Jim Rion
Author of Discovering Yamaguchi Sake, translator of Japanese mystery/horror, bird picture taker. Living in Japan, writing in English.
Co-host of Sake Deep Dive podcast.
英訳者：「悪魔がきたれて、笛をふく」「変な家」「変な絵」等等
執筆者：「Discovering Yamaguchi Sake」
20周年日本在中
山口県万歳🙌
- Such a fantastic, original book. $2.99 is a STEAL!
- The ebook of my first novel, last year's Nebula and Ignyte-winning, Le Guin and Hugo-nominated THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS, is on sale at $2.99 right now across most ebook retailers! If you were holding out for a really good deal 👉🏾👉🏾 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
- I enjoyed IJET so much, and people really seemed to like it. It was absolutely worthwhile being part of the organizing committee and making a fantastic event happen. I'm proud of what we did. That being said, thank FUCK it's over. I. Am. TIRED.
- 1 day as volunteer coordinator at IJET-33. 22000 steps. Never left the hotel.
- I'm so goddam tired.
- This article might have broken me a little. There's no resisting this. The human brain has been made irrelevant by fucking lie machines.
- Among Heinlein's greatest sins was enabling this kind of silliness, if you ask me. And yes, I knew some people who used this term...
- I do a lot of translation checking for the automotive industry, and I swear to god, if I have to read one more article using "mobility" as a countable noun synonym for "vehicle" I'm going to snap. That thing with wheels is not "a mobility." For FUCK'S SAKE.
- @libreoffice.bsky.social While I'm very impressed with Write and have replaced Word, I humbly ask that you investigate ways to divorce language and measurements in the Locales setting. I use American English but in an international context, so all my pages are A4 and my settings in mm. Not just me!
- I just put 富士五湖奇譚 呻母村 on in background and I have to be honest: it fails as a supernatural horror movie but offers a fascinating portrait of YouTuber brainrot. To the extent that it might actually be the intent. Every character is a despicably pitch perfect Jp 'Tuber, sacrificing reason for views.
- Hard agree. It's about the only kind of horror that really gets me scared, these days.
- BookIt made me the man I am today (a nearsighted, greasy fingered fatty.)
- My wife got invited to a national PTA meeting thing and the title of the meeting is really... Something . 「令和7年度全国国立大学附属学校教育後援会連絡協議会 教育後援会長会」 です。
- I honestly can't wrap my head around thinking adults accepting anything LLMs put out without deep, thorough checking of the type that makes the time "saved" just evaporate. It's just vibes-based living.
- IJET-33 registration closes tonight! Come see me lament the machine-driven erosion of faith in human skill and value! Network with other translators! Try some great Yamaguchi Sake! #xl8 #Translation #翻訳 #通訳 #Interpretation #JapaneseTranslation #ijet33
- Speaking of IJET-33, registration closes in two days. No time to wait! We've got a pretty solid lineup this year. AI is a big topic as is life as a freelancer (time management, self care, establishing a business) and even workshops. Check it out! #xl8 #翻訳 #Freelance #Translation ijet.jat.org
- Yes, there's ANOTHER AI talk at IJET-33! Frank Walter presents The Human "Plus Alpha" in the Age of Generative AI, a discussion of how we mere mortals can compete with the robots in a time when everyone seems to be focused on money over results. ijet.jat.org #IJET33 #Translation #xl8 #翻訳 #LLM #AI
- IJET-33で、庄子 昌利先生のセッション「 Self-Care is Not Selfish」では、自分に会うのセルフケアの探し方を語るという、気になりますね。 Masatoshi Shoji will talk about wading through the flood of #selfcare information to find things that ring true for yourself. Session in Japanese! Registration ends soon! ijet.jat.org #IJET33 #Translation #xl8 #翻訳
- I always wonder what the reaction to my rates will be when people (not companies) reach out to me about translating their books. Like, self published stuff. Because, although I always give them a discount over what I'd do for, say, a magazine article, it still ain't cheap.
- Yoga sparrow. #Birds
- I'm reading a novel that just made a non-complimentary comment about Paul's Boutique and I'm very VERY tempted to DNF the thing. Then again, it's a horror novel so hopefully something terrible happens to the character.
- I blame you all for this.
