the unicode.org ICU people used this as an example for DFA :3
unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/ICU-2...

A helix formed by gluing together regular tetrahedra.

Coxeter noticed that you can stick regular tetrahedra together to make a helix. It never repeats: no two tetrahedra have the same orientation in space!

These simple discoveries are priceless.

Click on the link to watch a short animation of it - it's fun!

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bo...

A copy of Leroy Ladurie’s Les paysans de Languedoc with the label from a bottle of château Trotanoy 1985 used as a bookmark.

My current bookmark:

120 second exposure and Orion is still so tiny

Presque jamais.

A page of handwritten lecture notes from a course on the algebraic method in combinatorics, discussing the Borsuk–Ulam theorem.

A page of handwritten notes from an Assyriology conference, including the beginning of a talk by Devecchi and Chambon titled “Capacity units and administrative practice”

I can’t find scratch calculations lying around, but these 2014 maths lecture notes and these notes from an Assyriology conference last year are probably quite heinous too… (At the Assyriology conference my converter was broken so I was refilling every 15 min, though I don’t think that’s visible.)

Right, I have noticed that it seems unusual/fancy to non-French Europeans too, whereas to me it’s just the only thing I write with (and I’m hardly serious about handwriting, most of this is ugly scribbles that I can barely read a few days later).

I am always surprised that people don’t use fountain pens at school, in France it was mandatory (and I’m 32), but apparently that’s not the case in other European countries.

Certainly I very much dislike writing with a ballpoint compared to a fountain pen.

(For those who do not know Sumerian—but what kind of a scribe is that?—, see the translation etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcs...)

𒁾𒊬𒊑 𒈬 𒁹𒀀𒀭 𒃶𒂗𒍪
𒋗𒉌 𒃶𒊷𒊷 𒂊𒉈𒀀𒀭 𒁾𒊬𒊑

𒈪𒉆𒈠 𒀸 𒅆𒌓𒋾
𒀝𒅗𒁕𒀜𒌅 𒆷 𒋫𒆳𒋻𒈠
𒆷 𒌅𒈨𒁉𒆷

oracc.org/saao/P237990...

Blue Suede Shoes YouTube video by Doctor Ammondt - Topic

Surely we also need more Sumerian content on Bluesky, so this seems as good a time as any to post this Blue Suede Shoes cover: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gCe...

Blue Suede Shoes YouTube video by Doctor Ammondt - Topic

Surely we also need more Sumerian content on Bluesky, so this seems as good a time as any to post this Blue Suede Shoes cover: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gCe...

seal.huji.ac.il/node/1736 (tab “textual fields”, col. ii ll. 7′ sqq.) and www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de/fileadmin/Fa... pp. 121 sq.
The verb qatāru(m) mentioned by @moudhy.bsky.social is 𒋫𒂵𒀜𒌅𒌨
ta-qa₂-at-tu-ur
ta-qattur-∅
2-√qtr.IMPFV-2ms

I wish I could say I typed this from reading the tablet, but my OB cursive is abysmal so this would have taken me ages; I read 𒀀𒈾 𒈠𒁕𒁴 (ana madātim, and even there I was helped by @moudhy.bsky.social’s translation “about many things”) and then looked it up, finding transliterations and translations…

Since neither eBL which @moudhy.bsky.social linked nor CDLI linked from eBL have a transliteration, and since this seems like the kind of nerdery you might enjoy, the relevant passage reads
𒈪𒅔𒋗 𒀜𒋫 𒋫𒂵𒀜𒌅𒌨
𒀀𒈾 𒈠𒁕𒁴
―
𒅁𒀸 𒊒𒀀𒋗 𒄿𒅁𒉺𒀠
𒁉𒀀𒋗 𒄿𒁍𒊭𒄠𒈠 𒄑𒍝𒃼𒋳
𒊒𒂊 𒈪𒄿𒅔𒋗 𒆷𒉿𒁺 𒄿𒇷𒋗
𒁕𒁉𒅁 𒈪𒊭𒊑𒅎
𒈬𒆠𒅋 𒆠𒈾𒁴
[𒆠] 𒊏𒀝𒄀 𒇻 𒊭𒆠𒅔

On the right of the image is a sheer cliff face marked with vertical striations; talus lies at its base. The left of the image is in almost total darkness, and the background is deep space.

This is a cliff on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

It's about 1 km tall.

If you jumped from the top, it would take you 47 minutes to reach the bottom, and you'd probably be OK.

*sigh* Sounds like someone at OUP need to be slapped with a copy of www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/?

Okay, this is the very rare Substack post that's worth loading the Nazi newsletter site for. I am *incredibly* surprised I kept about 90% comprehension until I hit the 1100s.

Surprise 4-legged Olympic competitor wows cross-country fans Nazgul sprints on the course at a cross-country ski race, crossing the finish line in an unsanctioned quest for glory.

#noussommesNazgul
www.npr.org/2026/02/18/n...

Par compatibilité avec la norme de télévision japonaise ARIB STD B24 ; apparemment cette norme l’avait parce que ça sert en baseball (unicode.org/versions/Uni..., www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U...).

Oui! Ça va avec mon chauffage atomique à l'air physique (chauffage individuel au gaz naturel).

J'avais jamais fait gaffe à celle-là mais elle est vraiment pas mal ! Ce que j'avais adoré pour ma part : les camions remplis de "métaphores ethniques" (εθνικές μεταφορές = transports nationaux) et le "centre pneumatique" à l'intérieur d'une église (πνευματικό κέντρο = centre spirituel).

pedestrian bicycles then?

An old time-y illustration of a Cats.

Today is Quintidi the 25th of Nivôse in the year 234.
Nivôse is the month of snow.
Today we celebrate cats. #JacobinDay

More information on cats

If these are pwoofs, is this pwof. Gab⟨b⟩ay?

At this point, I'm going beyond telling you to touch grass. You need to eat it.

And then throw up on the carpet.

Unicode

It can be tricky to accomodate the things people do in real orthographies within the confines of the sacrosanct stability policy and similar concerns. See, e.g., the Background discussion of §2.1 in www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/251..., featuring ¸ used as a letter.

xkcd.com/1726/

Of course there are many other commandments on the tables of the Stability Policy www.unicode.org/policies/sta...

Thou shalt not unmake a case pair, nor make a case pair out of pre-existing characters (so the full uppercase of ß must never become ẞ, no matter what the Germans do with it).