#Umverteilung durch #Rassimus. 
Von der kommenden schwarz-roten Koalition erwarte ich leider sehr wenig. Schlimmer noch: Weil sie Umverteilung von oben nach unten meidet, wird ihre Politik nur weiter der AfD nutzen. Mein #Essay aus der #wochentaz @tazgetroete https://taz.de/!6072909/

If You Try One Greek Wine This Fall, Make It This https://www.diningandcooking.com/1998580/if-you-try-one-greek-wine-this-fall-make-it-this/ #Essay #GreekWine #healthyish #NaturalWine #Unfiltered #Wine

"When formula-using parents and breastfeeding parents are pitted against each other in the realm of the environment, I yearn to point to the hands that build the arena of our conflict to begin with."

Nina Li Coomes in The Margins: https://longreads.com/2025/04/01/breastfeeding-during-a-heatwave/

"The font becomes a sign of life on the verge."

Nicole Rudick for Broadcast (Pioneer Works): https://longreads.com/2025/03/31/barnabys-futura-fantasy/

On Friday I signed a contract with a well-known British publisher to translate a collection of Japanese literary essays for release this fall. I should be able to announce the title and publisher soon enough. #Japanese #literature #essay #collection #book #translation #booksky #translatesky

On Friday I signed a contract with a well-known British publisher to translate a collection of literary essays for release this fall. I should be able to announce the title and publisher soon enough. #Japanese #literature #essay #collection #book #translation #booksky #translatesky

In this new Longreads essay, Aaron Rabinowitz writes about survival, identity, and the inked and invisible scars that history leaves behind.

https://longreads.com/2025/03/27/tattoos-signs-history-antisemitism/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

"I have no doubt that Vincent and James both did their share of thinking, which will remain a solace for me. And, yet, no one undertakes suicide unthinkingly."

Yiyun Li for The New Yorker‬: https://longreads.com/2025/03/28/the-deaths-and-lives-of-two-sons/

"Dry-erase ink is not similar to tattoo ink, but it is almost identical to ink from a permanent marker. And if you leave it on a surface for long enough, especially a porous surface, it will remain. The brain is a porous surface. Memory is a porous surface."

A new essay by Aaron Rabinowitz: https://longreads.com/2025/03/27/tattoos-signs-history-antisemitism/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

The Cardinal At My Window | And So It Goes…

https://notes.krueger.ink/the-cardinal-at-my-window/

New post on my blog: dissatisfied with atheism, David Berman, black powder.
I hang out on debateanatheist on reddit, trying to be satisfied, but something's just missing y'know? i can't tell when i lost the ability to be satisfied by logic. Now i need some crazy to feel like life has a meaning. I'm hooked on the mystery like a drug. Sure i love physics, but even better i like the mess of nature, of animal minds toying with evolution ...
https://www.forkword.com/plog/?p=2027
#drunken #essay #rant

Hace unos meses tuve la suerte y el honor de que me encargaran la corrección de este libro. Y ahora, que lo acabo de recoger del buzón, os lo enseño para que sepáis que es una belleza

The Tower & The Star

One must accept death in order to truly live.

The concept of a relationship as having expectations, as having any rules, as bonds, must dissolve in order for your partner to have real agency.

Each partner must accept that the relationship is over before it can begin.

Each person is a solar system surrounding the brilliant star of their divine spark, they can not be contained.

If you shine bright enough, you won't have to worry about your loved ones leaving.

In this essay I will...

Als Gesellschaft sind wir süchtig nach Transformationen und Vorher-Nachher Vergleichen. Auch ich habe immer wieder Transition Timelines gepostet.

Was steckt dahinter?
Wieso denke ich, dass gerade uns trans Personen diese ewig trendenden Vergleiche schaden?

Teilen wäre toll!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZwzDRui5CU

'You can’t use magic or make magic; you can only swim with its currents, occasionally choosing which stream will take you.'

Tyson Yunkaporta goes on an elliptical journey in The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband:

https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-time-travelers-wifes-husband

#books #reading #writing #essay #story #bookstodon @bookstodon

"The loss of this self was nothing to be mourned; I was glad to have arrived on the other side. But I was too freshly molted, my shell soft and nerve endings still tingling."

Sabrina Imbler for Orion: https://longreads.com/2025/03/20/key-changes/

“Borderlands are sites of mystery, but they are also theatres where, as often as not, tragedy unfolds… where the dead still linger and the living come, on special occasions, to grieve.”

—John Burnside, “Borderlands”

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/05/borderlands-by-john-burnside/

"In our special brotherhood of that summer of ’72 in London, the absence of words – in Arabic, in Persian, in distant English – did not require our names."

Salar Abdoh for Coda Story and Stranger's Guide: https://longreads.com/2025/03/18/on-brotherhood-and-blindness/

"Make sure you catch any inventory stickers still attached to the plums. Squint at the fine print on one of them to find the origin statement. Apparently we import plums from Chile? Guess you'd better enjoy them while we still do that."

How to make the Smitten Kitchen Purple Plum Torte in March, 2025

https://denimandtweed.jbyoder.org/2025/03/how-to-make-the-smitten-kitchen-purple-plum-torte-in-march-2025/

Something Tookish

https://howdoyouspell.cool/forrest/something-tookish