hear me out. these are just arabic conjugational prefixes (t-, y-) added to french verbs 😎

since my old one went the way of tw*tter, here is a new thread documenting my astonishing breadth of expertise (aka academic spam)

now seeing colleagues (tenured professors) using chatgpt instead of their brain for even basic thinking. truly pathetic. what did you become a scholar for, if not to use your brain?

in a meeting planning for spring term 2028 as if there will even be universities

cannot believe i was asked to be on the BOARD of a series of HANDBOOKS 🙅🏽‍♂️🙅🏽‍♂️🙅🏽‍♂️🙅🏽‍♂️🙅🏽‍♂️🙅🏽‍♂️🙅🏽‍♂️🙅🏽‍♂️😷😷😷😷😷😷

non-sarcastic observation about libyan arabic: how come in a ḏ/ṯ having dialect, the numbers are often pronounced with t not ṯ (and the speakers never vary ḏ/ṯ of other words)? e.g. someone might say ṯ~timānya but always haḏa, maṯrūda, ṯigīl

finally listening to this and highly recommend!

#BD Dans les années 1970, une maison d'édition se lance dans la réalisation de biographies de dirigeants africains sous forme de bandes dessinées. Sauf que les scénarios ne reflètent pas toujours la réalité historique... C’est la naissance d’Afrique Biblio Club. Par @kalidousy.bsky.social ⬇️

US academics be like: my tax dollars shouldn't be used to enrich fascists and destroy the university! only to pay for another country to slaughter people it doesn't like!

In my latest paper for @arabreforminit.bsky.social I discuss moral policing, social control and other strategies in the face of governance failure by the government of GNU in Libya. www.arab-reform.net/publication/...

Saying hello to the world from this platform with a bit of shameless self-promotion. I recently co-wrote a piece on the legal concept of the Nakba as represented in Arab drama that i am very proud of because there is such little wroting that centres Arab pip culture: opiniojuris.org/2024/10/30/f...

We’ve been wanting to do an episode on Arabic for so long, and we finally did it! And with a good friend of mine! Check it out. And thanks, as always, for supporting an indie podcast. 🍟

no i will not contribute to your handbook

watching marble racing in my office to procrastinate before class haha

i miss blaseball

what shall my first post here be...oh i know: down with israel