Michelle M
@michelle-manichean.bsky.social
I read, I ride the bus, I go to libraries, I work in the woods. I ride my bike.
Philly, come out to demand that our sheriff keep ICE away from the courthouse. This Thursday at noon!
December 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Philly, come out to demand that our sheriff keep ICE away from the courthouse. This Thursday at noon!
Nothing like a mother-daughter viewing of Hereditary to put one in the Thanksgiving spirit!
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Nothing like a mother-daughter viewing of Hereditary to put one in the Thanksgiving spirit!
Passage of time in three pictures.
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Passage of time in three pictures.
Not funny at all, but I participated in observation of Philly’s ICE office today. Office is closed and a couple with a baby strapped to the mom’s back has not yet left. No words. I’m not really a believer, but I think what I’m doing is praying.
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Not funny at all, but I participated in observation of Philly’s ICE office today. Office is closed and a couple with a baby strapped to the mom’s back has not yet left. No words. I’m not really a believer, but I think what I’m doing is praying.
If anyone wants a chuckle, I highly recommend looking at a free sample of Louis CK’s laughably bad first (hopefully last) novel Ingram, on your ereader of choice. Here’s screen shots from Libby:
November 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
If anyone wants a chuckle, I highly recommend looking at a free sample of Louis CK’s laughably bad first (hopefully last) novel Ingram, on your ereader of choice. Here’s screen shots from Libby:
Crap pictures of an amazing place, Dead King bakery on Umbria Ave, near the Ivy Ridge Septa station. You can buy amazing baked goods, get a great espresso, and browse various lefty
Books, zines , etc. And sit out by the fire to eat your tomato pie. Pretty sure I was the
Oldest person!
Books, zines , etc. And sit out by the fire to eat your tomato pie. Pretty sure I was the
Oldest person!
October 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Crap pictures of an amazing place, Dead King bakery on Umbria Ave, near the Ivy Ridge Septa station. You can buy amazing baked goods, get a great espresso, and browse various lefty
Books, zines , etc. And sit out by the fire to eat your tomato pie. Pretty sure I was the
Oldest person!
Books, zines , etc. And sit out by the fire to eat your tomato pie. Pretty sure I was the
Oldest person!
Reading Herscht 07769 during Fall 2024 (the eve of the disaster) was one of the most intense prolonged reading experiences I’ve ever had. He is a sad, funny, angry writer. A good choice, I think.
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László Krasznahorkai - Words Without Borders
László Krasznahorkai is the recipient of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature, the 2015 Man Booker International Prize, and the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Reading Herscht 07769 during Fall 2024 (the eve of the disaster) was one of the most intense prolonged reading experiences I’ve ever had. He is a sad, funny, angry writer. A good choice, I think.
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I think it is not an exaggeration to say that every day in the US under Trump and his minions/accomplices/tech overlords is more terrifying and infuriating than the last.
October 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I think it is not an exaggeration to say that every day in the US under Trump and his minions/accomplices/tech overlords is more terrifying and infuriating than the last.
Of course, stupider is Trump getting to address the General Assembly.
September 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Of course, stupider is Trump getting to address the General Assembly.
I’m pretty sure this is a stupid headline. All the shortlisted novels have exactly the same status: shortlisted.
September 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I’m pretty sure this is a stupid headline. All the shortlisted novels have exactly the same status: shortlisted.
Publication day. And also Covid vaccine day for me!
September 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Publication day. And also Covid vaccine day for me!
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Just did this. Very easy to leave a comment.
September 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Just did this. Very easy to leave a comment.
I have been told I don’t post enough cat pictures. Fair, given how much brain space they take up. Here you have: the cats of Utrecht.
September 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I have been told I don’t post enough cat pictures. Fair, given how much brain space they take up. Here you have: the cats of Utrecht.
Picked this up at Caliban Books in Pittsburgh. Kerstin Ekman is well known in Sweden but I had never read her! From 1974, set in the last decades of the 19c in a village transformed by its new train station. It gets real about working class lives and feet and the impact of shoes that don’t fit. #WIT
August 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Picked this up at Caliban Books in Pittsburgh. Kerstin Ekman is well known in Sweden but I had never read her! From 1974, set in the last decades of the 19c in a village transformed by its new train station. It gets real about working class lives and feet and the impact of shoes that don’t fit. #WIT
Day 3 of #WIT month is a short story: “Culinary Lesson” by Mexican writer Rosario Castellanos, translated, I think, by Maureen Ahern. (Read it in a collection in my México City B and B … Not exactly sure who did the translation.) So much drama and feeling in such a little package.
August 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Day 3 of #WIT month is a short story: “Culinary Lesson” by Mexican writer Rosario Castellanos, translated, I think, by Maureen Ahern. (Read it in a collection in my México City B and B … Not exactly sure who did the translation.) So much drama and feeling in such a little package.
Today for #WITmonth the writer Xi Xi. A writer rather than any one work, because her works slide into each other. Her great subject is the working body and thinking mind in the city, esp Hong Kong. Easiest to access in the US is NYRB Mourning a Breast, translated from Cantonese by Jennifer Feeley.
August 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Today for #WITmonth the writer Xi Xi. A writer rather than any one work, because her works slide into each other. Her great subject is the working body and thinking mind in the city, esp Hong Kong. Easiest to access in the US is NYRB Mourning a Breast, translated from Cantonese by Jennifer Feeley.
It’s #WITmonth! August celebrates books by women in a language other than English that have been translated. Today’s entry: Engagement by Gun-Britt Sundström, translated by Kathy Saranpa. A cantankerous grad student bikes around Stockholm, reads good books, determined to live her own life.
August 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
It’s #WITmonth! August celebrates books by women in a language other than English that have been translated. Today’s entry: Engagement by Gun-Britt Sundström, translated by Kathy Saranpa. A cantankerous grad student bikes around Stockholm, reads good books, determined to live her own life.
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New: Trump has issued a new executive order targeting the solar and wind industries, instructing the Treasury Department to limit how many renewable energy projects can still claim clean electricity credits under OBBA
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Ending Market Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable, Foreign‑Controlled Energy Sources
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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July 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
New: Trump has issued a new executive order targeting the solar and wind industries, instructing the Treasury Department to limit how many renewable energy projects can still claim clean electricity credits under OBBA
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Trump wasn’t celebrating the founding, because that was something not even his narcissistic megalomania could let him claim responsibility for. He was celebrating his ability to make all this happen now.
June 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Trump wasn’t celebrating the founding, because that was something not even his narcissistic megalomania could let him claim responsibility for. He was celebrating his ability to make all this happen now.
I only took one photo. One sign made me choke up: a quote from Anne Frank’s diary. Good to be one of the hundred thousand who turned out in Philly.
June 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I only took one photo. One sign made me choke up: a quote from Anne Frank’s diary. Good to be one of the hundred thousand who turned out in Philly.
