Lia Swope Mitchell
@liaswopemitchell.bsky.social
reader, writer, translator. PhD French. I like running, gardening, baking, and outdoorsy stuff. I live in Minneapolis.
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KREE by Manuela Draeger: out today!
Today is the official release day for Kree by Manuela Draeger, the second post-exotic novel (after Solo Viola) that I’ve had the pleasure and challenge of translating for University of Minnes…
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KREE by Manuela Draeger: out today from @uminnpress.bsky.social ! Here's some of my thoughts about this gnarly abyss of a book
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Delouse and Guitar
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Delouse and Guitar
I read a lot of books about running, and can I just say: Let's stop writing about Pheidippides. Really. He's been dead for thousands of years. Just let that poor man lie already.
November 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I read a lot of books about running, and can I just say: Let's stop writing about Pheidippides. Really. He's been dead for thousands of years. Just let that poor man lie already.
Politics aside, some people mistake a change in their own subjective tastes and preferences for a change in the objective quality of things.
When I was younger, I hated cilantro. Now I like it. Did cilantro change? No, my palate did.
Those pizza chains were never all that great.
When I was younger, I hated cilantro. Now I like it. Did cilantro change? No, my palate did.
Those pizza chains were never all that great.
Late-stage MAGA means accepting that things will never be great again
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Politics aside, some people mistake a change in their own subjective tastes and preferences for a change in the objective quality of things.
When I was younger, I hated cilantro. Now I like it. Did cilantro change? No, my palate did.
Those pizza chains were never all that great.
When I was younger, I hated cilantro. Now I like it. Did cilantro change? No, my palate did.
Those pizza chains were never all that great.
Am I a terrible person if I get really annoyed by prices at the Seward Coop? I mean, yes, I like that their staff is FT with benefits. But no, I don't like paying an extra dollar a pound for chicken
November 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Am I a terrible person if I get really annoyed by prices at the Seward Coop? I mean, yes, I like that their staff is FT with benefits. But no, I don't like paying an extra dollar a pound for chicken
I try explaining to the dog that I've had enough exercise already today, thank you, but no, she insists
November 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I try explaining to the dog that I've had enough exercise already today, thank you, but no, she insists
update: sometimes I put a nice runny egg on the toast and set it in the sun and look at it a minute
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
update: sometimes I put a nice runny egg on the toast and set it in the sun and look at it a minute
Sometimes I make a good loaf of bread and then I eat toast every meal for a week
November 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Sometimes I make a good loaf of bread and then I eat toast every meal for a week
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OK -- this is a long shot -- but does *anyone* have a copy of either of these two books about Lin Carter? (in the thread) They are hellishly difficult to find; I can't even find them from used sellers or on auction sites at any price!
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
OK -- this is a long shot -- but does *anyone* have a copy of either of these two books about Lin Carter? (in the thread) They are hellishly difficult to find; I can't even find them from used sellers or on auction sites at any price!
tfw everyone got up too early and you just want to sleep a little longer
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
tfw everyone got up too early and you just want to sleep a little longer
Once when I was camping at Lake Maria SP, as I drank my morning coffee in a chilly dawn, six trumpeter swans flew over me, quite low, snowy and massive and so graceful, and it was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen.
It's such a thrill to see and hear trumpeter swans go by overhead.
November 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Once when I was camping at Lake Maria SP, as I drank my morning coffee in a chilly dawn, six trumpeter swans flew over me, quite low, snowy and massive and so graceful, and it was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen.
not quite as exciting as the aurora borealis but a very lovely dawn this morning
November 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
not quite as exciting as the aurora borealis but a very lovely dawn this morning
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Aurora visible right now in Ely MN: www.youtube.com/live/CevQg8I...
Live Dark Sky Views from Ely, MN
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November 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Aurora visible right now in Ely MN: www.youtube.com/live/CevQg8I...
all I’ve seen so far is that stupid Starlink thing. Nice night though
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
all I’ve seen so far is that stupid Starlink thing. Nice night though
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The sky over Minneapolis tonight is incredible and very difficult to convey in a cell phone pic. The pink, green and blue across the heavens are slowly undulating, like a lava lamp.
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The sky over Minneapolis tonight is incredible and very difficult to convey in a cell phone pic. The pink, green and blue across the heavens are slowly undulating, like a lava lamp.
got back from a run and the dog zoomed so wildly my phone camera failed to capture her movements
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
got back from a run and the dog zoomed so wildly my phone camera failed to capture her movements
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In my job, I work with and along side Veterans. They’re not usually reaching out to us because something good is happening. Our conversations tend to be about how they believe someone is taking advantage of them, or that the VA system is too much of a mess to navigate. And they’re usually correct.
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In my job, I work with and along side Veterans. They’re not usually reaching out to us because something good is happening. Our conversations tend to be about how they believe someone is taking advantage of them, or that the VA system is too much of a mess to navigate. And they’re usually correct.
In the afterlife Sartre and JCO will find each other in a closed room from which there is no escape, but they will enjoy chatting, at least for a while
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
In the afterlife Sartre and JCO will find each other in a closed room from which there is no escape, but they will enjoy chatting, at least for a while
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November 10, 1975 7:10pm: The last radio communication.
Anderson: "Fitzgerald, we are about 10 miles behind you, and gaining about 1 1/2 miles per hour. How are you making out with your problem?"
Fitzgerald: "We are holding our own."
Anderson: "Fitzgerald, we are about 10 miles behind you, and gaining about 1 1/2 miles per hour. How are you making out with your problem?"
Fitzgerald: "We are holding our own."
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
November 10, 1975 7:10pm: The last radio communication.
Anderson: "Fitzgerald, we are about 10 miles behind you, and gaining about 1 1/2 miles per hour. How are you making out with your problem?"
Fitzgerald: "We are holding our own."
Anderson: "Fitzgerald, we are about 10 miles behind you, and gaining about 1 1/2 miles per hour. How are you making out with your problem?"
Fitzgerald: "We are holding our own."
It's an awful lot easier to feel like you wasted your entire day when the sun goes down at 4:30
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It's an awful lot easier to feel like you wasted your entire day when the sun goes down at 4:30
tfw someone has the Audacity to like something you think is Incredibly Bad Indeed
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
tfw someone has the Audacity to like something you think is Incredibly Bad Indeed
"I balled my eyes out" has to be the worst homonym error out there but it is nonetheless a very clever summary of Oedipus Rex
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"I balled my eyes out" has to be the worst homonym error out there but it is nonetheless a very clever summary of Oedipus Rex
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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about 40 minutes into del Toro’s Frankenstein and wow is it boring
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
about 40 minutes into del Toro’s Frankenstein and wow is it boring
Oldest selfie on my phone: 2012 in the bathroom at the King and I.
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Oldest selfie on my phone: 2012 in the bathroom at the King and I.
tis the season
November 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
tis the season