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Lecturer & Literary Translator JPN -> ENG March 2025: UNUSUAL FRAGMENTS July 2025: DILEMMAS OF WORKING WOMEN by Fumio Yamamoto Spring 2026: CAPITAL FROM ZERO by Kōhei Saitō Tarte 🥧 and Butt 🌈 Enthusiast (à Montréal) IG: instagram.com/asa_no_burei
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Not for nothing, but "turkey melt" is perfect, a sandwich that tastes like AI

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I'm the one who's honored to be a part of the amazing work @hexliterary.bsky.social is putting into the world. 🥰🌋

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Pit stop Monday

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Hell is being trapped in a car with ChatGPT chattering on blandly and frequently inaccurately about how Rauschenberg "revolutionized how we see everyday objects—and life itself."

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It has been so nice to see some really lovely early reader reviews come in on NetGalley for Dilemmas of Working Women I only regret that I can't share them with Fumio herself. I know she'd be so gratified to see her words touch people's hearts all over the world www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

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"The idea that something is a 'distraction' pretty plainly implies that it’s not worthy of our political energy, and maybe not even worthy of our attention. That’s a pretty grotesque thing to say about people being forcibly taken from their homes"

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Pit stop Monday

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can’t believe this still needs to be said, but: stop following altNPS. none of them work for the NPS and they exist to do Qanon numbers station crap and sell merch. it’s annoying for a lot of us that are actually NPS. thanks

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I would add that the Derek Jarman film adaptation was a fundamental "thing that made me gay" text

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You know what historians call Nazis who had principled disagreements with Hitler but remained in the party? Nazis.

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"each story treats the reader as though the narrator is confiding in their closest friend, or jotting down their innermost thoughts in a diary [...] the narrative tone balances melancholia and humor in the same way the protagonists balance their most raw musings with how others perceive their lives"

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As far as I can tell, this summer reading list was written by real people and all the listed books exist 💯 Or at least, I know one does! My translation of Dilemmas of Working Women by Fumio Yamamoto 🥰 "...brings complexity, emotion, and a delicate touch to extremely relatable characters"

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