Characters each spoke a different Prakrit based on their role and background; for example, Dramili was the language of "forest-dwellers", Shauraseni was spoken by "the heroine and her female friends", and Avanti was spoken by "cheats and rogues". 3! The Prakrits
this is so cool
In the Northland, Tom Thomson 1916
In the Northland, Tom Thomson 1916
Psychopathic army
The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.
And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.
And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.
And then, they did it one more time for good measure.
As spring seems to have finally rolled around, I went out and took some photos along the Schuylkill.
photos.pratyush.zip/spring-on-th...
#photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #philadelphia #NaturePhotography #StreetPhotography
Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits he’s the dog that caught the car
I have a nuclear reaction encoding defined as ``` struct NuclearReaction { int explosionPower; // explosion power struct NuclearReaction *next; // next nuclear reaction } *NuclearReactionSequence; ``` Doctor evil has realised through his time machine he can run the nuclear reaction in reverse. Write a function that takes a nuclear reaction sequence and updates in place to do the reaction in reverse.
making programming assignments that students can't just ask ChatGPT for by exploiting the safety checks lol
As spring seems to have finally rolled around, I went out and took some photos along the Schuylkill.
photos.pratyush.zip/spring-on-th...
#photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #philadelphia #NaturePhotography #StreetPhotography
Visas for international students were down 40% last summer, thanks to a slew of policies designed to throttle visa issuances and scare off students. Students from 40 countries are now outright banned.
‘I wished for death’: Sexual violence in Israel’s prisons is an ‘organised state policy’ Palestinian testimonies reveal how sexual violence, including rape using objects and dogs, is approved by 'highest levels' of Israeli leadership
The testimony here about sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian prisoners is so beyond the pale everyone must see it.
It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/i-wishe...
Boramani Labyrinth: India's largest known ancient circular labyrinth, a 15-circuit stone structure measuring approximately 50 by 50 feet (15 by 15 metres) has been discovered in India.
Ooh and pan pizza.
Games like darts, billiards, bowling and chess completely give away what's going on.
The ONLY reason to segregate these sports by sex in the first place is because men cannot emotionally handle losing to women.
The ONLY reason to lock out trans people is bigotry.
One of the weirdest things about our politics is the double standard for various public services. The post office and trains are expected to be self-sufficiently profitable but never the cops and highways.
Yes of course. Twitter is not filled with some kind of all-knowing savants.
Abstract. The Ethereum Foundation recently announced the Proximity Prize which aims to resolve some open problems that play an important role in the design of succinct proof systems. This paper reviews the open problems relevant to the Proximity Prize. We focus on some grand challenges relating to list decoding bounds, proximity gaps, correlated agreement, and mutual correlated agreement,as they relate to proof systems and Reed–Solomon codes. Along the way we survey the known results on these topics.
Open Problems in List Decoding and Correlated Agreement (Gal Arnon, Dan Boneh, Giacomo Fenzi) ia.cr/2026/680
yes. See also this article claiming to de anonymize Satoshi with the flimsiest evidence:
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...
Just to be clear, there’s no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel murdered over a 100 people just now.
There’s no ceasefire in the Gulf. Since morning, Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE have been intercepting Iranian missiles.
Just now, Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline was hit by a drone.
This is insane and scary
um so who’s bringing sanctions against the u.s.? why isn’t the unsc calling an emergency meeting? why aren’t democrats doing a full court press for impeachment? this shit makes putin look moderate by comparison.
something to keep in mind as we are watching a real miracle of science in artemis ii: this country is racist and killing science in a variety of ways
I had to call my 89 yo grandma to make sure she’s okay. She’s fine thankfully.
And this strike isn’t even in the top 10 worst strikes by Israel in Lebanon today alone.
Fuck Israel and fuck anyone still making excuses for those genocidal lunatics
The Democratic nominee in her own words saying that her boss was incapable of showing equal amounts of sympathy based on the race of the victims
"For the UAE, the participation of Muslims and Arabs in the machinery of democracy is itself a threat," countering Abu Dhabi's counterrevolutionary designs, writes DAWN Fellow @miraalhussein.bsky.social.
Photo from the Integrity showing the darkness of space and a semicircle of the glowing blue and white orb of planet Earth
Our planet is so beautiful, so precious.
I’m sure this mission will produce even more stunning images, but just look at how glorious it is here:
Holy shit we're sending people to the moon. That's insane.
I do think that those lawyers and law professors who tried to fabricate a historical or legal case against birthright citizenship should be socially and professionally ostracized for their shocking cynicism and intellectual dishonesty as well as for their bald hostility to pluralist American values.
Huge explosion in Isfahan, the most historically important city in Iran, the capital of the Buyids, Seljuqs, and the Safavids.
Barbarians!
Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...
Israel admits to purposefully targeting journalists in Lebanon for death. Then conducting a double kill strike by killing the paramedics who went in to care for the journalists.
Israel has already killed 51 paramedics in Lebanon. It is Gaza-style terror all over again.
