Just lining this trunk with something clean, took a closer look at the newspapers glued inside and they're from 1874-79. The prime minister was visiting Sua Maestà at Palazzo Pitti (weird, Florence was no longer the capital) and France was still dealing with the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian war

Yes, I would say that Germany (and Italy) do indeed have a special historical responsibility, which is exactly why they should know it's not okay to strip anyone of citizenship, ever. And distinguishing between different classes of citizens completely deprives citizenship of its meaning.

Thank goodness. They not only made it impossible for her to have an account in the US, but very difficult to find a bank that would give her one elsewhere, and impossible for her to use Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, etc. Treatment normally reserved for terrorists, drug traffickers, and the like

Hemp plastics have been an option for some time now too. Unless we FORCE manufacturing to change.. why wouid it? phys.org/news/2026-04...

After twenty-odd years of having to check, I would love, just once, to confidently remember the difference between a foreword and a preface. I even come up with mnemonics, but then forget them

My favorite part of the Rubio/pope gift exchange (aside from the fact that the pen also looked like it cost about €30, which pleases me) was learning about LBJ's one-size-fits-all gift solution

I'll never get used to how some Italian work contacts sign off with "Abbracci" after 3 emails and others stay all "Gentile dott.ssa Bishop" for 10 years. Beats the American knack for combining superficial informality with profound frostiness in the same email, I guess

More guillemots than puffins right now, but it's all good. And when the puffins run around you can hear their little feet ❤️

Oh nice, this finally came out!

Man, this is so incredibly cool. www.popsci.com/environment/...

I love having easy, instant access to most of the books I want, but one advantage of buying a physical book in a physical bookstore is that there's much less risk of accidentally buying it in the wrong language. Let alone buying the goddamn study guide masquerading as the book itself

Wednesday US tax return, Thursday dental surgery, but Orban is out so it's a great week

Lately, every time I see almonds at the supermarket, I can't help thinking how we once had a president whose wife joked that his biggest vice was eating seven almonds every night. And how this was so plausible it was reported as fact by major newspapers

My consort went to get ice cream just now after receiving intel that they have gianduja today. One of the people working there (who I don't know from Adam) immediately said "hey, your wife was here earlier, too." And that's how I realized I am now living in a town with a population of 35k

Posts reminding people not to use "zio" because it's a slur are causing me so much cognitive dissonance right now. (In Italian it means "uncle." Or, in possibly outdated teen slang, "bro.")

Putting together an analysis of all the anti trans laws over the last few years and there's never been anything like this in US history. The total number of state laws passed in 5 years (300+) approaches the total number of Jim Crow laws (400+) passed over a 100 years.

Four-week residency in Venice for IT>AR, DE, EN, ES, FR, JA, ZH translators! Mica male

Carciofi in mazzi di 3 invece di 4, mezzo chilo di broccoli preconfezionati con il prezzo al pezzo che sembra essere al chilo, burro in panetti da 200 g invece di 250: i tentativi patetici della GDO di nascondere l'inflazione. Ce ne accorgiamo lo stesso, sai

There are two big screens in my gym. One shows an “inspirational” thing with scenes from Rocky, etc. and text like “FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION. NO REST NO BIRTHDAYS NO WEEKENDS NO VACATION.” The other shows a cute animation telling you how any exercise is better than no exercise. Help

Very hard and so much fun. What's My JND? 0.0016 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

Da lavoratrice autonoma iscritta alla Sezione Traduttori Editoriali Slc – Cgil, anch’io aderisco allo sciopero domani. In Italia oltre l'80% di chi traduce a tempo pieno per l'editoria è donna: redditi medi annui sotto i €12k in diritto d’autore e nessuna tutela. Meno mimose, più diritti!

Blended carrot soup: so much better with a handful of rice and a handful of rinsed red lentils at the beginning and a tadka at the end. I'm not vegan but will take this over cream any day

Contender for the best first line in early modern poetry?? 'Silly buzzing wanton elf'

Current mood

Cicciolo ("Porky," more or less), the embodiment of Carnival. He's supposed to be burned down by the water but the 30 km winds have granted him clemency. The city council is probably psyched that they won't have to pay for another one next year

I have a foreign accent in Italian and it's part of my identity. What I do wish I could get rid of is the tendency to make slight grammatical errors - and not because I don't know they're errors, I hear them the second I say them. It's depressing to know I'll always do that in my everyday language

Today’s entry in Shit LLMs Can’t Do: track down dialect word in one-panel 1980s cartoon with no context, which scholar had glossed wrong because she is scholar not translator, turns out it means “orange,” turns out to be reference to Osho. Not literary translation, not job about dialect or Osho

The only kind of surveillance state I'm cool with

What

People tend to say that becoming a parent makes you see all babies as your babies. But really it's growing up, and being a fucking human being, that makes you see all babies as your babies. Most of the pieces of shit who are doing this are parents, and this I cannot fathom

I don't think I'm Australian and I don't think I've watched a football match since the 2006 World Cup, but then there's always a big gap between self-perception and reality

Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them. The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

This inexorable tightening of persecution is so much like what Klemperer describes in the first part of his diary. Move to the outside of the tram. Wait, no more tram. Euthanize your cat. It's not the banality of evil, it's the horrific, bullying pettiness of evil.

The book I finally finished translating about the Houses of Catechumens was interesting, but I swear to God I never want to type that particular c-word again. Especially because I had to use it in both English and Italian and only the former has an h and after 200 pages I still couldn't get it right

It’s been a long time since I’ve had to translate anything as poorly written as the article I’m working on now. Jesus, it’s so much easier to translate good prose, even very complex or experimental good prose. And it’s so hard to translate a bundle of sow’s ears even when you’re not aiming for silk

Se qualcuno che mi legge conosce bene la Spagna: perché la sinistra lì sembra messa così meglio di quella italiana? I paesi sono simili per demografia, immigrazione, cultura... la dittatura era più recente, ok. E qui, Berlusconi. Ma sta tutto lì? O mi sembra che vada meglio solo perché non ci vivo?

While of course I’m unhappy about ICE coming to Italy, at least they won’t be on the streets. Unlike the armored cars and 104 agents sent by freaking Qatar, which isn’t even in the games. It’s not the US being intrusive, it’s that Meloni loves her some cops and wants all the latest cool cop stuff

Apropos of nothing: I recently read Körmendi's 𝘉𝘶𝘥𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪 𝘬𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥⁣ in Italian (ffs, Wikipedia article that clearly draws on terrible foreword to 1978 Italian edition... no, he's not at all like Moravia, whom I loathe!) and it's a real shame that it's unavailable in English. Someone please do this

Hell yes, the US is all about greed and violence, none of this is new, I left decades ago and don't miss it. It's also all about multiculturalism and hope, and I miss the fuck out of it. This is true and that is also true. Nothing's "un-American," but the US can decide what it wants to be *more*.

As Minnesota kicks off its day of freedom from ICE, my piece on how the state's movements built power to be ready for this moment, and the closest thing to a real general strike in maybe a century newrepublic.com/article/2053...

Yes, but someone please stop me, because now that I live by the sea I'm up to 3-4 rocks a week and my apartment is only so big

Reporting from Minneapolis, Assigned's own @alyssaur.bsky.social with a powerful piece. She writes of the fear of living in a city under seige, of how Renee Good's queerness is being downplayed in legacy media, and of how the queer and trans people are rising up despite the terror.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

imagine being the guy who accidentally said "weasel" at a weird time 2400 years ago

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If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

I think they posted it not so much for the phone fumbling but to stress the couple's *visible* queerness and jocular pushback that's still pushback. To say 1) not average white mom but Other and 2) sass a cop you have it coming. Things many people who know deep down he wasn't afraid still believe

Had to replace the oven and my new one apparently has AI features. I look forward to it giving me extra fish fingers, advising me on oven-related suicide methods, and saying “Great observation, thanks! That pizza does look burnt, I set myself too high. Let's try another 20 min at 200° C."

Goddamn this is a good read: “Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.”

Theater Professors 1 - Nazis/Cowards 0 (that's 500k, by the way, not the 50k in the headline)