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ITI North East Network @itinortheast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

*Update* Due to a clash with the national ITI's 40th anniversary afternoon, we've changed the date of our Joint Translation Workshop. It will be held in Durham on Saturday 28th November. Theme: Comics and graphic novels

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“I’ve just found out how to say emoji - OMG!” “No, it’s MOG”

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Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 💉😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

[image: screenshot of Orr in Verbatim/Channel 4 report with closed caption: "So the reality is we can easily get away with it"]

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hive mind! I’m on the lookout for people who have moved to Manchester from London and bought a house, for a piece on the market here. If you’ve done that and fancy a chat about your experience (where you bought, why, how it compares to London etc) please do shout me

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Not density OR trees. Density AND trees. Better cities are climate action. #UrbanTruth

“Not density OR trees, density AND trees.”

“Better cities are climate action.”

Via the Urban Truth Collective.

Background image of very high density street in Yaletown, in downtown Vancouver. Double row of street trees, plus yard trees, plus trees in the bike lane separator, for a total of five rows of trees along the street edge.

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Neal Shepperson @nealshepperson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Meow" is 1842, earlier miaow, miau, meaw (1630s). French miaou, German miauen, Persian maw, Japanese nya nya, Arabic nau-nau, and Joyce's mrkgnao. In Chinese, miau = "cat." As a verb in English by 1630s, meaw, also meawle. Compare Old French miauer "to meow, caterwaul." Related: Meowed; meowing.

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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

bsky.app/profile/ashl... Oh, those machines...

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ITI North East Network @itinortheast.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Looking for your next translated literature event? Hear acclaimed Palestinian writer Ibtisam Azem in Durham on Tuesday 6 October. She'll discuss her first novel, The Sleep Thief Translator @sinanantoon.bsky.social, publisher @andotherstories.bsky.social Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/peopl...

Image of the author against a sunny harbourside backdrop. The Sleep Thief, Ibtisan Azem, Translated by Sinan Antoon, Out now (UK and Europe)

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

When I see commentators using terms like “DEI” I immediately suspect that they’re trying to ignite a US inspired (and maybe funded?) culture war here. Because the acronym used in the UK is EDI - equality, diversity, inclusion - linked to the equality act 2010. www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/1...

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Equality Act 2010

An Act to make provision to require Ministers of the Crown and others when making strategic decisions about the exercise of their functions to have regard to the desirability of reducing socio-economi...

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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Last day to respond to this consultation about self-employed people paying tax monthly!

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Simon Pease @simonpease.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I recall an international negotiation in which we, the delegates were arguing at one point because of the difficulty of finding words acceptable to cover a particular point. It was a translator who broke into the discussion over the headphones and said “you could say X”. Her suggestion was adopted.

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Christopher Nolan may have been inspired by Homer, but it is translators who have been making his words come alive for centuries (unless we are underestimating Nolan’s knowledge of Ancient Greek).

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Karen Melchior @karmel80.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This, exactly this: There are golden rules that many visitors unwittingly break and the big one is “bonjour”. Or rather, a lack of “bonjour”. Going into a shop or a restaurant in Paris (or anywhere in France) and not greeting the staff is incredibly rude. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The hill I will die on: Parisian waiters are not rude – they’re just badly misunderstood | Helen Massy-Beresford

After living here for years, I can see through that old stereotype. My tip: if your server is not full of bonhomie, why not try saying ‘bonjour’? says journalist and editor Helen Massy-Beresford

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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Feeling very British (including the self-righteousness). But a hotel breakfast with no plain black tea? What's that about, Copenhagen? I do, however, have aubergine

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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This analysis of AI is still useful! See images in Olivia's post. Using AI/MT to translate displaces human work and leads to a deskilled workforce #xl8

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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

'Ins Museum? (N)ever!' I see what this German ad was aiming for, and yet... ['Go to a museum? (N)ever!' - Kids get free entry to museums] #xl8 Should've gone to a translator ;-)

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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's ITI EX:CHANGE Conference, so it must be time for me to attempt a selfie #xl8 #1nt #ITICommunity

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Nick Rosenthal @nickrosenthal.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Some people I know in the translation world may remember Barbara Snell, a translator from Gloucester. The end of her career as a translator kind of overlapped with the start of mine - I remember her speaking at a very early ITI Conference in London (1988?). RIP

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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Today's typo.: 'Bromsgove' (shudder)

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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting: I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. #ShakespeareSunday

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?

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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports

Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations

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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Ah, Chorus Pro, how I've (not) missed you! [INFORMATION] Dysfonctionnement de la fonction de reconnaissance des factures Pdf Vous pouvez rencontrer le message d'erreur "La fonctionnalité d'océrisation n'a pas pu extraire automatiquement les données de la facture [...]" Ce message n'est pas bloquant

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ITI North East Network @itinortheast.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It's tomorrow, looking forward to seeing everyone ;-)

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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

'on-trend, designer gits'... wait, should that be 'gifts'? #amchecking

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

We’re thrilled to announce a series of four online writing and translation workshops led and curated by Wasafiri’s Translator in Residence (Endangered Languages), @juanapoetry.bsky.social. Workshops will take place monthly from June-September.

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Languages of Resistance: Indigenous Poetics Workshop Series with Juana Adcock

We’re thrilled to announce a series of four creative…

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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Microsoft Editor made a suggestion about the 'conciseness' of my writing. My counter-suggestion? How about using 'concision' instead #amchecking

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 04/06/2026

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

NO WAR WITH IRAN!
The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West.
You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together
& we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you
& your government is much bigger than the difference
between you & me.
And the difference between me
& my government is much bigger
than the difference
between me & you.
And our governments are very much the same...
—Marjane Satrapi

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ITI North East Network @itinortheast.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Concert bringing together singers from Newcastle and twin city Gelsenkirchen this Saturday June 6, 7:30-9:30pm hexhamabbey.org.uk/event/newcas...

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Newcastle Bach Choir - Elgar's Dream of Gerontius - Hexham Abbey

The Newcastle upon Tyne Bach Choir is made up of over 100 singers

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/05/2026

Kenyan court suspends US Ebola quarantine facility plan aje.news/qf27lm

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 21/05/2026

Today in "there's a word for it" I have learned about the Woozle effect > The Woozle effect, also known as evidence by citation, occurs when a source is widely cited for a claim that the source does not adequately support, giving said claim undeserved credibility.

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Woozle effect - Wikipedia

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

daaaamn london

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 16/05/2026

I must say again—because so many do not see this: fascism does not start with concentration camps, that is where it can end. It starts with hollowing out the rule of law; with limiting rights; with denying some of us their existence on the basis of who they are. So that is where must be stopped.

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 09/05/2026

The Schuman Declaration of 9 May 1950 laid the groundwork for the European Union that we know today. And if you are in Brussels or nearby, come celebrate and visit us, at our Berlaymont building. Europe Day is your day! 💙 Come visit us: commission.europa.eu/europe-day_en

An elderly woman with white hair and glasses and a young girl with long braids look at each other and smile. The woman has her arm around the girl's shoulder. They are framed by a circle of large yellow stars. The text "Europe Day 2026" and a small European Union flag are in the top corners.

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ITI North East Network @itinortheast.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Monday, 27th April 2026 (17:15) at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle: screening of acclaimed new German documentary Das deutsche Volk (dir. Marcin Wierzchowski, 2025 Tickets: tynesidecinema.co.uk/.../das-deut....

A group of people seen from behind in front of a lit window and sign saying #SayTheirNames

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isabeltranslates @isabeltranslates.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

So much this. In any profession, you have to start somewhere. You have to learn the craft. All great translators were once not very good, but they became better through practice. If the opportunity to practice goes, we'll eventually lose the great translators. #xl8 #literarytranslation 🌐 💙📚

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ITI North East Network @itinortheast.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Translation at Collected Books in Durham on 22nd April at 7:30 pm! Sophie Lewis, translator of Hélène Cixous's groundbreaking novel ANGST, talks to @ruthclarke.bsky.social collectedbooks.co.uk/collections/... Thanks @translatorsaloud.bsky.social @tinakover.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVLR...

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Sophie Lewis reads from Hélène Cixous' ANGST (Silver Press, 2026)

YouTube video by Translators Aloud

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ITI North East Network @itinortheast.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

All welcome to our next event! What: Drinks and/or food When: Wednesday 29th April, from 6.30pm Where: the Heart of Northumberland, #Hexham #ITICommunity #xl8 #1nt

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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Sorting waste at my local co-working space #Müllsortierung

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