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✦ @mnchrm.co · Aug 5

Introducing Refrakt, the next phase in my newsletter. This bi-weekly letter is for those who want to get just a little bit more out of life, & see curiosity, exploration, & creativity to be key to that process.

I'd love to have you join me—subscribe below!

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Introducing Refrakt

Introducing Refrakt, the next phase of my newsletter.

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Screamin'🎃 @dreaminerryday.bsky.social · Nov 6

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✦ @mnchrm.co · 7h

Buncha jabroneys

✦ @mnchrm.co · 7h

Extremely tired of the Brewers "aw shucks we're nobodies against the big bad Dodgers" act.

✦ @mnchrm.co · 23h

Listening to an audiobook is not reading.

Memoir is a lie.

Fan fiction is bad for everyone involved.

There's no such thing as a "summary," and thinking that there is is detrimental to your intelligence.

We obviously shouldn't "let people enjoy things."

✦ @mnchrm.co · 23h

The QRTs of this show how fucked Western literary culture is. Most of them aren't even hot takes!

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

✦ @mnchrm.co · 1d

The idea that there are still blogs that cover what Apple might release feels so quaint to me.

✦ @mnchrm.co · 1d

Thanks Daniel! Kind of a shocking reveal for me too, haha. It got cut, but the other was that she also said the Italian class at the New Yorker is still ongoing!

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✦ @mnchrm.co · 1d

Thank you! And would love to meet up when you're in town, let me know!

✦ @mnchrm.co · 1d

Good luck! I'm getting back in now, you've got to teach me your ways.

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✦ @mnchrm.co · 2d

On reaching the end of my manuscript.

Monochromatic Aberration @ian.mnchrm.co.ap.brid.gy · 2d

✦ Refrakt: 31 — Denouement

On endings and new beginnings, a cocktail of feelings, reclaiming the beginner's mind.

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✦ @mnchrm.co · 2d

It's disappointing how often a spreadsheet is useful.

✦ @mnchrm.co · 2d

On reaching the end of my manuscript.

Monochromatic Aberration @ian.mnchrm.co.ap.brid.gy · 2d

✦ Refrakt: 31 — Denouement

On endings and new beginnings, a cocktail of feelings, reclaiming the beginner's mind.

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✦ @mnchrm.co · 3d

Pete cares so much. Hope this is just the start for him.

Thanks for the coverage this year.

✦ @mnchrm.co · 3d

Christian Yelich literally won MVP.

✦ @mnchrm.co · 3d

I honestly think a big part of the problem in the USA is fandom for the two party system. I think there's probably a lot more shared ground in terms of beliefs, but not if it's "the other guy's" position.

✦ @mnchrm.co · 3d

Back on top, baby.

Anki screenshot showing I'm on my longest active streak.

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 20d

The beasts of the field have begun subtly bowing their heads when I pass. Probably nothing.

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✦ @mnchrm.co · 5d

Wrote about side-questing irl, how your life is what you make of it, and the power of saying yes.

Monochromatic Aberration @ian.mnchrm.co.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Side Quests

Take your time; walk a less direct route; talk to someone when the opportunity arises. Who can know where any moment will lead?

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✦ @mnchrm.co · 5d

Wrote about side-questing irl, how your life is what you make of it, and the power of saying yes.

Monochromatic Aberration @ian.mnchrm.co.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Side Quests

Take your time; walk a less direct route; talk to someone when the opportunity arises. Who can know where any moment will lead?

mnchrm.co

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✦ @mnchrm.co · 5d

Wow, sounds like a lot of fun! It's so funny, hard to notice those little nuances by yourself.

✦ @mnchrm.co · 5d

Would've been great! I just interviewed Ann Goldstein, translator of the Neapolitan Quartet:
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/06/t...

The Translator’s Voice — Ann Goldstein on Translating Elena Ferrante’s “Neapolitan Quartet” - Chicago Review of Books

The Translator’s Voice is a monthly column from Ian J. Battaglia here at the Chicago Review of Books, dedicated to global literature and the translators who work tirelessly and too often thanklessly t...

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✦ @mnchrm.co · 6d

Reached the point in my Japanese language journey where everyone tells me "you're fluent!" and I just go lol.

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 7d

The King of All Cosmos from the Katamari series, with a speech bubble.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 7d

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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✦ @mnchrm.co · 7d

Wow, tonight I'll be able to go home and play video games and hang out.