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@megcolleu.bsky.social

Professional translator (En <-> Fr / Esp -> Fr). Trained linguist, with a special love for etymology. I also play games. And draw. And write. And- Anyway... As a great man said: "F*ck AI"

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nora bouazzouni @nora.bz · 3mo ago

vingt ans que marion montaigne est une génie, et ce nouveau post de blog restera dans les annales. à lire et faire lire à TOUT LE MONDE, surtout aux collégien·nes dont les cours de bio sur la reproduction racontent N'IMPORTE QUOI. tumourrasmoinsbete.blogspot.com/2026/07/la-f...

La finale Ovule VS Spermato

Voici une longue note. Avant de me sauter dessus dans les commentaires, prière de jeter un oeil sur la bibliographie, qui a été toute aus...

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-Boulet-@bouletcorp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Depuis que je suis petit, il y a dans ma famille des expressions automatiques. Genre si quelqu'un se lève pour partir, t'as le classique "En route, mauvaise troupe !" (je crois que ça vient de Verlaine). Mais il y en avait une très mystérieuse qui venait de ma mère. Si tu disais "Allez, courage."…

Thorn@thornbulle.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

C'est quoi, cette expression que vous avez entendu régulièrement dans votre famille, mais très peu (voire jamais) en dehors ? Ici, c'est « Je travaillais comme ça quand on m'a mis à la porte. »

-Boulet-@bouletcorp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Nouveau "Rogaton" ! - 12/07/2026 - The Sound of Silence À lire ici: www.bouletcorp.com/rogatons/202... Ou sur Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DasIZHhiF3...

Première case de la BD. Sous le titre, on voit Boulet fermer précautionneusement la porte de la chambre de son fils en murmurant "Ok... Il est endormi, enfin ! Plus un bruit"

-Boulet-@bouletcorp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Nouveau "Rogaton" - 14/07/2026 - "Le Guide du bon parent" à lire ici: www.bouletcorp.com/rogatons/202... Ou sur Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DayIkbIiAP...

Boulet lit un livre intitulé "Bébé sécurité"
Légende: "Le guide du bon parent, ou: comment assurer la sécurité d'une petite créature molle et délicate qui possède les réflexes et la coordination d'un alcoolique de 97 ans, mais la motivation et l'instinct de survie d'un yamakasi sous acide ?"

FieldExplores (Gator Days)@fieldexplores.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Anyone - Gator Days

Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue approaches Green with a question.
Blue: Hey can you help me make up my mind about something?

Green sits calmly and listens as Blue goes on, ponderously tapping his chin with the tip of his tail.
Blue: Okay, so I've got three options- no, wait, the second option makes no sense for this.

Green sits still while Blue goes on, looking over his shoulder to the direction he came from.
Blue: And now that I think about it, the third one is the same as the fist, but worse.

Satisfied with this talk, Blue carries on, returning the way he had come. Green has not moved at all.
Blue: The first it is, then.
Green: Glad to help.

Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Panel 1: Life is standing in frame and says "Hey, remember how last comic, you joked that drawing yourself as a girl would make more people go to your Patreon?"

Panel 2: Shen, with his arms crossed and a smile, responds "Yeah?"

Panel 3: Closeup of Life as he says, straight faced, "Well it worked, they went to your Patreon."

Panel 4: Shen is now the in the exact same pose and with still with the same smile, but now the girl version.

Shen Comix@shenanigansen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Panel 1: Shen is sitting at his screen tablet, holding his tablet pen. He looks at you, smiling, and says "Wanna know one cool thing about being a comic artist?"

Panel 2: Shen is now standing upright, the tablet pen having become giant in his hand. How gestures outwards with his other hand and says "You can draw yourself however you want!"

Panel 3: Shen magically "ting"s his forehead with his tablet pen, changing himself into a Sol Badguy-esque buff dude with a belt and a ponytail. He says "For example, I can draw myself like THIS!"

Panel 4: Shen again magically "ting"s his forehead, changing himself into a girl with a sweatshirt-dress, gym shorts, and choker. He says "OR like THIS!"

Panel 5: Shen winks, does a peace sign, and sticks his tongue out, saying "Bet THIS makes you feel some funny new feelings about me, huh??"

Panel 6: Life now has to hold a raging and frothing-at-the-mouth Shen as he yells "Bet THIS would make it easier to get you to go to my PATREON!!!!" and points at you, trying to fight you. Life is saying "Calm down, man!!"

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 3mo ago

None. A good translator will find a local equivalent (and have done in the past). A good translation is NOT transcription. It gets the vibe right. Which is why I insist a human translates my novels, not "AI."

Dave@zwhyx.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How much effort do you put into avoiding writing words or phrases that might not translate well into other langauges?

Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 3mo ago

The world is a mess, but that doesn't mean just roll over and give up. I think in our rush to point out how how much better things should be (they should!!) we somewhere along the line convince people there's no use in even trying because no one will help, and, and lordy: what a tragedy that is.

The Sasha @thesasha.bsky.social · 3mo ago

With alt text (spread across both images, bonus book cover image) bookshop.org/p/books/char...

To all the readers out there:
My deep love for Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake, the subjects of my 2014 biography Charity and Sylvia, has kept me silent, up to this point, about Tillie Walden's new graphic novel by the same title. Charity and Sylvia's story has been so deeply meaningful to so many peopletheir story has, without exaggeration, saved lives-that I've tried to be happy that Walden's book is making their story more widely known, even if she chose to take my title and my cover design as well as my narrative and my research with only a single sentence of acknowledgement at the end of her book in her notes section. Walden's illustrations and storytelling are wonderful, as I told her when she reached out to me during the writing process. It would take nothing away from her hard work to be honest about how it is built on my hard work. But in Walden's publicity tour, she has repeatedly made the claim to have based her book on her extensive research in the archive without acknowledging that her book is, in fact, based on my book. This false representation demands response not only for my sake, but for the sake of all the hard-working historians out there whose work has similarly been taken without credit. No, Walden has not "uncovered a chapter of queer history" in the archives, as her media interviews have claimed. She has adapted my book without credit or compensation, and claimed my research for her own. I don't doubt that Walden spent time looking at letters at the Henry Sheldon Museum, but the story that Walden tells is not to be found there. It is a story that I pieced together from years of visits to at least twenty different archives and locations across the United States, not only in Vermont but in Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, and Washington State, as well.

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This is not just a question of facts but of story: the story of how Charity and Sylvia built a life together based in tailoring, struggled with their faith, and maintained relationships with their family is one that I constructed from the countless fragments that I gathered through painstaking research. Many of the details of that story which appeared in my book, and re-appear in Walden's, do not come from the Henry Sheldon Museum, where she claims to have done her research. They come from the countless additional archives I visited. For just a few examples: the story about Charity's siblings' deaths was built on my tracking down a forgotten graveyard enclosed in a chain link fence behind a Burger King in Brockton, Massachusetts. The story about Charity learning to sew from her spinster aunt Charity Howard comes from a textile fragment that I tracked down in the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington. The story about Charity buying a ring for Sylvia comes from a letter I found in an archive in Long Island, New York. And the story of how Charity and Sylvia rented their property in Vermont comes from town records that were at the village hall in Weybridge, Vermont. I could go on. It saddens me that Walden's media blitz will make my book harder for readers to find, not easier, and diminish its continuing power to have the enormously positive impact it has had to this point, which is why I feel the need to correct the record.
Sincerely, Rachel Hope Cleves

Image: green cover of Charity & Sylvia: A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN EARLY AMERICA by RACHEL HOPE CLEVES with cameo silhouette images

Rachel Hope Cleves@rachelcleves.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

Steenz!@oheysteenz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I really am not surprised if D&Q would turn the other way wrt stealing other people's works (LRT) since they did it to me for Constitution Illustrated. "Fair use" was their excuse for tracing wholesale.

The interior of Drawn & Quarterly's Constitution Illustrated of the kids of Heart of the City in a wooden wagon.

The kids of Heart of the City in a shopping cart with the Philadelphia skyline behind them.

George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A tiny human (2?) is standing in the front garden of a small wooden cottage, banging on an ice cream tub with a wooden spoon. Roaring a raucous song to serenade a very fluffy black and white cat. Black and white cat's unfazed, blinking love eyes. (1)

Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🌿☕ Morning☀️ Spiders weren't always spiders: They used to be loppe in middle English or lobbe meaning something that dangles or jumps or attercop, meaning poison-head, my favourite is gangewifre "a weaver as he goes" This, however is just scary😱👇 www.newscientist.com/article/2532...

The world's fastest spider tops 3.5 metres per second

The most comprehensive database ever compiled of how fast arachnids can run has shown how leg anatomy and evolutionary history influence spiders’ running speed

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Defakator (Officiel) 🧆@defakator.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"La canicule de 76, c'était quand même autre chose" (extrait de la revue du fake de ce lundi) Le replay de la revue complète : www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw7Y...

Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 3mo ago

While I don't have children, my sister shared how harrowing it is, indeed, to watch your child injected with multiple shots early in life, but reminding oneself that the reason we do this is because otherwise, most children will die, can be a helpful motivator. www.propublica.org/article/vita...

What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot

Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.

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Sarah (BUY MY BOOK!) Moon @prettytranslator.bsky.social · 3mo ago

on this Disability Pride Month, let me remind you all that this is the only marginalized group ANYBODY can join ANYTIME. and chances are high you will belong to this group at some point in your life, if you haven't already. I wish you a Happy Follow Disabled People Online and Give Them Money.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3mo ago

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever before

Google's total energy consumption more than new zealand

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Okay. So. Obscure Military Holy Orders. Bear with me on this one: In 1687 the French were aggressively expanding their trade and slavery operations on the Gold Coast. As part of this two young West African boys were sent back to France, most likely as slaves. One may have been called "Aniaba". /1🧵

George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: Two women (30s?) greet each other in front of a cafe with delighted squeals and tearful laughter as they share a BIG hug. Repeating: "Missed you SO much," to each other. The rest of the world forgotten. (1)

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 💫 Game localizers @fromthevoid.net · 3mo ago

"This gen AI side of gaming feels kind of similar to the early crypto stuff (...) It feels like everyone who is super gung-ho about it isn't from the industry. They're outsiders looking to get rich quick." A great read about why nobody wants to use GenAI in games. www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...

Why so many game developers don't want to use generative AI

With credits ranging from Dispatch and Marvel Rivals to Uncharted and Dragon Age, over 30 devs share their thoughts on gen AI

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Julien@Kindrobot @kindrobot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ce rapport est très bien dans le sens où il fait un inventaire de beaucoup d'effets néfastes de l'IA dans nos vies. www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/rappo... Une liste de reds flags archiconnus mais ils ont le mérite d'être officiellement écrits.

Rapport d'information déposé en application de l'article 145 du règlement, par la commission des affaires culturelles et de l'éducation, en conclusion des travaux d'une mission d'information sur le th...

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 3mo ago

Sonya Tolstoy, on what it was like to be... Married to Tolstoy. I am... Not surprised. 😆

“He pushes everything off onto me,” she wrote, “everything, without exception: the children, the management of his property, relations with other people, business affairs, the house, the publishers. Then he despises me for soiling my hands with them all, retreats into his selfishness and complains about me incessantly…goes for walks, rides his horse, writes a little, goes wherever he pleases, does absolutely nothing for the family….His biographers will tell how he went to draw water for the porter, but no one will know how he never gave his wife one moment’s rest or one drop of water to his sick child; how in thirty-five years he never sat for five minutes by a bedside or let me have a rest or sleep the night through or go for a walk or simply pause for a moment to recover my strength.”

Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 3mo ago

LOUDER

Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Opinion: Everything hurts and no one knows when the pain will end

Wehm @wehmwehm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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Elisa Rojas face à l’aide à mourir : comprendre l’impensé du handicap

Handicapée, avocate, militante, Elisa Rojas signe un plaidoyer implaccable contre la loi d’aide à mourir dans la dignité. Pour l’autrice de Pour mourir, tapez 1 (Détour), la loi ne ne serait rien d’au...

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Brooke from Let’s Not Date @letsnotdate.bsky.social · 3mo ago

They are all just so dumb.

Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 3mo ago

Today is #AsteroidDay! So here's a photo of the surface of an asteroid.

It looks like piles of dryer lint, or attic insulation, or that weird crap in your crawlspace. But it's not, it's an asteroid!

George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (4?) is helping Grandad walk her Guinea pigs into the vet. Grandad's carrying the cage. Small Human is roaring the "It's gonna be OKAAAAAY" song* with a look of intense concern. Grandad looking down at her with bemused adoration. (1)

Marc E.G. ★ Loc Madman @mittovac.bsky.social · 3mo ago

More details on the Blizzard/Altagram debacle. Youtuber title: "Blizzard situation is crazy" www.linkedin.com/posts/marc-e...

Seems I've set myself up as the one to cover this story as gaming journalism seems wholly uninterested in touching game loc. I heard a lot in the past week from folks willing to provide insight o...

Seems I've set myself up as the one to cover this story as gaming journalism seems wholly uninterested in touching game loc. I heard a lot in the past week from folks willing to provide insight on th...

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Marc E.G. ★ Loc Madman@mittovac.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Altagram blackmailing their senior freelancers to lower their rates to preposterous levels for Blizzard projects: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Bon Pote @bonpote.com · 3mo ago

Le climatologue Christophe Cassou est harcelé depuis 48H suite à son passage sur BFM TV. Un extrait vidéo coupé sur X, qui oublie une partie importante du discours, et des milliers de personnes lui tombent dessus. Pire encore, le député RN Tanguy en a profité pour le comparer à un dictateur.