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Lia Swope Mitchell

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reader, writer, translator. PhD French. I like running, gardening, baking, and outdoorsy stuff. I live in Minneapolis. liaswopemitchell.com

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · Oct 22

KREE by Manuela Draeger: out today from @uminnpress.bsky.social ! Here's some of my thoughts about this gnarly abyss of a book
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KREE by Manuela Draeger: out today!

Today is the official release day for Kree by Manuela Draeger, the second post-exotic novel (after Solo Viola) that I’ve had the pleasure and challenge of translating for University of Minnes…

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 4h

Louis XIV also had a group of courtiers to watch him shit in the mornings

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 5h

you'd better eat that one so nobody knows

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 6h

if the off ramp from 94 still closed near Franklin?

Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 11h

well, that does it, I'm voting for Jazz

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 11h

Nice! I went there on study abroad a hundred years ago. The castle looks the same

Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 11h

But did any of the candidates live in Minneapolis at the time? I see Fateh was born in D.C. and Frey in Arlington, VA

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 13h

I’ll bet you never heard of an incredible weather event that happened 34 years ago on this very date, one so rarely mentioned yet so epic in scale, seemingly unknown to younger Minnesotas who lean forward with anticipation and excitement as survivors begin the tale of a Halloween blizzard that

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 11h

A bunch of people died in that one so it probably wasn’t as much fun to reminisce

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, but now that I've searched I see they hung out a bit and all that.

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 1d

did Chilton ever comment on this tribute?

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 1d

holy shit

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 1d

Newly posted on YouTube

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The Replacements live at Bogart's Cincinnati, 14th September 1987, covertly shot on a camcorder, which was not an easy mission back in 1987. Taken from archive D1611

The Replacements live Cincinnati 1987

YouTube video by ScottishTeeVee

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 1d

Neelix was pretty awful

Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 1d

I saw this elsewhere and it seems like they're basing this on the number of Orkin calls. But how many of those calls were actually about rats? They could have been about squirrels. Or mice. We are the gopher state! Maybe people had troublesome gophers

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 1d

it was so cool

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · Sep 26

you can just bike up this highway ramp

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 1d

dang, I shoulda done it. A nice view!

Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 1d

thank you!

Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 1d

sounds kind of like main character syndrome?

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 1d

Minneapolis folks, have any of you walked on the off-ramp from 94 to Hennepin while it's been closed for construction? Looks like I missed my chance to check it out. Did you take pictures?

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 1d

good color but passed quickly. B+

Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 1d

looks like it’s gonna be a good one

a sky tinted coral pink by the horizon with the early dawn light

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 2d

I’m often glad I had the chance to live abroad and experience being a person who doesn’t speak the majority language perfectly. It can be pretty uncomfortable but it taught me not to be a shitbird.

The good news is, you don’t actually have to go to France for this

Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d

Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do

Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 3d

See, that wouldn't bug me at all—it's normal that place names change along with the local dialect, and that's different from mispronunciation. MN has lots of French-derived place names that aren't pronounced as they would be in French

How do they say Petit Jean in Arkansas?

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 3d

currently listening to an audiobook that is pretty good overall, but it contains some French that the narrator cannot pronounce.

The Jardeen dez Plantas
Prowstian

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 3d

I guess Reagan's pardons must be invalid, too

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 4d

Huh. I know a guy who once lived there who pronounces the T, but... TIL, I guess

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