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Ok I think I’ve found a library who are interested in carrying out this digitization project. I won’t say too much until it’s confirmed, but now we need someone at the National Archives of Egypt to reach out to for a collaboration. If you’ve done research involving the Egyptian National Archives or…

It would be good if life my own country was not significantly impacted by the GOP vs Dem margins in small counties named after prominent Confederates but unfortunately it is

Cool thing about Brazil is that for a good couple of hundred years of its early colonial history, the colonists all spoke Tupi as a lingua franca instead of Portuguese, so they could talk to Indigenous people and the settlers were from all sorts of backgrounds anyway

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#New_Study - A #Safaitic inscription calls upon Shams (the divine sun) as judge, dayyān, paralleling his title in the Hammurapi code: šamaš dayyānum rabûm 'Shamash, the great judge' Read: tinyurl.com/mwd99w8s. Explore the inscriptions of the site: ociana.osu.edu/sites/994

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

TIL that the names Herodotos and Herod aren’t etymologically related. Ἡρόδοτος is from Ἥρᾱ (“Hera”) + δοτός (dotós, “granted”), while Ἡρῴδης is from Ἥρως (“hero”) + -ίδης (“descendant of”).

TIL that this is apparently an actual Thing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democra...

If a journal ever uses AI for reviewing, do not submit to that journal.

Being in a group conversation where everyone except you is gay is hazardous bc everyone will start making ironic homophobic jokes, which you obviously can’t do, but saying something that’s NOT a homophobic joke ruins the flow of the conversation, so you just sit there awkwardly

Say what you will about Mao, but I’m starting to understand why he dealt with landlords the way he did

This surely includes Richard Dawkins who thinks his AI is talking to him

Yeah, like, it's super great if, say, 90% of Democratic officials are pro-trans, but if the 10% that aren't are in control of 80% of the Party at then it doesn't matter. Look at support for Israel—most Democrats are nowhere near as zealously pro-Israel as party leadership. Not even close.

The 8th-century Anglo-Saxon monk St. Willibald of Wessex, who was said to have met two ‘Ethiopians’ (Ethiops) near Jerusalem on his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 722-729 CE

ultimately it's shit like this that makes the decline of birth rates and resulting demographic skewing towards old people self-reinforcing. Greedy, wealthy retired people voting to destroy the funding for public services they relied on throughout their life now that they no longer need them

The incomparable joy of getting someone else excited by your special interests

If anyone has some good recommendations on historical Egyptian phonology, I’d love to read them! #linguistics

Question for @likethemagician.bsky.social @olawikander.bsky.social or anyone familiar with Egyptian phonology: How does one get from Egyptian ˈħaːɾə-/m/-ħəˈab (Horemheb; not sure how the middle element was vocalized) to Hittite Arma’a and Greek Harmais? Specifically, how does that last b disappear?

Ok, maybe I overestimated the degree to which “everyone knows” the thing that prompted this

There appears to be a publication from early summer on this, not open access unfortunately and not read it yet myself, but media reports suggest YES there are sealed ceramics with organic residues 🤩 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ok I’ll bite. What’s a digger?

Inspired by discourse in the Bad Place, here are some examples of “untranslatable” English words: tinyurl.com/Untranslatab...

Thank you friends for providing a pdf of the last article! Anyone have a copy of this one?: lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/ji...

I think one of the harder things in academia is keeping up with information that isn’t published anywhere, but that “everyone knows” through meetings, conferences, informal conversations, etc.

Anyone have access to this article and willing to share it? brill.com/view/journal...

The word ‘to learn’ is part of a big word family. It’s related to ‘lore’, ‘to last’, and (shoe) ‘last’, as well as German ‘Gleis’ (railway), ‘lehren’ (to teach), and ‘List’ (cunning plan). However, this family doesn’t have any ties with ‘lesson’ and German ‘lesen’ (to read). Click to learn more:

It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

Hey @maartenkossmann.bsky.social are you related to Manfred Kossmann, one of the leading current Berber scholars? ;) From Thomas Schneider’s “Language Contact in Ancient Egypt”

"Aotearoa", the Māori name for New Zealand is fairly well known these days, and often translated as "Land of the Long White Cloud". But it's not quite that simple. even beyond that it used to refer only to the North Island. A word family.

ISIS-ass shit

NACAL 49 Paris begins today The final program can be found at this link: drive.google.com/file/d/1Pzgi... The abstract booklet is here: drive.google.com/file/d/1S5T8...

Check out my amazing sister's new monograph! Available in Open Access for everyone to enjoy 🥰 Excerpting History in the Syriac World... share.google/KwqxVirflKCB...

I don't have one positive word to say about the Tories, but when American conservatives clash with their UK counterparts they are so unbelievably outclassed lol Reminds me of when Ben Shapiro peed his pants, got up, and left the GB News interview with the arch conservative Andrew Neil

“The internet is forever” is one of the biggest lies told to our generation

My two-sentence horror submission:

its genuinely so fucking funny to me that all the "uhm all modern art is shit, what happened to having artists get classically trained for 25 years to paint religious art in the style of the old masters" guys are pro AI slop now

TIL that before “unalive” became an annoyingly ubiquitous Gen Z neologism ostensibly to evade social media algorithmic penalties, it was coined by none other than Deadpool in a 2013 episode of Ultimate Spider-Man episode for the same reason (avoiding network censorship)

#TIL where exactly the term "abugida" for an alphabet with modified consonant signs to show the following vowel comes from. Besides the South #Semitic letter order shown on the left here, the #Ge'ez script can also be presented as on the right: ʾä bu gi da he wə zo bä gu di ha we zə yo ...

New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil: