Brendan O’Kane
@bokane.org
Scrutable Occidental, erstwhile 北漂, quondam translator, Ming/Qing fiction enjoyer, congenital Philadelphian, escaped academic, MLIS aspirant, 鏟屎官 (二等). Cynicism makes you an easy mark. Signal: @bokane.1644.
http://www.burninghou.se
http://www.burninghou.se
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Programming note: I am staying on top of this (I don’t really have an excuse, it’s almost in my geographic backyard) and I just want to note how shocking it is how much this small Ohio city of Springfield is being terrorized right now and Trump’s ICE invasion hasn’t even landed yet
February 10, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Programming note: I am staying on top of this (I don’t really have an excuse, it’s almost in my geographic backyard) and I just want to note how shocking it is how much this small Ohio city of Springfield is being terrorized right now and Trump’s ICE invasion hasn’t even landed yet
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store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/... Oeuf demo released! Enjoy! #OeufGame
Oeuf on Steam
3D physics-platformer where you are an egg! Roll, hop and slide your way back home.
store.steampowered.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:20 PM
store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/... Oeuf demo released! Enjoy! #OeufGame
losing it at this extra-quizzical Japanese 豈
February 10, 2026 at 3:26 PM
losing it at this extra-quizzical Japanese 豈
Shuge.org now seems to be storing all their woodblock scans on Baidu and Alibaba's file-sharing services, which would suck even if I were currently in the PRC and are borderline unusable outside it
February 10, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Shuge.org now seems to be storing all their woodblock scans on Baidu and Alibaba's file-sharing services, which would suck even if I were currently in the PRC and are borderline unusable outside it
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Digital Philology Vol. 14, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56242 #openaccess @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social Unlikening Translation: Words, Sounds, Events, Things @lauramorreale.bsky.social @byzcapp.bsky.social @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
February 9, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Digital Philology Vol. 14, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56242 #openaccess @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social Unlikening Translation: Words, Sounds, Events, Things @lauramorreale.bsky.social @byzcapp.bsky.social @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
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Just launched: Open Datasets For Medieval Studies, a new annual installment in Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures (Johns Hopkins Press) wherein scholars peer review research datasets. Section co-edited by @lauramorreale.bsky.social @jwtorg.bsky.social & me.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56242.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56242.
Project MUSE - Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures-Volume 14, Number 2, Fall 2025
muse.jhu.edu
February 9, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Just launched: Open Datasets For Medieval Studies, a new annual installment in Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures (Johns Hopkins Press) wherein scholars peer review research datasets. Section co-edited by @lauramorreale.bsky.social @jwtorg.bsky.social & me.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56242.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56242.
Shout-out to SEPTA: never thought an hour-long Amtrak delay out of 30th Street could be a nail-bitingly suspenseful experience, but the unreported delay on the El made it happen, and that last-minute twist of running the train on the wrong track without announcing it was sheer art
February 8, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Shout-out to SEPTA: never thought an hour-long Amtrak delay out of 30th Street could be a nail-bitingly suspenseful experience, but the unreported delay on the El made it happen, and that last-minute twist of running the train on the wrong track without announcing it was sheer art
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me, having an oracular vision: so what if capital was like, one guy. and that one guy was, like, a pedophile, and he was also patriarchy. he runs harvard and the trilateral commission. he gave bill gates the clap
the two stoned dudes sitting on my couch with me: bro why are you like this
the two stoned dudes sitting on my couch with me: bro why are you like this
February 7, 2026 at 4:50 PM
me, having an oracular vision: so what if capital was like, one guy. and that one guy was, like, a pedophile, and he was also patriarchy. he runs harvard and the trilateral commission. he gave bill gates the clap
the two stoned dudes sitting on my couch with me: bro why are you like this
the two stoned dudes sitting on my couch with me: bro why are you like this
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free them all
February 6, 2026 at 4:39 AM
free them all
Just back from an early screening of 'Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die,' which is a lot of fun, has some really outstanding moments (especially in the first two acts), and ends a few minutes after it should
February 6, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Just back from an early screening of 'Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die,' which is a lot of fun, has some really outstanding moments (especially in the first two acts), and ends a few minutes after it should
Disappointed to hear there won’t be tote bags at #AAS2026, but this is an opportunity for somebody to print up some bags reading
此袋無銀三百兩
This Tote Bag
Is Raising Questions
Already Answered
By This Tote Bag
此袋無銀三百兩
This Tote Bag
Is Raising Questions
Already Answered
By This Tote Bag
February 5, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Disappointed to hear there won’t be tote bags at #AAS2026, but this is an opportunity for somebody to print up some bags reading
此袋無銀三百兩
This Tote Bag
Is Raising Questions
Already Answered
By This Tote Bag
此袋無銀三百兩
This Tote Bag
Is Raising Questions
Already Answered
By This Tote Bag
lol okay Lao Tzu
Y’all, I’m losing my mind over here. I need everyone to read this article. I can’t go it alone!!!
“Epstein argues that teaching children to write may be harmful because writing forces “linear” and “narrow” patterns of thinking, whereas the greatest thinkers never wrote.”
“Epstein argues that teaching children to write may be harmful because writing forces “linear” and “narrow” patterns of thinking, whereas the greatest thinkers never wrote.”
“The interview also becomes an exercise in intellectual peacocking as they invoke Socrates, Isaac Newton and quantum physics but pay little attention to Epstein’s crimes. Epstein reveals himself to be a living museum of racial prejudice.”
February 5, 2026 at 2:41 PM
lol okay Lao Tzu
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The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives
They closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely.
February 5, 2026 at 12:07 AM
The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives
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MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.
February 4, 2026 at 2:47 PM
MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.
time for me to get mad at Robert Hegel's grad students' translation of 豆棚閒話 again; how's everyone else's morning going
February 4, 2026 at 3:49 PM
time for me to get mad at Robert Hegel's grad students' translation of 豆棚閒話 again; how's everyone else's morning going
Because I haven't found it anywhere else online, here's Hoban's "The Dragon underneath the Mat." Sometimes I hum a dragon song.
February 4, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Because I haven't found it anywhere else online, here's Hoban's "The Dragon underneath the Mat." Sometimes I hum a dragon song.
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"Riddley Walkers ben to show
Riddley Walkers on the go
Dont go Riddley Walkers track
Drop Johns ryding on his back
Stil I wunt have no other track."
Happy birthday Russell Hoban.
Riddley Walkers on the go
Dont go Riddley Walkers track
Drop Johns ryding on his back
Stil I wunt have no other track."
Happy birthday Russell Hoban.
February 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM
"Riddley Walkers ben to show
Riddley Walkers on the go
Dont go Riddley Walkers track
Drop Johns ryding on his back
Stil I wunt have no other track."
Happy birthday Russell Hoban.
Riddley Walkers on the go
Dont go Riddley Walkers track
Drop Johns ryding on his back
Stil I wunt have no other track."
Happy birthday Russell Hoban.
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my dad sent me a chinese "listeners calling in with ghost stories" channel & it's crazy fjfhdjfhfhhf
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOlU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOlU...
深夜外卖员真实恐怖经历：刚刚还在跟我点头的美女，一转头竟以诡异的姿态出现|人性比鬼更可怕,解密跨越30年的家族诅咒|暴富前的诡异预兆#鬼故事#睡前故事#解压故事#民间故事#horror「灵异电台」
YouTube video by 奇闻异事录【灵异电台】
www.youtube.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:40 PM
my dad sent me a chinese "listeners calling in with ghost stories" channel & it's crazy fjfhdjfhfhhf
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOlU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOlU...
I’m doing Du Fu’s 秋日阮隱居致薤三十束 and can’t think of a way of handling 關鬲冷 in the penultimate line that doesn’t sound like ass. (Owen has “my viscera are cold,” so at least I’ve got company.)
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
February 3, 2026 at 5:57 PM
I’m doing Du Fu’s 秋日阮隱居致薤三十束 and can’t think of a way of handling 關鬲冷 in the penultimate line that doesn’t sound like ass. (Owen has “my viscera are cold,” so at least I’ve got company.)
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
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I hope they make a billion dollars
February 3, 2026 at 3:03 PM
I hope they make a billion dollars
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@thomasgermain.bsky.social Are you aware that Google Books has effectively stopped working - the material is still there, but all search functions no longer seem to work, making fresh access impossible. Can't find any reportage on this but it seems a major story with huge implications..
February 3, 2026 at 1:35 PM
@thomasgermain.bsky.social Are you aware that Google Books has effectively stopped working - the material is still there, but all search functions no longer seem to work, making fresh access impossible. Can't find any reportage on this but it seems a major story with huge implications..
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I saw this charming montage of Naomi Osaka gently removing a butterfly that had landed on her face during a match but instead of simply appreciating what a lovely moment it was, my internet-poisoned brain whipsered "is this loss"
February 3, 2026 at 2:00 PM
I saw this charming montage of Naomi Osaka gently removing a butterfly that had landed on her face during a match but instead of simply appreciating what a lovely moment it was, my internet-poisoned brain whipsered "is this loss"
gazing longingly at the timeline where they clapped
February 3, 2026 at 12:44 AM
gazing longingly at the timeline where they clapped
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I'm reading these notes on the art of translation and I'm just going YES THIS! So I'm sharing for everyone else.
Emily Wilson’s notes on her translation are really interesting reading, even without a background in Mediterranean classics — this actually makes me a lot more interested in the Nolan version than I would’ve been!
EMILY’s Substack | EMILY WILSON | Substack
My personal Substack. Click to read EMILY’s Substack, by EMILY WILSON, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
emily613.substack.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:36 PM
I'm reading these notes on the art of translation and I'm just going YES THIS! So I'm sharing for everyone else.
ⓘ The screenshotted poster is approximately 1,165 miles away from Minneapolis
I never claimed to be a leader of anything, and I’m not, I’ve been doing what thousands of other Minnesotans have been doing. With that said I know why it’s working because I SEE IT WORK: because the observers are disciplined, committed, nonviolent, and open. Their channels are open and HUGE.
February 2, 2026 at 11:18 PM
ⓘ The screenshotted poster is approximately 1,165 miles away from Minneapolis