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Tamreen

@scriptor.bsky.social

2.2K followers 580 following 8.4K posts

Posts about history, language, code, and random shower thoughts (mostly the last one sorry). he/they. Brooklyn. 💗💜💙 profile pic alt text: Picture of me, a brown guy with a medium-short black beard and hair in a ponytail going a bit down one shoulder

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 5h

also, the actual solution to keep emus from eating crops ended up being...better fences

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 6h

Never forget that Australia went to war with emus in 1932 and the emus won

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ice.cream.assassin @icassassin.bsky.social · 10h

Felt compelled

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 11h

yeah even I struggle to remember the pronunciation there honestly

Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 13h

for Central PA, the classic ones are Lancaster and Lebanon

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14h

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

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 15h

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · Nov 11

oh and the moral "framework" was just a bunch of "see this keyword -> have this reaction" rules

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · Nov 11

early blue sky was full of people who were incapable of forming their own moral framework and people who thrived on being others' moral framework

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 1d

Kurt Vonnegut was on the daily show as a guest

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 1d

Kurt Vonnegut was on the daily show as a guest

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 1d

this is who bsky banned for life

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 2d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · Mar 8

you KNOW when the soundtrack in the movie switches from extradiegetic to diegetic during the course of the same song??? it's absolute bedlam. me and the boys jumping up and down, screaming, breaking the couch etc

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The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 10d

Playing with recipes, inspired by ancient Greek world:

Slow cooked pork wlin wine honey grape juice and vinegar (fish sauce ofc) with leeks, cabbage, apples, turnips and fennel. Staples of Europeans in the pre-modern world!

A pattern decorated plate with a stew of pork and green vegetables in a broth

Two plate, one with veg another with the cooked pork shoulder resting

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 1d

like, do people think every instance of csam or other traumatizing stuff has to be seen by a human being? This was the standard even before genAI.

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 1d

this is an extremely cool topic: sound changes that affected a language preserved in a reading tradition .. some of which affected the vernacular language too, and some of which didn't!

Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 1d

This chapter has now been out for more than six months and thus magically becomes #OpenAccess:

Sound Change in the Hebrew Reading Tradition

This contribution to Language Change in Epic Greek and Other Poetic Traditions investigates for Biblical Hebrew "to what degree this corpus retained its phonological independence from the vernacular f...

works.hcommons.org

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 2d

this is the real war on christmas

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 2d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 2d

the king arthur movie had some from when they were invading

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 2d

Name a Film with a S-x Scene.

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alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 2d

THIS feels incredibly toxic after the behaviour of Bsky leadership this last week.

How often do I see toxicity?
I see Palestinians get deleted for asking for help.
I see sex workers harassed.
I see Jewish people brigaded.
I see trans people put on irl watchlists.
I see white supremacists lauded.

Darrin Loeliger @darrin.bsky.team · 2d

Hey, I'm trying to learn more about toxicity on Bluesky. How often do you see toxicity on here? Where in the app do you see it?

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favourite bits of Roman history: the conspiracy to rig the elections in 54 BCE. The best detail is at the end: to hold both sides to the deal, money was held in trust by third parties and noted in account books.

Cue Stringer Bell: "Are you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?"

The Consuls are in the thick of a tremendous scandal. The candidate C. Memmius read out in the Senate the text of a compact which he and his fellow candidate Domitius had made with the Consuls providing that, if they were themselves elected, they would furnish three Augurs who would state that they had been present at the passing of a lex curiata which had never been passed, and two Consulars who would state that they had witnessed a senatorial decree making provision for the consular provinces, though the Senate had not even met; failing this, they were both to forfeit the sum of HS 4,000,000 to the Consuls. The compact, which, as was stated, was not an oral one but had been entered in the account books of many persons with names and full details, was produced by Memmius on Pompey's advice with the names cancelled. This exposure leaves Appius where he was— nothing lost to be sure. But for his colleague it is a collapse, he is
utterly discredited. Memmius, having broken up the coalition

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 2d

looks kinda like a kouign amann

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Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 2d

Remember who we're fighting for.

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 2d

also giving "the one brown guy at the frat house"

Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 2d

wait, Link wasn't running any of the decentralization projects afaik. He was on Blacksky but he didn't run it

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 2d

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!

I appreciate all the people showing love and support to me. I’m so grateful honestly. It means a lot. The ban isn’t that big of a deal for me. I think it was wrong and the explanation was bullshit. But that’s ok and I accept. Social media comes and goes. I’m grateful for all the connections I was able to make and all the people I get to be connected with off Bluesky. More importantly, the world needs more people to give a fuck. More people to give a fuck about Palestinians, more people to give a fuck about disabled folks, more people to give a fuck about our queer and trans siblings, more people to give a fuck about Black liberation. The world, and Bluesky, is full of bootlickers who will do anything to avoid doing anything to upset the status quo. These people are cowards groveling to those in power in hopes of protection. I just hope people continue to show love and care and kindness. Mutual aid is so important. Give when you can, boost when you can. We only survive this together.

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 2d

at this point I wouldn't be surprised if it was the board's idea to push out leftists from this site in the name of "decentralization"

lawngnomesorceress @lawngnomesorceress.bsky.social · 2d

doesn't bluesky have a board or something that might be a bit put out by the way their admins are fumbling the proverbial bag rn?

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