iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 14/03/2026

Pi(e) day pi(e) facts: The guy introduced the Greek letter for pi was the father of the guy who discovered proto-Indo-European (PIE)

William Jones was born in London; his father William Jones (1675–1749) was a mathematician from Anglesey in Wales, noted for introducing the use of the symbol π. The young William Jones was a linguistic prodigy, who in addition to his native languages English and Welsh,[3] learned Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew and the basics of Chinese writing at an early age.[4] By the end of his life, he knew eight languages with critical thoroughness.[5]

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income? Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero. Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit? Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?

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Thomas Olander @sproghistorie.dk · 01/12/2025

Job announcements: PhD position and postdoc position in Indo-European Studies in Copenhagen A PhD position (36 months) and a postdoc position (20 months) have been announced within the research project “The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated” (rootsofeurope.ku.dk/english/rese...).

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The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated – University of Copenhagen

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Ardωnis @varduplazostitis.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

forbidden fidget spinner

the Duenos inscription, the oldest known Latin text

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

fun fact three fighter jets is roughly equivalent to the NEA’s 2024 budget

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 24/04/2025

If you'd like to see all the canceled NEH grants at variance with agency priorities that allegedly will fail to inspire your confidence in use of taxpayer funds, go explore impact.ach.org. Then contact your representatives about this outrageous cull.

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NEH Grants 2025

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Katina Rogers @katinalynn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Say Goodbye to Small-Town Libraries and Museums, Thanks to Trump’s Latest Cuts

The NEH budget is tiny. The loss is huge.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Put aside what you think about the NEH. If Congress wants to debate and do this, it has the authority. Neither the President nor his unconfirmed appointee have any authority to do it by their own dictat.

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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Here's one example of how DOGE is hurting Americans (🧵) In 2022, I was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant. We had developed a remote recording app for our MI Diaries project, and researchers from other fields expressed to me that they could use st similar. mi-diaries.org

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Home - MI Diaries

We are a research project at Michigan State University documenting changes to the lives and language of Michiganders during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

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Bohdan Pavuk @bpavuk.neocities.org · 26/12/2024

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

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Andrew Byrd @andrewmbyrd.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Super excited to have won a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant to develop a multi-reference Database of Etymological Roots Beginning in Proto-Indo-European (DERBi PIE) together with Danny Law at UT!

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