Emily L

I'm pretty hardened by now, but I just translated an asylum claim with a description of state violence so brutal I burst into tears.

Fuck the fascists, I wish to liberate our world from them.

They're gone, I still don't know who it was, but I guess if I haven't shatpost in like a week you should assume I got abducted by Putin's goons and call...the... idek

I am not prone to political paranoia or to thinking that I'm important to anyone with power, but I did just freak tf out when someone was repeatedly shouting "привет?! привет???? а ты дома????" in the hallway outside my apartment door.

No gods, no masters, no borders, no nations. Solidarity forever.

The thing is, the whole point of Jews is diaspora. Being an internal other to big, wealthy populations is how you get the happening cultural production. And Israel has shitty fascist aesthetics and bad, non-nuanced ideas because, as Jews of all people should know, "homeland" is a false god.

Mr. Nobody’s Unrequited Love New Tab journalist Lesya Sarnavskaya went to Karabash to find out what locals, including the people featured in the film, think about Talankin and his documentary Mr. Nobody against Putin

I'm back on the news! Read about the Russian teacher who made a documentary about military propaganda in primary schools and the film's fallout in his hometown. en.thenewtab.io/mr-nobodys-u...

If you're going to give me a mystery centering an autistic cheesemonger, I want that autism to affect her life beyond being a reason to wear earplugs and be embarrassed about her diagnosis IRL and I want some fucking infodumping about cheese.

I found such a cursed substack, about "reeducation in traditional art and values" that seems to have claimed all of the humanities for fascism. I ...am so fascinated I'm considering become a paid subscriber so I can read it all but like it's obviously a bad cause.

Biggest Hockey Mass Fight Jan 08, 2008 YouTube video by karabasu

Also this, for some reason www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlf4...

I'm trying to find a blogspot blog I kept in the mid aughts, and searching gmail has not helped but I *have* found a bunch of friends' blogs that are all titled like yoimtotallyinrussia and lookwhohasablognow and igotonycsometimes.

I'm going to hate-read a parenting book about screentime, so help me gravity*

* @isaacs.bsky.social and i started a religion and our deity is gravity so i have to switch all the standard invocations** now

** luckily "omg" still works just fine

You can also now contact me securely (via ProtonMail) at emily@emilylaskin.com as well as me@emilylaskin.com and you@emilylaskin.com, just in case you get confused about who's who.

I've discovered how to get email at my website domain name and obviously made a bunch of aliases. Write to chat@emilylaskin.com if you want to get signed up for a newsletter I might never send.

I left the field but I used to know a lot of shit.

Oh I'll bite! My quals were:

1. Russian literature 17th-20th century
2. English literature Chaucer - the present
3. Persian epic poetry
4. History and literature of inter-imperial and Soviet Central Asia
5. History of empire + natural sciences

Bringing a totally regular amount of world-historical heroism to choosing a preschool etc., all totally fine over here.

Sometimes when I'm really overwhelmed by life circumstances I reread the scene in Stalingrad where Novikov turns his tank corps around to head into besieged Stalingrad and *~*saves the day*~* and then I weep and think about how to be good in the face of bullshit.

I have been doing an experiment with Claude though where I make it poke holes in everything I say and I think it’s actually a decent substitute for an editor* in this era of zero institutional support for wordcels.

*at least for experienced writers who have been edited by a good human editor ever

I totally agree that “what made it” isn’t the interesting question, but I actually think there’s a place for artisanal handcrafted slop. Humans make a lot of shit with no value other than it’s weird, or no utility other than it’s funny, and I think that’s fine.

I'm racking up undesirability over here 💅

I keep wanting to read new academic books recently and I'm distressed and confused by this desire

Yeah I watched the lunar eclipse live on TikTok wby

Stuff seems like… really bad rn?

THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

lyra.horse/x86css/

“No ethical consumption under capitalism” but it’s the imperative mood: thou shalt not consume anything with any kind of ethical framework. Chaos reigns.

Anyway follow me on Twitter I’m really funny over there

My toxic trait is that I think “no ethical consumption under capitalism” applies to musk/the website formerly known as Twitter, and I’m back on there because it remains the home of Discourse (much of which is unbelievably stupid rn but waygd).

I changed my tagline :)

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