Lawrence Schimel
@lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
Reader.
Bilingual (Spanish/English) author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈
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I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.
Bilingual (Spanish/English) author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈
He/él
I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.
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Some of y’all must have a blocking kink. It’s weird — you’re intentionally rude, obstinate or worse — in my replies as it daring me to block you as it gains you something. I won’t remember two minutes from now.
February 17, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Some of y’all must have a blocking kink. It’s weird — you’re intentionally rude, obstinate or worse — in my replies as it daring me to block you as it gains you something. I won’t remember two minutes from now.
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A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
February 4, 2026 at 2:42 PM
A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
Writers, help me out: Anyone have access to — or know where I can find — Philip Gerard's essay, “An Architecture of Light: Structuring the Novel & Story Collection”?
February 17, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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I'm working with The Writer's Center on two new book clubs that focus on independent authors and presses!!
We'll read a new book each month. Then the author will join us, read an excerpt, and answer reader questions!
Read with us!
We'll read a new book each month. Then the author will join us, read an excerpt, and answer reader questions!
Read with us!
February 12, 2026 at 3:42 PM
I'm working with The Writer's Center on two new book clubs that focus on independent authors and presses!!
We'll read a new book each month. Then the author will join us, read an excerpt, and answer reader questions!
Read with us!
We'll read a new book each month. Then the author will join us, read an excerpt, and answer reader questions!
Read with us!
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“He who offers for sale something unique that no-one wants to buy, represents, even against his will, freedom from exchange.”
- Adorno, in typical rhetorical style, putting poets on a pedestal & then throwing tomatoes at us.
- Adorno, in typical rhetorical style, putting poets on a pedestal & then throwing tomatoes at us.
February 5, 2026 at 1:28 PM
“He who offers for sale something unique that no-one wants to buy, represents, even against his will, freedom from exchange.”
- Adorno, in typical rhetorical style, putting poets on a pedestal & then throwing tomatoes at us.
- Adorno, in typical rhetorical style, putting poets on a pedestal & then throwing tomatoes at us.
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Jesse Jackson was an early and ardent supporter of gay rights. In fact, on July 17, 1984 at the DNC in San Fransisco, the first speech EVER at a national political convention calling for gay rights was delivered by none other than Rev. Jackson himself.
February 17, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Jesse Jackson was an early and ardent supporter of gay rights. In fact, on July 17, 1984 at the DNC in San Fransisco, the first speech EVER at a national political convention calling for gay rights was delivered by none other than Rev. Jackson himself.
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If you want the trans vote, elect candidates who are pro trans. If you can’t do that, don’t demand people vote for candidates who want to actively legislate their rights away.
February 16, 2026 at 8:05 PM
If you want the trans vote, elect candidates who are pro trans. If you can’t do that, don’t demand people vote for candidates who want to actively legislate their rights away.
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“Jackson is arrested in 1993 after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting against the Clinton administration’s policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees who were HIV positive”
Remember this history as we remember this man.
Remember this history as we remember this man.
Jesse Jackson – a life in pictures
The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a pioneer of progressive Democratic politics, close ally of Martin Luther King Jr, and two-time candidate for the presidential nomination, has died at 84
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:12 PM
“Jackson is arrested in 1993 after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting against the Clinton administration’s policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees who were HIV positive”
Remember this history as we remember this man.
Remember this history as we remember this man.
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Just received my contributor's copy of the new Calico collection out in March from @twolinespress.com , I Was Alive Here Once, a collection of ghost stories from around the world that includes my translation of "Jupiter" by Tomoyuki Hoshino 👻
February 15, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Just received my contributor's copy of the new Calico collection out in March from @twolinespress.com , I Was Alive Here Once, a collection of ghost stories from around the world that includes my translation of "Jupiter" by Tomoyuki Hoshino 👻
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Taking a bit of liberty with #smallpoemsunday: from Kurt Vonnegut in “Mother Night” (abstracted in “Pity the Reader” by Vonnegut & Suzanne McConnell)
cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Taking a bit of liberty with #smallpoemsunday: from Kurt Vonnegut in “Mother Night” (abstracted in “Pity the Reader” by Vonnegut & Suzanne McConnell)
cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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Find your next fresh, small press read here (coupon code SPRING good through 2/24!): riverriverbooks.org/store/ 📚💙🎉
February 9, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Find your next fresh, small press read here (coupon code SPRING good through 2/24!): riverriverbooks.org/store/ 📚💙🎉
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Today is the official day! Get your copy of @jacklegpress.bsky.social’s reissue of the late and great Maureen Seaton’s Undersea! 💙
Undersea
Check out Undersea - <p><strong>Dive into the Depths with <em>Undersea </em></strong></p><p></p><p>Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of <em>Undersea</em>, a collection of poems by the visionary...
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February 9, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Today is the official day! Get your copy of @jacklegpress.bsky.social’s reissue of the late and great Maureen Seaton’s Undersea! 💙
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SO excited to announce this!! 💋💋💋
New call for work: THE PLEASURE ISSUE
+ Opens May 15
+ Deadline: June 13 for everyone, for BIPOC writers: June 20
The Pleasure Issue will be an issue interrogating the varying politics of pleasure via the difference between the erotic and the pornographic
More: beestungmag.com/special-call...
+ Opens May 15
+ Deadline: June 13 for everyone, for BIPOC writers: June 20
The Pleasure Issue will be an issue interrogating the varying politics of pleasure via the difference between the erotic and the pornographic
More: beestungmag.com/special-call...
February 14, 2026 at 3:17 PM
SO excited to announce this!! 💋💋💋
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Take care, and please consider sending something our way if this call resonates with you 💚
ALOCASIA seeks work for an upcoming themed issue, THORNS, which will examine and reflect on lived experiences of queer domestic violence and intimate partner violence through the lens of horticulture and plant life.
Published writers to receive $50.
Deadline: April 10.
Find out more: ALOCASIA.org
Published writers to receive $50.
Deadline: April 10.
Find out more: ALOCASIA.org
February 15, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Take care, and please consider sending something our way if this call resonates with you 💚
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February 17, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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Fascinating chart with one outlier: Warren Buffett.
At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to:
Net worth -> Lifetime Giving
50K->$30
100K->$60
500K->$300
$1M->$600
Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*.
www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...
At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to:
Net worth -> Lifetime Giving
50K->$30
100K->$60
500K->$300
$1M->$600
Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*.
www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...
February 16, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Fascinating chart with one outlier: Warren Buffett.
At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to:
Net worth -> Lifetime Giving
50K->$30
100K->$60
500K->$300
$1M->$600
Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*.
www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...
At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to:
Net worth -> Lifetime Giving
50K->$30
100K->$60
500K->$300
$1M->$600
Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*.
www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...
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This is the thing I think trolls, etc don't understand: Once I block you I literally never think about you again. Shit, five minutes after I block someone I don't remember who they are or why I blocked them. They simply and literally don't exist for me anymore. If this is a victory for you, fine.
Some of y’all must have a blocking kink. It’s weird — you’re intentionally rude, obstinate or worse — in my replies as it daring me to block you as it gains you something. I won’t remember two minutes from now.
February 17, 2026 at 2:57 AM
This is the thing I think trolls, etc don't understand: Once I block you I literally never think about you again. Shit, five minutes after I block someone I don't remember who they are or why I blocked them. They simply and literally don't exist for me anymore. If this is a victory for you, fine.
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And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.
February 17, 2026 at 3:38 AM
And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.
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If I ran an entertainment venue, instead of favoring military people or first responders, I’d offer caregiver discounts, special seats for caregivers, & a moment of applause for caregivers before the show, just to make a point.
February 16, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
It took only a 15-second clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop — made by A.I. with a two-sentence prompt and the click of a button — to draw swift outrage, and sizable fear, from Hollywood.
"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more cinematic than anything so far.
nyti.ms
February 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
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Oh my god look what I found in a Little Free Library. Soon I shall be free
February 9, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Oh my god look what I found in a Little Free Library. Soon I shall be free
Yo Harvard's being a little shit and trying to axe its Yiddish programme + refusing to bargain in good faith with the union. You can send a letter of support here (maybe edited a bit) saveharvardyiddish.org #yiddish #harvard
Save Yiddish at Harvard!
Please join us in sending letters. Share this campaign as widely as possible!
saveharvardyiddish.org
February 16, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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When Ds are back in charge, they have to change everything. No moderate half-measures. Just relentless razing of the corrupt institutions that enriched the worst people in the world and propped up fascism.
A few suggestions...
A few suggestions...
February 13, 2026 at 1:38 AM
When Ds are back in charge, they have to change everything. No moderate half-measures. Just relentless razing of the corrupt institutions that enriched the worst people in the world and propped up fascism.
A few suggestions...
A few suggestions...
Stories shape how children see themselves
At Desert Ink Press, we publish Indigenous and diverse children’s books rooted in culture, language, and community.
Learn more: desertinkpress.org
#DesertInkPress #booksforclassrooms #diversity #indigenous #tohonoo'odham
#LiteracyEquity #Nonprofit
At Desert Ink Press, we publish Indigenous and diverse children’s books rooted in culture, language, and community.
Learn more: desertinkpress.org
#DesertInkPress #booksforclassrooms #diversity #indigenous #tohonoo'odham
#LiteracyEquity #Nonprofit
February 16, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Our My First Book of O’odham collection invites young readers to explore the world through the Tohono O’odham language and English. Numbers and Colors are available now on and pre-order Animals and Shapes at: desertinkpress.org
#tohonooodhamnation #childrensbook #indigenous #desertinkpress
#tohonooodhamnation #childrensbook #indigenous #desertinkpress
February 16, 2026 at 6:39 PM