I thought I could finish The Big Report today, but it turned out that I could not. Tomorrow is another day.

this guy (Salimbene di Adam)'s father is trying to get his son to quit the monastery and refers to the other monks there as "pissintunici", tunic-pissers 😭

surely the anonymous authors of the historia augusta were partisan hacks with an axe to grind, but also...

I want to stab my eyes out.

Is the SD card… uhm… Mario’s dick?

Thomas Olander gives his inaugural lecture as full professor of Indo-European Studies at the University of Copenhagen: Historien i sproget.

Sorry, I just realised the syntax of this sentence is a bit wonky. But in case it's not contextually clear I have not been staying in a room of a student house in Leiden while stuck in the summer of 2009 for the last 16 years.

In other news I have apparently been friends with a chicken that lived in the courtyard of a student house in Leiden I was staying at during the summer of 2009 for 16 years now.

It’d be real nice if my feed wasn’t currently filled with people posting Totenköpfe over and over.

Okay, this is pretty cool.

Δράκετε τὴν παντελέα μονάδα.

Finally some mainstream pushback from the 'is sharp-eared' etymology.

8YO: [in the backseat] dad can you turn it down ME: [kindly but firmly] this is Tool, son

I hope I'm still alive in 30 years to see how my colleagues in the history department will teach in undergrad survey courses how the response of a sitting US president to a popular protest movement was to post AI slop of himself dumping faeces on protestors from an F/A-18 Hornet.

There is something quite wrong with this Metro Station.

Taking the stairs to save energy, but also triggering all of the motion-sensor enabled lights on every single floor as I move down the open-plan office building. 😔

That poor ASL translator, I hope they got paid really well for this.

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Rammstein is so thematically jarring as a band. On one hand you have beautiful power ballads like ‘Ohne dich’ or a surprisingly nuanced meditation on 21st century German identity with a song like ‘Deutschland’, and then without missing a beat the next song will be something called ‘Dicke Titten’.

I got this little idea in my head today and I'm not sure if I can let it go... What if we started a Canadian Association for Indo-European Studies?

Sanskrit manuscripts have these abbreviations in the margin referring to texts - anyone aware if there is a complete list of the standard abbreviations?

Sometimes I really hate the English language.

Got the latest Perturbator album in my hands with featured guest artists Ulver and Alcest and trying to explain this to myself twenty years ago in terms other than 'this rules you should listen to it now'.

Academic articles can be written in a popular science writing style

I am really into leather(-bound grammar books).

Thanks to those who replied. I guess '(advertising) flyer' does, in fact, seem a pretty neutral term for this generally and it's not a weird Canadian regionalism I have. I have now informed my Danish colleagues that they can use that word.

Quick question on behalf of my friends in the language psychology subsection of the department: In your variety of English what would you call these glossy commercial sales pamplets that inform on weekly deals that are typically stuffed into your mailbox every week?

this is a t-shirt design I submitted to the university of alberta history and classics graduate student association a decade and a half ago that they never made because they were cowards.

nobody ever writes that dark academia novel about giving oneself a coffee and alcohol induced stomach ulcer from burnout over writing an ERC consolidator grant that never got funded.

Can’t prove a counterfactual but I do sometimes wonder where we’d be if they had just stuck with “these fuckers are weird as hell” for like a few more weeks

Saw your dad last night, he was at the

I have a suuuuuuuper niche question about tense usage in Ancient Greek lexicography who do I know who might know stuff about this???? All pointers and bibliography suggestions greatly received!!! #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

Love working in a discipline where lunchtime conversation seamlessly transitions from why does this etymology not work (unless you assume this one scholar's weird ad hoc sound law) to an alternative that involves grazing, to having to go find out how efficiently do cows graze in snow, actually?

Maybe it was a happy ending for Johnny Silverhand.

I finished Cyberpunk 2077. The Sun ending. I'm not crying. You're crying.

this implies the existence of a Yaoi Gagarin

Just another totally normal day at the office struggling to write this report.

Apollo has entered the chat.

The administration is aware of black bloc tactics, was vaguely aware of clown bloc tactics, but was completely unprepared for the advent of Animal Crossing bloc tactics.

The administration is aware of black bloc tactics, was vaguely aware of clown bloc tactics, but was completely unprepared for the advent of Animal Crossing bloc tactics.

‘The message is clear: 20th-century colonialism created the conditions for a 21st-century tragedy.’ @josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

tories have this duality where they will thunder about humanities degrees being rip-off waste of time but will tell starry-eyed how you Boris Johnson is a genius because he memorised the first six lines of the Iliad in Greek, which you can in fact do without even knowing Greek

Interesting new, open access article in Greece & Rome blends epigraphy, poetry on stone (Greek epigrams), and tracing ethnicity: “Dying Greek in Rome: Greek Funerary Epigrams from Imperial Rome” www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I love this: ‘κάλλος δ’ αὖ μετὰ μοῖραν Ἀμαζόνος ἔσχεν ἄπιστον’

Finally broke iOS by putting Luwian Hieroglyphs in my profile name.

I don't like John Wick because he dethroned Star Trek's Worf as the most famous fictional Belarusian (let's face it, do you know many others)

I remember people used to talk shit about Wolves in the Throne Room for being American hipster black metal, but god damn Diadem of 12 Stars has held up better than most of the shit people have nostalgia for from the 1990s.

in the future due to internet shortages everyone will have to palimpsest old posts to make new ones, and 2000 years from now we will have academics who are super excited about finding part of a lost dril tweet or a hitherto undiscovered alf hog reference underneath an argument on moderation policy

It would be nice if I could take a holiday instead of organising an international move and writing this final report. I would like that a lot.

If you remember last autumn when I was live-skeeting excavations at Rossano di Vaglio, the first report of that work has just been published (in Italian). Happy for it to see the light of day, and also very pleased to present five new Oscan inscriptions to the world... 🏺 #ArchaeologyBluesky