Álex Maroño Porto
@alexmaronho.bsky.social
associate editor at the atlantic | socio-cultural writer
fit to be printed 🫨🫨🫨🫨
May 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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“What began as a lovesick exercise became an opportunity to reflect on my broader reality,” writes Alex Maroño Porto. “Writing a diary in my second language, I came to learn, makes me an outside observer of my own emotions, providing a clarity that is lost in the proximity of my native tongue.”
Opinion | Keeping a Diary in a Second Language Taught Me About Myself
Writing in a second language can feel unnatural, but it presents a new way for writers to understand who they are — and how they fit into the world.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
“What began as a lovesick exercise became an opportunity to reflect on my broader reality,” writes Alex Maroño Porto. “Writing a diary in my second language, I came to learn, makes me an outside observer of my own emotions, providing a clarity that is lost in the proximity of my native tongue.”
Reposted by Álex Maroño Porto
Un tema que me obsesiona: ¿cómo cambiamos en las diferentes lenguas que hablamos? ¿Cómo afecta nuestro nivel de familiaridad con una lengua al uso que le damos? @alexmaronho.bsky.social se estrena en el New York Times y yo pienso celebrarlo toda la semana. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...
Opinion | Keeping a Diary in a Second Language Taught Me About Myself
Writing in a second language can feel unnatural, but it presents a new way for writers to understand who they are — and how they fit into the world.
www.nytimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Un tema que me obsesiona: ¿cómo cambiamos en las diferentes lenguas que hablamos? ¿Cómo afecta nuestro nivel de familiaridad con una lengua al uso que le damos? @alexmaronho.bsky.social se estrena en el New York Times y yo pienso celebrarlo toda la semana. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...
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@alexmaronho.bsky.social escribe para el @nytimes.com un artículo de opinión sobre las escrituras de los que vivimos entre lenguas...
Opinion | Keeping a Diary in a Second Language Taught Me About Myself (Gift Article)
Writing in a second language can feel unnatural, but it presents a new way for writers to understand who they are — and how they fit into the world.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
@alexmaronho.bsky.social escribe para el @nytimes.com un artículo de opinión sobre las escrituras de los que vivimos entre lenguas...
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I think the role of culture / art to make you uncomfortable and change your mind and change your life is under extreme threat from the tidal wave of entertainment and the late-capitalist condition of artists having to commodify themselves to the hilt to survive at all
February 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I think the role of culture / art to make you uncomfortable and change your mind and change your life is under extreme threat from the tidal wave of entertainment and the late-capitalist condition of artists having to commodify themselves to the hilt to survive at all
“was this not what i wanted? sex was the thing i had craved most all these years, thinking it would fix all my problems, rescue me. of course, this solved nothing. the only difference was that now i was an incel who happened to be having sex.”
February 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“was this not what i wanted? sex was the thing i had craved most all these years, thinking it would fix all my problems, rescue me. of course, this solved nothing. the only difference was that now i was an incel who happened to be having sex.”
last august, i went to agrocuir, a rural queer festival in monterroso, spain. here's a dispatch i wrote about it for @huffpost.com
www.huffpost.com/entry/agrocu...
www.huffpost.com/entry/agrocu...
This Is What Queer Celebration Can Look Like Outside Of The City
Spain has the blueprint for a very different kind of Pride festival — and we should all be paying attention.
www.huffpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
last august, i went to agrocuir, a rural queer festival in monterroso, spain. here's a dispatch i wrote about it for @huffpost.com
www.huffpost.com/entry/agrocu...
www.huffpost.com/entry/agrocu...
mi análisis sobre el futuro del partido demócrata en @elordenmundial.bsky.social
elordenmundial.com/partido-demo...
elordenmundial.com/partido-demo...
La crisis del Partido Demócrata: ¿cómo sobrevivir y ganar a Trump? - El Orden Mundial - EOM
Progresistas y moderados se disputan el futuro ideológico de la formación, que necesitará una candidatura carismática para volver al poder
elordenmundial.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
mi análisis sobre el futuro del partido demócrata en @elordenmundial.bsky.social
elordenmundial.com/partido-demo...
elordenmundial.com/partido-demo...
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I've seen people dismiss the Pornhub bans, sometimes couching their dismissal in an anti-porn stance. What I don't think they realize is that the people pushing this stuff conflate porn with LGBTQ people and sex education and are part of Project 2025
mashable.com/article/free...
mashable.com/article/free...
What the Supreme Court hearing about age verification could mean for you
The court's decision could set a new precedent for free speech online.
mashable.com
January 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I've seen people dismiss the Pornhub bans, sometimes couching their dismissal in an anti-porn stance. What I don't think they realize is that the people pushing this stuff conflate porn with LGBTQ people and sex education and are part of Project 2025
mashable.com/article/free...
mashable.com/article/free...
better late than never ✨ here are 25 essays i loved last year — not an exhaustive list, just some of the pieces that stayed with me, like the sound lingering in the air after a bell rings 🧵
January 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
better late than never ✨ here are 25 essays i loved last year — not an exhaustive list, just some of the pieces that stayed with me, like the sound lingering in the air after a bell rings 🧵
new year, new me!!! starting on january 6, i’ll be joining @theatlantic.com as an associate editor.
can’t believe i’m going to work for the magazine i used to read constantly before moving to new york.
can’t believe i’m going to work for the magazine i used to read constantly before moving to new york.
January 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
new year, new me!!! starting on january 6, i’ll be joining @theatlantic.com as an associate editor.
can’t believe i’m going to work for the magazine i used to read constantly before moving to new york.
can’t believe i’m going to work for the magazine i used to read constantly before moving to new york.
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por qué ver los años nuevos cuando puedes seguir la historia de una neoyorquina y una barcelonesa que quedan cada fin de año en la frontera de sus galicia y asturias natales para prometerse visitas a sus respectivos lugares de residencia que jamás ocurrirán. @alexmaronho.bsky.social
December 30, 2024 at 11:27 AM
por qué ver los años nuevos cuando puedes seguir la historia de una neoyorquina y una barcelonesa que quedan cada fin de año en la frontera de sus galicia y asturias natales para prometerse visitas a sus respectivos lugares de residencia que jamás ocurrirán. @alexmaronho.bsky.social
“few tongues exemplify the ever-evolving nature of language better than so-called Standard English, which, after millennia of conquest, conversion, and commerce, has acquired a vocabulary that is roughly seventy per cent non-Germanic”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Much Does Our Language Shape Our Thinking?
English continues to expand into diverse regions around the world. The question is whether humanity will be homogenized as a result.
www.newyorker.com
December 27, 2024 at 12:37 PM
“few tongues exemplify the ever-evolving nature of language better than so-called Standard English, which, after millennia of conquest, conversion, and commerce, has acquired a vocabulary that is roughly seventy per cent non-Germanic”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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"Thirty per cent of Americans read at a level that you would expect from a 10-year-old child” …
“Every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading simple things”
Sobre el impacto en la comprensión lectora que tienen las tecnologías y las redes, por @sarahoconnorft.bsky.social
“Every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading simple things”
Sobre el impacto en la comprensión lectora que tienen las tecnologías y las redes, por @sarahoconnorft.bsky.social
December 27, 2024 at 12:17 PM
"Thirty per cent of Americans read at a level that you would expect from a 10-year-old child” …
“Every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading simple things”
Sobre el impacto en la comprensión lectora que tienen las tecnologías y las redes, por @sarahoconnorft.bsky.social
“Every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading simple things”
Sobre el impacto en la comprensión lectora que tienen las tecnologías y las redes, por @sarahoconnorft.bsky.social
“Callers seem to think their predicament is extraordinary when, of course, most calls are essentially the same. This dynamic crops up in lots of life’s fears and I think it’s just another expression of feeling, briefly, a bit alone in the world.”
www.ft.com/content/2a32...
www.ft.com/content/2a32...
‘I’m stuck. Get me outta here!’
24 hours in the UK’s lift alarms call centre
www.ft.com
December 27, 2024 at 11:22 AM
“Callers seem to think their predicament is extraordinary when, of course, most calls are essentially the same. This dynamic crops up in lots of life’s fears and I think it’s just another expression of feeling, briefly, a bit alone in the world.”
www.ft.com/content/2a32...
www.ft.com/content/2a32...
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-jealousy-list/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&sref=a2d7LMhq
t.co
December 27, 2024 at 12:57 AM
"queer people the world over have found ways to create spaces where they can survive, and sometimes even thrive, in the unlikeliest contexts" www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Nonstop Gay Sex Party on the Mexico City Subway
The city’s metro hosts—and authorities unofficially sanction—a queer institution unlike any other.
www.thenation.com
December 10, 2024 at 9:27 PM
"queer people the world over have found ways to create spaces where they can survive, and sometimes even thrive, in the unlikeliest contexts" www.thenation.com/article/soci...
what a story
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/m...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/m...
An I.V.F. Mix-Up, a Shocking Discovery and an Unbearable Choice
Two couples in California discovered they were raising each other’s genetic children. Should they switch their girls?
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2024 at 9:06 PM
what a story
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/m...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/m...
qué orgullo haber contribuido a una sección que admiro
elpais.com/ideas/2024-1...
elpais.com/ideas/2024-1...
12 portadas de ‘Ideas’ llenas de ideas
El suplemento de pensamiento, tendencias y debates de EL PAÍS llega a su número 500. Estas son algunas de las portadas más destacadas
elpais.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:28 PM
qué orgullo haber contribuido a una sección que admiro
elpais.com/ideas/2024-1...
elpais.com/ideas/2024-1...
The only way to end up in a situation where a C.E.O. of a health-insurance company is reflexively viewed as a dictatorial purveyor of suffering is through a history of socially sanctioned death
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
A Man Was Murdered in Cold Blood and You’re Laughing?
What the death of a health-insurance C.E.O. means to America.
www.newyorker.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:15 PM
The only way to end up in a situation where a C.E.O. of a health-insurance company is reflexively viewed as a dictatorial purveyor of suffering is through a history of socially sanctioned death
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...