i know i wittgenstein post too much but i would love to see his reaction to the wholesale capitulation of critical thinking facilities to machines whose entire model of the world begins and ends in language, a medium he regarded as intrinsically impoverished

Johnny Silverhand is my co-pilot.

Every year we get closer to this happening on the news

I’m finding that packing the shipping crates this time around is involving a lot of pulling things off shelves, putting them into boxes, pulling things off shelves and putting them neatly on other shelves and until I put them into smaller boxes can neatly tetris them into the larger ones.

oh no, I retweeted a post about this article a week and a half ago before noticing the map

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

A movie you have seen more than 7 Times with a GIF:

This morning’s task has been trying to decide what of my life I’m going to distil into two suitcases and a backpack and what of the rest will go into boxes for transatlantic shipping and I don’t like it.

Spent the morning so far with a recording of the Minneapolis mayoral candidates’ debate on in the background and I could barely pay attention to it because it was hyper-focused on actual boring policy discussion. Completely wild.

The contemporary cult of Hallowe'en is bearing ever stranger fruit.

I think I managed to upload that final report stuff but the EU system for grant management seems to be getting mad at me for reasons I can't change so I guess we'll just have to wait for the people in Brussels to figure out something's wrong on their end before I can press the submit button. Whee.

Breaking: Americans discover how to turn baseball game into cricket game with this one weird trick.

The only sport I managed to get into was the one we played in grad school where after a long day at the library a bunch of us ran around a field kicking a ball with nobody keeping score and then when we got tired one of us unilaterally declared "the next goal wins!" after which we went to get beer.

Breaking: Americans discover how to turn baseball game into cricket game with this one weird trick.

I thought I could finish The Big Report today, but it turned out that I could not. Tomorrow is another day.

this guy (Salimbene di Adam)'s father is trying to get his son to quit the monastery and refers to the other monks there as "pissintunici", tunic-pissers 😭

surely the anonymous authors of the historia augusta were partisan hacks with an axe to grind, but also...

Is the SD card… uhm… Mario’s dick?

Thomas Olander gives his inaugural lecture as full professor of Indo-European Studies at the University of Copenhagen: Historien i sproget.

Sorry, I just realised the syntax of this sentence is a bit wonky. But in case it's not contextually clear I have not been staying in a room of a student house in Leiden while stuck in the summer of 2009 for the last 16 years.

In other news I have apparently been friends with a chicken that lived in the courtyard of a student house in Leiden I was staying at during the summer of 2009 for 16 years now.

It’d be real nice if my feed wasn’t currently filled with people posting Totenköpfe over and over.

Okay, this is pretty cool.

Δράκετε τὴν παντελέα μονάδα.

Finally some mainstream pushback from the 'is sharp-eared' etymology.

8YO: [in the backseat] dad can you turn it down ME: [kindly but firmly] this is Tool, son

I hope I'm still alive in 30 years to see how my colleagues in the history department will teach in undergrad survey courses how the response of a sitting US president to a popular protest movement was to post AI slop of himself dumping faeces on protestors from an F/A-18 Hornet.

There is something quite wrong with this Metro Station.

Taking the stairs to save energy, but also triggering all of the motion-sensor enabled lights on every single floor as I move down the open-plan office building. 😔

That poor ASL translator, I hope they got paid really well for this.

Nåååååååå

Rammstein is so thematically jarring as a band. On one hand you have beautiful power ballads like ‘Ohne dich’ or a surprisingly nuanced meditation on 21st century German identity with a song like ‘Deutschland’, and then without missing a beat the next song will be something called ‘Dicke Titten’.

I got this little idea in my head today and I'm not sure if I can let it go... What if we started a Canadian Association for Indo-European Studies?

Sanskrit manuscripts have these abbreviations in the margin referring to texts - anyone aware if there is a complete list of the standard abbreviations?

Sometimes I really hate the English language.

Got the latest Perturbator album in my hands with featured guest artists Ulver and Alcest and trying to explain this to myself twenty years ago in terms other than 'this rules you should listen to it now'.

Academic articles can be written in a popular science writing style

I am really into leather(-bound grammar books).

Thanks to those who replied. I guess '(advertising) flyer' does, in fact, seem a pretty neutral term for this generally and it's not a weird Canadian regionalism I have. I have now informed my Danish colleagues that they can use that word.

Quick question on behalf of my friends in the language psychology subsection of the department: In your variety of English what would you call these glossy commercial sales pamplets that inform on weekly deals that are typically stuffed into your mailbox every week?

this is a t-shirt design I submitted to the university of alberta history and classics graduate student association a decade and a half ago that they never made because they were cowards.

nobody ever writes that dark academia novel about giving oneself a coffee and alcohol induced stomach ulcer from burnout over writing an ERC consolidator grant that never got funded.

Can’t prove a counterfactual but I do sometimes wonder where we’d be if they had just stuck with “these fuckers are weird as hell” for like a few more weeks

Saw your dad last night, he was at the

I have a suuuuuuuper niche question about tense usage in Ancient Greek lexicography who do I know who might know stuff about this???? All pointers and bibliography suggestions greatly received!!! #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

Love working in a discipline where lunchtime conversation seamlessly transitions from why does this etymology not work (unless you assume this one scholar's weird ad hoc sound law) to an alternative that involves grazing, to having to go find out how efficiently do cows graze in snow, actually?

Maybe it was a happy ending for Johnny Silverhand.

I finished Cyberpunk 2077. The Sun ending. I'm not crying. You're crying.

this implies the existence of a Yaoi Gagarin