Apparently, Shtukin's 1987 book was a posthumous reedition of his original 1957 publication. He died in 1963 at the age of 59, the 14 years spent in Soviet camps clearly took a heavy toll on his health. It's astounding he'd been holding on to Ancient Chinese poetry through all those hard years.

If this pride you'd like to kick in a few bucks to Gavin Grimm's GFM that funds a trust for his benefit: www.gofundme.com/f/gavin-grim... (disclosure: I'm a trustee)

Finished C. H. Wang's "The Bell and the Drum" about Shi Jing. Turns out Alexei Shtukin in his 1987 rhymed Russian translation was right to translate "yellow birds" (黃鳥) from the poem I.I.2 as "иволги" (orioles), cause Wang says it was one of the multiple standard periphrases for orioles there.

The cats Hazelnut and Timsah almost caught a swift who accidentally flew into the window this morning.

Camilla boldly steps forward to literally confirm @2damntrans.bsky.social's point about the angry middle class as one of the main shaping forces behind the right-wing sentiments in British politics.

"the bill would reduce monthly fruit and vegetable benefits from $52 to $13 for breastfeeding mothers and from $26 to $10 for young children."

Hastings museum had an LGBT history exhibit and there was a bit on a trans guy and a cis woman who married in 1954 that I found moving

RIP Marjane Satrapi.

The cruel political intrigue revealed halfway through the novel sorta reminded me of Adrian Tchaikovsky's novels, especially the parts in which the plot doesn't fully match Armenian history from our timeline. The ethnographic descriptions scattered across the text made the world feel deep and vivid.

"It’s unfortunate that almost none of the people behind these accounts know very much about the ancient world." Unfortunately, ignorance is not the only thing wrong with them. @bretdevereaux.bsky.social on Elon Musk's X and the fascist statue accounts: www.thebulwark.com/p/why-stone-...

The past years have seen horrendous attacks towards trans people. We have a duty to protect the most vulnerable members of our communities. There is no Haskell without the trans people who have shaped it through the years. This June is a month of celebrations, but the struggle continues. ✊🏳️‍⚧️λ

This essay hit me really hard, because it describes the experiences common to so many trans people: not being able to live as anything but your true self, being locked out of your own true identity for decades, or failing to convince all the imaginary interlocutors yelling at you inside your head.

as I have noted before, the existence of language without conscious thought is already well-attested by think tank papers and CCP documents.

as part of the BBC’s on-going commitment to representing a diversity of ideas, June will be Pride & Prejudice Month

John Steinbeck, not so much "returning" edits as throwing them through the publishing house window wrapped around a brick

Every headline about Trump’s flailing foreign policy is “What if pigs could fly?” And the then subheading continues “if pigs could fly everything would change!” And then the lead is “everything we know about pigs is that they cannot fly and will never fly… but can they fly just once?”

THREAD: I AM NOT GOING QUIETLY: The EHRC’s New Draft Code is erasing my human rights. I am 74 years old, and I am watching my human rights being stripped away in real time. 1/17

Musical artists whose name is also a complete sentence: • Britney Spears • Tom Waits • Ben Folds • Don Was • Harry Styles • Bill Withers • Michelle Shocked • Luke Combs • They Are Gutting a Body of Water

My father was born w/o a left hand. Had a HS class w/a mentally disturbed student on the 4th floor. One day a bully was picking on him. The disturbed boy grabbed the bully & dangled him out the window by his feet & offered to kill him. My father declined. Bully didn’t bother him after that.

I just want to be clear about something: no protestor deserves to be gassed multiple times, slammed to the ground, beaten with batons, arrested and dumped by the side of the road ten miles away. If you are of the opinion that protestors are “provoking” this at Delaney, you need your head checked.

“Scientific collections are not static archives; they are active, dynamic tools for discovery. Every specimen represents an irreplaceable snapshot of a species at a specific point in time and space”

NEW: A likely hate crime in Chicago left a prominent trans science educator, @jeymccreight.bsky.social with severe injuries after a brutal late night beating. McCreight told @evanurquhart.bsky.social he's shaken but determined to continue his activism. CPD confirmed an ongoing investigation.

The Ket people used sturgeon glue and sinew threads to make bows and bowstrings; burbot skins - for waterproof bags; and birch bark - to make the first temporary cradles for newborns, swaddling wraps, boxes to store dried berries and meat in, and even tightly sewn-together vessels for birch sap.

They don’t care that the cast isn’t Greek. They don’t care that the armour is all wrong. They don’t care that Tom Holland in an American accent refers to Odysseus as Dad. They only care about Helen being played by Lupita Nyong'o. I WONDER WHY.

𒄿𒈾 𒀜𒈾𒀀𒋾 𒀊𒊑𒂊𒈠 𒋃𒈾𒀀 𒄿𒁕𒀀𒌅 𒄿𒇻 𒀀𒈾 𒊬𒊏𒁉 𒌌 𒉺𒊑𒄑 𒀀𒋃𒋫 ina adnāti abrê-ma šitnā idātu ilu ana šarrabi ul paris alakta I have looked around the world, but the evidence is contrary. The god does not impede the way of an evildoer.

A family in Idaho has dropped their lawsuit challenging a state law barring transgender students from using the restroom after their 16-year-old trans daughter died by suicide. Idaho AG Raul Labrador praised the decision without mentioning the girl's death or why the case was dismissed.

Kinda glad that when a Congressional candidate says “American Zionists” people recognize it’s code for Jews, almost makes up for all the people defending that Subway Takes crapfest

The Seattle Times published a full obituary for Juniper Blessing. It's a moving tribute to a life well-lived. May she rest in peace, and may UW honour and carry on her legacy. Scholarships named for her might be a good start.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

The kids booed when there was transphobic bullying and cheered to moments of trans joy and it was genuinely such a lovely afternoon. One audience member rang his son who is a librarian to ask him to order in the book immediately because he said “stories like this need to be in every library” 🥹🥹🥹

Absolutely devastating read. www.them.us/story/slain-...

The other issues of the magazine have some tasteful nudes and interesting short stories and essays which you folks should definitely check out for their artistic and historical value.

There are so many Black self-liberation stories like this - just the coolest shit anyone’s done & I truly believe that if America liked stories of revolutionaries or rebels defeating elites as much as we used to act like we do we would have mined these types of stories more for film & television.

A 19-year-old trans woman was killed in UW student housing Sunday night. Police are still searching for the suspect. She was the seventh trans woman reporter attacked in the Seattle area in twenty months, but the first to die. tinyurl.com/4kxerszd

It’s fascinating because the chupacabra feels like it should be an old myth and it’s literally a mid-90s thing

did this one already but

Labour MPs calling for an orderly transition but unfortunately their government needs to be at least 18 years old with four doctors to sign off first

Jesse Signal organized brigades to harass Trans people and you changed TOS to allow him to be unbanned

I mean this is basically all people for whom the big tent is 'we can all be anti-semites together,' not who actually want to expand a working anti-trump coalition

Creating a situation where a demographic cannot live without breaking the law, because a perimeter of laws is errected around them that'd criminalize any normal persons attempts to live or survive in society, is so people can say: "See, crime is in their blood. They cannot but be criminals!"

At this point, both the centrists and the Platner-backing "progressives" are playing some version of "if we just elect candidates that look, talk, and think exactly like Republicans we can beat the Republicans" and it will not end well

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

Chinese government continues crack down on Hong Kong workers and trade unions. Question for the campists: Do you care?

I was a bit surprised that peasants in the 19th c. Armenia grew silk, rice and opium, that are stereotypically associated with China. Though rice was grown only in 4 mahals with auspicious conditions - similar to how in Georgia tea and oranges are grown only in the regions with a certain soil type.

I guess it's combination of OCD and female sex hormones that gives me such strong Edelson effect that I start doubting material facts I know from my own life experience if somebody tells me they couldn't happen for real. Cause other trans women on femHRT say they don't feel anything like that.

That's the face of an Israeli Arab lawyer after a police raid. The reason is in the fourth paragraph: "The raid was launched following a noise complaint filed by one of the officers involved, who lives nearby." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

There are at least 10 trans councillors elected so far today according to the trans greens Instagram account which is nice ☺️☺️☺️

This is so sad, and so scary. Genuinely the sort of scenario I fear.

An anti-trans Dem in Michigan is trying to disqualify a trans woman running for the same seat over not using her deadname. She doesn't even have to, her name is legally changed. State Dems are rallying around her. We spoke with Joanna Whaley, the candidate. Subscribe to support our journalism.