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Literary translation from German. Seattle. (Elsewhere: Commonplaces)
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I don’t want to go to bed because then it will be tomorrow, it’s like the opposite of Christmas

submitted 39 days ago • 15 comments

Remarkable.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

There's been a lot of terrible stuff lately so here's a seal enjoying life. おやすみなさい

submitted 45 days ago • 14 comments

Disappointing.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

The fact that Alice Weidel – co-leader of Germany's far-right extremists – calls Hitler a "communist" and compares Nazis to "leftish Palestinian" antisemites in ONE sentence epitomizes exactly the type of distorted discourse the liberal center in Germany has helped normalize over the past 15 months.

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

A poem by the slanderous bard Leigh Bell for Merrick Garland, our coward-in-chief, who belongs not in hell but wandering around outside, lost, hesitant, indecisive

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Aaaaaah.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Today I went through the sightread-piano-version-of Frozen-soundtrack phase of translation.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Westward.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

So glad I found #9LC for even more lessons and carols, after many performances by my small chorister here in Seattle this month.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

I have reached the point at which being this mother-in-law is high on my list of life goals.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Didn’t take long for this post to become newly relevant.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

really sad that CEOs now have to live in fear of gun violence like some third-grader in a public school

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

I dwell on this daily for the sake of my mental health.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

This banger is more than a century old: it’s a 1923 textile design in gouache by the Constructivist artist Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958)

submitted 82 days ago • 9 comments

Second Sunday

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

bringing back a Christmas classic

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

The replies to Brian Thompson’s last post on LinkedIn — all from before the shooting — are a horror show

submitted 84 days ago • 235 comments

"UnitedHealthcare makes its money by denying necessary care to people who need. Brian Thompson was a mass murderer. He killed adults, he killed children. He murdered them with spreadsheets and contracts. He did it for money. Thompson was...a very well paid killer." Via @matthewcort.land

submitted 85 days ago • 6 comments

This year I am not fucking around.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, yes, politics and violence and coups, but the issue truly preoccupying me today: where can I get fresh parsley root?

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Democracy is not a prophecy; it is self-actuating. We must choose every day to continue this grand experiment. We must choose every day to accept the duty our forebears entrusted to us. We must choose every day to affirm the certainty of this legacy for future generations.

submitted 86 days ago • 12 comments

The German government is asked to stop Axel Springer‘s contributions to landgrabbing in the West Bank, writes @hahauenstein.bsky.social: theintercept.com/2024/12/03/a...

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Doomers are worried people will shrug off videos of blue haired baristas getting clubbed, when what they’ll actually see is identifiable clergy, nuns, and rabbis staring down some military guys who Did Not Sign Up For This

submitted 87 days ago • 3 comments

Why not Tiber Monday, where you go for a contemplative walk along the banks of an ancient Roman river

submitted 88 days ago • 6 comments

Frankfurt 1830 or so, looking remarkably like Lisa Simpson.

submitted 88 days ago • 8 comments

A little glimpse into the amazing #invertebrates that live alongside us in downtown #seattle! Thanks for joining me @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

It's our Year in Reading list for 2024! With recs from Aditi Machado, Temperance Aghamohammadi, @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social, @syntacticon.bsky.social, Tessa Bolsover, Toby Altman, Elijah Guerra, Andrea Quaid, Jonathan Gharraie, & @aliciawright.bsky.social— annuletpoeticsjournal.com/2024-Year-in...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments