Babel (Part 1): An Arcane Translators Revolution

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TW: (Spoilers)

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Then there was nothing to do but wait for the end.

How did one make peace with one’s own death?

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Adventures of the Body

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“‘When did the body first set out on its own adventures?’ Snowman thinks, after having ditched its old traveling companions, the mind and

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Ideology and Imagination

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Ideology, noun, an imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts.

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The Topic of Death

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TW (suicide)

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Eventually, I considered it the topic of death.

I could kill myself now, probably. This was not normally an easy thing

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National Insecurity

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Steph: This is an excerpt from Permanent Record by Edward Snowden, beginning on page 175.

It was only later, long after I’d forgotten

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Communicating a Future

Collecting Effervescence | Communicating a Future is the first in a series of one act plays.

A blend of art, academics and activism, the debut bilingual performance (American Sign Language and spoken English) weaves a story of future community by linking current events at the global scale with interpersonal actions. Together with a companion chapbook, this living ethnography establishes a … Read more...

Bext Holidays Ever

A typo. Decided it could function as an (sortof, not quite) anagram.

Hang on. I’m gonna ask ChatGPT.

screenshot of the Q&A with the answer being "portmanteau" is the process for blending a new word from two separate words
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Bext is a portmanteau of next and best. (Not an anagram.) This is the bext christmas that I can remember. It’s perfect for my present circumstances, and is meaningful like some of my other favorite christmasses.

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Misunderstanding and Meaningful Communication

Misunderstanding is a large category with many tails; what intrigues me are skills for resolution—the transition from a 'missed' understanding of each other to a shared understanding happens almost instantly through routine communication skills, and over time through persistent use of collaborative communication skills.
Misunderstanding is a large category with many tails; what intrigues me are skills for resolution—the transition from a 'missed' understanding of each other to a shared understanding happens almost instantly through routine communication skills, and over time through persistent use of collaborative communication skills.