Lindsey Ford
@lindseyford.bsky.social
Spanish translator. Book in one hand, drink in the other. She/her.
http://www.lindseyfordtranslation.com/
http://www.lindseyfordtranslation.com/
While I’m still in moving hell, let’s catch up on some books from the last few months. First, the very definition of tight, terse European prose. Book: @andotherstories.bsky.social Drink: Lady Trieu Hoi An Spice Road Gin & Tonic
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
While I’m still in moving hell, let’s catch up on some books from the last few months. First, the very definition of tight, terse European prose. Book: @andotherstories.bsky.social Drink: Lady Trieu Hoi An Spice Road Gin & Tonic
. @alexshephard.bsky.social continues to post the very best writing about the Nobel (and not just because he’s also a big Julian Barnes fan)
Me and @markkrotov.bsky.social wrote about Laszlo Krasznahorkai and the Nobel Prize in Literature newrepublic.com/article/2015...
The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now
László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the Prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?
newrepublic.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:38 AM
. @alexshephard.bsky.social continues to post the very best writing about the Nobel (and not just because he’s also a big Julian Barnes fan)
Sometimes I think I’m overstimulated, and then sometimes I’m trying to read in my second language with a screaming baby and a shouting child and their multiple noisy toys and I’m trying to meet a deadline before dinner with my in laws and I forgot the point I was trying to make here, pls send help.
October 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Sometimes I think I’m overstimulated, and then sometimes I’m trying to read in my second language with a screaming baby and a shouting child and their multiple noisy toys and I’m trying to meet a deadline before dinner with my in laws and I forgot the point I was trying to make here, pls send help.
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I had an idea awhile back to try to get a Bluesky prompt going asking people to share photos of their desks/workspaces (I still want to see them all, share yours with me!) so I’m absolutely in heaven with this @wallpapermag.bsky.social feature www.wallpaper.com/design-inter...
This is where The Booker Prize nominees write: from kitchen tables to a cemetery bench
From kitchen tables to bare desks (and even a cemetery bench): 12 writers from the Booker Prize 2025 longlist on their favourite writing set-ups
www.wallpaper.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I had an idea awhile back to try to get a Bluesky prompt going asking people to share photos of their desks/workspaces (I still want to see them all, share yours with me!) so I’m absolutely in heaven with this @wallpapermag.bsky.social feature www.wallpaper.com/design-inter...
A belated addition to #womenintranslationmonth: this eerie, engrossing novel that absolutely lives up to the hype, brilliantly (re)translated by the legendary Ros Schwartz.
September 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
A belated addition to #womenintranslationmonth: this eerie, engrossing novel that absolutely lives up to the hype, brilliantly (re)translated by the legendary Ros Schwartz.
If you’re looking for one last read for #womenintranslationmonth, may I suggest this slim but powerful novella from Argentina? A moving exploration of loss and grief, translated beautifully as ever by the remarkable @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social Book: @charcopress.com Drink: Limewood Fresca #witmonth
August 31, 2025 at 5:37 AM
If you’re looking for one last read for #womenintranslationmonth, may I suggest this slim but powerful novella from Argentina? A moving exploration of loss and grief, translated beautifully as ever by the remarkable @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social Book: @charcopress.com Drink: Limewood Fresca #witmonth
Good reading for hunkering down at home during a T10 typhoon 🌀 Book: Chatto & Windus Drink: Four Pillars Gin Gimlet with a Louis Roederer Champagne reduction (a clever @adamawhite.bsky.social trick for using up flat champagne)
July 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Good reading for hunkering down at home during a T10 typhoon 🌀 Book: Chatto & Windus Drink: Four Pillars Gin Gimlet with a Louis Roederer Champagne reduction (a clever @adamawhite.bsky.social trick for using up flat champagne)
"No, what AI can do is not yet a threat to human translators and human readers of sophisticated, textured human writing. The threat is what some people think it can do." Daniel Hahn nails it as per usual observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
AI won’t replace us human literary translators just yet
Yes, it can turn French words into English ones, but true translation is so much more than that
observer.co.uk
July 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
"No, what AI can do is not yet a threat to human translators and human readers of sophisticated, textured human writing. The threat is what some people think it can do." Daniel Hahn nails it as per usual observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Aussie restaurant, Aussie wine, and a sumptuous, unsettling Aussie classic that is well worth your time. I’m too scared to watch the movie adaptation though 🫣Book: @vintagebooks.bsky.social Drink: Hugh Hamilton The Trickster Pinot Grigio 2024
July 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Aussie restaurant, Aussie wine, and a sumptuous, unsettling Aussie classic that is well worth your time. I’m too scared to watch the movie adaptation though 🫣Book: @vintagebooks.bsky.social Drink: Hugh Hamilton The Trickster Pinot Grigio 2024
Amig@s hispanohablantes, me hace mucha ilusión que el segundo libro de mi amigo @jamestgriffiths.com, ya está disponible en español, traducido por Cristina Macía.
June 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Amig@s hispanohablantes, me hace mucha ilusión que el segundo libro de mi amigo @jamestgriffiths.com, ya está disponible en español, traducido por Cristina Macía.
Can’t get over how good this one was. Inventive and funny and life-affirming, although maybe not the best decision for me to have read a novel based around child death right now. Book: Random House Drink: Paco Mulero Albariño 2021
June 11, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Can’t get over how good this one was. Inventive and funny and life-affirming, although maybe not the best decision for me to have read a novel based around child death right now. Book: Random House Drink: Paco Mulero Albariño 2021
For Mother’s Day I can think of no better book to recommend than this, which I’ve been reading one-handed during long nights of newborn feeds. A brilliant dissection of how becoming a mother profoundly changes a person & all the ways society lets them down. A must-read whether you’re a mother or not
March 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
For Mother’s Day I can think of no better book to recommend than this, which I’ve been reading one-handed during long nights of newborn feeds. A brilliant dissection of how becoming a mother profoundly changes a person & all the ways society lets them down. A must-read whether you’re a mother or not
Welcome home beautiful Baby Daniel, welcome back delicious proper champagne. Reading material for stellar big brother Ben. Book: Scholastic Drink: Foxey’s Hangout Brut Sparkling White
March 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Welcome home beautiful Baby Daniel, welcome back delicious proper champagne. Reading material for stellar big brother Ben. Book: Scholastic Drink: Foxey’s Hangout Brut Sparkling White
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Also for this reason I am begging. I do not want to see that horrible man’s face.
please use alt-text so that my muted words will work on your screenshots please i beg
February 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Also for this reason I am begging. I do not want to see that horrible man’s face.
One month to go til the birth of my second child, figured I should brush up on some motherhood tips. Book: @vintagebooks.bsky.social Drink: 凍檸茶
February 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
One month to go til the birth of my second child, figured I should brush up on some motherhood tips. Book: @vintagebooks.bsky.social Drink: 凍檸茶
Thank fuck for new music from Self Esteem www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgVq...
Self Esteem - Focus Is Power (Official Video)
YouTube video by SelfesteemVEVO
www.youtube.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Thank fuck for new music from Self Esteem www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgVq...
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Occasional reminder that whenever you say "sparks joy" you are not quoting Marie Kondo.
You are quoting her translator, Cathy Hirano. She invented "sparks joy" out of whole cloth.
What Marie Kondo says is "This makes my heart go pitter pat."
You are quoting her translator, Cathy Hirano. She invented "sparks joy" out of whole cloth.
What Marie Kondo says is "This makes my heart go pitter pat."
January 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Occasional reminder that whenever you say "sparks joy" you are not quoting Marie Kondo.
You are quoting her translator, Cathy Hirano. She invented "sparks joy" out of whole cloth.
What Marie Kondo says is "This makes my heart go pitter pat."
You are quoting her translator, Cathy Hirano. She invented "sparks joy" out of whole cloth.
What Marie Kondo says is "This makes my heart go pitter pat."
It works so well it is crazy! What a superb surprise open.spotify.com/track/43y7ax...
November 26, 2024 at 3:57 AM
It works so well it is crazy! What a superb surprise open.spotify.com/track/43y7ax...
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Here's the unlikely century-long story of how a non-gendered pronoun became gendered, and then got itself re-de-gendered.
This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao!
What more could you want?
#langsky 🀄️📚
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This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao!
What more could you want?
#langsky 🀄️📚
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November 25, 2024 at 6:06 AM
Here's the unlikely century-long story of how a non-gendered pronoun became gendered, and then got itself re-de-gendered.
This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao!
What more could you want?
#langsky 🀄️📚
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This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao!
What more could you want?
#langsky 🀄️📚
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Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Translator: The cup is half full/half empty/partially filled/semi full/half drunk (?check?)/mostly gone [FIX IN NEXT DRAFT]
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Translator: The cup is half full/half empty/partially filled/semi full/half drunk (?check?)/mostly gone [FIX IN NEXT DRAFT]
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Literary fiction writer: The cup is depressed, is in the middle of a messy divorce, and hasn’t spoken to its father in years
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Literary fiction writer: The cup is depressed, is in the middle of a messy divorce, and hasn’t spoken to its father in years
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Science Fiction Writer: The cup is a crystalline super computer and the liquid is hyperintelligent, they want to know why humanity should be allowed to exist, you have 30 minutes to respond and the answer must be danced by a cat
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Science Fiction Writer: The cup is a crystalline super computer and the liquid is hyperintelligent, they want to know why humanity should be allowed to exist, you have 30 minutes to respond and the answer must be danced by a cat
November 25, 2024 at 7:34 AM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Translator: The cup is half full/half empty/partially filled/semi full/half drunk (?check?)/mostly gone [FIX IN NEXT DRAFT]
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Translator: The cup is half full/half empty/partially filled/semi full/half drunk (?check?)/mostly gone [FIX IN NEXT DRAFT]
We are so back
Ever wanted to know the amount of profanity flowing through Bluesky at any one moment? Me neither, but I still ended up making this: SwearSky, a flow of foul language uttered by Bluesky users.
⚠️ NSFW ⚠️ as it literally yells swear words at you.
⚠️ NSFW ⚠️ as it literally yells swear words at you.
SwearSky
Bluesky profanity, as it happens
swearsky.bagpuss.org
November 22, 2024 at 9:36 AM
We are so back
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Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement?
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.
November 17, 2024 at 3:07 AM
Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement?
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.