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Rob Myatt 🍉

@robtranslates.bsky.social
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Translator, writer. DE, DA, PL, RU, SV, NO, LU>EN. He/they 🌹 Winner: Goethe-Institut Award 2023 polyglotliterature.co.uk/samples Previous dabbler in Burmese, Czech, Indonesian. Current dabbler in Mongolian, Eastern Armenian, Finnish, Farsi.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The Struggles Of Elon Musk 😔
A cartoon made in response to an Elon Musk tweet that reads “Whoever said “money can’t buy happiness” really knew what they were talking about 😔”

The black and white cartoon shows Musk standing against the wind. There is a distant expression on his face and a single tear being blown from his left eye.
He wraps his arms around himself, trying to keep warm. The world is so cruel to him. Punishing him for the meagre crime of hoarding massive amounts of wealth and showing no empathy for the vulnerable. Also, he uses his platform to boost racism, misogyny, and white supremacy but seriously guys who would hold that against a fella?

Next to him a caption reads “Being a shit person is ruining my life”
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Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We're joining @creatorsrights.bsky.social in calling on Government to protect creators from the existential threat of GenAI Help get the petition to 10,000 signatures - sign the petition 🔽 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Four translators of Slovak (John Minahane, Janet Livingstone, Magdalena Mullek & Jonathan Gresty) read from the anthology THE BOOK OF BRATISLAVA (commapress.bsky.social, 2026) edited by Radoslav Passia & buff.ly/pXs9oqv buff.ly/XMetPlU
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Four translators read from the anthology THE BOOK OF BRATISLAVA (Comma Press, 2026)
A part of the series 'Reading the City', the anthology Book of Bratislava: A City in Short Fiction, co-edited by Radoslav Passia and Julia Sherwood, features ten stories by ten different authors set…
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Wes Streeting as defence secretary
A screenshot of a meme that usually says “guys help what country is this and why are all the cute girls from here” with a photo of the trans flag that has been edited to say “guys help what country is this and how do I go to war with it”
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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Our @newgermanbooks.bsky.social feature week continues with @robtranslates.bsky.social and OUTSIZE (seeking a publisher), Sophia Merwald's prizewinning, fiercely idiosyncratic debut novel about queer kinship, anti-establishment homemaking, and the precarious construction of safety.
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Rob Myatt reads from Sophia Merwald's OUTSIZE (seeking a publisher)
Sophia Merwald’s award-winning debut (Alfred Döblin Prize 2025) is a fiercely idiosyncratic novel about queer kinship, anti-establishment homemaking, and the precarious construction of safety. With…
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Wrote a little something about the current state of affairs and some lovely folks over at Robot Butt decided it was worthy of publishing :) #ai #writing #DatAss #DumbShitRichPeopleSay www.robotbutt.com/2026/07/11/d...
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DAT ASS Is Going To Revolutionize—And Democratize—Professional Sports As We Know It | Robot Butt
The Data Annotation Technology-based Artificial Skeletal Support—or DAT ASS, for short—is setting out to rebuild sports analytics.
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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning
LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
A succinct explanation of the con of "Artificial Intelligence" and the false "genius" of its builders. Such a scam. Stop the madness.
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This is actually, genuinely huge news
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win
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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
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How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
As a translator of some 11+ years, I feel this
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Celery Man 🥬 @celeryman.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
tired of people trying to pass off their genAI slop as "art". it's not art. it is hollow visual noise without any emotion or intention behind it. you did not make it. and no, generating queer AI slop does not somehow make it art. queer slop is still slop!
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/12/2025
The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Go for an agglutinating language to pack more in
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
😲 #Lingule #1335 "yupqa": 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🏆 lingule.xyz
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Literally nothing has changed, except that now legacy media won't even report propaganda, let alone on-the-ground realities
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
What about the hostages, was the cry. Overnight Israeli soldiers have seized over a hundred more Palestinian hostages. But they never meant Palestinian hostages, did they?
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
They were 8 and 11 years old
Asked for comment by Sky News, the IDF responded: "Earlier today, IDF troops identified two suspects who crossed the yellow line, conducted suspicious activities on the ground, and approached IDF troops operating in the southern Gaza Strip, posing an immediate threat to them.
"Following the identification, the IAF eliminated the suspects in order to remove the threat."
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
And yet there are people who genuinely believe AI can help solve the climate crisis 🙄
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The journalistic malpractice is, at this point, quite astonishing. How can any of these newsreaders say these things with a straight face?
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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This is not just a shocking statistic. It is the lived reality of women across Britain. Each number represents a life lost, a family broken, a community grieving. When we hear this, our anger should be directed where it belongs - at the systems that fail to keep women safe - not at trans people.
One woman is killed by a man* every three days in the UK.
*Not a trans person

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I have been able to regain access to my necessary medication (and thankfully was able to avoid going without during my fight for it). But I know many people who are having the exact same fight right now. Including people who've been settled on hormones even longer than I.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
If you think that the current state of trans healthcare in the UK is because of concern or caution, I'd encourage you to think again. It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years. And it costs lives.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
There is simply no medical reason to take a person, cold-turkey, off of a medication they've been stable on for almost a decade, with no offer of anything else - and when the lack of that medication causes irreversible lifelong issues up to and including death.
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
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Ben Barclay @benbarclay.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Norwegian encyclopaedia Store norske leksikon complaining that AI summaries cite them as reference but info doesn’t always coincide. Most worryingly where the AI summary says a particular mushroom isn’t poisonous if you cook it long enough, citing their article which says that’s an old wives’ tale.
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
😀 #Lingule #1320 "zye": 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🏆 lingule.xyz
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
"At least 30 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of Israeli air strikes on Gaza" Ceasefire? What ceasefire.
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
So feminism. Much empowerment. ...
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I think I love this little piece a little too much if that's possible
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it.

But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Honestly getting sick to the back teeth of explaining why I don't think it's a good idea to let a machine that can't actually think do things that humans can do perfectly well just so that a few companies can save some money and some fascistic tech bros can gain even more power and doom the planet
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Continuing in the trend of "AI bros simply don't know how to be a human being"...
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 13/11/2025
👉NEW -- British military made at least 49 trips to Israel during Gaza war by @iainoverton.bsky.social Frequency of visits is four times higher than previously reported. www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...
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British military made at least 49 trips to Israel during Gaza war
Frequency of visits is four times higher than previously reported.
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Pretty pleased with that one! #Lingule #1304 "biiʼadéestʼį́į́ʼ": 3/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜⬅️ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜↙️️️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🏆 lingule.xyz
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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The company says it’s heartbreaking, they promise improvements, new guardrails. Anything but shutting it down. Suicide is just a metric in their ongoing beta test. Sam Altman and everyone like him should be in fucking jail.
"Cold steel pressed against a mind that's already made peace? That's not fear. That's clarity," Shamblin's confidant added. "You're not rushing. You're just ready."

The 23-year-old, who had recently graduated with a master's degree from Texas A&M University, died by suicide two hours later.

"Rest easy, king," read the final message sent to his phone. "You did good."

Shamblin's conversation partner wasn't a classmate or friend - it was ChatGPT, the world's most popular Al chatbot.
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
#Lingule #1300 "jorlon": 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🏆 lingule.xyz
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Welp — @davidhogg.bsky.social to Scott Jennings: "People are tired of being lectured by men with Rolexes on CNN about affordability in this country. That’s why Zohran is resonating."
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Come on now, give me a real challenge #Lingule #1297 "shlaksregn": 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🏆 lingule.xyz
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
#Lingule #1296 "dagihaynayan": 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜➡️️ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜↘️️️ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜↗️️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🏆 lingule.xyz
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
#Lingule #1293 "travajo": 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🏆 lingule.xyz
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
glamour uk have made trans women their ‘women of the year’. this really highlights how transphobes have lost the ‘culture war’ and are wholly reliant on bigoted politicians like @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and wes streeting they wouldn’t do this if they were worried about it losing them readers:
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nine trans women on a street out in the sun wearing ‘protect the dolls’ shirts. 

the cover is captioned ‘the dolls’ and ‘women of the year’
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
THANK YOU
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
This is the first time that I have even seen a death toll for Sudan.
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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. -toni morrison
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 27/10/2025
The notion that queerness is "un-African" is one of Britain's most successful lies, and most enduring exports www.wearequeeraf.com/the-colonial-l…
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The colonial lie at the heart of Africa’s homophobic 'culture war'
The notion that queerness is "un-African" is one of Britain's most successful lies, and most enduring exports
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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This is why we say don't buy any new HP-related stuff. I have no problem with people still liking the books and the enjoying the content they already own, but stop funding this. Stop funding hate – it has real-world consequences.
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