Your regular reminder that the evilest people in history have often been well educated and deeply cultured. Say it with me: *Education 👏 does 👏 not 👏 produce 👏 empathy.*

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Drawing rosehip all the time

This is what happens when I watch the news, y'all.

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

That we have raised citizens who need a "translation" of a book written in 1935 into "modern English" is a substantial part of why it is, in fact, happening here.

Мария Шарапова. (Извините. Я простая лесбиянка.)

Homodoxy needs to raise $1k to be able to apply for grants through its fiscal sponsor. If you'd like to help kick off this queer press's journey: fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/homodoxy

*whispers aside to you conspiratorily behind her hand*: "I'm in this one."

Probably the most accurate personality quiz I have ever taken: uquiz.com/quiz/2McPid/...

Would read/watch.

My God, what a magnificent, thoughtful, heart-wrenching piece.

any book can become infused with garlic aioli if you try hard enough and believe in yourself

"Jews cannot weave rugs. If they could they would weave rugs now in their own country and would show the international community that they are able to weave rugs." I am absolutely losing it. 🤣

Does anyone know a village that needs just one more to upgrade? I'm available. 📚📖

This is a beautiful reflection piece on language and heritage.

I also have this question. Insights would be appreciated.

I lost an earring backing on the way to work, so I replaced it with a small corner of an eraser I cut off with an xacto knife. I am now MacGyver.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

I'm way too jaded at this point to care about "academic freedom" or "democracy"; I just think Florence posts bangers and I want to continue reading them, and this is outrageous from that standpoint also.

books should automatically come with time to read them

This. I've been stuck in a field I didn't (and don't) want to work in for twenty years because--at 19--I let my parents railroad me into finishing college and it became functionally impossible to retrain. The system's a prison.

I rag on men a lot, so I feel obliged to give credit where it is due.

Free pro tip: when using Google Translate from English to French, if you want to switch from informal-you to formal-you, end the sentence with "sir." To achieve the opposite, end it with "you bastard." E.g., "You had one job, you bastard." (I'm rehearsing my lines en route to meet my landlord. 🫠)

Once again, the good folks @themetaworker.bsky.social have done me the kindness of setting one of my shape poems. I am ever grateful for their meticulousness. (And @erswrites.bsky.social, I'd run to the grocery store for you anytime. ❤️)

It's 8:15am and @elvirrrah.bsky.social just taught me the Russian word for "Albigensian". It's really hard to see how the day could top that. Now it's all downhill from here.

Меня волнует, что фразу "альбигойский крестовый поход" можно петь на мотив "оренбуржский пуховый платок". Раньше я пела "и сыграй мне, родная, под вечер оренбуржский хуевый панк-рок", теперь вариации с паладинами выдумываю

Беловежские соглашения.

Get a sneak peek at four poems from this year’s NEW WRITING SCOTLAND – via @booksfromscotland.bsky.social – from Kevin Cormack, @reyzlgrace.bsky.social, & Zain Rishi 💙📚 booksfromscotland.com/2025/08/a-ch...

Hypothesis: Nikolai Klyuev and Avrom Sutskever are the Christian and Jewish versions of each other, respectively.

If I had a time machine, I'd use it to stab through the hand with his own quill every chronicler who ever wrote "he married a daughter of..." SHE HAD A NAME, ASSH*LE!

Charlie Kirk publicly called for me to be "eradicated from public life" and "taken care of" by vigilante violence. If one of his fanboys had gotten to me before somebody got to him, there wouldn't be any flags flying at half-staff. That's all I'm saying.

I'll be reading at the launch party for the new issue of @lilacperil.bsky.social this Tuesday at 7 CDT if anyone cares to join us!

The first time a magazine publishes your work, you figure the editors were just drunk. But the *second* time, you know you've made some real friends. It is such a pleasure to be back in @themetaworker.bsky.social with this difficultly shaped little bird poem. 💜

Осенние цели.

I am begging Americans to learn history. After the Revolution separated Finland from Russia, both countries had "Red" vs. "White" civil wars. The Finnish Whites won & had esoteric convos about zoning. The Russian Reds won, fixed prices, & declared the dissolution of the kulaks. *gestures at Europe*

I swear to God, everybody, you can still have a Western country full of gay Westerners. (И точно так же у нас может быть евразийиская страна, полная геев-евразийцев.)

מוד.

Я весь день смотрела за просмотром старых татарстанских музикальных клипов, и теперь боюсь что я застрала в постоянном кислотном трипе.

никто: я, еду на сходочку с друзьями:

People should probably brush up on their LatAm history, just, in general, because everything here right now is kind of confirming my thesis statement of last year, which is "The US is not a European country- it is a Latin American country that, by historical coincidence, speaks English primarily."

יאַנקל האָט גערעכט.

Glagolitic! On a tram!

Я тоже.

this is how translators make a living by the way

"I took your silence as I took the anguish in your face, / as part of the effort to move..." - from Louise Glück's The Triumph of Achilles

Wow. This by @bkfischer.bsky.social helped me feel sane again: