Ian Winick, Translator & Copywriter

A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

Mmm, much revisit those vintage Elton albums!

Ignore us translators at your peril.

And if you find German grammar difficult, try learning Irish!

This popped up on my feed and has been popping up in my thoughts regularly ever since.

Me as a bluesky therapist:

"Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)": How will we vote on it??!!! I mean, I know because I edited the episode, and Randy knows because he was there, but YOU don't know and really, it's you guys that are important, not us!

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Was Pufferfish sagt.

Nummer des Kältebusses in Köln:
+49 176 24071312

Anrufen kann ja nun wirklich fast jeder.

Dad told me many, many years ago he saw a sign above the urinals in a gents' toilet:
"We aim to please. You aim too, please"

Yes, same here, actually. That and an excellent evening at Ganesha here in Cologne with a great bunch of translators!

And the world was immeasurably richer!

"To write is hell but it is heavenly to have written".

Can't remember who wrote that but it wasn't me!

Four-legged friends are always a tonic 😍

Remember the day Ginny met Ajax?

And rightly so.

As PG Wodehouse would have put it: "what he is pleased to call his mind".

(Hey Kevin, hope you guys are doing well!)

Oh, I'm afraid I've had one of my trademark changes of heart, Smithers ...

Or on page 2 of Google search results!

Well played, sir. Well played.

@janinaruth.bsky.social

Punctuation matters.

(And a well-timed dash can save you from crocodiles.)

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Well he did write in German so that's hardly surprising!

I had that on a plane once - I was reading Dostoevsky's The Idiot and there was an intrigued Russian guy beside me. So I asked him why all those silly men were chasing that awful woman and he didn't know either. I didn't get much further with Russian lit.

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True ... but Laura, you should have said "rune" rather than "destroy" ...

Tin lids on marmite, asbestos in your pyjamas, and a weird pervert guaranteed on all three black and white channels.

I get to meet new people every day ...

No, some people steer clear of WhatsApp so I use Telegram and Signal as well.

I'm constantly getting messages via Telegram from young ladies asking whether I am "Dirk" or "Fred" ... or their mother.

It's obviously a block-and-report but what exactly are they trying to gain from this?

If they want to be my friend, they should go through the proper channels.

Shit ... I meant Jonah. Messed that one up, didn't I? 💩

Maybe that was Noah's story ...?

I like that too but my weird brain always sees it as "gerne perdu" (a French-German mishmash meaning "I like being lost") ...