Paweł Ausir Dembowski
@ausir.bsky.social
Linguist and translator.
Languages spoken: PL/EN/ES/LAD/CA/PT/YI/DE (more or less in the order of fluency)
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Mastodon: @ausir@wandering.shop (English), @ausir@meowr.me (polski)
he/him on/jego http://pronouns.page/@ausir
Languages spoken: PL/EN/ES/LAD/CA/PT/YI/DE (more or less in the order of fluency)
↙️ ↙️ ↙️
Mastodon: @ausir@wandering.shop (English), @ausir@meowr.me (polski)
he/him on/jego http://pronouns.page/@ausir
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If you were to rank the epithets of the Spice Girls according to how much the category of person each one denotes deserves to be a protected class, posh would be fifth.
January 31, 2026 at 6:37 PM
If you were to rank the epithets of the Spice Girls according to how much the category of person each one denotes deserves to be a protected class, posh would be fifth.
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Meanwhile the Telegraph:
January 31, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Meanwhile the Telegraph:
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Is this Mercator projection posting again
January 31, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Is this Mercator projection posting again
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When I invent a Time Machine it will be a good day for me and a bad day for whoever devised Luxeuil Minuscule.
My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you
Merovingian cursive:
Merovingian cursive:
January 31, 2026 at 2:20 PM
When I invent a Time Machine it will be a good day for me and a bad day for whoever devised Luxeuil Minuscule.
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"Those who failed to correctly pronounce the trilled –r, as in the shibboleth perejil ‘parsley’, were deemed to be Haitian and, as a consequence, were murdered.”
Bullock & Toribio. 2014. "From Trujillo to the terremoto." Int'l Jrl of the soc. of lng, 227: 83-100.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley...
Bullock & Toribio. 2014. "From Trujillo to the terremoto." Int'l Jrl of the soc. of lng, 227: 83-100.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley...
Parsley massacre - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 30, 2026 at 8:37 AM
"Those who failed to correctly pronounce the trilled –r, as in the shibboleth perejil ‘parsley’, were deemed to be Haitian and, as a consequence, were murdered.”
Bullock & Toribio. 2014. "From Trujillo to the terremoto." Int'l Jrl of the soc. of lng, 227: 83-100.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley...
Bullock & Toribio. 2014. "From Trujillo to the terremoto." Int'l Jrl of the soc. of lng, 227: 83-100.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley...
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A week ago Asia and I went to Targi Unikatów in Kraków and we nabbed these beautiful crochet jellyfish and a trans frog from www.instagram.com/arfcrochet/
They got wonderful stuff and you should order from them 💚
They got wonderful stuff and you should order from them 💚
January 31, 2026 at 2:23 PM
A week ago Asia and I went to Targi Unikatów in Kraków and we nabbed these beautiful crochet jellyfish and a trans frog from www.instagram.com/arfcrochet/
They got wonderful stuff and you should order from them 💚
They got wonderful stuff and you should order from them 💚
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Hugo eligibility post!
“The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.
“The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.
The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman)
Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a mag...
www.eruditorumpress.com
January 31, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Hugo eligibility post!
“The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.
“The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.
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In two separate forms, the Murderbot series has emerged as a key text of contemporary SFF. Here's Amritesh on the impacts of adaptation on its effects: "The book makes you feel like Murderbot, simultaneously overstimulated and understimulated. The show makes you see what it’s like to be around it."
Murderbot Season One
Murderbot has no interest in saving you. It has a job to tolerate and approximately zero patience for human interaction. What it does have is an encyclopedic knowledge of soap operas and the abilit…
strangehorizons.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:10 PM
In two separate forms, the Murderbot series has emerged as a key text of contemporary SFF. Here's Amritesh on the impacts of adaptation on its effects: "The book makes you feel like Murderbot, simultaneously overstimulated and understimulated. The show makes you see what it’s like to be around it."
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january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing
January 30, 2026 at 9:42 AM
january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing
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the Weimar Constitution was a nice document too, in theory
January 30, 2026 at 9:45 AM
the Weimar Constitution was a nice document too, in theory
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Mild spoilers for this week's episode of Starfleet Academy:
If your complaint is "But the Klingons playing along with a pretend war in order to keep their honor would be ridiculous," you may have failed to notice that *everything* about Klingon culture is ridiculous.
If your complaint is "But the Klingons playing along with a pretend war in order to keep their honor would be ridiculous," you may have failed to notice that *everything* about Klingon culture is ridiculous.
January 30, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Mild spoilers for this week's episode of Starfleet Academy:
If your complaint is "But the Klingons playing along with a pretend war in order to keep their honor would be ridiculous," you may have failed to notice that *everything* about Klingon culture is ridiculous.
If your complaint is "But the Klingons playing along with a pretend war in order to keep their honor would be ridiculous," you may have failed to notice that *everything* about Klingon culture is ridiculous.
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Curiously, "bot" may be the only standard computing term with Slavic etymology. Bot comes from robot, a word invented by Karel Čapek. In Czech it's obviously derived from "robota" (work); the root "rob" coming from Proto-Slavic *orbъ (with metathesis); -ota being a deadjectival suffix (verb->noun).
January 30, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Curiously, "bot" may be the only standard computing term with Slavic etymology. Bot comes from robot, a word invented by Karel Čapek. In Czech it's obviously derived from "robota" (work); the root "rob" coming from Proto-Slavic *orbъ (with metathesis); -ota being a deadjectival suffix (verb->noun).
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Aranofsky ha hecho una película con IA para que lo peor que se recuerde de él no sea que convirtió en una estrella de cine a Jared Leto.
January 29, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Aranofsky ha hecho una película con IA para que lo peor que se recuerde de él no sea que convirtió en una estrella de cine a Jared Leto.
Had a dream where my two cats that I recently lost were still alive :(
January 30, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Had a dream where my two cats that I recently lost were still alive :(
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Definitely not the first one; the most obvious example is Antaak in Enterprise as a Klingon with blonde hair, but even before that, e.g. Gorkon in Star Trek VI is not any darker skinned than Kirk when we see him in a properly lit set.
#startrek
#startrek
January 29, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Definitely not the first one; the most obvious example is Antaak in Enterprise as a Klingon with blonde hair, but even before that, e.g. Gorkon in Star Trek VI is not any darker skinned than Kirk when we see him in a properly lit set.
#startrek
#startrek
Map of all countries where a WW2 grenade was found among potatoes in a French fries factory.
January 29, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Map of all countries where a WW2 grenade was found among potatoes in a French fries factory.
when I see @pablosanescobar.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 3:59 PM
when I see @pablosanescobar.bsky.social
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Happy Threshold Day to those who celebrate. 🖖🏻🦎
January 29, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Happy Threshold Day to those who celebrate. 🖖🏻🦎
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a/t Ilhan Omar's attacker: just imagine having "Kaźmierczak" as your last name and saying some shit about descendants of slaves
(this is a non-noble Polish last name, so there is only a very little chance the ancestors of this guy weren't serfs with no rights to leave their masters' land)
(this is a non-noble Polish last name, so there is only a very little chance the ancestors of this guy weren't serfs with no rights to leave their masters' land)
January 28, 2026 at 11:09 AM
a/t Ilhan Omar's attacker: just imagine having "Kaźmierczak" as your last name and saying some shit about descendants of slaves
(this is a non-noble Polish last name, so there is only a very little chance the ancestors of this guy weren't serfs with no rights to leave their masters' land)
(this is a non-noble Polish last name, so there is only a very little chance the ancestors of this guy weren't serfs with no rights to leave their masters' land)
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I found a niche Polish collection of 256 poems by Whitman at a library here but it's not there; trying to get a copy of a collection of 400 Whitman poems but currently nearest available copy is in Kraków, welp.
January 28, 2026 at 7:13 PM
I found a niche Polish collection of 256 poems by Whitman at a library here but it's not there; trying to get a copy of a collection of 400 Whitman poems but currently nearest available copy is in Kraków, welp.
More adventures in translating prose that quotes poetry: there's a poem by Whitman quoted in a book I'm translating, unfortunately not all of Whitman is translated and/or widely published in Polish.
And American authors love to quote Whitman.
And American authors love to quote Whitman.
Sigh, again I'm translating a book with a poem quoted in it and turns out the poem probably has not been translated to Polish yet. (The proper etiquette is to quote an existing translation if one exists, generally).
I'm generally not a poetry translator, welp.
I'm generally not a poetry translator, welp.
January 28, 2026 at 7:13 PM
More adventures in translating prose that quotes poetry: there's a poem by Whitman quoted in a book I'm translating, unfortunately not all of Whitman is translated and/or widely published in Polish.
And American authors love to quote Whitman.
And American authors love to quote Whitman.
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