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  • RT @RozKaveney: Be afraid…

    If you don’t think we are threatened with totalitarian takeovers, you are not paying attention. https://t.co/…

  • @PressLipless @KateSherrod I’m sure it is, but I’m really talking about the rest of the world outside those few countries vaccines are available (and whose governments not only hoarded them but also actively opposed an IP waiver that would make them available abroad… and end the pandemic sooner, too).

  • @tweetsbymoi FFS

  • I keep seeing tweets from within the US saying, “Get vaccinated, y’all.”

    Okay, cool: could you please take a moment pressure your government to actively support the proposed TRIPS waiver, so we *all* can?

    (The entire planet can’t go to your local Walgreen’s, y’know.) PS: My vaccine appointment’s for a week from Monday, so I’m covered. This isn’t just vaccine envy talking.

    (But I’m incredibly lucky. Most of humanity’s still waiting—essentially because of opposition and derailing of the TRIPS waiver talks by rich, western governments.)

  • Said elsewhere, but:

    For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste,
    No wonder is a lewed man to ruste;
    And shame it is, if a preest take keep,
    A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep.
    Wel oghte a preest ensample for to yive,
    By his clennesse, how that his sheep shold live. https://t.co/kEjTPxmius (From Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.)

    And yeah, government officials aren’t priests, but this is 1380, and I’d argue the ethics map over pretty well.

    (Which will only fuel justifications among the morons who are breaking these rules and prolonging the current wave. Sigh.)

  • @tweetsbymoi I must be jaded, because I’m completely unsurprised. Though a snippet from Chaucer comes to mind: @tweetsbymoi For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste,
    No wonder is a lewed man to ruste;
    And shame it is, if a preest take keep,
    A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep.
    Wel oghte a preest ensample for to yive,
    By his clennesse, how that his sheep shold live.

  • Overseas Canadian, kinda follow Canadian news now, but only about half the references here made sense to me. Well, not “made sense” (none of it makes sense!) but rather “I know what he means.” twitter.com/gbhorwood/stat…

  • RT @koryodynasty: 1/ South Korean government promo materials, featuring gender stereotypes and prejudice against social minorities, racism…

  • RT @koryodynasty: There’s just no end to men secretly filming women in South Korea, this time a male civil servant filming women on the bea…

  • RT @koryodynasty: Covid cases continue to surge in South Korea, 1,768 cases registered today as of 6PM.

    Possibility of reaching the 2,000…

  • @pintsizehorror Pretty often, yeah.

  • Not a real flight attendant interview, but funny all the same… twitter.com/KristerJohnson…

  • RT @KristerJohnson: Alfredo Rivera is the greatest storyteller of our time.

  • @jeremiahtolbert Thanks!

  • Oh man, I step away from Twitter for a month and I miss out on so much…

    (It gets way more, er, egregious downthread.) twitter.com/koryodynasty/s…

  • RT @solidarity_kr: S. Korean men are demanding the Korean Archery Association to take back the gold medals from Olympic record-breaking arc…

  • @AkashicAkemi 😀

  • @mcclure111 @gregeganSF @ianbobmorris Ha, no, but I did meet him once at a party! 😉

    The bit about writing a novel and then realizing @gregeganSF had done it better, and then sitting down to write another and realizing it’d happened again, was real, though! My mom jokingly suggested backwards-in-time storytheft… @mcclure111 @gregeganSF @ianbobmorris Also, I mentioned the story to @gregeganSF by email (didn’t want him to think any hostility was real if he stumbled onto it). He was very congenial and told me about how the same had happened to him with a Hal Clement book, IIRC? 🙂

  • RT @GCL_Boisset: Best non-fiction: In the Absence of Guidelines or Censorship: An Interview with Bo-Young Kim by Gord Sellar and Jihyun Par…

  • A**hole Island gordsellar.com/2021/07/31/aho…

  • Running Sur une rive, au clair de lune for The Fall of Delta Green gordsellar.com/2021/07/29/run…

  • @JustinHowe Story of my life!

  • Running Fall of the Delta Green gordsellar.com/2021/07/27/run…

  • Grade Grubbing: An Update gordsellar.com/2021/07/26/gra…

  • @tweetsbymoi There’s always SOMETHING to be corrected on, yeh?

    At least she’s new-school: in the old days, she’d have left the air con set on high but opened all the windows. Progress? (!)

  • RT @koryodynasty: Women in Korea keep on being found dead and naked, with police saying there’s no suspicion of murder.

    Since January, (at…

  • Streamlining the Workload gordsellar.com/2021/06/21/str…

  • One of Us in Bastionland gordsellar.com/2021/05/27/one…

  • 📹 While I am currently drowning in grading midterm exams, at least I’m digging this. Heirich Schutz is, somehow, new to me, despite apparently being the most important German composer before Bach. Not sure why I’ve never run across him… tmblr.co/ZwA1ltaCCfhe8e…

  • @Cadigan @marc_laidlaw @jeremiahtolbert @BELUTHAHATCHIE @sciencecomedian @nkjemisin Yeah, it was a great experience, and I learned a lot! 🙂

  • 📹 Robert Glasper is well worth a listen, with his trio, with his experimental group, all of it. This is a cover of a song by Musiq Soulchild, who… I don’t know who that is, but honestly Glasper could play anything and I’d be happy… tmblr.co/ZwA1lta91JyBCq…

  • 📹 Woah. A lot of this was on the ’72 compilation album Tallest Trees—my first real jazz album, i.e. ground zero, musically, for 14-year-old me. Verdict? Still amazing. (Especially the Milt Jackson!)  Recorded in New York, December 24, 1954… tmblr.co/ZwA1lta6Aelpaq…

  • Book 16: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk. A book on trauma, how it works, its effects on people, as well as new forms of treatment and they the time’s come to take seriously what the author argues is an epidemic of trauma in modern societies. #2021books

  • (Offutt’s father was a writer known to me from his contributions to the Thieves’ World anthologies. I’d heard he’d also written porn. I hadn’t known it’d been the majority of what he’d written, or such a big part of his inner world.) Book 15: Black Butterflies by John Shirley. Spatterpunk short stories rooted in dark sexuality bound up with death and violence. Got to be a bit much for me, though the story “Cram” was profoundly horrific and haunting.
    #2021books

  • Book 13: Molly Gloss’s Wild Life. Took me a while to really get into it, but that was me, not the book. It’s a great novel about… bigfoot? hallucinations? writerly liberties? trauma? A lot of things. But it’s Molly Gloss, so of course it’s great. #2021books https://t.co/6ech4G8mfo Book 14: My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir by Chris Offutt. A wonderfully written memoir (exorcism?) of an unenviable childhood & exorcism of a very painful and weird father/son relationship. Loaner from @JustinHowe (thanks!) #2021books

  • 📹 Never listened to Fleetwood Mac but I’ve been listening to Scary Pockets (a Youtubey funk band that does covers of popular non-funk songs) lately and this cover version has been stuck in my head all day long.  tmblr.co/ZwA1lta3cEds4y…

  • TFW the local wing of the alt-right douchebro movement discovers a site you’d been enjoying a while back, and starts comment bombing discussion of topics you’ve posted on. (Sigh.)

    Can’t change my posts to anon, so I’m considering deleting my account just to avoid the annoyance.

  • @DiegoATLAW Oops, misread this. Unfortunately none of the Americans I know seem to have read Asterix & Obelix as kids, unlike me (in Canada) and people my age that I’ve met from lots of other places across Europe, Africa, and Asia…

  • RT @_wongoon_: @BigEchoSF @SaltWayLink @gordsellar @happymil_ @jolwalton @CliftonGachagua @benjanun_s @natalia_theodor @timmaughan @OnlyWha…

  • @pintsizehorror @KoreanWeird Oh, I miss those. But I know I wouldn’t dig them if I had them now.

  • @KoreanWeird @Kowiana I guess I’ll have to leave my house this month!

  • @KoreanWeird

  • @Kowiana @KoreanWeird Right, I have seen mint flavors around occasionally, just not *that* often. Also, man, I’d love some of that.

  • @KoreanWeird Ha, I was explaining to students that for North Americans, toothpaste tastes like mint, not the other way round!

    (So I’m surprised this exists here: a lot of people seem to HAAATE mint because they find it toothpastey.)

    My pick would be Cafe Mint Mocha Latte, btw.

  • @KoreanWeird Though this does make me wonder what the oddest latte here has been. (Charcoal is the weirdest latte I’ve seen anywhere, but in Korea?) Broccolatte? Clamchowlatte? (Surely someone’s had clam chowder and thought, “I could foam the milk and…”) Turmeric Latte seems likely, but…

  • @KoreanWeird I mean, people seem to perceive it as a beverage rather than a soup, right? It’s less the absence of coffee and more the idea of “sweet potato as hot milky beverage” that puzzles me.

    But I’m not, like, up in arms about it. I never go to cafes here anyway! *shrug*

  • @KoreanWeird Read the first line, thought, “But it’s not a latter, it’s a sweet soup in a mug…” and then saw the rest of your tweet. Which: I just don’t get why we’d call it latte, is all.

    But yeah, less baffling than a charcoal drink. I mean… what?

  • He’s basically the M. Night Shyamalan of online discussions about Korea.

    The fact that so many of you know exactky who I mean without me naming him is kinda the QED of this thesis.

  • Okay, something weirder than 고구마 lattes, @KoreanWeird… twitter.com/wickedmilkhote…

  • @isasv • superfood: sounds like plant growth fertilizer
    • wrap (for food): “Ugh, that word is for clothing!”
    and:
    • “do me a solid” and “smoothie” were both uncommon when I left but seem common now, and both sound to me like too-explicit terms for types of bowel movements.