Reposted by Ádám SárpátkiBalázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Preorder up for my ultimate weird horror collection! (Hungarian, but we'll try to seek a publisher for the English translation.) multiverzumkiado.hu/book/farkas-... 31612
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 12/07/2026Important video by The Welsh Viking about generative AI, highly recommended.👇youtu.beYou Really, Really Don't Need Generative AIYouTube video by The Welsh Viking 000
Reposted by Ádám SárpátkiBalázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Here are my thoughts on Sony killing the disc: oubliette37.com/2026/07/04/w...oubliette37.comWhy You Should Care About the PlayStation Disc (Even If You’re a Digital Native)It’s been a few days since Sony dropped the bombshell announcement that from 2028 onward all PlayStation games (all of them) will only be released in a digital format. There is the usual medi… 0169
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 18/06/2026(cw: bugs/insects) Just received my copy of the Hungarian edition of The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social. This was one of the best and toughest jobs I've had as a translator in recent years. I really hope I did the book justice, because I loved working on it. 😊 #booksky #mutimitolvasol 1181
Reposted by Ádám SárpátkiRPG Trader @rpgtrader.com · 09/06/2026RPG TRADER IS NOW LIVE. FOR REAL. 🔥 Tell your friends, fellow creatives, imaginary dragons and your followers! We’ve already got: ⚔️ 250+ creators 📚 1,500+ RPG products live (and more on the way) 🌍 A marketplace built for indie RPG chaos in the best way 👉 RPG Trader is officially open. 19578334
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 09/05/2026Tördelés (gyakorlás), a szórakozást pedig a rendszerváltás biztosítja. ✨ 000
Reposted by Ádám SárpátkiBalázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 28/04/2026👇 index.hu/kultur/2026/...index.huKézbe vehetjük, elolvashatjuk, de ezekre a rettenetekre nincs magyarázatSötét és nyomasztó történetek a lovecrafti hagyomány egyik kortárs követőjétől, végre magyarul is. 022
Reposted by Ádám SárpátkiBalázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 29/01/2026The Hungarian translation of @lairdbarron.bsky.social's The Imago Sequence and Other Stories is up for preorder. Translations by @adamsarpatki.com, @brainoiz.bsky.social and me! (I'll update this thread when I learn the name of the cover artist.) multiverzumkiado.hu/book/laird-b... 2185
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 12/01/2026Valaki igazán fejleszthetne egy plugint a Wordhöz, ami kiemeli a szóismétléseket. 100
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 04/12/2025One of my new tech edits, the Christmas Stocking pattern by Brianna Leigh is available now on Ravelry: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... Latvian braid, short-row heel, and stranded colourwork - it's a perfectly cozy project. 😊 #knitsky #knitweardesign 0140
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 19/11/2025Wikipédia, at its best. :D Forrás: hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tims%C3... 020
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 28/10/2025I've recently edited a wonderful pattern for Christmas stockings, and there's an open call for test knitters right now. ☺️ The due date is 2025-12-02, but it's a flexible deadline. See more info on Yarnpond: www.yarnpond.com/pattern_test... #testknitting #knittingdesign #knitsky 0110
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 26/10/2025I'm way behind on the TKGA's tech editing course, but I finally have time to work on Lesson Two. I'm checking some of my changes, and wow, what the heck was I thinking. 😂 #knitsky 050
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 27/08/2025MS Word: recommending a bunch of nonsense words to fix my spelling Me:media.tenor.coma woman with long black hair and red lips says " do it again "Alt: Morticia Addams, a woman with long black hair and red lips says "do it again" 010
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 28/07/2025Yesterday, I started restructuring the tech editing page on my website, to streamline it a bit, and to update the pricing. (Instead of an hourly rate, I will have a rate per word.) I love tinkering with the site, but boy, it's a lot of work. 🫠 #knitting #knitsky #knitwear 000
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 16/07/2025I'm making some headway with one of my knitting projects: the sampler pattern from "Knitting Ganseys" by Beth Brown-Reinsel. I'm reading the book for my tech editing certification course at TKGA, and I'm also learning a lot about sweater construction and DPNs. So all in all, it's great fun. ☺️ 030
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 15/07/2025Well, I guess that's it. Let me show you the heinous and abhorrent comment for which my account was first suspended, then disabled. I got Meta Verified (ugh, I know) to reach support, and while they seemed helpful people, and I'm sure it wasn't up to them, ultimately it wasn't worth the cost. 752
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 13/07/2025I've contacted Meta Support three times now about my suspended account, and all three agents have thanked me for being so patient and calm during our chat. I mean, they were genuinely helpful, and it's not their fault Meta is such a shitshow. 😐 000
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 05/07/2025I'm writing a blog post about what it takes to be a good translator, and I likened us to chameleons. Now I found an interview with my teacher from university, titled: "Translators are chameleons." Oh well, what a surprise. 😅 000
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 04/07/2025Nem mintha meglepne, de érdekes, hogy pont ma délelőtti cikk. (Az előzményekért lásd az előző posztomat.) www.pcwplus.hu/pcwlite/a-me...pcwplus.huA Metát akkor sem érdekeled, ha fizetsz nekikAz egyenlőség jegyében a Facebook pont ugyan annyira tesz mindenkire, akár fizetünk a szolgáltatásaikért, akár nem. 000
Reposted by Ádám SárpátkiAdam P Knave @adampknave.com · 03/07/2025REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI. 877332988
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 01/07/2025So apparently, anytime I post a comment in the Tech Editor Hub's Facebook group, Meta just decides to suspend my account. Who knew knitting was such a controversial thing 😂 110
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 24/05/2025Csütörtökön kijött egy könyvbemutató YouTube-on, amiben én is beszéltem a Drizzt legendája: Képes útmutatóról. Ennek apropóján írtam egy blogbejegyzést a könyv fordításával kapcsolatban. Ímhol. Kommentelni ér, de csak itt, mert az oldalamon nem lehet.adamsarpatki.comDrizzt legendája: Képes útmutató | A kulisszák mögöttÍgy készült a Drizzt legendája: Képes útmutató -- fordítói kihívások és könyvbemutató 130
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 26/04/2025Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)media.tenor.coma woman is dancing in front of baskets with the words oh would n't it be lovely below herAlt: Audrey Hepburn singing with a fake cockney accent among cabbages in London. (Actually, probably Marni Nixon is the one doing the singing, but we see Audrey Hepburn.) 000
Reposted by Ádám SárpátkiJens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 12/04/2025It's all fun and games until … "Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC #ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries." www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comChatGPT action dolls: What are the concerns?As online users create Barbie-like dolls of themselves, experts urge caution over AI's energy and data use. 231166717
Reposted by Ádám SárpátkiBalázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Dear Bluesky literati, can anybody recommend me English language horror / weird magazines that accept translated short stories / will open submissions in the near future? 005
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 27/03/2025I finally submitted my Lesson One materials for the TKGA Tech Editing Certification Course. 🥳 I spent much more time on them than I wanted to; I could have been more productive, but sometimes things just take time, I guess. ☺️ 100
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 25/03/2025Finally, a video about Hungarian goulash that I didn't rage quit after 2 minutes. I can't tell you how happy I am about this. 😀 @tastinghistory.bsky.social even pronounced "csipetke" and "bográcsgulyás" quite well! 👏 Well done, and thank you! 🙂 020
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 20/02/2025The Daughters' War (the one on the right) by @buehlmeister.bsky.social got published a few days ago in Hungarian, and I'm immensely proud of it as its translator. So dark, and so heart-wrenchingly beautiful. 🖤 1394
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 03/02/2025I am so happy to be a part of this project as one of the four translators 😊 It wasn't me who came up with the title, but still, this article means a lot. 020
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 11/01/2025Over the last few days, after much procrastination, I've translated most of my website into Hungarian, and it was a surprisingly enjoyable process. I like the fact that I can freely change some things. I don't know how the hero section will go, since it is a bit silly in Hungarian, but we'll see. 010
Reposted by Ádám SárpátkiAnn Leckie @annleckie.com · 27/12/2024Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right? Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it. 9076072368
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 26/12/2024MÁV. Savaria IC. Keletiben várunk, bemondják, hogy 15 perc késés lesz, az egyik kocsiból szálljanak ki, műszaki hiba miatt nem indul. A jegyet át lehet kérni másik járatra, vagy elfoglalni a tömött IC-n a maradék helyeket. Folyt. köv. 100
Reposted by Ádám SárpátkiMegan Wyreweden @thecreepingmoon.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Lettering samples with ink and gouache 😎 97115742341
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 12/11/2024Okay, Amazon, I promise I won't use my new 2000-page dictionary there. 🫠 000
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 01/10/2024The new issue of my newsletter, Yarnbound Tales is published. It's mostly about tech editing for knitwear designers, something I've been going on about for a long time now, so I thought some explanation was necessary. 😅 Hope you like it!yarnboundtales.substack.comThe value of having a tech editorAutumnal photos, and a peek behind the curtain 000
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 30/08/2024I posted my first-ever newsletter issue on my Substack publication, Yarnbound Tales! 🎉 It's about autumn, translations, knitting projects, black holes and grammar pet peeves. I'd be grateful if you'd check it out: yarnboundtales.substack.com 😊 010
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 19/08/2024Just launched my website! 🎉 Whether you need a literary translator, editor, or knitting tech editor, it's all there—plus my publications, contact info, fantasy cartography blog, and upcoming Substack newsletter. Check it out and let's chat! 😊 #translator #editor #knitting #guyswhoknit 010
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 17/06/2024Vettem magamnak egy ergonomikus billentyűzetet (Logitech Ergo K860), és most jöttem rá, hogy a Z és H betűket mások valószínűleg nem bal kézzel ütik le, mint én, balkezesként, mert azok most a billentyűzet jobb felén vannak :D The struggle is real. Persze #firstworldproblems, csak érdekes. 210
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 20/04/2024Slowly but surely working on the redesign of my website. Soon I'll start my tech editing service for knitting patterns, so an update is timely. 😊 000
Reposted by Ádám SárpátkiThomas Rey @thomrey.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Let’s do an ew presentation post. I’m Thomas, a mapmaker from France mostly drawing fantasy maps for novels and games but most of all because I’m an addict 😁 If you could share this post, that’d be a big help and I’d be very grateful. Cheers ! # map #mapmaker #mapmaking #rpg #jdr #dnd #fantasymap 09749
Reposted by Ádám SárpátkiThomas Rey @thomrey.bsky.social · 05/01/2024Opinion : if you use MidJourney, Dall-E or any other image generator powered by stolen art, even if you do it just for fun, you’re part of the problem… nah, in fact you’re just a dick. 085
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 20/12/2023"Time is a weird soup" is never more accurate than in the days leading up to Christmas. 😅 In the last few days I have lost all track of time, I don't even know what day it is. 🤭 000
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 27/11/2023I have a new little Ficus Shivereana, but the poor thing is struggling. 😔 I don't know if it's overwatering or the environment - gardeners of Bluesky, what do you think? I've written more about this on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/houseplant... Any help is appreciated! 🌱🍂 #GardeningFeed #Houseplant 350
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 31/10/2023Happy Halloween, I guess. 🧹🎃🐈⚰️ I created this in Blender, and it took me about a week to put it together. I've followed some of Grant Abbitt's tutorials, but Ryan King's procedural stone video was a great help as well. 😊 000
Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 21/10/2023I'm having a productive weekend: between playing Spider-Man 2, I've been practicing Blender with some online tutorials by Grant Abbitt. Not too shabby, if I might say so. 010