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The constant failure of muscle memory on putting contact lenses in versus taking them out, such that I’m always either sticking a lens onto another lens or grabbing voids off my cornea
@oulipien Original lyrics or glossolalia?
And really, both of those amount to challenging alto exercises in themselves.
Spotify wrapped my year idiotically in that the top three spots were taken by the alto-range vocal exercises I do every day, leaving as a footnote the actual music I listen to, which is apparently, um, Mitski and Bach.
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Who is going to tell the Texans that kids don't become queer by seeing drag shows? Kids become queer by seeing Linda Hamilton do pull-ups in Terminator 2.
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@rooster Also importantly: you're not doing anything wrong if they cry all the time, completely standard
Penelope Fitzgerald, Innocence. This "party" scene starring a count, a monsignor, and three novelists is the funniest thing I've read in a bit.
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I call it a November-loneliness because there is a sort of demanding stillness in my heart...November never pauses, it listlessly seems to show off, don’t you think so?
-Katharine Mansfield, letter to Virginia Woolf, Nov 1921
#everynightapoem #ofsorts #epistolary #portrait
[Portrait of Katharine Mansfield by Anne Rice, 1918]
@nicole It looks like a giant electric toothbrush.
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You asked when I was coming back:
no date fixed yet;
In the hills of Ba the rain by night
spills over autumn ponds.
When might we trim the candle’s wick together
at this window facing west,
And speak back upon this moment:
of night rain falling on the hills of Ba?
君問歸期未有期，巴山夜雨漲秋池。
何當共剪西窗燭，卻話巴山夜雨時。
For tonight - a lifelong favorite, by the late Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin
李商隱 - of time, loss, and rain.
#everynightapoem #poetry #translation
@sifutweety I read that too fast and thought The Atlantic was doing a virtuoso pivot.
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quite difficult to get good shots of these excellent c17 Snapchat filters @museecarnavalet@twitter.com
@vjoshuaadams It's one of the crowning ironies of the last couple decades that widespread acceptance of the sex/gender distinction, with gender as performance and construction, has so nicely set up the gender-critical collapse into "sex is real, gender is made up."
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Chinese protesters in Tsinghua holding up signs with (apparently, a physicist friend tells me) the Friedmann Equation. Bilingual math puns, that’s strong protest game.
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NEW: More than 90 #humanrights and #LGBTQ groups have sent a letter to Congressional leadership opposing #KOSA the poorly named and terribly drafted "Kids Online Safety Act," which would make kids less safe and harm marginalized communities. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/28/kids-online-safety-act-may-harm-minors-civil-society-groups-warn.html
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I keep a scrapbook/visual diary of all my projects - this is my latest experiments with tea toned cyanotype on Japanese paper.
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Latter-day Austro-Hungarian civil servant; THE WARM SOUTH, 2020 Northern Calfornia Book Award (https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781948072038/the-warm-south-a-novel.aspx); web developer; lapsed academic; bad at Zen; 🏳️⚧️
Joined Nov 2022
