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Dr. Verena Ma5er
@varakawa.bsky.social
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Translator, writer, artist, yuri expert. Englisch, Deutsch, 日本語, Cymraeg * she/her
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blambot.bsky.social
Some BETTER LETTERER for you. And before the inevitable "that's not how I do it" replies, keep in mind that, by and large, this is how it's done in pro American comics (Marvel, DC, etc.) I've worked for all of them. More tips: blambot.com/pages/letter...
November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
varakawa.bsky.social
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭Poor Penguin 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
zaichishka.bsky.social Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 4d
JR East is retiring the Suica Penguin! 🐧😭
news.livedoor.com/article/deta...
November 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
varakawa.bsky.social
The pleasure was all mine! Thank you for having me 😄
germanambjapan.bsky.social ペトラ・ジグムント(Petra Sigmund) @germanambjapan.bsky.social · 5d
From Chiikawa to Yona of the Dawn, The Apothecary Diaries and Yu Yu Hakusho – all these masterpieces of Japanese manga were translated into German by Verena Maser.
It was a pleasure to welcome her and thank her for bringing Japan’s rich culture to Germany!
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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aurorapeachy.bsky.social
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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nickkapur.bsky.social
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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badlands.bsky.social
Irgendjemand eine Idee, was das sein könnte? Wie aus dem Gesamtthread hervorgeht, westdeutsche Mittelgebirge ab Höhe Weserbergland-Hildesheimer Börde oder südlich davon, ca. 1970er Jahre. Fünf der Herren wohl vom THW (einheitliche Jacke).
nessi6688.bsky.social Nessa 💬 @nessi6688.bsky.social · 14d
Du meinst die Spiegelung?
November 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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ricdesi.dpad.fm
Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels:

• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
October 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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daiz.moe
New article on ★ daiz.moe ★

Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...

A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!

Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason | Daiz.moe
With the Fall 2025 anime season, Crunchyroll demonstrates zero respect for anime as a medium as the presentation quality of its subtitles reach an all-time low.
daiz.moe
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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unangbangkay.bsky.social
one of the most annoying things about youtube is non-optional auto-translation of everything on a page to your selected language and defaulting auto-dubbing to "on". It's practically a low-key insistence that no other languages exist. anyway I tried this extension to stop that bs n it seems to work
screenshot of the firefox version of Youtube Anti Translate extension by Petr, which disables auto-translation of video titles, as well as auto-translation of video descriptions, links, and comments,
October 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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taz.de
Nicht nur der Spiegel vertraut auf KI. Auch die Meldung über eine „Wildschwein-Invasion“ zeigt: Medien verlassen sich blind auf die künstliche Unintelligenz.
KI im Spiegel, Wildschweine in Kroatien: Wer vertraut hier noch wem?
Nicht nur der Spiegel vertraut auf KI. Auch die Meldung über eine „Wildschwein-Invasion“ zeigt: Medien verlassen sich blind auf die künstliche Unintelligenz.
taz.de
October 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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tillraether.bsky.social
Word für Mac --> "Word" im Menü --> "Einstellungen" --> "Erstellungstools und Korrekturhilfen" --> Copilot deaktivieren
October 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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brodnig.bsky.social
Überschätzte KI:

In einer Studie sollten Programmierer:innen mit KI oder ohne KI arbeiten - Fachleute schätzten vorab: Mit KI würden sie um 40% schneller sein

Nach dem Coden schätzten die Programmierer:innen selbst, sie waren mit KI 20% schneller

Es stellte sich heraus: Sie waren um 20% langsamer
But when the METR team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20 percent slower when using AI than when working without it. The researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome,” Nate Rush, one of the authors of the study, told me. “We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”
October 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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kjhealy.co
Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.
October 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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designthinking.lol
With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.
October 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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nurse.fish
Youtube is full of ads, spotify is full of ads, tumblr is full of ads, pinterest is full of ads. Everything uses ai. Every new update makes the website/app worse. Youtube auto translates almost every video I want to watch. Sometimes pinterest only loads ads for me. Check out this new ai feature. Here's a new update that breaks ur laptop. Here's a new update that breaks ur phone. Why are u complaining about ur phone, just get the newest iphone lol. Join my patreon. Join my membership. Pay a monthly membership to get all features. Upgrade your membership to get even more features. Subscribe to netflix. Subscribe to disney. Subscribe to amazon. Subscribe to hulu. This content isn't available in ur country. This content was removed. This website was removed. This feature only exists for apple. U need to a WiFi connection to play this game. This app only exists for apple. U need an account. We need your email to finish creating this account. We need your number to finish creating your account. We need your id to finish creating your account. In order to delete your account please write an email. In order to delete your account you need a laptop. Oops our database was hacked and ur information was stolen. Ur data was sold from this random website u used once 10 years ago. Spam call. Spam call. Spam call.
October 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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gregegansf.bsky.social
“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?
www.technologyreview.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social
Thinking about viscachas again
The viscacha, an absurd, rabbit-like creature. They are fat, furry, and have hilariously long whiskers that extend far past their bodies. This one is plopped on his butt. A viscacha with his whiskers pointed down and his paws in a dainty position A viscacha holding his hand up as if to say no pictures please Another sitting viscacha but he looks SO soft and SO fat
October 13, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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blushingdaisies.bsky.social
Manche halten unsere Forderungen für überzogen. Sind sie das?

"Infolge der niedrigen Seiten- und Normseitenhonorare und Beteiligungen betrug das durchschnittliche Jahresarbeitseinkommen (vor Abzug von Steuern und Sozialabgaben) von literarischen Übersetzer*innen 2022 lediglich 19.756 €
October 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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buechereienwien.bsky.social
Die Uni Wien sucht für eine Studie Personen, die gern Hörbücher (Belletristik) hören.
Termine: Oktober - November 2025
Alter: über 18 Jahre
Dauer: max. 135 Minuten
Ort Kolingasse 14-16, 1090 Wien
Aufwandsentschädigung: 35€
Bei Interesse an lesestudie.germanistik@univie.ac.at schreiben
Logo der Uni Wien Text: Teilnehmende für eine wissenschaftliche Studie gesucht Für eine Studie der Universität Wien suchen wir Personen, die gelegentlich Romane/Erzählungen als Hörbücher hören. Kontakt: lesestudie.germanistik@univie.ac.at +43-1-4277-42180 Aufwandsentschädigung: 35€ Termine: Okt-Nov 2025 Alter: über 18 Jahre Dauer: max. 135 Minuten Ort: Kolingasse 14-16, 1090 Wien
October 9, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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crazy-berrin.bsky.social
Es gibt einen 24h-Comic Tag in Erlangen von Comic in Bayern organisiert!

Jeder kann mitmachen! Egal ob Anfänger oder Profi, egal aus welchem Bundesland!

Anmeldung bis zum 31.10.2025. Teilnahme kostenlos. Essen wird gestellt. Weitere Infos findet ihr hier: www.comic-in-bayern.de/netzwerk/eve...
24h-Comic-Tag in Erlangen – Mitmachen, Zeichnen, Erleben auf Comic in Bayern
Komm zu 24h-Comic-Tag in Erlangen – Mitmachen, Zeichnen, Erleben am 22. November in Erlangen. 24h-Comic Tag in Erlangen – Mitmachen, Zeichnen, Erleben Wir laden euch ein zu…
www.comic-in-bayern.de
October 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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scriptingjapan.bsky.social
[X] the Ancient Japanese Art of [Y]: The Mobilization of #Japanese Metalinguistic Fantasies in Self-Help Literature

Recording of a lecture I gave at JSAA2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TElW...
X the Ancient Japanese Art of Y: The Mobilization of Linguistic Fantasies in Self-Help Books
YouTube video by Scripting Japan
www.youtube.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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kojamf.bsky.social
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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kazuma.bsky.social
this is bad lol takaichi is a member of the nippon kaigi, supports the revision of article 9, and much like her idol, Margaret Thatcher, has extremely regressive views of women's rights, among other things.
asia.nikkei.com Nikkei Asia (Official) @asia.nikkei.com · Oct 4
BREAKING: Sanae Takaichi elected first female leader of Japan’s ruling LDP
trib.al/lz8joW3
October 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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loekalization.bsky.social
The Economics of Game Localization: Why Consolidation Costs More Than It Saves

The game localization industry has quietly evolved into one of the most paradoxical supply chains in entertainment.
October 2, 2025 at 6:39 AM