Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 21hquestion for any Pratchetteers out there: I don't get the ref to the Lay of Barking Johnnie (The Shepherd's Crown). Can anyone clue me in? 101
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026is this person in a bubble that thinks everyone in the world lives in the US of A? 051
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Le haut Jura, on ne s'en lasse pas. Morning walk with moon 070
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Lecture du jour. Je kiffe l'histoire locale. Les familles de 22 enfants 😵😳😮 010
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ami.e.s universitaires et écolos, la FTI Genève invite le 9 octobre prochain Anne Baillot (Le Mans) pour une conférence sur le thème "Activité universitaire et limites planétaires : ce qu'apporte la sobriété numérique". 16h15 CET en format hybride avec inscription obligatoire tinyurl.com/3vye6wjetinyurl.comWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Anne Baillot. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Anne Baillot. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. 000
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Writing my annual self-assessment, flicking back through my diary. What the heck was going on here 030
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Someone was sick on stage during the carol service. I remember his name forty years on. Poor guy 020
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026words cannot express how much I despise the creepy-ass slop creeping into crafting spaces. FUCK OFF THAT IS NOT HOW SCISSORS WORK 2140
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026got my royalty statement and it's hard to believe but this bad boy has sold over 2,500 copies. I am flabbergasted 1172
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Morning cross-border run, with added bits of history 030
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 18/09/2026and while I'm in the mood, if your instinct is to translate bagnole by jalopy, you need to take a long hard look at yourself 000
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Established translators to newbies everywhere, for years: never👏translate 👏 a 👏 full 👏 manuscript 👏 without 👏 a 👏 contract Publisher, this morning: guess what guys! We've established a new prize! for full-length unpublished translation manuscripts! 😑 43913
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026😒 interesting read for people in the arts: artreview.com/who-can-affo... 133
Reposted by Susan PickfordValérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Merci de donner à voir ces personnes, leur humanité, leurs parcours et conditions de vie, et ne plus invisibiliser les personnes qui décèdent du fait de la chaleur. www.lemonde.fr/planete/visu...lemonde.frQui sont les morts de la canicule ? « Le Monde » raconte des vies derrière les chiffresSelon les données publiées mercredi par Santé publique France, 8 124 personnes sont mortes à cause de la chaleur pendant les canicules entre fin mai et fin août. Personnes âgées, travailleurs... « Le ... 10553283
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Part of the translator's fee was donated to support the Bamako book festival, www.rentreelitterairedumali.orgrentreelitterairedumali.orgRentrée Littéraire – L'Afrique se raconte à elle-même et au mondeYou should choose a search result page. You can choose the page from the Theme Options > Events > Event Search Results Page option. 010
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The work bookshelf delivered a throwback to a purer, more innocent time this morning 260
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Just learned the word Euergetism, and hoo boy we should bring that back 021
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Publication day for Moussa Konaté's Headless in Kita - AFAIK the first English translation of a West African crime novel 👉 www.dedalusbooks.com/our-books/bo...dedalusbooks.comHeadless in Kita by Moussa Konaté : Our Books :: Dedalus Books, Publishers of Literary FictionDedalus is an alternative, independent publisher, founded in England in 1983. The films on our page are all related to the books we publish. Our list includes contemporary English language fiction, tr... 173
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026For non-French-speakers, machine translation casually out there telling Amharic and Tigringya speakers to take insecticide and amputate their breasts instead of tapering off their treatment 131
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026People who capitalise after a colon: who hurt you? 180
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Slime moulds are amazing. The In Our Time episode on them a year or two back absolutely blew my tiny mind. Highly recommended 041
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 08/09/20261 voyage Genève<>Marseille, 15 emails de confirmation du prestataire de voyagestatic.klipy.comIndustrial Smoke Billows from Factory ChimneysALT: Industrial Smoke Billows from Factory Chimneys 051
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Call out to my translator friends: I'm collecting recent instances of genAI mistranslations for use in class, particularly involving French, German and English. Would be glad to see any examples you've come across. 21726
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 05/09/2026just switched "hamming it up" for "overegging it" #amtranslating 011
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The average number of skeletons in the human body is more than one 1195
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Fatboy Slim and Keir Starmer were in the same class at school for 5 years and took violin lessons together 1181
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I have spent a stupid amount of time playing sautecanton.fr this week,* mainly because French village names often crack me up. Hear ye! No cheese! Fish! *outside working hours 000
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 02/09/2026For #worldkidlitmonth I am once again asking Anglo publishers to reprint this BANGING feminist fable on coercive control and the mental load 260
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 29/08/2026If you're into this kind of thing, Alphonse Allais wrote a similar piece in 1897 (check out his monochrome paintings too) 131
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 28/08/2026He's thrown a kettle over a pub. What have you done? 000
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 23/08/2026spending my Sunday morning reading an MA thesis on Nac Mac Feegle linguistics. Time well spent 040
Reposted by Susan PickfordCassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷 @sparkleponycass.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I have been working my freelancer arse off for a games client for over 11 years, basically full-time. I never once asked for my rates to go up. I always went above and beyond. I made them SO MUCH MONEY. Last year they stopped giving me work with zero warning... unless I cut my rates by A THIRD. 1114676
Reposted by Susan PickfordOxfam France @oxfamfrance.bsky.social · 21/08/2026 Pendant que la France brûlait 🔥 Entre le 22 juillet et le 1er août, 2 872 jets privés ont décollé d’aéroports français. Soit 261 vols par jour. ✈️ 8192145
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 13/08/2026nature is amazing double whammy yesterday: as we were driving home after the eclipse, a badger crossed the road in front of us. I've not seen one around here in forty years. 020
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Lol just started a book published in 2006 and set in Paris the same year and the main character is sweating his ass off and moaning about the heat at 21° 170