Nazi violence against leftists, migrants and counterculture youth in rural parts of East Germany is remarkably commonplace. Met a young punk just the other day who was run over by a neo-Nazi in his home village and then forced to move to Leipzig at age 16 for his own safety
Up to the early 20th century, Spain was often yclept GREAT LUZON in Sinitic languages: Tōa-lū-sòng / Daai6leoi5sung3 大呂宋. A case of the colonial power being called after the colony, not the other way round😁
Harrowing news as journalist Amal Khalil has been killed by Israel in a strike on Tayri in south Lebanon in violation of the ceasefire. Israeli forces prevented the Red Cross from rescuing her.
This on the eve of Israel-Lebanon talks tells you everything you need to know.
That's the syntax tree of the week, I guess...
Today I realised that although everyone would translate English 'butterfly' as Dutch 'vlinder', this is in fact a nice case of language mismatch. In Dutch, we differentiate between 'dagvlinder' and 'nachtvlinder', day butterfly and night butterfly. But only the first are called butterflies in […]
Cf. the Bezos Post, "Republicans gerrymandering in Texas is fine, actually" b/w "Democrats gerrymandering in Virginia is a threat to democracy"
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
Very, very important work about our perception of what “everyone” thinks is skewed by very few people online.
A dragon perches at the top of a pyramid shaped building in this digital painting of a modern city at night. The colors are gray and gold. The dragon is black lit with warm light. People gather on a rooftop to watch it
"Modern Dragons" launches tomorrow 🐉
Poster for the Badè Museum's Fall 2025 - Spring 2026 Lecture Series for Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean.
Starting next Thursday at 5:30pm BST (9:30am PST), the Badè Museum will kick off it's new Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Research Facility @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, the Series will explore Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean. (1/4)
Day 111: New word "to shiver, to jitter, to shake"
underrated pickup line
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gmnN...
Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...
True Neutral kinda reminds me of one of the goobers on the Spore demo box art
AI translation on vs off
This is human trafficking, not deportation.
Let's move on from the fake Bible to the fake Master Sun quotes, dear learned Bsky community!
Five colored squares, from left to right: Hex F4FF00, 9BFF00, 00B62F, 009E9E, 003A9E
Might as well do a little community thing:
How would y'all describe these 5 colors in your #conlang?
In Soc'ul' the left two are "miúx", the right two are "cur", and the middle varies but more often "cur" (see comment for more detail)
hey folks! my bday is in a month🌷🎉
but im burned out and don't know how to treat myself (nor have the ability rn)
so, it's time to make my annual bday comm exchange from our patreon server public!
everything is on the pic, but please read the thread for links and more details⬇️
how convenient for them that it turns out he wasn’t, say, the german chancellor of germany from austria by way of germany
Photo of a cuneiform tablet with some dark spots on it.
We therefore learn from this learned commentary made by a Babylonian scribe over 2000 years ago, that in the Akkadian language, the word shitti means "shit"
"the stock market is astrology for" STOP 🛑 Stars and planets are actually real. If the stock market was based on pseudospiritual readings of the movements of stars and planets it would at least be based on something that exists
feels like i should re-post this every few weeks
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.
For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.
One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
we need more linguists because i don't want to have to explain to otherwise educated people that there's no such thing as a "biological pronoun"