Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Rivendell progress: 66.51% done (99,762/150k stitches, 36/59 colors) there was no combination of completed colors I could find that would land me at exactly 66.66...666% 😔 0150
Reposted by Cal CAsh @fishyash.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Friendly reminder that Duolingo was initially concieved to trick people into translating articles for free, which they later used as training data for MTL algorithms. Duolingo's primary purpose has NEVER been about teaching you a language, even from the start! slate.com/technology/2... 2226931647
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 13/09/2026they know. they know! no sugarcoating, even! so fucking tell them!! 4652431
Reposted by Cal CGigi Murakami 🔪 Queen of Horror Manga @gigimurakami.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Hello! Are there any manga letterer friends available for work? Please DM me! 95082
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 12/09/2026late-stage times at the street fair guy hawking gutter covers at a street fair: sir- me: I don't own a home ghgcaasf: oh me: like be real, man ghgcaasf: ...someday! 1120
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Rivendell progress: 60.05% done (90,068/150k stitches, 35/59 colors) I've since equipped a wrist wrap to reduce the frequency of obligate cooldown periods 1211
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"hideous remake is destroying my childhood with nauseating textures, voice-acting, and grease" is low-hanging, foregone fruit. yawn! there hasn't been a well-considered Link outing since the oracle duology on god's own Gameboy Color, and that was actually capcom 🤷♂️ 170
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026"never translate names" (unless it's one-off pets and it would be funny to) Potechi-> Tater Chip Ume-tan-> Plumbo 2347
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 05/09/2026started a fresh Elden Ring file on Switch2, and finally beat Malenia completely solo (no summons or spirit ashes) for the first time 🫡 230
Reposted by Cal CCy Catwell @pixelatedlenses.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Major update: I am almost certainly going to lose my housing by my birthday. I’ve received notice and even through my efforts it just…isn’t enough. I have about 17 days to find an actually workable solution and…I don’t think that’s going to happen. I think I just won’t have a home. 12666
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I do enjoy working on this [non-isekai, dnd-leaning] fantasy series but *each volume* has like 50+ new glossary names/terms and that has to be a record for me 2143
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026tepid take for letterer appreciation day: if manga translators ever get a 2x raise (hah), letterers deserve 3x. 4x if we're talking full SFX/signage retouch. and more for rush simuls where they have like ~24h to get it done. anything less is unlivable, and an insult to their time and skills 16931
Reposted by Cal CYatta-Tachi @yattatachi.com · 28/08/2026American Manga Awards 2026: A Call for Change by @wendeego.bsky.social “Freelancers are the foundation of your industry.” yattatachi.com/american-man...yattatachi.comAmerican Manga Awards 2026: A Call for Change | Yatta-TachiAdam reports on the American Manga Awards 2026, which reveals a growing industry in a period of transition. 17738
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Sans further clarification from the author, Schrödinger's 十数 is either "about a dozen" or "nearly twenty" 1110
Reposted by Cal CDr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dogen's Minority Problem is NOT GOOD youtu.be/j3Qk8S5_GSI?...youtu.beDogen's Minority Problem is NOT GOODYouTube video by Scripting Japan 08629
Reposted by Cal CEmma @ehanashi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The latest manga/light novel J-to-E loc industry survey is open now! This is an anonymous ten question survey, this time about health insurance and support. Responses will be posted publicly. forms.cloud.microsoft/r/Nnmxw4AiQR 21926
Reposted by Cal CBrandon Bovia @brandonbovia.bsky.social · 22/08/2026So, How Does The Green Work, Anyway??? Working on the lettering (English text) for The Guy She Was Interested Wasn’t A Guy At All has been an interesting experience. I primarily work in black and white manga, or on rare occasions, full color. 10465208
Reposted by Cal CCoop @riderstrike.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Have you been working in the publishing side of localization (translation, editing, lettering) and want to share (publicly or anonymously) your concerns heard? I'm working on a story about just that. My dms are open and I'm also over on signal (riderstrike.152). 4184165
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Jan is the hero we need the net60 thing must be mindblowing to anyone with a "normal" job. I often have to chase down invoices that are 3, 6, 10 months late, because some in-house chucklehead forgot to press a button. If you don't have a rainy day $$$ cushion, this line of work is a highwire act. 39343
Reposted by Cal CAnime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 21/08/2026Award-Winning Translator, Jan Mitsuko Cash, Calls on American Manga Industry to Double Their Rates! 51078556
Reposted by Cal CLynzee Loveridge @annlynzee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Translator Jan Mitsuko Cash gets standing ovation after winning Best Translation and calling on the manga publishers to double their rates and describes the poor working conditions of translators that create their success. 31287473
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Rivendell progress (after a 1-year+ break): 51.85% done (77777/150k stitches, 26/59 colors) after 6k in 10 days, my wrist yearns for death 1181
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 14/08/2026of their many crimes, one is this construction that is clearly meant to apply "AI[hyphen]" to "localized" as well, while obfuscating the very fact (almost makes it sound like "localized dialogue" is the thing to be ashamed of!) 080
Reposted by Cal CMitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026this CEO comment is how you know with 1000% certainty Stella is right 38692692264
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 10/08/2026some consulting firm found me on linkedin and paid me $$$ to rant on video for an hour about how shoving AI into the manga loc industry to sloppify the process is stupid and evil cons: -linkedin lunatics -had to talk to a robot pros: -got to tell them where to shove it -minor wealth redistribution 1404
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 10/08/2026PSA: consider localization. get help. it doesn't have to be this way. (merch found and photographed by a friend of a friend) 25612
Reposted by Cal CEmma @ehanashi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026In case anyone is interested in participating, this is a short survey about the manga/light novel loc industry and retirement plans. stateoftheindustrynow.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/s... Results will be posted publicly on this website in a couple of weeks!stateoftheindustrynow.wordpress.comSurvey #2 Basic Questions Regarding Retirement PlansThis is an anonymous survey for professionals working in the J-to-E manga/light novel localization industry. Results will be publicly shared. Link: 1712
Reposted by Cal CSarah (BUY MY BOOK!) Moon @prettytranslator.bsky.social · 07/08/2026a light video essayyoutu.bewhy are light novelsYouTube video by Sarah Moon 46522
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 07/08/2026latest cross stitch is a kremling group shot🐊☠️ 30k stitches, 105 colors, on 18-count aida, 9.75" x 11". Sprites from spritersresource Started this last year, got distracted by crochet, finally did the remaining 95% over the past month 😅 5275
Reposted by Cal CShojo & Tell: A Manga Podcast @shojoandtell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Looking into Manga Million some more, it feels like a real catch-22. The browse list is ordered by most views to least views total by default, so they’re clearly mining data about which titles are most popular. Which puts all the previously untranslated shojo and josei ones in a precarious state. 24020
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 07/08/2026this is worth a read covers the points about: -problematic non-crediting of humans (who hopefully exist?) -the extreme unlikelihood of the rare language pairs being done by real people -the issues with using English as a pivot language (JPN->ENG->___) in creative TL 3201135
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 06/08/2026they know it's poison. they know we hate it. their propaganda will obfuscate or outright lie. (mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1030241) 050
Reposted by Cal CCal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 06/08/2026surprise! more slop from Shueisha they are never going to pay real people @ rates commensurate with the skill it takes to localize manga properly. that's not their business model do not support this latest iteration in a long line of scams. please stop falling for this shit every time ffs 37661
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 06/08/2026surprise! more slop from Shueisha they are never going to pay real people @ rates commensurate with the skill it takes to localize manga properly. that's not their business model do not support this latest iteration in a long line of scams. please stop falling for this shit every time ffs 37661
Reposted by Cal CMangaAlerts @mangaalerts.com · 06/08/2026Credit to /Jaro0__ for finding this, (and /Mogeko_bunn_sin for the heads up) There's other titles where a MTL Company was credited as the translator for a specific title despite telling sites like ANN "AI translation was not used for this project." So yea.... 19273
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026the Wataru Watanabe Cool Handwriting Award for volume 64 goes to this chigau (違う) 270
Reposted by Cal CDark Horse Workers United @darkhorseunion.bsky.social · 30/07/2026UNION UPDATE: tl;dr Dark Horse leadership is attempting to reduce union membership by claiming supervisory status for Senior Editors, who have never been allowed management roles. 🧵 6397238
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 29/07/2026the impulse to TL the voices of Japanese high school third-years, second-years, and first-years on a sports team as boomers, millenials, and gen-zs respectively, given the bizarre age-gap dilation where the big kids are framed as one-foot-in-the-grave, while the littles are fresh from the womb 1210
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 29/07/2026manga translators when there's a scene in a downtown shopping area in Japan 04210
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 21/07/2026in which Sakamoto's detached/anthropological explanation of the eucharist (as a curious ritual by an exotic religion) likens Dracula to capitalists and posits that both are incompatible with Christianity (these start-of-volume essays destroy my pace, but they're always a hoot) 184
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 14/07/2026in volume 64 (!!) the MC comes across new terrain that his current equipment can't traverse, and he must acquire a mountain bike to progress Yowamushi Pedal is a metroidvania! 2111
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 12/07/20262 weeks post release, lying in bed this morning, just got the joke 170
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 02/07/2026spent 4 excruciating hours setting up a linux on my otherwise windows pc (as a wee 50gb partition), stepping on rakes at every step of the 17-step process, each requiring byzantine hackerman solutions from the reddit catacombs still not sure of the use case for linux besides "microsoft is evil, so" 470
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 01/07/2026cool crosspromo with a vile AI-slop company that shits all over official English-language Shueisha releases via their actual youtube channel 🫠 1192
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 25/06/2026sign describing chu-hai products, in the queer manga: "overwhelmingly fruity vibes" 190
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 25/06/2026first delightful task of my day: quasi-freestyling imagined homophobic quote-tweets from fictional bigots b/c the author censored big chunks of the text, presumably as an act of kindness to readers 1102
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 24/06/2026She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat (ostensibly a cooking manga) is a stealth PSA about a smorgasbord of progressive concepts related to sex, gender, mental health had to research "amatonormativity" today! (the societal assumption that everyone is better off in exclusive romantic relationships) 24812
