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As a person whose mother died in a vehicle fatality that was not in any way her fault, I approve this message
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 5:37 AM
As a person whose mother died in a vehicle fatality that was not in any way her fault, I approve this message
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Our podcast, Seattle Nice, has an exclusive in-depth interview with Mayor-elect Katie Wilson, featuring many of your questions for the city's next mayor! Listen (and subscribe) right here: seattle-nice.beam.ly/episode/mayo...
Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson says Seattle Nice is “Special” | Seattle Nice
Mayor-elect Katie Wilson turned down numerous invitations for national television appearances over the past week, telling Seattle Nice, “That is not my job.”...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Our podcast, Seattle Nice, has an exclusive in-depth interview with Mayor-elect Katie Wilson, featuring many of your questions for the city's next mayor! Listen (and subscribe) right here: seattle-nice.beam.ly/episode/mayo...
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
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The Seattle Mariners waste no time getting their man and have reached an agreement to bring back first baseman Josh Naylor. It’s a 5-year deal, per Jeff Passan.
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The Seattle Mariners waste no time getting their man and have reached an agreement to bring back first baseman Josh Naylor. It’s a 5-year deal, per Jeff Passan.
The Beths show was fun!
November 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The Beths show was fun!
Finally disambiguated Scott Adams, Scott Alexander & Scott Aaronson
November 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Finally disambiguated Scott Adams, Scott Alexander & Scott Aaronson
The David Byrne show was great!!! Life During Wartime especially!
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 AM
The David Byrne show was great!!! Life During Wartime especially!
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On the receding shores of Central Asia's Aral Sea, a Chinese man known as "the King" lives alone in a tent, digging for shrimp eggs. By Liu Zichao, a bold new voice in travel writing, translated by
@dylanleviking.bsky.social
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King of the Aral Sea • Articles • EQUATOR
A Central Asian travelogue, translated from Chinese by Dylan Levi King
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October 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
On the receding shores of Central Asia's Aral Sea, a Chinese man known as "the King" lives alone in a tent, digging for shrimp eggs. By Liu Zichao, a bold new voice in travel writing, translated by
@dylanleviking.bsky.social
www.equator.org/articles/kin...
@dylanleviking.bsky.social
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Just finished Raiders, Rulers, Traders by @davidchaffetz.bsky.social. It was great! One thing I'm wondering is: How old were horses before they were sold from the steppe to empires in Tang & Qing China and Mughal & British India? Were they consistently sold just after they reached full size?
November 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Just finished Raiders, Rulers, Traders by @davidchaffetz.bsky.social. It was great! One thing I'm wondering is: How old were horses before they were sold from the steppe to empires in Tang & Qing China and Mughal & British India? Were they consistently sold just after they reached full size?
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Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
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November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
lol
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Change in Abstract
November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Change in Abstract
Had a great time in Vancouver! This morning I went to Coquitlam and took the west coast express -> seabus, that transfer is as good as it could be. I was inspired by the book Greyhound to take a bus back from Vancouver, it was fine but the customs process was more annoying than it is on the train
November 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Had a great time in Vancouver! This morning I went to Coquitlam and took the west coast express -> seabus, that transfer is as good as it could be. I was inspired by the book Greyhound to take a bus back from Vancouver, it was fine but the customs process was more annoying than it is on the train
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(I love Adam Nicholson's books so very much, I should say, though he's hardly the only one to do this and I must again refer to one of my favorite parodies ever)
November 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
(I love Adam Nicholson's books so very much, I should say, though he's hardly the only one to do this and I must again refer to one of my favorite parodies ever)
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I better see some of y'all there🥳
Next week's @betterstreetschicago.org fundraiser just became a victory party.
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2025 Annual Fundraiser — Better Streets Chicago
Get your tickets to Better Streets Chicago's 3rd Annual Fundraiser on November 5th and help power our work for another year!
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October 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I better see some of y'all there🥳
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Don't care what people use SNAP on and never will, fuck you if you care
October 31, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Don't care what people use SNAP on and never will, fuck you if you care
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Equator is live today. Read about our mission and our first pieces, which include works of reportage, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from around the world: www.equator.org
EQUATOR
Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Equator is live today. Read about our mission and our first pieces, which include works of reportage, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from around the world: www.equator.org
Shrew at Seattle Union Arts was good! After seeing other falls theatre plays I was confused why the stage didn’t change that much for most of the time, but it was used to great effect at the end.
October 29, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Shrew at Seattle Union Arts was good! After seeing other falls theatre plays I was confused why the stage didn’t change that much for most of the time, but it was used to great effect at the end.
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just went to @stathead.com again. shohei tonight is the only guy ever to record 12+ total bases and 3 walks in the regular season or playoffs. it has never happened before in major league baseball
October 28, 2025 at 5:22 AM
just went to @stathead.com again. shohei tonight is the only guy ever to record 12+ total bases and 3 walks in the regular season or playoffs. it has never happened before in major league baseball
Finished Ruined City by Jia Pingwa. I liked the story threads through the book, the pigeon scene was crazy. There’s no way writers were anywhere near that revered thouh, right? Random policemen recognized Zhuang
October 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Finished Ruined City by Jia Pingwa. I liked the story threads through the book, the pigeon scene was crazy. There’s no way writers were anywhere near that revered thouh, right? Random policemen recognized Zhuang
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In the Times today there’s an op-ed saying that childless women may have legitimate “private” reasons for declining to give birth. But one reason I have is not private but explicitly political: I want my life to serve as a rebuke to the notion that childbearing is women’s highest or truest calling.
October 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
In the Times today there’s an op-ed saying that childless women may have legitimate “private” reasons for declining to give birth. But one reason I have is not private but explicitly political: I want my life to serve as a rebuke to the notion that childbearing is women’s highest or truest calling.
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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This is exactly the kind of thing a good editor will catch. Bring back editors. Give them human workloads so they can do what they do best—leave comments that poke holes in writers' nonsensical lines that they put in because they sound good, not because they make sense.
weird reading gripe: I'm noticing an uptick in similes and metaphors that don't quite work. it'll be like "bitter as seawater" or "in constant motion, like a cockroach." like, I get the vibe the author is going for but on a mechanical level it doesn't make any sense.
October 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is exactly the kind of thing a good editor will catch. Bring back editors. Give them human workloads so they can do what they do best—leave comments that poke holes in writers' nonsensical lines that they put in because they sound good, not because they make sense.
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Glad to have a safe haven like Bluesky sometimes. Have been getting harassed non-stop by bullies on Twitter for suggesting that so-called "adults" should grow up, and stop celebrating Halloween for two weeks straight.
October 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Glad to have a safe haven like Bluesky sometimes. Have been getting harassed non-stop by bullies on Twitter for suggesting that so-called "adults" should grow up, and stop celebrating Halloween for two weeks straight.