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Lewis Raven Wallace @lewispants.bsky.social · 13h

Talking to folx in prison reminds me that people have been living with extreme authoritarian conditions, including censorship and denial of trans health care, prior to this moment. Let's listen when they tell us how to get through it and what they need. #solidarity truthout.org/articles/bei...

Being Trans Behind Bars in Florida Was Already Hard. Under Trump, It’s Worse.

Trans people in prison are at the front lines of the increased targeting that trans people are facing under Trump.

truthout.org

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 1h

BUT you have to own your copyrights. Most Japanese translations are done as work-for-hire (i.e. manga, light novels, and plenty of other things, sadly). We should really fix this.

Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 16d

📢 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?

ALCS @alcs.co.uk · 16d

🥳 This week, we will pay 31,487 members their share of £11,588,572!

Find out more:
www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-di...

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Center for the Art of Translation @catranslation.org · 8h

We're hiring a full-time Engagement Editor—a new full time staff position in CAT's Communications Department. For more information, visit our site and apply by Oct. 31. www.catranslation.org/about/opport...

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Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 3h

Declaring war on Americans is the Constitution’s second definition of treason, after aiding the enemy.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4h

This is truly horrifying.

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach…with Antifa."

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 10h

Oh, I want that...

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 10h

It did definitely look better with the .docx extension when I tested it. Maybe I'll give it a try next time I do something for One Peace. Would be soooo nice to escape T_T Not being able to leave bilingual comments using keyboard shortcuts is a hassle, but maybe we could get them to fix that.

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 12h

Classic big tech. It’s not enough to destroy the planet, everyone else has to subsidize it too.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 12h

37 states have passed legislation specifically granting sales tax exemptions for data centers.

Among the beneficiaries of these exemptions are Amazon, Meta and Google, all companies worth over $1 trillion.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 12h

Arriving in Chicago on Trump's orders is not "serving your country" 😭
For reference: "With this commendation as a starting point, we will continue to identify and honor true soldiers who refuse unlawful and unjust orders and protect the lives and safety of the people” biz.chosun.com/en/en-policy...

11 soldiers who refused unlawful orders receive Korea military honors

biz.chosun.com

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 13h

This is what is says on the tin, but also: paying artists, creatives, producers & crew fairly & on time would deflate the false profit margins of *every* creative industry. Paying workers fairly wd "kill" industry *as an endless profit machine*. Not defending AI, saying this problem is baked in.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13h

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 13h

The main stuff I need is total compatibility with Word (especially for stuff like tracking changes, commenting, etc.) ;( But yeah, I'd be really happy to switch to a writing app, otherwise.

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 14h

omg it is LOL

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, I mean, I've had terrible issues just from working between Word and Google Docs, so it's definitely better to avoid it if possible...

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 14h

Seems most likely to be a no. Sorry in advance for the fact that I will probably continue starting this conversation every several months till I die.

Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 16h

Can I survive in the publishing industry without Microsoft's garbage apps? The update has been hanging on 6 seconds for well over 6 minutes now. I have to re-do all my work. I hate Microsoft. Can I just use Libre or whatever? Will life only ever get worse? Is it anything worth anything at all

Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 16h

REALLY don't have time for Word to crash and delete all my work on this doc, but I guess that's what just happened.

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 14h

Main stuff I need is comments and editing tools that are compatible with Word ; /

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, it's basically impossible.

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 14h

Actually, it warned me about saving as .docx but that worked much better than the other way...

Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah, this is not going to work. The comments don't seem to thread...

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 15h

First thing I noticed is you can't use keyboard shortcuts to change input between English and Japanese inside comments (and I need to write bilingual comments).

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 16h

Can I survive in the publishing industry without Microsoft's garbage apps? The update has been hanging on 6 seconds for well over 6 minutes now. I have to re-do all my work. I hate Microsoft. Can I just use Libre or whatever? Will life only ever get worse? Is it anything worth anything at all

Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 16h

REALLY don't have time for Word to crash and delete all my work on this doc, but I guess that's what just happened.

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 16h

REALLY don't have time for Word to crash and delete all my work on this doc, but I guess that's what just happened.

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 1d

"You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume."

variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Robin Williams’ Daughter Tells Fans to ‘Stop Sending Me AI Videos of Dad’: It’s ‘Gross’ and ‘Not What He’d Want’

Zelda Williams tells fans not to send her AI recreations of father Robin Williams, calling them "gross."

variety.com

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 1d

"ice-free peaks" is terrible framing 😭 if a doctor asked if you'd like to be the first skin-free human, you'd say no, right? because all your blood and stuff would fall out. we should not be excited to see BARE peaks suffering the LOSS of glaciers that helped stabilize the environment...

Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 1d

We're so fucked. People see these as minor superficial changes instead of understanding that they cumulatively represent monumental shifts in the balance of a very fragile habitat. Yes, the planet can endure a lot. We can't.

As California glaciers disappear, people will see ice-free peaks exposed for the first time in millennia

The glaciers of California's Sierra Nevada are disappearing as temperatures rise. Scientists recently found that the glaciers probably have never before melted in human history.

www.latimes.com

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