"walking around with no legs" is a fascinating degeneracy because it takes "walking around" as an unspecified verb of motion. walking around with a car, a tank, legless, who cares man

"why don't the other Warring States just band together to defeat their common enemy?" vs "why doesn't Qin, the largest of the Warring States, simply eat the others?"

it never ceases to amaze me that within my lifetime we have gone from "language learners must hoard every scrap of eg French newspaper bought in France and precious casettes of spoken radio" to "yeah can get infinite written stuff & podcasts with transcripts plus easy to translate those transcripts"

"Do you think Empress Cixi had girl power?" "Omg, yes!" "Do you think she displayed that girl power most effectively when she had the Guangxu emperor poisoned?"

environmental storytelling

My favorite thing about the bas reliefs on Borobudur Temple (Magelang, Central Java) is how they incorporate animals in the stories. They can be main characters or natural parts of the environment that also show emotions and affection, like in these cats, monkeys, dogs, and oxen. 1/2 #WyrdWednesday

this one goes out to each of my coworkers from Shenzhen

man i just don't get how people can kill for less than nothing

wondering if the future of government is just accelerating crises and no one in power going anywhere, forever

dords and mountweazels, what a field linguistics is

reasons? plenty as blackberries?

whenever i remember Cyprus is split three ways it feels like a concussion

My dear people and country how I wish you never had to endure all this

Happy Valetines to my fellow In The Mood For Love girlies!

who were the first yaoi artists and why were they the minitaturists at the Safavid court

Honestly also the moment she says she will show us how to kill a God and, like, I saw why those angels followed Satan

uzumaki

Ube Hopia and the Infinite Layering

Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!

god they loved the milky virgin back in the day

cursed to find out that Berruguete was, in addition to being the prime vector of the Renaissance in Spain, the Ben Garrison of his age

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

accidentally doubling up on the same PIE root is such a funny consequence of having French as a prestige language

unearthing the bones of Tocharian so we can finally agree on how to translate Chinese into English

watching vile creatures bind themselves together by sharing a transgressive crime

bars

if they've got a violin, an electric guitar, and a wind instrument, they've got the goods

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

For me, the most difficult part is often the lies.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/living-in-...

i miss when this guy was the only LLM

Song dynasty gamer pillow

empress Taitu with a timely thought

hi i'm riptide

I wrote about the endless temptation successful people feel to justify and feel justified in a clearly toxic system. Happy new year. open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...

Me he acordado hoy de cuando el Washington Post le pidió a sus lectores que describieran 2020 con una frase y un niño de 9 años dijo “es como si vas a cruzar una calle, miras con cuidado a ambos lados y, de repente, te atropella un submarino".

everything's going great i'm just listening to iki mutsuz a couple hundred times

✍️ Tan Oral çiziyor... t24.com.tr/yazarlar/tan...

My favorite thing about Frog and Toad is that it is the story of two men deeply and obviously in love with one another, drawn as a tribute to his lifelong partner by a gay man long before their relationship was socially sanctioned.

getting "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" into introductory ESL to drill V1 V2 V3

when your heart dips just a touch below the feather

happy holidays folks

in their hyperbolic chambers

Die Hard is a modern adaptation of the original Christmas heist story, "By Santa's Bones"

charging up the double pork festivity beam