Shock as at least 1 in 5 children now need glasses - is social contagion to explain for the rise in testing? I Went To Specsavers, said I couldn't see the letters even though I could and they just gave me special lenses. I tried them on and now I have a headache. What are we doing to our kids?

What should Britain’s relationship with Europe look like? I want to know what people across South Norfolk think. Would you rejoin the EU, Single Market or Customs Union, keep things broadly as they are, or move further away? Take the snap survey here 👇 www.surveymonkey.com/r/SouthNorfo...

Is there a name in English for this kind of puppet: veli-handpuppen.com/collections/...? Or do I turn it into a jack in the box? #amtranslating

Tütenkasper

Die Tütenkasper von VELi-Handpuppen sind einzigartig. Die lebendigen Augen lassen sofort einen herzlichen Kontakt zum Besitzer entstehen.

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Pretty much everything scared me as a child, but we were shown Watership Down at school when I was about 5 or 6...

Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 6d ago

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

There are good and bad books of all genres (including lit fic), and yes, some are more demanding than others, but can we please ditch the "guilty pleasure" idea unless you're talking about something actively harmful! Literary fiction is neither innately morally superior nor necessarily more skilful

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 7d ago

I'm not opposed at all to guilty pleasure reading. I do it a lot. I just don't understand the desire to say there's no meaningful difference between, like, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and Dungeon Crawler Carl, because after all you might like both.

Open to all who've worked with UK publishers, not just UK-based translators!

The Society of Authors@societyofauthors.bsky.social · last wk.

Today we have also launched the Translators Association Literary Translations Rates survey, which seeks to get a better and up-to-date understanding of the rates and income translators receive when signing an agreement with a UK publisher. Complete the survey here: buff.ly/EE3ygLg

ah yes I love seeing all these men in my timeline agreeing with each other about the “lesser” nature of romance novels yes yes snobbery is good they say, don’t these silly silly women realize that their silly little formulaic books could just as well be written by machines

Today we have also launched the Translators Association Literary Translations Rates survey, which seeks to get a better and up-to-date understanding of the rates and income translators receive when signing an agreement with a UK publisher. Complete the survey here: buff.ly/EE3ygLg

Literary translators! Please fill out this pay survey for the Translators' Association (Society of Authors)! forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

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god that just. that line alone is so healing after years of ‘worth the calories’ comments. Food doesn’t have to be earned.

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Your occasional reminder that performative sneering at whole genres of fiction is not a sign of intelligence, nor is performative misery a sign of superior talent. Read what brings you joy. No-one else gets to decide or to control what that means to you.

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I’m not a fan of romance novels, but this poignant love story won me over. See my review of LOVE, AFTER ALL by Ewald Arenz from @orendabooks.bsky.social: schatjesshelves.blogspot.com/2026/09/revi...

Review of LOVE, AFTER ALL by Ewald Arenz

4 Stars I’m not a fan of romance novels, but this poignant love story won me over. Clara Wagenbach, in her late forties, is a photographe...

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This September we celebrate 10 years of #WorldKidLit month - when @worldkidlit.bsky.social encourage us to discover global children’s literature. So let’s use this week’s #KidsBooksFriday to celebrate children’s books from the world. 🌍 worldkidlit.org/what-is-worl... #UKKidLit #KidLitUK #KidLit

A few books for teenagers in #WorldKidLit month More info in ALT text #KidsBooksFriday

Unsurprising news to many freelancers But companies underestimate how long it can take to properly 'clean' AI slop into something useable, and it can often take longer than creating something from scratch

Freelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’

As more companies turn to AI, they’re hiring freelancers to clean up its mistakes rather than create original work

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Hearing a few reports from authors that One Drive has been deleting their documents. I say again: DO NOT SAVE YOUR DOCUMENTS ON ONE DRIVE. TURN IT OFF. SAVE IT LOCALLY OR ON AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE. DO NOT RELY ON CLOUDS OWNED BY COMPANIES THAT SCRAPE YOUR DATA FOR AI.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 2256: After reposting that article, I feel I ought to explain a few things about writers and promotion. 1. The publishing industry exists primarily to make money from selling books: and in spite of what you've heard, it's making rather a lot of it.

The Hotel Manager's Guide to Murder in its Icelandic and English versions. The publisher in Iceland decided to use the same cover design (by Kid Ethic) as the UK paperback.

My #ReadTheWorld project is going well and I have researched options for most of the world’s countries but I’ve made my task harder by wanting to read from every US state/Canadian province. Can anyone point me to a resource to help me identify books for these prompts? 💙📚 #BookSky

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Other translator: the cup would normally be a glass in British English, is it ok if we change it?

isabeltranslates@isabeltranslates.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Translator: cup? beaker? mug? teacup? bowl? Hand-made or mass-produced? Traditional or modern? Large or small? With or without a saucer? Handles? What is it half full or half empty of? Clear? Brown? Hot? Cold? With or without milk?

See also: this is not only a book, it is a book I am translating. I therefore do actually need to read all the words!

Amanda Rutter@alrutter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think the worst AI prompt pushed on me right now is in Adobe: "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary using AI Assistant." My DUDE, this is a book! The length is part of the enjoyment! I DO NOT want any summarisation of its perfect, human words!

For some reason, this has been running around in my head since last night. Substitute the gender neutral "hack" for man. allpoetry.com/poem/1185551...

The light is distinctly weird now

So, Sophie Irwin has written "an official Georgette Heyer". But the name on the cover is Sophie Irwin. And with v few exceptions, Heyer didn't have regular characters. And writing consistently in sb else's voice is *hard*. And I have so many questions. And why does publishing keep *doing* this? (💰)