Magnus Pharao
@magnuspharao.bsky.social
- Linguist/Anthropologist
- Scholar of Nahuatl/Mexico/Uto-Aztecan
- Not an historian of ancient empire
- Occasional folk musician in pubs of Old Zealand
- Particularly invested in Danish politics
https://magnuspharao.wordpress.com/home/
- Scholar of Nahuatl/Mexico/Uto-Aztecan
- Not an historian of ancient empire
- Occasional folk musician in pubs of Old Zealand
- Particularly invested in Danish politics
https://magnuspharao.wordpress.com/home/
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Magnus Pharao
@magnuspharao.bsky.social
· Nov 12
I just realized I forgot to plug my book here when it came out a few months ago!
"Nahuatl Nations: Language Revitalization and Semiotic Sovereignty in Indigenous Mexico"
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"Nahuatl Nations: Language Revitalization and Semiotic Sovereignty in Indigenous Mexico"
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
A short interview with me and Christophe Helmke about or Teotihuacan writing work, on the archeology youtube channel of Rachel MacMullan.
youtu.be/v2ENTQPIJPU?...
youtu.be/v2ENTQPIJPU?...
New Archaeology Discoveries in October 2025
YouTube video by Inside Archaeology
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A short interview with me and Christophe Helmke about or Teotihuacan writing work, on the archeology youtube channel of Rachel MacMullan.
youtu.be/v2ENTQPIJPU?...
youtu.be/v2ENTQPIJPU?...
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On that time Johannes Fabian exchanged letters with Noam Chomsky. Obviously, in my own work, Fabian's language-centered anthropology has been far more influential on my thinking than Chomsky's linguistics
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
On that time Johannes Fabian exchanged letters with Noam Chomsky. Obviously, in my own work, Fabian's language-centered anthropology has been far more influential on my thinking than Chomsky's linguistics
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Feed: "Made in China Journal"
By: Yukun Zeng on Tuesday, August 26, 2025
By: Yukun Zeng on Tuesday, August 26, 2025
In Praise of Hardship, or the Labour-Schooling Poetics of Chinese Youth
In January 2025, I was chatting online with a few friends about the ongoing controversy surrounding the construction of a factory for Chinese carmaker BYD in Brazil, which had just come under scrutiny after the country’s Public Labour Prosecution Office accused it of ‘slavery’, following an investigation into the working conditions of Chinese labourers at […]
madeinchinajournal.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Feed: "Made in China Journal"
By: Yukun Zeng on Tuesday, August 26, 2025
By: Yukun Zeng on Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Morning in Holland
November 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Morning in Holland
Sproget i medierne, ik...
Selv når de prøver at integrere noget fynsk dialekt gør de det galt. Det hedder "tijliere".
Selv når de prøver at integrere noget fynsk dialekt gør de det galt. Det hedder "tijliere".
October 31, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Sproget i medierne, ik...
Selv når de prøver at integrere noget fynsk dialekt gør de det galt. Det hedder "tijliere".
Selv når de prøver at integrere noget fynsk dialekt gør de det galt. Det hedder "tijliere".
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The rich are responsible for an outsized share of carbon emissions — the top 10% account for 48%.
And the gap is growing.
Since 1990, the richest 1% have increased their share of emissions by 13%, while the poorest 50% have seen theirs fall by 3%.
And the gap is growing.
Since 1990, the richest 1% have increased their share of emissions by 13%, while the poorest 50% have seen theirs fall by 3%.
October 29, 2025 at 5:58 AM
The rich are responsible for an outsized share of carbon emissions — the top 10% account for 48%.
And the gap is growing.
Since 1990, the richest 1% have increased their share of emissions by 13%, while the poorest 50% have seen theirs fall by 3%.
And the gap is growing.
Since 1990, the richest 1% have increased their share of emissions by 13%, while the poorest 50% have seen theirs fall by 3%.
Enhedslisten Sorø plakatophængningsdag
October 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Enhedslisten Sorø plakatophængningsdag
Det bliver et spændende kommunalvalg i Sorø kommune - Enhedslisten står i en måling til at fordobles til 8,6%!
Man kan f.eks. stemme på vores kanondygtige spidskandidat Eva Flyvholm eller nr 2 på listen den eminente Rebecca-Broholm Little.
Eller hvis man skulle være i det humør evt. på mig...
Man kan f.eks. stemme på vores kanondygtige spidskandidat Eva Flyvholm eller nr 2 på listen den eminente Rebecca-Broholm Little.
Eller hvis man skulle være i det humør evt. på mig...
October 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Det bliver et spændende kommunalvalg i Sorø kommune - Enhedslisten står i en måling til at fordobles til 8,6%!
Man kan f.eks. stemme på vores kanondygtige spidskandidat Eva Flyvholm eller nr 2 på listen den eminente Rebecca-Broholm Little.
Eller hvis man skulle være i det humør evt. på mig...
Man kan f.eks. stemme på vores kanondygtige spidskandidat Eva Flyvholm eller nr 2 på listen den eminente Rebecca-Broholm Little.
Eller hvis man skulle være i det humør evt. på mig...
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Près des deux tiers des espèces d’oiseaux au monde voient leur population décliner
Près des deux tiers des espèces d’oiseaux au monde voient leur population décliner
L’Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature publie, vendredi, une mise à jour de sa liste rouge des espèces menacées.
www.lemonde.fr
October 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Près des deux tiers des espèces d’oiseaux au monde voient leur population décliner
The most powerful motivation to make me finish a task that is not particularly urgent and so has been waiting for a long while, is a looming deadline for an urgent and much more important but entirely unrelated task.
October 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The most powerful motivation to make me finish a task that is not particularly urgent and so has been waiting for a long while, is a looming deadline for an urgent and much more important but entirely unrelated task.
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Wealth inequality in Europe keeps rising. A main reason is that income from wealth is taxed much lighter than wages, creating a tax system that is highly regressive at the top. This means that billionaires across Europe have lower taxes rates than normal working people.
October 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Wealth inequality in Europe keeps rising. A main reason is that income from wealth is taxed much lighter than wages, creating a tax system that is highly regressive at the top. This means that billionaires across Europe have lower taxes rates than normal working people.
Det skal åbenbart forbydes at omtale plantebaserede pølser som pølser. Men det danske ord "pølse" er defineret af sin form ikke af et bestemt materiale. At pølser ikke nødvendigvis indeholder kød kan vi se fordi der findes noget der hedder "kødpølse".
October 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Det skal åbenbart forbydes at omtale plantebaserede pølser som pølser. Men det danske ord "pølse" er defineret af sin form ikke af et bestemt materiale. At pølser ikke nødvendigvis indeholder kød kan vi se fordi der findes noget der hedder "kødpølse".
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Så har jeg set morgennyhederne på tv2. Ikke særlig opmærksomt, medgiver jeg. Men hvordan kan de overhovedet ikke nævne, at et dansk folketingsmedlem er blevet pågrebet af Israel?
October 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Så har jeg set morgennyhederne på tv2. Ikke særlig opmærksomt, medgiver jeg. Men hvordan kan de overhovedet ikke nævne, at et dansk folketingsmedlem er blevet pågrebet af Israel?
Just back from raiding Ireland.
Here's the loot:
Here's the loot:
October 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Just back from raiding Ireland.
Here's the loot:
Here's the loot:
The professor is back on campus
October 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The professor is back on campus
Er det sprog de talte og skrevi den mexicanske storby Teotihuacan for 2000 år siden endelig blevet identificeret då vi kan begynde dechifreringen? Hvus man spørger mig og Christophe Helmke er svaret ja.
Og det har @videnskab.dk gjort.
videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...
Og det har @videnskab.dk gjort.
videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...
Mystik om oldtids-storby: Gåden kan være løst af danske sprogdetektiver
Forskere har i århundreder revet sig i håret over mysteriet om en af Mexicos vigtigste byer. Ingen aner, hvem der boede i den folkerige storby, eller hvilket sprog de talte.
videnskab.dk
October 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Er det sprog de talte og skrevi den mexicanske storby Teotihuacan for 2000 år siden endelig blevet identificeret då vi kan begynde dechifreringen? Hvus man spørger mig og Christophe Helmke er svaret ja.
Og det har @videnskab.dk gjort.
videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...
Og det har @videnskab.dk gjort.
videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...
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Økonom og lektor ved CBS Birthe Larsen:
»Vi ved, at det påvirker børn negativt hele livet at vokse op i fattigdom, og at de har svært ved at kravle op igennem indkomstlagene. Den her undersøgelse giver et bud på, hvorfor det er så svært«, siger hun.
Læs denne artikel!:
politiken.dk/del/gUv3kYAE...
»Vi ved, at det påvirker børn negativt hele livet at vokse op i fattigdom, og at de har svært ved at kravle op igennem indkomstlagene. Den her undersøgelse giver et bud på, hvorfor det er så svært«, siger hun.
Læs denne artikel!:
politiken.dk/del/gUv3kYAE...
Fattige børn får dårligere mad, får sjældnere børstet tænder og får mindre opbakning fra læreren
Danmark | Sektionen med Politikens undersøgende journalistik og seneste nyt indenfor politik, ret, sundhed, uddannelse, forbrug, økonomi og aktuelle temaer
politiken.dk
September 30, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Økonom og lektor ved CBS Birthe Larsen:
»Vi ved, at det påvirker børn negativt hele livet at vokse op i fattigdom, og at de har svært ved at kravle op igennem indkomstlagene. Den her undersøgelse giver et bud på, hvorfor det er så svært«, siger hun.
Læs denne artikel!:
politiken.dk/del/gUv3kYAE...
»Vi ved, at det påvirker børn negativt hele livet at vokse op i fattigdom, og at de har svært ved at kravle op igennem indkomstlagene. Den her undersøgelse giver et bud på, hvorfor det er så svært«, siger hun.
Læs denne artikel!:
politiken.dk/del/gUv3kYAE...
Jeg har et hot take:
Folk der ikke interesserer sig for drømme, deres egne og deres nærmestes, har et fattigt indre liv.
Folk der ikke interesserer sig for drømme, deres egne og deres nærmestes, har et fattigt indre liv.
September 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Jeg har et hot take:
Folk der ikke interesserer sig for drømme, deres egne og deres nærmestes, har et fattigt indre liv.
Folk der ikke interesserer sig for drømme, deres egne og deres nærmestes, har et fattigt indre liv.
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“We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less.”
For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
“We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less.”
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we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
September 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
Først smadrer Socialdemokraterne folkeskolen. Ti år senere skyder de skylden for problemerne på lærernes og deres faglighed. Det er definitionen på at pisse på folk og fortælle dem at de lugter.
September 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Først smadrer Socialdemokraterne folkeskolen. Ti år senere skyder de skylden for problemerne på lærernes og deres faglighed. Det er definitionen på at pisse på folk og fortælle dem at de lugter.
Jeg har lige hørt i radioavisen at to ud af tre i et parforhold er ramt af jalousi.
September 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Jeg har lige hørt i radioavisen at to ud af tre i et parforhold er ramt af jalousi.
"I prefer fantasy to realism"
"It's about the Qing dynasty, The Qing dynasty isn't fantasy dad!"
"It's about the Qing dynasty, The Qing dynasty isn't fantasy dad!"
September 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"I prefer fantasy to realism"
"It's about the Qing dynasty, The Qing dynasty isn't fantasy dad!"
"It's about the Qing dynasty, The Qing dynasty isn't fantasy dad!"
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Those reading this as approval of Kirk’s killing are reading words that aren’t there. I don’t want to live in a world of normalized violence. Charlie Kirk spent his life ensuring we all have to live in such a world. We do everything a disservice to elide the reality of that.
September 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Those reading this as approval of Kirk’s killing are reading words that aren’t there. I don’t want to live in a world of normalized violence. Charlie Kirk spent his life ensuring we all have to live in such a world. We do everything a disservice to elide the reality of that.