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@anaisl.bsky.social I don’t know why I thought mine wasn’t estradiol, I just looked at it and there it is. (Maybe because it’s a different set of ratios then I used to take?) 🤞🏻the Swedish comes soon, I’ve only been on it for a couple months.

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@kimberlyhirsh.com “monstrous book woman”

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@anaisl.bsky.social I have to say that as a person whose body is going through perimenopause and is on a tiny dose of estrogen to help with menstrual migraines, I’m a little sad my cis lady meds don’t also come with language learning but you know, so many other things are easier for me, so I get it.

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@anaisl.bsky.social My brain is trying to parse this and is like, “Wait, do trans girls just…. Know Swedish?”

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@maggie-melo.bsky.social Excellent!

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@iChris I’ve seen GotG 1 & 2. Super fun. I think just Infinity movies seem so bogged down and then it all spins out from there.

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The most recent MCU movie I’ve seen is Black Panther. Every time I think about trying a new one, I remember that it feels like I have to understand the other 30+ for the new one to make sense. I wonder if I could just treat them like comics and only pay attention to Spider-Man and X-Men. 🍿

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🔖📚 Read Navigating the Brain Poisoning of Book Censorship by Kelly Jensen.

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A great piece about how even fighting censorship can prime you to start looking for content in books that isn’t there.

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@gregmoore Ah yes! Puer qui vivit. (I used to be a Latin teacher.)

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I’ve been feeling very down about (gestures) all this lately. Dr. Shaily Patel’s encouragement to dream and imagine better worlds is a powerful antidote. Thanks, Dr. Patel!

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@kjcharleswriter.com I’m not much of a club goer, but Eldritch Horror Font sounds like my kind of place.

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@kellyjbaker.bsky.social Just put it on hold at the library!

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@bigtalkingbird.bsky.social Season 3 of Picard is my favorite because it’s the closest it gets to being TNG. Which is what I actually wanted, just more TNG.

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@vox-magica.bsky.social I don’t know what any of its members have been up to lately, but back in 2021-2022 I loved the Visionary Futures Collective for this. visionary-futures-collective.github.io

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@hollie Be forewarned, the next book in the series is Very Different.

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@smittermeier.bsky.social I was trying to say “Everybody” like, hey everybody, here is my message to you, but I messed up so I can see why it came across as “Everybody knows.”

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@smittermeier.bsky.social Okay the perfection of this autocorrect typo is amazing.

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@smittermeier.bsky.social Remember when Bathesheba’s beauty in the moonlight overthrew the baby Jesus?

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@smittermeier.bsky.social Oh no (do people think King David was Christian? They do, don’t they?)

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@smittermeier.bsky.social Everybody’s it’s a very Jewish song.

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@elliemackinroberts.net Speaking as a lapsed Latinist with a very Aeneid-influenced perspective on Odysseus, hard agree.

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@theroguesenna.bsky.social I prefer to play bardlikes.

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@MitchWagner The conversation/article is worth a read/watch. It sounds to me like your understanding of autism could be enhanced by learning about the intense world theory.

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Finished reading: The Shining by Stephen King 📚

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🔖 Read Have We Turned Personality Into Diagnosis? (New York Times).

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how much more do I need to parse effluvia of my own personhood?

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Right?

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@gregmoore It’s like, this translator read a bunch of commentaries so you don’t have to. Just… Try a translation and enjoy. If you want faithful, learn Greek.

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Saw someone comment they’d heard Emily Wilson’s Odyssey translation is feminist and before they try it they’d like to start with a more faithful translation. I wonder how much readers understand about the creative choices translators have to make and challenges to being “faithful.” 📚

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@kjcharleswriter.com I literally get through all of almost every day without it.

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Finished reading: His Risk to Take by Tessa Bailey 📚

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@philsalv.bsky.social I mean I have sat at a bar with a cast mate and when she said to me “We’ll talk later” about her show drama I said, “Can we not?” And this is just taking that to its natural evolution.

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@philsalv.bsky.social Honestly like relatable tho

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@sjgochenour.bsky.social I’m over here disbelieving how much time is left to spend in this meat cage and there are other people who want to do if even longer? (I don’t want to be dead, I just want reliable pain management.)

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Finished reading: Firestarter by Stephen King 📚

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I know a lot of Stephen King books are considered scary, but so many of them, including this one, make me sad. Compulsively readable as King always is.

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📚🗯️ Just read Detective Comics #359, the debut of Batgirl aka Dr. Barbara Gordon. I love it and I love her.

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Did a bit of back-to-school shopping on ThredUp. Back on my romantigoth bull.

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🔖 Read Hope, Not Optimism by Cory Doctorow.

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Hope is the necessary, but insufficient, precondition for survival.

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This left me feeling the best about the possibilities for this world that I’ve felt in a long time.

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I just finished Book 1 of Emily Wilson’s translation of the Iliad and she’s done incredible work. The language is so accessible. This is the most readable translation of classical literature that I’ve ever read. Highly recommend already. 📚

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August is the month of the sealey challenge, an annual challenge to read a book of poetry every day in August. You can modify the challenge to suit your life. The goal is just to read more poetry. I’m going to try to read Emily Wilson’s translation of The Iliad. 📚

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Read How Bots Took Over Our Lives by T. M. Brown (The New Yorker).

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Perhaps that’s what the A.I. apocalypse is really shaping up to be—not the elimination of humanity by an omniscient machine mind but an internet overrun by unthinking, error-prone automatons that make the web unusable and destroy it from the inside. After the bots take over, we can all get back to the real world.

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Finished reading: Too Fast to Fall by Victoria Dahl 📚

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US friends, here are more opportunities to stand up for libraries! Support the Books Save Lives Act by signing a petition and e-mailing your representatives. 📚

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Finished reading: Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds by Gwenda Bond 📚

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Finished reading: Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down by Gina McIntyre 📚

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This book is a triumph of the design of a physical object. It’s so cool. The making-of details are fascinating but the design elevates it.

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Finished reading: Perfect by Judith McNaught 📚

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Finished reading: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan 📚

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Finished up this series with the kiddo. On to the next!

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Finished reading: Mythos l by Stephen Fry 📚🎧

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It’s just delightful to hear Stephen Fry read this aloud.

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📚 For my birthday, stop the Federal Government gaining control of your local school libraries. kimberlyhirsh.com

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Thanks for the kind birthday wishes, everybody!

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I was born 45 years ago today. I’m still here. I’m doing a pretty good job sticking around.

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Finished reading: Paradise by Judith McNaught 📚

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McNaught is so good at the job.

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