HeleneVdW Translator Editor

Translator and editor. A farm girl turned city girl and international resident. Lapsed musician. Occasional psychologist. Cookbook compiler. Insatiably Curious.

[HeleneVdW Translator Editor @HeleneTranslate]

Beginnings - back in 2007. Launched into the universe of words and stories.

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@KhulaniQoma AI slop, @KhulaniQoma. If something is too good to be true... Please check and recheck, and check again. You have a lot of influence...

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@randy_bolo @tegmark And what does transhumanism mean? Seriously. And why would we want that? Do you? And if yes, please explain where the 'human' fits in? I'm not a scientist, so please use plain language.

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@JoyceCarolOates My dad was always half an hour early and my mum half an hour late. I'm on time.

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@wolfessencejhb @KhulaniQoma This, @KhulaniQoma . AI slop shouldn't get any airtime.

[Conor Kostick @conor_kostick]

I'll be reading at the "Sharing Stories" event organised by the Irish Writers Union as part of #culturenight #dublin Teachers Club, Parnell Square, 6-8pm Friday.

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Wish I could be there!

[Conor Kostick @conor_kostick]

I'll be reading at the "Sharing Stories" event organised by the Irish Writers Union as part of #culturenight #dublin Teachers Club, Parnell Square, 6-8pm Friday.

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@ZakesMda 😭

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@Nigel_Mang I looove the green dress! Mine had green in it too!

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@RealisticPoetry It depends on what I want to say.

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@DarlingAxe Book review and something else 🙃

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The best!

[Conor Kostick @conor_kostick]

Finish Your Novel runs again from 3 September online, via: @IrishWritersCtr

Places do fill up so if you're interested please don't leave it too late:

https://t.co/lZM37RIlju

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@tomgauld @ModernGraphics Oh, if only it were last year! Next stop, South Africa!

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@JohnDonoghue64 @DanielHydar And who gave her a hare? 😂

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If you were Mrs Morgan, would you have taken the job?

[Annie Bishop @AnnieBishop123]

We’ve come a long way baby or at least we thought we had. I found this letter in the house that I bought

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@GPAIndiana Which is why I can't be bothered using Grok or any of his ilk. I always have to double and triple-check. And by that time, I could have searched a proper source.

[Lorenzo Davids @UrbanLo]

It was about 11:55am on 27 April 1994, at the age of 33, that I entered a Polling Booth in Mitchell’s Plain for the first time in my life to cast a ballot for the government of my choice.
I broke down in tears. Waves of emotion swept over me. I will never forget that moment.

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@Nigel_Mang This doesn't count if your audience becomes botified. @elonmusk killed my small, organic but active audience with his first algorithm change.

Communicating with Grok isn't going to make anything better for you.

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@LBFlyawayhome @blackpugs No, this is much of the world. Those generations still knew how to preserve the planet without having to be told. And only in Britain always in a British box.

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@Mapentz @SollyMalatsi @CommsZA It also kills the environment. Water is a scarce resource in our country.