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 · 01/10/2026"marry, kill, reanimate" really got me in the third book 000
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The potato is sending me, I would absolutely buy a couple stickers 040
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
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Can't believe the editor let her get away with "none house with left grief" 110
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Finally a novel that dares to ask the question, could a goth and a jock be friends? 100
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
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Thank you for the reminder, I still need to see this! 000
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Very interesting recent book on this is "For and Against a United Ireland" by O'Toole and McBride 120
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026In the last few decades the Republic has become very rich, and more progressive and secular. People in the Republic are favorable to reunification in theory but it's less clear if they are willing to pay a lot more in taxes to support NI, which now has a stagnant economy and low productivity 120
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 · 09/09/2026Dug up another one, this is from September 10 (Brown Day)? Look at that poor midday sun struggling to break through the ash dome 000
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026That's quite pretty if you overlook the ominous context! Looks like a nice sunset almost 010
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 · 03/09/2026The adderall seems like an unnecessary extra step here 010
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 · 31/08/2026That's absolutely correct. My wife and doctor were very supportive, fortunately. I never had enough supply to fully feed my daughter but I was able to give her like 1/3 of her daily intake up to six months (when I tapped out) 020
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Autocorrect really screwed me over on this one. Flour in our tortillas etc. 010
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Clearly flour has that famous English "ou" diphthong! 010
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026(Fortunately she does get like 3-5 good etymology facts per day.) 040
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Also my toddler just like two days ago was trying to figure these out (asking if flowers in a vase would turn into flowers like in our tortillas). Can't believe I missed a chance to share this excellent etymology fact 220
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Peak English moment that they have totally different spellings and neither one makes much sense phonologically 320
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It's vanishingly rare. Source: I actually did this. When I was preparing for the process and wanted to share notes with someone, but couldn't find a single other trans woman who had done this. 130
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026These people were driving a team of oxen from sunup to sundown, or caring for kids (and spinning cloth every minute the kids were asleep), on like 1500 calories on a good day 000
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 · 27/08/2026So, I have no idea what else this could mean. The book's list of conventions has a few characters with subscript dots but all basically the same meaning: "identification douteuse" or "peu sûre" or "incertaine". Any ideas that could explain this? (4/4) 000
