nobody wants video essays anymore. all the money’s in illuminated manuscripts these days. you can write any manuscript at all – a terrible one! it doesn’t matter! some startup will still jump in your emails begging to partner with you and get it illuminated

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when you call up ur mom to fact-check a detail about her immigration experience for some piece of writing u r working on and your mom helps you and then she's like recalling all this makes me sad :'((((( sorry, mama

Heart feels heavy today, but nevertheless trying to flex my wings 🦋

Right now: feeling syntax deep in my flesh-bones. "A systematic arrangement of parts." A kind of, or preparation for, sorcery.

1650 books collected so far!!!

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🎉 Happy Publication Day to our 2024 Chapbook Prize Winner S_MMER CR_SH by Stine An (@stine.bsky.social) 🥳

It would be more honest if more people would say "I am doing OK amidst the horrors being suffered by others." It's actually not true that everything is terrible for everyone right now. We're living under unequally distributed fascism.

I actually don’t need to be a programmer to be able to look at AI-generated art, translation, or written work to deem them inferior to what a very proficient human (that’s me) can produce. It doesn’t take a tech insider to spot shoddy product being sold for a premium.

To clarify: I am doing a fully revised re-retranslation, to align my Odyssey translation more closely with my Iliad. Many phrases will be the same, including, of course, "complicated". Many will be a little different. If interested, check back in a couple of years!

I am very excited about my current project: TRANSLATING THE ODYSSEY.

ICYMI, this feature about turmoil at the ADL is really excellent and worth your time. nymag.com/intelligence...

sure, people talk about getting "friend-zoned" but what about getting "dad-zoned" or "mom-zoned"? — thoughts from my brain wyrm 🐛

ahhhh i'm at that point in my career where recent grads are hitting me up for informational interviews :O and i'm pleasantly surprised to find that i have useful things to share that leave people more encouraged than discouraged, and that feels nice 😊

why would anyone hire mckinsey if they can just ask chatgpt

just got home from work and my partner finally told me that i was wearing my shirt inside out ✨

I sent a book announcement email and forgot to attach the press release 🤦🏻‍♀️🫠🔄

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Because this is unbearable, I just gave to the Sameer Project - recommended by @prisonculture.bsky.social. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

I felt called to register for P-HOLE: p-hole.com/about-p-hole/ Sharing in case you feel called too. ✨🕳️✨

What are the kids in NYC reading these days: The New York Notary Primer

🪴✨☁︎ My debut poetry translation (5 years in the works) is dropping on July 29th 🔥 ✿.｡.:* Today's Morning Vocabulary by Yoo Heekyung *.:｡.✿ Translated from Korean by me __φ(◎◎ヘ) #poetry #koreanliterature #literatureintranslation #poetry #poetryintranslation #koreanpoetry #yooheekyung #booksky #유희경

i think i finally learned how to rebase today 🔮

ah, my adhd meds are working their magic today ~ sometimes i want to leave america but it also means losing access to critical meds... but perhaps living elsewhere might not require me to take adhd meds because the culture/lifestyle would be friendlier to my brain and way of being in the world?

Have just realized that the silly “Bezos wants to buy Vogue as a lavish wedding gift for his bride” story that’s been circulating is inaccurate - Bezos wants to buy Condé Nast which owns The New Yorker,Teen Vogue, Wired & Arts Technica because he is an oligarch who wants to crush all dissent.

All democratic leaders have a duty to stand by Zohran in the face of racist and islamophobic attacks from the right

someone confused magical thinking with magical realism lol

Everyone: don't rank Cuomo, a serial groping disgraced grandmother killer New York Times: don't rank Mamdani, a visionary young man

At long last, summer has returned, and so has the classic Paris Review ringer. Our other new additions this season are the Poetry Cap and a double-sided tote that asks: What if our logo was upside down? Shop new arrivals: buff.ly/70f4UgC

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Wow. It seems like my depression has a way of bouncing back with more sun and warmer weather.

whoa! just received this transmission from the future?

from the OST for my summer depression: youtu.be/lXop9Aup8wc?...

Nobody is rioting. Nobody is breaking any laws. These are cops in my city of Las Vegas just assaulting and arresting anyone on Fremont Street who looks at them. This is fascism.

Important message brought to you by the #NoKings march of NYC: “Don’t rank Cuomo! Don’t rank Cuomo!”

Couple things I learned today: - Seniors are extremely fired up about this - "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now - People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA - We all we got, we all we need

Overheard in my neighborhood: The fact that there is no stamina bar is nice.

I’m at that stage of combo ADHD+depression+anxiety where I have to put on a wizard hat and pretend I’m a brilliant, wise, shrewd mystical-yet-grounded being not even at the peak of my raw powers to feel confident enough (that is not drowning in crushing self-doubt) to get through the work day 🧙🏼‍♂️🫠🪄

It’s blindingly clear at this point that the protestors in Los Angeles are in fact helping to prevent a fascist takeover, and the pundits who suggested that protest is counterproductive were being either stupid or actively malicious.

The ARCs of Blood for the Undying Throne! Gorgeous cover art by Dominik Mayer, translated by the fabulous @antonhur.com Out in October this year from @torbooks.bsky.social and @orbitbooks.bsky.social UK #bloodoftheoldkings #bloodfortheundyingthrone

In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented. (Photo from a colleague in DC)

gathering my blessings and mettle for sad girl summer 🙏

i cut myself off completely from my parents for a good chunk of my twenties and it literally saved my sanity. i still to a large extent do not meaningfully interact with them. like with anything toxic, you can’t “clean” them or “cure” them. you can only minimize your exposure.

my metier has become scuttling between esoteric tech specs and occult poetries, between dusty interfaces and orphic pages, everything a divination ✨

I enjoyed teasing her at the ceremony by calling her Meryl Streep to her face (Sophie is the most longlisted translator in Booker history)