#queerbusiness — Public Fediverse posts

Good morning, comrades, colleagues, and assorted woodland creatures. ☕💜

The right-wing and conservative campaign against the possibility of a left-wing government in Berlin is fierce. Almost impressively fierce.

One might almost wish the media had shown the same urgency when the Nazis were concerned.

But then, capital has rarely been particularly frightened by fascists. The left is a different matter. The left might actually question who gets to keep the power, the money, and the keys to the building.

Anyway. Time to fight some more, I suppose. 🐙

I wrote a little piece on my Ko-fi yesterday about the ongoing demonisation of Die Linke, if you fancy some morning political reading.

[https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Comfort-of-the-Political-Exorcism-O0O127GSCO]

And while we are passing the hat around: I'm still in a bit of a pickle. My phone bill is due Friday, and I'm still short. Quite a lot of my communications infrastructure depends on that rather unglamorous little rectangle, so if you can spare a few euros, I'd be genuinely grateful.

[https://ko-fi.com/thepurpleoctopus/goal?g=16]

Or, better yet, hire me.
Language tutoring. Translation. Actual human words, assembled by an actual human being. Revolutionary technology. 😉

Have a wonderful, mildly revolutionary, Nazi-slaying day. 💜🏴‍☠️

#GoodMorning #Berlin #DieLinke #NoPasaran #Antifascism #HumanTranslation #AIFreeTranslation #LanguageTutor #Support #QueerBusiness

Good morning, comrades, colleagues, and assorted woodland creatures. ☕💜

The right-wing and conservative campaign against the possibility of a left-wing government in Berlin is fierce. Almost impressively fierce.

One might almost wish the media had shown the same urgency when the Nazis were concerned.

But then, capital has rarely been particularly frightened by fascists. The left is a different matter. The left might actually question who gets to keep the power, the money, and the keys to the building.

Anyway. Time to fight some more, I suppose. 🐙

I wrote a little piece on my Ko-fi yesterday about the ongoing demonisation of Die Linke, if you fancy some morning political reading.

[https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Comfort-of-the-Political-Exorcism-O0O127GSCO]

And while we are passing the hat around: I'm still in a bit of a pickle. My phone bill is due Friday, and I'm still short. Quite a lot of my communications infrastructure depends on that rather unglamorous little rectangle, so if you can spare a few euros, I'd be genuinely grateful.

[https://ko-fi.com/thepurpleoctopus/goal?g=16]

Or, better yet, hire me.
Language tutoring. Translation. Actual human words, assembled by an actual human being. Revolutionary technology. 😉

Have a wonderful, mildly revolutionary, Nazi-slaying day. 💜🏴‍☠️

#GoodMorning #Berlin #DieLinke #NoPasaran #Antifascism #HumanTranslation #AIFreeTranslation #LanguageTutor #Support #QueerBusiness

I’m about to start a week I’m really not looking forward to.

I’ve tried to get the money from the people who literally owe me money. They said they couldn't. I’ve done everything else I can reasonably do.

And I’m still short. Quite a bit short.

So, one last try.

This is my donation link: [https://ko-fi.com/thepurpleoctopus/goal?g=14]

This explains what is happening to translators thanks to AI:
[https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Machine-Ate-My-Job-and-Apparently-Im-Suppose-A6V725QY58]

It’s not for a holiday. It’s not for some shiny new toy. It’s to help me keep standing while I fight to keep my fully human, AI-free translation and teaching business alive.

I’m still here. Still translating. Still teaching. Still stubbornly insisting that humans are not obsolete just because someone put a language model in a server rack.

But right now, I honestly don’t know what comes after this. I'm literally with my back to the wall now.

If you can help, thank you.
If you can’t, please don’t feel guilty.

I’m just putting one more flare into the dark. 🟣

#SupportHumanWork #AIFree #HumanTranslation #Translation #Teaching #FreelanceLife #SmallBusiness #KeepGoing #MutualAid #QueerBusiness #Berlin

I’m about to start a week I’m really not looking forward to.

I’ve tried to get the money from the people who literally owe me money. They said they couldn't. I’ve done everything else I can reasonably do.

And I’m still short. Quite a bit short.

So, one last try.

This is my donation link: [https://ko-fi.com/thepurpleoctopus/goal?g=14]

This explains what is happening to translators thanks to AI:
[https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Machine-Ate-My-Job-and-Apparently-Im-Suppose-A6V725QY58]

It’s not for a holiday. It’s not for some shiny new toy. It’s to help me keep standing while I fight to keep my fully human, AI-free translation and teaching business alive.

I’m still here. Still translating. Still teaching. Still stubbornly insisting that humans are not obsolete just because someone put a language model in a server rack.

But right now, I honestly don’t know what comes after this. I'm literally with my back to the wall now.

If you can help, thank you.
If you can’t, please don’t feel guilty.

I’m just putting one more flare into the dark. 🟣

#SupportHumanWork #AIFree #HumanTranslation #Translation #Teaching #FreelanceLife #SmallBusiness #KeepGoing #MutualAid #QueerBusiness #Berlin

I’m about to start a week I’m really not looking forward to.

I’ve tried to get the money from the people who literally owe me money. They said they couldn't. I’ve done everything else I can reasonably do.

And I’m still short. Quite a bit short.

So, one last try.

This is my donation link: [https://ko-fi.com/thepurpleoctopus/goal?g=14]

This explains what is happening to translators thanks to AI:
[https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Machine-Ate-My-Job-and-Apparently-Im-Suppose-A6V725QY58]

It’s not for a holiday. It’s not for some shiny new toy. It’s to help me keep standing while I fight to keep my fully human, AI-free translation and teaching business alive.

I’m still here. Still translating. Still teaching. Still stubbornly insisting that humans are not obsolete just because someone put a language model in a server rack.

But right now, I honestly don’t know what comes after this. I'm literally with my back to the wall now.

If you can help, thank you.
If you can’t, please don’t feel guilty.

I’m just putting one more flare into the dark. 🟣

#SupportHumanWork #AIFree #HumanTranslation #Translation #Teaching #FreelanceLife #SmallBusiness #KeepGoing #MutualAid #QueerBusiness #Berlin

I’m about to start a week I’m really not looking forward to.

I’ve tried to get the money from the people who literally owe me money. They said they couldn't. I’ve done everything else I can reasonably do.

And I’m still short. Quite a bit short.

So, one last try.

This is my donation link: [https://ko-fi.com/thepurpleoctopus/goal?g=14]

This explains what is happening to translators thanks to AI:
[https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Machine-Ate-My-Job-and-Apparently-Im-Suppose-A6V725QY58]

It’s not for a holiday. It’s not for some shiny new toy. It’s to help me keep standing while I fight to keep my fully human, AI-free translation and teaching business alive.

I’m still here. Still translating. Still teaching. Still stubbornly insisting that humans are not obsolete just because someone put a language model in a server rack.

But right now, I honestly don’t know what comes after this. I'm literally with my back to the wall now.

If you can help, thank you.
If you can’t, please don’t feel guilty.

I’m just putting one more flare into the dark. 🟣

#SupportHumanWork #AIFree #HumanTranslation #Translation #Teaching #FreelanceLife #SmallBusiness #KeepGoing #MutualAid #QueerBusiness #Berlin