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Slava Faybysh

@slava8.bsky.social
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Slava Faybysh @slava8.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Thank you, X-R-A-Y for publishing this cute story! Gilberto is thrilled… it’s his first story published in English
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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 05/06/2026
It's almost the weekend and you deserve something special. Check out "Little White Monkeys" by Manshuk Kali and translated by @slava8.bsky.social appearing in our newest issue! tr.ee/GUrbjAIzdG
Little White Monkeys by Manshuk Kali, translated by Slava Faybysh The woman lays the ultrasound results on her doctor’s table, to the right of the desk calendar advertising low-hormone birth control pills and next to the life-sized model of the female reproductive system, on which protuberant black peas represent various stages of fibroid growth, a yellow pea shows an ectopic pregnancy, and a pink pea is a correctly attached embryo. The ultrasound results confirm that the procedure went off without a hitch. You’ll need to take it easy for a while, says the doctor, writing up a prescription with a ball-point pen flashing the same logo for birth control that’s on the calendar. He jots down her medications on the pad and recommends sexual abstinence. The woman is on edge but still listening to her doctor as she glances at the wall clock. But by the time the appointment is over, his words are barely distinguishable in the pressurized tick … tock … tick … tock …. read more at the link in our bio
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Slava Faybysh @slava8.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Really grateful to Your Impossible Voice for publishing this offbeat story about a woman who can’t get to sleep. By Kazakh author Manshuk Kali. yourimpossiblevoice.com/little-white...
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Little White Monkeys | Issue 34
By Manshuk Kali, translated by Slava Faybysh — The woman lays the ultrasound results on her doctor’s table, to the right of the desk calendar advertising low-hormone birth control pills and next to th...
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Slava Faybysh @slava8.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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Slava Faybysh @slava8.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
My mom just gave me something to take home in this thing from Kyiv, Soviet era.
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Slava Faybysh @slava8.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
The Onion is no longer funny. And the issue is not “you can’t tell the difference b/w truth and an Onion headline.” That’s an excuse. The issue is them. They’re not funny. I think the new crop of comedians has inherited a humor that’s not natural to them.
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Slava Faybysh @slava8.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Early blood libel reminded me of modern day progressives. Simon of Trent is the child that Jews were falsely accused of killing, resulting in torture and killing of the town’s Jews.
Wood carving of four Christians mourning a dead child between them, 16th century.
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Slava Faybysh @slava8.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Full article is paywalled, but here’s some highlights from “The Day the Music Died” Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic June 2025.
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AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"You see, the thing about immigrating as an infant is that your parents’ language continues to grow inside you, but its growth is stunted." 🔥NEW🔥 at AGNI Online: "On Translation, Bilingualism, and Squid Game" by Slava Faybysh
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On Translation, Bilingualism, and Squid Game
I was almost two, and it was altogether a more innocent time, when my family immigrated from Kyiv to Chicago. Reagan was the president-elect, and Disco Demolition Night in Comiskey Park only a few…
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Slava Faybysh @slava8.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
You’re not against fascism if you’re an obsessed Jew hater. Jew hate = fascism.
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X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
we have a teriffic 275 word story by Pablo Baler !! 'Pearl Hunter' is about an old man, dentures, & having a dream about diving for pearls. love how reality & dream are mixed together in this one. translated from spanish by Slava Faybysh xraylitmag.com/pearl-hunter...
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PEARL HUNTER by Pablo Baler, translated from Spanish by Slava Faybysh
Before getting into bed, Gaspar Santos plopped his dentures into a glass of water. He adjusted himself into a comfortable position between the sheets, sinking into the softened mattress, and eased gen...
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
It goes deeper than that even. How could Black folks, queer folks, women have made themselves free on their own? It’s not possible according to the white supremacist pov. Eric Ward, expert on white nationalism, articulates it— someone else must be behind the scenes engineering it all —>
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Skin in the Game
Antisemitism forms the theoretical core of White nationalism. First, it allows us to identify the fuel that White nationalist ideology uses to power its anti-Black racism, its contempt for other peopl...
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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
It's been a pleasure to be involved with making an English version of this brilliant book a reality! This is Elsa Drucaroff's reimagining of the last days of Rodolfo Walsh – father, writer, journalist and opponent of Argentina's Junta. Listen to translator @slava8.bsky.social read from his work...
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Slava Faybysh reads from Elsa Drucaroff’s RODOLFO WALSH'S LAST CASE (Corylus Books, 2024)
A key figure in the politics and literature of Argentina, Rodolfo Walsh wrote his iconic Letter to my Friends in December 1976, recounting the murder of his ...
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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
Fresh books! Stella's one of mine, and isn't out until May. Rodolfo Walsh's Last Case is brilliant and heartbreaking – out in early March, translated by @slava8.bsky.social
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
can we discuss how good yiddish curses are. i like "may he be as rich as caesar and spend it all on doctors."
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Slava Faybysh @slava8.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
I just watched a really cute pig video. Then during the video I realized I was eating pork. Then I realized tomorrow is Yom Kippur
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Slava Faybysh @slava8.bsky.social · 17/09/2023
These actually say please clean the room and do not disturb 🤣
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Slava Faybysh @slava8.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
Why the heck do I keep joining these sites?
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