Reposted by Lucy MoffattMariok @mariok.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Saint Jérôme refusant une post-édition à 0,05/mot 1145
Reposted by Lucy MoffattGili Bar-Hillel @gilibug.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I wrote a post in Hebrew, and as I sometimes do, ran it through Google translate to see what English readers might get from it. Google translate CHANGED THE TITLE AND AUTHOR of a book I mentioned in the post! 310247
Lucy Moffatt @lucytranslator.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Or when I ordered more tortillas at a "Mexican" restaurant and got a bowl of tortilla chips. 000
Lucy Moffatt @lucytranslator.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Wonderful! My daughter was lucky enough to be vaccinated during the first round in London in 2008. Still recall the horror of discovering that a bunch of middle-class mums with kids at her school were anti-vaxxers. 000
Lucy Moffatt @lucytranslator.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Nooooo! As if affordable access to academic writing wasn't already difficult enough. So disappointed. 010
Lucy Moffatt @lucytranslator.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Astonishing to see it got some breathless reviews at the time, comparisons to Hitchcock etc 010
Lucy Moffatt @lucytranslator.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Ah, yes – that's it! So hilariously absurd. I'm almost tempted to watch it again 010
Lucy Moffatt @lucytranslator.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Does KB end up (spoiler alert maybe)impaled on giant scissors? The film was so appalling that It seems entirely feasible I fell asleep and dreamed that bit. 110
Reposted by Lucy MoffattAdam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I've been revisiting my 2021 book How to Argue With a Racist, in light of the Cofnas situation - i didn't name him or the scientifically illiterati with who he breaks bread. But I thought these sections from the end might be of interest. 24903248
Reposted by Lucy MoffattRose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Painting created by Hazel Edwards c.1961, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, where she was compelled to live. One of three surviving works, others feature tiny, mirror handwriting, detailing experiences of non-consensus based reality. No biographical information is currently known to us 512429
Reposted by Lucy MoffattLit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 19/08/2026“Dusk fell in the shed, no wind, but the weather clearing. She split some logs, breathed in the scent.” Read from Dorthe Nors’s novel Range, translated by Caroline Waight. buff.ly/WpEf5NSlithub.comRangeDusk fell in the shed, no wind, but the weather clearing. She split some logs, breathed in the scent. Hemp rope, oil, firewood and the clear evening visible through the gap in the south gable wall.… 081
Reposted by Lucy MoffattEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Preparing for a workshop on teaching critical thinking in STEM in light of current, let's say pressures, and decided I should start my talk with a slides that lays out the values that form my premises: 12520135
Reposted by Lucy MoffattMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/08/2026oh wow actions have consequences? I'm hearing this now today for the first time? 520127
Reposted by Lucy MoffattSkionar @skionar.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Orchids revived, the corpse ambulant and a poetic ruined abbey. These are the news stories I want to read. 181949592
Lucy Moffatt @lucytranslator.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Wow – I remember that from a childhood holiday. Two, in fact. 010
Reposted by Lucy MoffattRobert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 22/07/2026this is disqualifying not just as a government minister but as a human being 110713
Reposted by Lucy MoffattKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21/07/2026Ooh I know this one. It's by BANNING THE PERVERT GLASSES 6744441127
Reposted by Lucy MoffattAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14/07/2026google's "why don't you want to use our documentation chatbot" survey offers a pretty good list of reasons not to use their documentation chatbot 121005358
Reposted by Lucy MoffattRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Thank you feminism. Thank you @E. Jean Carroll. "The money, which had been held in escrow while Mr. Trump appealed the jury’s 2023 award, was disbursed to Ms. Carroll last week, according to a note added on Tuesday to the online court docket in the case."nytimes.comE. Jean Carroll Receives $5.6 Million Payment From Trump in Civil CaseA federal jury found President Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Ms. Carroll. He exhausted his appeals last month, prompting a judge to order that the money be paid. 859087
Reposted by Lucy MoffattReaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Listen now: Bjørn Berge is on the New Books Network talking about his new book, Smell: The Tale of a Fading Sense 🔉 buff.ly/YAF3u72 📚 buff.ly/fkkJyD5 021
Reposted by Lucy MoffattKaty Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Very interesting and helpful on how one press has dealt with non-human submissions 062
Reposted by Lucy MoffattMadeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Just saw a video of someone singing Vera Lynn to old people in a home despite most of them being too young to remember the war, and it's unlocked a new terror in me of being elderly and them making my teenager-in-the-00s ass listen to WW2 music because "that's what old people like". 51620103
Reposted by Lucy MoffattSardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 05/07/2026Irish builder Mick Meaney training inside his specially-built coffin at the Admiral Nelson pub in Kilburn, London, in 1968. He would go on to be buried alive underneath a nearby builder's yard, successfully surviving 61 days underground to break the world record. Photo by Chris Ware 99424
Reposted by Lucy MoffattSteve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 19/06/2026They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes 8266151952
Reposted by Lucy MoffattTits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 17/06/2026This is a thoughtful thread, worthy of your time 56926
Lucy Moffatt @lucytranslator.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Tbh if this guy had been around 40 years ago I would prob not be the proud atheist I am today 000
Reposted by Lucy MoffattGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11/06/2026“Affirming that he bows before the dignity of every migrant, Pope Leo addressed them directly, saying, ‘You are not just numbers or files. You are people who have left behind families and homes. You have dreams that no one has the right to despise.’” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...vaticannews.vaPope Leo in Gran Canaria: ‘Human dignity has no passport’ - Vatican NewsAt a meeting with migrants and the organisations that rescue and accompany them in Gran Canaria, Pope Leo urges the world not to grow indifferent to ... 112630
Reposted by Lucy MoffattTodd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I would read an entire book of early American explorers' writings about the skunk 1143084
Lucy Moffatt @lucytranslator.bsky.social · 08/06/2026It's an amazing story. Hopefully the book Mats' father wrote about his life will find an English publisher one day. Many adults need to take a long hard look at their preconceptions about kids and gaming. It put a hole in my own half-baked notions when I translated a sample of the book a while back. 010
Reposted by Lucy Moffatt👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/06/2026I think every politician who proposes to ban anything on the internet for teens should be required to propose, as an alternate, a free and accessible and all weather space for teens to hang out in their own hometown 784347964
Lucy Moffatt @lucytranslator.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Proud to have been added to a list called Luddite Left 020
Reposted by Lucy MoffattEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/06/2026Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all. 323105033473
Reposted by Lucy MoffattEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 30/05/2026I guess I'll keep shouting this message from the rooftops until it sticks. Lumping disparate technologies under the ✨"AI"✨ label only inhibits clear discussion and reasoning about what each does. >> 616836
Reposted by Lucy MoffattCenter for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 27/05/2026The American-Scandinavian Foundation awards four translation prizes for outstanding translations of poetry, fiction, drama, or literary prose written by a 20th or 21st-century Nordic author. The deadline to apply is September 15.amscan.orgTranslation Competition - ASFThe annual ASF translation competition is awarded for the most outstanding translations of poetry, fiction, drama or literary prose written by a Scandinavian author born after 1800. 001
Reposted by Lucy MoffattNancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026My wonderful friend and @transsolidarity.bsky.social colleague Alex talking about the lived reality of trans+ people in the shadow of the new Equality Act CoP www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comTrans people like me are facing segregation now. We need parliament to restore our rights | Alexandra Parmar-YeeHard-won, vital legal protections have been upended – ultimately our lawmakers must fix this, says director of Trans+ Solidarity Alliance, Alexandra Parmar-Yee 07726
Reposted by Lucy MoffattEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and... 11678902021
Reposted by Lucy MoffattGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026There's an exceptionalist belief that the UK's immune to the worst political extremes. In reality, we were lucky not to get a fascist government in the 1930s. Now that the world's richest man supports our most extreme political party, we need more than luck. We need to get the money out of politics. 1011935649
Lucy Moffatt @lucytranslator.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Anyway, I really *do* have a short translation in Granta for the very first time, an extract by one of my favourite writers, Kyrre Andreassen. I would love people to read it and the other great work in the magazine too. granta.com/furthermore-...granta.comFurthermore, I Consider that Carthage Must Be Destroyed‘Andreas had, regrettably, slapped one of his classmates. A boy called Chrisander, of all things.’ Fiction by Kyrre Andreassen, translated by Lucy Moffatt. 010
Reposted by Lucy MoffattThomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 21/05/2026So a trans woman I know, almost 70, now has to use male toilets? Why? She had gender reassignment surgery in the 1980s and has been using women's toilets for 40 years. She has never been a threat to anyone. Will she be safe in men's toilets? Where's the law to protect her? 22557124
Reposted by Lucy MoffattSardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 21/05/2026'Ella Fitzgerald was detained in a Houston, Texas, jail cell for performing for an integrated audience, which violated segregation laws at the time. 1955' 321984
Reposted by Lucy MoffattAfrica Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 20/05/2026The Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive, and primitive. africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-...africasacountry.comHow to read postcolonial writingThe Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive... 110348
Reposted by Lucy MoffattRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Just landed my first story at Granta magazine! now to take a big sip of coffee 1283
