Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026One of the all-time great Diary pieces in LRB is this one from one of the D-Day forecasterslrb.co.ukLawrence Hogben · Diary: The Most Important Weather Forecast in the History of the World 0322
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Proud of this score with three vowels hors de combat today! 020
Reposted by LeahIsaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hwæt. Wē Eotolwara in ġeārdagum, æþelborenra, wǣ ġefrūnon, hu ða ġeonglingas ġegaf fremedon. 142
Reposted by LeahKatuwestākos Göransson @seadogdriftwood.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A computer/online game in Hittite? Where you *learn* introductory Hittite? And with advanced options to read it in Cuneiform?! It is real. And it is free. @kaimonster.bsky.social, you've surpassed Suppiluliuma. You deserve all the laudation of a Labarna. May Istanu shine blessings upon you. 12411
Reposted by LeahTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 17/09/2026Putting all the magic phrases on my own mirror so I see them every day: “Start with ontology. Think step by step. Do a breakthrough. Adversarial review. Unreal Engine. HD!” 3854
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Going up to a lesbian couple like which one of you is the cavalier and which one is the necromancer? 200
Reposted by LeahBenjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Best wishes for Year 5787 since the breakup of Proto-Semitic to all who celebrate 8378
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Imagining the person who decides to try cilantro because it's a bestseller 000
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I haven't heard "Orange Day" before but what else could we call this? This was my view looking out at my back yard in Berkeley that morning. 220
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Maybe the real takeaway here is that math isn't that hard after all 001
Reposted by LeahEnnius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Rosh Hashanah in 2026 begins at sunset on 11th September. Here is the initial-word panel for 'Melekh Amon' (Steadfast King). Bodleian Library MS. Michael 619; Maḥzor for the High Holidays, Western Ashkenazi rite (Tripartite Maḥzor, vol 3); 1320–1330 CE; f.53r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk 03212
Reposted by LeahSridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"Bayesian" means "from the Bay Area". 492113299
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026April Fool's idea: Minoan word-of-the-day bot. The words are real, we just have no clue what any of them mean. 020
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026No never-found-before words today, but first time I broke 800 010
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I have never used tags before but I'm desperate here. Calling out to the universe for anyone who knows what is going on in this apparatus #ancientsky #🐦🐦 #minoansky 001
Reposted by LeahRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. Wendell Berry, What Are People For? 121173351
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Frances and Joseph Gies' book "Life in a Medieval Village" quotes some texts where people wrote ecstatic religious visions of paradise, and they mostly were just descriptions of getting to have butter every day and maybe even some meat 141
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026best concerts you *almost* got to see but didn’t: warren zevon halloween night show in like 1999 020
Reposted by LeahUSER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It is not "Linux", it varies depending on the distro. Linux Mint is installed in 5 minutes and installation is very easy, you just boot via USB then few screens asking for language, computer name, user, tz and optionally the partitioning: 2126558
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Are there any other puns in English that have lexicalized as much as "funny bone"? 000
Reposted by LeahLeah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Very niche question, but maybe one of my very niche (complimentary) followers will know. I'm trying to understand what's going on with the use of subscript dots in the apparatus for texts in this book (Raison and Pope's "Corpus transnuméré du linéare A") (1/) 101
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Very niche question, but maybe one of my very niche (complimentary) followers will know. I'm trying to understand what's going on with the use of subscript dots in the apparatus for texts in this book (Raison and Pope's "Corpus transnuméré du linéare A") (1/) 101
Reposted by LeahDr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃 @carrielarocco.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Still thinking about the Hadrian Oreo I made 518734
Reposted by LeahDr. Fim @fim.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes. 252937873
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Answering "Zhou" but with a pretentious smile because I actually mean 武周 020
Reposted by LeahDan Conway @magisterconway.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Early Modern pronunciation of Latin in England was... really something, wasn't it 95812
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Finished "The Song of Achilles" so of course now I am thinking about how LBA Greeks would have written Patroklos. I think maybe 𐀞𐀲𐀫𐀐𐀩𐀸𐀃 /pa-ta-ro-ke-re-we-o/ (Πάτροκλεϝεος)? 020
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Really funny bit in The Song of Achilles is how Calchas is the absolute ugliest person that anyone has ever set eyes on, and that is largely because he has blue eyes. Every time he shows up, the Greeks are like "get that blue-eyed freak out of here." 110
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Please take a moment to appreciate the many variant forms of Linear A glyph 95 (Bennett's *80; probably pronounced /ma/) 3103
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Is she, you know, afflicted with the melancholia Scytharum? 110
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I've seen lots of criticism about Hong not running TV ads, but no one is talking about how her campaign didn't hire a single competent haruspex 010
Reposted by LeahLOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Idk why people are so negative about David Crowley using bird spotting to choose to reenter the race in Wisconsin. I've long advocated for the use of augury in political decision-making 2544
Reposted by Leahfunferall @funferall.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Sing, goddess, the mēnis of Claude son of Anthropic — well, more of a considered reservation — which brought countless caveats upon the Achaeans. 1193
Reposted by LeahArmand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Catullus 31 new translation. substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comJoyful homecomingCatullus returns to glorious Lake Garda 095
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I would never miss a chance to share my language bookshelf! 1121
Reposted by Leahdepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026not to be confused with quesadilla 5581021802
Reposted by Leah Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Everytime someone mentions solarpunk a tone only me and cats can hear plays 2101
Reposted by LeahEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Golden Gate Claude was actually the peak of human civilization and it has all been downhill since then simonwillison.net/2024/May/24/... 213614
Reposted by LeahTuatha @tuatha.ie · 31/07/2026This carved stone plaque was found in St Francis' Row in Cashel, and it is believed to be the sign for a tavern that was known as The Cat & Bagpipes, that once stood on the main street. It may date to as early as the 16-17th century, and offers a glimpse of Cashel's social life from centuries ago 101035251
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026FYI if you have watched La belle Hélène too many times before reading Miller's "Song of Achilles", you are at severe risk of hearing all the silly intros from "Voici les rois de la Grèce" in your head at inopportune times 100
Reposted by Leahamy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 28/07/2026putting a sex scene in oppenheimer but not the odyssey is wild though. can we all agree on that at least 131746191
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 28/07/2026My wife's lock screen photo is me in front of this mosaic 💕 141
Reposted by LeahNina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 27/07/2026For #MosaicMonday a #Roman mosaic with a mesmerizing 3D effect. Domus Romana, near Rabat and Mdina, #Malta , dating 100 BC. 📷️ 🏺 #archaeology 11477110
Reposted by Leahdgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Here's my poem, A Selcouth Tree. It's written in Scots in Old English metre alliteration.net/poetry/a-sel...alliteration.netA Selcouth Tree, a Tolkien fan poem in modern Scots by Colin MackenzieHeich abune the unhamelt grun / 'mang the mony mithril brenches / leemin, gowden grew the flooers ... 1149
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Why is facebook pushing posts from groups that I'm not in with AI slop images protesting AI data centers, what is even going on here 120
![They are Fools that Reason thus,
Communis Error facit Jus [kə-
ˈmju:-nɪs ˈer-ə ˈfeɪ-sɪt ʤᴧs].
(Robert Dixon, Canidia, or the Witches (1683), XVI.718–19)
To what Absurdities will you hale us?
Semel malus semper præsumitur esse malus
[ˈsi:-məlˈmeɪ-ləs ˈsem-pə prɪ-
ˈsᴧm-ɪ-tɜ:
ˈes-i:ˈmeɪ-ləs].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vpepa7tkir7iaia3risvyjc6/bafkreie6gpnktsjiv44h7m2hmp6wwhsixbaegpuoauu7yfa6lrdykejaeq)
![Culpam in Jovem rejicias [ˈcᴧl-pəm ɪn ˈʤəʊ-vəm rə-ˈʤɪʃ-əs],
Say’twas the Gods, not you that were vicious.
(ibid. XVI.1073–4)
To prove that Peers should never vary,
Nor Leges Anglice mutari [ˈli:-ʤi:zˈæɳglɪ-si mju:-ˈteə-ri]35
.
(Thomas Tickell, For England’s Injured Church and Law (1730), lines 79–10)
Watches, when first invented– seek’em,
In brother Trusler’s Vade Mecum[ˈveɪ-di:ˈmi:-kəm].
(William Mason, King Stephen’s Watch. A Tale (1782), lines 13–14)
Your subtile spirits, or your mighty,
Your aqua fortis, aqua vitae [ˈæk-wə ˈfɔ:-tɪs, ˈæk-wə ˈvaɪ-ti:].
(Thomas Holcroft, Human Happiness, or the Sceptic (1783), I.151–2)
With nonsense in verse can elate and delight’em,
And gives them variety ad infinitum [æd ˌɪn-fɪ-
ˈnaɪ-təm].
(Anthony Pasquin, The Children of Thepsis (1789), Part II.795–6)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vpepa7tkir7iaia3risvyjc6/bafkreifzhr2r4fcwtvbsm2n6swodsrycanniohaz2xu5fvqikxf3a32dyq)
![But peace to her– her Emperor and Diet,
Though now transferred to Buonapartè’s ‘fiat’ [ˈfaɪ-ət].
(Byron, The Waltz: An Apostrophic Hymn (1813), lines 55–6)
But that, indeed, was hopeless as can be,
Quite a poetic felony‘de se’[di: si:].
(Byron, The Vision of Judgement (1822), XCIV.751–2)
And had told all the party a great booming lie, he
Cook’d up, that‘the fête was postposed sine die’ [ˈsaɪ-ni:ˈdaɪ-i:].
(Thomas Ingoldsby, The Lay of St Cuthbert (1840), lines 74–5)
So unless you’re a dunce, You’ll see clearly, at once,
When you come to consider the facts of the case, he,
Of course never gave her his Vade in pace [ˈveɪ-di: ɪn ˈpeɪ-si:].
(Thomas Ingoldsby, The Lay of the Old Woman Clothed in Grey (1840), lines 263–5)
Your thoughts, opinions, freely state’em.
Then, here they follow seriatim [ˌsɪə-ri-ˈeɪ-tɪm].
(Robert Story, Reply to an Epistle from Mr. Gourley (1857), lines 31–2)
May thy hand be fierce as Ate’s [ˈeɪ-ti:z]
Fighting for our old Penates [pe-ˈneɪ-ti:z]
(Lady Wilde, The Old Man’s Blessing (1864), lines 13–14)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vpepa7tkir7iaia3risvyjc6/bafkreih3k6z37bfspfsdcpdy434dgi4evq44twfnvl7jucsgen4vf5uzs4)
