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woctranslations @woctranslations.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The entirety of In the World of Men Part 1: Autumn Floods is now up! Stay tuned for the next 3 parts! woctranslations.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/i...

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 24/09/2026

in the age of AI, making art is a radical act

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watercresscent @watercresscent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is one of my fave chapters cause it's the first (and only?) scene where all major characters are in the same room Albert has it hard being caught between these two guys 😅

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ActivistChecklist.org @activistchecklist.org · 19/09/2026

Read this before upgrading to iOS 27 if you have an iPhone 15 or newer that supports "Apple Intelligence." New AI features might send your data (like Signal messages) off your device to Apple's servers It's absurd that we have to work so hard for our privacy :(

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How to Limit What Apple’s New Siri AI Can Access in iOS 27

Apple’s new operating system is here, and along with it comes a new version of Siri, dubbed with two very familiar letters: AI. As the name suggests, this Siri power-up resembles an AI chatbot more th...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/09/2026

When personal data is used to market costly financial products, the effects on vulnerable consumers can be disastrous, such as when personal, home, or auto loans are targeted to those in financial trouble, often with onerous terms, EFF’s Lena Cohen told @themarkup.org.

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Who’s buying your personal data: Disney, GM, your insurer and bank. Here’s what they get – The Markup

Consumers asked a major data broker for their files. What they got back shows interest in how fat they are, how much they drink, and how likely they are to get a mammogram, among many other characteri...

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miko 🌸 忆瑜症患者 @mikocchiii.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What duan feifan will buy for Jiang kuo as a joke for valentine's one day

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Guoldu 🌚 future buff vol1 @guoldu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sapphic! Zine! Apps! I'm really excited to be hosting this with ND and am so grateful to everyone who has shared so far <3 Means a lot to me!

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Dawnlight🌞Neni / ART COMMISSIONS OPEN!! @nenilein.com · 09/09/2026

Fun fact: "Reviewing an AI made translation" is more work for translators than just translating it themselves, because AI translations do not pass the sniff test beyond the most superficial. It's a loophole companies use as an excuse to underpay translators, and nothing else.

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woctranslations @woctranslations.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New Project Announcement: In the World of Men by Kong Er Yi. Chapter One is up. woctranslations.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/n... Future updates will be posted in batches.

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woctranslations @woctranslations.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Manhattanhenge Project is now complete✨! The proof of purchase extras, YiHui character profiles, and Manhattanhenge x Kaleido theater are now up! woctranslations.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/m... Thank you for sticking with us for the past 4 years!🎉🎉

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douqi @douqi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Chapter 45 of Ning Yuan's historical cyberpunk baihe To Embers We Return now up! (in which Bian Jin experiences jealousy) 🔗 read here: douqi.blog/2026/09/06/t...

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Extract from Chapter 45 of the English fan translation of To Embers We Return:

Bian Jin found herself being suffocated by some emotion she’d never hitherto experienced. A strange ache was spreading through her chest — and following closely in its wake was the same delicious tingling sensation she’d felt the night Shen Ni had given her that full-body examination, the one that left her weak-kneed.

Bian Jin could not understand. Shen Ni clearly wasn’t touching her at all, yet that same unbearable heat was surging up within her. She wrapped her arms around herself, trying valiantly to suppress it; beads of sweat were already beginning to form on the tip of her nose. If Shen Ni were to measure her tactility score now, she was sure it would be close to one hundred and eighty.

And this time, the uncontrollable flush of heat had an edge of pain to it. Why do I feel like this? Bian Jin wondered. She was finding it almost impossible to look away from Shen Ni — Shen Ni, who had glided gracefully onto the stage with every eye in the audience fixed on her, rousing a wave of cheers. She had not, of course, caught sight of Bian Jin at the back of the crowd. So it was she, and not Prince Yong, whom the students had been speaking of in such admiring tones.

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Hong Kong Supreme Feng Shui Committee @hksupremefengshui.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Of all the districts in Kowloon's Gate, Tai Chang Road most closely captures the atmosphere of the actual Kowloon Walled City (as opposed to HK/China). The devs flew to HK only after the KWC had been demolished, and could only refer to books like the City of Darkness to recreate the city.

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Hong Kong Supreme Feng Shui Committee @hksupremefengshui.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Bamboo scaffolding remains common in Hong Kong, where it can reach great heights, despite disappearing in the rest of China. The iconic practice is currently under threat from being replaced by metal scaffolds especially after the devastating Wang Fuk Court fire last year.

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douqi @douqi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Happy Qixi! While I don't have as many offerings as I was planning, I DID manage to finish the main one: an epub collecting the first arc of my translation of To Embers We Return, edited, typeset and with cover art by the amazing @\guoldu.bsky.social Get it here: douqi.blog/to-embers-we...

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To Embers We Return epub cover art and design by guoldu Download: EPUB (Volume 1) note: the epub contains the most up-to-date and polished version of the translation text, and should be preferred t…

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Guoldu 🌚 future buff vol1 @guoldu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If you want to see the eerier B&W edition of this painting in PRINT, be sure to preorder 《Your Body is a Fever Dream》from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social 🔮😈🪡

painting by guoldu of a trans person stitching stars on themselves amidst clouds in the sky. bright stars in the background mirror the stars on their chest.

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watercresscent @watercresscent.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Most Fashionable Love by Towei Chapter 3: Banquet (1) "You were muttering in your sleep." "What did I say?" "What do you think?" In which Albert gets left out in the cold, falls sick, and... you know how it goes. 😆 ellipsus.com/read/41B9LzH...

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The Most Fashionable Love 7 | watercresscent | Ellipsus

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

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𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗿𝗮☀️ @skyarise.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

JJWXC’s updated rules for contracted authors and their works that exceed the sexual content limits: • all works will prohibit intimate scenes below the neck, once violation is found the work will be locked until modifications are made +

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Yuvi @yuvi.app · 13/08/2026

The English Translation for Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode is now available! Play as Vincent Valentine as he makes his way to the Shinra Mansion in this once-lost mobile spin-off game. Hacking: Yuvi Translation: turquoisehammer.bsky.social Playtesting: Odysseus Special Thanks: Shinra Archaeology

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douqi @douqi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Chapter 44 of Ning Yuan's historical cyberpunk baihe To Embers We Return now up! (Shen Ni: can I be pet please 🥺) 🔗 read here: douqi.blog/2026/08/05/t...

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Extract from Chapter 44 of the English fan translation of To Embers We Return:

The look on Bian Jin’s face was so tender that Shen Ni found her gaze drawn longingly to Bian Jin’s hands. Back at Shuangji Hall, whenever Bian Jin praised her in this way, she was sure to follow it by patting Shen Ni on the head. Now, she stared hard at Bian Jin’s hands, willing them into motion. Unable to read her thoughts, however, they remained stubbornly folded in Bian Jin’s lap.

Shen Ni felt rather deflated. ‘Don’t worry, shijie. Whether it’s the city fortifications or the princes of the Li clan, I have my ways of dealing with them.’

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Verneri Kontto @vervalkon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I am very proud to announce that our English translation patch of London Spirit Detectives is now done and released on GitHub. Thanks to aishsha, bigbanana23, Cash Ogawa, Pennywise, Ryusui, TheMajinZenki and vervalkon What a wonderful project! See reply for details.

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Yuvi @yuvi.app · 04/08/2026

While working on the translation for Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episodes, I found out that for the English text, they made some sacrifices to how the game displays text to make more room and left out some QoL stuff like colored speaker names. So I went ahead and reimplemented that.

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Hong Kong Supreme Feng Shui Committee @hksupremefengshui.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

In Chinese culture, the zi zaat 紙紮 in Kowloon's Gate are papers that are burned in order to be sent to the the world of Yin (the underworld). Known as joss paper in English, they can take the form of money, clothes, and even modern conveniences like smartphones, sport cars, and mansions.

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Hong Kong Supreme Feng Shui Committee @hksupremefengshui.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Volume 3 of the manga Great Teacher Onizuka (1997) contains a direct reference to Kowloon's Gate.

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SnowyAria (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧🏳️‍⚧️ @snowyaria.goodorevengreat.games · 01/08/2026

Man-eating angels wander the ruined streets of Tokyo. Haruaki searches for the human-turned-angel that he used to love. What will he do when he finds her? Innocent Tears is now here in English! Hacking - @yuvi.app Translation - @snowyaria.goodorevengreat.games Images - @nichetopic.bsky.social

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’

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Hong Kong Supreme Feng Shui Committee @hksupremefengshui.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The manga Kowloon Generic Romance is very clear about being inspired by Kowloon's Gate. There is the whole plot about the Walled City remanifesting itself in the real world. Also, the characters Xiaohei and Gwen are named after characters in KG (where Gwen is Nguyên, both グエン in Japanese)

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

You opened a credit card. ICE now knows where you live. Here's how when you open a credit card your address leaves your bank, goes through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE. ICE plans to use this data for immigration and 'voter fraud'. No warrant More: www.404media.co/you-opened-a...

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Rainy Studios (٭°̧̧̧ω°̧̧̧٭)–🛍️BL Shop Open!🛍️–Got Laid Off (+=ω=) @samaburime.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Why are we talking about romantasy here like it's some kind of free range farm animal. 'Ethically sourced modern sensibilities.' Really? There has got to be a better way to portray these PREFERENCES without framing it as 'ethical' like anything off the list is 'unethical' or ultimately 'harmful'.

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Hong Kong Supreme Feng Shui Committee @hksupremefengshui.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Guilü 鬼律, the enemy monsters of Kowloon's Gate, is named after the Demon Statutes of Nüqing (女青鬼律 Nüqing Guilü), a 4th-century Chinese demon bestiary. The term originally refers to the text itself and not the demons like it does in the game. ☯️

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woctranslations @woctranslations.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Manhattanhenge Extras 1-5 are now up!!🎆 We're doing something different for this batch of updates so please read the blog post and all instructions carefully as per WOC tradition😉 woctranslations.wordpress.com/2026/07/15/m...

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Dawnlight🌞Neni / ART COMMISSIONS OPEN!! @nenilein.com · 15/07/2026

Hey! Translator of the new Puyo Puyo 15th Patch here. Wrote a fairly lengthy write-up about the creation of the translation on the Puyo Plaza Forums: puyo-plaza.forumieren.de/t229-puyo-pu... Also, I'll be streaming the patch and discuss the translation in a couple minutes. See you there?

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Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary Wii - English Patch Now Available!

Hello, everyone! A completely new Translation Patch for Puyo Puyo! 14th Anniversary for the Nintendo Wii was released today by the preservation group Suzuran Li

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/07/2026

And there it is. JK Rowling personally and publicly offering to bankroll litigation against Amnesty International using her massive wealth.

A screenshot of a social media thread on X (formerly Twitter) featuring two posts by J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling).
The first post reads: 'Should any of the women's organisations targeted by @AmnestyUK's recent 'anti-rights' blacklist wish to take legal action, applications can be made to the JK Rowling Women's Fund. jkrwf.org'.
This first post includes a quote post from the account Trans Widows’ Voices. (@transwidows) that says: 'Whilst I understand the detriment to Beira's Place is real, and focussing on @jk_rowling get clicks it's a shame that mainstream press coverage of the Amnesty debacle is not also focussing on us smaller groups listed who do ...'
The second post, a reply in the thread by J.K. Rowling, reads: 'Gay men's organisations named on the list are welcome to contact me through my website. While the JK Rowling's Fund was set up to support women, JK Rowling herself is more than happy to donate to your legal fighting fund.'"

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 13/07/2026

A hidden terribleness about the AI translations of older games that keep popping up lately - in this case Tricolor Crise for the Dreamcast - is the way they knock the wind out of the sails of the people who are trying to actually do it properly. LLM version didn't even use the right character names.

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Huge new class action lawsuit filed by big publishers and authors against Google this week over AI training. It accuses Google of taking millions of books / articles provided to them for use only in Google Books, Google Play Books, and Google Scholar, and secretly using them to train LLMs. 🧵 1/4

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douqi @douqi.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Chapter 42 of Ning Yuan's historical cyberpunk baihe To Embers We Return now up! (in which Shen Ni gives Bian Jin what every jiejie wants, Li Si tries and fails to hack a random guy, and we finally learn what He Lanzhuo's Talent is) 🔗 read here: douqi.blog/2026/07/13/t...

Extract from Chapter 42 of the English fan translation of To Embers We Return:

That had been exactly what Bian Jin wanted to bring up. At the same time, she’d been loath to saddle Shen Ni with the task of picking up the pieces she’d left carelessly scattered in her wake. But Shen Ni had still agreed to do it, and with no question asked at that.

It was as if Shen Ni had looked straight into her heart, piercing cleanly through the mists of her own doubts. In a single graceful swoop, she’d swept all of Bian Jin’s burdens into her own pocket, taken Bian Jin’s place on the path of thorns she trod, and pointed at the broad, smooth, open road that ran alongside it. Walk there, and don’t look back, she was telling Bian Jin.

And Bian Jin, who was used to taking care of everything on her own, suddenly felt as if someone had held up an umbrella over her in the midst of a snowstorm.

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This is why the Philosophy Tube episode on conversion therapy in Britain was so carefully worded and went through lawyers first! It’s difficult to educate the public on topics that rich and powerful groups do not want people to know about

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 09/07/2026

Meta's new feature that automatically lets other users make AI imagery using your Instagram photos is the sort of setting that should absolutely be opt-in for users. Here's how to turn it off. Online privacy isn’t dead. For more simple tips to protect your privacy, visit eff.org/optoutoctober.

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Cinnamon Toast Cunt @meri90.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Meta contaminated Cheyenne Wyoming’s wastewater supply with a bacteria with a 31% mortality rate DEATH TO AI

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Guoldu 🌚 future buff vol1 @guoldu.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

HAD to paint @green446004.bsky.social 's character dove for today's art fight attack. i'm getting in the mile long queue for one glance from her😂

an original character created by green446004- she looks off with a complicated look and raises a champagne glass to someone offscreen

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Guoldu 🌚 future buff vol1 @guoldu.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

snuck in another attack last night on the lovely @ indigokra of his stunning character Erhi 🫶 #guolduart #artfight

landscape painting of an older, buff woman with 3b/3c hair leaning back on her arms looking off at a sunset

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Hilltop @hilltopworks.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Here's an interesting English preview for Kowloon's Gate in "Computer and Video Games" magazine.

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watercresscent @watercresscent.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The Most Fashionable Love Chapter 2: Moment (3) "When Nick spun around, his face got so close that his lips brushed against my fingertips." In which Albert has gay thoughts about the one guy he shouldn't be having gay thoughts for. ellipsus.com/read/4PQADew...

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The Most Fashionable Love 6 | watercresscent | Ellipsus

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douqi @douqi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Chapter 41 of Ning Yuan's historical cyberpunk baihe To Embers We Return now up! (Li Si: I would very much like to throttle Marquess Jing'an, yes) 🔗 read here: douqi.blog/2026/07/01/t...

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Extract from Chapter 41 of the English fan translation of To Embers We Return:

‘Shen Ni,’ said Li Si through clenched teeth. ‘If I hacked into your memory module now, and projected the contents on that wall over there, would we all see how much you’ve been lying?’

Shen Ni tucked her head into Bian Jin’s shoulder, looking the very picture of a soft, demure, helpless little wife. ‘You’re welcome to hack into my memory module anytime, general,’ she purred.

If you even can, was the unspoken implication. Not only was there no one in TangPro capable of breaking through her personal firewall, even if her shizun from Shuangji Hall were to come back to life and recruit a hundred Qin Wushangs and a thousand Li Shans to her aid, they would still fail to make even the slightest breach.

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