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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes I think I’m overstimulated, and then sometimes I’m trying to read in my second language with a screaming baby and a shouting child and their multiple noisy toys and I’m trying to meet a deadline before dinner with my in laws and I forgot the point I was trying to make here, pls send help.

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Jeva Lange 🫎 @jeva.bsky.social · 7d

I had an idea awhile back to try to get a Bluesky prompt going asking people to share photos of their desks/workspaces (I still want to see them all, share yours with me!) so I’m absolutely in heaven with this @wallpapermag.bsky.social feature www.wallpaper.com/design-inter...

This is where The Booker Prize nominees write: from kitchen tables to a cemetery bench

From kitchen tables to bare desks (and even a cemetery bench): 12 writers from the Booker Prize 2025 longlist on their favourite writing set-ups

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 9d

Happy #ITD2025!

Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · Oct 1

Happy #InternationalTranslationDay to all who celebrate! Here we see our patron saint Jerome adopting the universal translator pose for "Shit, what’s the right word here?" #ITD2023

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 26d

Book: @vintagebooks.bsky.social Drink: The best martini in Hong Kong (trust me, I’ve done the research) from Argo, ft. Never Never Gin #witmonth

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 26d

A belated addition to #womenintranslationmonth: this eerie, engrossing novel that absolutely lives up to the hype, brilliantly (re)translated by the legendary Ros Schwartz.

“I Who Have Never Known Men” by Jacqueline Harpman tr. Ros Schwartz, with a dry gin martini with a twist

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · Aug 31

If you’re looking for one last read for #womenintranslationmonth, may I suggest this slim but powerful novella from Argentina? A moving exploration of loss and grief, translated beautifully as ever by the remarkable @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social Book: @charcopress.com Drink: Limewood Fresca #witmonth

‘Dislocations’ by Sylvia Molloy, tr. Jennifer Croft, with a tropical watermelon cocktail

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Human Car Wash | Joseph's Machines

YouTube video by Joseph's Machines

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · Jul 20

Good reading for hunkering down at home during a T10 typhoon 🌀 Book: Chatto & Windus Drink: Four Pillars Gin Gimlet with a Louis Roederer Champagne reduction (a clever @adamawhite.bsky.social trick for using up flat champagne)

The book “Fourteen Days”, ed. Margaret Atwood & Douglas Preston with a gimlet cocktail

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · Jul 16

"No, what AI can do is not yet a threat to human translators and human readers of sophisticated, textured human writing. The threat is what some people think it can do." Daniel Hahn nails it as per usual observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

AI won’t replace us human literary translators just yet

Yes, it can turn French words into English ones, but true translation is so much more than that

observer.co.uk

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · Jul 13

Aussie restaurant, Aussie wine, and a sumptuous, unsettling Aussie classic that is well worth your time. I’m too scared to watch the movie adaptation though 🫣Book: @vintagebooks.bsky.social Drink: Hugh Hamilton The Trickster Pinot Grigio 2024

“Picnic at Hanging Rock” by Joan Lindsay on a kindle with a glass of white wine

Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · Jun 21

James es un gran periodista y escritor, y su libro es imprescindible para entender los lazos entre las lenguas y las identidades personales y políticas, especialmente en las regiones oprimidas. Informativo y emotivo, me encanta. Book: @alianzaeditorial.bsky.social Drink: Intruso Montsant 2022

Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · Jun 21

Amig@s hispanohablantes, me hace mucha ilusión que el segundo libro de mi amigo @jamestgriffiths.com, ya está disponible en español, traducido por Cristina Macía.

“Speak Not” by James Griffiths in Spanish translation: “No hablarás”, with a glass of red wine

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · Jun 11

Can’t get over how good this one was. Inventive and funny and life-affirming, although maybe not the best decision for me to have read a novel based around child death right now. Book: Random House Drink: Paco Mulero Albariño 2021

“Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders with a glass of white wine.

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · Mar 30

Book: @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social Drink: Martini (the drink I missed the most during pregnancy) made with Four Pillars Spice Trade Gin

Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · Mar 30

For Mother’s Day I can think of no better book to recommend than this, which I’ve been reading one-handed during long nights of newborn feeds. A brilliant dissection of how becoming a mother profoundly changes a person & all the ways society lets them down. A must-read whether you’re a mother or not

“Matrescence” by Lucy Jones on a kindle, and a dry gin martini with a twist

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · Mar 2

Welcome home beautiful Baby Daniel, welcome back delicious proper champagne. Reading material for stellar big brother Ben. Book: Scholastic Drink: Foxey’s Hangout Brut Sparkling White

Book “I am a Big Brother!” with a bottle & glass of Foxey’s Hangout champagne and the cutest newborn baby in the world.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Feb 12

Also for this reason I am begging. I do not want to see that horrible man’s face.

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Nov 13

please use alt-text so that my muted words will work on your screenshots please i beg

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · Feb 7

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · Feb 4

One month to go til the birth of my second child, figured I should brush up on some motherhood tips. Book: @vintagebooks.bsky.social Drink: 凍檸茶

“Nightbitch” by Rachel Yoder on a kindle with a HK style ice lemon tea.

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · Jan 22

Thank fuck for new music from Self Esteem www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgVq...

Self Esteem - Focus Is Power (Official Video)

YouTube video by SelfesteemVEVO

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · Jan 17

Occasional reminder that whenever you say "sparks joy" you are not quoting Marie Kondo.

You are quoting her translator, Cathy Hirano. She invented "sparks joy" out of whole cloth.

What Marie Kondo says is "This makes my heart go pitter pat."

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · Nov 27

The astronaut meme
"Wait, he's just talking about walkable neighbourhoods again?"
"Always has been"

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · Nov 26

It makes the REM version sound like a cover, it's that good.

Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · Nov 26

It works so well it is crazy! What a superb surprise open.spotify.com/track/43y7ax...

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Zev Handel @zevhandel.bsky.social · Nov 25

Here's the unlikely century-long story of how a non-gendered pronoun became gendered, and then got itself re-de-gendered.

This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao!

What more could you want?

#langsky 🀄️📚
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A brush-written Chinese character composed of 㐅 and 也, a gender-neutral way of writing tā.

A brush-written Chinese character composed of 男 and 也, a way of writing tā with male reference.

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