Mitsuru Watanabe (Japanese, born 1953) Naoko with Ice Cream, 2000 Oil on canvas laid on panel 19 7/10 × 19 7/10 in (50 × 50 cm) Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

"Invoked inshallah" has me rollingggggg

✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 12h ago

starting my compilation/collage of right wing white dipshits losing their shit over the word “inshallah”

TT job in Pre-Modern History of the Islamicate Middle East or Central Asia (600-1700 CE) University of Chicago apply.interfolio.com/190288

Congratulations to SALT mentee Sahana Hegde for the publication of her translation from Kannada in Hyphen! Read the story here:

A heinous act. Israel burns 1,200,000 square meters of olive groves in the mixed Shiite-Christian village of Yaroun. www.lorientlejour.com/article/1543...

« Nous avons regardé les champs brûler, impuissants et en larmes » : À Yaroun, l'armée israélienne réduit en cendres des oliviers centenaires

Pendant plus de trente-six heures, le feu a dévoré plus de 120 hectares d’oliveraies de Yaroun, dont certaines abritaient des arbres centenaires, raconte le président du conseil municipal de cette...

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Canna Red and Green,1921 Georgia O'Keeffe (United States 1887 - 1986). Oil on canvas | 36 x 18 in. Location: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM, USA. #GeorgiaOKeeffe #CannaRedAndGreen #AmericanArt #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Blue and Green Music,1919 by Georgia O'Keeffe (United States, 1887 - 1986). Pastel on paper | 18 x 12 in. Location: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. #GeorgiaOKeeffe #BlueAndGreenMusic #AmericanArt #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Malcesine on Lake Garda https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28562

Call for subs!

Dame assise de trois-quarts - 1620 https://www.wikiart.org/en/artemisia-gentileschi/dame-assise-de-trois-quarts

This! Great point. People are so fascinated by computers when they beat humans at chess or go, but those are things we only *think* of as hard, but are actually easy for computers. Translation is perceived in the opposite way, where people *think* it’s easy, but it’s actually hard for computers.

Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦@merz.bsky.social · 5d ago

As a working biochemist, I can say without any doubt that AI tools have revolutionized much of the work that I and my colleagues do, on a daily basis. Protein structure prediction, and protein in particular, are immense breakthroughs. They are incredible, empowering and enabling tools.

Absurd! She’s a celebrity translator!

Gazala Anver@gazala.bsky.social · last wk.

Everyone losing their minds about the 'tone' of the review, for we all have to be grateful for the service C. Nolan rendered onto mankind, most esp the translator, who stands to benefit from his benevolent act. All hail, C Nolan, Saviour of the Arts!

Translators should know their place!

Aaron Bady@zunguzungu.bsky.social · last wk.

Okay now it's getting real

Good news, it is also #WorldTigerDay ! Here is a fierce bad tiger. And very big! By Morris Hirshfield, 1940.

People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference

From humour to history to heartbreak, and from satire to sci-fi to surreality, here’s everything you need to know about the Booker Prize 2026 longlist. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

I have neither watched the film nor read the LRB review (though I have have read the poem), and I'm now getting anxious about which order i should do this in, or whether I should re-read the poem first because it's been a long time, or whether I should go film -> poem -> LRB or

🎉Applications are OPEN for Emerging Translator Mentorships 2026–27! Mentees receive six months of personal mentoring with a mentor in their language or field, as well as invitations to industry events for their professional and creative development.

12. Beyond anything about the film as a film, it was a terrible and entirely unnecessary choice to film the Trojan Horse sequence in occupied Dakhla, Western Sahara, without the consent of the indigenous population.

Died (alas!) on this day in 1601, in Vienna, Joris Hoefnagel. Originally from Antwerp. Draftsman, miniaturist, designer. Here, from his Four Elements of 1570s, some very fine owls. They fly at night.

“The demonstrators call themselves the Cockroach Janta Party ("Cockroach People's Party"), and they want to overhaul the way India is run, starting with an education system they say is corrupt.” By Omkar Khandekar, Bilal Kuchay #India #Education #Jobs #GenZ

India's Gen Z 'Cockroach People's Party' started as satire but is serious about change

They call themselves the "cockroaches" and they're on the march — demanding action against corruption, amid a shortage of opportunities for young people in India.

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3/3 Another totally fab Magdalene with A+ applied ornamentation by Crivelli, 1487, for the Feast Day of Mary Magdalene.

The name of the Cockroach Janta Party (Cockroach People's Party) came in response to comments made by India's Chief Justice Surya Kant During a hearing in May he allegedly compared unemployed young people drifting towards journalism and activism to cockroaches/parasites www.bbc.com/news/article...

Jantar Mantar: What is the Gen Z CJP protest in Delhi about?

Thousands of mostly young people tried to march on India's parliament to demand changes to how the education system is run.

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The Modi government in India has attempted to ban a satirical political movement from social media on "national security" concerns. That is the equivalent of banning Count Binface. The "Cockroach Janta Party" is a satirical political party for India's disaffected youth.

Ghost Coast.@spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 2w ago

Back in June, I did write about India's Cockroach Janta Party (scroll down): www.citizensouth.org/why-is-the-g... for the nl, @citizensouth.eurosky.social

Thousands marched to the country’s parliament in Delhi on July 20 to demand the resignation of the Indian Education Minister over exam scandals that have affected millions of students.

Students have been protesting for weeks under the banner of a satirical political movement called “Cockroach Janata Party” or CJP, after India’s top judge compared unemployed youth to “cockroaches” and “parasites”. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Cockroach Janta Party (CJP): How Abhijeet Dipke's collective became an online sensation

A satirical collective named after the cockroach has got millions of online followers in less than a week.

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Bellingcat has been monitoring student protests in India. Police initially denied reports protesters were met with violence at a July 20 march, although later acknowledged injuries to protesters and officers. Social media videos showed tear gas deployed and batons used by police against protestors.

Photos: Police fire tear gas at India’s Cockroach movement supporters https://aje.news/y548b7