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Jay King

@jay-king-art.bsky.social

Athens-based writer, performer & translator from the Republic of Croydon. Crime novels, audiobooks and drama, bouzouki, neurodivergence, migraines, G.O. 💚🍉 Now also Greek. I wrote Common Charges, the Exarcheia murder mystery Www.jayking.art

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Louise@selkies.bsky.social · last wk.

Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog

ThePressProject@thepressproject.libretooth.gr.ap.brid.gy · 5d ago

Nearly half of Greeks cannot afford a week’s holiday https://thepressproject.gr/nearly-half-of-greeks-cannot-afford-a-weeks-holiday/

Nearly half of Greeks cannot afford a week’s holiday

Almost half of people in Greece cannot afford to take a one-week holiday, according to new Eurostat data. The Press Project 31 Ιουλίου 2026 | 18:59:19 Σχόλια Μοιράσου το __ * __Facebook * __Twitter * __LinkedIn * __Reddit In 2025, 46.6% of the population aged 16 and over were unable to afford a week’s holiday away from home, far above the EU average of 27.5%. Greece recorded the second-highest rate in the European Union, behind only Romania, where the figure stood at 61.4%. Bulgaria and Hungary followed, both at 39.1%. By contrast, the lowest rates were recorded in Luxembourg at 10.6%, Sweden at 12.4% and the Netherlands at 12.8%. Despite a slight decline compared with 2015, the proportion of people in Greece unable to afford a holiday remains extremely high, once again highlighting the sustained financial pressure on households and the failure of living standards to improve despite government claims. ______________________________________________ Are you seeking news from Greece presented from a progressive, non-mainstream perspective? **Subscribe monthly or annually** to support TPP International in delivering independent reporting in English. Don’t let Greek progressive voices fade. _Make sure to reference “TPP International” and your order number as the reason for payment._ Μοιράσου το __ * __Facebook * __Twitter * __LinkedIn * __Reddit

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Hiro Ohta@xlix.me · 4mo ago

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

PHOTO by Quang Vuong. A narrow aisle stretches deep into a monochrome labyrinth of tall bookshelves, packed tightly with aged spines and endless stories. Overhead signs mark categories—Poetry, U.S. History, Literary Bios—dangling above the quiet corridor. A lone step ladder waits mid-path, inviting the seeker upward. Fluorescent lights cast a sterile glow, yet the space feels timeless, suspended between thought and memory. The silence is thick, broken only by the imagined rustle of turning pages.
JacquiWine@jacquiwine.bsky.social · last wk.

New on the blog today, WOMEN WRITERS IN TRANSLATION - some book recommendations for #WITMonth. Featuring books by Mariana Enriquez (tr. Megan McDowell), Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann), Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle) and more! #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/w...

Women Writers in Translation – some book recommendations for #WITMonth

As many of you know, August is #WITMonth (Women in Translation), a celebration of books by women writers, initially written in languages other than English and then translated for English-speaking …

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RM@dorsalstream.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
Lead Mojo@leadmojo.co.uk · 4w ago

For female/POC audio comedy producers: want some help entering AudioUK's Audio Production Awards? We're happy to help. Email us by the 31st July, please.

Graphic of the Lead Mojo logo, with text overlaid: Are you a woman and/or a person of colour who has produced great audio comedy in the last twelve months? Would you like to enter AudioUK’s Audio Production Awards? Email ed@leadmojo.co.uk if you want some free help with your entry. We’ll pay for our three favourites to enter, but will offer advice to everyone that emails.
Cara Ellison@caraellison.bsky.social · last mo.

Maybe this hasn’t sunk in for anyone who should care but the NHS was birthed when the UK *literally had negative money*. The USA had razed us of every penny to pay for weapons to defend ourselves against Germany, Germany had bombed all our industrial sites. We still did it in 6 months. 6.

Amnesty International UK@amnestyuk.bsky.social · last mo.

The NHS was founded 78 years ago today. It was built after the devastation of the Second World War when the country was bankrupt - but when the people demanded a society built on fairness and dignity for all. Today, we must defend the right to healthcare and rebuild our social security system.

Photo of Nya Bevan with a quote saying: "Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune the cost of which should be shared by the community."