Dani K.
@dkj.bsky.social
Viet/american/etc. Too old for this shit. Alt handle on other platforms and in other lifetimes: dax or daxxy. Haunted by unfinished Scrivener projects. (she/they/any)
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The border is a rusted hinge that does not bend.
The border is the blood clot in the river’s vein.
The border is a handshake that becomes a squeezing contest.
-Alberto Ríos
from “The Border: A Double Sonnet” (2015)
#everynightapoem
The border is the blood clot in the river’s vein.
The border is a handshake that becomes a squeezing contest.
-Alberto Ríos
from “The Border: A Double Sonnet” (2015)
#everynightapoem
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The border is a rusted hinge that does not bend.
The border is the blood clot in the river’s vein.
The border is a handshake that becomes a squeezing contest.
-Alberto Ríos
from “The Border: A Double Sonnet” (2015)
#everynightapoem
The border is the blood clot in the river’s vein.
The border is a handshake that becomes a squeezing contest.
-Alberto Ríos
from “The Border: A Double Sonnet” (2015)
#everynightapoem
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The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
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Dear friends,
As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here:
#everynightapoem
As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here:
#everynightapoem
September 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Dear friends,
As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here:
#everynightapoem
As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here:
#everynightapoem
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Luiza Brina is an artist on a small, São Paulo-based label who captured my heart so deeply that I wrote a letter to Brazil's ministry of culture so she could get a grant to travel to the U.S., so that we could share her music. This one took a lot of work to produce, and it has my whole heart.
At the Tiny Desk, the Brazilian artist presents a searching set of orações that serve as meditations, no matter your spiritual journey.
Luiza Brina: Tiny Desk Concert
At the Tiny Desk, the Brazilian artist presents a searching set of orações that serve as meditations, no matter your spiritual journey.
n.pr
September 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Luiza Brina is an artist on a small, São Paulo-based label who captured my heart so deeply that I wrote a letter to Brazil's ministry of culture so she could get a grant to travel to the U.S., so that we could share her music. This one took a lot of work to produce, and it has my whole heart.
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The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.
The crowd has no beginning and no end as it begins its march to the White House
September 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.
If you see this, quote repost with a vampire who isn't Dracula.
September 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
If you see this, quote repost with a vampire who isn't Dracula.
First day of classes on campus = always a shock to transition back to soooo many students omg
September 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
First day of classes on campus = always a shock to transition back to soooo many students omg
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I like how Studio Ghibli films are like, "Cool, a new monster friend!" and "A witch and her cat!" when you're a kid, and then "Do you ever think about your parents dying?" and "What if you're so burned out you can't do the thing you love anymore?" when you're an adult
August 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I like how Studio Ghibli films are like, "Cool, a new monster friend!" and "A witch and her cat!" when you're a kid, and then "Do you ever think about your parents dying?" and "What if you're so burned out you can't do the thing you love anymore?" when you're an adult
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5 years ago, I had sent this message to students enrolled in my Chinatowns class at the height of online pandemic education. Then, I wanted to send some words of reassurance, and to offer our (virtual) classroom as genuine community.
Uncanny to feel as if we are in direr straits on campuses today.
Uncanny to feel as if we are in direr straits on campuses today.
August 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
5 years ago, I had sent this message to students enrolled in my Chinatowns class at the height of online pandemic education. Then, I wanted to send some words of reassurance, and to offer our (virtual) classroom as genuine community.
Uncanny to feel as if we are in direr straits on campuses today.
Uncanny to feel as if we are in direr straits on campuses today.
Yesterday at an event I had an elderly white lady ask me the classic “but where are you really from” question. Which I don’t often get here since lots of folks tend to think I’m Indigenous, but may have been prompted by the fact that I was wearing one of my Áo Ngũ Thân inspired shirts.
Sigh.
Sigh.
August 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Yesterday at an event I had an elderly white lady ask me the classic “but where are you really from” question. Which I don’t often get here since lots of folks tend to think I’m Indigenous, but may have been prompted by the fact that I was wearing one of my Áo Ngũ Thân inspired shirts.
Sigh.
Sigh.
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Don't know who made this, but thank you. adoptastation.org
Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media
Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.
adoptastation.org
July 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Don't know who made this, but thank you. adoptastation.org
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Hard not to be paranoid when you remember all the times your paranoia was justified.
June 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Hard not to be paranoid when you remember all the times your paranoia was justified.
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I needed to have an emotion in private.
June 1, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I needed to have an emotion in private.
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I think about this every day
May 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I think about this every day
Coworkers doing a photo scavenger hunt came into my office looking for something “strange” for their photo. Their biggest issue was choosing.
Then they asked if I had anything with a rainbow on it and I started laughing at them before overwhelming them with options.
Then they asked if I had anything with a rainbow on it and I started laughing at them before overwhelming them with options.
May 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Coworkers doing a photo scavenger hunt came into my office looking for something “strange” for their photo. Their biggest issue was choosing.
Then they asked if I had anything with a rainbow on it and I started laughing at them before overwhelming them with options.
Then they asked if I had anything with a rainbow on it and I started laughing at them before overwhelming them with options.
Rant: just because a lot of users like video content does not mean that everyone should pivot to making all of their content in video format. It can have SO many accessibility issues.
Trying learn something for work and the only options available to me are videos (42min + 55min).
Trying learn something for work and the only options available to me are videos (42min + 55min).
May 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Rant: just because a lot of users like video content does not mean that everyone should pivot to making all of their content in video format. It can have SO many accessibility issues.
Trying learn something for work and the only options available to me are videos (42min + 55min).
Trying learn something for work and the only options available to me are videos (42min + 55min).
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On the anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first of a series of increasingly stringent exclusion laws that not only banned the Chinese but also became a blueprint for racially-charged US immigration policy that persists to this day - sharing a poem from Angel Island.
May 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
On the anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first of a series of increasingly stringent exclusion laws that not only banned the Chinese but also became a blueprint for racially-charged US immigration policy that persists to this day - sharing a poem from Angel Island.
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“In a time of destruction, create something.
A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.”
-Maxine Hong Kingston
(from the book she wrote from scratch after her home burnt down and she lost all her drafts in the Oakland forest fires of 1991)
A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.”
-Maxine Hong Kingston
(from the book she wrote from scratch after her home burnt down and she lost all her drafts in the Oakland forest fires of 1991)
May 3, 2025 at 5:02 AM
“In a time of destruction, create something.
A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.”
-Maxine Hong Kingston
(from the book she wrote from scratch after her home burnt down and she lost all her drafts in the Oakland forest fires of 1991)
A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.”
-Maxine Hong Kingston
(from the book she wrote from scratch after her home burnt down and she lost all her drafts in the Oakland forest fires of 1991)
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Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!
December 29, 2024 at 8:36 AM
Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!
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pretending you were asking for more information was the best way to try to get the humans to realize they were doing something stupid.
March 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
pretending you were asking for more information was the best way to try to get the humans to realize they were doing something stupid.
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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Since it's still March, my birthday month. Two things out this month (and yay!)
Wolf's Path: www.atthisarts.com/product/wolf...
Cold Steel (second book of the Fire Heart duology): www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/cold-st...
Wolf's Path: www.atthisarts.com/product/wolf...
Cold Steel (second book of the Fire Heart duology): www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/cold-st...
Wolf's Path by Joyce Chng
within a running wolf, four-pawed, howling
www.atthisarts.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Since it's still March, my birthday month. Two things out this month (and yay!)
Wolf's Path: www.atthisarts.com/product/wolf...
Cold Steel (second book of the Fire Heart duology): www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/cold-st...
Wolf's Path: www.atthisarts.com/product/wolf...
Cold Steel (second book of the Fire Heart duology): www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/cold-st...
I think the tiny plushies in my office aren’t big enough. I need something of hugging size for days (weeks?) when things are a bit too much.
February 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I think the tiny plushies in my office aren’t big enough. I need something of hugging size for days (weeks?) when things are a bit too much.
Trying to figure out how to write “the vibes are off” in a professional way.
February 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Trying to figure out how to write “the vibes are off” in a professional way.
Measuring time like I’m in some historical drama: going to work on this for an incense stick worth of time. And then head in to the office.
December 17, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Measuring time like I’m in some historical drama: going to work on this for an incense stick worth of time. And then head in to the office.