Brendan O’Kane

Brendan O’Kane

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Scrutable Occidental, erstwhile 北漂, quondam translator, congenital Philadelphian. Shitposty sinology. Signal: @bokane.1644.

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Second draft

搬興廢東生玉兔識榮枯西墜金烏 Fortune may change for good or ill: The Jade Hare of the moon will still rise nightly from the east. Whoever lost, whoever won, it will not in the least detain the westering Gold Bird of the sun. (Start of anonymous Yuan-dynasty lyric; first draft)

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my FB feed at the moment

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I'm afraid I did it better

You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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Posting accomplishes lots of things. It has broken more brains more thoroughly than ergot poisoning, for example

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*woman yelling and pointing* this overly verbose meme *cat hissing at salad* brevity is the soul of wit

You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

搬興廢東生玉兔識榮枯西墜金烏 Fortune may change for good or ill: The Jade Hare of the moon will still rise nightly from the east. Whoever lost, whoever won, it will not in the least detain the westering Gold Bird of the sun. (Start of anonymous Yuan-dynasty lyric; first draft)

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Will keep it in mind... but at present we're a hair's breadth from having to fold... even with offering 30% off our Hightower as an intro sales are atrocious... let's hope our direct sale specials will help keep us afloat quirinpress.com/direct-order... A book takes about 1000 hrs to bespoke 🥴

Decided halfway through the sentence to commit myself to this bit

Jin Ping Mei as “Real Housewives of the Ming Dynasty” with a dash of “À rebours,” structured as extended telling of “The Aristocrats”

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若

the earthiness and bawdiness of medieval and Renaissance composer-poets taught me not to mistake archaic language for formality. Resisting the same error in reading Chinese poetry often has the same rewards, revealing works which are much wittier, funnier, and deeply humane.

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You can use the Paprika app to grab NYT recipes from behind the firewall if you’re not logged in. Just saying.

This does it. When I get on my computer, I will cancel my subscription despite the good recipes.

it’s on now

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honestly hate that every time there's an industry bad actor, lists of "works by marginalized authors to support instead" start circulating like it's a moral obligation to be done out of guilt, & it's crickets every other day of the year. my art is not to be taken in as a reactionary measure

looking for a boyfriend who is a bicycle do you know any

Liang Qichao: "I have seen this for myself in New York City."

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Today, the federal government put itself on the right side of history by seeking, for the 1st time, to establish the precedent that every worker in America has the right to shade, water & rest while working in temps that could kill them. -UFW President Teresa Romero www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

Biden to announce heat rules as climate-related deaths risewww.politico.com If finalized, they would be the first U.S. regulations to protect workers from dangerous temperatures.

Before there was a bean…there was a sprout. Coming June 2025

Seems pretty inevitable that at some point we'll get Prestige Mr. Bean

The draft did turn out okay otherwise, though. www.burninghou.se/p/qiao-ji-ex...

Annoyed now that I didn’t translate the line 江湖狀元 as “School of Hard Knocks? I was valedictorian.”

Qiao Ji Explains Himselfwww.burninghou.se I’m a demimonde valedictorian, transcendently boozy and far past reformation / Laughingly playing Imperial Historian...

Annoyed now that I didn’t translate the line 江湖狀元 as “School of Hard Knocks? I was valedictorian.”

My first Long Fourth of July Weekend back in South Philly since high school and I can hear the freelance fireworks already.

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attn scholarly organizations, this is now considered best practice

Uh, hi new followers, did I get reskeeted or something

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Go Penn libraries staff!!! pennlibrariesunited.github.io 📚📜

PENN LIBRARIES UNITEDpennlibrariesunited.github.io The unionization effort at Penn Libraries

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Reminds me of my mother’s mischievous use of her favorite epigram: "Granted that pen and ink are definitely not the business of women, what are we to make of it when they do employ them?" Xin Wenfang Biographies of Literary Geniuses of the Tang, 1304.

Good thread, and it reminds me of a note in Ron Egan's book about Li Qingzhao, "The Burden of Female Talent," that breaks my heart every time I think of it.

Good thread, and it reminds me of a note in Ron Egan's book about Li Qingzhao, "The Burden of Female Talent," that breaks my heart every time I think of it.

To paraphrase Stephen Jay Gould in a different context, I think we should care less that there was one Li Qingzhao than we should that thousands of women of equal literary talent toiled in silence at the loom or the abacus all day or destroyed the little they permitted themselves to write.

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@davidjroth.bsky.social Stephon Marbury made an entire Instagram commercial advertising traditional Beijing cotton shoes you can buy from any sidewalk vendor. There's no possible financial benefit to this. It's incredible.

Trump is apparently holding a rally at Temple today, which, (1) what the fuck, alma mater, and (2) how many prospective Trump voters are actually going to drive to north philly

the wikipedia page for the drake-kendrick beef uses the same table that you find on articles about actual wars

Medium: Diss tracks

the wikipedia page for the drake-kendrick beef uses the same table that you find on articles about actual wars

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