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kobayashi ḫamṭu

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hi all, the family affected here are good friends of a friend of mine. please share if you wouldn't mind, and consider making a donation if you can. gofund.me/9e8f26709
gofund.me
Donate to Support Rosie Umana's Medical Journey, organized by Margie Pena
Rosie Umana, Jeffery and Amanda Umana’s youngest daughter, was diagnosed with Rett s… Margie Pena needs your support for Support Rosie Umana's Medical Journey
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 4h
In another world Israel's offensive in Gaza petered out in November/December 2023 as they expended their entire strategic stockpile of aerial bombs, as the US followed its own laws and moral obligations and did not provide new supply.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 13h
I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to join our lab in Fall 2027, through either Computer Science or Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for people with interests in NLP plus [healthcare | literary studies | narratives | social media | etc.]. Join us! 🏔️☀️
cls-lab.com
CLS Lab — Culture, Language, & Systems | University of Colorado Boulder
The Culture, Language, & Systems Lab at CU Boulder studies the language systems that transmit and shape modern culture, from internet platforms to literary archives to language models.
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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 14h
wow, "next store neighbor" has a good number of attestations on bluesky
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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 14h
It was such tendencies that made me realize that I often think in sound, and can "mishear" my own thoughts!
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"they are just doing a lot of simple operations! 🤢" versus "they are just doing a lot of simple operations! 😯"
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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 15h
baby's first cicero
CAMBRIDGE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS
CICERO LAELIVS
DE AMICITIA
EDITED BY KATHARINA VOLK AND JAMES E. G. ZETZEL
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 16h
“Bongo” Ballpoint pen, pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint, and a little colored pencil.

Our man is in trouble this time, reader. Art supplies are scattered around a painting of an abstract cityscape. On the canvas we see a man in a telephone booth making a frantic call to his cat, Bongo. In the foreground, an answering machine is taking his voicemail, [Leave a message at the beep] --- “Bongo, Daddy got stuck in the painting. Go get help, Bongo.” Bongo stands at the base of the easel looking at the phone. Her tail in the air and ears perked up. Whether she’ll be able to help is open to interpretation.

Artist’s note: One of my favorites from the Spooky Pants book. I was playing around with the idea of a painting coming to life (like that guy in Ghostbusters 2) and kind of fumbled my way into this version. I really draw a lot of corded phones. I won’t stop.
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brent sewer socialist🚰🌹 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 16h
I think what’s so depressing to me is that you know these people will never face any real accountability for this. Democrats do not remotely have the temperament and drive to hunt these people down and ensure they spend the rest of their life behind bars
cnn.com
Inside a Texas immigration court where children fight to stay in the US | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hi all, the family affected here are good friends of a friend of mine. please share if you wouldn't mind, and consider making a donation if you can. gofund.me/9e8f26709
gofund.me
Donate to Support Rosie Umana's Medical Journey, organized by Margie Pena
Rosie Umana, Jeffery and Amanda Umana’s youngest daughter, was diagnosed with Rett s… Margie Pena needs your support for Support Rosie Umana's Medical Journey
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Alexander Jabbari @ajab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Palestinians living in tents in Gaza urgently need tarps for the coming winter. Please donate to the Gaza Support Network to purchase tarps and help families in Gaza stay warm and dry. chuffed.org/project/tarp...
chuffed.org
Urgent: In Gaza Now - Tarps Are Everything
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 28/09/2026
Attacking Rafah was the Biden administration's "Red Line" in May 2024. Israel crossed that line, depopulated it, bombed it beyond recognition, and then collected $20 billion more in American weapons before the end of his term.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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Professor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is one of the challenges in drawing students to humanities majors. Either the subjects are frivolous so why take them, or students are shocked that the teachers expect them to do work so they seek easier pathways that promise greater material rewards.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 27/09/2026
The Finance Minister of Israel, who is also a deputy defense minister and the military governor of the-illegally occupied West Bank, calls for Israel to "go to war" in the West Bank, annex 70% of Gaza, and annex all of Lebanon south of the Litani River.
timesofisrael.com
Smotrich: Israel must ‘go to war’ in West Bank, ‘do there what we did in Gaza’
Finance minister also calls on Israel to annex 'at least' up to the ceasefire line in Gaza and the Litani River in Lebanon to make enemies 'pay a price' for Oct. 7 and ensuing wars
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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 27/09/2026
I like that the Irish for 'tonight' is related to English's word, but not so with the Irish for 'night' – while the former (anocht) maintains the common Indo-European root for 'night', the latter (oíche) is of unknown origin beyond Old Irish.
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Dan Conway @magisterconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There was also an “Old Stumpy Lane” and an “Old Old Stumpy Lane”
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Ryan 🏳️‍🌈 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 27/09/2026
these fanmade kanji are great www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JC4...
character for walking while on your smartphone, looks like the character for "to look" but the part that represents the eye is bent down toward the ground
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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
wow, seriously? stød reflects Old Norse syllable structure? this is the coolest thing i have read all day
The historical origin of stod is a matter of debate, but it is systematically related to the word accents of Swedish and Norwegian: 17 It has been proposed that original Old Norse monosyllables (not counting the definite article, which was still a separate word) received the stod, while words of two or more syllables did not. This would explain why hund ['hun'] ('dog'), hunden ['hun'n] ('the dog') and finger ['fen'e] ('finger'; Old Norse fingr in one syllable) have the stod in modern Danish, while hunde ['huna] ('dogs'), hundene ['hunne] ('the dogs') and fingre ['fende] ('fingers') do not.
[citation needed]
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
theguardian.com
ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 25/09/2026
Very, very pleased to have someone running for Senate in Maine who is clearly good on this issue and has no personal baggage or malcontent. It gives me pause that there are people who therefore think dropping Platner was primarily about this issue, especially given Abdul's parallel unimpeded ascent.
After Benjamin Netanyahu, who I believe is a war criminal, just came and went from New York, I’ve been thinking a lot about the world my first granddaughter is about to enter.

No child should have to grow up wondering whether the next bomb is going to hit their home. No parent should have to wonder whether they can feed their kid or keep them alive. And American taxpayer dollars should not be used to keep fueling that suffering.

Susan Collins has voted again and again to send billions in military aid to Israel throughout this war. She’s part of the same broken Washington system that keeps funding these conflicts while working people here get screwed.

When I get to the United States Senate, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop the killing, get humanitarian aid to the people who need it, and stop writing blank checks for endless wars.

I've been clear where I stand since Day One, and Mainers can check my website to see where I stand.

http://jacksonformaine.com/priorities
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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
that's kind of cool
The Lorem ipsum text is derived from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of Cice p's De finibus bonorum et malorum. I61[7] The physical source may have been the 1914 Loeb Classical Library edition of De finibus, where the Latin text, presented on the left-hand (even) pages, breaks off on page 34 with "Neque porro quisquam est qui do-" and continues on page 36 with "orem ipsum ...."[1] The Lorem ipsum text continues with excerpts that appear to
generally match the layouts of pages 56, 70, and 118, 8) suggesting that the layout of the Loeb book was the source of the dummy text seen today.
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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
these are incredible
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CJ @virmalised.us · 25/09/2026
Anyone have recommendations for Intensive Spanish? Open to going wherever
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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i love this eggcorn because it sounds like drinking the koolaid is called that because you're trying to be cool (which i guess it often is)
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Old English incels say hwæt
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*puts on flower crown, falls into a faerie circle* @klezmerstyle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you're hot BUT you're cold you're yes OR you're no you're in AND you're out you're up XOR down
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today marks 9 years since the Mashrou' Leila concert at which the late Sarah Hegazi raised the rainbow flag in a moment of pure joy. Thinking of those who Egyptian regime repression has driven to lives underground, to lives in exile, and to lives no longer lived. We remember. 🤍
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 22/09/2026
I have a very close friend in Gaza, a mother of three children, who has lost everything and is in need of donations to take care of her family. Like the many thousands of displaced Gazans.

Please give if you can. No amount of donation is too small. And help others 🙏 ❤️ chuffed.org/project/1981...
My friend’s youngest daughter in Gaza.
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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
nn msy sꜣw ‘no one is born wise’ —Maxims of Ptaḥḥotep, Prisse Papyrus 5,6 (ca. 2000 BCE)
Egyptian text in Hieratic script on papyrus
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/09/2026
If European countries & other signatories to the International Criminal Court have any self-respect, they'd sanction Rubio & Trump for obstructing investigations of Netanyahu's war crimes.
wsj.com
Exclusive | Trump Ramps Up Bid to Dismantle International Criminal Court
The U.S. administration is preparing sweeping sanctions that would cut the court off from much of the global financial system.
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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 21/09/2026
Notice how Meta, a company that happily advertises nudify apps, doesn't even view censoring "civil rights, feminism, [and] social reform" as an error. This is what they want. > To resolve the situation, Meta recommended removing “key words” so that the text doesn’t appear to encourage activism.
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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ok it seems i need to learn to understand Lebanese Arabic better .... does anybody have podcast recommendations
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New Yorkers: any in person fun kids weekend Arabic classes? Ideally non religious? I’ll travel to queens or even Jersey (shallow though) Trying to get our kid more immersion than me or my dad speaking to him!
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
statesman.com
Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Darth Vader saying “I AM ALTERING THE DEAL PRAY I DO NOT ALTER IT ANY FURTHER” with a red Nike logo over this face
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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
speaking my masri with an elderly lebanese man i recently met here (arabic monolingual) and genuinely not sure whether it would be better to throw some levantinisms into my arabic, slash say /dʒ/ for /g/ when i occasionally remember, or if that would just make things more confusing
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.
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Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Spanish wotd holgazán ‘deadbeat, lazybones’ From Arabic كَسلان ‘lazy’
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
But that’s not the case. People set AI up. They are the ones who set harmful things in action. And so they are the ones who should be held responsible.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
Regulation looks intractable if you’re acting like AI is a bear that acts on its own and that nobody has the right or ability to restrain or control.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
This is such a great thread because it tells you instantly how to answer the supposedly intractable regulation problem: liability, potentially joint liability, for the person who set up the AI system.
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Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy St. Hildegard's Day!
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