Tang literary historians in my timeline, do we have a reference translation of Han Yu's〈送孟東野序〉? (for citation purposes 🙏)

Great review from @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

as far as I can tell this is true of all of them, including Philadelphia (1993)

Has anybody used Hyvor Talk? I'm nearly done migrating my site to Astro/Buttondown and god help me but I am seriously considering paying for blog comments.

is it time for llm discourse again

"First he embraced her with his armes, and took her by the hande, putt a ring upon her finger and layde his hande upon her harte, and held his hands towards heaven; and to show his continuance to dwell with her to his lyves ende he did it by closing of his eyes with his hands…”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Two dozen Buddhist monks walking for peace have traversed 2,300 miles in 120 days. Today they are offering events in Washington DC. Will you, won't you, will you join their simple message ? [ dhammacetiya.com/walk-for-pea... ] #walkforpeace #wellness #peace

they should really invent an MLIS degree that isn’t an overpriced credentialing scam targeting anatomically adult readers of YA fiction

Programming note: I am staying on top of this (I don’t really have an excuse, it’s almost in my geographic backyard) and I just want to note how shocking it is how much this small Ohio city of Springfield is being terrorized right now and Trump’s ICE invasion hasn’t even landed yet

store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/... Oeuf demo released! Enjoy! #OeufGame

losing it at this extra-quizzical Japanese 豈

Shuge.org now seems to be storing all their woodblock scans on Baidu and Alibaba's file-sharing services, which would suck even if I were currently in the PRC and are borderline unusable outside it

Digital Philology Vol. 14, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56242 #openaccess @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social Unlikening Translation: Words, Sounds, Events, Things @lauramorreale.bsky.social @byzcapp.bsky.social @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy

Just launched: Open Datasets For Medieval Studies, a new annual installment in Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures (Johns Hopkins Press) wherein scholars peer review research datasets. Section co-edited by @lauramorreale.bsky.social @jwtorg.bsky.social & me. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56242.

Shout-out to SEPTA: never thought an hour-long Amtrak delay out of 30th Street could be a nail-bitingly suspenseful experience, but the unreported delay on the El made it happen, and that last-minute twist of running the train on the wrong track without announcing it was sheer art

me, having an oracular vision: so what if capital was like, one guy. and that one guy was, like, a pedophile, and he was also patriarchy. he runs harvard and the trilateral commission. he gave bill gates the clap the two stoned dudes sitting on my couch with me: bro why are you like this

free them all

Just back from an early screening of 'Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die,' which is a lot of fun, has some really outstanding moments (especially in the first two acts), and ends a few minutes after it should

Disappointed to hear there won’t be tote bags at #AAS2026, but this is an opportunity for somebody to print up some bags reading 此袋無銀三百兩 This Tote Bag Is Raising Questions Already Answered By This Tote Bag

lol okay Lao Tzu

The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives

MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.

time for me to get mad at Robert Hegel's grad students' translation of 豆棚閒話 again; how's everyone else's morning going

Because I haven't found it anywhere else online, here's Hoban's "The Dragon underneath the Mat." Sometimes I hum a dragon song.

"Riddley Walkers ben to show Riddley Walkers on the go Dont go Riddley Walkers track Drop Johns ryding on his back Stil I wunt have no other track." Happy birthday Russell Hoban.

my dad sent me a chinese "listeners calling in with ghost stories" channel & it's crazy fjfhdjfhfhhf www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOlU...

I’m doing Du Fu’s 秋日阮隱居致薤三十束 and can’t think of a way of handling 關鬲冷 in the penultimate line that doesn’t sound like ass. (Owen has “my viscera are cold,” so at least I’ve got company.) Any ideas?

I hope they make a billion dollars

@thomasgermain.bsky.social Are you aware that Google Books has effectively stopped working - the material is still there, but all search functions no longer seem to work, making fresh access impossible. Can't find any reportage on this but it seems a major story with huge implications..

I saw this charming montage of Naomi Osaka gently removing a butterfly that had landed on her face during a match but instead of simply appreciating what a lovely moment it was, my internet-poisoned brain whipsered "is this loss"

gazing longingly at the timeline where they clapped

I'm reading these notes on the art of translation and I'm just going YES THIS! So I'm sharing for everyone else.

ⓘ The screenshotted poster is approximately 1,165 miles away from Minneapolis

From those who live like leeches on the people's lives, We must take back our land again, America! O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath— America will be! -Langston Hughes, from ‘Let America Be America Again’ (1935) #everynightapoem

jesus christ that's foreboding

just checking in to make sure we’re all aware of Byron’s “Song for the Luddites”

PBS will tell the story of Sun Ra and his Philly-based musical collective in an upcoming episode of 'American Masters'

This is an important new work. Alex Wang has closely followed China’s trajectory from environmental scofflaw / backslider to emergent, if still problematic, clean-energy superpower

You: you're just making up a guy to be mad at Me: it's called writing a philosophical dialogue. Look it up, Simplicio

The National Diet Library is exploring the possibility of extending its Digitized Transmission Service for Individuals (DCTI) to those residing outside of Japan. To understand potential demand, the NDL and CULCON have created a survey. Deadline for responses 3/31! forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

If you have ever struggled to get digital copies of research material from the NDL while NOT in Japan, this is the survey you want to participate in! ⬇️

when kalpa ashes (劫灰) blow; when phil connors emerges purified from the cold naraka of large ground rodents (土鼠地獄)

There's another by 梁孫傑 just published in Taiwan that mixes... Mandarin, Taiwanese, Hakka, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and various indigenous languages ! It won the Golden Tripod award in the translation category last year. www.worldjournal.com/wj/story/124...

NP-final adjectives (parenthesized)

“the fox noms many little things, but the hedgehog noms one big thing”

#HappyHedgehogDay !!! 🦔 Check out this little guy!! A small model of a hedgehog that is about 4,500 years old! from Chalandriani, Syros, Greece. Early Cycladic II period (2800-2300 BCE). National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece. 📷 My own.

this is certainly a point (complimentary)

We've been saying this for nearly a year - since over 1,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grants were summarily terminated in April 2025, affecting every cultural corner of the United States (and then the same for most of our jobs as civil servants). #NEH

("calling good things bad" - sloppy!)

The Lyingbeest lives in the southwest, has a rabbit's body, a human face, and the ability to speak, and is constantly saying 'east' when the answer is 'west,' or calling bad things good. Its meat is delicious, but if you eat it you'll start lying too: 西南荒中出訛獸，其狀若菟，人面能言，常欺人，言東而西，言惡而善。其肉美，食之，言不真矣。