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Welcome to the world, @fantasymagazine.bsky.social I'm so happy about this!

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Happy birthday to our Italian Republic! #Italy

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tomorrow.

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We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care. I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

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We tend to assume boredom is something to be avoided, but in centuries past you would go wandering through the woods or stare at the walls of a cave for an hour and accidentally invent beer or a new religion or write Alice in Wonderland.

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On this day in 1797, the sun finally set on the Venetian Republic. On 12 May, the Maggior Consiglio voted itself out of existence in the face of the overwhelming threat from Revolutionary France's Army of Italy. Napoleon claimed to bring liberty and democracy. He brought neither.

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Christ the Redeemer statue. [📷 Leonardo Sens] Source: www.instagram.com/leosens?igsh...

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I've been thinking about this since the rise of machine translation, and even more since I started teaching TL. When I came up as a translator, I did a lot of brute force translation work—reams of emails about shipping delays, HR presentations, customer surveys, just the drudgiest of drudge work.

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Was at a conference dinner a while back and one guy said "The future is AI. It doesn't replace senior developers, but no more need for juniors." To which i replied: "Where do you think senior developers come from. Straight from the womb?" He went quiet, then wandered off to a different huddle.

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Coliseum at Night Rome, Italy #photography #travel #rome #italy #BlueSkyPhotographers #NightPhotography

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#Venice

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Happy birthday, Rome! 2778 years, and as beautiful as ever! #Rome #Italy

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A lot of creative folks are demoralized right now. Hell, I'm one of them. Maybe some of them are helping you through this rough time. If so, do me a solid: Share their stuff. Drop them a kind word. Tip their Ko-fis, or join their Patreons. It seems like nothing, but it's everything right now. 🤘

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“I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung.” —Rabindranath Tagore #quote

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⚡️HIGH VAULTAGE⚡️by @jensugden.bsky.social and me is out TODAY in paperback in the UK! Check out the affordable luxury via geni.us/5zk3n. Thank you Adam Roberts, @schneiderjamz.bsky.social, @morepeoplehappy.bsky.social, @misterabk.bsky.social and the BSFA for the kind words!

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When it comes to boycotting, just a thought. It’s okay if you can’t quit a company cold turkey. In Master Gardeners, when we encourage people to switch to native plants, the goal is 70% native, not 100%. If you were shopping at a store 80% of the time and cut it back to 60%, that 20% still hurts.

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Please sign this open letter if you're a UK resident. 🙏 Objection to the Government's Proposed Copyright Exemption for Generative AI Training docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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A few years ago I wrote a comic about miscommunication and missed connections. It's called The Beetle and the Butterfly, and you can read it at my website: johnlechner.com/the-beetle-a... 🪲🦋

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This is very urgent. The UK government is planning to change copyright law. If you are an artist, author, musician or work in the creative industry please read this. www.chrishaughton.com/blog/ai-and-...