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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 2h

i would also like to know more about this!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12h

continuing to develop cautious optimism around kettlebell guy

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 13h

In vino veritas
In cervisia falsitas

Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 12h

(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 · 13h

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 · 13h

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 · 1d

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 · 13h

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

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 14h

"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 · 14h

"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 · 1d

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

Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

isn't his name actually pronounced /nai/ too

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 2d

The historical parallels are glaring.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

A quantuɯ of solace ... 🤓

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 2d

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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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 2d

i feel like they didn't really know what to do with Poseidon. he's basically king triton, ruler of the seas and everything in them. but also horses? oh and he makes earthquakes

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 2d

διχθά τοι, Ἐννοσίγαιε, θεοὶ τιμὴν ἐδάσαντο,
ἵππων τε δμητῆρ᾽ ἔμεναι σωτῆρά τε νηῶν.

"in two, Earthshaker, the gods divided your lordship:
being both the tamer of horses and the savior of ships." - Homeric Hymn to Poseidon

nice syntactic chiasmus in
hippōn dmētēra .. sōtēra nēōn
gen acc .. acc gen

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 2d

It's genuinely shocking how little of Rafah is left. An ancient city that had a pre-war population of ~200k, forced to take over 1,000,000 refugees from Gaza City and Khan Younis, then completely levelled for the crime of being the only city in Gaza with an escape route.

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 3d

This is a GENOCIDE

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babe-perales.bsky.social @babe-perales.bsky.social · 3d

I never thought I would say this but our school has no soap for students to wash their hands in the restroom.

I have my own bathroom and desperately need soap so that students can wash their hands. Any help is greatly appreciated

👉 www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
@electroboyusa.bsky.social

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Gareth Roberts @garicgymro.bsky.social · 3d

In Wales most placenames are pronounced exactly as they look. However, tourists often make the mistake of pronouncing them as they look *in English*, which makes it immediately obvious that they're tourists.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 2d

huh yep looks like this is indeed the Pi'el participle of the "forget" verb

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According to Genesis 41:51 from the present participle of n! / n' (nish, "to cause to forget"), as the wealth and prosperity that Joseph had acquired in Egypt had caused him to forget his father's family. Apparently also attested in Akkadian as IF <7 IE= (Menasî).

kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 2d

🤯 hadn't even thought about that but you are probably right

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 2d

i guess probably D-stem *munassiy-

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