This is truly a wonderful podcast. We get to the point where Ibn Fadlan observes the Rus/Vikings wash in the same tub and is understandably disgusted.

Theory: they're going to push really hard the idea that gen AI is human so they can equate closing data centers to murder bsky.app/profile/wire...

Right after we discuss 'White Man's Burden' in Survey of English Lit class Student 1: Professor aren't we going to read anything uplifting? Student 2: Aren't you following, America's been invented so no

Is a poet laureate tax deductible

Greta saw this coming

time to invest in a sail boat

the impact of fuel crisis on long distance relationships

Double Life of Veronique there's a Haliloğlu teaching Chemistry (my undergrad) at this school

MOVIE PITCH: one New York Jew’s quest to find matzo not imported from Israel

After 2 hours of rain

Stanley Spencer recorded in his 1938 Desk Diary that he began 'Magnolias,' in March of that year. On 5th April 1938, he wrote to his dealer Dudley Tooth saying that the painting was 'as good as anything I have done.'

You will not believe me when I tell you I'm on an Arabic zoom call because apparently I speak the language

She's asking for his @ @davidwilloughby.bsky.social

Astaghfurullah! Are there no Christians in the US to object to this blasphemy

So well said. Being in awe smth when you actually know how it works and it is you who works it

Week 8

I read Jen Brick Murtazashvili’s op-ed in WaPo and was struck by this: “We are living through the first alt-war: a conflict in which the war fought online and the war fought in reality have diverged so completely that they might as well be happening on different planets.” except …

Now and then Istanbul decides to show the second row of hills

they started a war promising Ukraine's entry into NATO and now Trump is about to annihilate NATO girl what a timeline

Half the production team of Testament of Anne Lee is called Atilla Skezely. Corbet is obsessed with Hungary

on the other, it *is* nice to see their whataboutery width narrowing down

It's Istanbul Film Festival in a week, and I see they will be showing the Berlinale opener which I thoroughly enjoyed- bitter sweet film about a professional woman trying to live her life in Kabul #NoGoodMen www.dailysabah.com/arts/reviews...

I need a film about how bizarre the Native Americans found White customs ASAP

the temptation must've been so strong to insert a scene where the native americans are watching this and going 'what the fuck??' #TheTestamentofAnneLee

Shakers, not to be confused with Quakers

Time for an English cuppa

Back to watching Testament of Anne Lee and hoping it becomes the new Barry Lyndon

I mean what would Turks have done had the Balkans stayed in the union- they would've lost all their aspirations for 'international travel' (because that's where half the country goes for that badge :))

has English made me impatient :)

reporting from the field: translations into Turkish need to be as concise as possible because, as you know, the verb is at the very end, so faster we get to it the better. am cutting lots of fillers while editing.

coffee and painkillers, whaddaya say lads

Love this exchange on AI

a support package for the equity punks, at long last

oh man, as an imam's daughter it's been excruciating to see this term dragged in the dirt for decades - our whole life revolves around fatwa sought from people we believe to have good sense

sociological study on Turkish hijabi girls (moi) and Jane Austen (much more romantic in our imagination than French shit... you wouldn't wonder why :))

I understand something Ottoman happened in sports

After two days of erratic weather and making me catch a cold back to this

Girl we also had the first dogs ♥️ #Turkey

My friend Bayan writes about how personal and collective grief collide in Palestine adimagazine.com/articles/the...

I will show you collegiate in a handful of dust

There's a German prof at school whom I don't know and who sounds and looks extremely German I think I will at some point walk up to him and say this

Chocolate to enable teaching, dürüm to ensure my legs take me home, brufen to remember my name

FRANCE: we're fancy WORLD: ok FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich is our national lunch WORLD: FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich with an egg is its wife

Chocolate to enable teaching, dürüm to ensure my legs take me home

Still reeling from my student saying 'but I don't understand these texts' never once imagining they might understand if they tried a bit harder and maybe use a dictionary

Undergrads grazing

This concept is so triggering to me. More than a decade ago I was a postdoc in the US and attended a job talk and one prof asked the interviewee how she connected it all to Pharmakon and I had no idea what it meant and thought 'I'm never getting a job in academia'

my neighbour asked me if i would pick up their oil from the persian gulf while i was getting mine and i agreed as a courtesy but now they are taking the piss, everytime they see me leaving they bring over a little list, as they want their jet fuel, their fertiliser as well

I'm afraid the situation (getting through the rest of the teaching day) calls, as it often does, for chocolate

thoughts and prayers as I try to edit a translation where the 'question' in 'the question is...' is translated literally