Jack Holt

Jack Holt

@jackholt3rd.bsky.social

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Jack Holt
@jackholt3rd.bsky.social

‘Hippopotamuses’ is a word that was MADE for Welsh!! In Welsh, I am told, the plural of ‘hippopotamws’ is ‘hipopotamwsiaid’ in case you were wondering!!!

Past Horizons Archaeology Equipment@pasthorizons.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Small digs of the cave under Pembroke Castle, known as Wogan Cavern, have so far uncovered "extremely rare" evidence of early humans and animals - including the bones of a hippopotamus which roamed Wales 120,000 years ago.

bbc.co.uk'Enormous' cave under Pembroke Castle could rewrite history, researchers sayArchaeologists have so far uncovered

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Jake
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Alex Blechman@alexblechman.bsky.social

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Jack Holt
@jackholt3rd.bsky.social

@oewordhord.bsky.social on an once-chirruping media platform, you had a lovely word — eorþ-grāp, f.n: earth’s grip, grasp of the earth. 🤔 Is it literal like a clod of earth? Or some force pulling to earth like Newton’s gravity? Is it a kenning— e.g. for worldliness, sticky mud, or the grave, etc.?

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Dr Danny Bate
@dannybate.com

If you'd like a Latin equivalent for 'when pigs fly' (an event that won't happen), Varro records the phrase "prius pariet locusta Lūcam bovem" – 'a locust would sooner birth an elephant'.

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Alt National Park Service
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Well, isn’t that convenient? Musk gets named to the fake department of DOGE, and suddenly NASA’s future is up for debate—just as SpaceX is poised to cash in. Funny how “efficiency” seems to mean redirecting public funds straight into private pockets.

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