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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 23h

Excellent! I shall give the first one a try. Thank you so much!

Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've read Mars House already (I always buy and read everything Natasha Pulley writes), but I've never read the Slough House books. Are they worth reading if I've already devoured the tv series?

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

frantically scrolling libro.fm for my next audiobook...

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Welp, I just learned about the noperthedron! Had to sift through some AI-slop articles whose images were clearly wrong (e.g., not convex polyhedra), but this Quanta article seems legit. www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...

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First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine

After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

At my 'why you shouldn't use AI' lecture for the new MSc students, they spontaneously volunteered udm14 and ecosia (it plants trees!) as alternatives. I can't say this crop of MScs is universally anti-AI, but I think enough of them are, and vocally so, that there's a healthy cohort peer pressure.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Started to get het up and post a grumpy remark about leg hair and the point of fashion not being uniquely about attracting the opposite sex. Then I read the article. It's about identifying an EVOLUTIONARY adaptive advantage for males to grow facial hair. That'll teach me to respond to a headline.

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We have K in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS Hatton 20, Gregory's Pastoral Care, from the 890s. Anything earlier?

Bodleian Library, MS. Hatton 20, fol. 1r detail, showing the text ÆLfred kyning

Bodleian Library, MS. Hatton 20, fol. 1r

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Great book, but it struck me as a pretty straightforward adult fantasy book. Not even YA, and not remotely middle-grade.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I love living in Scotland in many ways, but I do miss this part of the old days.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'd think any semi-competent murderer would spring for some curtains. Maybe it's a murder-training room?

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As it should be. Imagine how dull the world would be if you did know everything.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@greenleejw.bsky.social , this feels like something you'd have an opinion on.

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Glasgow Scribes @glasgowscribes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh, also at our local meeting, a dispute came up about when the letter K entered the English language, and in particular its use in Insular Majuscule. #medievalSky can you offer some sources on the issue?

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, Glasgow local people, if you need a #calligraphy fix, Glasgow Scribes has meetings and welcomes visitors!

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Leah from South Dakota @leahfromsd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I love you, horseless headman 🥲

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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

anyone else feel like this

A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Contributors who are completely turned away by the fact that they can’t use LLMs are probably contributors you don’t want in your project... [they] are probably not able to review and understand the code by themselves (or they will lose that ability soon enough)."

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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

happy pumpkin season! (art from 2014)

a black and white scratchboard drawing. Alternative poster for "It's the great pumpkin, Charlie brown"
It depicts a vast pumpkin patch in which Linus is standing holding a sign. He is looking up at the full moon. In front of the full moon we can see Snoopy in his aviator costume on his doghouse.
All the way in the distance, there is a house and we can see three children in halloween costumes coming out the door.

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Earl Grey Screams Club @earlgreymemes.club · 30/09/2026

Happy 35th Anniversary to "Darmok"

curated design by unknown author, a certifiably ancient image (but originally a ThinkGeek shirt maybe?), a screenprint-style image of Jean Luc Picard of Star Trek TNG playing guitar, in the style of a rock band's tour shirt, with text: Darmok & Jalad at Tanagra September 1991

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Overheard on campus today: 'You can survive any type of fall; it's just a matter of how well you convert your vertical to horizontal momentum at the bottom.' File under: 'Why teenagers think they're immortal', volume XIXX.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Caravaggio was such a master of lighting.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tentacle pot 457 is going to a ball wearing enormous skirts with swooshy petticoats.

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Art But Sports (auto feed) @artbutsportsfeed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero Original post

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Currently reading The Mortons, by Justine Larbalestier and Scott Westerfeld, and it is apparently scratching my enormous-murderous-family-with-HARD-CORE-induction-and-training-of-its-youngsters itch. I read it because I read a personal blog review of it that made it seem cool. Word of mouth ftw!

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tentacle Pot 455 is taking Irish step dancing classes

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tentacle Pot 545 politely disbelieves you when you say to come on in, the water's great ...

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm so sorry. I have fond memories of her purring on your podcast episodes.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm always grumpy when that happens. My original draft was concise, focused, and a breezy whizz to read. Now it's the kind of slog where people nope out halfway through the intro.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bless the memory of Stanislav Yevgrafovich, the Man Who Saved the World. At a moment when it mattered, he chose humanity.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I HAVE NEVER BEFORE THIS INSTANT NOTICED THAT THESE ARE DIFFERENT WORDS!!!!

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If u/IntrusiveGas can demonstrate that Geoff the turtle's native language contains contrastive voiced retroflex affricates, we have more to discuss than the pronunciation of Geoff the turtle's name. #phonetics #linguistics

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think it's iffy in the best of cases to insist on a pronunciation requiring allophones that are not contrastive in a speaker's own language -- and those best of cases exclusively involve situations where the named person's own language requires those contrasts to avoid, like, slurs.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(Actually, maybe not minutiae? Maybe foundational-but-hidden-scaffolding? Anyway! Thank you!)

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I LOVE it when experts talk about the minutiae of their craft. And now I know a new thing!

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just looked it up. Haven't read all of it, but I really liked Works of Vermin and Slow Gods, so whoever's selecting them seems to be at least partially intersecting with my wavelength. Maybe I'll draw from it for my suggestions for next month's book group selection.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I see it now! Thank you so much for explaining.

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Blinkie @meemawblinkie.northsky.social · 24/09/2026

"I'm really into etymology and historical linguistics" I spent 4 years working on a PhD in linguistics and I am telling you to settle the fuck down you unvoiced schwa.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(disclaimer: I loathe genAI, I'm not trying to challenge you. I'm reading your thread because I'm interested in your expert take on a medium I don't know well.)

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I know very little about the craft of graphic novels. Is 'tangent' here a technical term? I looked at the the second page in the link you posted, but I don't understand what you mean by 'tangent'.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Congratulations? It doesn't sound like you particularly enjoyed the experience, though.

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