Screenshot of 璇璣圖 'The Star Gauge', a grid of 841 Chinese characters arranged in a 29x29-character square that can be read in different ways to yield about 3,000 smaller poems, written by the fourth-century poet 蘇蕙 Su Hui for her husband.
you brought "go hang a salami" to a palindrome fight
I'm sorry, I know that Truth Social and Twitter have a bunch of garbage being spewed on them every day. I am aware. That's why I'm not on them. I'm on here where I'm supposed to not have to see it. But everyone is like, "omg look what they're saying in the bad places! You won't believe it!"
Antizionism is also a feminist movement.
"Palestinian women, men and children have reported attacks, forced nudity, invasive and painful body cavity searches, Israelis exposing their genitals, including to minors, and threats of sexual violence."
/Collapse/, that is, rather than /Apocalypse/, but it's a similar result, I suppose.
Star Trek: Cpt. Kirk dubbed in Tamšlḥiyt:
Asayrur: awttu amggaru. Han isaratn n tanawt n ngr-yitran, Tamssntit. Asmmigl-nns n smmus isggʷasn: ad tarm imaḍaln imaynutn issbhaḍn, tgmi anawn imaynutn n tudrt, trzu tiɣṛmiwin timaynutin, tddu s dinna wr ddžin iddi awd yan !
🙏🏽 Eikon 4 a butiful transl👇🏽
We're delighted to be hosting an intro workshop on Judeo-Persian with Prof. Ludwig Paul in early May:
www.naher-osten.uni-muenchen.de/wasistlosami...
Paul Kirchner, /Dope Rider/, collected in /Awaiting the Apocalypse: Selected Works 1974-2014/
Never too many dictionaries 🔍📚
One more 420 verse, from Ibrāhīm al-Miʕmār (ed. Özkan, 122-123)
سُكر المحمَّص هو المُعلَمْ
أطيَب من الخمره واسلم
"The high of 'the toasted' is touted to be
More enjoyable than wine, and more perfect"
(/al-muḥammaṣ/ "the toasted" is a nickname for weed, long before Lucky Strike used it for cigarettes)
Paul Kirchner, /Dope Rider/, collected in /Awaiting the Apocalypse: Selected Works 1974-2014/
On this date, 112 years ago, members of the Colorado National Guard and private security opened fire on striking miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado, in the southeast of the state. 21 people were killed, mostly women and children.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_...
7 books face up on a red couch. Titles: Cannabis, Sacred and Profane (Partridge); The African Roots of Marijuana (Duvall); Cannabis (Duvall); The Herb (Rosenthal); Cannabis: A Global History (Borougerdi); Orgies of the Hemp Eaters (Hakim Bey & Abel Zug); Solaz del espíritu en el hachis y el vino y otros textos arabes sobre drogas (Lozano)
Some weed books:
Check out Patricia's paper on weed in some Sanskrit texts! 🤩
One more 420 verse, from Ibrāhīm al-Miʕmār (ed. Özkan, 122-123)
سُكر المحمَّص هو المُعلَمْ
أطيَب من الخمره واسلم
"The high of 'the toasted' is touted to be
More enjoyable than wine, and more perfect"
(/al-muḥammaṣ/ "the toasted" is a nickname for weed, long before Lucky Strike used it for cigarettes)
For 420, a line attr. to Ibn al-ʔaʕmā al-Dimašqī, quoted in al-Badrī, Rāḥat (ed. Marino, 10.20)
دع الخمر واشرب من مدامة حيدر معنبرة خضراء تحكي الزبرجد
"Give up wine and drink Ḥaydar's vintage,
Amber'd and green, emerald-like"
A closeup image of the budding leaves of a weed plant.
Syriac word of the day
ܝܘܪܩܐ
/yurråqå/
"green (≈ green-yellow), greenery"
as in Bar Bahlul (col. 844)
ܝܘܪܩܐ خضرة واقول اخضر اورق
Image: © MS Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi, Izmir 620
Discussing Ottoman Translators’ Prefaces
On 17 April, Tobias Sick gave a lecture in the Ottoman Translation Lab lecture series, organised by Marc Aymes (CNRS/EHESS), Natalie Rothman (University of Toronto), Henning Sievert (University of Heidelberg), and ...
A vividly orange field of tulips, with brick houses and greenhouses in the background
and one little tulip field, too bright for my camera to handle
"eine andere Wirklichkeit"
Happy Bicycle Day!
(L) Jesse Jarnow, /Heads/, 155
(R) Ed Visser, /Bike Rider 43˙94/ (Erik Davis, /Blotter/, 59)
Medieval manuscript image of two fish swimming in waves of water.
wæter-stefn, f.n: the voice or sound of water. (WAT-er-STEH-vun / ˈwæ-tɛr-ˌstɛ-vən)
Image: Bestiary; Iran (Maragheh), c. 1297-1300; Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.500, f. 78v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
github.com/chiaweilinun...
I'm compiling a digital corpus of Tangut texts. The first batch of texts is extracted from academic publications in open-access journals and Academia.edu. If you'd like to join our transcription project, don't hesitate to send me a message :)
When we have proposed an Academic Freedom article for our union contract—now three times, first two rejected outright—the representatives of the Harvard administration have repeatedly asked us:
“Is this a real problem for workers in your unit?”
Slide from a PowerPoint presentation. Title: "Prolegomena: Pronunciation, (para)text, and authenticity". To the right is Leonardo DiCaprio in a floral Hawaiian shirt, smoking a cigarette and staring forlornly into the distance, from his role as Romeo in Baz Luhrmann's modern movie retelling of "Romeo and Juliet". Beneath him as a video clip linking to the prologue of that movie. Next to this is an old portrait of William Shakespeare, beneath which is a link to a recording of the prologue of "Romeo & Juliet" in historically reconstructed Elizabethan English pronunciation, recoreded by A.Z. Foreman.
I promise this is going to be about Targum Onqelos
Rolling Thunder 1976 started 50 years ago today! So I’m going to be writing about every show, from opening night in Florida today through Hard Rain and the illusive Salt Lake City, with stopovers like Bobby Charles’ alligator bbq and Willie Nelson getting subpoenaed backstage. Follow along!
Enjoying the Georgia sunshine
NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY IS IN BED, SHE IS COUNTING SHEEP , SO SHE CAN GET TO SLEEP WE SEE HER IMAGINING SHEEP JUMPING OVER A FENCE P2- NANCY: I WONDER HOW SHEEP PUT THEMSELVES TO P3- NANCY IS IMAGINING A SHEEP LYING DOWN AND IMAGINING NANCY’S JUMPING OVER A FENCE.
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 8,1971
Eccl 1:9 in Judeo-Persian (ed. Paper) 🌞
צׄי כי בוד אוי כי באשד וצׄי כי כרדה אמד אוי כי כרדה אייד וניסת היץׄ צׄיז נוו זיר אן כֿוורשיד׃
≈
چه كه بود اوی كه باشد و چه كه كرده آمد اوی كه كرده آيد و نيست هيچ چيز نو زير ان خورشيد
(On /ōy/ the old form of او see Lazard, Anc. Mon. §§ 224-227)
This is human trafficking, not deportation.