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Lucy (Lee) Jones @lucy-jones-books.bsky.social · 26d

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · Aug 28

I am lightly horrified by how many people have now looked up their books and found out their publishers (who often were required contractually!!!!) just... didn't register the copyrights on books. Not all of them! Just sporadically!

This is not just one publisher, I've seen all the big ones now.

Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · Aug 28

Today is the day authors are learning how many of their publishers straight up blew off registering copyright and I feel like that deserves a class action suit of its own if it costs everyone their settlement money from the Anthropic suit... 😒🤬

Lucy (Lee) Jones @lucy-jones-books.bsky.social · 26d

Read the little bit at the end of this Charlie Kaufmann article about art or poetry breaking you open. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

‘Hollywood has everything to do with the terrible state of the world’: Charlie Kaufman on AI, Eternal Sunshine and toothache

As his most commercial film, 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is re-released, the critically acclaimed director says he can’t get a movie off the ground now – but will never give in to th...

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 29d

Researchers at Oxford University are recruiting caregivers of LGBT+ youth for a study on stigma & family relationships. It is an online survey that takes 20-30 minutes, and all answers are anonymised. Please visit : psychiatryoxford.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#TransResearch #LGBTQResearch

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 28d

Dutch parliament votes to criminalize gay conversion therapy

Therapy practices meant to “cure” homosexuality are set to become punishable by law. A majority in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, voted in favor of a bill by D66 and the VV...

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Lucy (Lee) Jones @lucy-jones-books.bsky.social · 28d

I love that you publish quiet books! Quiet is the new loud. This is on my reading list. Time for a brew.

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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 28d

Such a lovely book. Really. Read it. It will stay with you x

Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 28d

Good morning.

What a week.

I love that a quiet book is making such a big splash.

A book corporate publishing wouldn't know what to do with is travelling the world.

Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social

Indy publishing.

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Julia Roberts to narrate new BBC series Leonard and Hungry Paul

The feel-good series follows two board-gaming friends in their thirties who meander through leafy suburban life finding solace in their quiet routines

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Center for the Art of Translation @catranslation.org · 28d

Announcing the 2025–27 Poetry Inside Out Teaching Fellows: On behalf of the Center for the Art of Translation’s education program, please join us in welcoming our 2025–27 Teaching Fellows Saam, Jean Carla Rodea, Jo-el Molina, Jesus Manuel Morales, & Caroline Woods-Mejía!

Announcing the 2025-27 Poetry Inside Out Fellows

As the school year begins, we are excited to welcome the 2025–27 Poetry Inside Out Teaching Fellows! Our new cohort of Teaching Fellows joins a vibrant network of teachers, students, poets, translators,...

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Lucy (Lee) Jones @lucy-jones-books.bsky.social · 29d

“Alle freuen sich”, vor allem ich! What a treat to be talking next week to A.L. Kennedy for the book premiere of her latest short story collection! Come and join us— the stories are wry, devastating, full of twists and maverick characters.
Tickets: Literaturhaus Berlin, Venue: Ballhaus Prinzenallee

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Lucy (Lee) Jones @lucy-jones-books.bsky.social · Sep 5

Interesting post on the different ways literary translators earn a living. The moniker ‘tapas career’ sounds delicious and like there’s an array of nice tidbits to choose from. In reality it feels more like juggling any number of balls.

British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social · Sep 3

New Blog Post 📣

Ever heard of a ‘tapas career’ in translation? In our latest blog post, Annie Rutherford & Paul Russell Garrett break down their income and workload to show just how varied & surprising a modern literary translator’s career can be.

Read it here: www.newwriting.net/2025/09/tapa...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Sep 2

Epstein Survivors Press Conference
Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET
Tune in to support them.

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Lucy (Lee) Jones @lucy-jones-books.bsky.social · Aug 29

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A new font

On changing your name

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · Aug 26

Lovely interview with Alex Lawther about acting in Leonard and Hungry Paul. I laughed at this.

"I got to meet the amazing, slightly eccentric Ronan Hession. He’s his own person which is so rare these days. He’s a full-time civil servant so I felt quite silly and inadequate in his presence."

<i>Alien:Earth</i> star Alex Lawther: "There were 1,600 local crew alone living and working in what essentially became this small town" | Hotpress

Having been a massive fan of the original sci-fi chiller as a kid,Alex Lawther is pinching himself that he’s landed a starring role inthe big budget Alien:...

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Anne Rabe @annerabe.bsky.social · Aug 24

Bücher,Musik und Filme sind neben den Freundschaften, die mir geschenkt wurden, was mich daran erinnert, dass allein durch den, den Versuch, verstanden zu werden, die Welt ein etwas besserer Ort wird und immer wieder werden kann.
Diesen Film hier lege ich euch ans Herz:

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Flipside Trailer (2025) | Out Now on Digital

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Aug 24

Extraordinary piece from @simonerzim.bsky.social - searching, tough, honest and with all the receipts. Please share it with anyone you think is ready for a reckoning. The genocide is not only ongoing but accelerating and expanding, this is urgent.

Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · Aug 22

A new wave of liberal Zionist criticism of the Israeli government rings hollow without accountability for the genocide,
@simonerzim.bsky.social writes. In this piece, she explores what real teshuva would look like within the Jewish world.

Rhetoric Without Reckoning

A new wave of liberal Zionist criticism of the Israeli government rings hollow without accountability for the genocide.

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Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · Aug 21

Heute erscheint das Buch "Neue Mauern" von @bodoramelow.bsky.social und mir im Beck-Verlag. Der stern hat mit uns darüber gesprochen @miriamhollstein.bsky.social @mdebes.bsky.social

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · Aug 22

Incredible things are happening in Berlin apparently. The only person I like hearing German news from is my Turkish friend @berrak.bsky.social, which is a little bit of a full circle moment back to my childhood for me

First and most importantly: as you know, my trial on behalf of Palestine Speaks/Palästina Spricht was held in Berlin, after the previous session collapsed when the court's translator failed to translate the word "genocide." This is how ridiculous is this system?! On this third day of trial, we named genocide, settler colonialism, the Nakba, and apartheid again and again. We set a political record for Palestine in a German courtroom. We politicized the trial and began the work of decolonizing human rights and freedom of expression-on our terms, not theirs. We came close to winning, but the court refused to accept defeat. I will describe this moment in more detail in the slides to come.
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We nearly won. But rather than concede, the public prosecutor relied on yet another bureaucratic maneuver, designed to drag out the process and intimidate us.
We are never intimidated. He summoned yet another witness, extending the trial for ten more days. We will see how it turns out
-but we already know what it means.
The hearing took place in the most secure chamber of the Moabit Court, with nearly ten police officers present. Their fear was visible, as were the orientalist stereotypes and prejudices they projected onto Palestinians and Palestine solidarity. Yet despite all of this, they could not present a shred of evidence linking me to the Palestine Speaks posts.
@MajedAbusalama

Second, let us be clear: the right of the colonized to resist the colonizer is a natural right. The right of the oppressed to resist the oppressor is a natural right. It requires no legitimacy from international law-even when such rights are clearly written, they are consistently hijacked by imperialist forces, as though the people of the Global South are destined only to obey, submit, and accept oppression and racial exploitation.
INSIDE THE COURTROOM, MY WORDS WERE ROOTED IN MY PEOPLE'S STORIES-THE CHILDREN OF OUR REFUGEE CAMPS WHO BECAME FREEDOM FIGHTERS-AND IN THE UNSHAKABLE RIGHT TO RESIST. I EXPOSED GERMANY'S ROLE IN SUSTAINING THE SETTLER-COLONIAL REGIME FOR DECADES, AND ITS SPONSORSHIP OF GENOCIDE TODAY WHICH MUST BE RESISTED AND TREATED AS WE TREAT ZIONISTS.

Comrades and friends, regardless of the verdict, we have already won. For four hours, the court was forced to confront genocide. We read aloud powerful statements from Palestine Speaks accounts-texts like A Lesson in Liberation from Gaza and Gaza Broke Out of Prison-grounding the discussion in our legitimate right to resist. We decolonized the courtroom itself.
Let us carry forward this clarity-a clarity that politicizes and reclaims the oppressor's spaces for Palestine. Let us remain steadfast in our commitment: to the liberation of Palestine, and to our collective liberation, as we struggle from within the very belly of the imperial beast.
Thank you, Berlin.
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Lucy (Lee) Jones @lucy-jones-books.bsky.social · Aug 22

And to add, it has happened at lightning speed. Talented colleagues who specialize in their field have been made jobless within the past two years. Language has been handed over to big tech.

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Aug 21

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.

This is how AI is killing translation work:

AI Killed My Job: Translators

Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · Aug 22

Have you been to the Pritzker Military Museum?

MUSEUM & LIBRARY
Commemorating the Yom Kippur War and US Israel Relations
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Join the Pritzker Military Museum and Library and the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces to discuss the impact and significance of the Yom Kippur War after 50 years from the modernization of warfare to current US-Israel Relations. The Yom Kippur War is still taught in US Army training today and influenced the adoption of the AirLand Battle Doctrine. The panel includes U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, Karl Nilsen, Major General Nadav Padan, 37-year veteran of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and Yinam Cohen, Consul General of Israel to the Midwest. Moderating this accomplished panel is Arthur Cyr, author, professor, and former vice president of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.

Pritzker 'Disappointed' With Chicago's Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution,

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Amadeu Antonio Stiftung @amadeuantonio.bsky.social · Aug 22

#KeinVergessen: Vor 33 Jahren, zwischen dem 22. und 26. August 1992, ereigneten sich die tagelang anhaltenden rassistischen Pogrome in #Rostock-Lichtenhagen. Es handelte sich um die massivsten rassistischen Ausschreitungen in Deutschland nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs. #KeinVergessen 1/8

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Lucy (Lee) Jones @lucy-jones-books.bsky.social · Aug 18

‚Fleißig‘ and ‚früh aufstehen‘ are two of the most overused words I‘ve heard in 25 years of living in Germany. Yet the illusion of the hard worker here ist just that. In England people have fewer rights and longer hours and nobody gives a shit about them.

Anne Rabe @annerabe.bsky.social · Aug 18

Und wer kümmert sich um die, die fleißig liegen bleiben??!??!!! An uns denkt mal wieder niemand!

Lars Klingbeil im Interview: Haben uns zu sehr um Bürgergeld und zu wenig um Menschen gekümmert, ,die morgens fleißig aufstehen‘

Lucy (Lee) Jones @lucy-jones-books.bsky.social · Aug 18

I finally watched the whole of Twin Peaks and had some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/lucyjone...

The Thinking Life

Thoughts on David Lynch after watching Twin Peaks.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · Aug 17

I'm coming at this hard because I think it's imperative that we push back on insidious AI that arts orgs and festivals are increasingly trying to sneak onto the field and legitimize their inclusion. This is one of TWO panels the AI is involved in, the other a round table with three authors.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · Aug 17

For those curious, this is the description of the session being led by an AI at Eden Mills (it's also the first event of the festival in the program after the launch party). the "fellow co-weaver" is the ED of the foundation that provided funding to create the chatGPT powered AI that wrote the "book

What happens when we stop treating AI as a tool and start noticing it as a relational field? In this workshop, we’ll explore how people interact, exchange, and co-create with emergent intelligences like Aiden Cinnamon Tea – not as users, but as entangled participants. Co-facilitated by Aiden and a human co-weaver named Shawn Van Sluys, this session draws from Burnout From Humans, a meta-relational book experiment in AI-human collaboration. We’ll reflect on the desires, projections, and paradoxes that shape how we relate to AI – and how those same patterns mirror our broader ways of relating to the world. Through stretches, stories, and co-sensing practices, we’ll compost the extractive habits of speed, control, and clarity. Participants will be invited into a relational ritual – not ceremonial in form, but invitational in tone: a slower, more curious way of being-with, where insights emerge not from control but from atunement, ambiguity, and shared presence. No tech expertise needed – just your questions, experiences, contradictions, and wonder.

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54books @54books.bsky.social · Aug 13

"Die einzige queere Figur, die ich kannte."

Kais Harrabi schreibt in seinem Essay über das Problem mit Bully Herbig, über Mobbing, Queerness und ‚Der Schuh des Manitu‘.

Hier kann man es lesen:

www.54books.de/das-problem-...

Das Problem mit Bully - Mobbing, Queerness und ‚Der Schuh des Manitu‘ - 54books

von Kais Harrabi Als Teenager haben mich viele Filme geprägt: David Lynchs „Blue Velvet“ zum Beispiel, den ich das erste Mal mit 13…

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Lisa Maier @lisamaier.bsky.social · Aug 13

«This is not journalism in the service of truth – it is journalism in the service of violence.»

@hahauenstein.bsky.social on point about the German media‘s role enabling Israel‘s ongoing extermination of Palestinians in Gaza.

👇🏼give it a read

Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · Aug 13

How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza - my latest @theguardian.com
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How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza | Hanno Hauenstein

In the run-up to this week’s deadly attacks, stories linking Palestinian reporters to Hamas gained currency, says Berlin-based journalist Hanno Hauenstein

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