Have you read Beowulf? No you haven't. And especially not like this. Well, you fucking should. Or anyway the fight between Beowulf and Grendel, which is short enough that you'd get through it. @sesquiotic.bsky.social brings it to you. stronglang.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/w...

Wesley Crusher gave me his personal assurance that they were not attempting the Kolvoord Starburst.

Anyway, it's one thing to take issue with the implications of what he wrote blah blah, but if you're imputing sinister motivations on @beijingpalmer.bsky.social, please let it be known that I find you incompatible, kthxby

I recognize this is on some level rhetorical but even from that perspective this is bananas messaging. We need an actual nationalist party in parliament.

www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic... What an insane thing to say at this point. What the fuck is going on?

@surcomplicated.bsky.social @beijingpalmer.bsky.social @thewyzard.bsky.social @scottsprague.bsky.social @funkadelic.bsky.social I have a new, incredibly rich source of Things For Erhard To Be Very Concerned About And/Or Incorporate Into His Slaaneshi Honeypot Pamphlets

The Canadian charter of rights and freedoms contains the right to whiny bitching

Good thread weaving a few things together. I think people really don't get how low the baseline is. Let's say you want to get something to Arviat. I've picked Arviat as easy mode. It's the southernmost community in Nunavut so closest to existing infrastructure. It's also on the mainland, easy mode.

Projects like the Nunavut Hydro-Fibre Link are simply not going to deliver the kind of ROI private-sector investors find attractive, but they would pay countless dividends for countless future generations – i.e. *the entire reason we have the concept of a state*.

Oh my god, I was wrong! They were Celts, all along! youtu.be/cy6CFTMnYa4?...

Also, are folks interested in an intro Akkadian group? @keeganosinski.bsky.social was making noises about it, and it would be fun to get back into. We’d be using Huehnergard, which I can share. Time unsure but am flexible. Reply/DM if interested, and share!

So now that my work schedule has been stabilized, who wants to do Navajo? Thanks to @likethemagician.bsky.social, I can distribute some textbooks for anyone who needs them. I’m thinking 2ish hours once a week, preferably Saturday afternoons but open to other times. Reply/DM if interested, and share!

Good piece, but one thing the Iran War has demonstrated is that fossil fuels aren’t just about energy: fertilizer, helium, feedstock for plastics, and other goods vital for daily life have been affected. We need to get those to market somehow, and there’s a role for Canada as most moral supplier.

“Since Lester B. Pearson’s generation, Canadians have understood a middle power earns its standing by showing up, convening other nations and matching its words to its budget. That standing is not heritable: it has to be re-earned. And it is being lost in real time.” Lloyd Axworthy nailing it.

Combatting existential dread by learning dead languages

Me when writing Egyptian

Found this girl, Siamun (probably an Egyptology student), who sings her own (usually coäuthored) compositions in Middle Egyptian with reconstructed pronunciation (not “the lazy historian” pronunciation). One may nitpick the reconstructions, but any of us who’s dabbled ... youtu.be/ayQQrt0hP04?...

David Cochrane: "I never stop to be shocked at how shocked the Americans are at the logical consequences of their actions, 'Can you believe they're not selling our booze after we disrupted all of their core industries?'"

Giant octopuses? In the Pacific? In the Cretaceous? That which is not dead can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die…

Octopus ‘krakens’ as large as semi-trucks stalked ancient seas | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Canada's most syndicated newspaper, the National Post, published an overwhelmingly positive review of the infamously racist novel Camp of the Saints today. The book is a standard in white nationalist book lists and is nearly only sold by white supremacist publishers. nationalpost.com/opinion/jami...

Any helpful paleontologist out there who would like to name a newly discovered species Suppiluliumasaurus?

Is Tyrannosaurus the only dinosaur with an Anatolian etymology? Or is there like a Suppiluliumasaurus out there that I don't know about

The endless mentions of "towards Europe" or "European model" remain fascinating as ever, even factoring in its an oppo sample, same as here nobody can fully explain it really what it means but everyone aspires towards it Remains a highly potent image and ideal people strive towards nevertheless

Ok lighting the Egyptian beacons: what exactly is going on with this line in the Gebel Barkal inscription? Everything else around the n(y)w pot makes sense, but it and the two strokes seem totally out of place. What gives?

Hot take I think we should do this with more languages. Let's inject some life back into Coptic, for instance

Pretty cool 3D reconstruction of Tenochtitlan that you can play around and explore in tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

Mongolian Tengriist shaman Otshir-böö, performing the Böö Mörgöl (male drumming trance) ritual, 1909 Photo by: Sakari Pälsi

Oh my god: is “wettest we’ve ever seen from the standpoint of water” a valid translation of an Egyptian superlative??? (Brought to you by reading Allan’s notes on r-constructions in the Loyalist Instruction)

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THEY FUCKING LET ROMANA DIDULO GO?!?

How does this article not mention Robert Reisz even once?

Dune 1: Go White Boy, Go Dune 2: Oh Dune 3: Oh White Boy, No

So it was just some ancient trash-talking? Like if we were doing it today, it'd look like this?

Grace, just now, cuddling: “sorry for moving, my chest-nards were getting squished” (Yes she said I could post this)

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

neat piece from my wife on pre-Incan empires and bird markets. www.science.org/content/arti...

PhD people: this is Grace indirectly requesting solidarity and stories re: academic impostor syndrome. Please, share stories as you are willing and able!

Egyptian question: working on the Loyalist Instruction, and relearning about adjectival syntax. WHY ARE DEPENDENT PRONOUNS USED AS SUBJECT PRONOUNS HERE GAAAAAHHHHH

Маршо я 1ожалла, as always

Not gonna lie: much less exciting story than the headline made it sound

At 85, South Korea’s oldest college graduate this year proves it’s never too late to learn Kim Jeong-ja received an associate degree in social welfare from Sookmyung Women’s University. Her 7 years of study began when she first picked up a pencil at age 78 to learn how to read and write.

This is an excellent summary of the looming Alberta Crisis. Probably not much much new information if you’ve been following the issue, but it’s one that neatly lays out the pieces on the board

It's 10:30 in Ottawa on a Sunday morning. If every overtime-exempt employee and Farsi speaker at IRCC aren't at their desks or in conference rooms planning this out, that's a governance failure.