tapsiful.bsky.social
Used to translate books, now a manual software tester. I write sad poems in English and sff stories in my native Hungarian. I make Celtic knotwork inspired animal drawings and take too many photos of the same hills and vales. Trans rights are human rights.
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true :(
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Holidays are always great!
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Damn :( perhaps if you know someone visiting Spain, they can get it for you?
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Yeah I also found this Hammurabi wine, not sure this is the right stuff, but at least it's wine strength / not distilled. limitededition.lovferments.com/products/24-...
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From experience, I'd say that with translation, it's a lot easier to get into a flow-like state because you're doing one type of thinking. Editing, esp. if you're not just editing for style, but have to check the original to make sense of the text, is a string of separate items and restarts.
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Oh, that's some trip down memory lane.
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It's set in 15th century Europe, in a crumbling kingdom at the edge of a rapidly expanding Ottoman Empire, so it is as dark as it can get (it's the time and place that produced Vlad the Impaler, also in the series). It was surprisingly okay, and not wildly inaccurate for a period drama.
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The series doesn't fully explore this idea, but has both Vlad Dracul and Vlad the Impaler in it, so yeah, it's vampire-adjacent :D
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It's about the father of Matthias Corvinus, John Hunyadi. 8 episode, single season series, available on Netflix with Englihs subs as "Rise of the Raven", but probably just in my region. It was surprisingly decent, at times a bit too GoT-y, but the historical period was dark enough for that.
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I'm so glad you found such a doctor! I hope they can help with the pain, and it's already such a relief when you find someone who doesn't think you're crazy or overreacting...
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Oooh, but you ARE cool, get used to it! 💚Cool and awesome!
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You're very cool and it was so great to meet you at EasterCon! Yes, it's often difficult to put yourself out there, and there are only a lucky few who don't struggle with it. But it does get a little easier every time. And you're absolutely worth getting to know!
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I've been stabbed in the eyeballs and it wasn't that bad, and just a little scary. What no-one warned me about was that colours can shift slightly, it took my brain a few months to recalibrate (turned out it was the same for my mum, she just didn't think to mention it).
Good luck with the surgery!
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Oh and dad's Commodore 64 was super fancy because he had a floppy disc drive, while most people we knew only had cassette players? Unbelievable.
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Commodore 64. We didn't have it at home, my dad had one at work (he did research in geophysics) and so did my uncles (they were young and hip). 99% of the time we just played games. I don't know how my dad got so many games for a computer he was only supposed to use for work, but we had tons.
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The error message is never correct, but that's the same without AI (I say that as a professional software tester).
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Unless you consider completely isolating Hungary a point, and frankly, at this stage, it looks like Orbán is really into that. Obviously, the main point was serving Russia, but sometimes it feels like Hungary's never had an enemy as cruel and devastating as its current government.
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So great to see you and I'm glad you had such a good time! 😍
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Happy birthday!
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I don't know, to be honest. Orban's the leader of a small country that tries to punch above its weight, but when push comes to shove, Hungary's insignificant. The US, however, is a true world power that's gone off the rails and can't really be stopped, sadly.
But change is always possible.
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And yet Ukraine still prevails and will prevail. Orban IS horrible. But he is not Hungary and he won't last forever. Less than 20 years ago we couldn't fathom a pro-EU, anti-Russia leader in Ukraine. A few years ago, Poland was still captured by Putin. Countries can change.
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You overestimate Orban if you think he can screw Ukraine. He would love to, oh, he would, but that's not going to happen. But I agree, Putin must be defeated. It's just that kicking out Hungary won't achieve that.
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And then the EU would've lost a very well placed country for nothing
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Yes, Orban is the worst but what with the shit going down in Hungary right now I'm not sure he has another year left in power.
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Because look at a fucking map and see if you could move goods on land between the Balkans and the West inside the custom union if it got kicked out.
Also, Orban won't last forever. His grip is visibly slipping (which is actually scary because there is every chance it will end in violence).