Reposted by cephalopod strategiesTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Stabs this whole interview with a copy of The Caliban and The Witch. 121112220
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026took a photo of my friends eric johnson and john ericson shaking hands 051
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I know a dick johnson, there's actually a ton of them in the midwest 010
Reposted by cephalopod strategiesThey Call Me Doctor Mae @dr-maeforrest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I want to hear sad teens from Omaha sing strained lyrics about how much their life sucks over a shitty used guitar. I want to hear insane noise made by a mentally ill trans woman. I want blues from a man who bears the scars of institutional racism. I dont want AI to simulate it. I want the real deal 36517
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026the road to linnton is paved with many dangers. 011
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026my 6 yr old saw his first movie in a theater this summer (the new minions one) and now he likes to chant "give women the vote! give women the vote!" while he's playing with legos 1121
Reposted by cephalopod strategiesZoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I cannot overstate how hard "jealousy professor" embedded itself into my brain 016733
Reposted by cephalopod strategiesU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 02/09/2026Ten years ago today, CPSC shared its first safety meme. What started as a single baby floating in a force field in outer space has become a universe with dozens of safety characters spanning hundreds of safety graphics sharing thousands of safety messages. 301565287
Reposted by cephalopod strategiesAlistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026THERE ARE BABY BEAVERS IN GLEN AFFRIC FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 400 YEARS AND WE HAVE VIDEO news.stv.tv/highlands-is...news.stv.tvBaby beavers born in Scotland's 'most beautiful glen' for the first time in 400 yearsThere are known to be at least two beaver kits in the Highlands. 018759
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 29/03/2026maybe you should build a shrine to vive la france... 020
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 28/03/2026I'd never encountered those coffee shops that are secretly church fronts till I moved to portland in my 20s, I feel like this is related 010
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 28/03/2026it was originally recommended to me w/american, but I usually use sliced colby to be honest 010
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 28/03/2026why not have a million chess sets in the basement next to looping footage of dance pioneer loie fuller, with the queen of romania's jewels upstairs, etc, etc!?! (my husband, jesse's pal from lincoln hs days, took me there on one of our early dates, his grandma was a longtime docent) 020
Reposted by cephalopod strategies🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 24/03/2026hope you don’t need anything that comes in [checks notes] plastic packaging 19930226
Reposted by cephalopod strategiesIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026I had no idea about this aspect of Hughes' life and work. 12633282
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 24/03/2026a slice of cheese on top really ups the experience imo 111
Reposted by cephalopod strategieswes(is no longer)injapan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026 4640177
Reposted by cephalopod strategieslizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 15/02/2026oh RIP to mr tofte! my cousins and i all grew up around his grandkids and he worked at the highway dept with our grandpa bob, they were both draftsmen. he was a nice man and of course he built the world's best theme park by hand www.oregonlive.com/pacific-nort...oregonlive.comFounder of iconic Oregon roadside amusement park dies at 96Roger Tofte spent seven years building the woodsy wonderland — and another 50 watching crowds flood in. 0625
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Happy Birthday! hope this year is the best one yet! 010
Reposted by cephalopod strategiesJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 25/01/2026load bearing tweet for a settler colonial society 1845971228
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 17/01/2026this is a little more on the spendy side but I got a cameo for my spouse's bday a few years back from Mark Boone Junior(my dude loves Patriot so much, but he was also a frequently recurring character in SOA) and the dude did like a 16 min long video for him, it was amazing! he even played guitar!!! 020
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 05/01/2026@billhookunion.beanyear.com just wanted to make sure you see/saw these gondolas for apples... 210
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 05/01/2026when my kiddo was around 6 months old I was taking him for a walk and two ravens suddenly appeared on the hwy pedestrian bridge. I said hello & very politely introduced him to them, and that's how I discovered my queens nyc hood has seasonal ravens (they fly down from canada for the winter). 0141
Reposted by cephalopod strategiesBilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 04/01/20262025 was mostly garbage, but there were some good moments. One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿nationalgeographic.comThese eager beavers saved the Czech government $1.2 millionAfter plans stalled for a new dam in the Czech Republic, eight beavers saved the day seemingly overnight. “At this point, nothing that beavers do surprises me.” 6881274
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 02/01/2026yeah I'm just now realizing how reading pippi as a kid made me feel seen & okay with myself in many ways 010
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 02/01/2026ronia is definitely my favorite too, just top notch 120
Reposted by cephalopod strategiesMarco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 28/12/2025🧠: gondolas for ski 🧠🧠: gondolas for urban transit 🧠🧠🧠🤯: gondolas for apples The gondola connecting the central treatment hub of the largest apple producers consortium in Italy to the underground storage facility. Opened last November. 921034
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 15/12/2025yeah this is exactly how the discussion went last year with my kid, too 010
Reposted by cephalopod strategiesDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Some good news. “A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”theguardian.com‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk for 400 yearsCameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve 9748150
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 07/12/2025this car was just one banger sticker after another... 160
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 07/12/2025it's such a good bumper sticker, I took a pic of a car with one in the dalles 010
Reposted by cephalopod strategiesClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/12/2025this just flooded my brain with so much dopamine 125746
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 19/11/2025do I know any folks with a focus on nyc slang & speech patterns c1918, especially of teenagers? trying to help out a canadian academic who's in need of second pass on a chapter of their novel, set in this era, lmk if this is you, thanks! 000
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 18/11/2025now I have "add it up, add it up" running through my head, love it 010
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 15/11/2025oh wait it's my pal beth that runs that thrift store for the rock kicking guy I think, you would love her, I've honestly thought about how much y'all would hit it off! 140
Reposted by cephalopod strategieswelcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 07/11/2025you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge 451537233
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 07/11/2025we're going to need a very large paper cutter, and several short poems, I'm thinking 130
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 07/11/2025fill a small alley, like that installation with the chairs? 120
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 07/11/2025it's so ominous how they've spread to the exterior walls of the building.... 1110
Reposted by cephalopod strategiesChris Gug @gugunderwater.bsky.social · 04/11/2025The most colorful #squid I’ve ever seen! And such a cooperative poser too! #🦑 #cephalopod #chromatophores #calamari #underwater #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #kumeisland #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug 6634194
Reposted by cephalopod strategiesthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 22/10/2025greatest thread I’ve ever seen 727338
Reposted by cephalopod strategiesjenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 22/10/2025I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile. 423167306912
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 13/10/2025I love the toad in the little blue truck books, he has such an excellent vibe, what a mensch. 010
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 11/10/2025the 5 yr old saw half of one ds9 episode and now calls it "mommy's explosion show", he likes to pretend he's garak and say "I'm just a simple tailor" 040
Reposted by cephalopod strategiesMichael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Ancient Roman trying a banh mi: "ah yes, this is tasty and recognizable" Ancient Roman trying eggplant parmesan: "what the fuck" 421944
cephalopod strategies @ghostoftoast.bsky.social · 03/10/2025no schools, no trees, no decent restaurants...definitely better to stay away. 000
![In late 1934, Langston Hughes, already established as a leading voice of literary Black America, traveled to Mexico City, where he stayed for more than five months and began translating short fiction by prominent Mexican and Cuban writers. These stories, as he wrote to a friend, explore “the revolutions and uprisings, sugar cane, Negroes, Indians, corrupt generals, [and] American imperialists,” and are “mostly all left stories, because practically all the writers down here are left these days.” But when Hughes proposed publishing the stories as a book, to be titled Troubled Lands, his agent discouraged him from further pursuing the project and it remained unpublished, until now, with only a handful of the translations making their way into contemporary magazines. This volume presents Hughes’s translations of these stories together for the first time as he originally envisioned. Edited by Ricardo Wilson, the book also features an introduction and brief biographies of the included writers.
Troubled Lands features thirty-three stories by eighteen writers, including Rafael Felipe Muñoz, Nellie Campobello, Lino Novás Calvo, Luis Felipe Rodríguez, Germán List Arzubide, Pablo de la Torriente-Brau, and Juan de la Cabada. The collection depicts Mexico in the wake of its revolution and Cuba in the years between the brutal regimes of Machado and Batista](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wlamchyb2ae65fgx75sfaqsq/bafkreiabxdfrb2572rx2ljk6uqrs7rv3krxgs675zbq6n6ykrnysls47yi)
