david g. clark @selfpluspen

Writer, editor, sworn translator. Lover of poetry, SF/fantasy, comics, games. Founding member, @TLDRPress. He, him, his. #blacklivesmatter Toulouse, France Joined March 2009

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david g. clark @selfpluspen

2 years ago

In France, sworn (Expert) translators must do translation themselves. Can't just read + approve of someone else's work. Does this mean they shdn't use MT tools, too? What ab/ CAT tools using neural networks & shared TMs)? #machinetranslation #certifiedtranslation

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david g. clark @selfpluspen

2 years ago

Been submitting poems lately. Excited to see where this goes!

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david g. clark @selfpluspen

3 years ago

Waldo and the Phantom of the Opera are diametrically opposed super beings. No one ever knows where Waldo is, but any time you want to know the location of the Phantom, you don't even need to ask. The Phantom of the Opera is there.

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david g. clark @selfpluspen

3 years ago

"I sometimes think that good readers are poets as singular, and as awesome, as great authors themselves." --Jorge Luis Borges, from the Preface to the First Edition of _A Universal History of Iniquity_

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david g. clark @selfpluspen

3 years ago

Been seeing ads for a game called Ni No Kuni, and it looks cute and all but in French, "cunni", pronounced the same as "Kuni", is slang for cunnilingus and I just can't

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david g. clark @selfpluspen

4 years ago

First time I've bought a new Players Handbook in 20 years and it feels so good! #dungeonsanddragons

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david g. clark @selfpluspen

4 years ago

Reading an article on "The 30 CSS Selectors You Must Memorize" and it starts with two selectors that it tells you to avoid...but if you shd use them sparingly if it all, why do they even appear on the list?

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david g. clark @selfpluspen

4 years ago

I was visiting a Buddhist temple the other day when a priest walking by tripped and spilled ash from one of those smoldering fragrance cones all over my new shirt. I was incensed!

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david g. clark @selfpluspen

4 years ago

Fellow humans, read this please, and take it to heart while supporting the Ukraine and for all other conflicts, past, present, and future. aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/27…

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TL;DR Press @TLDRpress

4 years ago

It's here! Our latest collection, Breathless is now available for purchase in ebook and print! We are so stoked for you to get your hands on this collection featuring so many talented writers. amazon.co.uk/dp/B09S5JT7P8/… #tldrwriters #charity #shortstories #romance #romanceReaders

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david g. clark @selfpluspen

4 years ago

My kids usually have rice milk with their cereal, but yesterday the store didn't have any, so I bought the closest alternative I could find. This morning, when they realized, they started to sniffle & tear up, but I nipped that shit in the bud. I said "Don't cry over spelt milk."

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david g. clark @selfpluspen

4 years ago

How am I supposed to sip my coffee?

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david g. clark @selfpluspen

4 years ago

TIL that halo-gravity traction is medical speak for clamping a child by the head and spinning them round and round.

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david g. clark @selfpluspen

4 years ago

ALTHEA: I only want to have one kid. ME: Oh? Why? ALTHEA: Because I know what it's like to have a sister. ME: A brother might not be as annoying. ALTHEA: No. They are. ME: How do you know? You've never had one. ALTHEA: Because I've already met a boy. #fromthemouthsofbabes

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david g. clark @selfpluspen

4 years ago

Wow.

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david g. clark @selfpluspen

4 years ago

Retweeting for visibility

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4 years ago

Retweeting for visibility

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david g. clark @selfpluspen

4 years ago

The invisible man goes out to exercise

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david g. clark @selfpluspen

4 years ago

Today I realized that Boba Fett is a man with a helmet shaped like a glans and an extra large penis on his back, and the Sarlacc is an enormous vagina dentata.