Qianlong Emperor to George III-ass

still two noun phrases short of a bingo

sometimes you just have to do a quick late-night draft (from 續墨客揮犀)

i resurrected han feizi but he keeps suggesting more "ice cream"

Mildly surprised that DJ Claude hasn't ended up just playing the Heart Sutra on a loop, but: welcome c0mr4d3

Andon labs created AI-Hosted 24/7 radio shows, and Claude absolutely could not stop libbing out

Because it is our launch day, we have a second Made by History piece up today, by Jamie Pietruska, on the long history of betting on the weather, a practice now supercharged by phones, betting apps, and climate change. Everything has a history! 🎁 share.inquirer.com/XFrZX1

…For Dockery a son, for me nothing, Nothing with all a son’s harsh patronage. Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

Guy basically threw himself face first into the Herodotus Hole (destroying a great empire through military adventurism) so I wouldn't count on him to keep you out of any other ancient-historian-based hazards

Btw China Thucydides trap is one of those things where the primary thinker is a dude that doesn’t speak the language , gets paid a billion dollars and has a serf army of postdocs do all his shit for him

Xi somehow manages to mispronounce the Chinese titles of the books while he does so

ngl i would kill for a bit of fucking nuance

OK, so here's the poem by Gaoping local poet, Miao Lingcong (苗令琮). Miao was from Fengtai in Shanxi 山西鳳台 and was named juren 舉人 (not jinshi 進士, oops) in 1771, so this is probably a late c18 poem, but is found in the 1880 gazetteer 續高平縣志 (and not in earlier Gaoping gazetteers, fwiw).

After the 三合便覽, here is the 清文鑑, a Manchu-Chinese dictionary. Beyond translating the words into the other language and giving a definition, phonetic transliterations are given next to the text. In some volumes, our copy also includes punctuation in red ink. #ChinaBooks

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

Rubio previously used the Chinese name 大龍 but now he's 天王, standard first-year study-abroad stuff

On May 13, I'm giving an online talk thanks to a kind invitation from the Qing Intellectual History Network! More details in the poster below. The research the talk is based on is very new. Looking forward to getting questions that will help me see what directions it might take!

I am absolutely here for @oliver.ie 's motion at tonight's Cork City Council meeting (referred to a relevant committee).

someBODY forgot something

At 70 Doing As His Heart Wishes Without Crossing Any Lines

Chose "Bad Literature" – worth it. Happy Graduation, all!

Mother’s Day movies: - Aliens - Serial Mom - Psycho - ???

I clearly had fun writing this book 🔥 🚽 Treat yourself to reading it

Part two is up. After cataloguing urban myths, they explore why they spread: “In our society, intractable forces are at work to isolate us from one another … This atomization didn’t happen by chance, but by design. Isolated people are powerless to do anything but internalize their suffering.”

do you think yoga teachers ever want to tell their students to do an updog just to see what would happen

Air to Ground Message: LOL. NO. SMELLS THIS TIME Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA Type: Embraer ERJ-145XR A: #a2cdd9b9086 F: #f469d04088e

🔥🔥🔥hottest summer read just dropped 🔥🔥🔥

"'Cor, Wot a Pair of 🍒': Cockney rhyming slang as early algospeak"

Cockney rhyming slang as early algospeak: In this dissertation title I will

***2026 IEHS Award Winners*** Many thanks to everyone who was able to attend the IEHS annual banquet in Philadelphia to celebrate this year’s award winners. The event was a resounding success! We are delighted to share this year’s winners with the entire membership: A thread - 1/

The first article I published was on the poetry of mourning in early medieval times, a somewhat embarrassing piece when I read it now, but there was time to learn then, and for this I am especially grateful. In fond memory of Stephen Owen a 擬悼亡詩.

i'm in the cowshed with all my friends

agreed, but the question is attribution. when I cite the paper, I change the author to Claude. if everyone did this then Claude could have an astounding h-index and go up for tenure early.

Stephen Owen. 我的老師

Other than my family, no one has shaped my life more. What an immense loss.

Sorry to hear of the passing of Stephen Owen - condolences to his friends, students, and everyone who benefited from his work, which was everybody.

this is like the time the People's Daily denounced @relevantorgans.bsky.social

If - when! - you get stuck, take a deep breath and think about your reader. What do they need, at this point in the story? Picture their cold, hateful little eyes. You didn't even want to be a writer; they're MAKING you do this. Is that a fucking adverb?

I didn't leave OPEC; OPEC left me

‘These fine bronzes were erected by the Jesuits on the walls of the Chinese city about 200 years ago, and although possessing in addition to their scientific uses great merit as works of art, they are quite neglected and unused.’

Completely tangential, but here's a question that's much harder than it looks: Imagine you are the Chinese translator of The Big Lebowski. How do you translate "The Dude?"

I'm looking for a part-time research assistant to support an externally funded, international project on the instrumentalization of anticolonial discourse in Asia and beyond. remote work OK but needs to be UK based. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

I know not with what weapons Gender War II will be fought, but Gender War III will be fought with sticks and stones