An interesting linguistic thing with Egypt in the last ten years is you'll hear people refer to "Egypt" and "Masr" as a dichotomy when speaking Arabic. "Egypt" is the Egypt of the Anglophone elite, while "Masr" is the actual country. I saw this on Wish fi Wish, for example, which is on Netflix

This is the kind of thing that happened in dystopian fiction to warn us about what kind of society we were supposed to work to avoid becoming: www.kut.org/politics/202...

In languages such as Spanish, you can make an adverb by adding ‘-mente’ to a feminine adjective: ‘claro’ (clear) > ‘claramente’ (clearly) This suffix has a fascinating origin: it’s the same word as the feminine noun ‘mente’ meaning “mind”. Click my new graphic for the story of Romance adverbs:

On this day in 1828, the first edition of the Cherokee Phoenix is printed. anticolonialhistory.com/event/19/

Also, many ICE arrests were random or nearly random. Scooping up anyone who wasn’t white. There’s a reason they use “arrests” and not deportations or detentions - because a huge number of their arrests were pointless terror tactics.

Nearly a year ago, Zohran Mamdani confronted Trump “border czar” Tom Homan after ICE took Mahmoud Khalil. Republicans targeted pro-Palestine students. Then, with no firm pushback, expanded their operations to what we see today. Mamdani was among the few Democrats who immediately stood against it.

TIL the Seattle Seahawks logo is not only inspired by PNW indigenous art but is probably based on a specific Kwakwaka'wakw eagle mask

Docere adulescentes Linguam Latinam est gaudium sublimum

I know this is a long-shot, but does anyone have manuscript images of Ave, serum corpus / Ave, vera caro Christi from the Las Huelgas Codex? Burgos: Monasterio de las Huelgas, MS s/n “Las Huelgas Codex,” ff. 122v–123r I'd like to have an image of f. 122v for program notes.

This is a real timelapse video of the Moon transiting in front of the Earth. It was captured by the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft in November 2022 while flying at it's furthest point from the Earth. The video covers about 3.75 hours of real time. 🔭🧪

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

fuck the codex argenteus. marry the codex amiatinus. dump the codex amiatinus to run away with the codex argenteus and marry it instead. kill the voynich manuscript

These bombs don't just kill, they are literally *designed* to destroy all traces of a victim's body. If you're lucky, you might end up as a blood spatter or a scalp fagment. No way to mourn, no way to count the dead. They dropped them on schools and refugee camps.

A work colleague regularly says ‘ we are efforting that’ meaning that they’re doing it

the people who seem to be thriving the most are all the general purpose nerds who read everything and are comfortable task switching every 30 seconds as long as it doesn't get boring

Language is evolutioning

this is the way

Post a banger that's not in English youtu.be/PAkz8noI6LU?...

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

Ms Kordia has been incarcerated by ICE for eleven months. www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actio...

Kid English word of the day unrainbowy ‘less colorful’ My son used this to describe my toe, which was rainbowy one day after I injured it, but unrainbowy two days after I injured it.

Reposted with alt text for people with screen readers - this is a welcome departure from how certain large organizations are handling revelations that high-profile members associated with and accepted money from Epstein and his organization, _AFTER 2008_ when he was convicted for soliciting a minor.

Cool so that's half a billion dollars spent on acquiring warehouse concentration camps just in the last 30 days. More than double the annual budget of the National Endowment for the Humanities. About the same as the annual budget of the Peace Corps.

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom: "If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

omg guy in front of me on the plane is watching The 13th Warrior (based on michael crichton's novel about ibn fadlan)

my shirt reading "don't panic—we're winning" has people asking lots of questions already answered by my shirt

just two monks and a dream

This is absolutely heartrending: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/

This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.

Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night

We are in a small community outside Minneapolis and a child arrived to an empty house on Friday. No parents, ice kidnapped them and just leave children to wander alone after school

Happy Benito Bowl! Saw the trend of folk sharing their favorite bowl, what better time to share some Puerto Rican ceramics? (1/3) This Saladoid piece dates to the early Ceramic Age (~AD 400), peep the red and white painting. From the Cañas site, PR, housed at Yale Peabody Museum (YPM ANT 032403).

what if Sumerian 𒌷 uru/iri "city, town" is related to Proto-Dravidian *ūr "village, habitation" (Telugu ఊరు ūru etc.)

leveled up with this explanation, cos as an autistic person i pride myself on reacting appropriately to animals, to signal harmlessness, so why wouldn't i want to do this for human animals? never occurred to me to stop listening to the words and instead recognise the BEHAVIOUR.

this feels like a scene from a gritty fantasy novel: Br. Felix Faber (1441–1502), on his way to the Holy Land, overnights in an Alpine mining town called Schneckenhûsen. at another table at the inn there's a group of silver miners loudly carousing and gambling and making the narrator nervous. 1/

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.” Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.

Note: Just like Mohsen Mahdawi, ICE snatched Leqaa at what she thought was a routine immigration check-in, after she protested Israel’s genocide of Gaza. They then took her from New Jersey to Texas—where she’s been detained for nearly a year. Now she’s hospitalized and her whereabouts are unknown.

NEW: Leqaa Kordia — who’s been in ICE detention for nearly a year, since ICE took her the same week as Mahmoud Khalil — has been hospitalized after having a seizure. Her whereabouts & health are now unknown. The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.

Heads up to vowel folks who get calls from the press

it's interesting to think "surgery" comes from χειρουργία kheirourgiā "hand-work" when a growing percentage of them are now done by robots

do people say the first vowel of "Wuthering Heights" as /ʌ/ or /ʊ/? is it the BUT vowel or the PUT vowel (if you make that distinction)?

In Spanish, “for you” is ‘para ti’, but “with you” isn’t ‘con ti’: it’s ‘contigo’ instead. What’s this ‘-go’ doing there? It’s a remnant of the same Latin word that gave us ‘con’. So etymologically, ‘contigo’ contains this word twice: “with you-with”. Click my graphic to read the full story: 1/

Am excellent *conceptual* interview with author and analyst Nathan Thrall on why the term "apartheid" is the most accurate and most succinct formulation for understanding the political regime which exits for 7,000,000 Palestinians west of the Jordan River.

oh my god

good haul from the used bookstore

saying "the White House" to mean "the President" is the classic example of metonomy they cite to explain 'Pharaoh' < pr-ʕ3 "big house" ... it seems that identity has its limits

There aren’t words for how strongly I feel that the people responsible for this and thousands of other/similar horrors are incompatible with a society that values dignity. To not ostracize, put on trial, and punish those perpetrating this at all levels would be a catastrophic moral failure.

Inject this into my veins