AI versus professional human translation explained through the medium of cheese.

Cambridge has a wonderful new mystery fiction bookshop! I can’t wait to visit and shop at Bodies in the Bookshop - and am delighted to see ‘The Killings at Kingfisher Hill’ in this blood-red window display!

New Mrs Peabody post! Disappearing into thin air: Sarah Ward's The Vanishing Act (Wales) and Laura Lippman's Lady in the Lake (USA) 📚 mrspeabodyinvestigates.com/2024/07/13/dis…

My quotes now include a full description of all steps in my translation process until the text production because there is so much work we do that goes unnoticed. I may have to charge by the word what the client is paying is much more than that.

Becoming a dinosaur scientist and winning a gold medal for jumping on the trampoline, don't tell any 7 year old their dreams are out of reach

Political cartoonist Firstdog Onthemoon turns his eyes to the UK. Spot on.

Can't remember the last time Twitter made me so happy - all the footage, from across the country, of peaceful anti-racist protests. Streets jammed. Poetic that the opposite of civil war is all over Musk's platform.

Whose streets? Our streets. All you need is love x

We are concerned about reports that a number of publishers, including Taylor & Francis (Routledge), Wiley, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press... [1/4]

We’ll be discussing #PetronaAward entries very soon. 6 countries are represented, and there are: 🌟 11 books from #Sweden 🇸🇪 🌟 7 from #Iceland 🇮🇸 🌟 7 from #Norway 🇳🇴 🌟 3 from #Denmark 🇩🇰 🌟 2 from #Finland 🇫🇮 🌟 1 from #France 🇫🇷 Karen Meek 📚🐾☕🎬🌱 Raven Crime Reads 𓄿 🇺🇦 💙📚 Barry Forshaw

Am still sorting & clearing at my parents’ place. Hotel California vibe. Latest find: theatre, opera & concert programmes going back to 1958. Fascinating, but also

Spotted today. Hooray for Grauniad typos 🤣

All titles eligible for the #PetronaAward 2024 for the Best #Scandinavian #Crime #Novel of the Year #Denmark 🇩🇰 #Finland 🇫🇮 #Iceland 🇮🇸 #Norway 🇳🇴 #Sweden 🇸🇪 via ⁦Karen Meek 📚🐾☕🎬🌱⁩ 📚 ⁦Raven Crime Reads 𓄿 🇺🇦 💙📚⁩ ⁦⁦Kat Hall 📚 @kathall.bsky.social⁩ Petrona Award Entries 2024 eurocrime.blogspot.com/2024/08/award-…

Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it? theguardian.com/technology/art…

Swift endorses Kamala Harris for president in post signed ‘childless cat lady’ 💖 theguardian.com/music/article/…

#PetronaAward 2024 #longlist is announced. Congratulations to all long-listed #authors and #translators 🌟 #Denmark 🇩🇰 #Iceland 🇮🇸 #Norway 🇳🇴 #Sweden 🇸🇪 ⁦Karen Meek 📚🐾☕🎬🌱⁩ ⁦Raven Crime Reads 𓄿 🇺🇦 💙📚⁩ ⁦Sarah Ward⁩ ⁦Kat Hall 📚 @kathall.bsky.social⁩ ⁦Barry Forshaw⁩ nordiclighthouse.blog/2024/09/12/pet…