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Safaitic @safaitic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NACAL 49 Paris begins today The final program can be found at this link: drive.google.com/file/d/1Pzgi... The abstract booklet is here: drive.google.com/file/d/1S5T8...

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don't have one positive word to say about the Tories, but when American conservatives clash with their UK counterparts they are so unbelievably outclassed lol Reminds me of when Ben Shapiro peed his pants, got up, and left the GB News interview with the arch conservative Andrew Neil

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

…what most Zionists from the earliest days of the idea were aiming for. It was always a state exclusively for Jews, where the best Palestinians could hope for was second class citizenship in their own homeland, if not expulsion

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The only forms of Zionism which aren’t inherently racist are those that encourage Jews to live in Palestine w/out demanding an ethnostate, or those that call for a state in Palestine that ensures Jews have equal rights with Arabs and other Palestinians. Maybe such variants existed but they weren’t…

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The idea that one ethnic group should get a state, where others of other ethnicities are not equal citizens with the same rights, is definitionally racist. That was true even before it was put into practice with its genocidal results

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“The internet is forever” is one of the biggest lies told to our generation

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My two-sentence horror submission:

Wayback Machine page for redacted url saying “Sorry. This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.”

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 04/10/2026

its genuinely so fucking funny to me that all the "uhm all modern art is shit, what happened to having artists get classically trained for 25 years to paint religious art in the style of the old masters" guys are pro AI slop now

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

TIL that before “unalive” became an annoyingly ubiquitous Gen Z neologism ostensibly to evade social media algorithmic penalties, it was coined by none other than Deadpool in a 2013 episode of Ultimate Spider-Man episode for the same reason (avoiding network censorship)

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Would be based if the thieves were actually returning them to their countries of origin, but most likely they’re just going to sell them to unscrupulous antiquities dealers, who will in turn sell them back to western collectors

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Question for Semiticists: The Amarna Letters from Canaan are written in a register of Akkadian that shows Canaanite phonological and grammatical influence. Is the same true of those written by Egyptians? Or are the latter more similar to Mesopotamian Akkadian (or a distinct “Egypto-Akkadian”)?

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#TIL where exactly the term "abugida" for an alphabet with modified consonant signs to show the following vowel comes from. Besides the South #Semitic letter order shown on the left here, the #Ge'ez script can also be presented as on the right: ʾä bu gi da he wə zo bä gu di ha we zə yo ...

Ge'ez reading table with the HA HU order on the left, the A BU GI DA order on the right, labiovelars bottom left, numbers bottom right, extra letters and English alphabet (with Ge'ez transcription) along the bottom, a map of Ethiopia in the center top, and the "Apostolic Alphabet" practice text in the center. Picture via uthiopia.com/, my understanding of what's going on here from the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica via en.sewasew.com.

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is she not Muslim? Muslims also believe it’s ok to disguise your beliefs when under duress to apostasize (the famous taqiyyah islamophobes so love). Does she also think crypto-Muslims in Spain were perfidious? Islam also has animal sacrifices so I’m not sure what she thinks makes Judaism different

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:

thehandbasket.co

I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see

'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Woke has gone too far” outrage bait is very profitable! This type of content sustains half the internet. Look forward to future coverage of how LGBTQ people with neo pronouns are pitiful losers, maybe they can get more Ted Cruz RTs.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

A damaged magical amulet featuring a human-like figure surrounded by Arabic incantations (ca. 11th-12th c). The figure (human, jinn, demon?) has a snake draped over its shoulders. The text is mostly nonsense sounds intended to invoke a magical effect when recited. @theul.bsky.social #medievalsky

Dark brown paper manuscript fragment, badly torn around the edges, with a large drawing of a human-like figure with a rectangular torso, conical hat, misaligned eyes, and a snake draped over its shoulders. Arabic text in black ink fills much of the empty space. The fragment sits on a blue background next to a yellow label that reads T-S Ar.51.112 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-AR-00051-00112/2).

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"In some places Rome does not fall at all. In others, such as Italy, there are multiple, sometimes repeated farewell parties, where the guests do not want to leave and the host does not switch the music off." How do we think about the Fall of Rome today? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Towards and beyond the ‘Fall’: rethinking Rome’s end | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core

Towards and beyond the ‘Fall’: rethinking Rome’s end

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

G'mar chatima tova to all observing Yom Kippur!

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

to Moses in the first person plural (e.g. Q 20:85). So while I think Mutter successfully shows that the Qur’anic 1pl speaker cannot always be identified with God, he/they cannot always be distinguished from God either. almuslih.org/wp-content/u...

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

down except by your Lord’s command”, implying a distinction between the speaker and “your Lord”. Conversely, God speaks in the 1st person singular to Moses, but never outside quotation, at least in the examples Mutter gives. However there are other verses where God is explicitly quoted as speaking…

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just read this interesting article suggesting that the “We” who acts as the main narrative voice in the Qur’an is presented as distinct from God himself, while executing his will. She presents one compelling case (Q 19:64) where the speaker proclaims “we do not come… www.academia.edu/104696816/Il...

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Iltifāt and Narrative Voice in the Qur’ān

This article analyzes the Qurʾān’s use of an Arabic rhetorical device called iltifāt, the shift of person within a text. It addresses the way iltifāt has been interpreted by medieval Muslim exegetes a...

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The TransAdvocate @transadvocate.com · 14/09/2026

MAGA: “Okay. Fine. So the 1800s were woke. That’s where all this comes from. We need to get back our foundational culture BEFORE the 1800!” Historical record: “Here’s an article about sex changes from the 1600s.”

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The TransAdvocate @transadvocate.com · 14/09/2026

White cishet people believe history is about them alone. See, it cannot be the case that the 1st trans advocacy org in the US was formed in the 1800s.

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Reading about Aella is pretty relevant to the national security of Northumbria against the Viking Great Army

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nothing puts the lie to “the internet is forever” faster than trying to rewatch your favorite videos from your teenage years and finding that half of them are gone from the web. Our generation grew up on a much more ephemeral form of media than those before us

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

when the boss asks if you can copy out the whole scroll again but in Hieratic

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Marijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New Open Access Article: "Nāfiʿ or Ibn ʿĀmir in al-Andalus?" In this article I show that, contrary to the claim in a recent article by @VahidniaAla the Quranic manuscript Arabe 6982 follows the reading of Qālūn ʿan Nāfiʿ and not that of Ibn ʿĀmir. brill.com/view/journal...

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As you all know, the Musulami were the important Gaetulian group to which Tacfarinas belonged. There may be one stela that commemorates a member of this group, RIL 808. It comes from the ruins of Sila in the region of Sigus, south of Constantine in Algeria, and looks like this ⬇️

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What about Hesiod? Are the works attributed to him considered to reflect older or younger cultural ideas than those attributed to Homer?

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Who needs AI slop when you can draw your own scientific illustrations like this? www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Wishing everyone Shanah Tova, even if the prospects of that seem bleak now

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For the simple reason that the dem establishment doesn’t believe in anything, and don’t have the stomach for a fight they’re not getting paid for. AIPAC pays good money for them to be pro-Israel, but protecting the vulnerable like trans people isn’t profitable, so they abandon them to the fascists

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Throwing a persecuted group under the bus to appease far-right bigots won’t win you a single vote. Your bigotry was for nothing

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Not everyone is “a little autistic” but everyone is a little autistic when they’re drunk or high

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sure. I’d prefer Spotify or the Apple podcast app so I can listen when my phone’s locked, but I’ll take YouTube series too

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I like Near Eastern history especially but any ancient or medieval history would be good

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Anyone have any good podcast recs, especially in history or linguistics?

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My impression is this is pretty typical, and its another thing that persuades me that... to be honest... The Cosmopolitan Way Of Life is simply superior. The people throwing the authoritarian temper tantrum are simply those ignorant of its benefits.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I mean, this is a foundational belief for the cultists that run Anthropic. It has been since before the created Anthropic. It is roughly equivalent to a devote Christian talking about the Second Coming.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hey @majnouna.com @phdnix.bsky.social @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social, how plausible is it that this hand is actually mid-9th c? Abbasid bookhand with the angular ف\ق (with 1 dot), slanted ط, wide initial ﻉ, Greek(?) in the margin. Then the strikethroughs make it look more like a draft than a copy.

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Today’s gonna be one of those Murphy’s law days, huh?

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The European racist far-right is crazy diverse

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