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Line Stockford

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Turkish poetry translator Poetry/writing/& zine-ing Cymraes (Welsh) https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/human-rights/wtwt/ Poetry translations: [email protected] Consultant on Turkey & FoE

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Line Stockford @linecaro.bsky.social · 5h

Palewell Press book festival in Kensington library ‘Literature in protests, with purpose’

Line Stockford @linecaro.bsky.social · 8h

I too detest big translation companies. One of them pitched my own project to me and many have lied about using first language speakers. Interpreting is no better. Legal interpreting used to pay properly 15 years ago until the police in Wales inhoused all the work and offered 15 quid an hour.

Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 15h

I see The Big Word continues to live up to its nickname #ThePigTurd

I appreciate @privateeyenews.bsky.social continuing to cover grasping mega agencies and the impact of AI on the translation industry.

TRANSLATION

Lost for words

GLOBAL translation firm The Big Word
promises its services are 'eradicating
the final barrier of global communication".
But not, it seems, with the help of happy
translators.

The firm recently gave translators one
week's notice that their pay would be cut by 5 percent. In its email, The Big Word told them the pay cut was due to advances in AI technology and that it was "essential that we adapt to this new reality together".

With logic that even AI would struggle with,
the company stated: "We firmly believe that this change will not negatively impact your overall billing. Apparently this is because AI will drive an increase in demand. So translators will have to undertake more work to earn the same
amount as they did before the pay cut caused by Al muscling in on their expertise.

The email concluded: "Your contributions remain at the heart of what makes The Big
Word a leader the industry, and we are
excited to navigate this new chapter together."

Passez le sac à vomi!

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 8h

Egypt's Grand Museum opens, displaying Tutankhamun tomb in full for first time. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Egypt's Grand Museum opens, displaying Tutankhamun tomb in full for first time

The launch of the billion-dollar site sees fresh calls for the return of antiquities held in museums overseas.

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Agnes Martin @agnes-martin.bsky.social · 8h

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/untitled-1959

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Line Stockford @linecaro.bsky.social · 23h

Have begun translating a story on the train (a story within a novel) about a minstrel’s search for a mythical bird that I’ve wanted to translate for ten years. It takes up 39 pages of the book. I’m aiming to edit it down and learn it for a story telling festival next year.

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Line Stockford @linecaro.bsky.social · 1d

Mining for the moon. Off on the train to overpriced London where is buried the head of mythical Welsh giant. Bendigeidfran. Of Bran, ‘a leader is a bridge’ fame.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 1d

Skeletal illustrations supposedly replicating a lost 15th-century manuscript by the wine and women–loving Zen monk Ikkyū. The lively images testify to their maker’s sardonic sense of humor: skeletons dancing, drumming, drinking sake, having sex...

Ikkyū in Hell: *Skeletons* (1692)

Skeletal illustrations supposedly replicating a lost manuscript by a wine and women–loving Zen monk.

publicdomainreview.org

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 1d

City Lights, a San Francisco Institution founded by the late great Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, has banners posted for this time in history

CITY LIGHTS Booksellers & Publishers in San Francisco

Current hanging banners -left to right:

Pity the nation whose leaders are liars

Whose sages are silenced and whose bigots haunt the airwaves

Pity the nation that praises conquerors and acclaimed the bully as hero

Pity the nation that allows their freedoms to be eroded and their rights to be washed away

My country tears of thee
Sweet land of liberty!

Rippling American flag spread across the bottoms of the banners

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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 2d

Obituary: Yvonne Brewster — Pioneer of black British theatre who co-founded Talawa Theatre Company and was also a prolific director and actor, with wide-ranging credits from Radio Jamaica to the National Theatre.

Obituary: Yvonne Brewster - director, actor and Talawa co-founder

Pioneer of black British theatre who co-founded Talawa Theatre Company and was also a prolific director and actor

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Line Stockford @linecaro.bsky.social · 2d

Begins at 27.00
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 8d

STARTING SOON: Zohran Mamdani gives remarks about Islamophobia outside the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx

LIVE | Zohran Mamdani gives remarks on Islamophobia outside a mosque in the Bronx, NYC

YouTube video by Eyewitness News ABC7NY

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Line Stockford @linecaro.bsky.social · 2d

#digitalcollage #soundsystem #1920s #womenselektas

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

Mounting a resolute defence against the far right on immigration is necessary but not sufficient. We need aggressively pro-immigration voices - like this - in UK politics. Actively welcoming migrants is morally right and better for everyone. Make that case and put the bigots on the defensive.

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 3d

The end of free movement of people with the European Union has been a “disaster” for the UK that should be urgently reversed, new Green Party leader Zack Polanski told POLITICO — in his first major intervention on EU policy.

Ending EU free movement a ‘disaster’ for Britain, says Green Party’s Zack Polanski

The party’s new leader calls for the migration pact to be reinstated as he sets out his stall on Brexit.

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Line Stockford @linecaro.bsky.social · 2d

Support if you can. 🥀 🖊️

E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 2d

The translators for this project: Sifiso Mzobe and Zukiswa Wanner, aren't online here, but I hope people will give it a look and help us support them. Getting this second book funded would mean so much to so many people.

Support African Translation Project

African Translation Project, Goal 4: Fully Fund Two Translations, by 31 October, still needed: $3070, 69%, If this goal is met: Translations will be fully funded for Bengithi Lizokuna and Zvinobvinza,...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Once we past 2000 letters, I am going to raffle TWO library mystery packs to celebrate. What is in those? Well it's a mystery, hahahahaha. actionnetwork.org/letters/city... [I will have fun putting them together]

City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!

In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

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Line Stockford @linecaro.bsky.social · 2d

Register online to attend this, in 7 hours.
Also tonight in UK online : Broken Sleep poetry publishers' readings and launches:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...

The US one will follow the Broken Sleep event, so both are do-able in Europe. Looking foward!