Rozalija Grace | Розалия Грейс
@rozalijagrace.com
Russian American writer, translator, & soon-to-be lesbian tradwife to @erswrites.bsky.social. Into Silver Age/early Soviet art & lit, theology & church history, Steely Dan. Twice dubbed "the Simone Biles of sex". Россия будет свободной. rozalijagrace.com
I have yet to hear a solid case for how our space adventurism benefits ordinary Americans who pay for it. "Spin-off technologies" seems the best attempt, but the one ironclad law of 21st-c. society/economics/politics is "more technology makes everything worse". Why is this worth blood & treasure?
This is a huge mission with a lot of risk. Artemis III is the actual Moon landing, and I'm afraid they will rush the lander into operation prematurely because Orange Shitgibbon wants it done during his term. And if anything goes wrong, he will blame everyone but himself.
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NASA's Artemis II moon rocket moves to the launch pad
NASA’s giant new moon rocket headed to the launch pad Saturday in preparation for astronauts’ first lunar fly-around in more than half a century.
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January 21, 2026 at 5:35 PM
I have yet to hear a solid case for how our space adventurism benefits ordinary Americans who pay for it. "Spin-off technologies" seems the best attempt, but the one ironclad law of 21st-c. society/economics/politics is "more technology makes everything worse". Why is this worth blood & treasure?
I see this framed a lot as a cultural difference between workers and management, or a result of different kinds of training and exposure to the technology, but what if it's just telling us which kinds of jobs are more automatable?
The disconnect between management and employee on AI usage is big. At the same time, CEOs are reporting they aren't seeing any revenue growth from AI.
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CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story.
How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report.
www.wsj.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:14 PM
I see this framed a lot as a cultural difference between workers and management, or a result of different kinds of training and exposure to the technology, but what if it's just telling us which kinds of jobs are more automatable?
Many of the brightest, most personable, most promising students I had here in MN were young Somali women. My work BFF at my new library branch is a Somali woman. There isn't a problem in this state that couldn't be fixed by firing all the men and replacing them with Somali women.
So far, I am only seeing TPM, Mediaite, and Daily Beast focusing on this.
We live in a world where the president calling an ethnic group "very low IQ" and "bad for our country" while insisting they "ought to get the hell out of here" barely makes headlines. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...
We live in a world where the president calling an ethnic group "very low IQ" and "bad for our country" while insisting they "ought to get the hell out of here" barely makes headlines. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...
Trump Marks First Year In Office With Unhinged Racist Rant Targeting ‘Very Low IQ’ Somalis
President Donald Trump spent the first anniversary of his second term on...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Many of the brightest, most personable, most promising students I had here in MN were young Somali women. My work BFF at my new library branch is a Somali woman. There isn't a problem in this state that couldn't be fixed by firing all the men and replacing them with Somali women.
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Ты не ставишь знаки препинания потому что ты неграмотный
Я не ставлю знаки препинания потому что я - футурист
Мы разные
Я не ставлю знаки препинания потому что я - футурист
Мы разные
January 21, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Ты не ставишь знаки препинания потому что ты неграмотный
Я не ставлю знаки препинания потому что я - футурист
Мы разные
Я не ставлю знаки препинания потому что я - футурист
Мы разные
Et les gens continuent me demander, pourquoi je suis séparatiste...
au québec, 4 féminicides en 18 jours. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/j...
Féminicide présumé à Rougemont | La victime a été identifiée
L’identité de la mère de famille tuée dimanche à Rougemont est maintenant connue : il s’agit de Véronic Champagne, âgée de 40 ans. Elle est la quatrième victime d’un féminicide présumé à survenir au Q...
www.lapresse.ca
January 21, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Et les gens continuent me demander, pourquoi je suis séparatiste...
Fun fact: Before the Revolution, the land that would later become Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, & Eastern Minnesota was not an unorganized territory (as Congress would later have it), but had already been designated part of Canada (a separate Crown colony) in the Quebec Act of 1774.
January 19, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Fun fact: Before the Revolution, the land that would later become Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, & Eastern Minnesota was not an unorganized territory (as Congress would later have it), but had already been designated part of Canada (a separate Crown colony) in the Quebec Act of 1774.
Я такая старая.
January 19, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Я такая старая.
Тоже я в Миннеаполисе.
К сожалению, на улице всё ещё морозная зима со снегом, сегодня была дома и ни о чем не жалею, мне физически плохо от мысли, что в -10 нужно выходить на улицу, но завтра придется…
January 18, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Тоже я в Миннеаполисе.
Doesn't mean Nell isn't still down here getting bit by rats with nowhere to send the doctor's bill.
January 17, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Doesn't mean Nell isn't still down here getting bit by rats with nowhere to send the doctor's bill.
If you want to know how we got here, it's because intelligent, worldly people listened to a self-aggrandizing megalomaniac say "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody", & believed he was "not capable of ordering ICE agents to shoot people" because America is *special*.
"Until Minneapolis, I would have told you that as bad as Trump is, he’s not capable of ordering ICE agents to shoot people...at random, and that as bad as ICE is, they’d refuse such orders. Now I no longer believe either of those things."
Read @mjtoma.bsky.social:
newrepublic.com/post/205379/...
Read @mjtoma.bsky.social:
newrepublic.com/post/205379/...
We’re Nearing the Day When ICE Thugs Just Open Fire on Crowds
The United States is now closer to Assad’s Syria than to anything we recognize as fitting within the understood norms of American history.
newrepublic.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:46 PM
If you want to know how we got here, it's because intelligent, worldly people listened to a self-aggrandizing megalomaniac say "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody", & believed he was "not capable of ordering ICE agents to shoot people" because America is *special*.
Also, a friendly reminder that millions of Americans don't have passports because:
1) they can't afford the time and processing charges to get one, OR
2) they don't like travelling and have simply never needed one, OR
3) the current government refuses to issue them one (yours truly).
1) they can't afford the time and processing charges to get one, OR
2) they don't like travelling and have simply never needed one, OR
3) the current government refuses to issue them one (yours truly).
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Also, a friendly reminder that millions of Americans don't have passports because:
1) they can't afford the time and processing charges to get one, OR
2) they don't like travelling and have simply never needed one, OR
3) the current government refuses to issue them one (yours truly).
1) they can't afford the time and processing charges to get one, OR
2) they don't like travelling and have simply never needed one, OR
3) the current government refuses to issue them one (yours truly).
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As though we don't have a bajillion eligible queens all waiting for their moment.
January 15, 2026 at 2:19 PM
As though we don't have a bajillion eligible queens all waiting for their moment.
There is no way Adam Duritz wrote all those songs and isn't an egg. I refuse to believe it.
January 14, 2026 at 7:40 PM
There is no way Adam Duritz wrote all those songs and isn't an egg. I refuse to believe it.
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We're ready, Minnesota.
January 13, 2026 at 6:25 PM
We're ready, Minnesota.
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"European men, who loved me for my curves, my / ice-water eyes."
"My mother dreams of whiteness" by @gathcreator.bsky.social
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"My mother dreams of whiteness" by @gathcreator.bsky.social
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My mother dreams of whiteness
by Jael Montellano
psalteryandlyre.org
January 13, 2026 at 3:00 AM
"European men, who loved me for my curves, my / ice-water eyes."
"My mother dreams of whiteness" by @gathcreator.bsky.social
psalteryandlyre.org/2026/01/12/m...
"My mother dreams of whiteness" by @gathcreator.bsky.social
psalteryandlyre.org/2026/01/12/m...
Harold and Maude, Pacific Rim, Goodbye Lenin (adapted to centre on a Japanese family in post-War Korea), the African Queen.
we often talk about “what anime would you adapt into a movie” but here is a reverse: what movies would you adapt into an anime?
January 13, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Harold and Maude, Pacific Rim, Goodbye Lenin (adapted to centre on a Japanese family in post-War Korea), the African Queen.
Probably a bunch of bickering over how appropriative of one another Judaism and Christianity are, plus a lot of handwringing over the sudden proliferation of "Аляска наша!" hats.
(On top of all the usual stupid trans discourse, of course.)
(On top of all the usual stupid trans discourse, of course.)
if your current project became the Next Big Thing, what would the discourse about it be like?
January 10, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Probably a bunch of bickering over how appropriative of one another Judaism and Christianity are, plus a lot of handwringing over the sudden proliferation of "Аляска наша!" hats.
(On top of all the usual stupid trans discourse, of course.)
(On top of all the usual stupid trans discourse, of course.)
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Как можно охарактеризовать жанр, в котором пишет достоевский? —детектив
но детектив очень странного толка там с первой страницы понятно, кто убийца, но дальше они ищут не убийцу, а бога
но детектив очень странного толка там с первой страницы понятно, кто убийца, но дальше они ищут не убийцу, а бога
January 8, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Как можно охарактеризовать жанр, в котором пишет достоевский? —детектив
но детектив очень странного толка там с первой страницы понятно, кто убийца, но дальше они ищут не убийцу, а бога
но детектив очень странного толка там с первой страницы понятно, кто убийца, но дальше они ищут не убийцу, а бога
Staring at this post for a full five minutes trying to decide if it's about seasons or politics.
I want the light to come back
January 8, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Staring at this post for a full five minutes trying to decide if it's about seasons or politics.
The regime's prohibitions on discussing “race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity” have at last shut up that notorious wokescold... Plato.
The works of Plato are now being banned at schools in the United States.
Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔
Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔
Plato Has Been Censored; What Next?
PEN America condemns and calls absurd Texas A&M censoring Plato readings and discussions related to race and gender
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January 8, 2026 at 3:46 PM
The regime's prohibitions on discussing “race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity” have at last shut up that notorious wokescold... Plato.
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For Epiphany, this glorious 1966 illustration of the Three Kings by the great Eyvind Earle (1916 - 2000), best remembered for his enormous contribution to Disney Animation's visual style during the 1950s, particularly Sleeping Beauty (1959).
January 6, 2026 at 6:45 PM
For Epiphany, this glorious 1966 illustration of the Three Kings by the great Eyvind Earle (1916 - 2000), best remembered for his enormous contribution to Disney Animation's visual style during the 1950s, particularly Sleeping Beauty (1959).
So happy to make my first official publication of 2026 in @thebkmagazine.bsky.social, which includes my poem, "Nyctinasty" in the new issue!
01_Winter2026.pdf
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January 5, 2026 at 10:37 PM
So happy to make my first official publication of 2026 in @thebkmagazine.bsky.social, which includes my poem, "Nyctinasty" in the new issue!