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YouTube video by There I Ruined It You’re not having a stroke.

youtube.com/shorts/0gtTd... this conversation condensed to 30 seconds

Unfortunately they kept the parts with the scapegoat

Btw did everyone already know that sign language can also exhibit metathesis?? 'cause nobody told me!!

while i'm at it, gooey cheese (velveeta) is melted cheese with a decoagulant added (usually sodium citrate). you can again do it yourself quite easily.

(fun fact: the same sodium citrate is also used to stop donated blood from coagulating-- blood transfusions are blood-velveeta.)

Fat-tailed geckos, they make the rockin‘ world go ‘round.

An image of a reprinted red initial “D” ([D]um medium . . .) The previous large red initial had been printed in the wrong position and was corrected by painting over in white, which has since flaked away.

A rubric that has been erased with white paint

A section of black text accidentally printed over a red rubric. This also shows that the red and black portions of text were set and printed as separate units.

Every recorded copy contains a series of varying hand-made corrections that seem to have been produced in the print shop itself. Often, these corrections are made using white paint to remove or alter notes. But notes are also scraped away, and or altered in pen, or simply reprinted. 5/8

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

My first thought was that the papyrus equivalent only grew in Arnor or something so they lost access, but the Great Pipe Rolls (not the hobbit weed brand) coexisted with codices, so maybe it’s a genre/audience thing.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, stopped eating and migrated back to the Sargasso.

Diane Duane’s Wizards (as a TV series)

Incipit gestis Rudolphi rangifer tarandus Hwæt, Hrodulf readnosa hrandeor – Næfde þæt nieten unsciende næsðyrlas! Glitenode and gladode godlice nosgrisele. Ða hofberendas mid huscwordum hine gehefigodon; Nolden þa geneatas Hrodulf næftig To gomene hraniscum geador ætsomne. Þa in Cristesmæsseæfne stormigum clommum, Halga Claus þæt gemunde to him maðelode: “Neahfreond nihteage nosubeorhtende! Min hroden hrædwæn gelæd ðu, Hrodulf!” Ða gelufodon hira laddeor þa lyftflogan – Wæs glædnes and gliwdream; hornede sum gegieddode “Hwæt, Hrodulf readnosa hrandeor, Brad springð þin blæd: breme eart þu!”

Rendered literally into modern English: Here begins the deeds of Rudolph, Tundra-Wanderer Lo, Hrodulf the red-nosed reindeer – That beast didn’t have unshiny nostrils! The goodly nose-cartilage glittered and glowed. The hoof-bearers taunted him with proud words; The comrades wouldn’t allow wretched Hrodulf To join the reindeer games. Then, on Christmas Eve bound in storms Santa Claus remembered that, spoke formally to him: “Dear night-sighted friend, nose-bright one! You, Hrodulf, shall lead my adorned rapid-wagon!” Then the sky-flyers praised their lead-deer – There was gladness and music; one of the horned ones sang “Lo, Hrodulf the red-nosed reindeer, Your fame spreads broadly, you are renowned!”

Lo, Hrodulf the red-nosed reindeer –
That beast didn’t have unshiny nostrils!

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in Anglo Saxon meter:
allthingslinguistic.com/post/1359368...

It's midwinter's eve tonight.

If you're quick about it, you can start your timed THE DARK IS RISING read-along before midnight.

(tonight's portion is Chapter 1, 'Midwinter's Eve'. Tomorrow is 'Midwinter Day' and 'The Sign-Seeker'.)

You would think the Ur diaspora would be a bit south of the Babylon one

Game designer: After lots of hard work we’re proud to announce we’ve created the Wheel of Saṃsāra from the ancient Buddhist classic Don’t Get Trapped in the Wheel of Saṃsāra

[Not the Bot] Thank you to @galaxykate.bsky.social for developing Tracery and imaginary_golux's "An Overview of the Foods of the Redwall Abbey Universe" on AO3 which was an invaluable resource in building this bot!

Cat paw print in a red brick wall.

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.

american psycho meme that says "impressive, very nice, now let's see the plural"

Screenshot of a translation of a cuneiform text which reads: Now suddenly you say, "O God, why did you not write?" You are filled with anger at me! They received a third of a mina of gold from him. The house where they purify the silver is not of good repute. They are drunk and silver is stolen.

My favourite part of this ancient Assyrian letter to an ancient Assyrian goldsmith, is the last bit where the writer basically declares that the “house where they purify silver” absolutely does not pass the vibe check.

“They are drunk and silver is stolen”

The Best Fake Books—Made Real At the Grolier Club, in midtown, a collection of imaginary volumes—the play within “Hamlet,” Hemingway’s lost first novel—are bound, scuffed, and shelved.

Also, we had the terrific Reid Byers come up and talk to us yesterday about his imaginary books as a form of reading what you can't actually read. Maine is really a very good place for to be doing bookish things www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

a screen grab of a tweet about ocean spray cranberry jelly: **Buy my BOO-k** Emily J. Edwards…. 1d i should take a moment to remind you that Ocean Spray is actually a cranberry growers collective and by supporting the superlative "goo in a can" name-brand cranberry sauce, you're supporting workers and small farmers oatmeal influencer **Buy my BOO-k** Emily J. Edwards .. 1d: so many reasons to love Superlative Canned Goo this holiday season Lindsey Becker @lcatebecker • 1d Replying to @MsEmilyEdwards Plus, their manufacturing plants are

My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!

At 0300 our patrol made hard contact with the historians

Our Music of Midwinter tour starts next week! Find tix and info on all shows at WindborneSingers.com/concerts
Will we see you there?

A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Black and whote picture of Professor Nabia Abbott sitting at a desk in UChicago's Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (née Oriental Institue), ca. 1960. The desk is stacked with glass plates containing fragments of Arabic papyrus manuscripts. She supports one with her right hand, eyes cast down reading the text. Behind her is a bookshelf containing several large reference books.

This is Nabia Abbott. She was a groundbreaking scholar of Arabic manuscripts, the first woman professor at UChicago's Oriental Institute, and once sent me on a wild goose chase spanning 3 continents. Someday I'll finish my article about her, but until then, see:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/15809...

Autumnal read: Rhyne King's House of the Satrap.

Fascinating dive into the basic building block of the Achaemenid empire, the satraps house, and argues that the imperial system should be viewed as a set of hierarchically structured overlapping houses: the king, his satraps and their subordinates.

4 photos of christopher lee with his cat Renfield

Christopher Lee with his cat, Renfield.

the colophon for the Consensus Press edition of The Tale of Sinuhe

about three years ago a group of almost 100 book collectors started an absurd project: to publish a handmade book, with every decision made democratically. somehow it actually worked?

it is *very* on brand that picked an ancient egyptian travelogue poem as the text