Howell Jenkins's Collarbones
@erceldoune.bsky.social
Borsht Boi. Anti-anti-Esperantist. Gay. Bread and roses!
Here is his cat looking down at the bed from her purchase above on a shelf. Someday she will kill us in our sleep
October 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Here is his cat looking down at the bed from her purchase above on a shelf. Someday she will kill us in our sleep
due to Reasons we ended up talking about Abu Ghraib in class today and exactly zero (0) of my students had heard of it. I told them to read about it (not look at images) and also to look up the art of Muhammad al-Mansi, who was imprisoned in Guantanamo. This is a piece of his that moves me:
October 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
due to Reasons we ended up talking about Abu Ghraib in class today and exactly zero (0) of my students had heard of it. I told them to read about it (not look at images) and also to look up the art of Muhammad al-Mansi, who was imprisoned in Guantanamo. This is a piece of his that moves me:
gaze upon my challah, ye mighty, and despair
September 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
gaze upon my challah, ye mighty, and despair
tbh I don't like all 12 months equally enough that I'd give them the same footing like this, gotta arrange them hierarchically or delete the unberable ones (february)
September 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
tbh I don't like all 12 months equally enough that I'd give them the same footing like this, gotta arrange them hierarchically or delete the unberable ones (february)
Okay finally here are some questionable bits. the DEPRAVITY PREFIX FOR SLUTS and a letter to the editor about how the correspondent used to be racist but then he was operated on by an Irish surgeon with Indian, Jewish, Trinidian, African, and Dutch nurses/attendants, and now he's not anymore
June 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Okay finally here are some questionable bits. the DEPRAVITY PREFIX FOR SLUTS and a letter to the editor about how the correspondent used to be racist but then he was operated on by an Irish surgeon with Indian, Jewish, Trinidian, African, and Dutch nurses/attendants, and now he's not anymore
The last time I so much as opened an Esperanto textbook was probably ten years ago, before I had started Russian or Yiddish. Now, having studied both (with varying degrees of success), seeing random Slavic and Germanic borrowings in a sea of Romance text is fucking my brain up
June 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The last time I so much as opened an Esperanto textbook was probably ten years ago, before I had started Russian or Yiddish. Now, having studied both (with varying degrees of success), seeing random Slavic and Germanic borrowings in a sea of Romance text is fucking my brain up
HOBBY PAGE
BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY
IN YOUR GARDEN: SPRING TASKS: BUILDING A ROCK GARDEN
BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY
IN YOUR GARDEN: SPRING TASKS: BUILDING A ROCK GARDEN
June 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
HOBBY PAGE
BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY
IN YOUR GARDEN: SPRING TASKS: BUILDING A ROCK GARDEN
BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY
IN YOUR GARDEN: SPRING TASKS: BUILDING A ROCK GARDEN
I think my favourite thing is that the illustrators/designers went all out and made Esperanto-language advertisements and radio programmes, which has the uncanny effect of gesturing to an alternate history where Esperanto was in enough daily use for such things
June 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I think my favourite thing is that the illustrators/designers went all out and made Esperanto-language advertisements and radio programmes, which has the uncanny effect of gesturing to an alternate history where Esperanto was in enough daily use for such things
GUYS. I found an old Esperanto textbook from 1957 in great condition at the library's used book store for 2 (two) American dollars. It's fun and fantastic and ridiculous and offensive and I'm obsessed
June 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
GUYS. I found an old Esperanto textbook from 1957 in great condition at the library's used book store for 2 (two) American dollars. It's fun and fantastic and ridiculous and offensive and I'm obsessed
damn sappho was so real for this
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June 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
damn sappho was so real for this
I promise I am trying my best
May 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I promise I am trying my best
wild sign of the times: apparently this is what Loreena McKennitt is up to these days?
April 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
wild sign of the times: apparently this is what Loreena McKennitt is up to these days?
Hm I ordered Netochka Nezvanova by Dostoevsky for class from Alibris and this is what came in the mail
February 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Hm I ordered Netochka Nezvanova by Dostoevsky for class from Alibris and this is what came in the mail
WAIT I did find it! From Agnes De Mille! But I don't know who Martha is
January 17, 2025 at 6:36 AM
WAIT I did find it! From Agnes De Mille! But I don't know who Martha is
wow Colorado is so ugly I hate spending time here and cannot wait to go back to the east coast in a few days
January 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
wow Colorado is so ugly I hate spending time here and cannot wait to go back to the east coast in a few days