I was just getting over the last time a total stranger was unspeakably rude to me in front of my child, two weeks ago. big thank you to the lady on the 3:05 to Nottingham today for bringing back that seething feeling
01.08.2025 19:54 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
grateful that my haters are unmotivated ๐
24.07.2025 07:20 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
I would never, but every time I sign a new contract I do think about how fun it might be to "introduce material of an objectionable or libelous character not present in the original work."
22.07.2025 09:43 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
all part of the plan
16.07.2025 15:22 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
highly tempted to become the foremost translator of Japanese CIA-related paranoiac novels
16.07.2025 13:54 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
ๆฒใ้ใใฆไฝใใงใใชใใใใฎ้ฑๆซใๅใ ใกใใขใใใฃใฉใญใทใผใงไบกใใชใฃใใ็งใไปฅๅใซใขใใใฃใฉใญใทใผใฎ็ต้จใใใฃใฆใใใๅใใใๅฝผๅฅณใฎๆๅพใฎ็ฌ้ใฏใใฎๆๆใ ใใ ใฃใใจใใ่ใใซใฏ่ใใใใชใใ
14.07.2025 20:22 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed
11.07.2025 20:08 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
holy shit. how quick can I get on a plane
10.07.2025 17:27 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
ๅคใใใไปๆฅใฎใญใณใใณใฏ30โใใใใใฐใซใซใใซใใจใใ
ใใใจ้็ดซ่ใใขใผใกใณใ
10.07.2025 16:28 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
it's a joy! but also it did sap my brain to the point where I even forgot how long to cook rice, so maybe you have a point. I hope you get the sugar you so richly deserve
07.07.2025 18:08 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Writers! Note that AI translation (under the guise of "global access") is being seen/used as the weak point to get AI into publishing (possible bc Eng lang publishing is weak on translation). Stand with translators & for more human translation, fairly paid!
07.07.2025 09:05 โ ๐ 1032 ๐ 470 ๐ฌ 17 ๐ 28
this but beer and a biryani i *didn't* fuck up cooking
07.07.2025 17:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
remembering when I caught a guy trying to steal my phone and he claimed he just wanted one of my cigarettes, as if that were more normal
04.07.2025 21:38 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
merry internet eve (a man is coming to give me internet tomorrow)
04.07.2025 16:30 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
that's the one. loved talking about that one with people right after it came out. good litmus test for if you had a normal mother or not
03.07.2025 13:54 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Oh, you're on the new season! Unfortunate time for me to have no TV or internet access at home
03.07.2025 09:57 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
could describe this as the Wario of the Japanese egg salad sandwich.
โ๏ธ brown bread
โ๏ธ only a "dollop" of mayo?
โผ๏ธ fucking watercress???
03.07.2025 09:55 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
oh man if it's the one I'm guessing, you did right
03.07.2025 07:02 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
egg salad sandwich from 7/11 could fix me rn
03.07.2025 06:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
hmmm. do they need it preshredded by a two year old?
30.06.2025 12:29 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
to rid myself of all this stupid bubble wrap from moving it will take 3 months' worth of fortnightly bin collections, begging a friend with a car to take it to the recycling center, or five 80 minute roundtrip bus journeys with huge bags. on the verge of cracking and understanding binmenism
30.06.2025 12:18 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
you NEED it! ๐ญ I only got to come in a couple times but it was the best
30.06.2025 11:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I have a toddler and I'm lazy, even going to the supermarket feels like an expedition lol
23.06.2025 09:00 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
I'm in Walthamstow and I'm moving literally one street over ๐
23.06.2025 08:56 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
could not be more psychologically unprepared to move tomorrow if I tried! before I moved to Japan I cried every day for a month but this time I think I might have the crying scheduled for after the move. if I can find the time
23.06.2025 08:50 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past AIM Display Names
19.06.2025 19:23 โ ๐ 36 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
can't be the only one whose experience of the first line of Bruce Springsteen's "Hungry Heart" has been ruined by a million Biden impressions
19.06.2025 07:48 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
yes! do you still have the same phone number?
18.06.2025 12:53 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Outlook not so good
18.06.2025 12:21 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
whirligig (eastern kentucky)
18.06.2025 09:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Writes travel articles, book reviews and social content, with a special interest in translated fiction and theatre.
Welsh-Egyptian. Based between LA & UK. ๐
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US linguist in UK. University of Sussex.
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editor @ the verge. send pitches and death threats to sarah.jeong@theverge.com
Emily Balistrieri, Japanese translator: People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice, Tatami Galaxy, Until I Love Myself, Soul Lanterns, Kiki. 40/he/T๐8/21/2019 ๐ช 10/17/2023 ๆฅๆฌ่ชใงใฏ: @tristora.bsky.social
Translator, editor, book person
poet & nyeusiphile.
Deifying A Total Darkness, To Emit Teal, The Second Stop Is Jupiter, & The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife (soon!)
Irish literary translator, editor, writer, advisory editor to the Stinging Fly, and The Paris Review, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! ๐
Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Critical Theory Tutor at the Sandberg Instituut. American, but slightly less so every passing day. Trying to keep it more professional here. Usually says yes.
local milf driven half mad by an accumulation of text and images
Lecturer & Literary Translator JPN -> ENG
Currently out: DILEMMAS OF WORKING WOMEN by Fumio Yamamoto
In progress: CAPITAL FROM ZERO by Kลhei Saitล, LOVEAHOLIC by Fumio Yamamoto
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Brit in Yokohama, translator at https://www.nippon.com/en/
Translator of The Essential Akutagawa (Sep 2025)
Interested in Japanese language, literature, and history.
Imagining a boot stamping on a human face forever and easily rotating it in three dimensions with my high IQ. Still up and moving around, taking nourishment.
jon
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Orator, Thinker, Networker, Tech & geopolitics commentator, 13th President of International Federation of Translators FIT (2014-17), Indigenous and minoritised spoken and Sign language advocate, Tanguero, Opera lover
They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. TRUTH & DARE out now with @cipherpress.bsky.social ๐ SPACE CRONE (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social ๐ Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
psychedelic death dream. they/them
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London Review Bookshop. 20,000 titles on two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town
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Cultural historian & broadcaster based at the University of Edinburgh. Writing about Japan, India & East-West encounter:
๐ HistoryWithChrisHarding.com
๐ http://christopher-harding.com