Leabhar Gaeilge liom ‘An Irish book of mine’ an bhrí ba thúisce a tuigfí as san ach is féidir ciall chopaileach a bhaint as leis: ‘a Gaelic language of mine is a book’ S: Gaeilge liom ‘a Gaelic [language] of mine’ P: leabhar ‘a book’

Today I discovered that tilt does not work on #wayland #KDE with my #wacom One Pen #drawingtablet (while there is no problem under Xorg). Not sure if it’s a general (Wayland/KDE) problem or something with this specific tablet. But it’s surprising how many things are broken when Wayland is […]

@davidstifter.bsky.social A Bluesky- and Fedi-less friend asked me to forward a question to you: do you know if there’s a difference between Lambert’s “La Langue Gauloise” 2002 and 2018 edition? They’ve same no. of pages (so is 2018 a reprint?), and 2002 one is much cheaper than 2018.

When Iran gets a nuclear weapon — and they will — I won’t forget that it was Donald Trump’s first administration that pulled out of all the treaties that allowed inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities and fostered a spirit of international co-operation. When Iran gets a nuclear weapon — and […]

When you interview a #warCriminal, this is how you introduce him. Congrats to Chatham House Director Bronwen Maddox for not whitewashing Isaac #Herzog, the President of #Israel. Herzog is a prominent advocate of #genocide in #Gaza. Video from […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Can't wait to see a world power attacking a nation allied with NATO using multiple military purpose aerial vehicles knowingly and willfully, become a normal occurrence with little to none repercussions. I get it, nobody wants a nuclear war, but I still feel like not enough is being actually […]

tuairisc.ie/seachain-an-... Tá sé níos deise agus níos compordaí maireachtáil sa réaltacht ar mian linn maireachtáil ann, seachas dul i ngleic le castacht agus doiléire an tsaoil ~ @fachtna.bsky.social

@davidstifter.bsky.social Do you know of any good list and/or review of proposed Celtic etymologies for Central/East European place-names (modern and ancient)? How many of those are reasonably secure as Celtic?

...this experience has taught me that there is no such thing as a translation of the Gododdin, because for that one would first of all have to understand the text. Whoever thinks that Old Irish is difficult, should try Old Welsh for a change. /3

What Lady Luck had me find today: a book that I didn't even know existed. This afternoon, I discovered in an antiquariat in Dublin this 1977 edition by Dolmen Press of the Old Welsh Gododdin, with illustrations by Louis Le Brocquy. The edition was limited to 650 copies. /1

An bhfuil eolas ag éinne agaibh i dtaobh bhunús an struchtúir ina bhfuil ainsíoch bealaí mar dobhriathar? Rud mar ‘bhí sé ag dul _an bóthar_’ gan an ginideach i ndiaidh ainme briathartha. An raibh a leithéid de rud sa Ghaelainn Chlasaiceach nó roimis sin? #gaeilge #gaelainn #gaoidhealg #gramadach

Is maith an obair a dhein An Spideog ag míniú na copaile. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZPL...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZPLrZ2lP7A Not as comprehensive as the guide I wrote regarding the copula – but a really good quick and fairly simple introduction to the basics, very nice work by An Spideog! #gaeilge #anchopail #gaelainn #irish

An Caighdeán Oifigiúil: > Gabhann an t-alt le hainmneacha tíortha agus réigiún is ainmfhocail san uimhir iolra, e.g., na hAsóir, na Bahámaí, na Garbhchríocha, na Scigirí. na hUlaidh, na Connachta, na Sasana / Sasain… 🫣 (is aisteach ar fad an méid a bhaineann leis an alt is le hainmneacha tíortha)

𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 13 Together with the postdoctoral researcher Truc Ha Nguyen and my PhD student Paul Le Meur-Bouthemy, we started weekly meetings at the beginning of August in which we read a recent PhD thesis on dialectal variation in Old Irish. This topic is naturally central to the... /1

@davidstifter.bsky.social I’ve recently read Bičovský’s article arguing for Slavic initial *x- < *sk- and there’s this bit in there. Is this distinction between deuterotonic as·beir < *exs … beret(i) (with -s) vs protot. ·eper < eg·beret(i) (no -s) a broadly accepted thing?

Is there a good workflow to edit raw files on Android without Adobe stuff? Seems nothing FOSS available, but freeware at least? Snapseed Android opens only dng files… there used to be raw2dng converter out there but no longer maintained & unavailable? #Android #Photography #photoediting

I hadn't been aware of this recording of 11 Early Irish poems, read by Myles Dillon around 1956. Kindly made available by the School of Celtic in University College Cork. www.youtube.com/watch?v=45WU... (I am pleased to note that my own pronunciation of those poems isn't far off Dyllon's.)

Geàrr-Ghràmar na Gàidhlig (2017) by Richard A.V. Cox available for download here: https://www.richardavcox.scot/ClannTuircPublications.html I haven’t read this grammar before but after a peek inside I like it, it gets several things right which I sometimes see badly explained elsewhere […]

Do fuaireas beannacht ó dhéithe an uathfhócais inniu ar maidin! Déanta le hOlympus E-M5 mk. III agus M.Zuiko 75–300 mm f/4.8–6.7 #birdsofmastodon #olympus

The guide I wrote a while ago about ‘being’ in Irish (the tá/bí verb vs the copula ‘is’). It’s fairly comprehensive and, I hope, helpful to learners: https://celtic-languages.org/Guide_to_Irish_to_be #gaeilge #Spéiríní #SpéirGhorm

[plpol, fascism] So some alt-righters started “civilian militias” on Polish border with Germany cause they imagined German police “trafficking illegal migrants” into Poland. The government, instead of shutting them down for blocking the roads and aggressive behaviour, reinstates border controls…

’s fearr Gaelainn bhreá bhinn bhlasta ná Gaeilge bhriste ’s fheàrr Gàidhlig bhrèagha bhinn bhlasta na Gàidhlig bhriste

If you ask me, what is driving the world towards #ww3, is #european & Western WEAKNESS. 2008 Germany stalling Ukrainian & Georgian NATO membership. -> Russia attacked, no consequences 2014, Russia attacked Ukraine first time -> Budapest memorandum not followed 2022, Ukraine again, weak […]

I decided to recreate a well known graph showing the amount of clean electricity generated between Portugal, Denmark and the United Arab Emirates. The UAE started Barakah-4 last September, which now brought online their whole nuclear fleet, which they […] [Original post on greennuclear.online]

Thosnaigh séasúr an tonic espresso ’s na ngabhlán ngaoithe ar an mbalcóin. #espressotonic #swifts #birdsofmastodon

Gotujemy się. #showyourstripes #Poznań

Looks like Iran took out two facilities in Israel: a top secret biological warfare facility in Ness Ziona (20 km from Tel Aviv) and the Soreq nuclear center. Sources: https://nitter.net/AryJeay/status/1936691956077224153 https://nitter.net/AryJeay/status/1936682078822613350 Interesting how […]

@davidstifter.bsky.social What’s the likely pronunciation of classical Old Ir. ‘issin(d)’ (dative ‘in the’) and similar forms, would the /s/ be broad due to proclitic/pretonic depalatalization? Later dán díreach uses both ‘san’ and ‘isin’ and I wonder if the latter was broad /əsən/

When 10 missiles and 40 shahed drones are fired for Israel from Iran, UK military assets take off and rush in to defend Israeli civilians from them. However, when TEN TIMES the amount of is aimed at civilian targets in Kiyv, Ukraine the skies are empty of friendly assistance. I think this […]

”No more pointless wars” turned into ”UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” and lectures on big besutiful bombs pretty damn fast.. But did we learn yet how #conservatism & #populism works? Looks like most people still don’t have a clue.. 🤦‍♂️

An interesting construction of #irish #grammar: an duine is mó ciall ‘the person with greatest sense’ note that the describing noun (ciall ‘sense’ here) always stands in nominative, as if ‘?the person who is greatest sense’. The explanation as always hides in the ctx’s history! 1/n #gaeilge

#UkraineSupportTracker Aid flows to Ukraine shifted significantly in March and April 2025. While the #USA allocated no new aid, European countries increased the support: #Europe has, for the first time since June 2022, surpassed the U.S. in total military aid. 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 The #kielinstitute is a […]

So #OMDS released a new #OM5 mk. II camera that from the hardware side has a new USB controller compared to mk. I. The rest, especially the cpu and image sensor, seem to be exactly the same. One button’s label has changed. Which means that beside USB-C + PD it all should be a firmware update […]

Do·uic carae lemm lebor dam indé, forin #pyrkon. #sengoidelc #goidelc #oldirish #Goídelc #Sengoídelc

Créatúr gránna a bhí ag leogaint a scíth inniu ar mo bhalcóin… déanta le hOlympus E-M5 mk. III + M.Zuiko 60 mm f/2.8 macro (focus-stacking a deineadh mar jpg sa cheamara) #microfourthirds #macrophotography

”We are for peace” is core to how Russian propaganda works. What they do is they provoke a conflict, have a war, destroy the country, traumatise the people and afterwise have a pro-russian government campaign with the message: ”We are for peace. We want to avoid further destruction.” That is […]

Protip if you're an EU citizen: If you want to ask for a refund at a company you bought an online service off, don't ever bother with their refund policy, which is designed to deny you a refund. Skip that step and immediately point to your legal rights under consumer law. If said company then […]

i again implore all americans to stop talking about azov until the vote percentage the americans cast on fascists drops to the level of vote percentage ukraine casts on far right. clean your own fucking house, motherfuckers.

📷 Śliczne zdjęcia. Tak wyglądają ślady po zniszczeniu artefaktów cywilizacji, która odeszła. Dzisiejsza Rosja nie posiada kompetencji i możliwości, by zbudować takie strategiczne bombowce, by uzupełnić straty. Zniszczono również co najmniej 2 "awacs"-y. Te […] [Original post on mastodon.com.pl]

I used to be a Sentinelese learner like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee.

Ní hábhair é a chara. ‘His friend is not subjects.’ S: (é) a chara ‘his friend’ (agus fo-ainmní ann) P: ábhair ‘subjects, matters’ (iolra den fhocal ‘ábhar’) Copula: ní (an fhoirm dhiúltach) ‘ní ábhair’ a bheadh ceart de réir an chaighdeáin, ach is sine an nós ‘h-’ a chur tar éis ‘ní’ na copaile

you can't outrun fascists from the right: a lesson the centre-right politicians like tusk or starmer cannot learn despite three decades of lived experience in trying to outrun fascists from the right, and failing.

[polska polityka po wyborach] Zawód, smutek, strach przed tym, co się zacznie dziać za dwa lata. Ale nie zaskoczenie.

Scréachóg do chonac inniubh. https://photos.app.goo.gl/vbbezAgECsC6XsP19 (déanta le hOlympus E-M5.III, M.Zuko 75–300 mm f/4.8–6.7 ⁊ #DarkTable) #birdsofmastodon #jay #eurasianJay

[wojna w Ukrainie] Chociaż jedna pozytywna informacja na dziś: płonące ruskie bombowce strategiczne, Ukraine zrobiła zmasowany atak dronami na lotniska <3 #SlavaUkraini (źródło: https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1929133629042483572)

happy “extremely short range aviation day” to ukraine.

Cambridge Old English reader: > The period of English history which we now call ‘Anglo-Saxon’ lasted from the mid-fifth century until the end of the eleventh, when the Normans arrived. Most surviving Anglo-Saxon manuscripts date from the latter part of this period and many of them are in Latin […]