Reader, sometime writer, curious person. Russian literature Ph.D. Interested in Slavic languages, French language & literature, world history, archeology, linguistics, trivia Also: Abolish ICE. Living with cancer.
We’re excited to announce the lineup for Day of Translation 2026 💫 This year’s program celebrates the deeply human elements of the art of translation, featuring 3 free, provocative panels and a featured keynote by Emily Wilson (@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social), and our community afterparty! +
Rest in peace, Betye Saar. It was a pleasure writing about you and your work. #ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡
Artist Betye Saar tells ghost storiesExplore Betye Saar’s hauntingly beautiful art. See how she confronts racism and the chasm between the colonizer and the colonized.theshymuseumgoer.com
People who are suddenly deported to countries they haven’t been to for years — or, in some cases, have NEVER been to — are incredibly vulnerable. We are going to be reading stories like this for years. God have mercy on their three little girls.
Adam Sawyer“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
And when people don’t want to participate in research or go seek care because their information is not secure…don’t complain.
Maggie Harrison DupréNEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Late for #Caturday, but here, #19thc pals, are 2 pages from a commonplace book kept by J. H. Stamp, who was governess to Ada (Byron) Lovelace (digitized by the Univ of Sydney Library). A poem: "Ada to her Cat" And a sketch, "The Lovely Puss in a sweet slumber, June 3, 1825"--done by Ada herself.
Not Scythian helmets, but Cyrtoidea, a suborder of radiolarians, or single-celled marine protists. Their tiny, intricate lattice glass shells are made made of silica & help with buoyancy and prey capture, & play a crucial role in the carbon cycle. They also look like insanely cool helmets (2/n) 🌊 🦑
‘Stauromedusae’ The next illustration from Kunstformen der Natur (1904) is of stalked jellyfishes, the the sole living members of the class Staurozoa. Their evolutionary divergence likely took place in the late Neoproterozoic era, some 560 to 565 million years ago. (3/n) 🪼 🦑 🐙
Why read thousands of pages when you can sing all the spoilers in 3 minutes? We squeezed Homer, Dante, Tolkien, Hemingway, and Frans G. Bengtsson into a stomping Irish pub anthem called "Infinite Spaces". youtu.be/_cEYYEbkdrA #BookSky #MusicSky #FolkMusic #Reading #SciFi #PiecesOfPix
Infinite Spaces (Summarizing Spoilers) | Irish Pub Shanty & Literary SingalongYouTube video by Stefan B. Pieksmayoutu.be
The amount of people we’ve had seeking consults trying desperately to leave the US and prevent being detained while doing so is fucked up. Or our DACA “kids” who want to travel to other states, but fear getting detained for no reason other than bc ICE can and they’re in the airports
Gillian BrockellNot only is ICE back at airports, they are making workers help them, even tricking them into helping. The unions need to take action and support their members. Posted this a week ago.
I can’t believe it took me this long into the Odyssey discourse to think to post this but… if you loved the Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis and you also love stuff Elon Musk would consider too woke, have I got a book for you
Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman: 9780807055540 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksA fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version of feminism...www.penguinrandomhouse.com