Una D.

Translator, Proofreader, European #xl8 #t9n

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

French authorities must ensure the safety of protesters and refrain from using unnecessary or excessive force.

#ProtectTheProtest ✊

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@LaymansLinguist Scotland in the 90s/early 00s it was most commonly 'pulling' and 'getting off with' someone. I like the current French expression, 'rouler une pelle'.

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@vovahimself Hey Vova, so sorry to hear this. People shouldn't have to suffer for the actions of mad politicians.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

You don't care that it is the 1st of May? You don't like trades unions? You abhor strikes & industrial action? OK. But then give back weekends, overtime pay, child labour laws, safety regulations, accident & health insurance, the 40-hr working week. And, yes, your pension!

[The Guardian Long Read @gdnlongread]

"We write, we work, not knowing if we will live to finish what we started. Not knowing what horror and humiliation awaits us. The indignity of it all. That is what breaks us."

https://t.co/df3JepNzrj

[Guardian Books @GuardianBooks]

The hottest literary travel destinations (to visit when lockdown ends) https://t.co/C9PzOagFbL via @guardianreview

[Una D. @unad21]

The wellness guru sells
a radiance-bestowing
spirulina panacea
and quinoa rainbow salads
with a side of pseudoscience

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For Part 3 of turning @gdnlongread articles into poems I've dipped a toe into micropoetry:

Clean Eating

The wellness guru spiralises
all your dreams of youth
and blends them
into deliciously organic dissillusions

https://t.co/rYivCYSNMe

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The wellness guru served
her sugar-free desires
on a platter of false hope

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@OwenJones84

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Local beer, global sentiment.

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@johnpaul_newman Looks like one hell of a Pride parade

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@macuaidh83 @johnpaul_newman Me neither but Disobedient Vanity sounds pretty tempting

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@alexcruik Every time I read a Spectator op-ed I start out thinking that this must be irony and end up either dumbfounded or genuinely angry by the end of the article.

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They made a movie about making Ajvar and it was shown at Sundance. I have to watch this for recipe tips if nothing else. https://t.co/12CTBkoFma via @indiewire

[Una D. @unad21]

When auction houses smell a fake
They reach out to yours truly
To analyse an overpaint
Or a blue lapis lazuli.

Misattributions, restaurations,
The most intricate duplicity
Won’t fool this fraud-busting sleuth,
The arbiter of authenticity.

(5/5)

[Una D. @unad21]

Part 2 in turning @gdnlongread articles into rather silly poems...

Arbiter of authenticity

I know nothing of its provenance,
Some experts find it quaint,
Others swear that it’s a Cranach,
I can tell you that it ain’t.

(1/5)

https://t.co/Sc8njYEN4n

[Una D. @unad21]

This con artist means to trick me
But he overlooks the stakes:
A speck of radiation dust or hair
Is really all it takes.

I break beauty into particles,
Leave no molecule unturned,
“World’s leading art detective”
Is a title that I’ve earned.

(4/5)