Lol is that cut-out in Kazakhstan the Baikonur Cosmodrome?

Interesting time to be reading The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years, in which the main character attempts to give his friend a Muslim burial while navigating the impacts of settler colonialism on his community and landscape under the shadow of a spaceship launch

Calling Charlemagne "Gherlemaghne" and Alexander the Great "Aleghesender the Ghreat"

Mongolia Appoints its 35th Prime Minister—Uchral Nyam-Osor—within a Year. Here is a brief of what transpired and what it means to the country. open.spotify.com/episode/3HIn...

Look I understand how the user base of this website is skewed but "AI might be bad for the environment but it can't be *that* bad, don't he hysterical" is such a The Data Centers Aren't Going in My Back Yard take that it actually makes me spit blood out my eyes like a lizard

Root Beer on an empty stomach after 2 days of food poisoning get me through class today, Root Beer hold my soul

Whenever I'm doing a guest lecture on multispecies ethnography I make sure to wear whichever of my shirts smells the most like goats

I have a friend who has been stranded in Atlanta because of the TSA stuff and is having a great time down there, shocked at how nice everyone is, etc, which does make me feel a little like Hank Williams II

No wonder Wendell Berry is one of bell hooks' favorite writers

Petition to rename Alsatian "Grench"

Just learned about this big dude Terry Todd who, among other things, used his PhD in History to train pro wrestler Mark Henry in at the time unheard-of lifting techniques in the US like Persian zoorkhaneh

Another office in my building was throwing away a FULL stack of blank CDs. Buddy that's like a full gold bar in my house

I keep getting spam texts from a Donkey Rescue

Almost anything about Mongolia at all. That it exists, that it's its own country, that they speak their own language there. The idea that the Mongol Empire was a secular state, Asian History 101 stuff as far as I'm concerned, was treated as Crank Take by scholars(!) on this website like last month

The legal/capitalist idea of music being property is irreconcilable with the reality of how music has been made since the beginning of time

"A sweeping new national law signals Beijing’s decisive turn away from ethnic autonomy & toward enforced assimilation. This new law is the culmination of a policy trajectory that has been building for over a decade, dating back to the 2014 Central Ethnic Work Conference" www.cfr.org/articles/chi...

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

"Mongolian is a backward language, it can only describe nomadic culture like cows, sheep, or grassland." - my re-education teacher in 2020

A sleeve of pseudocryptids would hit. Pictish beast, serpopard, BABR

Rob Zombie's "Clavicula"

Googling if "Pictish beast tattoo" has some right wing meaning I'm not aware of

Experiencing FOMO because my friends back home are getting together soon to etch filigreed patterns on the wooden stocks of their rifles

Experiencing FOMO because my friends back home are getting together soon to etch filigreed patterns on the wooden stocks of their rifles

gonna add the tour poster for this one, bc it's pretty nice

Reminded of this piece of southnography again because Big KRIT's new tour is called "The World is a Parking Lot" and has no shows north of Louisville

Cormac McCarthy being a sick freak makes it easier to justify his weird writing style, for example

It's important to understand when edtech is scabtech (almost always). This is because you can be fooled into thinking that if admin values it, embracing it will make you more highly valued as an academic. But they only like it for its ability to drive the value of academic labor down.

Rather than talk about what art we can separate from the artist let's talk about what art *only* works because of who made it. I think a lot of David Bowie music is in this zone

What's up anthros, AAA Conference CFP time. Come join me on a panel called At World's End, on environment and apocalypse

Has there been a scholarly treatment of the social history of the concept of the "orc", like what Alan Dundes did on vampires?

Cool it's not just me

Was looking for ssireum tournaments and Google was like "hey have you heard of Mongolian Wrestling?" Oh yes, yes I have

No wait this is the angle on the Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Predator on Alien Motorcycle statue I went with in the book

Has there been a scholarly treatment of the social history of the concept of the "orc", like what Alan Dundes did on vampires?

Both "cool" and "cringe" are aesthetics, and the subsumption of politics into aesthetics is one of the actual textbook definitions of fascism. Good day!

Out now - for those interested in Mongolian music, animals, and what worlds are possible after this one ends, A Song for the Horses is available in all the usual places as well as directly from the publisher here: uapress.arizona.edu/book/a-song-...

Important to have an old desktop for such contingencies

There's something so Appalachia-coded about fighting tooth and nail to get someone, anyone, to care that there is a billowing cloud of chemical smoke enveloping your town only for a: nothing to happen, and b: yuppies to pretend there was a national effort to help you verging on mass hysteria

I don't think retconning the East Palestine OH chemical disaster as "not that bad" and "overly addressed" is very smart or going to help anything

Most of the questions on the "ask anthropology" reddit page are actually questions about history, while most of the questions on the"ask historians" page are about Hitler

When people tell me to teach AI now I just suggest they start teaching things from my classes as well. "What do you mean you don't teach Tuvan music theory?" "Coal miner ballads aren't going anywhere, get used to it!" "In 20 years, everybody is going to be practicing nomadism, don't be a luddite"

This is today

Ancient Etruscan deity of mineral wealth and death "Dis Pater"-->Appalachian semi-ironic dysphemistic personification of mineral wealth and death "Old King Coal"

One thing that I find funny is that the original story, "The Call of Cthulhu," cites actual, real, contemporaneous cultural anthropology and folklore scholarship. What I'm saying is it's a huge missed opportunity that no one in The Last of Us ever brings up Anna Tsing.

Rivendale

Parallel universe where instead we got a DIY genre called Redneck Sentimentality

*goes to Mongolia once* m.youtube.com/watch?v=MM8g...

"For I was at that moment very happy to find myself living on Earth"