Chris Pearce
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Chris Pearce
@kobehonyaku.com
Japanese-to-English technical/industrial translator
日英 技術・産業 翻訳者
Water with a bunch of shit floating in it. おしゃれ!
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
You can really feel the history of the city here 🙏
December 8, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Their future seems rather grim.

But yeah, six months in the hospital is unbelievable. There have been some changes recently they may hopefully indicate her blood-brain barrier has finally healed. Even if not, I would love to avoid all the 緊急入院 we've had over the past year.
December 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Past tense being the key point there. Will it be enough for the next generation of translators? And who is doing the work right now? Young adults working with ML plug-ins working for almost nothing? Are they going to learn anything? I was thinking about this while I riding my bike around today.
December 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I'm going to start cutting back on non-essentials next year since I think things in general are going to get worse before they get better.

Love to have to live through another financial crises.
December 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Suckers. It's not going to go bad that fast.
December 8, 2025 at 8:11 AM
And I hope I have too. This actually would have been an okay year if my daughter hadn't spent over 6 months in the hospital.
December 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Obviously that thesis doesn't really hold up well. Especially not if a dump truck is going to back up to your house and dump a bunch of pounds in royalties on you.

What he meant to say was that you can't rely on being a generalist. You need to fit a profitable niche. And I hope you have!
December 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I've been mentioned 🥹

There was a speaker at my university over 20 years talking about the death of the general translation market. Basically his thesis was that the more people read a translation, the less value that translation has.
December 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I always illuminate my friends with fire control radar. It's just a thing we do.
December 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Reposted by Chris Pearce
【ろうと雲 複数の目撃情報】
前線が通過中の石川県では大気の状態が不安定となっています。発達した雨雲のもとでは、ろうと雲が目撃情報が多数届いています。
竜巻などの激しい突風や降雹(ひょう)、落雷などに注意してください。
weathernews.jp/s/curation/d...
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I get to see Dream Theater in Osaka in March 2026. They were the first band I ever saw live. In 1993 💀
December 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Music will be the only thing that keeps a fountain of blood from erupting out of the top of my head.
December 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
In my field, the source text really is poorly written, and I help the engineers discover what they really wanted to say 🥰
December 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
And this is dumber.
December 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This is dumb.
December 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
You gonna get the gold or what?
December 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I've been using Amazon Music after ditching Spotify this year and it kind of sucks. I'm on a free trial and I don't think I'll be spending any real money on it.
December 7, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Festive!
December 7, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I also have this nascent idea for a version of 'A Christmas Carol' in which Billy Corgan is all three ghosts of Christmas.
December 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM