sean gallagher

[sean gallagher @gallaghers]

i do love winter,
bare branches and
the overcast sky’s frosted light bulb glow

you can make a snowman but not a shadow

[sean gallagher @gallaghers]

… of some samizdat. I hadn’t ever actually seen photos of one. It was a legendary category, but it was only ever an abstraction.
I dunno, it just seems so carefully attentively made. Sympathetic characters in opposition and set on disastrous courses

[sean gallagher @gallaghers]

Extremely minor detail in Sfar City, a parallel series in the For All Mankind alt history— the young actress playing a soviet era cosmonaut’s wife has a smallpox scar on her arm.
The actress can’t actually have one, right? It’s attentive make up.
Also a physical copy…

[sean gallagher @gallaghers]

Children of the gainfully employed in unfailed marriages should be left unschooled, and any advantaging weaselly loophole about them then getting homeschooled be strictly outlawed, with dire penalties. And they only get three of the four food groups til their twenties.

[Anthony Cox @Cox_A_R]

They should slap VAT on children's books as parents who read to their kids are creating inequality. It's outrageous.

[sean gallagher @gallaghers]

@cdnusboy This immediately leapt to mind.

[Baylor Press @Baylor_Press]

This was a delightful read: "Micheal O’Siadhail on the Pleasure of Writing Poems by Hand": https://t.co/LWRauNwL9G.

@BaylorEnglish @lithub

[sean gallagher @gallaghers]

@RayNothstine A very good line.

[sean gallagher @gallaghers]

@JTasioulas We Wanted Workers by George Borjas was kind of a meditation on the way the field of immigration economics drew near to power while allowing politicians to recast policy as basically respecting economic fundamentals

[sean gallagher @gallaghers]

@zenahitz Is kierkegaard secondary literature on hegel?

[sean gallagher @gallaghers]

@PartTimePhilo I think maybe he falls short of “philosopher”, but Walker Percy is fascinating for his thinking about how to communicate philosophy, and pondering kierkegaard’s efforts as someone who’d worried at the same task

[sean gallagher @gallaghers]

@WhitStillman There was a crazy story about how a cia front was behind the first jacques ellul translated into english, and the same group sponsored incredible conferences of leftist intellectuals in france.

[sean gallagher @gallaghers]

@Cernovich If you’re learning a language, do this too.

[sean gallagher @gallaghers]

@gabriel_horwitz @d_n_keane I’m crazily inefficient at a task’s narrow rubric in thinking, but… a while back i elwas thinking of Bil Keane’s dotted lines in the Family Circus (comic) map panels.
Perhaps a significant difference between the groups doesn’t show measuring the task itself

[sean gallagher @gallaghers]

@gabriel_horwitz @d_n_keane Less difference than i’d expect.

[sean gallagher @gallaghers]

@tuairiscnuacht Scribh me litir chuige ar maidin inné faoi rud eigin suimiuil sa teicsleabhar gaeilge, an comhra aisteach ina mbionn na heisteoiri ag cur isteach ar an scealai i gconai

[sean gallagher @gallaghers]

@cselley I still marvel at the (absolutely unironic) ad one of the elite girls schools in the neighbourhood put up a few years ago. mounted on a bus-stop ad buy facing drivers where avenue loops around UCC, with a defiant tartan clad student & “the world needs more equality”.

[Chris Selley @cselley]

Fun fact about left-wing firebrand populist Avi Lewis: He would be the first Canadian prime minister to have attended Upper Canada College.

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

Thinking about the 7th century Irish monks who invented the spaces between words....that was honestly so smart of them

[Let's Learn Irish! @LetsLearnIrish]

15 Márta: #TascAnLae

Scríobh dán simplí nó Scríobh scéal gairid i gcúig abairt shimplí!

Write a simple poem or Write a short story in five simple sentences!

#Gaeilge #LetsLearnIrish #TascAnLae #SnaG

[Rawle Nyanzi @Parvenu62]

This is also being done with Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, even Ursula K. Le Guin. It’s not right, and it should stop. It doesn’t matter if it’s a pop novel, a great work of the Western canon, or anything else — this should not be done. It breaks trust.

[sean gallagher @gallaghers]

@karin_1 @tartannoir Hey, what book is this from? In canada wimmelbilderbuchs haven’t quite caught on.