes Brigitte Bardot portraying Elizabeth Taylor portraying Bette Davis. Looks at the audience. Dismissively. “What a cunt.” Noam Chomsky enters opposite. “Who?” BB: “David Mamet.”

Boule+Boule

This year’s springerle. Baked by @shmonkey.bsky.social.

I’ve been following an artist whose work I do appreciate, but recently he has programmed AI to evaluate his art on a 1-10 scale, and his „objective” AI hasn’t scored anything less than a 9. Here’s a recent example: „9.6 / 10 – Subtle, layered, and deeply human.” It’s basically a parody account now.

A fog came up during my Christmas run, so I stopped to snap a photo. #priorities

My annual pronouncement to my husband: „It’s Christmas Eve, not Christmas, Steve.”

Haha. Good try, Christmas carol, trying to get me to pledge fealty to the „King of Israel.” #BDS

Życzę Wam spokojnej Wigilii.

Audiobook reader I’m listening to just said „dootchbag” twice, so yeah, that happened. I won’t be taking questions at this time.

Happy Yalda to my Persian lovers. 🕯️

@andreicodrescu.bsky.social Happiest of birthdays to you. 🎂

Mehmet Oz talking about his discount penis is certainly a mood. I could easily get twice that amount for mine.

Organizing new Modern Jewish Thought seminars in 2026: *Ethics w readings by Buber, Levinas, and Derrida *Poetics w readings by Jabès, Celan, and Derrida *History w readings by Rosenzweig, Shestov, and Horkheimer/Adorno Schedule & fee information tba.

Fourteen years since we said goodbye to Václav Havel, but I’m still reading him, still arguing with him, still learning from him…

In 2026 I'm teaching an informal, online 6-week course on Modern Jewish Thought. The first topic is Philosophy as Ethics/Ethics as Philosophy. We'll read Buber's I & Thou, Levinas' Existence & Existents, and Derrida's Of Hospitality. Schedule & fee information tba.

What if the Epstein Files were just the minutes and membership roster of the Juan Luis Pedro Philippo DeHuevos Epstein fan club?

D’oh! It was only after looking at the submissions guidelines that I realized I had already been published by this journal multiple times.

3/3 The issue is available both in print and online: worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/january...

Appreciate any help you can spare to keep our friends warm and afloat this winter.

Just said this aloud upon reading a headline: „Oh honey, you’ll always be postcommunist to me.”

Reskeet with your favorite meme you made.

If I see one more goddamn article about white millennial (cis/straight) men facing unprecedented discrimination, I’m going to start enslaving them.

Join me in not participating in the Carnegie Mellon UP translation hunger games. At the very least, it will save you $25.

I love my dogwood.

This. Especially when the PUS is a Russian tool.

@ron-athey.bsky.social Happiest of birthdays, sir!

Really one of the best things on the topic, and I say this as someone who cut all ties with his family 34 years ago.

I know all of you are now hanging onto the edge of your seats because of 6 7, but I personally am still reeling from finding out that 7 8 9.

I've been celebrating this since 1979.

Buy yourself a book. Even if you don’t need another book.

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I too would like to be part of a catena of concatenated, consecutional catenation! Perhaps there’s a reason that “node” can also mean: a pathological swelling or enlargement. You’d think drivel like “nexus of a global network” would be the worst offense against language & intelligence here, but no.