Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 25/07/2026POV: you're super fucking homesick for Kentucky and nobody can do anything about it but you 130
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 25/07/2026two day migraine when your child wants to just drive a toy monster truck over your body and sing nonstop 010
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026パートナーが入院されるからちゃんとたべられない。今夜こそ友達が美味しいサラダ作ってくれたのでやっと生ける気がします😭 010
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Englandmaxxing by sitting in a park drinking some tins while some lads play cricket 170
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 10/05/2026It feels like everyone is always going to Tokyo except me. 140
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 10/05/2026I resent that you basically can't get a meal in a pub on Sundays that isn't a roast. 000
Reposted by Morgan GilesPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 02/05/2026If rain promotes culture why are the English so stupid. 531256
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I would be a better translator if I always remembered there was a gun pointed at my head (the threat of my child being too ill to go to daycare) 270
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 20/03/2026３歳の息子と二人きりで町を歩くと、多くの男性の怒りを強く感じます。ムッとするため息から悪口や威嚇的な運転まで。この世が男だけのもののように。母子に一歩も譲らない男尊女卑の世界が嫌だ 020
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 22/02/20261300 easily, 1200 with effort. About the same as in Japanese, oddly enough! 350
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 20/02/2026there are millions of people in the world who do not understand how to step onto and off of escalators, and they all take turns visiting London 1100
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 15/02/2026"Mommy, I want to go home. Soft play is too dark and"—a child dressed as Spiderman brushes past—"Spiderman keeps touching me." 060
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 12/02/2026nhs: hey 😊 there's a light at the end of the tunnel 😊 the tunnel in question: 120
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 10/02/2026thought I'd been on a 3+ month waiting list for mental healthcare only to find out my GP didn't refer me until yesterday. this has crushed my spirit more than I can describe. I hate it here AND it never stops fucking raining 020
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 28/01/2026there really is a particular type of misogynistic abuse I only get when I'm with my toddler. men fucking hate their mothers, I guess 020
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Running into people you like is honestly an underrated part of what makes life feel worth living 081
Reposted by Morgan GilesJean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 12/01/2026I've had enough of these streets that sweat a cold, yellow slime, of hostile people, of crying myself to sleep every night. 0194
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 11/01/2026got on what I thought was the 55 bus. eventually noticed it was going a different way. asked the man across the aisle: "is this the 55?" "no, it's the 20 to Debden," scathingly. "oh? it said 55 on the back..." "no, it didn't." "sorry?" "no, it didn't." (it did.) 010
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 11/01/2026nobody else is brave enough to tell you that the best part of Marty Supreme is when they ghostride the whip 010
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 08/01/2026the horror was dully lodged in my brain until I said it out loud and it ripped through me 020
Reposted by Morgan GilesThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/01/2026A moment that changed me: in the bombed-out ruins of an apartment block, I saw a book I’d translatedtheguardian.comA moment that changed me: in the bombed-out ruins of an apartment block, I saw a book I’d translatedThe sight of my work, torn and singed but still legible, made me realise the importance of translating and protecting stories – so they remain when everything else falls away 17518
Reposted by Morgan GilesXythar @xythar.bsky.social · 07/01/2026i miss when this guy was the only LLMmedia.tenor.coma man in a suit is holding a pink objectALT: a man in a suit is holding a pink object 4057342222
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 06/01/2026I put the final couple of essays I wrote about translating The End of August up on my website. Happy new year! 194
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 01/01/2026new year's day in my neighborhood means a working men's club with a dj playing the fall with a projection of despicable me 2 behind him 050
Reposted by Morgan GilesJean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 30/12/2025I know I don't succeed, but look how hard I try. 0267
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 30/12/2025today's the day. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna go to the pharmacy and ask for pseudoephedrine 010
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 29/12/2025started cooking my black-eyed peas and greens today. I'm really trying not to cook anything but cornbread on New Year's Day 020
Reposted by Morgan GilesJean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Now about this dull Christmas. 0196
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 25/12/2025pretty sure the purpose of this new building regulation is to give toddlers an easier way to throw themselves out the window 030
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 24/12/2025>be me >visiting England from London >tempted to order lasagne in a cafe >ask if it's good lasagne or British lasagne >"it's a good lasagne, madam" >look at the plate >chilli con carne layered with shredded cheddar >it's fucking British 030
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 23/12/2025damn near had a heart attack when my mother in law, showing us around her new house, said, "and this is my glory hole." old British people have to knock that shit off 251
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 23/12/2025shout out to anyone sobbing on the way to pick up their child from daycare 010
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 20/12/2025(increasingly desperate tone) "mommy, go away... go to an island... go to the moon... go to WORK" 160
Reposted by Morgan GilesMatt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 16/12/2025This is not a place of honor Fa la la la la, la la la la 6493133
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Mount Fuji is everywhere for those with eyes to see 0160
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 11/12/2025My child is really into weaponizing the phrases "sharing is caring" and "keep your hands to yourself" 010
Reposted by Morgan GilesSarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 26/11/2025When the NEA asked us to promise not to publish trans, nonbinary, or gender fluid authors, we told them to kick rocks. (Actually, formally, with a unanimous vote by the Board of Directors, we told them to kick rocks.) So the NEA rescinded our funding. 1668221
Reposted by Morgan GilesKentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 02/12/2025Kentucky nonprofit publisher @sarabandebooks.bsky.social forfeits federal grant rather than bow to Trump orders on diversity, gender. kentuckylantern.com/2025/12/02/k...kentuckylantern.comKY publishing house 'proud to be misaligned' with Trump’s orders on diversity, gender • Kentucky LanternA Kentucky publishing house forfeited $25,000 because it disagrees with the Trump administration's vision for the arts. 15923
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 30/11/2025great things are happening in the provinces. I got a black and white large format family portrait made with a man dressed as Krampus in exchange for a donation to the local food bank. I simply do not believe that's happening in the metropoles. 040
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social · 28/11/2025"Troubling," says my three year old. "Troubling? What is troubling?" "It means you lost your button." Their influence is tremendous. 060
Reposted by Morgan GilesIan (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025If small forces of bears can keep the perverts pinned down around Gifu City and Minokoma, the bears’ main mobile units can launch a flanking attack from the southwest and take control of the regional industrial and transport hub of Nagoya, leaving the perverts stranded with their supply lines cut. 14630
