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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 10h

Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!

Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 11d

Completely unrelated to my 2am doomposting but does anyone know an English to Japanese translator, ideally with experience in screenplays?

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 4h

the hardback book is a relic which I appreciate as an aesthetic but most books should be printed in softcover, it is very possible to create a robust and flexible book without heavy boards, china has been doing it for a millennia

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 15h

Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 2d

#xl8 #booksky

Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 2d

Read the ten Nobel laureates in literature in the Words Without Borders archive: Svetlana Alexievich, Jon Fosse, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Han Kang, László Krasznahorkai, J. M. G. Le Clézio, Naguib Mahfouz, Herta Müller, Olga Tokarczuk, and Tomas Tranströmer.

Nobel Laureates Archives - Words Without Borders

A collection of writing by winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature from the Words Without Borders archive, including László Krasznahorkai and Han Kang.

wordswithoutborders.org

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 15h

Today is Tridi the 23rd of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate turnips.#JacobinDay

More information on turnips

An old time-y illustration of a Turnips.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14h

Happy birthday to the US Navy.

And in particular to the captain of the USS Missouri.

Who, when Cher walked out on deck in this, not in the jump suit they'd been promised, went:

"Ah. Fuck it. YOLO."

And later almost got stripped of command for it.

youtu.be/9n3A_-HRFfc?...

Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time (Official Video)

YouTube video by Cher

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14h

Also sorry but Cher giving a concert on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri was the absolute PEAK of the American post-war Empire.

S-Tier military and cultural power projection.

With hindsight, it was downhill from there.

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 21h

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Wildestranger @wildestranger.bsky.social · 18h

Back in the day. When they composed actual songs. Rather than slop for 3 minutes.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 19h

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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Wildestranger @wildestranger.bsky.social · 18h

Literature peaked in 400 bce and has gone downhill since then.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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Wildestranger @wildestranger.bsky.social · 19h

I have now found a channel called MTV 90s and well I live here now.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20h

While Israelis celebrated the return of captives from Gaza, Israel warned Palestinian families against holding celebrations over the return of prisoners – some who had been held for decades. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh explains.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 2d

Going through some Life and Look magazines from the mid-60s and this page from a “how the rich live” non-story story is just tremendous. The wealthy SHOULD be eating at the Four Seasons and giving joyrides to nuns instead of doing weird, dark social experiments with poors on their YouTube channel

Black-and-white magazine page with small photo of man and woman being waited on at restaurant and half-page photo of shirtless man driving a motorboat with several grinning nuns in habits and sunglasses, spraying lots of water. Caption “Above, Frank and Phyllis Jameson dine at the Four Seasons on a recent New York trip. He does not mind paying high prices, he says, provided what he gets is ‘just the very best.’ Below, Jameson, a Protestant, gives well-received respite to nuns who supervised 40 boys from Roman Catholic home on an all day outing aboard his schooner.”

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20h

Adding to the thread - one thing missing from making knowledge creation visible is media coverage.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 22h

Maybe this is simply a difference in the expected 'rate' of knew knowledge, but this take puzzles me, because there's quite a bit of new data and studies needing to be done that I can see pretty easily in Roman history.

Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.

A tweet by Theo Nash, which reads, "The problem is that (almost) no one, at least in the humanities, is able to produce ‘new knowledge’ at anything like the rate expected. So scholars grasp at faddish trends and voguish theories to publish books that seem exciting in the moment but have no enduring value."

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Wildestranger @wildestranger.bsky.social · 19h

And some hilarious side eye re: Trump and mildly cynical comments which I greatly appreciated and which I have missed a lot. Also they report on things like German labour issues and the Madagascar coup d’état. Best news channel.

Wildestranger @wildestranger.bsky.social · 19h

Watching today’s news from a hotel with a million channels is very intersting because I now know the Us, UK, French, German, Italian, and Spanish take on th Trump plan for peace. Anyway, Al Jazeera has the best coverage by far - experts from throughout the region (inc Israeli university scholars) 1/

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 1d

He was considered horrific BY THE PEOPLE WHO STARTED THE SPANISH INQUISITION

Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 21h

this girl Gloria who got into my local newspaper for seeing Titanic 50 times in Rome and who I have remembered since reading about her in 1998

Published March 14, 1998|Updated Sept. 12, 2005

A 12-year-old from Rome, identified only as Gloria, goes to the movies every day. Same time, same place, same movie: Titanic. So far, the girl has seen the hit film about 50 times, leading the pack of Italy's fervent Titanic fans. And she's still not tired of it. She even has cats named Jack and Rose. The young movie buff was discovered by the newspaper La Repubblica. "She comes to the 9 o'clock feature every night," said Giancarlo Malferrari, the owner of the only movie theater in Castelfranco Emilia, a town of 11,000 in central Italy. "And every weekend, she watches two shows in a row." Now the theater has started saving her favorite seat and even letting her in free. Neither he nor La Repubblica used the girl's last name, citing Italy's privacy law. Gloria told La Repubblica it isn't heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio that attracts her, but the character he plays: Jack Dawson, a struggling artist who wins his passage on the Titanic in a poker game. "Jack is cuter than Leo," she said. "And it's for real; it's a true story. That's what makes it so beautiful." Gloria's mother, a cleaning woman who works at night, says she hasn't seen Titanic yet but she's not worried about her daughter's obsession. "She's not doing anything bad," she told the newspaper, adding that Gloria has to do her homework first every night.

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BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 1d

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

oh god no he hoovered up his own brain

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XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social · 3d

Emperor Huizong of the Song (1082–1135) may have faltered as a ruler, but his artistry was unmatched. In his paintings, cats often stalk butterflies, a scene both tender and symbolic.
The word for cat (māo) echoes mào (耄), meaning old age, while butterfly (dié) sounds like dié (耋), 1/2

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

At least Henry Kissinger is still dead

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1d

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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