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it's a hell of an act -- what do you call it

Literary Chinese for Pedophile Rulers: 嘉靖壬寅年，宮婢相結行弑，用繩係上喉，翻布塞上口，以數人踞上腹絞之，已垂絕矣。 In the ren-yin year of Jiajing, palace girls conspired to commit regicide by strangling the Emperor with a rope, gagging him, and getting several girls to sit on his chest to suffocate him until he was nearly dead.

Literary Chinese For When The Sky Does That: 靖康元年正月丁丑夜，赤白氣起西方。九月戊寅，有赤氣隨日出。九月乙未，西方日下有赤氣。十一月乙丑，日下有赤氣。閏十一月丁酉，赤氣亙天。 February 4, 1126: Red and white qi arose in the western night sky. October 3: Red qi followed the sun. November 4: Red qi pooled under it. December 21: Red qi spanned the entire sky.

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Postdoctoral position in global philology at U. Uppsala (apply by Nov. 26). Specialisations include: Comp./General Lx., Greek and Byzantine Studies, Indology, Iranian Languages, Latin, Semitic Languages, Sinology, and Turkic Languages. tinyurl.com/nhbk8fhh

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the dialect work in Task is crazy good

It is so scummy that Fetterman turned off his voicemail months ago

“Do not let familiarity dull your outrage” man you could do eye surgery with my outrage, we’re good on outrage

pov: you are on probation

Anyway I'd like to propose a new and improved version of the Basilisk: what would an aligned AI think of people who helped create a world where the average person thinks of AI as a technology which talks people into killing themselves?

Ring any bells for anyone?

good job everybody, night night

Sliwa watch party is just him explaining to the cats that they’re always winners

pat dugan f’d around

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I traveled around the world with this ape in my pocket. We ran everything. We paid off cops. We paid off lawyers. We paid off judges. Everybody had their hands out. Everything was for the taking. And now it's all over.

Thousands more photos from the CCAS delegations are available in UCSD Library's Digital Collections @ucsandiego.bsky.social library.ucsd.edu/dc/collectio...

Is this book any good? Are there any Deleuzian Chinese religion heads from the 1980s on here? Book cover kind of looks like an early 1990s punk album cover...

good voter turnout at South Philly High as of a half-hour ago; AFAICT the only potential R voter was the Sowffluffya-native auntie I heard complaining "this is HARD, I don't know ANY of these people" from inside the booth

When we founded Contingent, we wanted to be a history magazine that didn't just publish "relevant" history that was responding directly to the news, because that often meant a narrow vision of history . . . but it was okay because in 2019, other outlets were publishing historians more. And now?

gonna retire to the countryside and open up a little pub called The Motte & Bailey

the dsa international committee has endorsed andrew cuomo

I do not care for the noises they make

dreaming of atrocities all day long but too fucked-up on unprocessed cough medication to lift a paw

She's known for writing on politically significant events incl the 2009 play May 35th - euphemism for the 1989 June 4 Tiananmen crackdown. Ironically before HK's recent social movements & subsequently tightening political situation, Chong was once referred to (in 2013) as "A Playwright for Our Time"

POSTER: In my post I invented the Don’t Misunderstand the Torment Nexus Metaphor as a cautionary tale CTO: At long last, I have misunderstood the Torment Nexus Metaphor from the classic post Don't Misunderstand The Torment Nexus Metaphor

My tsundoku 積ん読 to be read book pile costume was originally crowned with a nightstand reading lamp on my head, but it toppled over… #halloween

The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore brought kittens in to view their exhibition on cats in medieval manuscripts. www.instagram.com/thewaltersar...

Regrets -- he's had a few / But then again, too few to mention. / He did what he had to do / And saw it through / Without exemption.

These are the Chinese paintings currently on view at Salm Palace. I am told there will be changes in 3 and again in 6 months. Wen Zhengming (attr.), Baoshan Island, Vm 5950 ng.bach.cz/ng_vade/perm...

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

Classical Chinese for This Shit: 天既訖我殷命，假人元龜，無敢知吉...今我民罔不欲喪，曰『天曷不降威，大命胡不至』？ Heaven has revoked its Mandate. No diviner dares read good omens in the plastrons...There is not one commoner who doesn't long for your ruin. They say "Why doesn't Heaven send down its might? Why hasn't its Mandate come?"

People complain about the passive voice, often when there's no passive construction in sight, but are somehow okay with this

In 1993 this man got shot in the ass in a drive-by outside my mom's office mere moments after leaving a meeting at a mob-front Greenpeace office at 6th and Catherine; Philadelphia is the greatest city the world has ever known

I know it's on Instagram, but I really can't emphasize enough how much you owe it to yourself to watch this. Bonus points if you can do an IPA transcription.

US Century of Humiliation Update: Only 99.25 years left to go!

Check out my dope ass pumpkin!!!

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

Mareschal

Hope the local IV drug enthusiasts have fun shooting up the two cases of cat food they stole off my stoop

One of the things that I’ve been forced to face and take the loss on is that all of the people who critiqued Bernie for his dismissive stances on identity politics were largely correct. This is a very bad response from a guy who should know better.

My latest publication is now online. "Literary Virtue: A Moral Cornerstone of Chinese Literary Theory." In this essay, Zhou Xinglu 周興陸 of Peking University and I explore the history of the concept of literary virtue (wende 文德) across 2000 years. #Sinology🀄️📚 read.dukeupress.edu/jclc/article... 1/3

i love drama

putting "excellence in hating" on my cv

Oh, to be a Palace Museum (Beijing) cat

I enjoyed 'The Departed' but it never really made a case for why it should exist in a world that already had 'Infernal Affairs.' 'Highest 2 Lowest' stands up well against 'High and Low,' and all its differences from the original feel well-chosen.