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RT @xr_cambridge: Breaking: Scientists have found trees growing in the Arctic tundra for the first time. The “shocked” scientists who made…

@ajosshi @AntonHur I don’t imagine the policy will go past “spur of the moment announcement for the purposes of spin distracting from the drainage/sewage budget issue.”

(Though maybe they’ll combine it with the 120-hour workweek concept and just try to convince people they don’t need homes? 🙁 )

@nepenthes59 Yeah, it’s pretty horrible. And unfortunately not just caused by heavy rains but also, apparently, by policy:

https://t.co/nnB1YHzqeF @nepenthes59 And not even for the first time: the same happened during his previous stint as mayor, and people posted the same complaints. (This is from 2011.)
twitter.com/LLJYJ/status/9…

@nepenthes59 In the news now getting attention due to horrific flooding in Seoul the other day: @nepenthes59 twitter.com/koryodynasty/s…

Ah, cue explanations about “personal responsibility”… twitter.com/hyunsuinseoul/…

RT @EricHolthaus: I don’t know how it’s possible to just scroll past something like “Rainwater is no longer safe to drink anywhere on Earth…

RT @iamjohnoliver: Here’s our piece from last night about monkeypox…youtube.com/watch?v=pQcFCF…

RT @ImmunoNucMed: @YouAreLobbyLud As debunked in an earlier version … theguardian.com/australia-news…

RT @YouAreLobbyLud: The moral and intellectual bankruptcy of this.

RT @akm5376: phys.org/news/2022-08-d…
We have been enjoying a Goldilocks zone for too long to fathom how much a 1 C change in global avera…

@mbennardo I haven’t read the Kent State book but it sounds interesting, and yeah, sounds like there are some similarities. I’ll have to check it out sometime.

RT @koryodynasty: Seoul and other parts of South Korea are currently experiencing torrential downpours.

Dorimcheon stream in Seoul’s Gwana…

RT @_Eric_Reinhart: I often take care of people after suicide attempts. When they explain why they tried to die, a large proportion say the…

My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf gordsellar.com/2022/08/08/my-…

Thieves’ World edited by Robert Lynn Asprin gordsellar.com/2022/04/22/thi…

Okay, apparently the bill failed in 2021. I failed to check before retweeting. It was actually proposed though, and I expect more of the same. But yeah, this law doesn’t exist (yet).

factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.32… twitter.com/everywhereist/…

RT @everywhereist: Abusers are going to use this excuse to murder their pregnant spouses. This is horrifying.

“Charges of overexposure”?
I wish authorities here had the zeal to enforce *traffic law* even a tenth as much as social conservatism.
(Say what you like about motorbiking in beachwear, but it shouldn’t get more reaction than the insanely hazardous driving I see daily here.) twitter.com/koryodynasty/s…

RT @fatimatlis: State-controlled Telegram channels won’t stop bragging about this video. Not sure who is the creator. But wow, just watch i…

@jeremiahtolbert Ha, I was thinking the same quip earlier today, but ended up thinking it’s more a necessary precondition to embracing conservatism.

@KateSherrod Right, there’s always that possibility (and I think bad faith arguments are dirt common too), but I mean when people actually (if stupidly) believe X is crucial and then fail follow through and see that the conditions they’re insisting on undercut X being possible. @KateSherrod I guess I am saying that I often see the failure to connect dots stemming from an apparent inability (rather than a conscious, strategic refusal) to connect the dots. Is that still a “bad faith argument”?

Maybe “shortsighted” or “stupid” or “thoughtless” is the word. I dunno.

Is there a word for this dynamic? I mean where people argue X is crucial and necessary, but then also insist on that X continue under conditions that essentially guarantee X will be unsustainable and will inevitably collapse.

You’d think there is a term, but can’t find one. twitter.com/19joho/status/…

RT @irin: It’s been three weeks since Roe fell and just about every predicted worst case scenario has already shown up in the reporting, pl…

RT @koryodynasty: LIVE: Welcome to Seoul Pride, aka Seoul Queer Culture Festival, where tens of thousands of members of South Korea’s LGBTQ…

RT @sasswashere: 🚨🇨🇦 long covid, your Federal govt won’t help you but offering to kill you

@lukarejec @AntonHur No worries, I’m sure there’s more I didn’t mention. I’ll watch the thread so I can catch up too. 😉

@lukarejec @AntonHur A book by Myung Hoon Bae:

https://t.co/s5sdYjtXDc @lukarejec @AntonHur Bora Chung’s Cursed Bunny is another, this one translated by @AntonHur.
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There’s more in the pipeline (so I hear), and probably some others already out that I haven’t mentioned. It’s been a busy few years!

@lukarejec @AntonHur Another collection of Bo-Young Kim short stories (mostly SF):

https://t.co/sXrGBIKGFu @lukarejec @AntonHur … and a forthcoming English translation collection of stories by Djuna:

kaya.com/books/everythi…

@lukarejec @AntonHur I really enjoyed Bo-Young Kim’s I’m Waiting for You, which was published by Harper Collins:

https://t.co/mu6PRpISef @lukarejec @AntonHur This was the first modern English translation anthology of South Korean SF:

kaya.com/books/readymad…

@lukarejec @AntonHur So, the easy start is that there’s a bunch of stories over at Clarkesworld, from a big 2019 project. Start here and work your way forward:

https://t.co/az6Kxtj1vy

There’s about a year’s worth of stories, mostly SF. @lukarejec @AntonHur (Disclosure?) My wife and I helped with/contributed to that project.

There’s also an earlier science-fantasy story we translated for Clarkesworld:

clarkesworldmagazine.com/bo-young_05_15/

@tweetsbymoi Owwwwwwww.

It was heartening to get an email a few days ago from a female student who talked about how hard it is to discuss discrimination, feminism, and minority issues as a woman on our campus. She appreciated my efforts to make such discussions possible (and safe to have) in our class.

Funny thing about young men who vehemently deny that gender inequality still exists:

They’re the ones who inevitably do a tiny portion of the required coursework, and then email me to demand a grade equal to female peers who did all their coursework.

Like, EVERY DAMNED TIME. I always want to point this out, but I hold back because rampant xenophobia and misogyny ago hand in hand, so instead of hearing what a “foreigner” says, they’ll just accuse me of “unfairness” or “racism” or “cultural ignorance.”

RT @koryodynasty: 1/ Civic groups in South Korea have slammed government proposals to introduce new restraint regulations at immigration de…

Youtube has decided I should know about Akira Ishikawa and His Count Buffalos.

Youtube is not wrong, either…

youtube.com/watch?v=I8hewJ…

RT @SarahVLangan1: “I’ve pulled a fetal skull out of the abdomen of someone who was butchered by a cheap provider because they couldn’t aff…

RT @TheKpopProf: Let me give you all a QUICK tip: If anyone (even including a person born, raised, and spending their whole life in a count…

RT @jmcrookston: Dear all,

On low traffic days can you please not wear your seatbelt?

We want to save them for the high traffic days.

I…

@GeekinKorea Not sure but I will say I saw an old beater car abandoned on campus with something shaped like this, except homemade & with a taped-on door and now I wonder if it was intended as a cat shelter! Don’t think I have a picture. Probably towed away now, but it was there for years.

Meanwhile, at the library:

n.news.naver.com/article/437/00…