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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

My statement on today's profoundly moving scenes in Israel and Palestine.

Today’s scenes of Israelis and Palestinians are profoundly moving: Israeli hostages being freed and families reunited after years of fear, uncertainty, and torture; the first days in Gaza without relentless Israeli bombardment of Palestinians as families return to rubble and loved ones freed from detention.

There is finally a glimmer of hope that this ceasefire will hold and the long difficult work of reconstruction can begin. I also know this news brings solace to millions of New Yorkers, who’ve felt the pain of the past few years. We have watched as our tax dollars have funded a genocide. The moral and human cost will be a lasting stain and requires accountability and real examination of our collective conscience and our government’s policies.

The responsibility now lies with those of us who believe in peace to make sure it endures, and that it is just. Once aid is delivered, the wounded are cared for, and a lasting agreement secured, we cannot look away. We must work towards a future built upon justice, one without occupation and apartheid, and for a world where every person can live with safety and dignity.

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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 12h

Labiodental borrowed as interdental:

Taino > Spanish guayaba > English guava > Arabic juwāfa > Anywa (South Sudan/Ethiopia):

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 13h

absolutely no one:

Aristotle:

Bird @hatulimyafim.bsky.social · 13h

Things? Are stuff?

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 17h

thanks! i never knew that the glottal stop sign was CV in Ugaritic. very useful

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 17h

The Israeli army distributed leaflets in several areas with a clear threat not to participate in the prisoner welcome celebrations, or they would face severe punishment, according to the army.

Razan, the daughter of prisoner Taleb Makhamreh from Yatta, south of Hebron, told Middle East Eye that the Israeli army brutally raided the family's home on Saturday evening and warned them not to show any signs of joy or celebration.

She said they targeted the homes of three prisoners in Yatta who were scheduled to be released. She explained that her father would be released to the Gaza Strip without the family knowing if he were to be deported to Egypt afterwards.

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 18h

is this the G stem?

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 20h

“La parola burger nasce negli anni ‘30 del secolo scorso come accorciamento di hamburger, interpretato erroneamente come se il segmento ham indicasse ‘prosciutto’. Si tratta invece di un aggettivo geografico che nella locuzione originale Hamburger steak significa carne ‘all’amburghese’ ”

Rianalisi: da hamburger a burger

Una parola nata per un errore di interpretazione, suoi derivati e metaforici menu

www.terminologiaetc.it

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Sarah Parkhouse @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social · 20h

3 more weeks to apply for this... please continue to share widely.

Sarah Parkhouse @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social · Sep 10

We are looking for a one-year full-time Research Associate to work on Coptic manuscripts in Manchester as part of a wonderful project that connects mss with local communities. Requires strong skills in Coptic, English, & Arabic. Deadline 31/10. Please share! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate – Coptic in Manchester (UKRI):John Rylands Library

Key collaborators are the Coptic Church in Stockport, Manchester, and the Coptic Church in Llandudno, Wales. The project has an extensive and international advisory board. A PDRA seeking an academic career may find the balance between traditional research and co-creation appealing.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 1d

i would also like to know more about this!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

continuing to develop cautious optimism around kettlebell guy

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

In vino veritas
In cervisia falsitas

Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 1d

My dad used to say everyone is "a nice guy" when you share a beer with them. It doesn't make them good people.

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 1d

(in the accent as parodied in the sketch, you'll also hear the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, and also final devoicing as in "Bear[s]" and "Bo[p]")

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 1d

it has sort of become a local cultural thing now. i always think of this one SNL sketch from many years back (and you'll hear "Da Bears" all the time even from people who don't natively speak this variety) youtu.be/NhMqjHEDmcU?...

Bill Swerski's Super Fans: Da Bears in the Indy 500 - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

youtu.be

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 1d

yep "da" is the article. in this case it's not AAVE but Upper Midwestern English where (at least historically, maybe less so today) /ð/ is [d] as a substrate effect of the other languages (but esp. German) spoken by earlier settlers there.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 2d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 1d

as a linguist and former midwesterner with catholic upbringing, the "Da Pope" shirt is very important to me

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 1d

"Information, he stressed, is 'a public good' that must be protected through responsible reporting & collaboration between citizens and journalists. A 'virtuous circle' is created, he said, when the public actively supports serious and independent journalism—contributing to the health of civic life"

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

"Pope Leo quoted Hannah Arendt... warning that the ideal subject of totalitarian regimes is not someone ideologically committed, but rather someone for whom “the distinction between fact and fiction, and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”" www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Pope: In this age of communication, nobody can say 'I did not know' - Vatican News

Addressing a global network of leading news agencies, Pope Leo thanks reporters who every day work to share the truth, often risking their lives. It ...

www.vaticannews.va

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 2d

cf. also "ride" vs. "road" with the same ablaut variation

Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.bsky.social · 2d

The verb 'drive' was applied to animals long before cars, and a herd of livestock being made to move somewhere is a 'drove' – nowadays common as plural 'droves'.

The root behind 'drive' and 'drove' is also behind 'drift', originally an act of driving or making something (like snow) move.

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.bsky.social · 2d

The verb 'drive' was applied to animals long before cars, and a herd of livestock being made to move somewhere is a 'drove' – nowadays common as plural 'droves'.

The root behind 'drive' and 'drove' is also behind 'drift', originally an act of driving or making something (like snow) move.

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 2d

isn't his name actually pronounced /nai/ too

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3d

I will never get over this.

It is MINDBLOWING that Biden/Kamala could have had a ceasefire deal in Sept 2024. Would have won them the election without a doubt. And yet could not do it because Israel’s right to exterminate millions of people could not be violated. This is where racism will lead you folks

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The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social · 4d

Today marks 14 years since the Maspero Massacre in which Egyptian security forces violently responded to a peaceful protest against a church demolition, killing 28 and injuring hundreds. On this painful day, we revisit our piece from the tenth anniversary. timep.org/2021/10/12/t...

The Maspero Massacre: Ten Years On

October 9 marks ten years since the Maspero Massacre. As a result of indiscriminate state violence and incitement, 28 Egyptians were killed and hundreds were injured. One decade later, accountability ...

timep.org

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

The historical parallels are glaring.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 3d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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波鴻漫錄 || Sven Osterkamp @schrift-sprache.bsky.social · 3d

A quantuɯ of solace ... 🤓

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 3d

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

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