Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I made 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑎ℎ𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 last night - a kind of traditional Valthungian stew. Meatballs seared in butter, caramelized onion, carrot, spinach, red bell pepper, garlic, and butter chicken sauce. (You can use any sauce, really. Tikka masala, green curry - heck, even marinara - adjust your spices accordingly.) 020
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My hoya seems to have liked her summer on the porch! I counted ten inflorescences without really trying, and a few are already spent. Unfortunately, this thing stinks. Not really a bad smell, but more like old-timey perfume, or a fancy soap that only your great-grandmother liked. And also feet. 140
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026A very Happy Guillotine Sharpening Day to all who celebrate! 030
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day!🍁 🐰 Happy White Rabbit Day!🐇 🏳️🌈Pride Month is over🏳️⚧️ – are you ready for Queer Wrath? ☠️ 🍰Two weeks to Bastille Day! 🗡️Have you sharpened your guillotine recently?🪓 (There’s not a guillotine emoji... yet.) #CanadaDay #WrathMonth 000
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I didn't even notice this mountain laurel growing in the north side of the house until it started blooming yesterday! 030
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026It's a little wet for a good stroll in the Public Gardens today, but this flower in the succulent garden seemed happy about it. It wasn't labeled, but I'd guess it's some kind of Cereus. 000
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Many thanks to the Indexing Society of Canada for the extended membership, and congratulations to Saleh! 020
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Happy Solstice! Happy Litha! Fā linþ! Þohwa yar leþ hweysj! 070
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Here are a few new Valthungian words from today’s move-in to-do list. (Yes, this is the nonsense that is usually rattling around in my brain.) 160
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 09/05/2026I'm pretty sure this path through Miner's Marsh is Fae propaganda. Wish me luck... 120
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026The second best Canadian thing I've seen today: The airport at the northern tip of Newfoundland has airport code YAY and it is located in postal district A0K. 030
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Best sign at today’s rally against Twobit Timbit’s ridiculous provincial budget: This is the best example I think I’ve ever seen to illustrate the importance of vowel length in languages that have that distinction. Kesalul = “I love you.” Ke’sa’lul = “I cast you into the fire.” 120
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Just got back from a weekend of looking at houses in Kentville and Canning, with a Saturday night interlude for Queer Curling at the Glooscap Curling Club of Kentville! Lots of fun, but my knees are not happy with me today. #HouseHunting #CanadianThings 021
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Has anyone tried Hey.cafe yet? It's an ad-free anti-data-collection home-grown alternative to Facebook and the other Big Bads, based in Canada. It went public yesterday. I haven't used it long enough to have much of an opinion about it yet, but it seems promising. If anybody's on there, I'm @Jamin. 010
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 05/02/2026New pet conspiracy theory: Generative AI learned spelling and punctuation from the Epstein files. 010
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 17/01/2026What do you do when you have no orecchiette for the recipe you want to make, but you remember that you have a couple of silicon skull moulds?... I think I'm going to call them "teschini." #PastaPosting #ConCuisine 140
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Happy #Lexember! I’m doing something a little different this year, and it’s probably even a little more annoying than usual, so this is your cue to mute me... 2120
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 01/10/2025I've been working on creating a template that I can use to "showcase" #conlangs in an easily digestible way in which conlangers can find the basic things they look for while non-langers can appreciate some things about it without choking on grammar. Here it is for Valthungian so far: 181
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 03/09/2025I’ve set up a Substack where I can post some long-form, nerdier, less ephemeral content about #writing, #language, #conlangs, and maybe some other things like food, recipes, plants, or whatever other topics my AuDHD brain decides to hyperfocus on. lingufacture.substack.com/p/brandaje-m...lingufacture.substack.comBrandaje, mwaldu!(Hello, world!) 150
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 26/08/2025I’ve been thinking about creating a #Substack, since it seems like that’s what all the cool kids are doing these days. I like the idea of how it’s organized – blog/essay-style posts, shorter tweet-type notes, audio and video posts, the ability to block AI from reading your posts: (1/3) 130
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 11/08/2025A Valthungian joke for you: Faðr’anþrúskiða fra rǣnina sīna dǭtra žunga: ‘Javik tǣjun swœutinins byǧa, jauguk tfōs ita, jāþna givik þis þa lif ja þik ǣkna, þū ižas miþskǣðna þam brōðra þīnin skylis. Hwǣjugas swœutinins ǣftu nǭþ?’ #conlang #conlangs #conlangjokes 330
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Faugun Hauvahravist! Happy Lughnassadh! Not a bad day's work: Six gallons of pear cider, a gallon and a half of wheat beer, and a loaf of sourdough beer bread. It smells heavenly in here! I also made a pint of homemade non-dairy pistachio ice cream, but we ate it, so no picture! 030
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Making some bread for Hauvahravist (Lammas/Lughnassadh) today. Why must the bread-baking cross-quarter always fall on the hottest day of the year? 020
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 15/07/2025I had a bunch of other Revolution-themed posts, but I became unconscious and now it's the 15th. Anyway, these too: youtu.be/1q82twrdr0U?...youtu.beLes Misérables | Do You Hear the People Sing?YouTube video by Universal Pictures 210
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Where 𝘪𝘴 the Revolution? youtu.be/jsCR05oKROA?...youtu.beDepeche Mode - Where's the Revolution (Official Video)YouTube video by DepecheModeVEVO 010
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Wales has never had a Revolution, as such*, but the Cymry have an inspiringly stubborn determination to continue to exist. They're still here, and so are you, but fascism has a very short shelf-life. Do what you can to make it even shorter. youtu.be/S_pjG1Tzx74?...youtu.beBRONWEN - Yma o Hyd (with translation)YouTube video by Bronwen Lewis 110
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Remember who you're revoluting for. youtu.be/ClU3fctbGls?...youtu.beP!NK - What About Us (Official Video)YouTube video by PinkVEVO 000
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025A word of warning to the clueless powers who will have the audacity to act surprised when people start revoluting against them: If you're a horrible person, don't be surprised if a Finnish witch casts a spell on you to make your own snakes bite you. youtu.be/_keS5CgpBT0?...youtu.beÄijö (Värttinä)YouTube video by 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine 000
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Did you know the word guillotine comes from the name of French physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin who proposed its use? Guillotin is a diminutive of the name Guillot, itself a diminutive of Guillaume, the French equivalent of William. So guillotine literally means something like “Little Willie.” 141
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Join the revolution! youtu.be/BGLGzRXY5Bw?...youtu.beThe Beatles - RevolutionYouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO 000
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Here's the cheerful ditty that started it all, from the fabulous Axelle Saint-Cirel at the Paris Olympics last year. Ya know... In case you're fields are getting too dry in this July heat. youtu.be/TzLzuSNj5Fs?...youtu.beAxelle Saint-Cirel chante la Marseillaise au pied de l’Arc de Triomphe pour la parade JO Paris 2024YouTube video by Concours voix des outre-mer 000
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Next on today's list of Songs to Revolute To, this classic gem from my dear friend Venus DeMars: youtu.be/GnOT6-VjGZk?...youtu.beBoys/RevolutionYouTube video by All the Pretty Horses - Topic 000
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Today is the 236th anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille, kicking off the French Revolution after people eventually had enough of their government's crap. I'm going to be obnoxious today about posting some revolution-inspired links. Check 'em out, share, add your own, rise up, resist & revolt. 110
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 13/07/2025‘Is this watery piss what you people call beer in this country?’ #Valthungian: Hwa hit hran uvgútna ist þetit jūs þjuða inhitma gœ̄ža bjus nemniþ? #Europic: Kwa tci-la pisu vakwa se ke-kwasu tuyaru namoge da byeru no tci-la jiyu? #UsefulConlangPhrases #TravelSeries 120
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 12/07/2025A nice Valthungian idiom: Þeni gapīča wriškunþ an basiðram. Literally, ‘When gapiča grow on berry bushes’ - pretty much equivalent to "When pigs fly." #Conlang #ConCulture #ConCuisine 180
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 12/07/2025‘Stop laughing and bring me the menu for tourists.’ #Europic: Kedetu na likracu wake kwetu da mu na la mandja-listu we vidata-vresantu. #Valthungian: Kwink a þlǣšin ja bring mis þa bisœučins matirǣgistra. #UsefulConlangPhrases #TravelSeries 020
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 11/07/2025@terryo1971.bsky.social and I are kicking off our anniversary weekend in Annapolis Valley with a visit to Church. 030
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025#UsefulConlangPhrases #TravelSeries ‘What do you mean there’s no peanut butter in this country?’ #Europic: Kwayo povacu heste ke raha-pastu ne ste no tci-la jiyu? #Valthungian: Hwē istim mǣtiko þīm nīn þnang reðnutis n’ist inhitma gœ̄za? 060
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025#UsefulConlangPhrases #TravelSeries “There’s a corpse on the bed. Please have the sheets changed.” #Europic: Morta-korpu ste pi-vi tci-la legru. Ye-brane ka-morfe-de na la legla-drapru. #Valthungian: Im ist nǭs inþiža hēþin. Þikfeša tœuǧin þa ligrawaste aftrarǣðiþ. 131
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 08/07/2025#UsefulConlangPhrases #TravelSeries “Do you have a room with fewer rats?” #Europic: Kwa dra kombru se me flantoza ratu? #Valthungian: Hw’imist elia hēþia miþ mitnumam rātum? 121
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 07/07/2025@terryo1971.bsky.social jagik gistradagis bi Lunenbrogis Tuiðin in Bryǧagua, Skōte Njuža. 030
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 05/07/2025In today's episode of Academic Shitposting, I offer you this magnificent sentence: 040
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Hey, I was in a thing! lingo.360.cymru/2025/dysgu-c...lingo.360.cymruDysgu Cymraeg dros y BydDyma gyfres am bobl sy’n byw dros y byd ac yn dysgu Cymraeg. Maen nhw’n siarad am eu profiadau o ddysgu Cymraeg a beth yw eu cysylltiad gyda Chymru. Y tro yma, Jamin Johnson o Ganada sy’n dweud pam ei... 240
Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 20/06/2025I just made one of those delightful discoveries in Valthungian that begs to become a folk etymology: Worcestershire Sauce is a pretty straightforward borrowing as wrostraskīra, which translates literally as "sausage explanation." 050