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eileen chengyin chow

Why my homeland Taiwan is cool, part n+1: two friends’ bookstores just won commendations at the inaugural Independent Bookstore Awards. So many great Taiwan #indiebooks #bookshops that they can select the top 40 💚

dushuawards.com
📷: 經典雜誌

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Emily Herring

In the year 2000 I was nine years old and I had already survived one apocalypse...

Here's a piece I really enjoyed writing for Review 31 about turn of the millennium anxiety, growing up knowing the future will be worse than the present, and, of course, #Radiohead, lots of Radiohead
#writing

review31.co.uk/article/view/82

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Sometimes, seeing dudes behaving in the world, I remember the awful sorry-not-sorry text to Der zürnenden Diana (oxfordlieder.co.uk/song/3003) and then think, what a bizarre time capsule Schubert was of his moment, absolutely anything that crossed the guy’s desk was at risk of getting immortalized. What were the odds of “Best Biedermeier Erotica 1820” being the thing to hang around?

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Sifu Tweety Fish, cDc

Going between twitter and mastodon right now is like flipping channels between some insanely trashy reality show and an orientation video for a job at a nonprofit

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robinsonmeyer

Almost indescribable how similar Masto is to using Twitter in 2010. Almost the same cast of characters is here?

It’s reminding me of that experiment where they bussed 80-somethings to a summer camp where everyone pretended it was the 1940s and everyone’s dementia immediately vanished.

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Chris Levesque

Women lumberjacks at the Northwestern Timber Salvage Administration’s lumber mill at Turkey Pond, N.H. get $4 a day, 11/10/1942.

Three women in heavy work clothes and kerchiefs over their hair carry a log on their shoulders. In the background is a pond filled with logs.

todaysdocument.tumblr.com/post

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Eugen Rochko

Probably not a lot of people know this now, but Mastodon's web app started out with "Publish". In 2016 a famous YouTuber jokingly offered to support Mastodon's Patreon forever if I changed the button to say "Toot" instead. Needless to say, this was a really early, and not very informed decision. The first glimpse of attention and financial support. As a non-native speaker I had no idea there was another meaning.

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Aaron Bady

A gratifyingly reliable baby-calmer is to play mandolin for them. It works amazingly well! They also like it when I put the mandolin where they can touch it and feel the vibrations.

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I was googling for a pic of the Antikythera mechanism and it came out of my brain as "Ankylotheria device," which you don't need to try yourself because it's a big nada. No corroded gears, no crooked beasts! Pleistocene on the brain I guess.

reddit.com/r/pleistocene/comme

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V. Joshua Adams

Popping back on to say that ignoring the news and reading Vallejo is worth it (trans. Eshleman & Barcia):

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Clive Thompson

"Smashomancy", or, a divination system designed to tell your fortune by looking the cracks in your smartphone's screen

#6 in my Linkfest here: medium.com/@clivethompson/urba

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chris fenwick

The subtitle of "Mind and World" should have been "John McDowell Unplugged in Oxford".

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raun

RT @holdengraber@twitter.com

“If you plan to drown your problems in alcohol, keep in mind that some problems know how to swim perfectly.”
~ Robert Musil
Born on this day, in 1880

thanks to @poetry_weekend@twitter.com

🐦🔗: twitter.com/holdengraber/statu

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Caleb Crain

On information hygiene (and the Twitter meltdown)

calebcrain.substack.com/p/info

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Evan Greer 🏳️‍⚧️

My partner and I started calling Elon Musk “Melon Muskmelon" and tbh this is self care

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To tie it all together, I also haven't found any discussion anywhere of The Story of the Stone as a trans novel, which is bizarre to me and must mean a) I'm being too forward with my labels; b) East Asian studies/Redology is in a certain place; c) I'm still bad at searching JSTOR; d) any or all.

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It's a bit like Jane Austen in that material underpinnings are acknowledged but offstage - but also, instead of just sitting around owning land and collecting interest on bonds, the Jia patriarchs periodically get saddled with a ton of administrative work. This is a great opportunity for graft but no life of leisure.

tl;dr Infrastructure disasters matter to Bao-yu because they keep Bao-yu's dad out of the house for months on end, making proper space for poetry contests with girls in the garden.

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adjacent?: yesterday I told a couple people how my day job now feels like staffing the dying Austro-Hungarian bureaucracy, and then thought about the bizarre role of the giant corrupt imperial bureaucracy in Dream of the Red Chamber/Story of the Stone. Which I love so much.

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I keep doing things for the last time with my current face. Last night I took it over to the Zen center for a final stint as Monday night monitor, then folded it up like a rakusu and put it aside.

Started pre-op probiotics this morning. The blueberry flavor is like eighties yogurt and the bacterial content makes me think of the sake fermented from shrine maidens' saliva.

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Kieran Healy

Mastodon as a clear gateway drug to Emacs use.

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