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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 20h

Magic, which I somehow saw part of on TV while at my grandmother's (where the more usual fare was Family Feud or Three's Company)

Anthony Hopkins and an identical ventriloquist's dummy, wearing identical scary sweaters

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fabulous opportunity for translators working from or into Italian. Two-person peer-to-peer online workshop with someone in the opposite language pair - and it's PAID! Deadline Oct. 20, you need to have published work and preferably have a contract for the project

traduttoristrade.it

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hey, did you know you can freeze Romas and S. Marzanos whole? Buy in late summer when they're cheap and ripe, put them in a big ziploc, suck out the air with a straw, use a few at a time (for cooked things, obvs). Put them in a bowl of water to thaw a bit, slit the skin and it pulls right off

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NY State Board of Elections: sending out shittily designed overseas voter ballots with shitty instructions for at least 30 years now. Like, even the little arrows showing you how to fold the envelope are wrong

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So now there are 22 cases of dengue in my town in Italy. I got it once many years ago, visiting PR, and it was no fun, but I sure didn't think I'd encounter it here. Thanks, climate change

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Although written many years ago, Lady Chatterly’s Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press, and this fictional account of the day-to-day life of an English gamekeeper is still of considerable interest to outdoor minded readers, as it contains many passages on pheasant raising, ...

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Bi visibility month! This one goes out to the long-ago psychologist - not mine, drug study - who brightly told me that in his view bisexuality doesn't exist. After long conversation he finally admitted in this strange, soft voice that I, at least, probably exist. Have kept existence thing up so far

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Slightly surprising, but then again my part of PA was south of the Mason-Dixon in other ways, too, whatever the maps may have said: mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

A dialect map in which I seem to be from Virginia

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Pro tip: when you have a sore throat from acid reflux, tipping your head back and snorting (sterile) saline solution from a piece of (sterile) gauze may help. Inhaling a (by definition not sterile) probiotic oral suspension that was in an identical little vial, not so much

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

tfw when John the Baptist gets dressed up all special for you

Francesco Raibolini, called "il Francia" St John the Baptist by Palácio Nacional de Sintra (Portugal). A bearded St. John stands in a landscape holding a lamb, wearing what looks like a pretty little négligé but probably isn't :-(

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A little shocked to see that traffic to my rather dumb, out-of-date website has *quintupled* over the last month. It's clearly spiders and/or other bots: there's no other conceivable reason, plus it's all from the US (random, non-publishing-related places) and all visits to just the homepage. WTF?

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It’s taken a year, but I’ve finally gotten it through my head that on a promontory, as on an island, what really matters is the wind direction. 33° C and scirocco (floor is damp, water is dirty, air is dirty, you want to die) is nothing like 33° and maestrale (water is limpid, life is hot but good)

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Tim Curry’s Frank-N-Furter, my first love, the guy I wanted to be when I grew up (didn't quite work out that way). You’re going home, I guess 😢

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Over the years I’ve gotten email for many Johanna Bishops: the county councilwoman in NC (nice lady, my favorite!), the yoga instructor in Sweden, the behavioral science professor in DE. A new one seems to have requested plumbing estimates in CA and I feel moved by this addition to our family

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Translator: Context please ffs. [Receives context.] Two sentences earlier this person seems to be pouring water into headgear, might there be a typo?

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Now and then I think about Gabriele D'Annunzio's penis shoes and wonder what on earth Eleonora Duse was thinking. I mean, there were also things like the invasion of Fiume and the fact that he looked like a rat, but those shoes, Jesus

Photo of a pair of light brown leather loafers, each with a cute pink penis and testicles appliqued on the upper, pointing towards the wearer. They somehow do not look erotic

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This must be the third video of wonderful voices singing global scales I have seen, and each is mesmerising and has taught me things I didn't know. Such as: That these scales exist and how they, the bare backbone of tunes, reflect and unlock whole world regions' music. This is amazing.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

After "five heatwaves" (please everybody stop calling them that and counting them), the cat now runs up meowing when I approach with the cat-dampening washcloth. She's not one of those pro-water cats. Cute but depressing

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X-Ray Eyes @xrayeyes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

L'éclipse du soleil en pleine lune (The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon), realizzato e diretto da Georges Méliès (1907) Méliès utilizza la dissolvenza incrociata per sovrapporre progressivamente la luna e il sole, giocando con il concetto stesso di eclissi.

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Somebody please make a map app that charts the shortest way to walk from point A to point B while maximizing shade at a given hour

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It was cloudy up to an hour before, but sometimes things do work out the way you hoped

95% eclipse over the sea with some people's heads silhouetted in the foreground

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Today I swam over a mile in open water without fins or snorkel for the first time ever. It took me... a while (I'm small, slow, and over 50) but I'm so proud of myself that the world has to know

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

not to be confused with quesadilla

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One thing about living outside your country of origin for decades is that you're prone to suddenly remembering phenomena you haven't thought about for years, which once seemed normal but have become profoundly alien and unfathomable, shattering your self-continuity. Grape-Nuts.

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

To everyone frustrated about how this part of their life has slipped away (3/4 of the once avid readers I know), I can't stress enough that you can retrieve it. A couple of years ago I had to read 30 books in 3 months; my attention span was soon back to pre-scrolling length and has stayed that way

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Could a couch-to-5k for books get you back into reading?

With smartphones stealing our attention, we’re picking up fewer books than ever. A novelist shares her eight-week scheme to get you back into the habit

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Thought I’d be getting out of the Lav Diaz adaptation of the Odyssey around now, but Telemachus (not sure who the actor is, the camera’s always 200 yards away) is still in Ithaca, walking towards his ship in real time, so we may be here a while

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I loathe everything Amazon stands for and have never bought anything on their site. But twice now I've ordered stuff from other websites and it's arrived in a goddamn smiley package. What's up with that? Is there a way to find out online who actually relies on Amazon fulfillment? I'm in the EU

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I just found myself using the Velvet Underground song "Heroin" to explain a point of English grammar to a client and now I'm wondering how professional-sounding that was, on a scale of one to ten

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This summer reminds me of covid in terms of the realization—here—that life can and will become very different from what you’re used to. That abstract fear of a "distant" threat can turn into concrete experience overnight. It's human to not get that till our noses are pushed in it, but it's awful

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I only just noticed the name of a pizzeria in my neighborhood: "Pathos." Restaurateur, I do not think it means what you think it means 🍕😿🤔

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I won't say the Tates' arrest is the best news ever because that's a descriptor reserved for other things, but it's pretty close. After reading that New Yorker article I have such a violent reaction to the name that just getting Tate Collection posts in my feed has prompted moments of distress

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

People going through menopause should get an exemption from heatwaves, or else people going through heatwaves should get an exemption from menopause. Like a treaty to avoid double taxation. Anything else is SO WRONG

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

As an immigrant who for decades has used her national origin as an excuse to avoid all soccer convos, I cherish the US's general lack of interest in the World Cup and wish it were as absolute as when it inspired this song ("Fundamentally, Americans do not care about the World Cup....")

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Elio e le Storie Tese - Nessuno allo Stadio

YouTube video by Elio e le Storie Tese

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

About half the world population is at least bilingual. Wtf is with phones that make you go hunt around in the settings every time you need to switch your texting language

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Tyndale is my no. 1 translation hero, and not for religious reasons. Given that many of his choices were retained in the KJV, he rivals that other William when it comes to phrases bequeathed to the English language by a single individual. Yet not a household name

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I don't think there's any place like the Dolomites when it comes to combining the sublime with the kind of silly

View from the top of the Latemar, with other mountains in the background and some rocks in the middle ground being silly (spiky things, a little tilted square arch)

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

45 years ago.

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It's my first summer actually living in a seaside town (not The Hague, I just liked this page) and had no idea that at this time of year there would be so many baby gulls standing around on the sidewalk, looking very confused and sporting hairdos like Antonino Zichichi's

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The young seagulls season - Dierenhospitaal and Dierenambulance Den Haag eo

The seagull season has started. At the end of June, beginning of July, it is once again very busy. Young seagulls jump from the roofs and walk around the streets screaming for about five days. The par...

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Trying to meet a deadline today in 35°C (95° F) heat but with a heat index of *46°* (115) because of the humidity. I think I have every right to deliver the translation in one of those drippy melty fonts. Or maybe not deliver it at all and say it must have evaporated on the way there

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

1/ A few thoughts on AC. I’ve lived between the US and Europe (France and Italy) since my mid-teens and constantly see how the “two” cultures (massive oversimplification) manage to both admire each other too much and pick out things to feel morally superior about

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Jesus, I'm looking up a lot of fish right now and it seems like all of the most common species that I see around here change their sex characteristics from male to female after just a couple of years. Nancy Mace & co. are so het up about restrooms and schools when the real problem is in the *oceans*

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This year I’ve already seen 7 or 8 flying gurnards in a place where I’d never seen one until a couple of years ago, when it seemed like a big event. I know it’s because of climate change, which makes me sad, but they’re still the best fish ever and I'll take them over extra jellyfish any day

en.wikipedia.org

Flying gurnard - Wikipedia

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Just a heads-up to translators that the scam emails have become more plausible lately; in the past two weeks I’ve gotten two that I had to look at harder than usual before junking them. However: Gmail addresses, names/companies that have nothing to do with the subject or with translation

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Watching The Human Condition and constantly distracted from the horrors of war because the 26-year-old Nakadai is so damn hot. Like fine, take away his military service exemption if it means he'll be rocking that stubbly look for the first part of the second film

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