Alpaka Alex

I did an autistic thing. I overate on vegetables so much that I gave myself a light Vitamine A poisoning. How is that for picky eating? 😭

Anaris is currently one of my white whales. Together with Imshael.

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage.

I learned a lot.

Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

You really are the best. Also love that you kept so positive about Veilguard, by the way. As a trans person for whom this game is so far the only AAA game that made me feel represented, the general negativity about it eats at me so much. So your voice is such a positive change.

I love your videos. They were a great help on a lot of fanfic research!

The weird thing is that it does not even surprise me.

I fell back into BG3. It is one of the best games, I guess. And I love my bunch of idiots.

The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus (pen) one below the other, with knib to the left. This stylus is octagonal in shape, with an inscription dot-punched along its length on four alternate sides. The stylus is 132 mm long and 5 mm thick, and the letters are circa 2 mm high. The four images of the pen show the four lines of inscribed text (highlighted) which read: ‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m) rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’ Translated as ‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ This inscription is generally interpreted by scholars as a humorous, tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment by the giver of the cheapness of the gift. The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman ‘Londinium’) by MOLA, during excavations for Bloomberg’s European Headquarters in 2010–2014 . Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain for MOLA

Timeless humour!

A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:

“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂

Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

#Archaeology

I am currently having an autoimmune flareup. And honestly, one of the worst things about it is, when everyday the people who care for me ask: "How are you doing today?" And they expect me to say: "Better." But I am not better yet. I am feeling miserable, and just wanna curl up.

t.A.T.u.’s music is an unlikely thread of queer resistance at Olympic Games Even though t.A.T.u. themselves were not actually lesbians, their songs have been claimed by the queer community and become anthems of joy and resistance.

I did a deep dive of t.A.T.u.’s music & its connections to the Winter Olympics, from Sochi to Milano Cortina, & the connections that music has to anti-LGBTQ+ resistance at the Games & in the host countries.

Decolonising the Discipline: Forced migration, refuge and inclusion in schools, universities and libraries

As part of #UniversityRefugeeWeek @decolthediscipline.bsky.social are hosting a webinar on fostering inclusion and social justice for people seeking sanctuary in libraries, schools and universities

📅2 March 🕞3.30-5pm 💻Online

Be inspired and learn what you can do!

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So much of the discourse on AI is tiring. Like, from the perspective as someone who works in research related to that stuff.

Something I talked about with a friend yesterday was how much a lot of it just feels like them flodding the internet with bad conspiracies that were just far enough removed from the truth, that whenever someone brought up the actual shit going on, they could be accused of the bad conspiracy stuff.

What I hate so much about the entire Epstein stuff is that it literally feels like one of those kinda meh thrillers they sell at airports.

the ninja turtles and the power rangers putting aside their differences and teaming up

lent and ramadan kicking off on the same day

Well, there technically also is Harry Potter, which is not a Musical, but just a very bad stage play based on the property of one of the worst people alive, also featuring a bunch of pro-eugenics massaging in the narrative of the stage play. Which is always very fun /s

Elidibus, I don't think the chains should be used for.. actually you know what? go crazy :)c

I was never spanked by my mother, but always punished. My aunt spanked me. I never forgave either of them and resented them till they died.

All punishment taught me as a child was to hide my mistakes better.

The internet.

I tend to always say, that people overdramatize the idea of media literacy being dead. And then you come across a take that is so bad, and you look at the media, and at the take, and go like: "The soundtrack was Green Day. This was the opposite of subtle! How?!"

I would argue that actually the one religion not dismantled is the Qun - mostly because the Qun makes very little in terms of paranormal claims.

(Though I am very sad that we go so little information for any of the non-Andrastian human religions.)

There is this one food fact, that I forget a lot of people do not realize: in baking you can generally use some mayonnaise instead of eggs, as mayonnaise is mostly made of eggs and oil.

People are always surprise at mayonnaise cake recipes xD

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Aaaaaah, I feel this so much.

Soy is a bean from hell. It evolved to kill me. 😭

Over the last couple days I suddenly started growing a beard. Like, it is still very spotty, but I have a chin beard.

Which means, that glory me: I have the genetics of the one grandparent in whose family there was a beard. As my family has generally terrible beard genetics.

Japanese Academic literature is fine as well. I just really have no idea where to start - and I have been mulling this question over for a good half year now.

really goes into a lot of theming around food. Both in regards of themes being focused on the idea of "eat or be eaten", but also food as symbolism for culture and belonging. And this theming feels like it is more common now. Is there any academic analysis on this? Any idea where I could start? /

I am mostly looking for a place to start. I know that Japan for all my life had a lot of food content. When I switched on Japanese TV, there was a certainty that some food review or cooking show was running somewhere.

But in the last couple of years I noticed that a lot of fictional media /

@zackdavisson.com You do know a lot about Japanese media, right? I am trying to research a specific topic, and honestly am not sure where to start, so I was wondering, if I could ask you about something in that regard.

Technically André's mother is still around, but she is mentally not very well, and because of this struggles to actually even understand. And Thel did not talk to his parents in years, due to their abusiveness. (His mother tried to have him killed, so I think that is fair.)