Cameron the Apostate
@cameronp.bsky.social
Writer, thinker, journalist, photographer, lover of languages and language. Fabulous tales and simple stories. A decade+ veteran of Twitter
@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Hopefully you’re already aware that your Twitter account has been hacked by crypto scammers?
February 7, 2026 at 11:13 PM
@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Hopefully you’re already aware that your Twitter account has been hacked by crypto scammers?
Yesterday I discovered a new(ish) British detective show set in York with an autistic lead character (a police archivist who ends up assisting a detective). I don't know enough to comment the authenticity of its portrayal of autism but the broad strokes seem to be in place. It's entertaining /1
January 24, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Yesterday I discovered a new(ish) British detective show set in York with an autistic lead character (a police archivist who ends up assisting a detective). I don't know enough to comment the authenticity of its portrayal of autism but the broad strokes seem to be in place. It's entertaining /1
Getting up in the mornings can be a challenge at this time of the year. You suddenly wake up to a dark bedroom in a coal-black world, and you think "It's 3am, I can go straight back to sleep". Five minutes later the alarm bell rings and you realise it's actually 6am
January 15, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Getting up in the mornings can be a challenge at this time of the year. You suddenly wake up to a dark bedroom in a coal-black world, and you think "It's 3am, I can go straight back to sleep". Five minutes later the alarm bell rings and you realise it's actually 6am
TIL the origin of the word 'stationery'. It comes from the fixed stalls, or stations, set up by booksellers in 15th Century London, in contrast to the more usual itinerant traders of the time (and later centuries too) 📚
January 5, 2026 at 2:41 PM
TIL the origin of the word 'stationery'. It comes from the fixed stalls, or stations, set up by booksellers in 15th Century London, in contrast to the more usual itinerant traders of the time (and later centuries too) 📚
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After all those years in medical school, how come doctors are still practising? And why do we have to be patients with them?
December 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
After all those years in medical school, how come doctors are still practising? And why do we have to be patients with them?
Just wrote out a date containing the numerals '2026' for the very first time 👀
January 2, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Just wrote out a date containing the numerals '2026' for the very first time 👀
@dannybate.bsky.social Happy New 2026 Dr B
December 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
@dannybate.bsky.social Happy New 2026 Dr B
IMHO this is one of the best introductions to Latin currently available: concise and punchy, with some engaging readings. It is certainly better than 'Complete Latin' from the same publisher, which is a very old school, grammar-heavy affair. I wish there was a 'Beginner's Classical Greek', but alas
December 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
IMHO this is one of the best introductions to Latin currently available: concise and punchy, with some engaging readings. It is certainly better than 'Complete Latin' from the same publisher, which is a very old school, grammar-heavy affair. I wish there was a 'Beginner's Classical Greek', but alas
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My parents made this bird sculpture from various bits of wood and old metal they found in their shed and made a perch for it on the sawn-off trunk of a dead tree, and it makes for some great folk horror winter sunset photos.
December 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
My parents made this bird sculpture from various bits of wood and old metal they found in their shed and made a perch for it on the sawn-off trunk of a dead tree, and it makes for some great folk horror winter sunset photos.
After all those years in medical school, how come doctors are still practising? And why do we have to be patients with them?
December 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
After all those years in medical school, how come doctors are still practising? And why do we have to be patients with them?
And so a difficult week winds to uncertain close. I wish I felt more optimistic but the world seems very grey this afternoon. Bravery lies not feeling no fear but in being afraid and doing it anyway
December 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
And so a difficult week winds to uncertain close. I wish I felt more optimistic but the world seems very grey this afternoon. Bravery lies not feeling no fear but in being afraid and doing it anyway
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The Bluesky algorithm still seems immature: just looking at the timeline of an account sends their posts crowding into your own timeline. Earlier I looked at one, saw it was 98 per cent TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP, clicked away, and now her posts are crowding out more interesting accounts :/
December 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The Bluesky algorithm still seems immature: just looking at the timeline of an account sends their posts crowding into your own timeline. Earlier I looked at one, saw it was 98 per cent TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP, clicked away, and now her posts are crowding out more interesting accounts :/
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For my Elvis book I met the Finnish academic who performed and recorded Elvis songs translated into both Latin and Sumerian.
"Of course, they did not have blue suede shoes in Sumeria," he told me, "so I had to translate the song as 'on my sandals of sky blue leather, please do not stand".
"Of course, they did not have blue suede shoes in Sumeria," he told me, "so I had to translate the song as 'on my sandals of sky blue leather, please do not stand".
Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian language
Watch: TCD debuts world's first film in ancient Sumerian
Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian language.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
For my Elvis book I met the Finnish academic who performed and recorded Elvis songs translated into both Latin and Sumerian.
"Of course, they did not have blue suede shoes in Sumeria," he told me, "so I had to translate the song as 'on my sandals of sky blue leather, please do not stand".
"Of course, they did not have blue suede shoes in Sumeria," he told me, "so I had to translate the song as 'on my sandals of sky blue leather, please do not stand".
Sometimes I imagine that people will help me with certain things and then it turns out that...err, they won't. Always awkward. You feel a fool
December 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Sometimes I imagine that people will help me with certain things and then it turns out that...err, they won't. Always awkward. You feel a fool
We all do and say ill-advised things when we're young and stupid. The tricky bit is forgiving yourself later. As the dictum goes: if you look back and see a fool, then congratulations, you've grown
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We all do and say ill-advised things when we're young and stupid. The tricky bit is forgiving yourself later. As the dictum goes: if you look back and see a fool, then congratulations, you've grown
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Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time.
January 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time.
Reading Japanese when you only speak Chinese - the border-crossing power of characters www.instagram.com/reel/DRa_M-b...
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jessiez888When you can read Chinese #chinese #japan #language
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November 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Reading Japanese when you only speak Chinese - the border-crossing power of characters www.instagram.com/reel/DRa_M-b...
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Made a site where you can practise Old English scansion. You get given a half-line and have to select which of Sievers's five types it belongs to.
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Made a site where you can practise Old English scansion. You get given a half-line and have to select which of Sievers's five types it belongs to.
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
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“Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind”
—from Dune by Frank Herbert
—from Dune by Frank Herbert
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind”
—from Dune by Frank Herbert
—from Dune by Frank Herbert
If you pointed something sharp at me and insisted I choose my favourite Latinism in English, my choice would probably be 'disaster', from the negative prefix 'dis-' (think 'disorganised') and 'astrum', star (ultimately a borrowing from Greek). So a disaster is something that happens under a bad star
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
If you pointed something sharp at me and insisted I choose my favourite Latinism in English, my choice would probably be 'disaster', from the negative prefix 'dis-' (think 'disorganised') and 'astrum', star (ultimately a borrowing from Greek). So a disaster is something that happens under a bad star
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Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons, tomorrow at 8pm on BBC Four. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC Four - Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons
Art historian Dr Nina Ramirez reveals the codes and messages hidden in Anglo-Saxon art.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons, tomorrow at 8pm on BBC Four. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
Beer for real men
November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Beer for real men
The masculine urge to study Classical Greek for the first time in my life, even though I have no time to do so
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The masculine urge to study Classical Greek for the first time in my life, even though I have no time to do so
Why has all of the colour gone out of the world? www.instagram.com/reel/DRSq3bS...
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36K likes, 2,149 comments - jasonkpargin on November 20, 2025
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November 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Why has all of the colour gone out of the world? www.instagram.com/reel/DRSq3bS...