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
The Colour Out of Space
Unidentified color? Just look at it lol
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
The Colour Out of Space
you should probably be fine if after 2043 you compile your own version of the Silmarillion from original JRRT fragments presented verbatim in History of Middle-earth, but Tolkien Estate might still claim copyright to the Christopher Tolkien-compiled version
(hard to say with the Silmarillion given that Tolkien Estate might argue Christopher Tolkien's co-authorship legally)
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
you should probably be fine if after 2043 you compile your own version of the Silmarillion from original JRRT fragments presented verbatim in History of Middle-earth, but Tolkien Estate might still claim copyright to the Christopher Tolkien-compiled version
Only the original version where Bilbo fairly wins the magic ring from Gollum by playing riddles will be in the public domain in the US in 2033, though, not the revised version matching LotR
US-EU copyright law differences mean that The Hobbit will be in the public domain in the US before the EU but The Lord of the Rings will be in the public domain in the EU before the US
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Only the original version where Bilbo fairly wins the magic ring from Gollum by playing riddles will be in the public domain in the US in 2033, though, not the revised version matching LotR
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I have to push back against this. We have at least two contemporary documents that referred to a Darth Vader, even if it is true that a few years after the death of Vader there was *another* lesser known proclaimed dark lord of the sith *also* named Vader
“Darth Vader” was an amalgamation of various Imperial Era generals and cyborgs that were combined in histories written centuries after the fact
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I have to push back against this. We have at least two contemporary documents that referred to a Darth Vader, even if it is true that a few years after the death of Vader there was *another* lesser known proclaimed dark lord of the sith *also* named Vader
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US-EU copyright law differences mean that The Hobbit will be in the public domain in the US before the EU but The Lord of the Rings will be in the public domain in the EU before the US
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
US-EU copyright law differences mean that The Hobbit will be in the public domain in the US before the EU but The Lord of the Rings will be in the public domain in the EU before the US
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Note that this is the US public domain. Some of these are already public domain elsewhere, and some will not be for a while. Be sure to check local laws before putting a film into production based on your Miss Marple/Betty Boop slash.
Looking at what's entering the public domain in January, and it looks like 2026 belongs to the girls.
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Note that this is the US public domain. Some of these are already public domain elsewhere, and some will not be for a while. Be sure to check local laws before putting a film into production based on your Miss Marple/Betty Boop slash.
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Time to stop dooming over the shutdown deal and focus on what really matters: Pointlessly hostile left-coded Star Wars hot takes.
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Time to stop dooming over the shutdown deal and focus on what really matters: Pointlessly hostile left-coded Star Wars hot takes.
Is it only me or do new accounts added to blocklists remain unblocked now for anyone else? Has been happening at least since yesterday.
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Is it only me or do new accounts added to blocklists remain unblocked now for anyone else? Has been happening at least since yesterday.
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Oops and i forgot “in defence of a wealthy minorities undeserved grotesquely increased income”
I looked up “patriot” in a couple of dictionaries and no definition said “an ideology of racism, misogyny and homophobia poorly concealed in a flag” - time for an update, Oxford
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Oops and i forgot “in defence of a wealthy minorities undeserved grotesquely increased income”
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Since January 2022, we (me, 93% Club & SS) have been working a project that tackles accent bias in Higher Education, focusing on the 'elite' institution where we're based. Today, we're launching the project website which brings together all our work:
accentbias.ed.ac.uk
accentbias.ed.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Since January 2022, we (me, 93% Club & SS) have been working a project that tackles accent bias in Higher Education, focusing on the 'elite' institution where we're based. Today, we're launching the project website which brings together all our work:
accentbias.ed.ac.uk
accentbias.ed.ac.uk
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On this day, Dr. Manhatten first reappears after his atomized destruction in a lab accident. Happy November 10th to all who observe.
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 AM
On this day, Dr. Manhatten first reappears after his atomized destruction in a lab accident. Happy November 10th to all who observe.
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Everything could have been stopped long ago in 2014 if Ukraine had received immediate help, but the world chose WW3. Well…
November 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Everything could have been stopped long ago in 2014 if Ukraine had received immediate help, but the world chose WW3. Well…
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My god this BBC criticism report is by a man who thinks professional wrestling is a genuine competitive sport.
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
My god this BBC criticism report is by a man who thinks professional wrestling is a genuine competitive sport.
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This is your reminder that Alabuga advertises this program on twitter
🇲🇼⚠️ Malawian girls in Russia were taken into slavery and forced to make Shaheds in the Alabuga industrial zone.
Human Rights Watch confirmed that it is investigating reports of the recruitment of Malawian girls through Alabuga Start program, which promised jobs and training…
Human Rights Watch confirmed that it is investigating reports of the recruitment of Malawian girls through Alabuga Start program, which promised jobs and training…
November 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This is your reminder that Alabuga advertises this program on twitter
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Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.
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Notable how many Americans define things as Protestantism that Luther and Calvin would have been competing to defenestrate people for.
November 9, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Notable how many Americans define things as Protestantism that Luther and Calvin would have been competing to defenestrate people for.
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This systemic deliberate Russian terror, year after year, generation after generation, country after country. The impact of all this on health and wellbeing… the scale of this, that has never been properly accounted for
Yeah so several major Ukrainian cities are in a complete blackout right now. 0 generation from thermal plants and 0 idea when the power will be back. Just please don’t forget us
November 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This systemic deliberate Russian terror, year after year, generation after generation, country after country. The impact of all this on health and wellbeing… the scale of this, that has never been properly accounted for
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Besides Star Trek, another long standing interest of mine is Mesoamerican history and archaeology. You wouldn’t think there are a lot of connections between the two, but there are a few! So I thought I’d write a short thread about them (apologies if you’ve seen it before on the other site)…
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November 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Besides Star Trek, another long standing interest of mine is Mesoamerican history and archaeology. You wouldn’t think there are a lot of connections between the two, but there are a few! So I thought I’d write a short thread about them (apologies if you’ve seen it before on the other site)…
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in Poland gender ID is even part of the national ID number (it determines whether one of the digits is odd or even), and legal gender transition is the only way the number can change other than birthdate correction
November 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
in Poland gender ID is even part of the national ID number (it determines whether one of the digits is odd or even), and legal gender transition is the only way the number can change other than birthdate correction
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Took a while because he first had to find the floppy he saved it on, then find a working floppy drive, and then convert it from Word 6.0 to docx, but it worked!
November 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Took a while because he first had to find the floppy he saved it on, then find a working floppy drive, and then convert it from Word 6.0 to docx, but it worked!
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In 2011 as admin of the Fallout Wiki (then The Vault, now Nukapedia) I managed to contact the writer of the canceled 1998 #Fallout movie to see if he still has the unmade film treatment.
November 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
In 2011 as admin of the Fallout Wiki (then The Vault, now Nukapedia) I managed to contact the writer of the canceled 1998 #Fallout movie to see if he still has the unmade film treatment.
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Jeszcze nawet rozumiem te próby dogadywania się z PiSem w sprawie budowania infrastruktury, nawet jeśli nadal uważam za głupie
Ale Ziobro of all people? To tylko Papciowi Chmielowi na starość potrafię wybaczyć.
Ale Ziobro of all people? To tylko Papciowi Chmielowi na starość potrafię wybaczyć.
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Jeszcze nawet rozumiem te próby dogadywania się z PiSem w sprawie budowania infrastruktury, nawet jeśli nadal uważam za głupie
Ale Ziobro of all people? To tylko Papciowi Chmielowi na starość potrafię wybaczyć.
Ale Ziobro of all people? To tylko Papciowi Chmielowi na starość potrafię wybaczyć.
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I really enjoyed reading this review. I wish it had mentioned Krasznahorkai's translators. George Szirtes translated The Melancholy of Resistance. I translated Herscht 07769, the book under review here.
Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+
Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+
“The Nobel Prize is fitting, if anything: Alfred Nobel established the prize out of guilt as a 'death merchant,' and now our greatest novelist of decay and destruction has been given the dynamite money.”
Evan Grillon on Krasznahorkai
clereviewofbooks.com/laszlo-krasz...
Evan Grillon on Krasznahorkai
clereviewofbooks.com/laszlo-krasz...
Tiny Apocalypses: On László Krasznahorkai's "Herscht 07769" - Cleveland Review of Books
His books have prophesied dooms big and small for forty years now, much to the annoyance of our century's chummy optimists and milquetoast novelists obsessed with their own private misery and campus p...
clereviewofbooks.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I really enjoyed reading this review. I wish it had mentioned Krasznahorkai's translators. George Szirtes translated The Melancholy of Resistance. I translated Herscht 07769, the book under review here.
Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+
Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+
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Niniejszym deklaruję, że nawet jeśli jeszcze zagłosuję na #Razem, to jako na mniejsze zło. Nie wiem co chcieli wygrać wspierając tak obrzydliwego człowieka, rozumiem że wkalkulowali utratę zwolenników takich jak ja. OK, mam nadzieję że zyskali dużo więcej (ciekawe co - ale to już nie mój cyrk).
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Niniejszym deklaruję, że nawet jeśli jeszcze zagłosuję na #Razem, to jako na mniejsze zło. Nie wiem co chcieli wygrać wspierając tak obrzydliwego człowieka, rozumiem że wkalkulowali utratę zwolenników takich jak ja. OK, mam nadzieję że zyskali dużo więcej (ciekawe co - ale to już nie mój cyrk).
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Ok, this is brilliant. Acknowledged.
"Why is Leto still getting jobs?"
- Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, 10,191 AG
- Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, 10,191 AG
November 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Ok, this is brilliant. Acknowledged.