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Frank Wynne
@terribleman.com
Irish literary translator, editor, writer, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! 🌈
I’m in Dublin, occasionally write for newspapers (though mostly about literature), and would certainly be interested
Hello, my Bluesky peeps.

I don't suppose any of you are from Dublin, and would like to go to a media preview of Mind of a Serial Killer: The Experience, a new exhibition launching in Dublin, with a view to covering it for GNoH

Thursday, 5th Feb
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

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January 14, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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While the focus is largely on the US, international authors can also help, & increasingly, we're seeing an American-style push against authentic storytelling & education in places like Canada.
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January 14, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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Not once, in all my time on Twitter, did I come across a 'gender critical' activist who made me think, 'maybe I have this wrong?'

In fact, watching people like Graham Linehan slide further and further into Right Wing and Far Right ideology confirmed that they are the ideologues.
January 8, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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Echan a los traductores y quieren que revisen por un tercio de su salario.
Es basura insultante
Harlequin (HarperCollins Francia) finaliza sus contratos con decenas de traductores y traductoras para volcarse de lleno a la IA. La editorial usará una agencia externa, Fluent Planet, para «traducción automática» y luego contratarán freelancers que hagan la «posedición» de lo que escupa la IA ⚠️
January 4, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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Said worked on numerous food security projects, volunteered at 12 Baskets Cafe, organized supplies for the Standing Rock Protests, studied renewable energy, helped found JVP Asheville, did pro bono electrical work for individuals and grassroots orgs, and so much more. 2/3
WNC 4 Peace and local chapter of Veterans for Peace name local 'Peacemaker of the Year'
WNC 4 Peace, Veterans for Peace Chapter 099 and Elder and Sage Community Gardens, sponsors of the local International Day of Peace, announce that Said Abdallah of Asheville is their 2019 Peacemaker of...
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January 3, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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@barnesandnoble.com is running a huge preorder sale! If you want to preorder MY BELOVED OTHER and get 25% off, join their free rewards program and use code PREORDER25 at checkout! Please share! #BookSky #comics
#BNPreorder #MyBelovedOther
@01firstsecond.bsky.social @macmillanusa.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
@sharkbitesteve.bsky.social hi Steve, it’s a longshot – but I thought if anyone might, you might
Sorry, clarification - I have an immediate need for an
Illustration to go with a translation of my short story Children of Dagon and wondered if anyone here had a piece showing a seal/human creature - ideally with a ruined city landscape - ready to go, that I could haggle for. Should be SFW
Any artists out there got an available (non AI) picture of what could be a bioengineered seal/aquatic human?
December 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Every (translator) knows this, the problem may be trying to convince editors and publishers
AI won’t replace us human literary translators just yet | The Observer
observer.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Someone amazing just sent £50 so we are now only £266 away!

www.gofundme.com/f/bee-afford...
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Please, please share
December 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Please share. Thanks
December 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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And may every day be another wonderful secret.
December 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
December 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
"Bradage de la traduction, plan social invisible : Harlequin passe à l’IA"

Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/

#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
December 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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(I got new glasses)
December 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.

And trans lives are grounded in reality.

We see y'all. No matter what.

www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Delighted to announce that @ronanhession.bsky.social will be chatting to James Naughtie on the BBC Radio 4 Book Club

On January 4th at pm.

Marvelmoose!

@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@foylesforbooks.bsky.social
@waterstones.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Bookclub, Rónán Hession
Rónán Hession takes questions on his debut novel, Leonard and Hungry Paul.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
December 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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[CN: transphobia, transmisogyny, sexual harassment]

Unworkable rules and impossible situations are the point. They want to make our lives unliveable.

transactual.org.uk/impacts-of-t...
August 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Not easy to get to sleep tonight - have burnt the bridge of whatever career I had left and really don’t feel that my opinions are so extreme that that should have been necessary
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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An inspiring wide-ranging discussion was had about Roque Larraquy’s weird funny fabulous novel at our book club on Monday at Hatchards with heavyweight translator of contemporary French and Spanish literature Frank Wynne @terribleman.com in attendance.
December 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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“You know what’s faster than mopping? Not spilling in the first place.” 👏
"Machine translation would handle the heavy lifting, and we’d add the expert polish. Except the machine made a mess. And we’re doing expert-level cognitive labour to clean it up for cleaning wages.

We’re not mops. We’re translators."

#translation #xl8

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An open letter to colleagues: we are not mops
After more than two decades working in legal translation across four languages and multiple jurisdictions, I’ve watched our profession reshaped by forces that claim efficiency as a path to our expenda...
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December 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM