Daisy Rockwell
@shreedaisy.bsky.social
Artist, writer, Hindi-Urdu translator, etc. http://www.daisyrockwell.com 🍉🍉🍉
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Norman Rockwell was an anti-racist, as you can see from this 1962 celebrity questionnaire in Esquire.
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"I didn't want to say immediately it was me," fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last." n.pr/3WOLsWT
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
"I didn't want to say immediately it was me," fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last."
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November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"I didn't want to say immediately it was me," fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last." n.pr/3WOLsWT
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English #etymology of the day: the word "mocha" (as in coffee) is ultimately from the name of the city of Mocha or المخا al-Mukhā in Yemen. A port city on the Red Sea, Mocha played an important role in the historic coffee trade. "Moka pot" also has the same etymology.
Reading about Rabbi Baruch ben Shumel. Born in Pinsk, immigrated to Safed (1819) and then travelled widely in the Arab world. Became the physician of the Imam of Sanaa, al-Imam al-Mahdi Abdallah, and then killed by him (after advising the Imam to refrain from sex, and asking to be governor of Mocha)
November 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
English #etymology of the day: the word "mocha" (as in coffee) is ultimately from the name of the city of Mocha or المخا al-Mukhā in Yemen. A port city on the Red Sea, Mocha played an important role in the historic coffee trade. "Moka pot" also has the same etymology.
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Just a little more gold and it will be perfect
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Just a little more gold and it will be perfect
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I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world
January 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world
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Folks, if you are hungry, please contact your local Sikh gurdwara. Or just show up for langar, which most gurdwaras do several times a week, for a free meal. Lots also do weekly or monthly drives giving out groceries.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
A lady on TikTok has been calling churches pretending to be a mother with a baby who needs formula and several churches turned her away. But wouldn’t you know that when she called a Mosque (Islamic Center of Charlotte) they immediately said yes.
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
Islamic Center of Charlotte in Charlotte NC. Would help feed a starving baby no hesitation 🥰🥰🥰 #fyp #fypシ #fypシ゚viral #testingyourchurch #church #faith #religion #baby #hungrybabytest #viral #viralvid...
TikTok video by Nikalie 🌈
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November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Folks, if you are hungry, please contact your local Sikh gurdwara. Or just show up for langar, which most gurdwaras do several times a week, for a free meal. Lots also do weekly or monthly drives giving out groceries.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
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Olivia Rodrigo blasts the White House and Department of Homeland Security for using her song ‘all american b*tch’ in an ICE-related post:
“don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda”
“don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda”
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Olivia Rodrigo blasts the White House and Department of Homeland Security for using her song ‘all american b*tch’ in an ICE-related post:
“don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda”
“don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda”
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My essay on the word “Nepali” in Granta 173 is part of a symposium on 13 Indian languages. Here’s the link to the symposium for lit & language lovers. granta.com/thirteen-ind...
From Assamese to Urdu | Thirteen Indian Languages | Granta
A symposium on languages of India published in Granta 173: India. This set of essays...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:58 AM
My essay on the word “Nepali” in Granta 173 is part of a symposium on 13 Indian languages. Here’s the link to the symposium for lit & language lovers. granta.com/thirteen-ind...
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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
ebx.sh
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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DHS stole Rockwell’s work and then misrepresented his legacy according the living members of his family. Read their oped. @shreedaisy.bsky.social
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
November 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM
DHS stole Rockwell’s work and then misrepresented his legacy according the living members of his family. Read their oped. @shreedaisy.bsky.social
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Norman Rockwell was an anti-racist, as you can see from this 1962 celebrity questionnaire in Esquire.
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Norman Rockwell was an anti-racist, as you can see from this 1962 celebrity questionnaire in Esquire.
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Amazon here, targeting the market consisting of people who for some reason buy books but don't actually like books, or writers, or reading.
(Authors, please have nothing to do with this slop-dispenser, which will mangle your prose and put translators — your allies — out of work.)
(Authors, please have nothing to do with this slop-dispenser, which will mangle your prose and put translators — your allies — out of work.)
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
ebx.sh
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Amazon here, targeting the market consisting of people who for some reason buy books but don't actually like books, or writers, or reading.
(Authors, please have nothing to do with this slop-dispenser, which will mangle your prose and put translators — your allies — out of work.)
(Authors, please have nothing to do with this slop-dispenser, which will mangle your prose and put translators — your allies — out of work.)
Norman Rockwell was an anti-racist, as you can see from this 1962 celebrity questionnaire in Esquire.
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Norman Rockwell was an anti-racist, as you can see from this 1962 celebrity questionnaire in Esquire.
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This little bird survived a volcanic eruption!
Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This little bird survived a volcanic eruption!
Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
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Descendants of Norman Rockwell have accused the Trump administration of misrepresenting the painter’s beliefs through unauthorized social media posts of his work aimed at framing the administration's mass deportation agenda with classic American imagery.
DHS keeps posting Norman Rockwell after family condemns use of his art
Descendants of Norman Rockwell have accused the Department of Homeland Security of misrepresenting the painter’s beliefs.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Descendants of Norman Rockwell have accused the Trump administration of misrepresenting the painter’s beliefs through unauthorized social media posts of his work aimed at framing the administration's mass deportation agenda with classic American imagery.
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Yayoi Kusama, Fish (+ Depth of the sea, silkscreen; 2 works), 1988 #WomensArt
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Yayoi Kusama, Fish (+ Depth of the sea, silkscreen; 2 works), 1988 #WomensArt
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Friends of SALT in the Chicago area!
Please join us on Monday, November 10th, at the South Asia Institute for an evening of readings in translation!
Featuring award-winning translators Daisy Rockwell, Shabnam Nadiya, Srinath Perur and more!
Please join us on Monday, November 10th, at the South Asia Institute for an evening of readings in translation!
Featuring award-winning translators Daisy Rockwell, Shabnam Nadiya, Srinath Perur and more!
Translating South Asia: An evening in Chicago — South Asia Institute
Join International Booker Prize winning translator Daisy Rockwell, PEN/Heim Translation Grant winner Shabnam Nadiya, Sahitya Akademi winner Srinath Perur and others read from their translations from Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Telugu, and Urdu. After the success of last year's inaug
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November 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Friends of SALT in the Chicago area!
Please join us on Monday, November 10th, at the South Asia Institute for an evening of readings in translation!
Featuring award-winning translators Daisy Rockwell, Shabnam Nadiya, Srinath Perur and more!
Please join us on Monday, November 10th, at the South Asia Institute for an evening of readings in translation!
Featuring award-winning translators Daisy Rockwell, Shabnam Nadiya, Srinath Perur and more!
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‘On the surface, everything had continued as it always had, so why would it occur to anyone to pay any special attention?’
Fiction by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell.
granta.com/all-at-once/
Fiction by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell.
granta.com/all-at-once/
All at Once
‘On the surface, everything had continued as it always had, so why would it occur to anyone to pay any special attention?’
granta.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
‘On the surface, everything had continued as it always had, so why would it occur to anyone to pay any special attention?’
Fiction by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell.
granta.com/all-at-once/
Fiction by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell.
granta.com/all-at-once/
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Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt
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"If Norman Rockwell were alive today, he would be devastated to see ... that his own work has been marshalled for the cause of persecution toward immigrant communities and people of color," writes the family of late artist Norman Rockwell. bit.ly/47P4SQz
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
"If Norman Rockwell were alive today, he would be devastated to see ... that his own work has been marshalled for the cause of persecution toward immigrant communities and people of color," writes the family of late artist Norman Rockwell. bit.ly/47P4SQz
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Oh, fuck. www.aboutamazon.com/news/books-a...
Amazon introduces Kindle Translate, an AI-powered translation service for authors to reach global readers
The service translates between English and Spanish, and from German to English, expanding opportunities for Kindle Direct Publishing authors.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
Oh, look, after refusing to run our op-ed on DHS’s unauthorized use of Norman Rockwell’s artwork, the @nytimes.com is now reporting on the letter published in @usatoday.com as a news item www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/a...
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Oh, look, after refusing to run our op-ed on DHS’s unauthorized use of Norman Rockwell’s artwork, the @nytimes.com is now reporting on the letter published in @usatoday.com as a news item www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/a...
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If you are going to American Literary Translators Association conference in Tucson, I'll be reading from Flores raras, 55 Uruguayan women poets at the off-site reading below and a panel on translating the work, New Visions, New Versions: Uruguayan Women Poets, Friday at 3:45 in Copper C.
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If you are going to American Literary Translators Association conference in Tucson, I'll be reading from Flores raras, 55 Uruguayan women poets at the off-site reading below and a panel on translating the work, New Visions, New Versions: Uruguayan Women Poets, Friday at 3:45 in Copper C.
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50% of SNAP may or may not be available tomorrow or months from now but they have made certain to choke out any potential localized mercy:
"The (USDA) emailed grocery stores prohibiting them from offering discounts to (SNAP) recipients amid the government shutdown."
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
"The (USDA) emailed grocery stores prohibiting them from offering discounts to (SNAP) recipients amid the government shutdown."
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
USDA tells grocery stores: No special discounts for SNAP recipients
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) emailed grocery stores prohibiting them from offering discounts to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients amid the government shutdown. T...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
50% of SNAP may or may not be available tomorrow or months from now but they have made certain to choke out any potential localized mercy:
"The (USDA) emailed grocery stores prohibiting them from offering discounts to (SNAP) recipients amid the government shutdown."
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
"The (USDA) emailed grocery stores prohibiting them from offering discounts to (SNAP) recipients amid the government shutdown."
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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On DHS’s unauthorized use of Norman Rockwell’s paintings across social media, an op-ed from our family today in @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
We're Norman Rockwell's family. Trump's DHS has shamefully misused his work. | Opinion
As Norman Rockwell's family, we know he'd be devastated to see the Department of Homeland Security's unauthorized misuse of his work.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
On DHS’s unauthorized use of Norman Rockwell’s paintings across social media, an op-ed from our family today in @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...