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Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 1d

More importantly though I had no idea Napoleon was familiar with the Fenian cycle??? My mind is blown

Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 1d

I've never been totally satisfied with the explanation for the singular / plural forms of Os. Wiktionary says this (but no cite) - I would like to read this argued more fully

Screenshot of part of the Wiktionary page for the Old English section of the word "os":

"The genitive plural ēsa (attested in ēsa gescot 'the shot of the ēse') and names such as Esegar display i-mutation, despite being a u-stem. This is likely a fossilization from an earlier stage between Proto-West Germanic *ansu and early Old English *ons, in which i-mutation was applied to the attested declined forms due to the word’s archaic meaning, rather than its active usage."

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Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 2d

One of my projects I need to get back to is dining at a restaurant that specializes in cuisine of each Mexican state (without leaving LA county)

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 4d

it's still happening in la, by the way. like not to be that guy. but it increasingly happening elsewhere doesn't mean it stopped here

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Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 4d

Charles I speedrun

George Pearkes @peark.es · 4d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 4d

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Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 4d

This is not commentary or connected to the news or anything. Just a poem that blew me away and now I think about it at least once a month.

Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking again about this poem www.jstor.org/stable/20155...

They Shall Not Pass on JSTOR

Ai, They Shall Not Pass, The Iowa Review, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Winter, 1980), pp. 103-105

www.jstor.org

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Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 9d

And the poor maid who has to clean it!

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Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 10d

incredible concept

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Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 10d

Spiritualism

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Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 12d

Ⱶ is really cute IMO. Like, she's shy

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Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 14d

[insert aśvamedha joke here]

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Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 15d

AU where nothing is different except we kept the Claudian letters

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Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 16d

Scots 🤝 Hittite
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Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 17d

During the first year of Covid I rented an apartment in Berkeley with a view like this out of one window. This brings me back the memory of many weird lonely days that year, brightened for a few minutes by a gorgeous sunset.

betsy cooley @betsycooley.bsky.social · 17d

Sunset last night behind San Francisco Financial District, as seen from Emeryville, California.

#sunset #nature #eastcoastkin

Pink, gray, yellow sunset behind high-rise buildings in San Francisco Financial District. Bay Bridge, Yerba Buena Island, water is gray, branches of a pine tree to the left.

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Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 18d

The Protestant mind cannot comprehend this

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Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 23d

How am I just now learning that Fionn mac Cumhaill was raised by two moms??

Bodhmall - Wikipedia

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Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 23d

Photo of a sling stone used in the siege of Perusia during a civil war (41-40 BCE). It is carved with the letters OCTAVI FELAS: "Hey Octavian, you suck dick!"

Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 23d

You can get a waterproofing sealant spray for leather shoes. It does well for a little while in a light rain, but I've never tried it with a heavy downpour or going through puddles.

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