kobayashi ḫamṭu

i really have a problem

i read this to the tune of "nobody doesn't like Sara Lee"

This helps them in advance the general project to roll back civil rights without seeming to do so. The associated Islamophobic concepts "Judeo-Christian civilization" and the idea of Israel's "dangerous neighborhood" give this defense of whiteness a world-historical, missionary significance. 2/3

I’m going to be a lot more active on this platform. If you know me from the other place, hello! Could you please give this a share to help me find my people.

Pic unrelated - but me on a run along the Rhône and Saône in Lyon! 💕

I have lost count of the people I speak with who have been injured trying to get aid- it’s over a dozen for sure

CITY SCAFFOLD: A sonnet of no fixed rhyme scheme, composed in iambic trimeter. Each line has exactly 14 letters. The poem's Ts are arranged such that they form a symmetrical, X-shaped scaffold.

Suggests that much of the Democratic Party is a Potemkin village built to make an impression of politics while siphoning cash: "An examination of the money flowing through the Mothership network reveals a system designed not for political impact, but for enriching the consultants who operate it."

*hooking up with a medievalist*

so do you want to be the recto or the verso

but also they can consent to get married if the right older man comes along

The Spanish word for 'film' is 'película'.

As different as they are, these words derive from the same Proto-Indo-European root.

They originally only meant "thin layer" but they came to denote film tapes as well when these were invented.

My new graphics shows more words belonging to this family:

i guess this means they de facto are one

they want to be a protected minority group

yes i think he's just making the point that because he has personal subjective experiences, it's a "real" death

The fame I want is the kind where they give a native Latinization to your name and an Arabic one too

spongebob contemplating his famous square pants

awīliš iwwi
ilbaš libšam
kīma muti ibašši

"He turned into a gentleman,
he put on clothes,
like a man he became."

(Old Babylonian Gilgamesh, tablet II, col. iii, 25-27)

the thing i had in mind was the citation actually! "427" for verses "4 to 7". but let me see what this was in reference to (can't tell much from this picture), i will dig the book up tomorrow

stuff like that reminds me of this marginalia in a book i bought used:

"Diomedes, from his head & shoulders an unextinguishable fire arose. Iliad 5.427"

maybe you can figure out what went wrong here

YouTube video by Confused Sophie Arrested Development - Gothic Castle Confusion

youtu.be/oQ8RSz5S5NU?...

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".

(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

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You Know More Finnish Than You Think Linguistics illuminates the linguistically obscure – or so I’ve always thought. It’s a common theme of my online output that a little bit of historical linguistics goes a long way, maki…

I've strayed into another language family, and made Finnish the subject of this month's post. Under the surface though, it's a piece about prehistoric languages, and how millennia-long linguistic contact can make foreign languages seem more familiar.
dannybate.com/2025/08/03/y...

Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.

Gaza is much more than a “humanitarian catastrophe.” It is a turning point that lays bare the full range and cruel depths of the contemporary world’s contradictions and the long discrediting of the West’s commitment to the very norms it helped develop after World War II.

the impulse to write out verb paradigms is an ancient one, apparently

Amplifying this! This campaign for a Palestinian student from Gaza has reached half its goal!

On the Old Babylonian Understanding of Grammar: A Reexamination of OBGT VI-X On the Old Babylonian Understanding of Grammar: A Reexamination of OBGT VI-X

some nerds in Mesopotamia were definitely contemplating the differences between Akkadian and Sumerian
www.academia.edu/52597509/On_...

3K+ years ago, some nerd in Ugarit was probably sitting down eating pomegranate or drinking wine while contemplating the differences between Ugaritic and Akkadian or figuring how to say something in Anatolian IE. Some things just never change.

Aerial photo of the destruction of Gaza City by Heidi Levine

This photo of Gaza City had to be illicitly taken during a Jordanian food drop because Israel has threatened to cancel drops of any photos are taken.

it's weird how buscar means both suchen and holen

"Agamemnon", "megamansion" from *meǵh₂-: "big" and *men-: "to stay"

"Agatha" and "magnify" both compounds of *m̥ǵh₂-: "big, great" and dʰh₁₁-: "do"

*m̥g -> ag, mag
*dʰ -> th, f