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There are people who aren't going to like to hear this, but if a somewhat charismatic DSA guy can casually talk to one of the worst human beings on earth about their beliefs and why they're important in a normal way, we can talk to median voters that way too! They are not going to educate themselves

“Our wise President has correctly labeled this reporter as a ‘Piggy’, because of her stubborn refusal to accept that America should be propitiating the Beast with our sacrifices — and the fact she even questioned whether the Beast exists at all. Which, of course, is blasphemy punishable by death.”

the Appalachian mountains are so ancient they predate the evolution of bones.

private equity buys a company and immediately starts torturing their employees and the money

It’s fascinating to wonder how it’d go over if armed thugs tried to stop Da Pope from entering an ICE facility.

I look forward to tearing apart their version of spoken Egyptian.

Chancellor Hails A.I. at Library Closure Ceremony

As the ẓ is the ejective from the interdental series, it was proto-Semitic *(t)θ’. However in Ugaritic it alternates with ɣ in specific roots so it could have shifted to a more dorsal realization. @olawikander.bsky.social would know more than I do about this phonological puzzle though.

*sipru θ’illīma, I would think. The root of ẓlm is ẓ-l-l and we can reconstruct a vocalization of the stem as ẓill- “shade”. The -m is mimation and, since this is in the oblique plural, the suffix is -īma (nom. -ūma)

Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out

Now that Godwin’s Law is dead and buried, I propose a law that whenever you appeal to an LLM chatbot, the debate is over and you automatically lose.

h/t to @tacachale.bsky.social for the link

3. You Can Leave Your Hat On
(hot as hell)

2. The Natural from “The Natural”
(rhythmic synth pulse and you can think about baseball)

1. Mama Told Me Not to Come (can’t believe they missed this one)

7. How to Love a Woman from “Cop Rock”
(classic Motown with all the right moves)

6. She Chose Me from “Cop Rock” (one of his loveliest songs sung as a total non sequitur in the pilot of this mostly terrible show)

5. Marie
(my favorite of his romantic ballads)

4. Naked Man
(of course)

The Five Best Randy Newman Songs To Fuck To Everyone appreciates Randy Newman’s signature voice as it conveys sardonic song lyrics set to classically arranged pop and folk music, but did you know his music is also great to fuck to? That’s right...

Good list but here’s…

Doug’s Top 10 Randy Newman Songs for Getting It On

10. Pants
(gotta get things started one leg at a time)

9. I Could Love a Million Girls
(just put on the whole Ragtime soundtrack, really)

8. Bumpty Bumpty from “Cop Rock” (exactly what it sounds like — atop a cop car)
1/3

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.

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The historic architecture of Ethiopia and Eritrea: a complete overview The modern countries of Ethiopia and Eritrea are home to some of the best-known historic architectural monuments in Africa.

The historic architecture of Ethiopia and Eritrea: a complete overview

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*I mean, his Sûza-Adûni name

Of course, it was a translation from his actual Shire-Westron name of Maura Labingi, the nephew of Bilba of Labin-neg who journeyed to Mordor with his faithful friend Banazîr Galbasi alongside Kalimac Brandagamba (Kali for short) and the foolish Razanur Tûk.

Adam Scott meets the Chicago Pope

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

Bedouin varieties generally have *q > g or dž~dz and *k > k or č~ts, affricates occurring before front vowels.

It is not! Affricated *k > č or ts is emblematic of Bedouin dialects but not those of rural villages. In Central Palestine, ḳ and k were sometimes kept separate, sometimes merged as the two maps show.

True, but qaf has actually attested as a pharyngealized or slightly backed velar in rural Palestinian dialects eg Nazareth and was formerly even more widespread (Bergsträsser, “Sprachatlas von Syrien und Palästina”, 1915)

papyrus drawing of ancient egyptian goddess nut personification of the sky arching her body over gods who are underneath her

the "mumbrella" scene in bluey where chili the mom is doing what seems to be downward dog pose while bluey and bingo shelter under her

Personally, I think the idea that all women should be measured by the failures of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris is actually a sort of sexist doomerism.

@themountaingoats.bsky.social should do a song about a fossil flower from formerly warm Cretaceous Antarctica

With a large enough skeleton army, we can finally defeat Mariah Carey