BIG things happening on Instagram though

We love a brain genius, don't we folks?

The last day of the Mongolian Lunar Calendar is called "Bituun" which means "very full" and on that day you are supposed to eat as much as you can to fill up before the year ends. This year Bituun is on Mardi Gras

Anyone who's read (or, these days, watched) Dune will remember the scene when Stilgar first meets the Duke. Think I just found where Frank Herbert took it from - an alleged Nuer practice: www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

I still think it's weird that the most popular journalist "from Appalachia" on here brigaded a (the only?) Black queer folk musician off this site for saying "I think Appalachian people have been treated badly in this country." Like are you really "from Appalachia," or did you just do a MA at ETSU?

I very nearly got pulled into discourse just now but suddenly I remembered about this song instead

Interested in Mongolian Folk Rock? Here's a primer playlist to expose you to some of the key bands in the genre (now on Tidal!)

🫡 tidal.com/playlist/c25...

my contribution to the (for the love of god post about something else) form

not interested in "ai" unless it is immediately preceded by "jargalant alt-"

with each passing hour of this day @songsforhorses.com becomes more correct about this

Today is Sakha jaw harp day in my Music and Environment NE Asia class so please enjoy some Atarkhaan along with us: youtu.be/SX8Xra3Z61o?...

Today is Sakha jaw harp day in my Music and Environment NE Asia class so please enjoy some Atarkhaan along with us: youtu.be/SX8Xra3Z61o?...

The only "ai" I care about is the "ai" in the lyric "ai khoo, temee" which means "ô camel"

"We need to have a conversation about AI" No. We don't. We need to have a listen to some throat singing

🚨🚨MUUJGAI ALERT🚨🚨 ALERT LEVEL: MANUUL

I am liking this joint ebalunga.bandcamp.com/track/for-ki...

I mean this earnestly, I do not like hearing about AI and I love seeing no context links like this youtu.be/Pjqszdpy3BY?...

Feel free to send this thread to any Mongolian-folk-music-enthusiast or person-who-is-spending-too-much-time-thinking-about-AI-and-could-use-a-Mongolian-folk-music-break. Add your own favorites. Yes I've heard of the Hu, but feel free to post them anyway if ye heart so desires

The problem with bluesky is that everyone wants to talk about AI all the time and no one is ever talking about Mongolian folk music

This #NationalInventorsDay we want to see your favourite inventions from the past! We'll start, with the 'true frame' saddle: the sturdy frame made mounted combat easier, making this invention instrumental to the rise of Mongolian steppe cultures. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

New open-access book: 𝘙𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢: 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮, 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, edited by Ariell Ahearn, Gantulga Munkherdene, and Takahiro Ozaki. Download it as PDF or Epub on our Environment & Society Portal. #EnvHum

Anyway speaking of whether being a cracker or a hillbilly I'm showing this documentary in class today and pretending that it doesn't speak to my own experience to the extreme degree that it does www.folkstreams.net/films/parkin...

Bsky nerds are trying to figure out how to publicly dislike the Bad Bunny halftime show without being called racist and they've settled on "it happened during sportsball"

Career update: 3 more years in Greater Cleveland, bayba

Post a banger that's not in English? Y'all are not ready for this Oirat language banger I'm about to send your way: youtu.be/0pvP6jpz5f0?...

Not to mention that like the only version of new rock music that is remotely popular is entirely sung in Mongolian, a language most Americans didn't know existed until 2015 (or maybe still don't?)

My Superbowl/Olympics this year is going to be the finals of this Korean reality competition show where they compete to determine who is the most powerful shaman

Just discovered a fun Central Asia/Appalachia overlap: www.instagram.com/reel/DQxGhBi...

My halftime show. Also, adding to this growing thread. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTLXlAx...

They're hating on Joe Burrow for dressing too fly. I thought y'all loved menswear! And he's not even playing tonight, leave my Ohiolachian cousin alone

Rooting for the USA in the Olympics and rooting for the Patriots in the Superbowl are the same thing (embarrassing)

They should let The Hu do the Superbowl halftime show one year

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

From @lambinawoolsweater.bsky.social re: everybody else's outfits

I'm glad everybody is liking these lewks and I would like to take this opportunity to remove everyone that if you buy cashmere from non-mongolian-owned brands you are a colonizer

Bluesky exists in a tension between "oh is sportsball on?" people and "everything I know about reality TV has been against my will" people and the irony of course is that sports and real housewives is the same thing

Mongolia and Haiti correctly identified that the Winter Olympics are primarily a chance to design baller cold weather uniforms

Not to be whatever man but it's kind of hard to teach while all this is going on

I'd like to formally extend my apologies to the conspiracy theorist I met on Heavenly Mountain in the early 2000s who, as it turns out, was right about almost everything

I'm hickwashing the curriculum

Sorry to the Environmental Studies department but I'm replacing a lot of the readings in the class I'm subbing for with Ann Pancake

Send me your fav dis tracks applicable to AI (does not have to be about AI specifically can be any "wowser tech kinda sucks" theme), trying to make an AI slop dis track mix. All genres!!

Thank you Gabriel Lafitte for letting us know that the "Dictionary of Tibetan Pastoralism" as mentioned by Tsering Dondrup is freely downloadable online. The first edition was primarily Tibetan to Japanese, with Wylie. In 2022, an English edition came out nomadic.aa-ken.jp/search/?lang...

My parents are about to get the road cleared after being iced in at home for about a week and my dad is excited to get out and see the little palomino horse down the road that he likes again

Keep Eyes on Springfield, we are gathering and preparing. Please hit us up through our local networks if you want to help! Might take a few days because we are hustling right now #SpringfieldOhio doesn't want ICE here. (graphics made by abortionfundofohio.org)

🙏🙏

I want to do this trend but I can only really remember one class that I took in college, called Shamanism and Folk Religion of the Mongols

Man, I miss the Gobi