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Frank Wynne
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Irish literary translator, editor, writer, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! 🌈
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@sharkbitesteve.bsky.social hi Steve, it’s a longshot – but I thought if anyone might, you might
aptshadow.bsky.social Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 1d
Sorry, clarification - I have an immediate need for an
Illustration to go with a translation of my short story Children of Dagon and wondered if anyone here had a piece showing a seal/human creature - ideally with a ruined city landscape - ready to go, that I could haggle for. Should be SFW
aptshadow.bsky.social Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 1d
Any artists out there got an available (non AI) picture of what could be a bioengineered seal/aquatic human?
December 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Every (translator) knows this, the problem may be trying to convince editors and publishers
AI won’t replace us human literary translators just yet | The Observer
observer.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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foxdie.bsky.social
Someone amazing just sent £50 so we are now only £266 away!

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December 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Please, please share
December 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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hleehurley.com
Please share. Thanks
December 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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schooley.bsky.social
And may every day be another wonderful secret.
Page of black line redactions
December 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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rockymntnpols.bsky.social
"Representative Junie Joseph: Colorado Will Not Let Washington Interfere in Care for LGBTQIA+" #copolitics
Representative Junie Joseph: Colorado Will Not Let Washington Interfere in Care for LGBTQIA+ - Yellow Scene Magazine
As a legislator, a member of this community, and someone who believes every young person deserves safety and dignity, I am deeply alarmed by the federal government’s latest attempts to interfere in private medical decisions. Today’s announcement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks to restrict gender-affirming care for minors, but its message reaches far beyond that, targeting LGBTQIA+ people of all ages, across incomes, neighborhoods, and social classes.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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A drawing of a Rickety Tower representing all literary achievements from 2600 BC to the present Day, at the bottom the whole Atticus is propped up by a fragile, single piece marked “Human Translators” "It was to Rabelais that Laurence Sterne was reacting, it was Sterne who set off Diderot, it was from Cervantes that Fielding drew constant inspiration, it was against Fielding that Stendhal measured himself, it was Flaubert's tradition living on in Joyce, it was through his reflection on Joyce that Hermann Broch developed his own poetics of the novel, and it was Kafka who showed García Márquez the possibility of departing from tradition to 'write another way'." -Milan Kundera (tr. Linda Asher)
December 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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harikunzru.bsky.social
Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
gillossen.bsky.social Emmanuel Chastellière @gillossen.bsky.social · 11d
"Bradage de la traduction, plan social invisible : Harlequin passe à l’IA"

Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/

#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
Depuis quelques semaines, plusieurs dizaines de traducteurs et traductrices travaillant régulièrement avec les éditions Harlequin reçoivent les unes après les autres un appel téléphonique leur annonçant la fin de leur collaboration avec la maison d’édition. Leurs contrats en cours seront les derniers. Collection par collection, Harlequin abandonne la traduction : un prestataire externe, l’agence de communication Fluent Planet, se chargera de passer les textes dans un logiciel de « traduction automatique » et de recruter directement en freelance des relecteurs et relectrices chargées de post-éditer la sortie machine en français. L’objectif affiché est de gagner en rentabilité en rognant sur le temps de travail. C’est, à notre connaissance, la première fois en France qu’une maison d’édition passe à grande échelle à la « traduction automatique » et à la post-édition, de surcroît en externalisant cette activité. Dès lors, mérite-t-elle encore le nom de « maison d’édition » ? De telles pratiques sont inacceptables. Des personnes, parfois collaboratrices de longue date de la maison, perdent brutalement une source de revenus régulière, ne se voyant offrir comme compensation que la possibilité (sans aucune garantie, d’ailleurs) de travailler au rabais pour un prestataire externe, Fluent Planet, au lieu de traduire pour une maison d’édition. Une perspective que beaucoup des traducteurs et traductrices concernées refusent. Pour cesser de travailler avec nous, artistes-auteurs et autrices, pas besoin de licenciement ni de préavis, même si la collaboration a été régulière pendant cinq, dix, voire vingt ans. La réalité de la perte brutale d’activité et de revenus n’en est pas moins là. Nous subissons de plein fouet la précarité extrême de notre condition d’artistes-autrices et auteurs : nous n’avons aucun droit au chômage, et certaines personnes concernées proches de l’âge de la retraite ne pourront même pas compter sur une pension décente du fait du non-appel des cotisations de la part de l’AGESSA. Dans ces circonstances, nous devons en tant que profession nous élever collectivement face à ce qui s’apparente à un plan social invisible. Ces pratiques sont une trahison des travailleurs et travailleuses du livre, mais aussi une trahison du lectorat. C’est brader totalement l’activité de traduction, au mépris des personnes qui traduisent et de celles qui lisent. C’est mettre le doigt dans l’engrenage de la dégradation des productions éditoriales, dans une logique délétère du « good enough » (qualité passable) qui dépossède les travailleurs et travailleuses du livre de leur savoir-faire et de leur créativité, et le lectorat d’un accès à une littérature humaine et vivante. Travailleurs, travailleuses du livre, directions de maisons d’édition, lecteurs, lectrices : refusons que la « traduction automatique » mette le pied dans la porte des maisons d’édition et réaffirmons notre attachement inconditionnel à des textes humains, créés par des humaines et des humains, dans des conditions de travail dignes. Avec le soutien de : ATAA, Association des traducteurs et adaptateurs de l'audiovisuel ATLAS - Association pour la promotion de la traduction littéraire - CITL Collectif IA-lerte générale CAAP - Comité Pluridisciplinaire des Artistes-Auteurs·trices Editeurs du Sud Fill, Fédération interrégionale du livre et de la lecture Ligue des auteurs professionnels Réseau Les Résidences pour l'art d'écrire Saif - Société des Auteurs des arts visuels et de l'Image Fixe SdS, Syndicat Des Scénaristes Section des correctrices et correcteurs du SGLCE-CGT (Syndicat général du Livre et de la Communication écrite CGT) SFT - Société française des traducteurs SNAPcgt • Syndicat National des Artistes Plasticien·nes cgt STAA-CNT-SO, Syndicat des Travailleur.euse.s Artistes / Auteurs Sud Culture Solidaires Métiers du Livre Toute organisation peut encore soutenir ce communiqué en adressant un mail à : presidence@atlf.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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avecsesdoigts.bsky.social
(I got new glasses)
December 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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popsci.com
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.

And trans lives are grounded in reality.

We see y'all. No matter what.

www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
Delighted to announce that @ronanhession.bsky.social will be chatting to James Naughtie on the BBC Radio 4 Book Club

On January 4th at pm.

Marvelmoose!

@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@foylesforbooks.bsky.social
@waterstones.bsky.social

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BBC Radio 4 - Bookclub, Rónán Hession
Rónán Hession takes questions on his debut novel, Leonard and Hungry Paul.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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petersagal.bsky.social
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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damselindystopia.bsky.social
[CN: transphobia, transmisogyny, sexual harassment]

Unworkable rules and impossible situations are the point. They want to make our lives unliveable.

transactual.org.uk/impacts-of-t...
"I, a trans woman, believed I had to follow the EHRC interim update and was followed into the men's room by a male security officer and told to get out. It is worth noting that before this I was already shaking with fear about the possible confrontation that could ensue. The security man and the two other men in the room circled me. I said I believed, according to what the EHRC and our political leaders have said, that I have to be in there now. Now that he infers I am trans, he starts sniggering at me. The other men in the room join him in laughing at me. I tell him that it isn't funny and please stop laughing at me. He doesn't stop and I say "it might be funny to you but to me this is my life and I am scared, scared about being attacked, please stop laughing, it's not funny'. He tells me he doesn't care what I have to say, that I need to get out. So I do. I leave and talk to the store manager, where again, I have to relay all sorts of intimate and private details, of my background, my trans and intersex statuses, history of being assaulted, my genital configuration. This is humiliating. I felt deeply unsafe, humiliated, hopeless like nobody cares, violated. I don't think the EHRC lets me use the [service of my gender] so I was just denied service." WHITE TRANS WOMAN WHO FACED ISSUES IN A SHOP OR SHOPPING CENTRE IN ENGLAND.
August 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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wtafc.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Not easy to get to sleep tonight - have burnt the bridge of whatever career I had left and really don’t feel that my opinions are so extreme that that should have been necessary
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 14d
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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bookblast.org
An inspiring wide-ranging discussion was had about Roque Larraquy’s weird funny fabulous novel at our book club on Monday at Hatchards with heavyweight translator of contemporary French and Spanish literature Frank Wynne @terribleman.com in attendance.
Charco press bookblast hatchards book club
December 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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averyudagawa.bsky.social
“You know what’s faster than mopping? Not spilling in the first place.” 👏
creative-xl8.bsky.social Percy Balemans 📚 @creative-xl8.bsky.social · 17d
"Machine translation would handle the heavy lifting, and we’d add the expert polish. Except the machine made a mess. And we’re doing expert-level cognitive labour to clean it up for cleaning wages.

We’re not mops. We’re translators."

#translation #xl8

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An open letter to colleagues: we are not mops
After more than two decades working in legal translation across four languages and multiple jurisdictions, I’ve watched our profession reshaped by forces that claim efficiency as a path to our expenda...
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December 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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mrsholden2019.bsky.social
Can you please help me get to 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ reposts on the post below today?

I'd love the gift cards for gift wrap and stocking stuffers!

Please SHARE! 🎄❤️🎅
mrsholden2019.bsky.social Ashley Holden 🩷 M.Ed. @mrsholden2019.bsky.social · Nov 18
I'd be grateful if you'd read about my sweet kids & help if you're able.

Please help me SHARE this far and wide!

🎁 Wishlist 🔗: bit.ly/4r5Xau0

These two mean everything to me. After a tough year, I'd love to give them an amazing Christmas. 🎄🎅

#Christmas #Santa #SecretSanta #Cancer #CanSky #Gift
December 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Translated fiction: Explorations of trauma, loss, exile and memory

An Infinite Sadness by Antônio Xerxenesky’s; False War by Carlos Manuel Álvarez; Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko; and Not There by Mariusz Szczygieł
Translated fiction: Explorations of trauma, loss, exile and memory
An Infinite Sadness by Antônio Xerxenesky’s; False War by Carlos Manuel Álvarez; Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko; and Not There by Mariusz Szczygieł
www.irishtimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
#comics #angouleme
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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plasmatron.bsky.social
Can all the folk who just got reminded that they’ve listened to a tonne of music on streaming this year, have a look at the music they heard and buy some on bandcamp today? 🫡🙏🏼
December 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
terribleman.com
So, apparently the key did not being racist is to say racist things, but “without malice“. Glad we’ve solved that thorny ethical problem. I’m not sure how this is done, but I have no doubt that Nige will publish a guide
Nigel Farage denies saying anything racist ‘with malice’ as he attacks BBC
Reform UK leader launches tirade against broadcaster in latest effort to address claims of abuse from school contemporaries
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM