Ok because I'm basically expected to bring one back home, can anyone recommend a "good*" but not too expensive brand of Baijiu? *In terms of Baijiu taste range

“Thick accumulations of Ukrainian consonants conspire against my tongue and my memory: airless crushes of them, like the compressed folds of a concertina.” Lovely piece on learning Ukrainian in wartime by Charlotte Higgins www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

‘The war leaked into every lesson’: learning Ukrainian in a country under siege

The long read: Soon after my first visit to Ukraine four years ago, I began language lessons. It taught me more than I ever expected

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A Shanghai Seagull (founded 1958, 上海海鸥照相机) 4A 6x6 Medium Format TLR Camera.

This new Syriac language learning platform was launched yesterday by @gkiraz.bsky.social with free open access content to get you started! learnsyriac.com #LearnSyriac #languagelearning #startnow

I am very genuinely enjoying all the responses from people who have not quite grasped what’s going on here

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d ago

chat can anyone verify that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold

Just a gentle reminder that many disabled creators can’t paywall their newsletters without losing their disability benefits. They’re producing content entirely for free. Most Substack alternatives charge creators who don’t paywall, and disabled people can’t afford that. We need better options!

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 2d ago

getting tired of people on the left still launching substack newsletters after all the reporting on that company in recent years

If you’re teaching #Greek, #palaeography, #manuscripts, #textcriticsm etc. this coming year, consider adding my website to your course assignments or resources. It’s free, I don’t collect/sell your info, and it’d be nearly impossible to cheat with AI. See 🧵 for details

Jacob W. Peterson@jacobwpeterson.com · 7mo ago

My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com

The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.

i really think our language could fit one more word for attaching each of someone’s limbs to a different chariot and dismembering them

I am a stockholder of Deli railway company, 1000 gulden! If the firm still existed. Deli was founded in 1883 in Amsterdam, running railway near e-coast of Sumatra. This stock features the signature anti-coun symbol of printer Enschede: music note. Acquired the 1917 stock on book market in Deventer.

The little dictionary I made for the Chhé’ee Fókaa is now up on the Tribe’s website: www.saltpomo.org/our-mission-1

Another data center approved on public lands. This 86-acre Townsite data center is next to Lake Mead, which supplies 90% of the water used by 2.3 million people in Nevada. Not only does it threaten to contaminate the existing water, but will also drain the falling water table that has dropped 160 ft

Jenn@jennburrill.bsky.social · last wk.

🚨 BLM fast tracked putting private data center on public land in Nevada 🚨 Skylar Capital Mgt's 167-megawatt data center approved by the Bureau of Land Mgt in June through an unorthodox procedure avoiding any environmental review or public comment. It's the 1st data center ever on public lands

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

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Longer video on Old Frisian: youtu.be/IROPgZYKgkc

Frisian: Forgotten Sister Language

YouTube video by Jackson Crawford

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I need to cheer someone up. Does anyone have screenshots or a PDF or otherwise un-paywalled version of that article where Richard Dawkins publicly humiliates himself about AI so I can read it to her in a funny voice?

I am also in this faculty and, reader, it shows. UK unis are in their bullshit jobs era now: "In my faculty, six administrators support ten managerial roles at faculty level while another six administrators support departments with their 900 FTE academic staff who teach 10,000 students."

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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„Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world“ (Anthropic).

Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Text mining before the age of LLM training.

アホcalypse

Let me get this straight: From Sweden, via Finnic, come words for the Rus and Russia. The Mongols turn the Russian term into Oros, to avoid initial /r/. Mandarin Chinese gains this as 俄羅斯 (Éluósī), 俄 for short. Then, due to the Vietnamese reading of the character 俄, 'Russia' in Vietnamese is Nga.

Old Frisian is Wikipedia’s article of the day so I thought I would read some of this medieval language from the coast of the Netherlands that is so strikingly close to English. Rolf Bremmer’s Introduction to Old Frisian: amzn.to/4fLHFmm

Our new academies project "Biblia Arabica" @biblia-arabica.com is now on Bluesky! Leave a follow and stay up to date with our research on Jewish and Christian Arabic translations of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. bsky.app/profile/bibl...

Апелляционный суд в Южной Корее оправдал женщину, сделавшую аборт на девятом месяце беременности, но оставил в силе обвинительные приговоры врачам, проводившим операцию. Читать далее: tinyurl.com/2vy8s8mj

I always wondered what it would take for the Telegraph to decide there might be a downside to climate breakdown. Well, now we know. Even so, this article manages not to mention it.

All 1850 MW of Hungary's Paks Nuclear Power Plant (red) could be shut down entirely for 1st time due to insufficient cooling water from Danube River. unn.ua/en/news/an-e... 1/4

Dear Haley Stevens, Please stop using Jews as a political prop in your gross attacks on El Sayed. You are a Protestant. Jews are not a shield for you to say weird and fucked up things about your Michigan-born opponent not being a real Michigander or other anti-Arab and Islamophobic dogwhistles.

@thejrocktv.bsky.social · 6d ago

She knows she’s losing so she said let’s just go mask off.

After a few blogs in Dutch, here's an update on some of my recent research on a sixteenth-century Syriac manuscript - such a fascinating world in which a monk from Cizre (eastern Turkey) considers Roman Catholic connections #43 The Book of the Garden (1583) hlmvandenberg.me/2026/07/30/4...

#43 The Book of the Garden (1583)

Later this week, I’ll be off to the four-yearly conference of Syriac Studies in Bucharest, organized in conjunction with the conference for Christian Arabic Studies. The program is exciting: a grea…

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"Sometimes I deal with numbers... And if you want to count me, count me... out." (Kudos to anyone who knows where this is from without looking up).

Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have a new blogpost online in which I try to wrap my head around the oldest Arabic translation(s) of a homily by Anastasius of Sinai. It also includes a few notes on the Greek, Ethiopic, and Old Church Slavonic transmission contexts of the text. I hope you enjoy it!

The Oldest Arabic Translation(s) of Anastasius of Sinai’s “On the Transfiguration”: Preliminary Observations

1. In my last post, I wrote about the Christian Arabic text “Praise of the Summit of Mount Sinai”. As I was told that, for idiomatic reasons, “Encomium” is probably a better choice than “Praise,” I'll...

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Available for free download through Aug. 3rd -- Phillip W. Stokes's "The Linguistic Nature of Early Christian Arabic Literature," in the Cambridge Elements series. #Classics #AncientBlueSky www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The Linguistic Nature of Early Christian Arabic Literature

Cambridge Core - History of Religion - The Linguistic Nature of Early Christian Arabic Literature

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Hovhannes Ghevenian, an Armenian baker born in eastern Anatolia in 1888, once served the Romanov house as a court baker. During his later career in Tokyo, where he was known as Ivan Sagoyan, he invented melonpan, the Japanese sweet bun that resembles a melon.

Melonpan: The Japan Sweet Bread's Armenian History - Unseen Japan

Melonpan, the beloved sweet bread, was the creation of one Armenian man who made Japan his home. This is his - and his diaspora's - story.

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