andrewlevine.bsky.social
ATA-certified French-English translator. I make it look like it was in English all along.
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Weatherlight (Liege of the Hollows)
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Never in my life have I rooted more for the Machine Elves than when I heard the author describe what they did to her
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Ragtime, because it feels like the sweep of American history we live through makes something new stand out each decade or so
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(groucho voice) I’d hate ta see the woist!
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The pro wrestling metaphor that applies here isn’t pre-scripted “kayfabe” but Barthes’ conception of it as a sport where nothing matters long-term, it’s just a build-up for the next moment of excitement. Maybe we get a permanent split, but the consequences will be muted as something new comes up.
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NMT has replaced at least *some* translators — their numbers are dipping — but translators still exist, just increasingly post-editing MT. Or were you talking more in the vein of replacing an *entire* profession?
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If he really had a “girlish figure” he wouldn’t be able to keep his hands off his own body.
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“Come on. It can’t possibly have less cholesterol and still the same great taste!” Oh but it can…
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I always liked ads where someone was in the kitchen, and an unseen narrator would say “Excuse me. Making that same old xxx?” And the homemaker would be like “yes, what’s wrong with xxx?” And the narrator would tell them about the exciting new thing, and after a skeptical moment they’d be won over.
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Orwell’s critique of his fellow English socialists’ sophistication from The Road to Wigan Pier still feels relevant
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The screenshot doesn’t claim there’s an FEC deadline. If the Biss email lied, she didn’t show evidence of it.
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It’s actually pretty good at that sort of thing if you aren’t wedded to the idea that there will be a preset narrative thrust or an end goal in mind at the time you start (since it can’t do that)
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On Trek, he also led the Children of the Son in “Bread and Circuses”.
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Haidts and Chaits
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Maybe you could explain how ranking 5 candidates who aren’t Cuomo helps to elect Cuomo and the debate team would settle down
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lol. I’ve watched all of The Americans three times through.
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Link please
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That’s a great series, I love any spy stuff that puts methodical and soul-grinding over flashy.
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I’m still sore that HBO Max under Zaslav took down more than a hundred episodes from the platform including all the ones from 1977-2007. Doesn’t look like Netflix or anyone else has any interest or incentive in putting those back.
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My favorite version of this cliche was from the famously terrible film The Oscar: “The parts got bigger, and Frankie was hooked. Like a junkie shooting pure quicksilver into his veins. Frankie got turned on the wildest narcotic known to mortal man: Success.”
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Both of them are reflexively contrarian, but Matt views the information bubble he inhabits, and against which he must thus rebel, as “liberals”, while Richard views his own as “MAGA”
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The fuzzballs are really blooming this month.
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Same here. When I was 27 and dating casually, there’s no way I’d ever believe I’d be happier being 42, but now at 42 I’m glad I’m not young and single.
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Well-attested historical use meaning “blind hole”; Archie seems to be saying by analogy that it’s a go-nowhere job.
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We used the opera house theme from Battlestar Galactica as our processional. (Her idea, gladly accepted)
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My wife is from Shasta County. It’s full of charismatic “supernatural” evangelical cults and secessionist militiamen who bring guns to town halls.
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That rabbit’s gonna be in my nightmares for sure
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likewise Chip Roy from Texas
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Close enough: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_VIII
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fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_VI
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Just saying: in French, the Popes Pius are named “Pie”
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4 years to the day!
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As an autistic bisexual translator, I don’t usually say this, but this was the most interesting and most important part about the show that I’ve ever watched in a while
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The specialized kind my field uses just calls it MT (machine translation) and I like how that implies a mechanical process and an output without presuming intelligence.
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I wonder how many people reading this realize that it is literally true.
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Gordie was a soldier from the land of poutine fries,
With a moose-shaped gun for hire and a twinkle in his eyes.
The deal was cut in Calgary one snowy April day,
So he headed off to Saskatoon to join the Mountie fray.
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Best-case scenario is a court blocks the tariffs sometime next week… except then they’ll probably put them into the reconciliation bill and they’ll be harder to remove? Fuck.
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“Stopper” as a verb is common in France too.
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Shades of this
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I didn’t know any trans people at the time (I now know several) but their struggle felt so clearly parallel to the one for gay rights: its aims wouldn’t harm anyone; they just wanted to live their lives the way they knew was right; and the same hateful people in both cases were trying to stop them.
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Also Conor Lamb
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The Shelter, and I would argue, Shadow Play.
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FTCA says that torts committed under official duties can only be brought in federal courts, not that they can’t be brought at all, correct?
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E. Jean Carroll sued Trump for defamation in 2019, while he was still President, and ended up winning.
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(or people who’ve seen the musical “Parade”)
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Like how Andy Kaufman used to say it on Taxi.
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assume grassley dead (like deer)
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Putting things in the hands of a judge come October has some risk to it, though?
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When Walter was asked he claimed he got it from Reuters. But nobody can find the Reuters headline. I don’t think this actually came from the terminal, I think he invented it (deliberately or not) and typed it up to look like it was from a BB terminal.
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The blueberry transformation fetish lay latent in men’s minds long before you existed, Wonka. An inchoate kink, merely awaiting the one who would give it form.