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!)

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

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. 😞

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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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.

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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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. 😭)

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

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

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

Oh noooo! 😬

This is beautiful and heartening, thank you 🩵

I'm so sorry, Erin 💙

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.

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

Jessica's Giving Page I took on this challenge last year to support Cancer Research UK and kick off my training for an English Channel relay swim (which I didn't wind up swimming, but that's another story!). This year I'm...

I'm swimming 10k again in November for Cancer Research UK - any donations are much appreciated!

fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/jessica...

‘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

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

I finally wrote (in detail) about not swimming the English Channel - but going along for the ride anyway!

wordridden.com/post/1067

Those sweet little faces omgggg

Absolutely gorgeous!

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

Swimming the English Channel - Jittergbugs 2025 team fundraiser for Mind Help Jitterbugs English Channel Relay raise money to support Mind

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

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

Happy anniversary! 💞

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

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

No one can defy Cat Law.

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 😭

“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