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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Here is all I need from you right now, Mikhail Gorbachev. Simply reply to this email with two words: Let's proceed." I don't think Mikhail is going to be replying any time soon. 😂

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There's this scam targeting writers/translators where you get an email from someone raving about your book and promising to help you promote it. Translators typically get emails addressed to the authors they've translated, so every once in a while I get a message addressed to "Mikhail Gorbachev."

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Sitting at home listening to the distant soundcheck for Nick Cave's gig in Brighton today: "I wanna tell you about a girl, one two three, check check" 😂

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

They worked really fast today, thank you!

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The exhaustion of having migraine and constantly questioning your body: Is this a normal headache or a migraine attack? Just a sore neck or a migraine attack? Just tiredness or a migraine attack? Do I need food or quiet time or caffeine or aspirin, or do I need migraine meds? (Today: migraine meds)

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I see one of my translations on this table ☺️ (American Journalists in Hitler's Germany, by Norman Domeier - the red book peeking out on the left!)

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

How exciting! I have MANY unhinged ballerina vibes and I am sending them all her way 🩰

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Surprised and sad to hear that Hampshire College (Massachusetts) is closing permamently this fall. I went to nearby Mount Holyoke, and though we lightly poked fun at Hampshire and its unconventional ways, it was an integral part of the five-college community in the Pioneer Valley. 😞

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I've had a client all but begging me for the past week to take on a job I wasn't sure I had time to do. Yesterday I finally relented and said I'd squeeze it in, and today they came back to me and asked if I could do it for a lower rate. 😑😑😑

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I'm watching a livestreamed Einstürzende Neubauten performance, and after banging on pipes and playing cymbals with drills and screeching into mics for the past hour, the band is now standing around sipping sparkling wine and toasting 46(!) years of existence, and it's incongruous and adorable.

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

My favorite Irish word at the moment is grianghrafadóireacht (photography) because it's very fun to say. Choose your pronounciation: www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/gri... (grian - sun, grianghraf - photograph, grianghrafadóir - photographer, grianghrafadóireacht - photography)

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Irish Pronunciation Database: grianghrafadóireacht

How to pronounce 'grianghrafadóireacht' in Irish

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I'm so sorry, it's gutting when you set out to do a good thing and it doesn't work. 😔 At least you tried, and that's really great. (I can relate: my veins are terrible, and I used to donate quite regularly but they finally advised me to give up because it was getting more difficult every time. 😭)

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Salter Cane @saltercane.com · 09/03/2026

Join us on Saturday, April 4th in the Hope and Ruin, Brighton—Salter Cane, The Equatorial Group, and Skyscrapers! Tickets are £8: saltercane.com/tickets

A poster for the gig showing all four members of Salter Cane. The poster reads: Salter Cane & The Equatorial Group & Skyscrapers, Saturday, 4th April, The Hope & Ruin 7:30pm saltercane.com

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Happy to see Noodles Street in Brighton mentioned, it's a favorite! 🍜

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This is beautiful and heartening, thank you 🩵

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I've had similar experiences flying through Dallas. I'm an Army brat, I spent the first 18 years of my life surrounded by the military, and I'm still floored when I see these literal kids in their fatigues nervously riding the airport shuttle to wherever they're being sent.

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Eating a cold Cornish pasty while standing in the drizzle waiting for a bus feels like peak Autumn in England.

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I got to talk to the Financial Times recently about how "AI" is destroying my personal career, the translation industry as a whole, and everything else. Yay. on.ft.com/4hczb8b

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‘They wanted me to make myself obsolete’: translators find themselves at the sharp end of AI

[FREE TO READ] One linguist on the challenges of working in an industry most at risk from automation

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I finally wrote (in detail) about not swimming the English Channel - but going along for the ride anyway! wordridden.com/post/1067

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Jitterbugs 2025 - WordRidden

The journey isn’t always what you think it’s going to be

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Those sweet little faces omgggg

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I went to a Channel swim training camp in Ramsgate this weekend and it kind of wrecked me. But you don't know how these things will go until you try, and I've certainly tried: wordridden.com/post/1058

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Channel dreams (and realities) - WordRidden

I can’t say I didn’t try

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Remember I mentioned that I'm going to swim the English Channel with a relay team in August? Well, that's just four(!) months away. This is really happening. 😱 My team is raising money for Mind, a UK mental health charity, and all donations are much appreciated! www.justgiving.com/page/jitterb...

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Swimming the English Channel - Jittergbugs 2025 team fundraiser for Mind

Help Jitterbugs English Channel Relay raise money to support Mind

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Salter Cane @saltercane.com · 13/04/2025

Thanks to Union Music Store for having us ’round for yesterday’s in-store gig—that was fun!

The four members of Salter Cane—Matthew, Chris, Jessica, and Jeremy—standing in row in front of the small Union store in Lewes.

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I thought Brexit was the prime example of a country shooting itself in the foot, but no.

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I swam 10k in all of November, and I’ve swum 8k in the past five days alone. Channel training is getting REAL. 🏊🏻‍♀️

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I was thinking the same thing as I walked into town just now, freezing, without a hat or gloves because I thought we were past all that 😭

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

“Thursday, March 12, 2020, was the last really ‘normal’ day…” Five years ago. The start of the first entry in what turned out to be my Journal of the Plague Year. wordridden.com/post/771

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A Journal of the Plague Week - WordRidden

Life in the time of Coronavirus

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Acknowledging the fact that every band photo is inherently cringe to some extent, I still think we did a pretty good job in the practice room yesterday by setting the timer on a phone, which was perched on a drum on a crate on an amp. Take that, Anton Corbijn!

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I know that Trump and his cronies and collaborators will go down in history as the villains they so clearly are, but it's cold comfort to those of us stuck with them in the present.

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Every day I wake up and think I can't be any more enraged and disgusted and horrified by the news coming out of the US, and every day I am proven wrong.

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

On hold with @octopus.energy and they're Rickrolling me 😭

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I bought some waterproof bone-conducting headphones for swimming and was confused by so many people online saying they couldn't work out how listen to music through them—until I realized they'd never used an MP3 player before. I am an old. (But an old with an ample collection of MP3s, haha!)

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I've done my utmost lately to avoid being sucked into the black hole of American politics, though I dip in lightly to stay broadly informed of what's happening and what might be in store for us all. But even these light dips now have me screaming inside. Just absolutely fucking *screaming*

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Jeremy Keith @adactio.com · 21/01/2025

> When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. — C.P. Snow 🔗 adactio.com/notes/21662

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Oooh, lovely! Erina Takahashi’s farewell performance? 😢

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

This is terrible, Remy, and I’m so sorry 😞

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Today my swim coach (and coach of our Channel relay team) looked at me and said "you should consider a solo." As in a solo Channel crossing. HAHAHA no. I am NOT considering a solo, but I can't lie: my already substantial swimmer's ego was massively stoked. I'm swimming into the weekend like 👸🏼👸🏼👸🏼

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Sunday brunch recommendation: Çılbır - Turkish poached eggs and garlic yogurt with Aleppo pepper 🥚🌶️ ozlemsturkishtable.com/2016/12/poac... Neighbourhood Café in Belfast (and now Austin?! - neighbourhood.cafe) does an outstanding version of this.

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Poached Eggs with Garlic Yoghurt, Turkish Style - Çılbır | Ozlem's Turkish Table

We Turks love eggs done many different ways; one of our favorite ways to enjoy egg is as being poached and served over garlic yoghurt, a special dish called Çılbır in Turkish.

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I’m using cyd.social - archiving them all as html first, which has taken all day. It’s quite weird to see all the old tweets going by every time I check the progress in the app. The last time I checked, it was showing old messages to Cindy 😔

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Cyd - Claw back your data from Big Tech

Automatically delete your data from tech platforms, except for what you want to keep

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Jessica @wordridden.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

is finally deleting all her old tweets.

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