“I hod a joyloo in Korghiziyo”

it’s remarkable how many people have memory-holed the fiasco of Iraq

real writing Drabble strikes again

been making memes

look you two look! @nhaliloglu.bsky.social @davidwilloughby.bsky.social

Hot Margaret Drabble Summer

I will not tell anyone when I’m in Bishkek but there will be signs

friends who own dachas outside Bishkek are good

this guy

finding interesting things in the Bishkek mikroraions

tell me it’s summer in Bishkek without telling me it’s summer in Bishkek

we went to Sayram today and man you are literally tripping over Sufi mausoleums every 50 yards

Shymkent is charming

visiting Khoja Ahmad Yasavi

admitting that this is only the second novel by Thomas Hardy I have ever read the first and for so long only one was Far From the Madding Crowd

‘twas a lovely day for a run! 10K in 59:28

Registered and collected paraphernalia for the 10k tomorrow see you at the starting-line lads

I read an interview with the author in one of innumerable alumni mailings I receive and thus far I am enjoying this retelling of Demeter and Persephone

Qazaqstan is just so onboard with turning everything into an opportunity for AI-enhancement it’s way past funny

learning about the English

you know what the right thing to do is, comrade teachers

every man is a king to his barber

it’s my birthday and also the day when we celebrate the smashing of Nazism

😦

it’s a lovely early May afternoon in Tselinograd

I made gumbo tonight that is all

a mutual friend of mine and @nhaliloglu.bsky.social ‘s is currently in town and as per yoush we hit up the bazaar and then we went and had Uyghur food

this is proper this is

whose house is this? wrong answers only

rocketman