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Polkagoat
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Voracious reader, Central Asian history, history, fibre arts, gardening, tomato breeding, cats, dogs, blues, and hockey. Canadian. I don't like doomers or fascists.
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teamcanadaforever.bsky.social
This is the Canadian Premier League soccer finals and we have a bicycle kick goal in the middle of a blizzard … and that’s the most Canadian thing I’ve ever seen 😂
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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princetonupress.bsky.social
How to Be Grateful: An Aztec Guide to the Art of Gratitude presents a delightful Aztec work that has much to teach us about the value of giving thanks—to our contemporaries, our elders, & our ancestors.

Available 18 November. Preorder yours today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Philosophy
How to Be Grateful: An Aztec Guide to the Art of Gratitude by Pablo of Texcoco, edited and translated by Frances Karttunen and Camilla Townsend
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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xingwu.bsky.social
Centuries before Virginia Woolf dreamed of a “room of one’s own,” Li Qingzhao(1084 – ca. 1155) already claimed hers in the Song Dynasty. While most women were bound to the household, she built a library of 4,000 volumes and wrote with a voice both lyrical and defiant. 1/2
#poem
Here is her most famous poem(translated by Jiaosheng Wang): 《如夢令·昨夜雨疏風驟》 昨夜雨疏風驟，濃睡不消殘酒。 試問卷簾人，卻道海棠依舊。 知否，知否？應是綠肥紅瘦。 Late night wind howled with light shower, Still hungover despite my heavy slumber. Ask for shades to be rolled from sill, Was told my HaiTang blossomed still. Oh honey! But don't you know? Tis the season reds ebb and greens flow.
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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chapps.bsky.social
How often can you say that you've seen a kantharos-rhyton? This cup has a bridled donkey head attachment, usually seen only on rhyta. It mirrors the donkey seen on the reverse of the cup, ridden by Dionysos. When you drank from this vessel, you looked like an ass! 🏺 1/

Greek, 520-500 BCE. 📸 me
This black-figure terracotta kantharos-rhyton has a sculpted donkey-head attachment and Dionysian figures around the body of the vessel. In fact, on the rear of the cup Dionysos is shown riding on an ithyphallic mule or donkey, so the head on the cup is Dionysos' own steed. The fun part is that when you grasp the cup by both handles and raise it to your mouth to drink, you look like you’re wearing a donkey mask, providing a great deal of chuckles from your fellow symposiasts. This appears to be the earliest preserved Attic rhyton (a vessel for wine, frequently with animal head pouring spouts), and this rhyton-kantharos as a whole is a rare preserved example of an Athenian plastic vase with black-figure decoration. In design, the donkey's tall, outward-flaring ears are echoed by the kantharos' tall looping strap handles. In order to assemble this vase, the potter cut a hole in the kantharos' bowl and precisely inserted the donkey's head, thereby forming a dual-chambered wine vessel with a large capacity. But the resulting rhyton-kantharos is overweighted toward the donkey's head, which extends down so far that the donkey's lips set the vessel off kilter, and it rests unstably on the kantharos' foot. Greek, Attic, about 520-500 BCE, possibly found in Athens. Black-figure terracotta with some pigments (purple on the Dionysian figures and red inside the donkey's mouth). Height: 21.59 cm (8.50 in.) Diameter: 13.65 cm (5.37 in.) British Museum, London (1876,0328.5)
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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princetonupress.bsky.social
From one of today’s leading experts on ancient DNA, a sweeping genetic history that unravels the mystery of where horses were first domesticated.

Horses: A 4,000-Year Genetic Journey Across the World by Ludovic Orlando is now available worldwide.

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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For the Ea-nasir fans, Assyriology podcast 'Thin End of the Wedge' just released a special episode about everyone's favorite copper merchant, featuring @gvkonsta.bsky.social, @gabemoshenska.bsky.social, and Steven Garfinkle, and yours truly.

Listen here:
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80. Ea-nasir: everyone's favourite copper merchant - Thin End of the Wedge
Gina Konstantopoulos, Andrew Deloucas, Gabriel Moshenska, and Steven Garfinkle discuss internet favourite, Ea-nasir. What do we know about the Dilmun traders and their role in the supply of copper to ...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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kennylinden.bsky.social
Mongolian National University of Education (MUBIS) last year posted a series of videos about reading Classical Mongolian on Youtube.

Hat tip to Dr. Dotno Pount for sharing.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=peFi...

#mongolsky #tengri
Монгол бичгийн хичээл 1
YouTube video by Хэлний бодлогын үндэсний зөвлөл
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November 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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thaliarchus.bsky.social
The Middle English Dictionary is freely available online and if you have a certain kind of mind it's great fun to play around in!
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Middle English Compendium
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November 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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My book Immigration and Apocalypse will be at #AAR #SBL San Diego and bookstores / online everywhere Nov. 26 (pre-order avail now). Immediately, direly relevant, and I wish it were not so.
Picture of the book (showing cover, with a line of souls waiting to see angels in the judgment of the dead, from an 11th c. illumination above, with parallel imagery in photo below of migrants waiting in line to speak to border patrol agents.)
November 20, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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ayoub.bsky.social
Hey y'all, will soon start an online class on Lebanese history and politics.

If you're interested, send me an email or Signal. Please say why you're messaging.

I'll send an email/text (no more) with more details soon.

Email: [email protected]
Signal: @ ayoub.02
November 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Today in the ARB: Ben Woollard reviews “Archipelago of the Sun” by Yoko Tawada, tr from Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani @ndbooks.bsky.social @grantabooks.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/archipelago-...
November 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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primeadam.bsky.social
You can now register for my upcoming WFA webinar
Allenby’s Sepoys: The Indian Army and the EEF in 1918
#fwwhist #ww1 #greatwar
ONLINE: Allenby’s Sepoys: The Indian Army and the EEF in 1918 | The Western Front Association
www.westernfrontassociation.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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tadethompson.bsky.social
And here's the direct link:
The Apologists by Tade Thompson
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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November 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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ravenbooks.bsky.social
Yes please.

From the author of 'My Sister, the Serial Killer'
November 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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bookishsff.bsky.social
When Hana's father goes missing on her first day as owner of a magical pawn shop in Tokyo, she must enlist help from an unusual customer...

Our new #SFF Book of the Month, WATER MOON by Samantha Sotto Yambao is a beautiful Ghibli-esque tale of love & the weight of choices not taken.

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November 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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princetonupress.bsky.social
As the nights grow longer & chillier, there’s no better time to curl up with a hauntingly good book. From Gothic style & graveyards to Zombies & Calculus, we’re summoning the perfect reads for autumn’s darkest hours. 🕯️🎃

Check out our spooky season reading list:
Spooky season reading
Curious about all things melancholy and mysterious? As the nights grow longer and chillier, there's no better time to curl up with a hauntingly good book. From Gothic style and graveyards to Zombies…
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October 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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The Book of Clear Shadows, Silhouette Portraits Of Living For The Dead, 1867 - Flashbak
At a party in 19th Century Japan, you might be expected to sit behind a paper sliding door while an artist captured your silhouette.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
polkagoat.bsky.social
Since it's snowing and the internet is terrible place to visit it seems like a great day to frog my sweater and try again
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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mongoliafocus.bsky.social
V much looking fwd to listening to this podacst discussion of @songsforhorses.com book "A Song for the Horses:
Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia"
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A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia
Podcast-Folge · Nomads, Past and Present · 27.10.2025 · 1 Std. 4 Min.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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ualbertapress.bsky.social
Omar Ramadan's THIS SWEET RUPTURE speaks to the ever-present Islamophobia, anti-Arab racism, and xenophobia that exist in Canadian society and culture.
https://bit.ly/40u9ity

@orphdc.bsky.social‬##poetry #debut #Lebanon #immigrant #diasporalit #hybrid #arab
October 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The ancient Scythian peoples of Central Eurasia were renowned by the Persians and Greeks both for their intricate designs, including their tattoos. Knotted and spiraling, the motifs reflected their lives on the steppes and plains. Mummies preserve these for us. #MythologyMonday
Details of Scythian tattoos from the subject in the next photo, showing beings that resemble horses or herd animals like deer or antelope, but found in the central Eurasian steppes. The most famous of the Scythian mummies with tattoos, showing an elk on their shoulder with flowers in their antlers.
October 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
polkagoat.bsky.social
Ok Albertans please stop saying " just go get your covid vaccine". UCP has deliberately made the website non functional with no other alternatives to get the shot. Oh and the kicker is you can only book for 2 shots so if you have more than 2 in your house, too bad
October 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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princetonupress.bsky.social
Since it was first published, Northrop Frye’s Fearful Symmetry has established itself as the defining commentary on the poetic vision of William Blake.

The new Princeton Classics edition of this landmark book is now available!

Explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake by Northrop Frye. The landmark book that situates Blake’s poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readers.
October 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
polkagoat.bsky.social
I was checking out rain jackets today and who on earth is spending $850 on a raincoat? $3k on a parka?
October 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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thesurrealari.bsky.social
I’ve written a bunch of gothic horror. Here’s a story I had in @pseudopod.org which is a modern retelling of Poe’s The Tell-tale heart.

pseudopod.org/2025/03/28/p...

#latenightwrite
October 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM