Fitzcarraldo have a sale on!! 💙📚

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 179: Za skalkou, built in 1925.

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 180: V podhájí, built in 1911.

I do so love starting my Monday morning by composing a very tactful email explaining to an aggrieved client the reasoning and thought-processes behind my translation of two words in a text I translated several years ago. Send chocolate. #xl8 🌐

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

It was an early autumn morning with cold light, so I am obliged to post a picture of this view. I don't make the rules.

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 178: Gončarenkova, built in 1934.

2) A ‘družstvo’ is a ‘cooperative’ (it’s also a ‘team’). ‘Práce’ is ‘work’, otherwise known as the reason if I ever skip a day in this series. Or a week. Or a month.

We have it as a contract point that translations of my work have to be performed by actual humans, I think actual human readers deserve to have actual humans translating and making the works as excellent as they can be regardless of language

Nothing yet from either, but I have just heard from a third author, objecting to the way I translated a key word in their text, over which I tore my hair out before coming up with something *I* at least thought was rather good... Sigh. #xl8 #literarytranslation #amtranslating 🌐

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 175: Ke Klínku, built in 1955. Ke Klínku was built in 1955. Despite the street sign, it’s partially in Podolí (we’re officially getting out of Podolí and officially getting into Braník in about ten days).

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 174: Kubištova, built in 1991.

I went to a dog show. A Yorkie took Best in Show, a Jack Russell took second, and a Scotty took third.. I think the judges had an all terrier motive.

Translating documents for a vet medical study from German. One of the vets has the surname Wolf and another the first name Wolfgang... #xl8 #amtranslating 🌐

Currently waiting for 2 authors to get back to me about my translations of their work, and I'm torn between frustration (I want to hear now!) and pinching myself that I'm actually corresponding with real, published authors whom I admire...! #xl8 #literarytranslation #amtranslating 🌐

Well, a woman posted. Better explain to her what she just said

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 173: Bohuslava Martinů, built in 1966.

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 172: Hudečkova, built in 1965.

Let's go full dessert mode on Bluesky. Best pie: torta della nonna Best ice cream: chocolate or pistachio Best donut: custard Best bar: 70% chocolate with salted caramel Best cake: red velvet (currently; changes frequently!) Best other: crème brûlée. Runner up: chocolate mousse with raspberries

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

I think this says it all!

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 171: Perlitová, built in 1977.

Thousands of women are sharing this and saying yes, this was their experience, many of them sharing their own horrific 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s experiences. (And almost everyone sharing it appears to be female.)

I think this says it all!

This is *always* the word of the day!

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 170: Nad kolonií, built in 1947.

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We were robbed last night. When it’s our stock or our money that is targeted, there’s insurance and systems in place for this, but when it’s stealing from a charity in an extremely direct way then we just can’t abide it. scottishbooktrust.com/donate @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social

I read somewhere that when you’re with someone you deeply trust, your brain shifts your body into rest mode. Research shows that lovers can synchronise their sleep with heartbeats and movements, falling into rhythm throughout the night. Isn’t it lovely? Love is rest.

Why does sterling always drop against the euro when I receive a large payment into my euro account?! I'm beginning to think it's personal... 🤦‍♀️

Mount TBR grows, again! 💙📚 #xl8 #literarytranslation 🌐

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 167: V rovinách, built in 1935.

Anyone notice the similarities between Pratchett's dis-organisers and AI? Over-eager and rarely what you need though occasionally good at counting stuff...

2 Windows updates already, and the day has barely started (by which I mean I haven't started work yet 😜) I thought the days when I called my computer "Godot" were long gone, but it seems not! #amtranslating #notactuallytranslatingbutshouldbe

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From now on I will be referring to any AI translation scam punted by a techbro as Babelfash.

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 166: Nad Ondřejovem, named in 1935.

Articles in English are an absolute screaming nightmare – and sometimes they aren't even articles at all! (People who learn English as a foreign language to fluency have my utmost, undying respect!) #langsky #linguistics #xl8 🌐

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 165: Dvouramenná, built in the 1930s but not named until 1947.

#xl8 #translatedlit #literarytranslation 🌐 💙📚🪐

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 164: Na vrstvách, built in 1935.

#xl8 #translatedlit #literarytranslation 🌐 💙📚🪐

How many names do your dogs have? Blacksmith Laura (racing name) Luath (pronounced Loua) Luath-Luath Lulu Madam The Hound Doggle Doggle-Doggle Doggle-Dog-Dog Canis Flatulensis Silly Bitch #SnootSky

Silent march in Prague for the murdered children of Gaza/Tichý pochod. Grateful for the words, and the presence, of Tomáš Halík (who spoke before and after the march). For the prayers in Czech and Arabic. 🙏

I post a piece of good news every day (climate, civil rights, disease eradication, science, sanitation, conservation) because, to keep our activism & resistance going, we need reminders that, when we try hard, we do succeed. They *want* doomerism; Despair is how we lose. #ShareGoodNewsToo

The $ is to buy our silence & instead it shd fund our fight. Thinking about Elle-Maija Tailfeathers' first short film BLOODLAND, about destructive fracking on Blackfoot lane in Kainai, made with $800 distribution cheque from a settlement by fracking company. briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

$1.5 bil is just under 1% of their current funding round, for perspective. Whereas $3000 (settlement per title) is about 25% of average annual author earnings from writing in the UK. The amount is derisory & the wealth gap (funded by our work) is indefensible.

this is a minuscule fraction of what they just raised on their latest funding round

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 163: Kaplická, built in 1962.

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 162: Nad cihelnou, built in 1935.