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Aimee Chor @rosydotes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I'm so pleased that my translations of Nadja Küchenmeister's gorgeous poems appear in THE OPPOSITE OF SEDUCTION, alongside so many others to explore and discover. Do read! More translation!

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I don’t want to go to bed because then it will be tomorrow, it’s like the opposite of Christmas

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.northsky.social · 14/01/2025

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

A very rotund light brown seal on seaweed, its head raised up high stretching up towards the sky living its best life

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

i would do anything for love, but i won’t douthat

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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 08/01/2025

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

PLAIN BEFORE THE GATE OF HELL (COWARDICE)
Merrick Garland, Attorney General of the United States
Outside the swarming mob of suited WASPs, We find Meek Merrick, Mr. Mitigator, Captain Captive-to-the-Managers, Stuck once in limbo by a Senate boss;
Then stuck in fear of partisan attack;
Now stuck all over his bare ass by thrusts The bicio tingers leaching blood hid pus;
Leave rivulets that fester and secrete
To feed the grubs and maggots at his feet.

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Aimee Chor @rosydotes.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

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

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Aimee Chor @rosydotes.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

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

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Aimee Chor @rosydotes.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

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

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Aimee Chor @rosydotes.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

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

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

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

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Aimee Chor @rosydotes.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

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

An abstract geometric textile design in green, white and orange

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

bringing back a Christmas classic

tweet from user zagenda83: Santa deniers be like: “that was your parents who slapped Arius at the Councik of Nicaea”

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

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

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SJones @sjoneswastaken.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A nurse's statement about United Health Care (sorry about Twitter post, but I felt this one was important).

A post from a pediatric RN says, "I work in pediatric neurology. We have UHC deny seizure medications that we can definitively tell will benefit patients based on their EEG results because it's not UHC's preferred medication. Patient has to fail the preferred medication first. And by fail, this means that patient has to have a shitload of seizures. So these kids have to seize their fucking brains out to get a medication that we know will control their seizures. Fuck health insurance companies.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

"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

Chart showing "Claim Denial Rates" of insurance companies, with United Healthcare the highest.

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Aimee Chor @rosydotes.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

This year I am not fucking around.

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Aimee Chor @rosydotes.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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

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Governor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 04/12/2024

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.

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 03/12/2024

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

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

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

Jep walking the Tiber in The Great Beauty

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Frankfurt 1830 or so, looking remarkably like Lisa Simpson.

Frankfurt with angular city walls looking like Lisa Simpson’s hair.

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Jen Strongin @jensseattle.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

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

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Annulet @annulet.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

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...

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2024 Year in Reading — Annulet

Annulet’s Year in Reading: 2024 Recommendations from contributors and contributing editors, including Elijah Guerra, Aditi Machado, Temperance...

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Aimee Chor @rosydotes.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Older kid turns 15 today. We gave him hoop earrings, a boxed set of the game of thrones books and the latest translation of Marx’s Capital.

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Aimee Chor @rosydotes.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Neithe of mine went to college — is this why I don’t care about college sports?

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Aimee Chor @rosydotes.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Apparently there is an annual festival on a German island as part of which the island men beat women violently. Um.

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Aimee Chor @rosydotes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The 14 yo is becoming Zizek-pilled. What should I do?!

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Estrogen Elf @elfstrogen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Isn’t reading Kant essentially like reading the terms and conditions anyway

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Self-portrait of the German nun Guda, scribe and illuminator: "Guda peccatrix mulier scripsitque pinxit hunc librum." Frankfurt, Stadtund Universitätbibl. Ms. Barth. 42; 12th century; f.110v

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Aimee Chor @rosydotes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Congee, but it’s couscous.

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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 26/11/2024

Calling all translators! We're building a Bluesky starter pack for emerging and established translators—so that we can follow each other and be in community together on the World Wide Web. If you want to be included, add yourself to this thread, and share this post far and wide with your networks :)

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Aimee Chor @rosydotes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Books we had to hide when selling my mother’s house.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I never thought the egg prices would eat *my* face

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Cool worm things: The tube of Diopatra cuprea. Made from algae and shells of the dwarf surf clam (Mulinia lateralis). This species of polychaete is also known as plumed worm or the decorator worm. #NoVERMber 📸GeorgiaLifeTraces.com

A stack of shells and weed in the form of a tube that has been aggregated and glued together by a worm.

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Germany will not arrest genocidal Netanyahu "because of its Nazi history", says Chancellor Olf Scholz. He forgot to add that Germany has no problem arresting Jews who dare oppose genocide. Is this also because of Germany's Nazi past? www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2... x.com/yanisvaroufa...

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Germany won’t arrest Netanyahu ‘because of its Nazi history’

European nations split after Israeli PM is made subject of ICC warrant over alleged war crimes

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Not all conversations worth having are happening in English. —Mónica de la Torre, on the value of translation

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Aimee Chor @rosydotes.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

“Anyone who perceives religion as a single category or silo needs to be shown that religion doesn’t function that way.” Yes! And also: why is this so hard to get across?

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