I hate that it's come to this but I might have to start trying the discover feed on main because the chronological feed is getting inundated by a small number of people who will retweet literally anything to the point it's getting unusable.

I need to do more investigation but the Italian version of Athenaze may possibly be an unexploited mine of potential future wojak memes.

god i wish i had tenure so i could openly ridicule my tenured and tenure track colleagues for using ai

This game sold for $29.95 USD in the 1991 Sears holiday catalogue, which is $72.70 USD today.

Doing philology is giving me solace when the world is very stupid right now.

Had to re-enable the AI overview to test the meme

Didn't get a job I applied for but that's okay I wasn't feeling that enthusiastic about moving back to East Anglia again anyway.

well it's been a day of discourse on this website and now that it's gone that way I suppose I have been guilty of participating a little bit

I just saw a senior academic post the sentence "Endless new languages are being created by agentic llms" and I just about had an aneurysm.

There's this weird bit of a medieval Greek poem by Tzetzes where he gives an epilogue on greeting people in their own languages. A later manuscript is fully glossed (a secondary addition) and contains a bizarre obscene extra phrase for the Alanic text.

On an Old Persian kick at the moment, but the Achaemenid royal inscriptions are starting to get a bit repetitive. I might have to switch it up with some Avestan in a bit since these Zoroastrians seem to have more interesting things to say.

My mother is watching The View upstairs and oh god they're talking about Clavicular.

Waking up to get a DM to the effect of asking whether I saw the Simon Goldhill news and my immediate only half-joking reaction was "What? Is he in the Epstein files?" and I think that reaction should probably say enough.

wow is it me or has cambridge's equal opportunities survey has gotten a lot more invasive since the last time i filled out one of these

Reminiscing about stuff with one of my ex-Cambridge Classics PhD friends... "Just another weird day at the faculty" sums it up pretty much.

Writing this cover letter like, huh, I actually am a pretty impressive research profile that is very interdisciplinary in nature, and yet weirdly I am still currently unemployed, curious...

I bought the Old El Paso flavoured Pilsbury Pizza Pops out of extreme morbid curiosity and having tried them today for lunch I have only experienced the taste of regret.

I can't bring myself to make this post on main but I gotta get it out of my system somehow

Looking at stuff happening over on my main the caricature of this place as leftist truth social is becoming more and more true every day.

I know it's not in my best interests arguing in YouTube comments with MDs pretending to be doctors when they're merely physicians without real (PhD) doctorates, but my god, the world is ending and I can't help myself.

Reflexively spelling Lexikon as Leksikon in German after microdosing my brain with too much Danish for too many years. Help.

Occasionally when I'm thumbing through old issues of Glotta I'm reminded that in the early 20th century there were two German philologists of Ancient Greek, one named Buttmann and the other named Assmann. Haven't found a Titmann yet though, but I'm sure he's out there.

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay (non-derogatory)

Eric Hamp had strong poster energy. He would have loved Twitter.

I can't remember if you could mod vault suits to change the number on them in the original version of the game, but today with the anniversary edition I discovered that you can. So I went ahead did the predictable thing.

lmao I just found out that a guy I hate, who had a permanent job at Cambridge and had a very public crashout in The Spectator a year and a half ago, is now a "professor" of Latin at an unaccredited "college" with ties to Jordan Peterson in Savannah, Georgia.

Tom Hubbard is in the Epstein files lmao

Looking at this old document where I parsed out the Hōm Yašt and I glossed jahikaiiāi as D.sg.f. ‘hooker, prostitute'.

While it is true that Latin nauta is inflected as an a-stem because it is a loanword from Greek ναύτης 'sailor', itself an agent noun in - της formed within Greek to ναῦς 'ship', have you also considered that sailors might also be inflected as though feminine in Latin because they were fabulous?

Waow who knew that Noam Chomsky kinda sucks?

This is genuinely one of the funniest fucking things I've read in my life and I will not elaborate.

TIL tugboatinformation.com is a real website that exists. The internet fucking rules, man.

I'm mad at my Greek teachers for not telling me about this poem (Anthologia Graeca 5.116, trans. Paton & Tueller, Loeb)

I miss being able to go online and make dumb jokes about philology and that would be the entire point of being on the posting website but nooo other people had other things in mind.

I just sat down to summarise things from the last three weeks for myself for the sake of my own sanity, and if I were an aspiring novelist of dystopian literature I think I'd say this would be a bit much.

Dildog is dead, long live the Dilberito.

A new rule has been proposed in an online community that I've been involved in for a couple of years now that we can't chat in languages other than English because the mods can't read anything but English and I'm trying to come up with a diplomatic way of saying no, lol.

Sporadic reminder that in Star Wars the canonical name of the musical genre of the Mos Eisley cantina band is 'jizz music'.

Listening to a Behind the Bastards episode featuring Ed Zitron, in which he quipped "I think it's hard to tell what's in a man's heart — especially when he's British..." and I audibly chortled.

Oh, you're Pansexual? How many goats have you... *gets violently pimpsmacked by Dionysos's thyrsos to prevent me from completing that sentence*

Documenting some mildly horny garden decor over at the local garden centre…

I still can't believe Nintendo canonically wrote in allusions into Tears of the Kingdom that Link and Zelda are fucking.

While saying my final goodbyes in the this country I may have broken a woman's heart by my departure and this is weighing very heavily on my conscience.

Scoping out a colleague’s shelves at the open office. Trying to guess her ideology…

No one: ... Absolutely no one: ... Danish:

Searching for this upgrade part that’s uhh… *checks notes* a Trans-Accelerator.

one person in the secret groupchat was talking about finger limes and the obvious joke was made but then i googled finger grapefruit since i thought i saw a picture on tumblr once a decade ago and i was completely unprepared for the results

Oh no I just heard a feral child say ‘6-7’ in real life for the first time.

Svensk Filmindustri has jumped the shark.