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EN/中. they/he. STEM in the streets, liberal arts in the sheets. i translate things sometimes

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F and M trains will swap routes between Manhattan and Queens starting in
December 2025
We're making this change to improve reliability. Here's what you need to know about how your trip may change.
New York City Transit

F and M trains will swap routes between Manhattan and Queens starting in December 2025 We're making this change to improve reliability. Here's what you need to know about how your trip may change. New York City Transit

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already

www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

07.11.2025 20:29 — 👍 10886    🔁 2017    💬 154    📌 115

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

07.11.2025 02:44 — 👍 3919    🔁 1276    💬 32    📌 21
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

05.11.2025 07:10 — 👍 11011    🔁 8036    💬 14    📌 1148

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

05.11.2025 18:19 — 👍 2497    🔁 2582    💬 44    📌 51

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry

06.11.2025 13:19 — 👍 2773    🔁 947    💬 19    📌 11
Screenshot of a tweet: 

British cavalry in the 1850s consisted entirely of twinks who used UwU-speak...
[Photo of a book page] "The dash of British cavalry officers was never greater than at the opening of the Crimean campaign in the spring of 1854. These aristocratic horsemen were, in the idiom of the day, "plungers," "tremendous swells." They affected elegant boredom, yawned a great deal, spoke a jargon of their own, pronouncing "r" as "w," saying "vewwy," "howwid," and "sowwy," and interlarded sentences with loud and meaningless exclamations of "Haw, haw." Their sweeping whiskers, languid voices, tiny waists, laced in by corsets, and their large cigars were irresistible, frantically admired, and as frantically envied. Magnificently mounted, horses were their passion; they rode like the devil himself, and their confidence in their ability to defeat any enemy single-handed was com-plete. Cavalry officers were saying in London drawing-rooms that to take infantry on the campaign was superfluous; the infantry would merely be a drag on them, and had better be left at
home."

Screenshot of a tweet: British cavalry in the 1850s consisted entirely of twinks who used UwU-speak... [Photo of a book page] "The dash of British cavalry officers was never greater than at the opening of the Crimean campaign in the spring of 1854. These aristocratic horsemen were, in the idiom of the day, "plungers," "tremendous swells." They affected elegant boredom, yawned a great deal, spoke a jargon of their own, pronouncing "r" as "w," saying "vewwy," "howwid," and "sowwy," and interlarded sentences with loud and meaningless exclamations of "Haw, haw." Their sweeping whiskers, languid voices, tiny waists, laced in by corsets, and their large cigars were irresistible, frantically admired, and as frantically envied. Magnificently mounted, horses were their passion; they rode like the devil himself, and their confidence in their ability to defeat any enemy single-handed was com-plete. Cavalry officers were saying in London drawing-rooms that to take infantry on the campaign was superfluous; the infantry would merely be a drag on them, and had better be left at home."

Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.

15.08.2025 09:07 — 👍 5489    🔁 1744    💬 79    📌 139

Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.

03.09.2025 10:55 — 👍 7557    🔁 1939    💬 151    📌 53

On a completely separate note, why are modern rich people so fucking boring like where are our Sistine Chapels or Rockefeller libraries?? All that money and NONE of them fucks have the good sense or taste to commission great art???

06.11.2025 11:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Anyway I will not be wasting my time on slop, paid OR free, and instead will be spending it on efforts to pick up another language 🤡 but at least hangul is a lot easier to memorize than hanzi LMAO

06.11.2025 11:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Young Men Problem? Democrats won clear majorities of this constituency.

"All of these candidates who won last night didn’t shy away from talking about gender equality and LGBTQ rights. They didn’t buy the theory that doing so would alienate young men. And they were right. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. Carville."

charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/what-young...

05.11.2025 19:18 — 👍 877    🔁 197    💬 25    📌 13
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The naked greed of this decision makes me so fucking mad because why the hell do you think I'm paying for overpriced international subscription/platform currency as opposed to buying on the original platform? I want to support artists AND real human translators/editors

06.11.2025 11:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Saw (belatedly) the news about Manta using AI translation tools for their comics like... aight... if you wanna save 90% of your """localization costs""" then I'm going to save 100% of my subscription cost because why should I pay for slop when I can also use AI and get slop for free 🙄

06.11.2025 11:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Putting my money where my mouth is by supporting quality human work always 💜 super stoked to dig in this weekend!!

06.11.2025 11:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop.

“If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???”

Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.

02.11.2025 00:10 — 👍 12058    🔁 2732    💬 428    📌 153

They literally ruin everything they touch

31.10.2025 03:44 — 👍 8977    🔁 3363    💬 47    📌 52

Another simple solution:

Ban "A.i."

01.11.2025 12:25 — 👍 514    🔁 131    💬 7    📌 2

I started straight up bugging my local bookstores for Blood for the Undying Throne a month ago but they didn't even get it in on the official release date 💀

01.11.2025 23:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Halloween treats I got for myself this year ;)

01.11.2025 23:35 — 👍 19    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
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makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

26.10.2025 20:49 — 👍 15213    🔁 2525    💬 355    📌 327

I just want every person to consider this in its distilled form.

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The President of the United States is unilaterally levying a tax on every citizen because he didn't like a commercial.

26.10.2025 21:06 — 👍 1237    🔁 371    💬 23    📌 7

these are a different set of republican racist texts than the previous set of republican racist and nazi texts

21.10.2025 01:11 — 👍 4305    🔁 974    💬 84    📌 23

但说实话我感觉这两册薄得像北美出的哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈

21.10.2025 00:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

只可惜不知道什么时候会有空读……而且还有好多其他还没读完的书_(´ཀ`」 ∠) _

21.10.2025 00:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

拥抱地心引力的纸质版终于到家了🥳哇好漂亮,真的

21.10.2025 00:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Tweet by @night margin "digital artist woes" image of the same color gradient on various screen (monitor 1 appears very grey purple, phone appear VERY pink, monitor 2 appears a more saturated purple, laptop appears brownish red, family's phone appears much darker and bluer etc.)

Tweet by @night margin "digital artist woes" image of the same color gradient on various screen (monitor 1 appears very grey purple, phone appear VERY pink, monitor 2 appears a more saturated purple, laptop appears brownish red, family's phone appears much darker and bluer etc.)

Listen to me. Listen. If you're making images that will only be displayed on screens, YOU HAVE TO LET GO. You can calibrate your screens perfectly, but then 25k people will see it on their shitty $50 monitors or cracked phone and its out of your hands. Don't think of it. Achieve enlightenment.

20.10.2025 08:54 — 👍 5681    🔁 2032    💬 83    📌 155

这种把人当垃圾随便踢走的出版社……🙄

20.10.2025 01:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm not saying this because machine translation is any good, but the human translation is just That Bad lmao like imagine writing out "truth to be told" to begin a sentence and thinking that's correct and good English?

20.10.2025 00:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Some of these recent danmei translations read so poorly that I feel like people should just save themselves the money and time by reading machine translations online instead... quality is about the same either way lmao

19.10.2025 21:41 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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