it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

feeling angry or depressed? why not fix yourself a cup of tea? then you can be angry and depressed while also holding a cup of tea

Jeff Bezos took over the Washington Post Editorial Board and turned it into a mouthpiece for pro-corporate, pro-billionaire propaganda. Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

When the call comes for a truce with Venefic, it falls to Inglis and her friends to set off into enemy territory! But while they’re negotiating, she comes face-to-face with someone from her past in "Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire ♀" Volume 13! bit.ly/4a6z7nd

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Because of wider usage of the slang "no cap," I can't write "Cap?" or "No cap?" in margin notes for suggested revisions

Incredibly funny that this is the closest Matty Yglesias will ever get to admitting he was wrong about American empire. “Looks like that leftist was right. Like a fucking IDIOT”

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

My spouse got me a copy of Orwell's 1984 that I've been eyeing for a while. The book that propelled me deep into journalism and history studies. The book that I guess people could say "radicalized" me. And the book that people on the right constantly misunderstand!!!!!

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

[cherrypicking scenes to define genre the way people do with Ghibli movies] The Godfather is "cozy."

It's that time of year... Tiny cover images to show off what I worked on this year! I edited 9 novels, 12 manga (though several of these were things I actually worked on previously but didn't publish until this year), and a whole heck of a lot of copy edits and proofreads of various books!

Seasons greetings.

who remembers when I used to do games journalism? it feels like a lifetime ago

It's important that we assess the damage of gamergate, but as it was largely about harassing games journalists, I'm disappointed that this piece didn't actually talk to many games journalists. Many of us quit journalism since then, for good reason. I'm sad to not see that addressed.

Looking to get rid of some of your old manga? Donate to the Otakorp Manga Library to spread the holiday cheer for future manga lovers alike! You may bring donations to Otakon 2026 or email [email protected] to coordinate mailing your donation to us!

Happy 30th anniversary to the Tales series, one of my all-time favorite RPG series! 🎉...I just wish it treated my colleagues with a little more respect. The series actively stopped crediting its English localizers as of 2014, and has almost never credited its FIGS localizers or English voice actors.

On the manga stagnation segment: Bud, poor translation and localization quality are so directly tied to what you put down as Industry Best Practices, the Venn Diagram is a single circle.

what's up gamers, I'm back with ten more tangible tips for editing your tabletop RPG manuscript: samsorensen.blot.im/ten-more-tan...

This is all bullshit, and if my overseas friends don't feel safe visiting next year, I don't blame them! When I flew back into the US from my trip to Japan this year, I logged out of all my social media accounts, uninstalled them, and turned off my phone. The agent did not ask for my phone, but 🤷

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

look I live and breathe shonen manga, but I've been banging this drum for decades now there are *so* many excellent comics and shows from Japan that aren't for the shonen demographic--and more importantly--don't run in Weekly Shonen Jump

I would probably still take on some editing assignments--but way fewer--and I'd focus so much more of my energy on my own writing. When stuck on an idea, I'd spend more time reading other books for fun.

Not even No Game No Life deserves this

Late to mentioning this, but I am the editor for Buying You On the Day You Were to Die. I've really wanted the chance to edit more standalone books, especially ones for older audiences, and I enjoyed going through this book! It's heavy, and sometimes I want a story of someone REALLY going through it

so fuckin mad that my favorite means of breaking up a run-on sentence -- the em dash -- is now associated with ai generated text. what am I supposed to do now? use semicolons?? like a goddamn english major?

It's buy one get one 40% off for ALL our graphic novels from @abramscomicarts.bsky.social today! I'm going to list some of my favorite gift pick combos from this season—we make some great books! www.abramsbooks.com/imprints/abr...

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translation can often be a complex process. even a scene as simple as two characters talking about drinking some delicious tea can take surprisingly long to translate if it makes the translator go "well now I want some delicious tea." now you've gotta get up and go make it, and play with the cat, an

The struggle of when something sounds like a typo in the source text, but you're not entirely sure, and you're not likely to get an answer either way about it, so you just gotta go with it. At least it's a very background character that it concerns.

call me a crazy socialist, but I think when you're one of the biggest media companies in Japan, you can afford to pay a standard rate (an already too-low standard rate!) for the localization of an extremely hyped, upcoming series

The conclusion to Otonari Complex is here. I received my comp copy in the mail recently--just in time for it to be in bookstores tomorrow 👀 It was a delight to serve as the adapter on this one! Though @jennichijou.bsky.social's translation was fabulous. And @cranchyroll.com's lettering is 💯 #manga

In middle school, I was a Daisuke stan when all my friends were Dark stans. It'll be good to see what this new version is like!

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

I should be working, but I keep looking up Kyoto dialect stuff in advance of my travels...

Now that this season of anime is ending, I can say that this was probably the most stacked season of anime that I can remember in a long time. I remember Summer 2011 being quite good.

Stuck in my head today: "I have no shelf control" sung to the same melody as "this is my last resort"

I should make a thread of Japanese to English translationisms that I frequently edit as someone who works on a lot of light novels and sees a lot of the same turns of phrase in narration. Consider this a thread now. #amediting #amtranslating

The lion sleeps tonight

I got an NYT push alert about Taylor Swift getting engaged, but not about the United States spying on Greenland

so if you’ll indulge me, I want to say a bit more about what it’s been like working on The Otaku Love Connection with minami! minami and I first met when we both worked for cybird in tokyo. we quickly discovered that we were both deeply involved in otaku fangirl culture and liked the same media

This anime fucked me up in all the right ways!!! I was SOBBING, turning to my spouse as they said, "Oh, did I mention that Devilman is quite sad? 😇"

Daniel Cruz of PEN America emphasized the toll censorship can take on authors: “Authors stop writing the content that's getting censored.”

The most sobering yet important panel I attended all weekend of Anime NYC was one on censorship, both "hard censorship" and "soft censorship," with discussions of our current political climate along with why US publishers might decide the things that they do. 🧵 incoming

LRP and thread quoted are so true, as is the likening to J>E dicts to thesauruses. After a certain point you can instinctively grasp the nuance of a word in JP, but the exact word you're looking for in EN isn't in the J>E dict, even if they're all close. That's when I head to the E>E thesaurus!

Good thread. I regularly tell people to look up the word "go" in the English dictionary. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go it has 20 listed meanings as an intransitive verb, 9 as a transitive verb, and 9 as a noun... and then you get to the "phrases", such as "go after", go hang" or "go easy".

respectability politics will see us all killed

I received this jingly charm as a part of the owner of cutest pets award, and it is going to become a cat toy whether I want it to.