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Ausiàs Tsel

@ausiastsel.com
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País Valencià. Mediterranean Gothic in Catalan/Valencian & English. Forthcoming in The Rumpus & Chthonic Matter. Pithead Chapel, Neon & Smoke, Flash Fiction Magazine & Dark Horses. Creator of zenodot.app (Publishers Lunch, Jane Friedman, LSE Impact).

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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 11h
The earth hasn't changed. The moon hasn't changed. Only who says it has changed. New story: a patent, a cooperative in the Maestrat, a butane heater, and an old man who knows when to plant tomatoes.
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The earth hasn't changed. The moon hasn't changed.
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 18h
Cada traducció és un llibre que torna a nàixer. Avui és el Dia Internacional de la Traducció. Gràcies a totes les persones que fan que un llibre parle una llengua en què no es va escriure. Zenòdot és un catàleg obert d'eixos llibres, amb totes les llengües en peu d'igualtat. zenodot.app
Cartell del Dia Internacional de la Traducció. Titular: «Cada traducció és un llibre que torna a nàixer.» Davall, la paraula «traducció» escrita en trenta llengües i escriptures, del valencià, el basc, el gallec, l'occità i el bretó a l'àrab, l'hebreu, l'hindi, el japonés, el coreà i el xinés. Al peu, el logo de Zenòdot i zenodot.app.
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 18h
Every translation is a book born again. Today is International Translation Day. Thank you to everyone who makes a book speak a language it wasn't written in. Zenòdot is an open catalogue of those books, with every language on equal footing. zenodot.app
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La Pesanta @lapesanta.cat · 28/09/2026
🍂 Per celebrar l'estació sinistra, s'organitzen moltes activitats arreu dels Països Catalans. Enceto un enfilall 🗓️ CALENDARI D'ACTIVITATS 2026. ⚠️ Si en sabeu de cap, responeu aquí i en farem promoció. #EstacióSinistra #Calendari2026
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 25/09/2026
Ok, I just parked here. Will it watch my car or curse my seed?
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 24/09/2026
Poets & Writers checked my publication credits and let me into their Directory of Writers. I listed Ligotti, Joan Fuster and Richard Stark as favorites, which should warn people off. #PWDirectory www.pw.org/directory/wr...
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Ausiàs Tsel
Ausiàs Tsel is a writer from the Valencian Country, working in English and Catalan/Valencian. His fiction belongs to the Mediterranean Gothic: horror under hard light, corroded theology, and the archi...
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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Do you have a new short story out today/this week? If you do, share it with a comment OR a quote post! Don't forget to add > the hashtag #StorySky > a link to your new story > genre details > any alt text for images #ReaderSky #ShortStory #AuthorSky #IndieAuthor
Your story promo. Text reads: Promote your latest short story. Comment or Quote Post and use the hashtag #StorySky to share your newly published story.

Background image of an open lined spiral bound notebook. A foreground image of an open book with pages folded together to make a heart shape. Logo for Mary Wyrd - a golden pen nib with a green handle branching off into tentacles.
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 24/09/2026
A man lies face down with twenty-two needles in him. The healer steps out to take a phone call. The heater stays on. Off the Books, The Rumpus. Mediterranean Gothic. therumpus.net/2026/09/13/o... #StorySky #ShortStory #HorrorWritersChat
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Off the Books - The Rumpus
I am held in place by twenty-two thin steel rods and the silence of the disappeared tone, and the only certainty I have left in the world is that this man, for reasons no one can explain, can do this ...
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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
School book belonging to a 12-year-old. Village near Tolosa, Basque Country, 1966. "In school I must not speak Basque" 1,000 (one thousand) lines.
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 15/09/2026
A flat on Carrer del Crist. A healer with a self-printed diploma. A curtain that has brushed the heater since 1991. A little reiki, added the way you'd add salt. "Off the Books," out now at The Rumpus.
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 15/09/2026
The hermitage at Peníscola has Philip V's coat of arms carved above the door. The king who burned our laws and our language and made the place Spanish by decree. I left a widower inside it for a winter and came back in spring to see what was left. ausiastsel.substack.com/p/the-ermita...
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The Ermitana
Peníscola, off-season
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 14/09/2026
New Mediterranean Gothic story out today in @therumpus.net. A man pays thirty euros in cash to have an acupuncturist switch off the tinnitus he's had since he was nineteen. It works. Nobody knows why. Today the acupuncturist decides to improve the treatment. therumpus.net/2026/09/13/off-the-books/
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Off the Books - The Rumpus
I am held in place by twenty-two thin steel rods and the silence of the disappeared tone, and the only certainty I have left in the world is that this man, for reasons no one can explain, can do this ...
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Anna Punsoda Ricart @punsodaricart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Quan Crist digué: «ensenyeu a totes les nacions i porteu-hi la bona nova», manava portar una nova, no una teologia". Des d'ahir mateix que ja podeu trobar a totes les llibreries del país aquesta barreja de bomba i meravella!💫 Molt orgullosos! www.fragmenta.cat/producte/car...
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Hèctor Quinto @hquinto.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026
Avui és el dia mundial per la prevenció del suïcidi. No calleu, no gireu l'esquena, no tingueu por de cridar si cal. A l'enllaç podeu trobar recursos per ajudar-vos. Sé que estem sols, però potser no tant com ens pensem. www.salutmental.org/serveis-a-la...
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Campanya Prevenció Suïcidi - Salut Mental Catalunya
Prevenció del suïcidi Com trobar suport La prevenció de la mort per suïcidi posa a disposició de la ciutadania suports i recursos. A continuació us ens compartim alguns. Si trobeu a faltar algun re...
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Clara Dies Valls @diesclara.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
For #Swordtember2026, I'm doing a venn diagram of some of the things I enjoy the most in life: swords (suprise), languages and travel. Hope you enjoy the trip and don't expect any coherence from it.
Calligraphied text with the words "Swordtember 2026, wandering weapons".
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 06/09/2026
A estes edats i acabo de descobrir Jim Thomson i m'ha petat el cap molt fort.
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Rucs elèctrics (aka DrPertorbat) @rucselectrics.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🏆️ Actualitzada la llista d'obres guanyadores del premi Locus traduïdes al català🏆️ Aquest 2026 s'han publicat fins a 4 llibres que han guanyat un premi Locus, gens malament. Publicades per: @obscuraed.bsky.social, @dunallibres.bsky.social, @anagramaeditor.bsky.social
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Iván Ledesma @ivanledesma.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Fa temps que ens fem aquesta pregunta: on ha anat a parar l’èpica? Potser no ha desaparegut. Potser només s’ha amagat entre la rutina, el soroll i tot allò que deixem per més endavant. A partir d’avui, comencem a buscar-la. L'IVO, properament...
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 01/09/2026
I cannot stop writing about the silence — at the same time I find unbearable the waiting for a response about my novel and my essay. They both talk about the silence. Man, that’s fucked up.
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 27/08/2026
And then, months later, you discover that the tool that you started building because finding books in your own language was difficult, is taught as a resource in some universities. And you smile. And keep building. Because all languages should be treated equally. Zenodot.app
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Zenòdot — Find book translations across languages
The largest actively maintained open catalogue of book translations in the world. Find out if a book exists in your language — and in how many more.
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Mar Calpena @mcalpena.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
La gent parlant del talent de la Parton, del Curry o de la Kusama i com els ha fet millor la vida però eh, que la jovenalla no es dediqui a les arts, que per a què serveixen.
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 24/08/2026
A reader of German asks once and gets an answer. A reader of Ladin can ask twenty times and reach only silence. I wrote for the MIDAS blog at Eurac Research on why the world's book record is empty exactly where no one was ever obliged to write it down. www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/mid...
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The catalogue never asked
A reader of German or Italian who wants to know whether a book exists in their language asks once and gets an answer. A reader of Ladin can ask twenty times and reach only silence — unable to tell whe...
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 24/08/2026
Un lector d'alemany pregunta una vegada i té resposta. Un de ladí pot preguntar vint vegades i trobar només silenci. He escrit al blog MIDAS d'Eurac Research sobre per què el registre mundial del llibre està buit just on ningú va tindre mai l'obligació d'escriure-hi. www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/mid...
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The catalogue never asked
A reader of German or Italian who wants to know whether a book exists in their language asks once and gets an answer. A reader of Ladin can ask twenty times and reach only silence — unable to tell whe...
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 24/08/2026
A reader of German asks once and gets an answer. A reader of Ladin can ask twenty times and reach only silence. I wrote for the MIDAS blog at Eurac Research on why the world's book record is empty exactly where no one was ever obliged to write it down. www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/mid...
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The catalogue never asked
A reader of German or Italian who wants to know whether a book exists in their language asks once and gets an answer. A reader of Ladin can ask twenty times and reach only silence — unable to tell whe...
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
Panel one shows an eldritch god, a skeletal possum like creature with large antlers, saying "I AM AS OLD AS THE FOREST ITSELF". 
Panel two shows a stick figure saying, "But you must have been a baby at some point?"
Panel three shows the eldritch god saying "Well. Yes."
Panel four shows a tiny eldritch baby sitting on a rock, his antlers just little twigs.
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 23/08/2026
Lletraferit ha dedicat un reportatge a Zenòdot, de Joanot Martorell a Ferran Torrent: la projecció exterior de la literatura valenciana en un mateix mapa bibliogràfic. Gràcies per la lectura tan atenta del que intentem fer. lletraferit.com/jorn-a-jorn/...
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El projecte valencià Zenòdot cartografia les traduccions del món
La ferramenta creada per Ausiàs Tsel rastreja uns 65 milions d’edicions en més de 800 llengües i recupera el llegat de l’Index Translationum de la UNESCO
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 15/08/2026
Existeix aquest llibre en la meua llengua? Per a la major part dels lectors del món no hi ha manera d'arribar al final d'eixa pregunta. He reconstruït Zenòdot perquè una sola cerca la conteste. Un fil curt del que hi ha de nou 🧵 zenodot.app
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Zenòdot — Troba traduccions de llibres en totes les llengües
Zenòdot és una ferramenta documental per descobrir traduccions de llibres. Cerca qualsevol llibre i descobreix en quines llengües existeix — amb atenció especial a les llengües minoritzades.
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 14/08/2026
Does this book exist in my language? For most of the world's readers there is no way to reach the end of that question. We just rebuilt Zenòdot so that one search answers it. A short thread on what's new 🧵 zenodot.app
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Zenòdot — Find book translations across languages
The largest actively maintained open catalogue of book translations in the world. Find out if a book exists in your language — and in how many more.
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La Pesanta @lapesanta.cat · 06/08/2026
⚠️ SORTEIG 5È ANIVERSARI 🎁 2 LLIBRES en joc (1 per persona) 📘 1 TAURÓ de Peter Benchley 📗 1 RELATS ONÍRICS (VOL. 1) d'H.P Lovecraft COM PARTICIPAR: 🔁 Republiqueu aquest missatge + 💛 Feu-li “M'agrada” + ✍️ Citeu un amic 📆 Fins al 13 d'agost (inclòs)
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 12/08/2026
So, I saw this today. Probably someone should give some blood to the old gods or something.
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 10/08/2026
Ok, I need this.
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 05/08/2026
The Bell That Never Rang made the shortlist for the Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize, judged by Melissa Llanes Brownlee. Twenty-two stories. Mine is about a bell that refuses to do its one job. @fracturedlit.bsky.social
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Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Judged by Melissa Llanes Brownlee Shortlist | Fractured
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Fragmenta Editorial @fragmentaed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
📅 Aquest setembre el Grup de Lectura Obert de Filosofia (GLOF) enceta curs de lectura a l’Espai Godmar de #Callús. 📗 El volum protagonista serà «Entre els déus i el no-res», del filòsof Jordi Corominas. Una oportunitat per posar en diàleg diverses maneres d’entendre el món. 👉🏽 tuit.cat/gC0BE
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 27/07/2026
My "The Bell that Never Rang" longlisted at Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Judged by Melissa Llanes Brownlee @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/ghost-fable-...
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Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Judged by Melissa Llanes Brownlee Longlist | Fractured
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Pithead Chapel @pitheadchapel.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Our annual short story contest opens in 1 week! See what guest judge Deesha Philyaw has to say about writing that has surprised her lately and what she is looking for in contest submissions.
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Wilhelm @frighteningtales.com · 23/07/2026
Tomorrows Frightening Tale! Season 6's pivotal 13th Episode! And Premier story by author Ausiàs Tsel!
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Wilhelm @frighteningtales.com · 23/07/2026
The story is this weeks tale by @ausiastsel.com. Available tomorrow. I am so nervous that I pronounced everything properly. Fingers crossed.
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 23/07/2026
We changed how Zenòdot tells you where to find a book. Every edition with an ISBN now shows it, copyable, with one line: with the ISBN, any bookshop or library can order it for you. The humblest gesture, and the one that actually works.
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 22/07/2026
Hem canviat com Zenòdot et diu on trobar un llibre. Ara cada edició amb ISBN el porta copiable, amb una frase: amb l'ISBN, qualsevol llibreria o biblioteca te'l pot demanar. És el gest més humil de tots i el que més funciona.
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 13/07/2026
In March I launched a tool to answer one question: has this book been translated into my language? Back then it crossed four databases. Four months later, Zenòdot correlates 50+ sources: 61.9M editions, 12.9M works, 638 languages documented, 70M+ author name variants. Zenodot.app
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Zenodot — Find book translations across languages
Discover book translations across languages. A documentary tool for readers worldwide.
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 21/07/2026
Hòstia, però que roïna és la de Superman de Gunn, no?
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 19/07/2026
Al marge de les qüestions nacionals -que pesen, i com!-, al futbol sempre vull que guanye qui celebre la victòria més lluny de mi.
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 18/07/2026
"The Devil Takes You Home” is fucking my brain the good way. I need to keep remembering myself to stop because I have things to do. Haven’t read anything like this in a really long time.
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 17/07/2026
Primera peça de premsa en la llengua de Zenòdot. «El català, entre les onze primeres llengües d'un catàleg mundial de 62 milions d'edicions». Gràcies a @naciodigital.bsky.social per explicar tan bé per què una edició en occità o en amazic mereix el mateix tractament documental que una en anglés.
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El català, entre les onze primeres llengües d'un catàleg mundial de 62 milions d'edicions
Un valencià crea Zenòdot, un cercador de traduccions de llibres capaç de creuar dades d'arreu del món i reconèixer-les en alfabets diferents
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 13/07/2026
In March I launched a tool to answer one question: has this book been translated into my language? Back then it crossed four databases. Four months later, Zenòdot correlates 50+ sources: 61.9M editions, 12.9M works, 638 languages documented, 70M+ author name variants. Zenodot.app
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Zenodot — Find book translations across languages
Discover book translations across languages. A documentary tool for readers worldwide.
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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
...her hand lifts, two fingers separating as if they remember the path: forehead, chest. The small private choreography that once meant: keep us safe. Her hand drops to her side. She sees me watching and her face closes, polite and empty. READ @ausiastsel.com in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
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The Bread
Ausiàs Tsel   My son leaves the bread upside down because he is six and the world is a surface you can rearrange. It’s a barra—too long for the plate, too warm for patience—resting on the tab…
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 10/07/2026
The Tribunal de les Aigües has met outside the cathedral of València every Thursday since the Middle Ages. Fines counted in a currency dead everywhere else. In 1974 it fined a plot of land that no longer existed. open.substack.com/pub/ausiasts...
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Denunciats de la Séquia de Rovella
Set down in writing, the accused not having appeared.
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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 07/07/2026
Fellow writer types, without context, 1st line of a current work-in-progress? "L’olor d’encens li saturava els narius i li impedia olorar la seua pròpia sang, barrejada amb restes de femta i pixum que s’escolaven pels camals d’uns texans bruts i mig esguerrats."
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Hope yesterday was fun for everyone! Today? Maybe read a novel about the disease known as colonialism. Sincerely, An author born and raised in a US colony
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