Lawrence Schimel
@lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
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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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Imagine all the time you could win back if you stop arguing with AI ambassadors on the internet. You could practically write a novel.
February 17, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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Went to a Q&A screening of Mārama.
Someone in the audience pointed out that it's rare for the protagonist of gothic horror to have so much agency. The director pointed out that of course she has agency, she is wahine Māori 💅
He suggested that everyone go see it on 14th Feb, for James Cook reasons.
Someone in the audience pointed out that it's rare for the protagonist of gothic horror to have so much agency. The director pointed out that of course she has agency, she is wahine Māori 💅
He suggested that everyone go see it on 14th Feb, for James Cook reasons.
February 9, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Went to a Q&A screening of Mārama.
Someone in the audience pointed out that it's rare for the protagonist of gothic horror to have so much agency. The director pointed out that of course she has agency, she is wahine Māori 💅
He suggested that everyone go see it on 14th Feb, for James Cook reasons.
Someone in the audience pointed out that it's rare for the protagonist of gothic horror to have so much agency. The director pointed out that of course she has agency, she is wahine Māori 💅
He suggested that everyone go see it on 14th Feb, for James Cook reasons.
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When puss comes to shrove...
February 17, 2026 at 9:49 AM
When puss comes to shrove...
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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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Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting.
You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻♀️
You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻♀️
February 17, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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Chicago UP is running a HUGE sale, and you can get extremely well-researched hard-bound books about all sorts of topics and all sorts of places for a price of a cheap paperback press.uchicago.edu/resource/Sal...
press.uchicago.edu
February 17, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Had managed to forget about #AmazonFail
They didn't want erotica (especially queer erotica) showing up on their bestseller lists.
I had adult gay titles (including erotica) under my name, but ALL my books, including my non-queer children's titles, had their sales ranking stripped.
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They didn't want erotica (especially queer erotica) showing up on their bestseller lists.
I had adult gay titles (including erotica) under my name, but ALL my books, including my non-queer children's titles, had their sales ranking stripped.
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If you're using Amazon Affiliates you may have noticed that some books, specifically erotic and erotic romance titles, are no longer eligible for affiliate income.
@iheartsapphfic.bsky.social noticed this and wrote a full explainer as to what's going on.
Y'all remember #AmazonFail?
@iheartsapphfic.bsky.social noticed this and wrote a full explainer as to what's going on.
Y'all remember #AmazonFail?
How IHS is Responding to Terrifying Changes at Amazon - I Heart SapphFic
How IHS is Responding to Terrifying Changes at Amazon - TB here. This is going to be a long post, but it's worth reading. The gist of it is that Amazon is up to a bunch of terrifying nonsense, and IHS...
iheartsapphfic.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Had managed to forget about #AmazonFail
They didn't want erotica (especially queer erotica) showing up on their bestseller lists.
I had adult gay titles (including erotica) under my name, but ALL my books, including my non-queer children's titles, had their sales ranking stripped.
🤬🤬
They didn't want erotica (especially queer erotica) showing up on their bestseller lists.
I had adult gay titles (including erotica) under my name, but ALL my books, including my non-queer children's titles, had their sales ranking stripped.
🤬🤬
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If you're using Amazon Affiliates you may have noticed that some books, specifically erotic and erotic romance titles, are no longer eligible for affiliate income.
@iheartsapphfic.bsky.social noticed this and wrote a full explainer as to what's going on.
Y'all remember #AmazonFail?
@iheartsapphfic.bsky.social noticed this and wrote a full explainer as to what's going on.
Y'all remember #AmazonFail?
How IHS is Responding to Terrifying Changes at Amazon - I Heart SapphFic
How IHS is Responding to Terrifying Changes at Amazon - TB here. This is going to be a long post, but it's worth reading. The gist of it is that Amazon is up to a bunch of terrifying nonsense, and IHS...
iheartsapphfic.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:18 PM
If you're using Amazon Affiliates you may have noticed that some books, specifically erotic and erotic romance titles, are no longer eligible for affiliate income.
@iheartsapphfic.bsky.social noticed this and wrote a full explainer as to what's going on.
Y'all remember #AmazonFail?
@iheartsapphfic.bsky.social noticed this and wrote a full explainer as to what's going on.
Y'all remember #AmazonFail?
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Everyone who worked at this camp should go to prison.
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Everyone who worked at this camp should go to prison.
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Heyyyyy UK readers! We got preorder discounts!
February 17, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Heyyyyy UK readers! We got preorder discounts!
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February 17, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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looks like Mamdani is gonna get his rent freeze this year after all. big news on the housing beat from @smaldo.bsky.social:
Rent Board Resignation Clears Path for Mamdani Rent Freeze Promise
The new mayor is now able to appoint a majority to the Rent Guidelines Board, giving him the numbers for a signature campaign promise.
www.thecity.nyc
February 17, 2026 at 5:56 PM
looks like Mamdani is gonna get his rent freeze this year after all. big news on the housing beat from @smaldo.bsky.social:
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The old yarn about how the play The Madness of George III was filmed as The Madness of King George lest Americans think they'd missed The Madness of George I and The Madness of George II and not bother to attend it is, per Nicholas Hytner, "not totally untrue."
Meanwhile, Licence to Kill is, universally, the title of the 1989 film, because, well, that's its title.
And, semi-relatedly, British folk should not refer to Hawaii's Pearl Harbour, and The New York Bloody Times should not refer to London's National Theater.
EXCEPT IT DOES.
And, semi-relatedly, British folk should not refer to Hawaii's Pearl Harbour, and The New York Bloody Times should not refer to London's National Theater.
EXCEPT IT DOES.
February 17, 2026 at 7:09 PM
The old yarn about how the play The Madness of George III was filmed as The Madness of King George lest Americans think they'd missed The Madness of George I and The Madness of George II and not bother to attend it is, per Nicholas Hytner, "not totally untrue."
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To be sure, autocorrect, or at least my phone's autocorrect, will always try to render that as Singing' in the Rain, which is maddening.
Yes, it’s important to render the title Singin’ in the Rain correctly, why do you ask.
February 17, 2026 at 7:11 PM
To be sure, autocorrect, or at least my phone's autocorrect, will always try to render that as Singing' in the Rain, which is maddening.
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Reminder you can still submit a solution to the translation puzzle in @nplusonemag.com which this month is my poem MARG URÞÚ SEMS YRGR
February 3, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Reminder you can still submit a solution to the translation puzzle in @nplusonemag.com which this month is my poem MARG URÞÚ SEMS YRGR
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I once got in a Slack debate with the editor-in-chief of a publication, a woman, who believed that for society to benefit from genius men those men's abuse of women might need to be tolerated. I argued that the loss of contributions of the women they abused could easily be worth 10x their own.
February 6, 2026 at 11:23 AM
I once got in a Slack debate with the editor-in-chief of a publication, a woman, who believed that for society to benefit from genius men those men's abuse of women might need to be tolerated. I argued that the loss of contributions of the women they abused could easily be worth 10x their own.
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Seeing a bunch of new followers today off my Epstein thread - hello and welcome!
I'm a journalist who founded @assignedmedia.org, an independent trans news site. You should check it out - it's got a lot of DNA from @slate.com, the mainstream outlet I'm most associated with.
I'm a journalist who founded @assignedmedia.org, an independent trans news site. You should check it out - it's got a lot of DNA from @slate.com, the mainstream outlet I'm most associated with.
February 3, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Seeing a bunch of new followers today off my Epstein thread - hello and welcome!
I'm a journalist who founded @assignedmedia.org, an independent trans news site. You should check it out - it's got a lot of DNA from @slate.com, the mainstream outlet I'm most associated with.
I'm a journalist who founded @assignedmedia.org, an independent trans news site. You should check it out - it's got a lot of DNA from @slate.com, the mainstream outlet I'm most associated with.
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I think I have a happy and fulfilled life with lots of love and human contact but it does worry me a little bit that I get more messages from my dishwasher than any human being, even my mom
February 17, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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Chicago UP is running a HUGE sale, and you can get extremely well-researched hard-bound books about all sorts of topics and all sorts of places for a price of a cheap paperback press.uchicago.edu/resource/Sal...
press.uchicago.edu
February 17, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting.
You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻♀️
You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻♀️
February 17, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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new newsletter going out today
Newsletter — Adib Khorram Writes Books
adibkhorram.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:34 PM
new newsletter going out today
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Ding, ding, ding: my collection, launching 19th March, is available for pre-order
www.lilliputpress.ie/products/fou...
www.lilliputpress.ie/products/fou...
Four Night Seas - Niamh Mac Cabe - The Lilliput Press
Set across liminal landscapes, Four Night Seas is a collection of stories from award-winning author Niamh Mac Cabe feature characters navigating emotional or existential thresholds – grieving, seeking...
www.lilliputpress.ie
February 17, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Ding, ding, ding: my collection, launching 19th March, is available for pre-order
www.lilliputpress.ie/products/fou...
www.lilliputpress.ie/products/fou...
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“Watching over Her” by Jean-Baptiste Andrea @nytimes.com
This Blockbuster French Novel Asks: Can Art Compromise With Fascism?
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:46 PM
“Watching over Her” by Jean-Baptiste Andrea @nytimes.com
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I don't post on Substack because I already have my own site where I post stuff, and have done for 27 years, and because Substack makes a lot of money off Nazis and fascists and I'd really rather not, thanks. I do have an account there but it's to secure my name. It has a cat photo.
February 17, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I don't post on Substack because I already have my own site where I post stuff, and have done for 27 years, and because Substack makes a lot of money off Nazis and fascists and I'd really rather not, thanks. I do have an account there but it's to secure my name. It has a cat photo.
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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.