Motto In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing about the dark times.
This Brecht poem is quoted a lot, often to invoke the indomitable enduring spirit of the arts, keeping on keeping on, a light in the darkness, and so on. But it often feels like the important word is being overlooked, and that's "about"
Sportfotografie ís kunst…
(Foto Donal Rey)
#wielrennen #procycling #sport
#fotografie #photography #sports
#StradeBianche #StradeBianche2026
Professional cyclist Ethan Hayter seen racing in a time trial at the Tirreno Adriatico bike race, clearly "giving the finger" to a passing TV motorbike. Hayter is wearing the white jersey with red and blue bands that indicate he is the British national time trial champion.
Nick's French-English cycling glossary, entry 008:
Le doigt d'honneur ....
Professional cyclists are ambassadors for their teams, and for the sport.
= Flipping the bird; giving the finger
#classy #not
Cycling and translation: Bringing two of my loves together here.
This thread will be a slightly tongue in cheek series of translations from French to English. Broadly based on what I hear (or mishear!) whilst watching cycle racing on French TV
#cycling #bikes #sport #cyclisme #Radsport #xl8
In other news: Nice to be greeted by blue skies and sunshine this morning!
The number of translators leaving the profession is very real. And this should be a serious worry for professional bodies in the translation sector (rather than just pushing the narrative of "oh, translators just need to learn more about AI")
#XL8
Quelques impressions de notre 7ème Journée luxembourgeoise de la traduction et de l'interprétation et 15ème anniversaire de l'ALTI
Deuxième partie (après-midi)
Photos : Deborah Rimi
Nick's French-English cycling glossary, entry 007:
Bidon collé
= sticky bottle
A water bottle handed up by the team car, with the rider clinging onto it and getting a free push for a suspiciously long time.
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Nick's French-English cycling glossary, entry 006:
"Il a du cran!"
Admiringly, when the underdog leads out the sprint:
"I like his style!"
#cyclisme #ParisNice #XL8 #glossary #glossaire
Nick's French-English cycling glossary, entry 005:
"plus peur que de mal"
(after a crash in the peloton)
Do we have a similar phrase in English? (literally "more fear than pain").
Perhaps: "That was a scary moment, but fortunately noone was badly hurt"
#ParisNice
Nick's French-English cycling glossary, entry 322:
Lanceur....
"Et déposé a 200m par son lanceur"
"Perfectly lined up with 200m to go by his lead-out man"
#TDF2024 #TourDeFrance #TourdeFrance2024 #cyclisme
Always good to hear of a rider going Commando! :)
Nick's French - English cycling glossary, entry 001
"C'est une bonne bosse, quand même"
= "It's quite a stiff little climb"
#ParisNice
(I ran this humorous cycling vocab glossary for a year or two on Tw*tter... time to relaunch it here on Bluesky)
Settling in for an afternoon of watching two different bike races on French television. Two stage races this week. #TirrenoAdriatico #ParisNice #BikeRacing
We are delighted to share that our collaboration with London's Istituto Italiano di Cultura will continue for this year's forthcoming Oxford Translates Literary #Translation Summer School.
iiclondra.esteri.it/en/gli_event...
Applications are still open - bursary & early-bird deadlines are fast approaching!
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Saturday night cyclists in Paris
happy strade bianche day to all who celebrate 😍
A bacon butty to start my Saturday. Cruising into the weekend with style ...
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
Heating oil prices have more than doubled in the UK since war broke out: that’s 4.5m people living off gas grid, no they haven’t all got Agas, and in places like Cumbria and Scottish islands that’s a lot of anxious pensioners. (Difference with post-Ukraine is oil as well as gas spiking this time)
Like clockwork.
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Glad you like. The shot caught my eye as I walked past :)
Wishing all my literary translator friends a fun week next week at the London Book Fair. I'm going to give it a miss this year (usually find it just a wee bit too hectic), but I'll be with you all in spirit! #xl8 #translation
A day exploring Shrewsbury yesterday
#photography #shrewsbury
📣 Calling all Ukrainian to English Literary Translators 📣 Join Daisy Gibbons for the Ukrainian Workshop at this years BCLT Summer School ✨
💸 All 10 chosen participants in the Ukrainian workshop will receive a full tuition fee bursary
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
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“The Iraq War generated a drastic increase in jihadist terrorism, a serious migration crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean and a generalised increase in energy prices.”
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