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Paweł Ausir Dembowski

@ausir.bsky.social
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Linguist and translator. ↙️ ↙️ ↙️ Mastodon: @ausir@wandering.shop he/him on/jego pronouns.page/@ausir

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 21m
Apparently the only reason backslash exists on the keyboard is because in the sixties somebody needed it in order to combine it with the front slash to make /\ and \/ symbols. It is otherwise devoid of typographical meaning.
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Szkin 🏳️‍⚧️ WATCH GHOST IN THE SHELL @szkinart.net · 29/09/2026
imagining a type of guy who’s like “Geralt? Ha, sorry, I think you mean Geraldo of Lybia from Conquistador.”
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
read theory
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Elendil the Insufferable Lying Bastard: Historical Bias in the Akallabêth (Part One)
For the past thirty years, substantial scholarly work has been done on the role of Historical Bias in Tolkien’s Silmarillion. Essentially, the premise is that Tolkien was deliberately present…
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Half-Brick McCurdy @halfbrickmccurdy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ironically, Russia's many war crimes includes the repeated use of chemical weapons in Ukraine. What you're actually "witnessing" is Ukraine using technology instead of soldiers to save Ukrainian lives as part of its broader existential fight to survive.
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EXCLUSIVE: Russian use of chemical weapons against Ukraine 'widespread', Dutch defence minister says
The intelligence findings on alleged Russian use of chloropicrin have not previously been reported.
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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This building is the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
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Immigrant Punk @porcupunk.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
"We should increase the price for Russian aggression, and it is only then that Russia will understand that they will not win this war".
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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Both Mélenchon and Le Pen would be bad for Ukraine.
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 27/09/2026
WTF. 😡
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Kat @kat8655.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
Easy mode for me to avoid country music because I'm not American.
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Kira @spaceforestart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
imagine being a grownup adult who still thinks "the last ringbearer" is "very clever". embarassing, honestly.
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Jörg Hillebrand @gaghyogi49.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bill Wolkoff has kindly shared this image of the mask used for M'Ress in #StarTrekSNW's "Tomorrow's Enterprise" at Threads. So you can see it was a practical effect. 👌
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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tegoroczna Nagroda im. Janusza A. Zajdla: Opowiadanie: Aleksandra Janusz - „Niewiedźma” Powieść: „Aż zobaczycie ogień” - Paweł Majka
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Captain Revo @captainrevo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This guy can wear pants, he just chooses not to because he’s a kinky slut, and everyone is afraid to ask him to put some on as to not sound culturally insensitive.
A lizard alien only wearing a top
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
looked this up and hwaet the FUCK. what the fuck ISFDB. why are you deadnaming and *deadphotoing* trans women. that is absolutely fucking cruel!
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Other publishers interested in translating my short work should contact me (or tell me how to submit) because having translations is super cool!! Like I only read/speak English, but if my Polish cousins could pick up a magazine with one of my stories in Polish? Please, yes
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I just want to repeat this : Russia double tapped a shopping mall in Ukraine today , and I’m sure it won’t make breaking news in big foreign mainstream media . Because it’s yet another one . Because it’s so horrible for so long it’s not breaking news anymore .
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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A new posthumous Stanisław Lem book just dropped: this time a collection of columns he wrote for the weekly magazine "Przegląd" in 2002-2006 titled "Świat się chwieje" ("The World Is Shaking"). I'm not a huge fan of his other collected columns from that period but will still buy as a completionist.
cover of "Świat się chwieje" with Stanisław Lem's face
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Walter Mondial @dabenner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Shakespeare probably had the actors do really offensive Italian accents
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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think the answer to "are Portugal and Spain Latino?" is the same as "is Donkey Kong a Mario game?" in that it's certainly true they're the prime movers of it but they're not still all there
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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've recently heard a Spanish guy living in Poland say how "Poland is better because it doesn't have as many immigrants"; dude, you're a fucking immigrant
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm sorry, but "you're welcome here but ONLY if you moved from another country, not from another city" is not a normal worldview. Your brain is not operating within expected parameters.
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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
after watching so many Spanish shows on Netflix where an Argentinian actor plays a villain (or at least an antihero), I kinda expected the Argentinian actor in a Mexican show to also turn out to be the bad guy but (at least so far) it seems Mexicans don't have that trope
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TrekMovie.com @trekmovie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We are sad to hear that actor James Sloyan has died. He played 4 different characters on Star Trek: Admiral Alidar Jarok on Next Gen, Mora Pol on DS9, K'mtar/Alexander Rozhenko on Next Gen, and Ma'Bor Jetrel on Voyager. Our deepest condolences to his family and friends.
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles - Wikipedia
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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yeah, this. There was never a non-racist brexit, the same way there was never a non-racist trumpist. Sure, for some the racism part is the by-product, while for others it is the main deal, but the result is ultimately the same.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm sorry if you looked at this poster and it wasn't a dealbreaker for you, then I can't agree with "not all of them were racist or thick"
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Transplant" is such a weird word to use as a pejorative, like a transplant is literally something from outside that gets brought in because without it the body will die
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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yeah, no thanks Miss me with xenophobic bullshit about "transplants" That's a block
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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 19/09/2026
"debate over Mao's legacy" no sir i will NOT be clicking that trending topic not even to wildly expand my blocklist, thank you sir
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 19/09/2026
My take is that if it’s got a copyright holder it’s a reboot, and if it’s public domain it’s a retelling. “Boot” implies a clear property that has an official version. “Telling” implies folklore.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026
leaving it all on the field at the Tram Driver Championships (streaming NOW): www.tramem.eu
Tram driver championships
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Gili Bar-Hillel @gilibug.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What’s interesting is that these alterations/adaptations which allegedly are meant to make a book more palatable to the USA market aren’t necessarily localization: sometimes it’s the OPPOSITE, i.e., a sort of exotification of the text to make it read MORE translated.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's honestly incredibly funny how a 3 page long word document that outlines the rules for a HOI4 RP session is better at conveying Hirohito's culpability than multi-hundred page long scholarly monographs about Hirohito's life
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Russia seizing the assets of Western companies that were content to continue operating there even after all its crimes is actually a peak leopards eating faces moment
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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
number of Polish Nobel winners has increased
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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the crew of the USS Farragut must be constantly wondering where the hell their first officer is
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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
turns out the tooth is too broken for a crown and I need an implant; welp, there go my savings...
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 17/09/2026
Okay South Park renaming itself “South America” is a pretty good bit
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Euro-posting
What Ze Fuck Is a Mile?
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molly 🏳️‍⚧️ @gnomon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ffs you can't point out that no one on the crew knows what a van is because it's too far in the past and then, in the very next scene, have one of those crew casually reference the restaurant chain Medieval Times
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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
not a Vulcan (well not exactly) but IIRC there was an episode where Geordi shocks a Romulan by saying he was born blind and they let him live
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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When my Spanish friend was attacked in Poland for "looking Arab", it was a racist hate crime too, even if the racists misidentified their target. It doesn't matter whether I think Arabs are "actually" a separate "race".
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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm not "agreeing" with Nazis about anything, simply saying that if a hate crime is racially motivated on the part of the perpetrator then it is racism, regardless of whether we agree that the "race" in question is "real" or not
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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anti vaxxers and the like love pretending to be oppressed.
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oinonio @oinonio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For Gods' sake @nytimes the days of hot type are far behind you. Why can you not use proper Polish diacritics? If I can type dąb or Poznań or Stanisław so can your typesetters. It's embarrassing.
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Can a Polish Epic Become the World’s Next Period Drama Hit?
“The Doll” on Netflix is based on a novel that’s revered in Poland. It also has the requisite duels, corsets and palaces, as well as elaborate wigs and mustaches.
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grice pudding @evpok.love · 29/07/2025
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meme drawing of a person (p) pointing at a series of function graphs (g)

g: hey guys
p: furry transfem
g: NOT WHAT I'M CALLED

there are several sinusoid graphs, axes are labeled time and frequency, it is a decomposition of a function in a sum of sinusoids, it's a Fourier transform
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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Polish name for Newfoundland is funny because it's a mistranslation but it stuck instead of "Newfound land" the name was interpreted by Poles as "New Foundland" (as if there was an old Foundland) so the Polish name is "Nowa Fundlandia" (like with New Zealand being Nowa Zelandia)
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
That is pretty much the exact situation we now find ourselves in with the U.S. AI industry, yeah.
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026
The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.
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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"best Robin Hood since 1973" surely not if you count TV shows
Michael Praed as Robin Hood in Robin of Sherwood
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