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the one-two punch of reading If on a winter’s night a traveler and Invisible Cities back to back at nineteen made me feel both like my mind was literally expanding toward a new understanding of what writing could be and more viscerally annoying to be around than ever before
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 AM
the one-two punch of reading If on a winter’s night a traveler and Invisible Cities back to back at nineteen made me feel both like my mind was literally expanding toward a new understanding of what writing could be and more viscerally annoying to be around than ever before
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Celebrating Mamdani’s victory in Izmir, Turkey
November 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Celebrating Mamdani’s victory in Izmir, Turkey
love the moment in the Sopranos where Tony, in the middle of bleeding Davey Scatino to death, whines to him that it's how he makes his living
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
love the moment in the Sopranos where Tony, in the middle of bleeding Davey Scatino to death, whines to him that it's how he makes his living
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price of the goat is goin up
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
price of the goat is goin up
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we did it babes.... we're the opposite of cooked. what is that. we're ingredients
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
we did it babes.... we're the opposite of cooked. what is that. we're ingredients
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN from BARBAROUS!!!! 🎃✨🌙
always read for free @ johnnywander.com!
It's also the final day of the BARBAROUS CH6 Kickstarter! AWOO!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/746...
always read for free @ johnnywander.com!
It's also the final day of the BARBAROUS CH6 Kickstarter! AWOO!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/746...
October 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
HAPPY HALLOWEEN from BARBAROUS!!!! 🎃✨🌙
always read for free @ johnnywander.com!
It's also the final day of the BARBAROUS CH6 Kickstarter! AWOO!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/746...
always read for free @ johnnywander.com!
It's also the final day of the BARBAROUS CH6 Kickstarter! AWOO!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/746...
what a guy
October 31, 2025 at 8:09 PM
what a guy
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these persecutions are such loser shit, imagine going on a crusade against a girl group
I wrote about a chilling criminal case against one of Turkey’s most important musicians: Mabel Matiz. He and the girl group Manifest both face prison time over lyrics and dance moves. It’s all part of a new wave of repression in the name of “family values” www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Areas/Tu...
Mabel Matiz: Music and Censorship in Turkey
Mabel Matiz, one of Turkey's most famous pop singers, risks prison for his latest song, which has been labeled "obscenity" because it sings of homosexual love: a further crackdown on the LGBT communit...
www.balcanicaucaso.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
these persecutions are such loser shit, imagine going on a crusade against a girl group
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"A la próxima pelotita de papel que vea volar, os separo y hago examen, avisados quedáis"
October 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"A la próxima pelotita de papel que vea volar, os separo y hago examen, avisados quedáis"
let's see if stealing Thanksgiving will consolidate things around here
October 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
let's see if stealing Thanksgiving will consolidate things around here
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THEY MAKE A DESSERT AND CALL IT PEACE
October 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
THEY MAKE A DESSERT AND CALL IT PEACE
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Que a finales de octubre te sigan picando los mosquitos también había pasado siempre. Lo normal en un país de clima tropical como España.
October 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Que a finales de octubre te sigan picando los mosquitos también había pasado siempre. Lo normal en un país de clima tropical como España.
"we can destroy but have no authority to create" man they're just putting it all out there
October 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"we can destroy but have no authority to create" man they're just putting it all out there
guys they're cooking us a la plancha over here
Trump empieza a demoler el ala este de la Casa Blanca para construirse un monumental salón de baile. Los estadounidenses van a pagar más de 200 millones de dólares para que el nuevo emperador se dé otro caprichito.
October 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
guys they're cooking us a la plancha over here
hell yeah new book-length work on mesoamerican history
Forthcoming from @princetonupress.bsky.social:
The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya by David Stuart
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya by David Stuart
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
October 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
hell yeah new book-length work on mesoamerican history
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bluesky is an app where distressingly well-read queer people will take turns kicking ill-informed new york times reporters (laudatory)
October 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
bluesky is an app where distressingly well-read queer people will take turns kicking ill-informed new york times reporters (laudatory)
voices preserved for immortality: man speaking through potato at the beginning of "Protect Ya Neck"
October 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
voices preserved for immortality: man speaking through potato at the beginning of "Protect Ya Neck"
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Quiero que sepáis que mis bluits no están escritos para las élites intelectuales, están escritos para vosotros, que sois medio tontos.
October 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Quiero que sepáis que mis bluits no están escritos para las élites intelectuales, están escritos para vosotros, que sois medio tontos.
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Si sois clientes del Banco Sabadell tened comprensión con los empleados si vais a la oficina mañana por la mañana.
Tendrán todos un resacón cojonudo, el que no venga de reenganche.
Tendrán todos un resacón cojonudo, el que no venga de reenganche.
October 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Si sois clientes del Banco Sabadell tened comprensión con los empleados si vais a la oficina mañana por la mañana.
Tendrán todos un resacón cojonudo, el que no venga de reenganche.
Tendrán todos un resacón cojonudo, el que no venga de reenganche.
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Kid named the Roomba "Odysseus," because they love to say, "aw, he's going on a lil' journey!" and also because sometimes he gets lost or stuck, which is his Scylla or Charybdis moment.
October 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Kid named the Roomba "Odysseus," because they love to say, "aw, he's going on a lil' journey!" and also because sometimes he gets lost or stuck, which is his Scylla or Charybdis moment.
fantastic review
"Countless Yingzhis live among us, while the Zitaos of China are fading away with time. The tears of Chinese women, if unleashed, could drown a nation."
For @chinabooksreview.com, I write about gendered violence and illusions of liberation through two novels by Fang Fang (tr @bairuiwen.bsky.social):
For @chinabooksreview.com, I write about gendered violence and illusions of liberation through two novels by Fang Fang (tr @bairuiwen.bsky.social):
No Country for a Woman | China Books Review
Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression persis...
chinabooksreview.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
fantastic review
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I’m gonna be honest: The way guys on here talk about birth rates makes my uterus want to collapse in on itself like a dying star.
October 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I’m gonna be honest: The way guys on here talk about birth rates makes my uterus want to collapse in on itself like a dying star.
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In @thenation.com @booksandthearts.bsky.social, I have a new essay on Tezer Özlü and her Journey to the Edge of Life, a striking composite of memoir, biography, and criticism, that dwells on the connection between art and death. @transitbooks.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Tezer Özlü—the Rebel of Turkish Letters
Journey to the Edge of Life, a striking composite of memoir, biography, and criticism, dwells on the connection between art and death.
www.thenation.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
In @thenation.com @booksandthearts.bsky.social, I have a new essay on Tezer Özlü and her Journey to the Edge of Life, a striking composite of memoir, biography, and criticism, that dwells on the connection between art and death. @transitbooks.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Routledge make a book on Amharic you cowards
October 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Routledge make a book on Amharic you cowards