Shima is really shy about asking for help- and so her and her sisters have not raised very much- so even small donations can help ❤️

I’ve been training my whole life for this moment

TIL "chowder" is probably a doublet (via Fr chaudière) of "caldera" (from Sp), from Latin caldāria "cooking pot" (cf. cal(i)dus "hot"). "cauldron" is also the same word etymologically, except with the (augmentative?) -on suffix

“This framing is more than just morally bankrupt; it is legally irrelevant and sets a dangerous precedent that any occupied or colonised people who resist must lay down their weapons or face the same fate as Gaza.”

"Four of the killed, the three children as well as their father, held U.S. citizenship." Israel continues to kill US citizens with impunity, this time in southern Lebanon and in violation of a standing ceasefire agreement. What will the US Department of State do about it? apnews.com/article/leba...

the conservative (and tbh "centrist") drive to control the posthumous narrative abt one of their white nationalist brethren is v interesting to me. bc it seems maybe there is a real anxiety about how they too will be regarded after death. at the same time it feels important ..

you know if we all took 3 huge steps back from the baggage claim conveyor belt we could all see our bags coming and have ample space to go and get them

That’s right. We still have a long way to go, but the writing is on the wall. I launched the Labor rank-and-file campaign to recognise Palestine exactly 10 years ago. In another 10 years, where will we be?

Historically, the word 'nest' consists of two parts. The part 'ne-' is related to 'nether', while '-st' is related to 'sit'. The distant ancestor of 'nest' meant "place to sit down". 'Nest' is also related to Spanish 'nido' and its Romance relatives. Click my new graphic to learn more:

Funniest thing I've ever seen on Letterboxd

It's gonna be a week y'all.

Canada officially recognizes the state of Palestine

"There's only one way to effectively fight against a dominant language: to take an 'atheist' position and thus to not *believe* in the prestige of that language, to be convinced of the total arbitrariness of its domination and authority."

Bad Bunny “is probably the most important musician in the world right now—the person future generations will point to when they talk about what the early 2020s sounded like,” Kelefa Sanneh writes.

happy name day to all the Matthews out there

حد يقول لي ده عَلَم ايه؟ ماعتقدش اني شفته قبل كده

aujourd'hui j'ai appris

taking in the local street art

The Biden-Harris admin deciding that shutting down anti-genocide speech was more worthwhile than shutting down the genocide itself helped lead us to Trump-Vance, which is shredding whatever was left of the “First Amendment” & mockingly revealing how hollow their allies’ commitments to it were

some grammatical humor i guess: urinoir𝗲 au féminin urinoir au masculin

Mandarin sentence of the day: 你今天真好看。 nǐ jīn tiān zhēn hǎo kàn you to-day really good-looking

This is so confusing. There is a lot of chatter in Indian immigrant groups right now; a lot of us know H1B holders (very skilled - think top 1-2 technical colleges in India) who will basically be uprooted OR never be able to go out of the US for years on end

Turkish inherited <şey> (“thing”) from Arabic and instead of making a regular Turkish plural they took the Arabic plural as well: <eşya> But then <şey> was given a native plural, leaving us with <eşya> AND <şeyler> But then <eşya> grew a character of its own so it got its own plural, giving you:

i met a celebrity today 💕💕 𒄩𒄠𒈬𒊏𒁉𒅇𒀀𒈾𒆪:

Le Monde: "Israel bombs Gaza City as US vetoes UN ceasefire resolution once more." I speak with my friends in Gaza daily, and every day I worry it will be the last time. Their only means to survive is via direct donations. Please give to my friend Tasneem. And help others. 💕 tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

NEW: Egypt By Three (1953) – Coptic church in film Discover the 1953 film "Egypt by Three," an American movie shot in the Church of St. Mercurius (ʾAbū Sayfayn) in Old Cairo.

Have you ever heard a tale / nursery rhyme / whatever along similar lines to this Galician Yiddish one? (Several of its details remind me very much of one I've discussed in Korandje, but there must be similar forms somewhere in between...)

This is a crucial point. The US government is not engaged in “cancel culture” now. It’s engaged in a classically autocratizing campaign of top-down censorship. We’re seeing a change of political system here, not just of societal censoriousness. This will, if we let it, destroy US democracy.

The past tense of ‘to go’ is ‘went’, but this form used to belong to the verb ‘to wend’. We call such verbs suppletive. Surprisingly, ‘to bring’ is suppletive too: ‘brought’ comes from a different verb. My new graphic tells you all about their past. In certain varieties of English, ... 1/

I call this piece the “Hypocrisy of Rosenbury: A story of American Fascism”

I think a lot about Steven Salaita these days

We all know ‘tragedy’ comes from Greek. ‘tragos’ = goat ‘aeidein’ = to sing So ‘tragedy’ originally meant “goat song.” Not to be confused with the GOAT song, which is probably “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.

The #Arabic "elative" ʔalaṣṣ- 'more of a thief' is formed from the noun liṣṣ- 'thief, robber' (or a related adjective?), which in turn was borrowed from #Greek λῃστής lēᵢstḗs 'robber, bandit'.

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

just saw a guy in paris with a shirt saying WOKISTE in pride flag colors. nice

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

My column in the new issue of @thenation.com, in which I argue that liberals who are finally acknowledging that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza must atone for nearly two years of complicity.

Today is a beautiful date for honoring Pythagoras (and the simplest proof of his theorem)

It’s official: the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide. The UN body calls on nations to stop sending weapons to Israel, ensure people within their jurisdiction aren’t aiding or inciting the genocide, and hold those who are accountable.

Whitman in Syriac "Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders, I have no mockings or arguments, I witness and wait." ܠܒܣܬܪ ܚ̇ܙܐ ܐ̄ܢܐ ܒܝܘ̈ܡܝ ܕܝܠܝ ܠܐܝܟܐ ܕܕܥ̇ܬܬ ܒܓܘ ܥܪܦܠܐ ܒܒܥ̈ܠܝܗܘܢ ܕܠܫܢ̈ܐ ܘܕܪ̈ܐ ܠܝܬ ܠܝ ܒ̈ܙܚܐ ܘܐܦ ܠܐ ܦܝ̈ܣܐ ܐܢܐ ܣ̇ܗܕ ܐ̄ܢܐ ܘܢ̇ܛܪ ܐ̄ܢܐ (8-syll.)

#Catchoftheday #OpenAccess on #MENAdoc: "Praktisches Handbuch der osmanisch-türkischen Sprache" by Adolf Wahrmund [Giessen: Ricker, 1884] dx.doi.org/10.25673/97943 #ottoman #grammar #giessen

Paris i am in you

Dr. McGovern was gracious enough to answer an email I sent him back in 2011 about ancient beer. I also have fond memories of trying to source each of the Dogfish Head ancient ales before the craft beer boom really hit. Cheers to a legend 🍻

Someone took the T from the airport.

spotted at Logan airport. i hope they are equally enthusiastic about fermions

hamlet: so real talk sleep is like microdosing death. i mean cool right? but the thing with sleep is you've got dreams, which are cool sometimes, but other times they suck. and so like where I'm going is like death is like whatever the opposite of microdosing is to sleep, and so the dreams are like

the toddler experimenting with valency: "can you swim the mermaid?" (i.e. can i move the mermaid around so she seems to be swimming)

Got John Cage's 4'33" stuck in my head again this morning.