Beautifully done, Margot x

On my blog today: margot-kin-berg.com/2025/10/11/t...

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

35 years ago today this happened. I’d grown up in the belief it could never happen, but then it did. It’s not been easy and even now reunification is an ongoing process. However, it makes me wonder what good things may be just around the corner that we currently think are impossible.

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Happy International Translation Day!

Here’s part of my translation manifesto, which can be found in full at the end of Fair: The Life-Art of Translation.

(Written out in replies)

📢 Translators, you too can join the @alcs.co.uk and get paid for having your books checked out of the library.

A lifetime membership costs just £36. They take it out of your first payment, so you don’t pay a penny up front.

Since I joined in 2020, I have received £515.45! What are you waiting for?

Academics in #Gaza reflect on how a virtual fellowship scheme with the @bristoluni.bsky.social has offered "a lifeline for researchers, fighting to keep our voices heard despite the #war and the destruction of our academic institutions" and explain how it works: ow.ly/yfsl50WZisX #academicsky

It's here! The Petrona Award 2025- Best Scandinavian Crime Novel Of The Year- The Shortlist. #PetronaAward25

ravencrimereads.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/p...

Hope that goes smoothly, or at least as smoothly as German admin can go!

Waving from Hamburg! 👋 Great to see you’ve made the move. Wishing you every happiness in Berlin - such an amazing city x

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Herzlichen Dank!

Thanks so much! Look forward to trying out some of those.

Sorry to hear about your bookshop. Which one was that?

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 13:
If you are lucky enough to be translated into other languages, always know this: you are NOTHING without your translator. Your translator has skills far beyond just putting words into another language. A good translator is a stylist, an interpreter, a composer.

Thanks! I’ve never been 🙂

I’ll be visiting Hamburg for soon for two weeks. I know the city pretty well, but haven’t been back for 7 years. Those of you in the know, do you have cafe, bookshop, restaurant recommendations? Places that you really, really love? 💛🇩🇪

Love it!

People are constantly asking me — what can I do? Between now and the 2026 midterm elections, here are five practical steps you can take to make a difference.

I occasionally do proofreading and editing for non-English organisations. Absolutely spending way more time trying to decipher AI translated nonsense that completely erases original language nuances and meaning (and assume these jobs will dry up now bc I'm costing people more). Hire translators!

And that's really one of the biggest issues I have with AI: it trivializes everything and turns it into “content” that is “good enough,” turning everything into a worthless mush; just stuff to fill our (work)days. AI killed everyone's capacity to care about anything but the bottom line...

This is an important thread & piece about the negative impact of AI on the translation sector - sobering & illuminating #xl8

I love the competing ideas 70's British production designers had about the future .
Bladerunner : eating noodles in the rain
Flash Gordon : Decadent Disco Dystopia
Star Wars: Bath Robes and Nazis
Alien : Atari Sex Lizards
Blake 7 : Gravel pit egg box Totalitarianism

Signed!