increasingly feel like every powerful person in the world has some form of early 2000s forum mod psychosis

A 1491 publication of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Housed in the Wilson Library special collections at UNC. What a marvel to be able to handle such history.

In both Greek and Mesopotamian art, the κάλαθος and the 𒄭𒆷𒌅 ḫallatum became metaphors for prosperity, which is the origin of our modern notion of the cornucopia. Here for example is King Ashurbanipal of Assyria holding aloft a basket representing wealth:

A Turkic proverb recorded in the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, an Arabic-language compendium from the 11th century:

'birin birin miŋ bolur tama tama köl bolur'
'one by one becomes a thousand, drop by drop becomes a pond'

dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/...

We've been working on this piece for a long time, and it's finally out!

The Formation and Transformation of Medical Apartheid in Palestine: A Historical Examination

Should be open access but currently behind a paywall, DM if you'd like a PDF!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

You can watch the recordings of the seminars we organised with our brave Palestinian colleagues here: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2024/01/12/i... and here: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/i...

🧵(4) At the time, Romanian was written in the Cyrillic script (and was until the early 19th century). Today, this may be mistaken for Church Slavonic. However, as in ASNM 00419, a letter can reveal the true identity of the text: ꙟ (/î/), a character unique to the Cyrillic alphabet used for Romanian.

NEW Fragments of a wall painting from a Sogdian Royal Palace at Sanjar-Shah, Tajikistan.
Reconstruction of the scene found it depicts a procession of priests approaching a large fire altar, offering a rare glimpse into ancient fire worship.

Learn more🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

UNICODE 17 IS RELEASED !

Announcement: blog.unicode.org/2025/09/unic...

Latest core spec online: www.unicode.org/versions/lat...

New scripts: Beria Erfe, Tolong Siki, Tai Yo, Sidetic

The name Anextiomarus or Anextlomarus, from proto-Celtic *anextlom, 'protection', and *māros, 'great', is attested in several dedicatory inscriptions, including as an epithet of Apollo (from South Shields, South Tyneside), or as a female deity, Anextlomara (Avenches, Swizterland)

Some quite wonderful examples of late medieval and early modern cursive Glagolitic from Croatia

www.croatianhistory.net/etf/kurziv.h...

On Israeli archaeological malpractice, heritage crimes, and US complicity #archaeology #🏺

Linguist friends… any help with script identification and possible interpretation? #mystery #mysteryscript #icon #orthodoxicon

💛🚫🤖 No AI Gods, No AI Masters 🤖🚫💛

I am massively excited to share the backstory ACADEMIC SHENANIGANS behind our Open Letter (& so this paper below too) — and as always big thanks to my co-authors {@irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social}:
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g...

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A garden in Gaza: once rubble, now a lifeline. In this essay, Mariam Mushtaha shows how tending mint and basil became a way to resist hunger and reclaim dignity under genocide.

www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Alright I have a non monetary request to help someone in Gaza!

@rerogaza8.bsky.social is working on her studies and had to produce a podcast episode- so she interviewed @ssaakkhheerr2.bsky.social about his life in Gaza. Part of her grade is based on views- so give it some views!

Next week, we will have new poetry from Palestinian poet from Gaza Fatena Abu Mostafa, one of our 2025 Gaza Literary Translation Workshop participants (supported by @PalestineWrites). Here, she talks about what writing means to her.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=juU3...

Centuries before modern linguists, Andalusi scholar Isaac ibn Barūn laid the groundwork for comparative Semitic linguistics with his pioneering 12th-century Judaeo-Arabic grammar.

Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina introduces his work in our PhD Research Series:

uhh.de/csmc-medina

The runic text is taken from the Konungs skuggsjá (The King's Mirror), advising one to "learn all tongues without forgetting your own". The original has "helzt latínu og völsku" 'but first Latin & French', 'völsku', cognate with Welsh, reflecting its use by Germanic speakers to refer to Romance ones

Joli ajout à mon corpus : une amphore apulienne (vers 340 av. n.è.) conservée au Musée Saint-Rémi à Rheims (musees-reims.fr/oeuvre/ampho...). On y voit une tombe (un "naiskos") occupé par une jeune femme peinte en blanc, tenant un miroir et une phiale. Les plissés de sa tenue sont très détaillés 🏺

A reminder that archaeology was identified as one of the core components of the ideological scaffolding of apartheid by Francesca Albanese in her latest report 5/ everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/a...

"We are facing a long standing structural system of oppression & exploitation against the Palestinians that has turned genocidal.. & Israel wouldn't have been able to do what its doing.. without the active support of far too many states"

@franceskalbs.bsky.social at the Gaza Tribunal today

His name is on the second line of the reverse side. He appears to have been interrogated alongside other men for being deserters