Well that's terrifying ๐ซฅ
10.12.2025 18:08 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@ehtranslates.bsky.social
I translate from French & Georgian, but sometimes youโd hardly know it.
Well that's terrifying ๐ซฅ
10.12.2025 18:08 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Years ago when I was casting about for some kind of spiritual framework a priest told me he thought I'd make an excellent lapsed Catholic and I honestly don't think anyone's ever summed me up more efficiently.
10.12.2025 09:36 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0An eternal mystery as to how the adhesive on HRT patches is simultaneously not strong enough to hold the patch on and so sticky the residue is still there 2 weeks later.
09.12.2025 19:36 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Feeling invincible today after managing to find my father an *actual pillow* in A&E last night during a city-wide critical incident, without having to steal it from another patient ๐ช
09.12.2025 13:13 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I suggested I get t-shirts made to help the kids easily see what stage I'm at (penultimate draft / intransigent problems / final edits etc) and act/avoid accordingly. Eldest raised one eyebrow somewhat languidly and said they somehow didn't think the heads-up would be necessary. Hm.
08.12.2025 13:07 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My household just LOVES Penultimate Draft Libby - overstimulated, twitchy, annoying, pedantic, mercurial and surrounded by a force-field of anxious energy so strong you can see the sparks coming off it if I stand too close to the radiator.
08.12.2025 08:39 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Goodness, I put this on my list just before it came out and then promptly forgot, so thank you for the reminder!
08.12.2025 05:48 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If you're wondering why dinner's late it's because somebody absent-mindedly added 4 cups of water to the okra instead of 2.
#longsimmer
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why heโs so strong on it: โBecause weโre always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means itโs not about disliking immigrants. Itโs about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And thatโs a bad human instinct.โ
07.12.2025 08:31 โ ๐ 13950 ๐ 4270 ๐ฌ 247 ๐ 96Surely tiny clothes for the mic while you stand there buck naked
06.12.2025 12:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A plea to writers who want to make ambiguous allusions to films in their texts to at least make them *good* films, so that poor translators don't have to spend their Saturday mornings watching badly scripted crime tedium from the 80s.
06.12.2025 09:42 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Any day now. Why are push-ups so hard?
03.12.2025 16:24 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The music kind, not the chop kind (unless bluegrass, obvs).
03.12.2025 15:07 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Signing a contract. Buying myself a mandolin. Take that, AI.
03.12.2025 15:03 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐ฌ OC REVIEWS: Stalinโs Cola โ the story of Georgiaโs famous Lagidze lemonades
03.12.2025 11:22 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0That's what my mother said circa 1982 and that's why I'm now a penniless translator instead of an incredibly wealthy lizard-whisperer.
01.12.2025 22:43 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A famous translator/poet once asked me "is there much call for that sort of thing?" when I told him I translate from Yiddish, lol, which I thought was a bit rich coming from a poet
01.12.2025 20:45 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Slacker.
28.11.2025 08:30 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Luckily none of it is remotely true. Phew.
26.11.2025 16:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Flexible 33 1/3 rpm record labelled 'A personal message about your new Hornby train set from Bernard Cribbins'
I mean sure, why not.
#loft
We had one of these on the high street between the B&M and the CashConverters but the guys from The Happy Plaice torched it cos their fishcake sales went right down.
26.11.2025 13:33 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Seems unfair that swinging this wildly between 'Actually this is quite good' and 'My very existence brings shame upon all translators' doesn't count as cardio.
25.11.2025 09:58 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Interactive COP30 Exhibit Allows Attendees To Be Shot Up Into Air On Big Spurt Of Oil
Interactive COP30 Exhibit Allows Attendees To Be Shot Up Into Air On Big Spurt Of Oil
24.11.2025 20:30 โ ๐ 907 ๐ 100 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 8แฃแแแแแแแแแแแแแ แแแแแแแฃแแ. Ualendelonobit gatanguli. Consumed by AlainDelonlessness.
*takes two aspirin*
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23.11.2025 19:08 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0You know, the spinning wheel of buffering before the post loaded properly - also pretty accurate ๐ตโ๐ซ๐ตโ๐ซ๐ตโ๐ซ
23.11.2025 19:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Who can tell, Mordecai? Certainly not me, that's for sure.
23.11.2025 18:33 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Somebody needs to do a PhD on how much ambiguity Georgian literature can tolerate but it's not going to be me because I'm too busy lying on the floor crying into a saucepan and praying for a meteorite strike.
23.11.2025 17:21 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0๐ฅด
23.11.2025 10:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โ๏ธโ๏ธ
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