Paweł Ausir Dembowski

@ausir.bsky.social

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Linguist and translator. Languages spoken: PL/EN/ES/LAD/CA/PT/YI/DE (more or less in the order of fluency) ↙️ ↙️ ↙️ Mastodon: @ausir@wandering.shop he/him on/jego http://pronouns.page/@ausir

Gandalf the Mad from the Thorgal comics
painting of Three Saints (Victor Hugo, Sun Yat-Sen and Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm) and the Divine Covenant
tweet by tanya @Tanya_Sabrinaaa "i actually read the Odyssey in the original greek. complete waste of time, i have no idea what those symbols mean"
secondary affinities Menshevik-Internationalist Martov's principled, always-losing wing — anti-war, anti-Bolshevik dictatorship, anti-White, anti-Cheka. Menshevik (defensist wing) Orthodox Marxists — Russia must pass through capitalism first; defend the revolution against German autocracy. Left Socialist Revolutionary Spiridonova's agrarian firebrands — coalition with the Bolsheviks until Brest-Litovsk, then doomed insurrection. top six by score National Minority Socialist 22 Menshevik-Internationalist 18 Menshevik (defensist wing) 17 Left Socialist Revolutionary 13 Kadet (Constitutional Democrat) 13 Jewish Bund 13
National Minority Socialist Ukrainian, Georgian, Armenian, Latvian, Belarusian, Tatar socialist parties You would have been a socialist of one of the empire's non-Russian nations — a Ukrainian SR or Social Democrat, a Georgian Menshevik in the most powerful Menshevik organization in the empire, an Armenian Dashnak (Hai Heghapokhakan Dashnaktsutyun), a Latvian Social Democrat, a Belarusian Hramada socialist, a Tatar Jadid. These parties fused socialist economics with national self-assertion and, where they could, declared independent republics in 1917 to 1921 — the Ukrainian People's Republic, the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918 to 1921), the First Armenian Republic, the Baltic states. The Red Army extinguished most of these republics between 1920 and 1921. Their cadres scattered into emigration, the Comintern, or — most often — the camps.
Query: what did tolkien think of frank herbert AI overview: .R.R. Tolkien famously disliked Frank Herbert's Dune "with some intensity". In an unpublished 1966 letter to a correspondent who had sent him the book, Tolkien noted that he found it impossible for an actively writing author to be fair to another working along the same lines, so he chose to keep his specific criticisms mostly to himself
The Childe & I went to see @grahamformaine.bsky.social speak last night The Childe listened & asked to donate all $35 they had saved up to #GrahamPlatner. When we met him, they shook his hand & said “I know you’re gonna beat Senator Collins. I just KNOW it.” It was…quite a moment.
comment by Amber Tamasvini [me, mid-rant, making cube gestures with my hands] that's what you have to understand about bouba. It's the orb. And Kiki - well. That's the. That's when you know it's sci-fi
Andreas Katsulas
Although most of the congregation is historically centered in the Eastern borderland regions with considerable Belarusian and Ukrainian minorities, there are now many parishes across the country, as a result of Operation Vistula and other diaspora movements. There are also some adherents in Brazil, resulting from the 1989 canonical union between the hierarchy headed by Metropolitan Gabriel of Lisbon, formerly under the Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece, and the Polish Orthodox Church.[38] The European bishops, however, have left the jurisdiction in 2000, which eventually resulted in senior Bishop Chrysostom being raised to archepiscopal dignity. There are now parishes in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco and Paraíba, plus a mission in Ceará[39] and a monastery in João Pessoa.[38][40]
Germany's Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMIL) was one of 11 organisations to lodge an objection. "We have taken note of the application from Turkey with some astonishment," a spokesperson said in a statement to BBC. Getty Images In the classic Berlin döner, pita bread is stuffed with spiced meat, salad and sauce (Credit: Getty Images)Getty Images In the classic Berlin döner, pita bread is stuffed with spiced meat, salad and sauce (Credit: Getty Images) "The döner kebab is part of Germany, and the diversity of its preparation methods reflects the diversity of our country – this must be preserved," the statement continued. "In the interests of the many fans in Germany, we are committed to ensuring that the döner kebab can remain as it is prepared and eaten here."
A kiosk with a post-it saying “we are NOT Google Maps”
Paweł Dembowski (pseudonym „Ausir” 1983–2025) was a Polish translator, publisher and cultural activist known for his contributions to speculative fiction and the Polish translation community. Based in Wrocław, he was active in both literary and fandom circles, bridging academia, publishing, and online fan culture.
cover of the May issue of Nowa Fantastyka
People playing chess at night in Wrocław city market square
ATM screen with language selection buttons, including "ESPAŃOL"
Judith Butler and Slavoj Žižek
anonymous asked: arent u white? mechsuit answered: im turkish so i cant answer this without at least 3 historians and an anthropologist present
Ian Watson sitting at a table at Pyrkon.
A box of maca (matzo)