Kasia Beresford
@kasiabesfud.bsky.social
Translator from Polish to English and Polish-English interpreter based in Manchester, UK.
"The amount of fuel Russia could export is too small, the impact on pricing too slight, the narrative too late to shape electoral outcomes: This looks, instead, like something very different: an abrupt, Hail Mary attempt to force Ukraine to surrender" www.theatlantic.com/idea/2026/10...
Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.
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NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
Two most important facts: 1) since Trump became President, attacks on Ukraine have grown substantially in volume and scale. 2) Since Trump became President the US has committed zero (yes, zero) new dollars to support Ukraine.
Also famous for making translators sign away the rights to their own translations. So they’re well on their way to not recognizing the humanity of translators, why wouldn’t they embrace the robot movement?
Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck@readingtheend.bsky.social · last wk.oh my God. this is all so fucking dystopian. this bit in particular really got me:
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 2w agoNew GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer
“Stop accusing us of spying! We’ve been watching you!”
Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3w agoIt’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities
These anonymous MPs saying it's 'electoral suicide' to tinker with the triple lock. Exactly the type who got us into this mess: unwilling to lead, unwilling to recognise reality for fear of offending voters, unwilling to solve long-term problems if it presents the slightest short-term risk.
societyofauthors.org/2026/09/15/q... "I believe AI is wrong in every way. Its owners are some of the most odious people on the planet. Their goal appears to be nothing more than a race between themselves to monopolise control of our data."
Q&A with children’s book author Chris Haughton - The Society of Authors
Today we are sharing the We Are Better Than This video animation across our platforms with a call to sign a petition to protect creators’ rights. We spoke to Chris Haughton, one of the co-founders of ...
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🌟Shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 With its haunted shoes and sheep and cats, Bora Chung's novel in ghost stories (translated by @antonhur.com) gently suggests the degree to which humanity’s efforts to control the world are themselves figments and fantasies.
The value of the UK Court interpreting market in 2025? £42 million, apparently. But I wonder how much of that actually reaches the pay packets of the skilled interpreters who provide the service in the courts? How much goes to intermediary organisations? #XL8 @iti-uk.bsky.social
MoJ Answers@moj-answers.bsky.social · 4w agoA question on #MinistryOfJustice #TranslationServices tabled by Sir John Hayes on 11-09-2026 has been answered by Jake Richards. https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-09-11/29097
So, according to this Parliamentary question: "The total spend by the Ministry of Justice on interpreters and related translation services during the 2025 calendar year was £41,945,961.34." I have a simple question: How much of that £42 million ended up being paid to the actual interpreters?
MoJ Answers@moj-answers.bsky.social · 4w agoA question on #MinistryOfJustice #TranslationServices tabled by Sir John Hayes on 11-09-2026 has been answered by Jake Richards. https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-09-11/29097
Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.
Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.
NEW MRP JUST DROPPED: All but four constituencies in GB support UK membership of the EU. In those four, the most popular option was 'Don't Know' (Ashfield, Clacton, Great Yarmouth and Boston and Skegness).
Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
We’re asking for your help to get Burnham’s Government to act on AI and copyright. Alongside fellow members of the Creators’ Rights Alliance, we’re sharing the We Are Better Than This video animation which outlines the fears and concerns shared by many creators and society at large. 🧵
We're urging everyone to stand up for human creativity and we need your help: please add your voice by signing the petition below.
Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data
We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work,…
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The hospitality industry are back lobbying for a VAT cut They don't mention the cost: £12bn They don't mention who gets the £: ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Get nothing ❌ Consumers? Prices won't fall ✅ McDonald's gets £400m. Big chains are big winners 🧵:
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
So Kent police now admit they were actually warned the day before this "protest". Is this the same Kent police who told us on Saturday that it was a (checks notes) "spontaneous protest"? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...?
Kent Police warned of Dover protests the day before, force says
Kent Police says it was told of possible protests on Friday but information "was not fully assessed".
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Five people climb a gantry in the name of Just Stop Oil and the police shut the motorway, arrest the protesters and imprison them for up to 5 years. Hundreds of people block one of UK's busiest ports in the name of Stop the Boats, and the police do nothing and no-one is arrested. Really? Sigh.
Just realized I haven't sent everyone a baby goat fix yet this week.
And now the investigation into the £5 million secretly-gifted by an ‘economic migrant’ recommences. If nothing else has been achieved with this daft by-election, the idea that Farage is some sort of master strategist has been put to bed. It’s easy to look good when you’re getting free passes galore.
An American interviewer asked me about my political beliefs. #VoteBinface
