Susan Pickford

⬅️ this human in the loop is irritated by such a nonsense decision.

ah, I see it's almost time for my annual FUCK BLACK FRIDAY FOREVER post

Tbh if some bloke I've never spoken to told me I float like a feather and my skin makes him cry I'd probably run out the door too

Always check your brand name travels well

Pour se remonter un peu le moral : première neige sur le haut-Jura ce matin

🔥🔥🔥 anarchy reaches Switzerland as someone deliberately hits a car wing mirror 🔥🔥🔥

The Canadian govt out there accidentally making AI porn for the French-speaking community

I can report that as of this morning, AI translation is still blithely leaving out negatives in Turkish>English, turning sentences into their polar opposites

Hot take: using AI to make slop pics of a father holding his dying child's hand in Aberfan should ban you from polite society for life

look at this gorgeous event poster. Fuck your AI slop

AI translation spotted in the wild: "pisse-mémé" (herbal tea) > granny-pisser

Do you renounce the Confrérie des amateurs de bleu de Gex?

Last week to enter the 2026 Schools' International Reading Award! Send us a photo of your Read Around the World display, or tell us about a reading challenge/reading project your school has run that included books from or set in other countries worldkidlit.org/internationa... #readtheworld #kidlit

Derpy fungus

Wow, what a stunning insight. Well worth the gold coaches and gazillion pounds a year www.bbc.com/news/article...

Love this, from the arts economy inquiry Structurally Fucked static.a-n.co.uk/wp-content/u...

les écoles de commerce qui font leur pub radio sur le fait que les inscriptions sont hors ParcourSup 💀

Currently reading a book by a leading translation scholar published in the year of our lord 2026 that makes not a single mention of the possibility of AI disruption. Srsly

Morning run

Ratioooooooo

Problem is, mopping up the machine's mistakes is stultifying and no-one will want to spend 40 years doing it, so there's a big brain drain in the pipeline www.bbc.com/news/article...

Morning run

Interviewer: 'Do you mind explaining this gap in your CV?' French person: ben la préfecture du zéro cinq quoi

Learned about this digital humanities climate action toolkit on Friday and thought it's worth amplifying: sas-dhrh.github.io/dhcc-toolkit...

Morning walk with rainbowwwwww yeah

Male French authors of a certain age not being creepy challenge: impossible

**receipts** from my new book Translating Books for Publication: "Eva Ferri (Europa) has said “Hiring a human being is the right thing to do, even when the alternative is much more cost-efficient” (quoted in Aslanyan 2024)"

The same Europa Editions that, like, two years ago was making grand statements about the need for human translators? Surely not. That cannot be right

@actualnames.bsky.social

Bavarian politician speaking at an AI strategy conference with automatic AI subtitling is laughed off stage. Subtitles include "It was a sad song" and (roughly) "Is it not fake for toilets?"

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I LOVED this book as a kid and bought it for my own. This definitely sparks joy sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

This is what scholarly collaboration should look like. Crick and Watson can bite me

Vouloir des profs et du papier wc = idéologie d’extrême gauche.

We do NOT mess around with cheese #vivelafrance

Le fiston qui va participer à son premier mouvement social demain au collège 🥹

Petition to shift the narrative from "good enough" to "basic bitch" AI translation

question for any Pratchetteers out there: I don't get the ref to the Lay of Barking Johnnie (The Shepherd's Crown). Can anyone clue me in?

is this person in a bubble that thinks everyone in the world lives in the US of A?

Le haut Jura, on ne s'en lasse pas. Morning walk with moon

Lecture du jour. Je kiffe l'histoire locale. Les familles de 22 enfants 😵😳😮

Ami.e.s universitaires et écolos, la FTI Genève invite le 9 octobre prochain Anne Baillot (Le Mans) pour une conférence sur le thème "Activité universitaire et limites planétaires : ce qu'apporte la sobriété numérique". 16h15 CET en format hybride avec inscription obligatoire tinyurl.com/3vye6wje

Writing my annual self-assessment, flicking back through my diary. What the heck was going on here

Someone was sick on stage during the carol service. I remember his name forty years on. Poor guy