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Ádám Sárpátki

@adamsarpatki.com
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📚 Literary translator, editor, typesetter | 📝 Knitting tech editor | 🐶 dog-lover and 🎲 TTRPG player | Fantasy cartographer @ flightlessmanticore.com | He/him | #namethetranslator linktr.ee/adam.sarpatki

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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Preorder up for my ultimate weird horror collection! (Hungarian, but we'll try to seek a publisher for the English translation.) multiverzumkiado.hu/book/farkas-...
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 12/07/2026
Important video by The Welsh Viking about generative AI, highly recommended.👇
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You Really, Really Don't Need Generative AI
YouTube video by The Welsh Viking
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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Here are my thoughts on Sony killing the disc: oubliette37.com/2026/07/04/w...
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Why 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…
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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
My left hand holding up the Hungarian edition of The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes. The cover shows a circle that is actually a coiled centipede, with leaves and other nature-like elements. In the background, a bookcase is visible, full of books.
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RPG Trader @rpgtrader.com · 09/06/2026
RPG 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.
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Star Trek Voyager scene. We see a small, lone shuttlecraft fllying through a cloudy sky. Closed caption reads, "(screaming)"
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 09/05/2026
Tördelés (gyakorlás), a szórakozást pedig a rendszerváltás biztosítja. ✨
A wide-format LG monitor on a wooden desk displays a Hungarian-language document, The Count of Monte Cristo, in Adobe InDesign, with several passages highlighted in yellow. The desk is cluttered with everyday items, including a coffee cup, a lip balm, a pencil holder mug and a Mac Mini visible in the background. A keyboard sits in the foreground, and blue curtains are partially visible behind the desk.
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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
👇 index.hu/kultur/2026/...
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Kézbe vehetjük, elolvashatjuk, de ezekre a rettenetekre nincs magyarázat
Sötét és nyomasztó történetek a lovecrafti hagyomány egyik kortárs követőjétől, végre magyarul is.
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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The 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...
Az Imágó szekvencia és más történetek

Two identical light/dark characters intertwined
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 12/01/2026
Valaki igazán fejleszthetne egy plugint a Wordhöz, ami kiemeli a szóismétléseket.
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 04/12/2025
One 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
Red, green, and white Christmas stockings hang on a mantle. They each have a name stitched into their upper sections: one is David, the other is Brianna.
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 19/11/2025
Wikipédia, at its best. :D Forrás: hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tims%C3...
A screenshot of the Hungarian Wikipedia page for alum. Two lines discussing a supposed etymology are struck through. Below them is an all-caps warning reading ‘Don’t write bullshit!’ The final line corrects the false etymology.
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 28/10/2025
I'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
Two colorful Christmas stockings hang on the mantle in front of the fireplace. They are knit with stranded colorwork, and use green, white, and red colors. The stockings have names on them: one is Brianna, the other is David. The motifs on the stockings at the top are reminiscent of hollies, while on the lower parts are similar to snowflakes. The sections of the stockings are separated by Latvian Braids.
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 26/10/2025
I'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
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 27/08/2025
MS Word: recommending a bunch of nonsense words to fix my spelling Me:
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a 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"
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 30/07/2025
Congrats! Such a lovely design. ☺️
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 28/07/2025
Wonderful, I can't wait. :)
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 28/07/2025
Yesterday, 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
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 16/07/2025
I'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. ☺️
A work-in-progress sweater sampler lying on a wooden surface. The sampler is knit on wooden double-pointed needles. It has a garter edge and a stockinette body, and the body has the letter A knit with purl stitches on it. A spare needle is resting above the sweater, and above that, a ball of yarn.
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 15/07/2025
Thank you, that's very kind of you. :) I do my best.
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 15/07/2025
Oh no, what have I done. 😂
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 15/07/2025
I also admit that posting an email address probably wasn't the wisest move, but maybe implement a system where you detect this kind of thing so that dummies like me and actually malicious people can't post the comment as is. I dunno, just an idea. Anyway, I'm done. :)
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 15/07/2025
Interestingly, now I'm unable to open a new support case, even though my Meta Verified is still on. 🙃 Sooo... did they also disable this feature, or is it just a bug? Weeell, anyway. You know where to find me. Back to our regularly scheduled programming of books, TTRPGs and knitting content. 🫠
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 15/07/2025
Well, 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.
The image is of the sign-in page of a disabled Facebook account. The text reads as follows:
We've disabled your account. We've reviewed your account and found that it still doesn't follow our Community Standards on cybersecurity.
You cannot request another review of this decision. To learn more about the reasons why we disable accounts, visit the Community Standards. You may have the right to challenge our decision in your country's courts, or refer our decision to a certified dispute settlement body.
The first button at the bottom is "Download Your Information", and the second is: "Read more about cybersecurity."The image is of a Facebook comment before posting, and it reads:
Hi everyone! I'm Adam, a tech editor, and I would love to work with knitwear designers of all skill levels. I really enjoy patterns with colourwork or textures. (I'm currently working through "Knitting Ganseys" by Beth Brown-Reinsel, and it's brilliant.) As an editor, I'm focusing on accessories, and I'm especially interested in making patterns accessible for beginners. I can help create your charts and schematics as well. Feel free to reach out through Facebook or by email: hello@adamsarpatki.com. Check out my website for more information and testimonials: https://adamsarpatki.com/knitting-technical-editing/
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 13/07/2025
I'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. 😐
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 05/07/2025
I'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. 😅
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 04/07/2025
Nem mintha meglepne, de érdekes, hogy pont ma délelőtti cikk. (Az előzményekért lásd az előző posztomat.) www.pcwplus.hu/pcwlite/a-me...
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A Metát akkor sem érdekeled, ha fizetsz nekik
Az egyenlőség jegyében a Facebook pont ugyan annyira tesz mindenkire, akár fizetünk a szolgáltatásaikért, akár nem.
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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 03/07/2025
REMEMBER: 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.
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 01/07/2025
Anyway, I would leave Facebook and Messenger in a heartbeat, but basically all of my friends and most of my colleagues are there. We really need some alternatives.
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 01/07/2025
So 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 😂
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 29/06/2025
Now that's how it's done. 😊
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 24/05/2025
Hát igen. A saját Sanderson-fordításaimból tudom, mennyire fontos egy ilyen, és még akkor is történhetnek bakik. (De ezeknek a sikere borzasztóan függ a szerkesztő hozzáállásától is...) A Drizzt-sorozat munkálataira viszont nem látok rá. :)
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 24/05/2025
Csütörtökön 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.
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Drizzt legendája: Képes útmutató | A kulisszák mögött
Így készült a Drizzt legendája: Képes útmutató -- fordítói kihívások és könyvbemutató
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 26/04/2025
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
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a woman is dancing in front of baskets with the words oh would n't it be lovely below her
Alt: 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.)
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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 12/04/2025
It'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...
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ChatGPT 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.
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 06/04/2025
I've passed Lesson One; now moving on to Lesson Two. ☺️
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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Dear Bluesky literati, can anybody recommend me English language horror / weird magazines that accept translated short stories / will open submissions in the near future?
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 27/03/2025
I 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. ☺️
This is a photo of a desk, with two computers, a large monitor, the Chicago Manual of Style, a tiny sliver of Vogue Knitting, and lots of other stuff, useful for work. The monitor shows two documents open side by side - one is a Word document with tracked changes, and the other is a spreadsheet.
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 25/03/2025
Finally, 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! 🙂
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 20/02/2025
My pleasure. :) It was challenging at times, but so rewarding.
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 20/02/2025
The 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. 🖤
Two books standing next to each other. The left is The Blacktongue Thief, and the one on the right is The Daughters' War. Both of them are by Christopher Buehlman but these are the Hungarian translations published by Agave.
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 03/02/2025
I 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.
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 11/01/2025
Over 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.
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 27/12/2024
Seen 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.
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 26/12/2024
34-35 perc késéssel, de elindultunk. 🙌
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 26/12/2024
Hopp, találtak elfekvőben egy üres kocsit, mindenki menjen oda vissza. 😂
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 26/12/2024
MÁV. 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.
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Megan Wyreweden @thecreepingmoon.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Lettering samples with ink and gouache 😎
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 12/11/2024
Okay, Amazon, I promise I won't use my new 2000-page dictionary there. 🫠
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Ádám Sárpátki @adamsarpatki.com · 17/10/2024
Gosh, at first I read layers of gore. 😅 But yes, this! Lore makes everything fascinating.
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