Juan Acevedo

Now that I can read some Ge'ez and have serviceable purchase on the basics, I wanna also be able to say 'hey' to my neighbors who are actually alive and don't speak a liturgical langauge.

Amharic textbooks, friends? (Yes, I know, quite different, but go with it.)

I'm not dancing around the issue this time: Amazon might be "important" for "exposure" but please do not order my books from them. Please choose @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social, Blackwell's or your local indie instead.

Amazon are no friend to authors. And never will be.

Who do I know on here who speaks Swahili?

Marvellous “Properties” 2: Philosophy Now that we have concluded our reading of Ibn al-Jazzār’s Risāla fī’l-khawāss , the Epistle on Special Properties , let us see how it touche...

“The chain of authorities is not hearsay and not mere bibliography, it is as if we ourselves had seen the fever abate under the crocodile's fang, and memories return under the hoopoe’s tongue”—new post!
tinyurl.com/kpknekpn @isisjournal.bsky.social
@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social #histsci #philsci

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in

The vast gap between the calories #Gaza needs, and the food that has entered since March makes clear that lsraeli officials are doing different maths today. They cannot pass responsibility for this human-made famine to anyone else, and nor can their allies
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Image of exhibition case and contents for the 'Sing Joyfully' exhibition.

Today, we proudly opened our exhibition, Sing Joyfully: Exploring Music in Lambeth Palace Library, to the public! 🎉

👉 Learn more on our Sing Joyfully homepage: www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/sing-joyfully/

#SingJoyfully #LambethPalaceLibrary

Seminar on Transkribus and other HTR tools for Masters and PhD students (mostly)! Languages: Latin (Carolingian/Late Medieval) Medieval Czech, Early Modern German, Byzantine Greek, Syriac and Medieval Hebrew

guardian newspaper clip on Palestine Action ban

And also: Palestine inaction (i.e. @10dowingstreet.bsky.social @ukparliament.parliament.uk) is an abuse of power!

People empower government :: gov't ignores people to support genocide :: ergo, abuse of power.
#Gaza

No EU Business with War Criminals Urgent action needed: Children in Gaza are being deliberately starved. Call on the EU to suspend its trade deal with Israel, stop arms exports, and sanction perpetrators of human rights crimes.

👉 Join the fight. Speak up. Demand an end to EU complicity in genocide. go.wemove.eu/NoDealWithWa...

Not Gaza 2025, but Jaffa 1948, after the Nakba

The Manshiya quarter of Jaffa was destroyed in a series of bombardments led by the Irgun during the 1948 Nakba in order to drive out its Palestinians inhabitants

#ThisDidntBeginonOct7 #HistoryRepeating

Actually I can remember some really nice editions where footnotes and endnotes are combined to great visual and practical effect: footnotes for comments and such, and endnotes strictly for biblio refs (i.e. the sort of note you will mostly not need to read immediately as you go through the text)

In my humble and authoritative opinion, endnotes are vestigial, a typographic fossil, from when managing footnotes implied enormous labour and disruption. Nowadays with digital #typesetting, the only explanation I find for preferring endnotes is some perverse form of #biblio-masochism

Our Médecins Sans Frontières staff are being killed in Gaza. Why are UK ministers enabling that? | Natalie Roberts Britain has a duty to act morally, and stop supporting this genocide, says Médecins Sans Frontières UK executive director Dr Natalie Roberts

"We can only conclude that the UK government just does not want to admit what everybody else can see: that genocide is being committed in #Gaza, … with the military, diplomatic & material support of the UK." @10dowingstreet.bsky.social @ukparliament.parliament.uk
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The markets are signalling a clear winner in the Middle East Israel’s stunning stock rally suggests the country is cementing its status as the regional economic superpower

Who said that cruelty does not pay? "Since the October 7 2023 attacks on Israel, the best-performing major stock market in the world is . . . Israel." www.ft.com/content/78b2...

Uncatalogued Arabic manuscript from West Africa — a fragmented. Loose leaves, varying paper sizes. Topics include mathematics, astrology, talismans, magic, divination, and treatises. I am looking for assistance with describing this manuscript, if interested, please DM me. Thanks

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

The BDS movement turns 20. It’s an essential pillar of Palestinian freedom | Omar Barghouti The BDS movement is today a pillar in the struggle for Palestinian freedom, justice and equality

"to normalize the fundamentally abnormal and to numb our consciences with its relentless savagery." #Gaza @publico.pt
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft Microsoft faces growing rejection in Europe whereas open source software sees growing adaption.

Why is @erc.europa.eu
so reliant on #proprietary #software when quality #opensource options exist? If it's public money for #OpenAccess it should be #publiccode
@fsfe.org
publiccode.eu/en/
@opensource.org
@libreoffice.bsky.social @itsfoss.bsky.social

Job: Full professor in Science & Technology Studies at the University of Vienna. Deadline for applications is 17th September 2025. Contact Max Fochler or Sarah Davies (head and deputy head of the department) with enquiries about the role. #STS #HPS
berufungsservice.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us...

09 - Educational Program SYNOPSIS ​Over the past 15 years, numerous researchers have contributed to advancing knowledge in the fields of history and philosophy of science at the Department…

A little video about courses in #HistSci and #PhilSci at @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social
vimeo.com/1084967751
#Lisbon #masters #PhD #Lisboa

Detail of a latitude plate of a medieval astrolabe at Merton College Oxford, showing the numbering of the almucantar lines in Roman numerals, with an unusual abbreviation for 40.

Paging #medieval #palaeography for an unfamiliar abbreviation of XL on an astrolabe at Merton College Oxford. Does this ring any bells in terms of date or place for @sebfalk.com or @eleonoraandriani.bsky.social? Or anyone else you can think of? (There’s nothing obvious in Cappelli online.)
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Palestine Action spraying paint is not terrorism. As ministers abuse their powers, I feel a duty to speak out | Juliet Stevenson We have laws to deal with crimes linked to protest. What this is really about is ministers complicit in the Gaza atrocities seeking to silence dissent, says actor Juliet Stevenson

what a powerful, clear condemnation of the spineless slippery crowd @10dowingstreet.bsky.social and @ukparliament.parliament.uk
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
and by extension @ec.europa.eu

Nesta 2ª-feira vamos fazer uma homenagem ao Prof. Adel Sidarus, grande promotor dos estudos de #árabe e religiões comparadas em #Portugal. Vai ser um obrigado e um voto de continuação do trabalho do Adel—apareçam!
www.bnportugal.gov.pt/index.php?op...
#manuscritos #islão #Coptic

Deadly Israeli-US supply distribution scheme in Gaza must be dismantled and siege lifted | MSF MSF teams are treating people who suffered life-threatening injuries during disastrous food distributions in Gaza.

www.msf.org/deadly-israe...
And alas the deafening, maddening, spineless silence of European leaders. What sense of betrayal and impotence for citizens in the #EU
#Gaza @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu @press.consilium.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu @theguardian.com

Instrument catalogued as "Fake? Astrological Astrolabe" at https://hsm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/hsm-catalogue-2078

Unlocking one promptly led me to another, again in the Oxford collection – though this is one whose authenticity has been questioned (it's certainly much later than everything else I covered), and definitely in need of more research.
But if you spot any more devices like these, do let me know!
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European alternatives for popular services | European Alternatives We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

Ihr wollt Trump und seine Techbros nicht mehr unterstützen? Ihr sucht #europäischeAlternativen zu Amazon (Bezos), Twitter (Musk), WhatsApp (Zuckerberg), uvm? Bitte sehr:

In a totally expected development, #Netanyahu started bombing London this morning, and he cut the water supply to Berlin and Munich—because.
#Starmer and #Merz have been quick to emphasize that #Israel has a right to defend itself 💪phew!
Keep tuned, more bombs coming!
#Gaza

ODF logo

Who uses Open Document Format, the native format of #LibreOffice? Well, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK and Uruguay for starters: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06...

Corner of a frame with the unnamed gimmicks in question

Hey picture-framing Bluesky, does anyone know what these pivoting whatsits (to hold the backing board in place) are called?

thinking about #AI
“On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots” dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
see also thecon.ai
thanks @emilymbender.bsky.social