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Neil McCallum
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Translator/Analyst| Bordeaux to Beijing| #Eurasia| #Masculinities| (Feminist) #Security| Gymnast| Black Belt| @suttontrust ALB| 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇨🇿
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December 20, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Is it Spanish, is it Czech?
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December 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The classic british sport... annoying the French... now to binge Emily in Paris.
December 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Back from Bulgaira 🇧🇬 last night, new Peirene Press Bulgarian book this morning.
December 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Born this day in 1884, on Neskuchnoye estate in Ukraine, the marvelous painter Zinaida Serebriakova. After my time, but worth making an exception! Here by herself at the mirror in 1909.
December 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
You can quote me all the Lermontov you want, but...
December 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Today's new eastern European measurement for blocking access to Metros... cheesewire style shields.
December 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The best type of museum.
December 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The Bulgarian less sweet version of Cherry B, so a) i don't want to know what the more sweet version was and b) not sure I ever want to try 80s Cherry B.
December 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Translated Lit in the wild.
In a coffee shop in Sofia so would have preferred a Bulgarian one to flick through.... but still.
December 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Another evening, another grandpa's rakia.
December 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social, @giramondobooks.bsky.social and New Directions announce the shortlist for the inaugural Poetry in Translation Prize
259 submissions, more than 55 languages
I WANT THEM ALL
December 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Whisky-like rakia. Perfect.
December 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Ever seen a seal try to chase a seagull before? Well you have now!
December 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Blue fenugreek covered bread in Plovdiv. Smelt like opening my spice cupboard.
December 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
5 hr trains through the Bulgarian countryside. Rickety. Not ideal for a nap. Oh well.
December 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Forgot I was wearing my Pilsner Urquell t-shirt when ordering 🇨🇿
December 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
‘We’re a bit jealous of Kneecap’: how Europe’s minority tongues are facing the digital future | Stephen Burgen www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
‘We’re a bit jealous of Kneecap’: how Europe’s minority tongues are facing the digital future | Stephen Burgen
What does it mean to lose a language, and what does it take to save it? Those were the big questions being asked in Barcelona recently, says freelance writer Stephen Burgen
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
BBC News - WW1 toxic compound sprayed on Georgian protesters, BBC evidence suggests - BBC News 🇬🇪
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
WW1 toxic compound sprayed on Georgian protesters, BBC evidence suggests
Anti-government demonstrators are likely to have been targeted with camite, our investigation finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Albanian beer and cocktail evening.
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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In 1657, Jin Shengtan 金聖嘆 broke off from his commentary on 'The Romance of the Western Chamber' to list "33 Nice Things" 不亦快哉三十三則.
It's one of the most likable things I know of in any language. I translated it to cheer myself up a while ago, if anyone could use it. www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good
November 8, 2024 at 4:07 AM
I enjoy an Albanian Sofra
November 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Oda
A good, random recommendation I found for Tirana.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM