I'm so pleased that my translations of Nadja Küchenmeister's gorgeous poems appear in THE OPPOSITE OF SEDUCTION, alongside so many others to explore and discover. Do read! More translation!

I don’t want to go to bed because then it will be tomorrow, it’s like the opposite of Christmas

Remarkable.

There's been a lot of terrible stuff lately so here's a seal enjoying life. おやすみなさい

i would do anything for love, but i won’t douthat

Disappointing.

The fact that Alice Weidel – co-leader of Germany's far-right extremists – calls Hitler a "communist" and compares Nazis to "leftish Palestinian" antisemites in ONE sentence epitomizes exactly the type of distorted discourse the liberal center in Germany has helped normalize over the past 15 months.

A poem by the slanderous bard Leigh Bell for Merrick Garland, our coward-in-chief, who belongs not in hell but wandering around outside, lost, hesitant, indecisive

Aaaaaah.

Today I went through the sightread-piano-version-of Frozen-soundtrack phase of translation.

Westward.

So glad I found #9LC for even more lessons and carols, after many performances by my small chorister here in Seattle this month.

I have reached the point at which being this mother-in-law is high on my list of life goals.

Didn’t take long for this post to become newly relevant.

really sad that CEOs now have to live in fear of gun violence like some third-grader in a public school

I dwell on this daily for the sake of my mental health.

This banger is more than a century old: it’s a 1923 textile design in gouache by the Constructivist artist Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958)

Second Sunday

bringing back a Christmas classic

The replies to Brian Thompson’s last post on LinkedIn — all from before the shooting — are a horror show

A nurse's statement about United Health Care (sorry about Twitter post, but I felt this one was important).

"UnitedHealthcare makes its money by denying necessary care to people who need. Brian Thompson was a mass murderer. He killed adults, he killed children. He murdered them with spreadsheets and contracts. He did it for money. Thompson was...a very well paid killer." Via @matthewcort.land

This year I am not fucking around.

Yes, yes, politics and violence and coups, but the issue truly preoccupying me today: where can I get fresh parsley root?

Democracy is not a prophecy; it is self-actuating. We must choose every day to continue this grand experiment. We must choose every day to accept the duty our forebears entrusted to us. We must choose every day to affirm the certainty of this legacy for future generations.

The German government is asked to stop Axel Springer‘s contributions to landgrabbing in the West Bank, writes @hahauenstein.bsky.social: theintercept.com/2024/12/03/a...

Doomers are worried people will shrug off videos of blue haired baristas getting clubbed, when what they’ll actually see is identifiable clergy, nuns, and rabbis staring down some military guys who Did Not Sign Up For This

Why not Tiber Monday, where you go for a contemplative walk along the banks of an ancient Roman river

Frankfurt 1830 or so, looking remarkably like Lisa Simpson.

A little glimpse into the amazing #invertebrates that live alongside us in downtown #seattle! Thanks for joining me @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social

It's our Year in Reading list for 2024! With recs from Aditi Machado, Temperance Aghamohammadi, @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social, @syntacticon.bsky.social, Tessa Bolsover, Toby Altman, Elijah Guerra, Andrea Quaid, Jonathan Gharraie, & @aliciawright.bsky.social— annuletpoeticsjournal.com/2024-Year-in...

Older kid turns 15 today. We gave him hoop earrings, a boxed set of the game of thrones books and the latest translation of Marx’s Capital.

Neithe of mine went to college — is this why I don’t care about college sports?

Apparently there is an annual festival on a German island as part of which the island men beat women violently. Um.

The 14 yo is becoming Zizek-pilled. What should I do?!

Isn’t reading Kant essentially like reading the terms and conditions anyway

Self-portrait of the German nun Guda, scribe and illuminator: "Guda peccatrix mulier scripsitque pinxit hunc librum." Frankfurt, Stadtund Universitätbibl. Ms. Barth. 42; 12th century; f.110v

Congee, but it’s couscous.

Wtf NYT?

As I was saying…

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Books we had to hide when selling my mother’s house.

I never thought the egg prices would eat *my* face

Cool worm things: The tube of Diopatra cuprea. Made from algae and shells of the dwarf surf clam (Mulinia lateralis). This species of polychaete is also known as plumed worm or the decorator worm. #NoVERMber 📸GeorgiaLifeTraces.com

Germany will not arrest genocidal Netanyahu "because of its Nazi history", says Chancellor Olf Scholz. He forgot to add that Germany has no problem arresting Jews who dare oppose genocide. Is this also because of Germany's Nazi past? www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2... x.com/yanisvaroufa...

Had an extra cup of sour cream and some moods to boost. Ergo: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025...

Not all conversations worth having are happening in English. —Mónica de la Torre, on the value of translation

“Anyone who perceives religion as a single category or silo needs to be shown that religion doesn’t function that way.” Yes! And also: why is this so hard to get across?