Tristan Felix B.
@tristiger.bsky.social
Emily Balistrieri, Japanese translator: Shihodo Stationery, People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice, Tatami Galaxy, Until I Love Myself, Soul Lanterns, Kiki. he/him 日本語では: @tristora.bsky.social Never genAI.
I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.
I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.
“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...
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🚨 The [Japanese] government is accepting public comments about the proposed changes to permanent residency requirements through Sept. 3 🚨 public-comment.e-gov.go.jp/pcm/detail?C... For info about how (e.g. you must submit in 日本語) >> public-comment.e-gov.go.jp/pcm/download...
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パブリックコメントの「永住許可に関するガイドライン改定案に係る意見募集について」に関する意見募集の実施についての詳細です。
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An Israeli court has temporarily blocked a plan, cooked up by far right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, to construct a moat full of crocodiles around a notoriously abusive prison that holds Palestinians, over concerns that the crocodiles would be harmed or mistreated.
Only Animal Welfare Raised in Israeli Debate on Crocodile Moat for Palestinian Prisoners
A judge temporarily blocked the plan over concerns about “the expected harm to the crocodiles.”…
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They went live today with stories by Yusho Takiguchi, Saou Ichikawa, and Rie Qudan, plus the start of an essay series by Chikako Koga.
Tristan Felix B.@tristiger.bsky.social · yesterdayU-Next is launching a free lit mag on the web. bungaku-chagama.unext.jp
Gaza witnessed a historic mass funeral for 112 Palestinian victims whose remains were recovered from beneath the rubble after more than two and a half years.
This is the second entry in the August blogging challenge I began in honor of a late friend. I spent a frankly unreasonable amount of time giving form to my anger over the U.S.-Iran war. Read it if you want: dearangelblog.tumblr.com/post/8240546...
10 years later, the sequel to Udon vs. Ramen that you didn't know you wanted is here.
There's just so much in here... www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...
“Everything Is Legitimate”: How Israel Uses Rape as a Tool of Genocide
The rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in parliament. This is no mistake; it’s core to Israel’s colonial project.
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One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterdayBombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
U-Next is launching a free lit mag on the web. bungaku-chagama.unext.jp
文学茶釜
文学とインターネットの可能性を信じる「文学茶釜」は、優れた想像力で紡がれた上質な作品を、世界中の読者に、全作全文無料でお届けします。
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Taiyo Fujii discussed the question on his blog and proposed different terms! taiyolab.com/ja/2026/08/0...
文学賞の著作物利用許諾について
友人の翻訳家がとある文学賞の権利帰属条件について「これ普通ですか😰」とXに投稿しました。その内容は至ってありふ … 続きを読む 文学賞の著作物利用許諾について →
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Tristan Felix B.@tristiger.bsky.social · 3d agoIs it normal (acceptable? or even just a common evil?) for a literary prize to take your copy- and moral rights when you win? My guess would be no, but I don't actually know shit and maybe everyone is giving up their rights all the time or something.
Shopping for #WITMonth picks and want to support English translations of experimental Icelandic poetry at the same time? >> bookshop.org/lists/transl... << Also, I recommended the sequel to Kiki's Delivery Service, so if you haven't ordered a copy yet 🐈⬛🧹
Translators Recommend: A Women+ in Translation Month Reading List
August is Women in Translation Month! Started by Meytal Radzinski in 2014, WiT Month is an annual celebration of women writers around the world, here expanded (hence the +) to include trans and nonbin...
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Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 3w ago“US Ambassador to the Philippines Lee Lipton has hailed the Pax Silica project…as a source of 'endless jobs' for Filipinos,” but the “claim has drawn criticism on social media, with several commenters calling the initiative a form of 'modern colonialism'.” 7/17/26 … 1/
Is it normal (acceptable? or even just a common evil?) for a literary prize to take your copy- and moral rights when you win? My guess would be no, but I don't actually know shit and maybe everyone is giving up their rights all the time or something.
Been sleeping with this goofy thing so long the first photo is clearly from The Past… (20 years 🫠)
don't wanna think about how long my dishes have been sitting in the sink, but i made a pretty admirable comeback on the manuscript today after crashing the fuck-microsoft out this morning.
Had an inconceivably bad time with Microsoft support this morning. I can't let my subscription to their trash renew. Libre creates indelible highlights in docx files. Pages won't even open the file I've been working on. I don't understand how other people are functioning. Is my computer just busted?
That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
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Fans of #granblue #umamusume and other Cygames titles who are against genocide should let Cygames know that they should not be collaborating with companies that brag about connections to IDF Unit 8200. jp.aironworks.com/frontliners/...
Reading a Japanese middle grade book that takes place in an alternate universe where Bartolomé de las Casas prevented the colonization of South America.
"[...] Elbit pays NCPD officers $60 per hour, a number [Major Michael] Aiken [of the North Charleston Police Department] himself confirmed during the meeting." Talk about a conflict of interest. fightbacknews.org/articles/cha...
Charleston demands accountability from off-duty NCPD officers at local Elbit facility
North Charleston, SC – Members of the Elbit Out of South Carolina Coalition met with Major Michael Aiken of the North Charleston Police...
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Ahhhhh@nerdjpg.com · last wk.Yesterday during a weekly picket by Elbit Out of SC outside of Elbit Systems' factory in Ladson, South Carolina, three organizers were unjustly arrested by "off-duty" North Charleston Police Officers. www.charlestondsa.org/justice-for-...
Yesterday during a weekly picket by Elbit Out of SC outside of Elbit Systems' factory in Ladson, South Carolina, three organizers were unjustly arrested by "off-duty" North Charleston Police Officers. www.charlestondsa.org/justice-for-...
Justice for the Ladson 3: Tell NCPD to Drop the Charges! - Charleston DSA
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"Detention Watch Network just launched the End the ICE Age campaign... ICE is more than ICE agents. It’s the detention centers, all the funding coming from Congress, the culture of ICE and how it pervades the military, and, of course, the collaborations between ICE and police."
Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · last wk.In my latest, I talk with @silkys13.bsky.social about the struggle against ICE. How are the government’s tactics shifting, and how must we respond? We also discuss the tremendous victory of fighting off the warehouse model for the regime’s concentration camps, and where the fight goes from here.
I 100% have not changed a single goddamn thing about how I write here in the age of "AI." I write how I write. If the "AI" writes anything like how I write, it's because it stole from me. I'm gonna use any punctuation I like, and if it looks "AI"ish to you, you can go fuck yourself.
Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...
