Julia 🤝
@remarksist.bsky.social
European historian. A socialist. occasional writer. Bylines mainly in Jacobin
📍 Berlin 🚩
📍 Berlin 🚩
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“I find it disheartening that instead of a society that once valorized translators as intercultural communicators and professionals who could uphold a bilingual society, we're flattening culture with AI systems that don't allow for a more organic exchange between languages.”
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“I find it disheartening that instead of a society that once valorized translators as intercultural communicators and professionals who could uphold a bilingual society, we're flattening culture with AI systems that don't allow for a more organic exchange between languages.”
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Coming soon in paperback!
The Poetry of Class:
Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat
by Patrick Eiden-Offe
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2803-t...
The Poetry of Class:
Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat
by Patrick Eiden-Offe
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2803-t...
August 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Coming soon in paperback!
The Poetry of Class:
Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat
by Patrick Eiden-Offe
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2803-t...
The Poetry of Class:
Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat
by Patrick Eiden-Offe
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2803-t...
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More "free speech" in the Times, as "Lawyers for Israel" suggest that booksellers could be criminally liable for selling Sally Rooney's novels.
BBC under pressure over Sally Rooney’s Palestine Action support
The author of Normal People, which was a big hit for the corporation, said at the weekend she would donate money from her work to the proscribed group
www.thetimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
More "free speech" in the Times, as "Lawyers for Israel" suggest that booksellers could be criminally liable for selling Sally Rooney's novels.
Hanging out and catching up with a friend who is trying to make it in the academic job market atm has revealed to me that academics are the people in the modern word who are most likely to have a legitimate serious nemesis. A reoccurring evil character haunting their life.
August 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Hanging out and catching up with a friend who is trying to make it in the academic job market atm has revealed to me that academics are the people in the modern word who are most likely to have a legitimate serious nemesis. A reoccurring evil character haunting their life.
There is a GIANT grasshopper on my window. How do I get it to leave. Also, how did it get there. I live on the TENTH floor
August 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
There is a GIANT grasshopper on my window. How do I get it to leave. Also, how did it get there. I live on the TENTH floor
Literal Brownshirt behaviour
What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?
ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles
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ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles
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August 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Literal Brownshirt behaviour
Bad news for Quebecers: I just overheard some clueless tourists look at the Quebec flag that flies from a building next to Brandenburg gate in Berlin and say “oh must be israel”
August 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Bad news for Quebecers: I just overheard some clueless tourists look at the Quebec flag that flies from a building next to Brandenburg gate in Berlin and say “oh must be israel”
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I’m giving away a signed & framed linocut print of The Mary Wallopers to raise funds for Gaza Go Bragh.
www.idonate.ie/raffle/Print...
The raffle will be running over on iDonate until the 17th and I’ll cover postage to anywhere in the world.
Share with everyone and anyone!
www.idonate.ie/raffle/Print...
The raffle will be running over on iDonate until the 17th and I’ll cover postage to anywhere in the world.
Share with everyone and anyone!
August 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I’m giving away a signed & framed linocut print of The Mary Wallopers to raise funds for Gaza Go Bragh.
www.idonate.ie/raffle/Print...
The raffle will be running over on iDonate until the 17th and I’ll cover postage to anywhere in the world.
Share with everyone and anyone!
www.idonate.ie/raffle/Print...
The raffle will be running over on iDonate until the 17th and I’ll cover postage to anywhere in the world.
Share with everyone and anyone!
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The editors who published this should go straight to The Hague. I mean literally, according to the terms of international law such as it exists.
August 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The editors who published this should go straight to The Hague. I mean literally, according to the terms of international law such as it exists.
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under late Capitalism we only have working situationships. all meaningful relations of labor have been slowly degraded into temporary exchanges of services just to keep up with your rent
June 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
under late Capitalism we only have working situationships. all meaningful relations of labor have been slowly degraded into temporary exchanges of services just to keep up with your rent
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@remarksist.bsky.social and I have translated Florian Wilde’s biography of KPD chairman Ernst Meyer, pupil of Luxemburg, champion of inner-party democracy and leading theorist of the united front tactic. Out in December:
brill.com/display/titl...
brill.com/display/titl...
Revolution as Realpolitik
"Revolution as Realpolitik" published on 18 Dec 2025 by Brill.
brill.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
@remarksist.bsky.social and I have translated Florian Wilde’s biography of KPD chairman Ernst Meyer, pupil of Luxemburg, champion of inner-party democracy and leading theorist of the united front tactic. Out in December:
brill.com/display/titl...
brill.com/display/titl...
I spent €12 on worthless Weimar-era hyperinflation money
June 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I spent €12 on worthless Weimar-era hyperinflation money
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Heidi #Reichinnek sprach heute Abend kurz nach der Abstimmung vielen Menschen aus der Seele🔥
#bundestag #merz #niewiedercducsu
#bundestag #merz #niewiedercducsu
January 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Heidi #Reichinnek sprach heute Abend kurz nach der Abstimmung vielen Menschen aus der Seele🔥
#bundestag #merz #niewiedercducsu
#bundestag #merz #niewiedercducsu
bad news for marxist defenders of Canadian independence.
Friedrich Engels writing from Montreal in 1888
Friedrich Engels writing from Montreal in 1888
January 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
bad news for marxist defenders of Canadian independence.
Friedrich Engels writing from Montreal in 1888
Friedrich Engels writing from Montreal in 1888
hard to describe the kind of freak I am besides telling you that reading this kind of sentence literally gives me a rush of exhilaration
January 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
hard to describe the kind of freak I am besides telling you that reading this kind of sentence literally gives me a rush of exhilaration
Guy on the train was obviously bothered by my talking (looking at me muttering under his breath) but it was unclear to me whether it was because I was talking about Ernst Meyer and communism/the communist party of Germany in the 1920s or because I have an annoying accent/ voice. The duality of life
January 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Guy on the train was obviously bothered by my talking (looking at me muttering under his breath) but it was unclear to me whether it was because I was talking about Ernst Meyer and communism/the communist party of Germany in the 1920s or because I have an annoying accent/ voice. The duality of life
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Isn’t this simply true? A world where there is less economic growth _is_ a more zero sum world. We can’t avoid distributional struggles when the pie isn’t growing. The already rich and wealthy have been winning these struggles for 45 years.
December 30, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Isn’t this simply true? A world where there is less economic growth _is_ a more zero sum world. We can’t avoid distributional struggles when the pie isn’t growing. The already rich and wealthy have been winning these struggles for 45 years.
I consider myself vey tolerant of national differences but the way that germans transliterate "Zinoviev" is where I draw the line. "Sinowjew" looks insane
December 29, 2024 at 12:28 PM
I consider myself vey tolerant of national differences but the way that germans transliterate "Zinoviev" is where I draw the line. "Sinowjew" looks insane
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John Brosio, Dinosaurs Eating CEO (2013)
December 14, 2024 at 12:14 AM
John Brosio, Dinosaurs Eating CEO (2013)
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My latest post is about Warren Beatty's 1981 film Reds and the witness testimonies that make it the greatest historical drama in 20th century cinema (IMHO) archiverats.substack.com/p/dreaming-o...
Dreaming of a Red Christmas
Warren Beatty's Reds (1981) and the radical lives behind it
archiverats.substack.com
December 14, 2024 at 11:01 AM
My latest post is about Warren Beatty's 1981 film Reds and the witness testimonies that make it the greatest historical drama in 20th century cinema (IMHO) archiverats.substack.com/p/dreaming-o...
Guy doing bus driver training in a big bendy bus blocked 2 lanes of traffic and 3 other busses from going anywhere for like 6 minutes. I would die of embarrassment
December 12, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Guy doing bus driver training in a big bendy bus blocked 2 lanes of traffic and 3 other busses from going anywhere for like 6 minutes. I would die of embarrassment
Every day I regret that I don’t have a video of the time my friends shouted down Wes Streeting at an event by just chanting “scum” progressively louder and louder until he had to address the disruption
December 11, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Every day I regret that I don’t have a video of the time my friends shouted down Wes Streeting at an event by just chanting “scum” progressively louder and louder until he had to address the disruption
Walter Gropius's monument in Weimar to the victims of the far-right Kapp Putsch of March 1920. Me for scale
December 10, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Walter Gropius's monument in Weimar to the victims of the far-right Kapp Putsch of March 1920. Me for scale
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Can't believe this question came up in my citizenship test. Props to the German Federal Government for giving the Motor City their dues.
December 7, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Can't believe this question came up in my citizenship test. Props to the German Federal Government for giving the Motor City their dues.