Hannah Kirshner
@sweetsnbitters.bsky.social
Author of WATER, WOOD & WILD THINGS. Probably spending the rest of my life trying to fix a 100-year-old farmhouse in Ishikawa, Japan. www.hannahkirshner.com
www.mokkei-yamanaka.com
www.mokkei-yamanaka.com
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Lap dogs are great, but have you tried a desk chicken?
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Your mind is a marvel. Embrace that. It is not difficult to ascertain when students are using AI because the writing is bad. If your goal is to get a good grade, you want to put your best writing forward. I prefer flawed, human writing to mediocre machine writing.
September 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Your mind is a marvel. Embrace that. It is not difficult to ascertain when students are using AI because the writing is bad. If your goal is to get a good grade, you want to put your best writing forward. I prefer flawed, human writing to mediocre machine writing.
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I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?
September 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?
@samsanders.bsky.social do you watch any Korean television? I know y’all were talking about friendship in American pop culture, but there are some great depictions of friendship in Korean tv. “Thirty-Nine” and “Reply 1988” and “Our Blues” come to mind.
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The Sam Sanders Show
It’s about the things we obsess over in our free time: TV and movies, music and celebrities, Internet and memes, and the people who make it. No topic is too big or small. And nothing’s off limits.
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August 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
@samsanders.bsky.social do you watch any Korean television? I know y’all were talking about friendship in American pop culture, but there are some great depictions of friendship in Korean tv. “Thirty-Nine” and “Reply 1988” and “Our Blues” come to mind.
www.kcrw.com/culture/show...
www.kcrw.com/culture/show...
Lap dogs are great, but have you tried a desk chicken?
August 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Lap dogs are great, but have you tried a desk chicken?
Her name is Tory (after Tory’s whiskey), she’s 10 years old (ancient for a chicken) and having outlived her flock is now enjoying her golden years inside a Brooklyn apartment. She wears couture diapers and insists on salad and yogurt for breakfast.
August 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Her name is Tory (after Tory’s whiskey), she’s 10 years old (ancient for a chicken) and having outlived her flock is now enjoying her golden years inside a Brooklyn apartment. She wears couture diapers and insists on salad and yogurt for breakfast.
What’s that quote you love, @winkworthbklyn.bsky.social, something like “It’s not how good I make it, it’s how I make it good”
Plainly, the people mad about the work required to write well and make great art who are justifying various artificial intelligence tools as shortcuts to that creative process don't value the labor inherent to it.
August 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
What’s that quote you love, @winkworthbklyn.bsky.social, something like “It’s not how good I make it, it’s how I make it good”
10/10 recommend a chicken on your desk
August 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
10/10 recommend a chicken on your desk
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Watch my video and subscribe to my YouTube channel where I'm covering the Democrats and Republicans ongoing campaign to censor the internet under the guise of "protecting kids online"!!!!! www.youtube.com/@TaylorLorenz
I did an hour long beginner’s breakdown on why age verification is extremely dangerous, bad, and leading to mass censorship, with tech policy expert @ericgoldman.bsky.social. What’s happening in the UK can and will happen here if we don’t fight it!
Age Verification Will Kill Free Speech Online
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
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August 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Watch my video and subscribe to my YouTube channel where I'm covering the Democrats and Republicans ongoing campaign to censor the internet under the guise of "protecting kids online"!!!!! www.youtube.com/@TaylorLorenz
I always seem to have avian companions during large creative projects. Currently, an elderly hen is getting me through writing a book. Once it was a discarded racing pigeon. And I’m often visited by a family of crows (in a different location).
July 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I always seem to have avian companions during large creative projects. Currently, an elderly hen is getting me through writing a book. Once it was a discarded racing pigeon. And I’m often visited by a family of crows (in a different location).
If anyone I know on here is a member of The Center for Fiction in Downtown Brooklyn, would you be willing to bring me as a guest one day?
July 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
If anyone I know on here is a member of The Center for Fiction in Downtown Brooklyn, would you be willing to bring me as a guest one day?
I love seeing process
A little insight into my rewrites on a novel in progress, How To Be Free.
July 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I love seeing process
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Very good and correct thread!!
As more journalists are driven out of their jobs, I keep hearing this drumbeat of "it's ok -- they can start their own newsletter or publication." Some can. But becoming your own business is a huge job, and will eliminate many talented reporters from the public sphere. Here's why. (1/5)
July 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Very good and correct thread!!
I eat ice cream every day for my emotional health
time for my emotional support ice cream
June 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I eat ice cream every day for my emotional health
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In honor of World Eel Day, here's this piece I wrote 5 (?) years ago www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Where Do Eels Come From?
There is much to be learned from how little we know about them.
www.newyorker.com
May 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
In honor of World Eel Day, here's this piece I wrote 5 (?) years ago www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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“Both options will allow publishers to choose from more than 100 AI-generated voices across English, Spanish, French and Italian to narrate their books. AI translation of audiobooks is expected to be available later in the year.” 😩
Non-actors reading non-books by non-authors. Now I just to have to create an AI avatar to not listen to them.
Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks
Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages
www.theguardian.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
“Both options will allow publishers to choose from more than 100 AI-generated voices across English, Spanish, French and Italian to narrate their books. AI translation of audiobooks is expected to be available later in the year.” 😩
There’s the heat, but there’s also a strategic reserve that the government uses to control prices, and decades of policy reducing the amount of land used to grow rice.
Next month, Aeon stores in Japan will start selling California-grown Calrose rice. A 4kg bag will run for 2,680 yen ($18). Japanese-grown rice is currently running 4,214 yen ($28) a 5kg bag - a 172.8 yen/kg difference - due to last year's hot summer.
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イオンが米カリフォルニア産「カルローズ米」販売へ!4キロあたり2680円 6月上旬から全国グループ店舗で順次販売（FNNプライムオンライン（フジテレビ系）） - Yahoo!ニュース
コメの価格高騰が続く中、イオンがアメリカ・カリフォルニア産の「カルローズ米」の販売を始めます。 イオンが、在日アメリカ大使館で行ったのはカリフォルニア産のカルローズ米を100％使用した「かろやか」
news.yahoo.co.jp
May 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
There’s the heat, but there’s also a strategic reserve that the government uses to control prices, and decades of policy reducing the amount of land used to grow rice.
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the man next to me on my flight is reading a novel. in hardcover. i feel like he's from the future.
May 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
the man next to me on my flight is reading a novel. in hardcover. i feel like he's from the future.
normally my suitcase just sits half-unpacked for weeks
I got home before sunset from a 4-hour drive (in a kei truck) at the end of a 2-week work trip, did all the laundry and started packing for my next trip. Please give me an award.
April 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
normally my suitcase just sits half-unpacked for weeks
Just a few days left to apply (and the application is easy)!
Are you interested in the ethics and craft food writing? life in rural Japan? spending time surrounded by nature in the open-air kitchen of a 100-year old farmhouse? This retreat might be for you!
www.mokkei-yamanaka.com/workshops/wh...
www.mokkei-yamanaka.com/workshops/wh...
Writing Retreat in Japan: What is a Recipe For? — MOKKEI
Hosted by Hannah Kirshner and Clarissa Wei, with guest lecturer Bryan Washington | September 15–19 2025 Join us for a five-night, four-day food writing retreat in Yamanaka Onsen—a mountain hot sprin...
www.mokkei-yamanaka.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Just a few days left to apply (and the application is easy)!
This looks lovely!
Support this freelance nature and design loving writer by pre-ordering the 2nd book I co-authored with my wife (ideally with our other Pocket Nature Mushroom Hunting guide for a mycelium-connected pairing.) * Altadena permeates the pages.
Pre-order: www.chroniclebooks.com/collections/...
Pre-order: www.chroniclebooks.com/collections/...
April 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This looks lovely!
I got home before sunset from a 4-hour drive (in a kei truck) at the end of a 2-week work trip, did all the laundry and started packing for my next trip. Please give me an award.
April 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I got home before sunset from a 4-hour drive (in a kei truck) at the end of a 2-week work trip, did all the laundry and started packing for my next trip. Please give me an award.
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But that’s my emotional support em dash—
April 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
But that’s my emotional support em dash—
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Concentrations of PFAS, potentially carcinogenic chemicals, in groundwater and river water exceeded Japan's provisional standard at 242 locations in 22 of the country's 47 prefectures in fiscal 2023
Potentially carcinogenic chemicals over standard at 242 sites in Japan
Japan banned the production and import of PFOS and PFOA, both of which are main components of PFAS, by 2021.
www.japantimes.co.jp
April 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Concentrations of PFAS, potentially carcinogenic chemicals, in groundwater and river water exceeded Japan's provisional standard at 242 locations in 22 of the country's 47 prefectures in fiscal 2023
We now have a scholarship spot thanks to a generous individual, and we've extended the application deadline to April 30! #foodwriting #recipes #japanesefood #writingretreat #writingworkshop #recipewriting #creativewriting
Recipes can archive part of a disappearing or rapidly changing culture, tell a story about a person or place, allow people to connect with a broader world, or help them get food on the table with available resources. Come explore all these functions with me and @dearclarissa.bsky.social!
Writing Retreat in Japan: What is a Recipe For? — MOKKEI
Hosted by Hannah Kirshner and Clarissa Wei, with guest lecturer Bryan Washington | September 15–19 2025 Join us for a five-night, four-day food writing retreat in Yamanaka Onsen—a mountain hot sprin...
www.mokkei-yamanaka.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
We now have a scholarship spot thanks to a generous individual, and we've extended the application deadline to April 30! #foodwriting #recipes #japanesefood #writingretreat #writingworkshop #recipewriting #creativewriting