palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 06/06/2026archive.ph often works; for this article: archive.ph/WvW1Farchive.ph 001
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Reposted by palizcatErin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/08/2025On "woke language": yes, most of these terms aren't things Dems actually say but are a way for centrists and the GOP to attack them. But also: many are terms intended to extend dignity and recognition to folks who our language excludes or cannot speak of. I'm not ready to concede the value of that. 511132
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 16/08/2025"How can a large lake be like a child—isn’t smallness what defines a child? […] But the child is dreaming … and with that a universe opens up within the child, who is large after all, containing worlds wider than even the largest lake." 020
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 16/08/2025A beautiful example of this: Damion Searls’ analysis of a sentence by Robert Walser, from his own translation. He takes a sentence and opens up a world, unveiling the magic in its imagery, syntax, and rhythm. “The large lake resembled a child who is completely silent because asleep and dreaming.”theparisreview.orgCounterpunch by Damion SearlsOctober 21, 2014 – On a sentence by Robert Walser. It is worth remembering that there once was a time when every letter, number, and punctuation mark printed on paper 141
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 01/07/2025This reminds me of a passage from Bertell Ollman's 2005 "Letter of Resignation from the Jewish People": 021
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Ooh, this is very exciting for me because I usually never get these. And it's a great book! 120
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palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Daniel Lefferts' excellent novel Ways and Means (mostly set during the campaign but still absolutely about the Trump era) 010
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Reposted by palizcatmar 🛸 @remnantglow.bsky.social · 25/04/2025I'd like to share with y'all a project I've poured my heart and soul into over the last couple of years: a database cataloguing every single older (pre-21st century) LGBT science fiction book I've managed to track down - currently just over 200 titles 🚀 LINK: tinyurl.com/oldgaySF 54987674
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 26/04/2025I like this one, from a researcher very fed up with other people in her field refusing to consider the obvious 121
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Recently read & enjoyed Earth House by Matthew Hollis. Also love Carl Phillips! 010
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 22/03/2025The in person town hall is in a month, in case you didn't notice. As the date approaches, I'm sure there will be more announcements and reminders, as there have been for the previous events. 100
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Mentioned below at 23:30, it'll be on April 22 in El Cajonyoutube.comRep. Sara Jacobs Hosts Virtual Town HallYouTube video by Rep. Sara Jacobs 100
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Thank you for answering my question about Schumer and the CR! To the other comments: this was announced Tuesday, not last minute. This town hall is also in addition to an upcoming, in person town hall in El Cajon—something you'd know if you had tuned in rather than posting a reflexive complaint. 210
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 07/03/2025I always appreciate your lists! Currently happen to be reading Kirith Kirin from your last list & enjoying it immensely. From this list, I'm esp. intrigued by The Stone Prince & The Wild Swans (published, coincidentally enough, in the same year as Daughter of the Forest, a formative book for me) 110
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 03/03/2025I loved her Iliad! Every once in a while though I think about learning ancient Greek (my Latin is decent, albeit rusty, so I do have an idea of how much work that would entail...) 100
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Is it the new Daniel Mendelsohn by any chance? I spent the weekend waffling over it before deciding that yes, I really do need it 110
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palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 08/02/2025I actually bought a copy of The Recognitions [redacted] years ago after finishing IJ because I read that DFW was a major fan! Each year I tell myself I'll finally get around to it, so maybe this year... 👀 010
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 08/01/2025The Dove in the Belly by Jim Grimsley (romance set on a college campus in the 1970s) Nicked by M.T. Anderson (adventure story, funny and strange, with a satisfying romantic subplot) Taste of Ink series by Daniel May (erotica but also plenty of emotional depth & character development) 020
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Thank you for writing! (I vividly remember reading it during a stressful time and feeling a profound and much needed sense of peace during the section when Rand & Jonna stay at the farm.) Very excited to hear you’re working on another one! 010
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 01/01/2025And poetry (which I would like to read more of, in 2025). As the year turns over, it feels appropriate to end with the last stanza of the Prologue of Bei Dao's Sidetracks: When through the closed palace gates through the cracks of the months and years the bright rays of the flood overflows 030
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 01/01/2025💙📚 A selection of some of my favorite reads this year. First, the fiction: 3132
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 31/12/2024I’ve been meaning to read this for a while and I’m glad I finally found some time during the strange lull before the new year. Reading Imajica has affirmed my intention to be more selective in my reading for 2025—which includes less chasing after new releases, more reading from the backlist. 💙📚 050
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palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 22/12/2024There's something about the term that feels horribly sanitizing to me. I will say, it's at least a fairly reliable indicator that my tastes diverge pretty sharply from those of whoever is using it. 020
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 16/12/2024This paper covers some of the same ground as the book.thephilosopher1923.org"Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference" by Olúfémi O. Táíwò"Deference epistemology responds to real, morally weighty experiences of being put down, ignored, sidelined, or silenced." 140
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 01/12/2024"I looked again in the mirror, at the two old men in bed. Now Mum's gone, and Mark's gone, and here we are, with Giles all over the papers, all over the country, tearing up our future and our hopes." (2/2) 💙📚 070
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 01/12/2024I finished Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst earlier this month, a sumptuously elegant novel that is also bleak in a way that resonates deeply with this historical moment. (1/2) 290
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I love @amalelmohtar.com's observations on storytelling in Minsoo Kang's novel. The emphasis on "show not tell" in fiction writing can be flattening and can sometimes preclude the rich array of possibilities available in text 💙📚 2132
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 05/11/2024Thread. Some media recommendations below, to which I'd also add the novel Human Acts by Han Kang (recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature) 💙📚 080
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 05/11/2024Ooh, that looks interesting, thanks for the rec! (I think I might just be jaded with dual 1st person in queer romance written for Kindle Unlimited, which is admittedly rather specific) 110
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 05/11/2024I admit to refusing to read dual first person POV specifically (popular in certain subgenres of romance) but I'm generally open to anything else 120
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palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 09/10/2024John Crowley's Flint and Mirror is such a beautifully elegiac novel of failures and endings. At the very end, Hugh O'Neill, aging and exiled in Rome after a failed Irish uprising, reflects on his life, and there's this moment of absolute transcendence: 010
Reposted by palizcatKate Violette @kateviolette.com · 03/10/2024The experience I'm about to share is not "grr kids these days" nor "I'm tougher than these chumps" but rather "I'm genuinely sad kids are missing out on deep reading" Where I went to college (the first three yrs), we had slightly shorter fall/spring terms and a one month January term (aka J term)-- 16111
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 01/10/2024Books I enjoyed from September, including vibrant anticolonial fantasy, lyrical meditations on writing, a postmodern blend of history and myth, and a provocative dissection of cultural trends privileging flow and immersion. 💙📚 160
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 28/09/2024Reminds me of something Toni Morrison once said: "All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was." 061
Reposted by palizcatWendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 19/09/2024opened up to where i left off on this le guin book & immediately had to highlight this entire passage bc this is still an issue in so many books 20793245
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 18/09/2024Uranians by Theodore McCombs (May 2023)! Also love Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel by Julian K. Jarboe, although it's not as recent (2020) 040
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 15/09/2024However, as Walton argues, "We should at least consider the possibility that AI science fiction be not only an especially bad context for thinking about ML, but also an especially bad context for thinking about capitalism, racism, colonialism." /end 000
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 15/09/2024Instead of old paradigms of totalizing AI, we can take up materially grounded depictions that do not obscure technical limitations & social harms. A neural network is not, after all, a sentient entity but a function with an ungodly number of parameters trained on vast amounts of energy & data. 5/ 110
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 15/09/2024(Of course there are plenty of exceptions. E.g. Seth Dickinson's description of ML in his new novel Exordia is precise and incisive, but this type of critique seems all too rare.) 4/ 211
palizcat @palizcat.bsky.social · 15/09/2024There's a morass of aggrandizing rhetoric around ML in contemporary SF, an emphasis on "coolness" rather than clear-sighted assessment of its harms & limitations. @vajra.me calls this out in a recent interview with @ancillaryreview.bsky.social 3/ 130
