Paweł Ausir Dembowski
@ausir.bsky.social
Linguist and translator.
Languages spoken: PL/EN/ES/LAD/CA/PT/YI/DE (more or less in the order of fluency)
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Mastodon: @[email protected] (English), @[email protected] (polski)
he/him on/jego http://pronouns.page/@ausir
Languages spoken: PL/EN/ES/LAD/CA/PT/YI/DE (more or less in the order of fluency)
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Mastodon: @[email protected] (English), @[email protected] (polski)
he/him on/jego http://pronouns.page/@ausir
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Author Angel Torres Quesada (b.1940) died on November 30. Writing under the name A Thorkent, Quesada wrote Wyharga, Los vientos del olvido, and Un paraiso llamado Ara, as more than fifty other novels. He won the Premio Ignotus in 2004.
December 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Author Angel Torres Quesada (b.1940) died on November 30. Writing under the name A Thorkent, Quesada wrote Wyharga, Los vientos del olvido, and Un paraiso llamado Ara, as more than fifty other novels. He won the Premio Ignotus in 2004.
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This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
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It could be a typo, but – and this may or may not be germane – I've come across "an European" as a deliberate choice and discovered that it used to predominate
stancarey.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/a...
stancarey.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/a...
An European vs. A European
E. P. Thompson’s magisterial History of the English Working Class (1963) contains a short, innocuous phrase that nonetheless pulled me up short: ‘The population “explosion” can be…
stancarey.wordpress.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
It could be a typo, but – and this may or may not be germane – I've come across "an European" as a deliberate choice and discovered that it used to predominate
stancarey.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/a...
stancarey.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/a...
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Desgraciadamente, eso pasa a menudo en cómics, animación, videojuegos… no en vano existen memes al respecto. La exigencia de que los personajes femeninos tengan que ser agradables a la vista sí o sí.
December 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Desgraciadamente, eso pasa a menudo en cómics, animación, videojuegos… no en vano existen memes al respecto. La exigencia de que los personajes femeninos tengan que ser agradables a la vista sí o sí.
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Interesting development: from today, Flemish daily De Standaard (published since 1918) will punish a generous selection of its journalism in French. The Belgian media landscape is strongly divided along linguistic lines; this is an unusual attempt to have a more 'pan-Belgian' reach 🇧🇪🗞️
December 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Interesting development: from today, Flemish daily De Standaard (published since 1918) will punish a generous selection of its journalism in French. The Belgian media landscape is strongly divided along linguistic lines; this is an unusual attempt to have a more 'pan-Belgian' reach 🇧🇪🗞️
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I told you so.
The biggest problem of modern Europe is the lack of balls.
Disgusting.
The biggest problem of modern Europe is the lack of balls.
Disgusting.
🇧🇪 Belgian PM Bart De Wever told La Libre that Russia “will not lose” in Ukraine and called claims of its defeat “a fairy tale and total illusion.” He warned that Russian assets must be returned post-war and said Moscow threatened Belgium with “eternal retaliation” if confiscated.
December 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I told you so.
The biggest problem of modern Europe is the lack of balls.
Disgusting.
The biggest problem of modern Europe is the lack of balls.
Disgusting.
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Personally I think it shows the deep tolerance of Scotland that it allows so many kids to keep speaking a foreign language like English. Forcing them all to learn Gaelic, Scots or Norn seems a bit much to me.
December 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Personally I think it shows the deep tolerance of Scotland that it allows so many kids to keep speaking a foreign language like English. Forcing them all to learn Gaelic, Scots or Norn seems a bit much to me.
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roses are red
black holes are very dense
black holes are very dense
December 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
roses are red
black holes are very dense
black holes are very dense
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a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
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Like they're literally naming companies after Tolkien stuff and quoting from these old philosophers, but a lot of those guys are/were anti-tech, at least in a broad sense? E.g. it's hard to imagine Tolkien (who hated combustion engines!) would be anything but horrified about Palantir.
December 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Like they're literally naming companies after Tolkien stuff and quoting from these old philosophers, but a lot of those guys are/were anti-tech, at least in a broad sense? E.g. it's hard to imagine Tolkien (who hated combustion engines!) would be anything but horrified about Palantir.
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5. Minced meat is meat, but mincemeat isn’t. Nor are sweetmeats, though sweetbreads are. Buffalo wings are an obvious attempt to mess with our heads. Shepherd’s pie, or so the printed ingredients claim, contains no shepherd. And don’t get me started on jelly babies. 5/6
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
5. Minced meat is meat, but mincemeat isn’t. Nor are sweetmeats, though sweetbreads are. Buffalo wings are an obvious attempt to mess with our heads. Shepherd’s pie, or so the printed ingredients claim, contains no shepherd. And don’t get me started on jelly babies. 5/6
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That could be cool if some ancient setting game could have interslavic dub. Might give the ancient language atmosphere and also solve multiple localisation issue. (Who am I lying to, it will flop 😭)
Poland is a bigger market than Czechia so I guess doing a full Czech dub was less economically viable (but also a Witcher game without a Polish version would just seem wrong)
December 3, 2025 at 9:21 AM
That could be cool if some ancient setting game could have interslavic dub. Might give the ancient language atmosphere and also solve multiple localisation issue. (Who am I lying to, it will flop 😭)
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Book!Dawes in books 5 and 6 was probably written already with Harris in mind and his scenes are excellent but sadly Harris could not make it due to scheduling conflict with AppleTV’s Foundation
December 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Book!Dawes in books 5 and 6 was probably written already with Harris in mind and his scenes are excellent but sadly Harris could not make it due to scheduling conflict with AppleTV’s Foundation
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Everyone knows the "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" -> Blade Runner one, but "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" -> Total Recall is another funny one.
Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
December 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Everyone knows the "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" -> Blade Runner one, but "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" -> Total Recall is another funny one.
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Poland is a bigger market than Czechia so I guess doing a full Czech dub was less economically viable (but also a Witcher game without a Polish version would just seem wrong)
December 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Poland is a bigger market than Czechia so I guess doing a full Czech dub was less economically viable (but also a Witcher game without a Polish version would just seem wrong)
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December 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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This app really platforms the most outlandish opinions
They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This app really platforms the most outlandish opinions
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Most of Crimea voted for Ukrainian independence back in the day in 1991 even if by a more narrow margin than the rest of the country
December 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Most of Crimea voted for Ukrainian independence back in the day in 1991 even if by a more narrow margin than the rest of the country
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@ekskursje.bsky.social wrote a biography of Copernicus, whose major point was that Copernicus was Polish in the way that matters the most - by choice of allegiance to Poland, even if not ethnically
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
@ekskursje.bsky.social wrote a biography of Copernicus, whose major point was that Copernicus was Polish in the way that matters the most - by choice of allegiance to Poland, even if not ethnically
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Quick question, whose ancestors colonized previously inhabited native land and genocided the natives, Falklanders’ or Argentinians’?
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Quick question, whose ancestors colonized previously inhabited native land and genocided the natives, Falklanders’ or Argentinians’?
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I met a Polish Vietnam war veteran once, also was technically a „technical advisor” to North Vietnam
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I met a Polish Vietnam war veteran once, also was technically a „technical advisor” to North Vietnam
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Calling the Falklands „stolen land” is especially rich coming from white Argentinians who live on land actually stolen from people their ancestors genocided
December 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Calling the Falklands „stolen land” is especially rich coming from white Argentinians who live on land actually stolen from people their ancestors genocided
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the thing about extra-time accommodations is that either they help you a lot or they don't matter much, and if they help you a lot that is evidence that you should get them
Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
December 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
the thing about extra-time accommodations is that either they help you a lot or they don't matter much, and if they help you a lot that is evidence that you should get them
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