Lawrence Schimel
@lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
Reader.
Bilingual (Spanish/English) author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈
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I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.
Bilingual (Spanish/English) author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈
He/él
I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.
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2024 Overview 🧵:
In 2024, I published 42 books:
28 books written by me: 27 children's books, 1 adult book
14 translations: 6 into English, 7 into Spanish & 1 into both English + Spanish (my first translation from French)
#kidlit #amwriting #amtranslating
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In 2024, I published 42 books:
28 books written by me: 27 children's books, 1 adult book
14 translations: 6 into English, 7 into Spanish & 1 into both English + Spanish (my first translation from French)
#kidlit #amwriting #amtranslating
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Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
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NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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There's a lot of angst around the fact that many trans people don't have the ability to move.
From the start my view has simply been that I'd rather see as many of us make it as possible. That means I want to see as many of us make it to safety as possible.
From the start my view has simply been that I'd rather see as many of us make it as possible. That means I want to see as many of us make it to safety as possible.
This is a really good New Republic article about trans people leaving the country. Do some research about getting visas. Start now. It is harder and slower than you think, and there are no opportunities for asylum right now. It also is entirely doable.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
When Is It Time to Flee?
Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.
newrepublic.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
There's a lot of angst around the fact that many trans people don't have the ability to move.
From the start my view has simply been that I'd rather see as many of us make it as possible. That means I want to see as many of us make it to safety as possible.
From the start my view has simply been that I'd rather see as many of us make it as possible. That means I want to see as many of us make it to safety as possible.
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
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If you’re lonely on Thanksgiving, mourning a loved one, or don’t have the kind of support you hoped for whatever reason, I wrote this for you. It’s also included in my book The Translator’s Daughter theoffingmag.com/insight/the-...
The Orca and the Spider: On Motherhood, Loss, and Community - The Offing
Insight - The Offing Magazine
theoffingmag.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
If you’re lonely on Thanksgiving, mourning a loved one, or don’t have the kind of support you hoped for whatever reason, I wrote this for you. It’s also included in my book The Translator’s Daughter theoffingmag.com/insight/the-...
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Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
stzl.ink
November 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
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November 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Happy Mamdsgiving!
In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Happy Mamdsgiving!
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025 is ‘And the Walls Became the World All Around’ by Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Sigrid Rausing and published by @grantabooks.bsky.social !
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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...Just sprinting through to point out that THE SENTENCE by Louise Erdrich is ON SALE at @libro.fm - it's about a literally haunted bookshop, as well as love, justice, forgiveness, and just how hilariously annoying one customer can get...
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
The Sentence Audiobook on Libro.fm
In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's...
libro.fm
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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If these all seem like pretty small things, well, they are! We're not talking yachts & space programs here. Folks who run small businesses want to make a good living doing what they live & that happens when lots of small things come together! So #ShopSmall #ShopLocal this holiday season!
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
If these all seem like pretty small things, well, they are! We're not talking yachts & space programs here. Folks who run small businesses want to make a good living doing what they live & that happens when lots of small things come together! So #ShopSmall #ShopLocal this holiday season!
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If you're hyping a book on social media, include a link to a specific store. If you just say "Everyone should read Gendertrash from Hell," it'll go into the ether & you know who is going to get that sale. But if you add this to your post well, that's different: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781964...
Gendertrash from Hell: The First Print Collection of the Zine That Changed Everything
A long-lost zine reveals the secret history of contemporary transgender culture "A breathtaking archive of our community ... An absolute vital work for a precipitous time." --Lilly Wachowski, co-director of The Matrix "Searing, witty, critical and defiant ... It feels just as pressing now as it did in the early 1990s. ... The pages of Gendertrash are filled with poems, essays, rants, fictions, speeches, surveys, interviews, resource lists and personal ads--largely for and by trans people, against the straight establishment, as well as the cis gay and lesbian movement, who were only too happy to throw trans people under the bus in order to gain rights for themselves. Sound familiar?" --Xtra In 1993, Mirha Soleil-Ross and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay, fed up with a gay scene that rejected trans people and a trans scene that saw no alternative to going "stealth," began to publish the zine Gendertrash From Hell. Over four issues, they interviewed sex workers and prisoners; they printed collages, soap operas and polemics; they ran regular sections with titles like "Trannies Speak Out" and "Hooker of the Month". They redefined transsexual culture forever, and their explosive ideas resonate deeply today. Remastered from the original layouts, this foundational work is now available in book form for the first time, including previously-unseen drafts from the unfinished fifth issue and essays by Trish Salah and Leah Tigers. Irreverent, furious, reckless, sexy, hilarious and incisive, Gendertrash from Hell is here to set all your presuppositions on fire.
portersquarebooks.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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1st, you've probably heard this before, but pay in cash when you can. Every time you swipe or tap it costs the store, eh, 2-4% of the total of the transaction. That may not sound like much but for small businesses 2-5% can be the difference between being nervous & comfortable, even open or closed...
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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We know that, for a ton of reasons, a lot of folks don't have as much to spend as they'd like this holiday season. Sooooooo, here's a thread of things you can do that will support your local indie bookstore or other business WITHOUT spending any more than you intended...
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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One of the many reasons I love Bluesky is because I can curate my feed so that I more frequently come across post threads like THIS. #BookSky #Uplift
If what you're looking for is a book that is not "loose" (ie, pages pulling or falling out in groups), "tight" might seem like what you want.
I, a full-contact bibliomaniac, can tell you that tightly sewn bindings can warp pages, so I've been hesitant to use "tight" to mean "not loose". (3/4)
I, a full-contact bibliomaniac, can tell you that tightly sewn bindings can warp pages, so I've been hesitant to use "tight" to mean "not loose". (3/4)
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Coming VERY SOON (tuesday)! WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, and interviews about activism that @cxorlando.bsky.social called "An incredibly important book" - pre-order now!
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
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They're going to "deport" Afghan translators and other workers who helped US troops during the war and basically let the Taliban kill them en masse.
That's the American way. "We're done with you, now fcuk off and die."
That's the American way. "We're done with you, now fcuk off and die."
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
November 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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won't have em for this weekend, but i've been getting a few more people at my table than I'd like lately asking *very pointedly* if i drew everything myself, so i designed a new sticker this afternoon that will hopefully quell some of those concerns.
#art
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November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
won't have em for this weekend, but i've been getting a few more people at my table than I'd like lately asking *very pointedly* if i drew everything myself, so i designed a new sticker this afternoon that will hopefully quell some of those concerns.
#art
#art
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Just downloaded this font from the Braille Institute and will endeavour to use it in all my Powerpoint presentations from now on:
www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/#do...
www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/#do...
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute
Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!
www.brailleinstitute.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Just downloaded this font from the Braille Institute and will endeavour to use it in all my Powerpoint presentations from now on:
www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/#do...
www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/#do...
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If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
www.thenation.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Today is my dad's 91st birthday!
This is a pic of us from his birthday last year, when he turned 90. (I'm the one on the left!)
And he's still going in to the office–was just in yesterday & bought 500 pounds of new merchandise. Eek!
(If you need vintage beads, chain, etc. check out cjssales.com)
This is a pic of us from his birthday last year, when he turned 90. (I'm the one on the left!)
And he's still going in to the office–was just in yesterday & bought 500 pounds of new merchandise. Eek!
(If you need vintage beads, chain, etc. check out cjssales.com)
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Our Hebrew translator Gili Bar-Hillel @gilibug.bsky.social is wearing matchy-matchy socks to our book cover today. 🥰🥰
#kidlit #xl8
#kidlit #xl8
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Our Hebrew translator Gili Bar-Hillel @gilibug.bsky.social is wearing matchy-matchy socks to our book cover today. 🥰🥰
#kidlit #xl8
#kidlit #xl8
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Will there ever be an English edition of this book?
#booksky #xl8 #leguin #ursulakleguin #lem
(asking @ursulakleguin.com @suchmayer.bsky.social )
#booksky #xl8 #leguin #ursulakleguin #lem
(asking @ursulakleguin.com @suchmayer.bsky.social )
Best Related Work
The only one not actually published fully in English yet, I mów, że moja chwała z przyjaciół się bierze (And Say My Glory Was I Had Such Friends) is a collection of letters exchanged between Ursula Le Guin and Stanisław Lem.
It does include some letters reproduced in English.
The only one not actually published fully in English yet, I mów, że moja chwała z przyjaciół się bierze (And Say My Glory Was I Had Such Friends) is a collection of letters exchanged between Ursula Le Guin and Stanisław Lem.
It does include some letters reproduced in English.
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Will there ever be an English edition of this book?
#booksky #xl8 #leguin #ursulakleguin #lem
(asking @ursulakleguin.com @suchmayer.bsky.social )
#booksky #xl8 #leguin #ursulakleguin #lem
(asking @ursulakleguin.com @suchmayer.bsky.social )