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Zamira Rahim
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Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · Jun 15
Got to see my fiction in print for the first time, which has been a weirdly emotional experience. You spend five years squinting at something on a Google Doc and it doesn't seem real, until suddenly it very much is.
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sundersays.bsky.social
Sathnam Sanghera has a long Times feature on the gains of social media became outweighed by its cons and costs, personally and socially
www.thetimes.com/uk/social-me...
I was addicted to social media — it ruled my life for 10 years
For a decade social media was our columnist Sathnam Sanghera’s best mate and confidant. Now, like millions of us, he’s switching it off. What changed?
www.thetimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:10 PM
zamirarahim.bsky.social
Belated professional news! Highly recommend joining a company right before Christmas party season, it's a surprisingly effective way to get to know people. www.nytco.com/press/new-hi...
New Hires on the Home Team | The New York Times Company
www.nytco.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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jacktindale.bsky.social
It's a minor element to the Walliams stuff but I like to hope that this will finally put the kibosh on only commissioning children's books from celebrities because that's the best way to get them to sell but I doubt it will. It's a small coda to all this but that's one of my absolute pet hates.
December 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
zamirarahim.bsky.social
Oh to be in the HarperCollins Slack right now
December 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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john-self.bsky.social
Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.
Exclusive: David Walliams dropped by publisher over inappropriate behaviour towards women
Telegraph investigation into best-selling children’s author uncovers claims that he ‘harassed’ junior female employees at Harper Collins
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 4:21 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 · 19d
"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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newstatesman1913.bsky.social
Joy Williams and humanity's ultimate failure, by Neel Mukherjee
Joy Williams and humanity's ultimate failure
The author’s new collection of short stories is haunted by animals – and by our failed stewardship of the natural world
www.newstatesman.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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apolline.bsky.social
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.

All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
zamirarahim.bsky.social
It is, imo, outrageous that The Greatest Store in the World, the best kids Christmas film, is not on iPlayer. Will the BBC not embrace true British heritage?!
December 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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paintingsoflondon.bsky.social
Good morning! This week's theme is Christmas 🎄🎅
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'Rainy Camden Lock' by Jonathan Stewardson
jonathanstewardson.com

👤: @jonathanstewardson.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
zamirarahim.bsky.social
The Upper St Christmas lights are the nicest in London but no one tell the tour buses
December 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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nytimes.com
Breaking News: Nick Reiner, Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner’s son, has been arrested after the couple were found stabbed to death on Sunday.
Rob Reiner's Son Nick Arrested After Director and His Wife Are Found Dead: Live Updates
The Los Angeles Police Department said it was investigating an “apparent homicide” at the home of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele. Nick Reiner, 32, is being held in jail on $4 million bail, according to jail records.
nyti.ms
December 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
zamirarahim.bsky.social
Devastating. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/m...
Last year, as Mr. Reiner was preparing to shoot the sequel to “Spinal Tap,” he spoke to The New York Times about some of the things that were most important to him. The first things he mentioned were “my wife and kids.” “That’s the most important to me,” he said. “There’s that joke, nobody on their death bed ever said, ‘I should have spent more time at the office.’ Nobody says that.”
December 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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helenlohara.bsky.social
Absolutely devastated by the news about Rob Reiner. By all accounts a good man, and an incredible director. I wouldn't be who I am without his run of '80s classics - and his wife Michelle shaped those because their love story fundamentally changed When Harry Met Sally, for the better.
December 15, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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nome.bsky.social
Choosing to focus, on hearing the news of Rob Reiner's passing, to remember this moment where he was so overcome with joy and laughter that he - the director of the movie - was one of many people banished from the set in order to finish filming.
nome.bsky.social Nome @nome.bsky.social · Dec 6
TIL nearly all of the "Miracle Max" scene from Princess Bride was improvised by Billy Crystal, and it took three ten hour days to shoot, because they couldn't get through his improv without everyone (cast and crew) laughing so hard it ruined the audio.

Mandy Patinkin bruised a rib holding it in.
a man and a woman are standing next to each other and laughing .
Alt: Miracle Max and his wife waving goodbye from the Princess Bride.
media.tenor.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:18 AM
zamirarahim.bsky.social
Snow, Louis Macniece.
The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was Spawning snow and pink roses against it Soundlessly collateral and incompatible: World is suddener than we fancy it. World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various. And the fire flames with a bubbling sound for world Is more spiteful and gay than one supposes— On the tongue on the eyes on the ears in the palms of one's hands— There is more than glass between the snow and the huge roses.
December 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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nytimes.com
An active shooter alert was issued at Brown University, according to a post on the university’s website.
Active Shooter Alert Issued at Brown University
In an emergency alert, the school told students and faculty to lock doors, silence phones and hide. A suspect was in custody.
nyti.ms
December 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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mrchrisaddison.bsky.social
I post a carol a day every Advent. Here’s the entire list from the last five-and-a-half years. All killer, no stocking filler. You may get a kick out of it, perhaps.

open.spotify.com/playlist/5sD...
Advent Posted
open.spotify.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
zamirarahim.bsky.social
I am about a year late to this but Ballet Shoes at the National Theatre is a beautiful piece of theatre. So clever in the way they stage plays within a play. And the stagecraft is remarkable.
December 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
zamirarahim.bsky.social
Lol, has this man ever interacted with a single Gujarati
direthoughts.com Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 27d
On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.
December 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Finally a piece in the Times about the British Library! It echoes many of the points I raised a few weeks ago, including why policymakers and the media have paid so little attention to it
www.thetimes.com/article/ff7a...
In short, the place is in disarray. And the reason this has gone on for so long without anyone outside the library community caring very much says a lot about modern Britain. It's not that we don't, as a nation, value research. Medical breakthroughs, scientific advances, the world-changing claims of the Al pioneers, the jaw-dropping investments of the tech bros - these are constantly in the news. But what happens at the BL is, mostly, the wrong kind of research. It's about the dull old humanities, not the cutting-edge sciences. It mostly looks backwards, not forwards. So it's regarded, not least by our political leaders, as a backwater.
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
zamirarahim.bsky.social
Those Winter Sundays, Robert Hayden
Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?
December 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
zamirarahim.bsky.social
Elizabeth Bishop's 'All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful'
achillesthe2nd.bsky.social Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 29d
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
zamirarahim.bsky.social
I've been up at 5am every Monday for the last three weeks to try and book a driving test for May. There are often 20k people in the queue ahead of me. Really cannot overstate how bad it is.
duncanrobinson.bsky.social Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 29d
Can the British state stop this obvious and easily solved scam? Let’s find out!
December 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
zamirarahim.bsky.social
I'm seeing a lot of people cheerfully declare that the Netflix deal means CNN won't go to the Ellisons and....I'm really not sure that's what's happening. Reads more like Netflix wants the studio and streaming assets and CNN and other linear products will be spun off to another buyer.
December 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM