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Jussi Ahokas @ahokasjaj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ensin: puhun yleisesti Sitten: puheeni on irrotettu asiayhteydestä

Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Calling an attack on a NATO country "irresponsible" sounds like an understatement. Or used to sound. Maybe it's just a mishap these days.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

States trade and work with a country they pretend to not recognize and then readily allow it to be devoured by a nation-eating far-right power. In the currents of 21st c. international politics trade defines existence, but apparently not enough to justify it.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

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Old World Review @oldworldreview.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Our new article discusses the spread and transformation of Manichaeism in China where it faced continuous hardships, ultimately integrating with Maitreya Buddhism. The story also explores the rumors of possible Manichean travels into Taiwan. oldworldreview.com/2026/03/18/m... #history #religion

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Mani at the ends of the Earth

Manichaeism was a world-religion established in the 3rd century Sassanid Persia by the prophet Mani (216–274). Despite its complex cosmology, the religion sought to combine teachings from a variety…

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Is it just the season or are there really so many more mainlanders in Hong Kong now?

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Got this 阿美 grammar. It is, of course, hell.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Hualien's Dongdamen night market has many of its signs written in three indigenous languages.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Hot take: if your city is not walkable, it's not a city.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Regarding Davos: Rutte's angle to the Greenland schism is a bit disturbing, and unreasonably submissive considering his role. Stubb's is consistent. Both are upholding the delusion Carney discussed. At some point we can't afford to pretend anymore, but apparently that time has yet to arrive.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Chinese diplomatic approach has long been harmful for its soft power agenda, a phenomenon admitted by certain Chinese scholar(s) too as I remember. As always, foreign policy merely mirrors domestic politics.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Of course, treaties are as reliable as the states that sign them. How are we to know what, according to Americans, counts as Russian aggression in the future? Or are the inevitable violations going to be obscured with propaganda and "who knows what happened"-narratives?

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

The third point in the plan is also rather strange: "It is expected that Russia will not invade neighbouring countries [...]" And if they do invade? Obviously this isn't presented in a particularly convincing way, so why mention it at all?

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Regarding point 11 in this mafia-esque extortion - What the hell is this? It's not up to Americans and Russians to decide weather Ukraine is or isn't eligible for the EU membership. Neither is anything else EU-related.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

It seems rather clear that the so-called peace plan was written for the sole purpose of being rejected.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Important topic. Though I'd like to emphasize that despite the standardization efforts for the Latin-based orthography, there's a variety of "unofficial" writing methods for these languages being used. I've even heard of someone still using Kanji. I think it's great, even if a bit impractical.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Pretty good lecture by Jeffrey Wasserstrom on current developments in Hong Kong - "Hong Kong 2025: Competing Visions of a City’s Past, Present, and Future" www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zrm...

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Critical Issues Confronting China Series (中國大問題) | Jeffrey Wasserstrom (華志堅) — October 1, 2025

YouTube video by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies | Harvard University

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RazvenHK @razvenhk.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

A new Patreon post is out, read "Vivian Kong is the perfect poster child for the current Hong Kong" here (for free): www.patreon.com/posts/143324...

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

To my understanding 'horn' is 'eber' in classical Mongolian vs. эвэр in modern Mongolian. Can anyone give some context into how Buryat has seemingly preserved the "original" form? Does it have to do with Mongolian standardization (e.g. from certain dialect), transcription, or what's going on here?

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Lin, Chia-Wei @chiaweilin.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Pelliot Tibétain 351 (an Old Tibetan divination text), l. 40: myi khyod gi rogs ni lha qi śi myi śi ha źe bya ste "Man, your companion is a god called Jesus Messiah." cf. G. Uray 1995, "Tibet’s Connections with Nestorianism and Manicheism in the 8th–10th Centuries"

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Came across this article arguing that Qing's approach towards the aboriginals in Taiwan wasn't one of exploitation since it was "security-orientated and deliberately non-expansive." I don't see how such a "security-oriented" motif isn't based on territorial exploitation.

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Old World Review @oldworldreview.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Introducing the first installment of the Old World Dōngxī -series, where we share interesting historical curiosities, both textual and visual, regarding the themes of the site. Today: A novel in Dungan, art in Kazakh SSR, letters of a 19th century philologist... oldworldreview.com/2025/07/09/o...

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Old World Dōngxī #1

In this series we introduce somewhat randomly chosen online curiosities – historical documents or visual materials – that you may explore at your own leisure. These items tie into the t…

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

My favourite thing about Southeast Asian horror films is that they skip the "Pff, you believe in ghosts?" -part. Everyone believes, instantly.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Do folks like dictionaries? I mean where applicable - for smaller/dead languages, as well as for etymologies etc, dictionaries are still instrumental. I personally like casually browsing a decent dictionary, that's something lacking when using translation tools.

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yando 🏳️‍⚧️ @the-killing-goon.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

fellow nonfiction writers! if you're not currently saving EVERY SINGLE web page/web news story you cite to the Wayback Machine YOU SHOULD BE!! no more dead links in footnotes! no more dead links in bibliographies! never ever forget how fragile the internet is—save internet history!

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Ted @tedzu.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Love this Canto phrase 見攰就唞 gin3 gui6 zau6 tau2 “feel tired then rest” cuz it illustrates how Cantonese uses words differently from other Sinitic languages 見 here doesn’t mean “to see” but “to feel” 攰 means “tired” 就 means “then” 唞 means “to rest”

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https://christiantimes.org.hk/Common/Reader/News/ShowNews.jsp?Nid=173785&Pid=105&Version=0&Cid=2168&Charset=big5_hkscs

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RazvenHK @razvenhk.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

HK Nat-Se Police has issued a banned on Taiwanese mobile game "Reversed Front: Bonfire", accusing the game 'promoting secessionist agendas' such as "Taiwan & HK independence"'. Anyone who shares, recommends or downloads the game may be prosecuted for sedition & subversion…

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Old World Review @oldworldreview.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Old World Review is an online publication for exploratory essays on historical and cultural topics of Eurasia. We are particularly interested in histories of small nations and languages, on borderlands and exchanges, as well as lesser studied art histories. We take submissions!

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The thing about all these pieces complaining about Marine Le Pen's conviction is that not a single one of them bothers to explain why someone found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros from public funds should be allowed to get away with it

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Here (百家姓) 'Phags-pa 沈 would transliterate into "zhim", would it not? As in it's not ꡮ, but ꡚ ? Perhaps it's only a relative distinction, but I'm still wondering what would be a semi-accurate latin transliteration of 沈 from some sort of Middle Chinese? It seems close(?) to modern Hakka 'shim'.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

One interesting development in China's official communication in the last decade or so is the open turn towards far-right (I guess what most would call 'fascist') style of output. The "communist" aesthetics of pseudo-solidarity have been switched to whatever the hell this is.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Saanen jatkaa kovan luokan sisäpoliittista analyysiäni toteamalla, että Kokoomus on myös mielenkiintoinen puolue kunnallispolitiikassa. Hehän eivät vaikuta edes pitävän kaupungeista. Onko uhka vai mahdollisuus, riippunee asuinpaikastasi.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

It's a tragedy that these positions are in France, poor scholars.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Kuntavaaliehdokkaiden apinajoukosta löytyy toki paljon hyviäkin kandidaatteja, mutta välillä nämä hyvätkin herättävät hieman epäilyksiä. Mitä esim. tuo Limnell sitten kuitenkaan toisi Espoolle? Lisää ilmatorjuntapattereita?

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

It's difficult to look at the American circus from abroad and not come to a conclusion that some kind of death of politics has taken place there. Policy discussions have been overtaken by fictional struggles ("woke") and terms have lost all their analytical meanings ("conservative", "radical left").

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你法我笑的Dictator Yang📄🏳️‍🌈🌻🍉🐚 #pray4jade @y-wenli.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Calling the PRC, a party-state that stifles independent worker organizing in China, regularly colludes with capitalists to oppress Chinese workers, and uses the hukou system to exploit an underclass of hundreds of millions of 农民工(Nongmingong), a “workers’ state” is a form of *anti-Chinese racism*

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

With all due respect to all forms of artistic expression, I feel like we should import the irrational hatred for Sleep Token from the other app.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

What a strange piece. While it acknowledges the natural shifts in identity, it still seems that he is lamenting that the 外省人 weren't able to disseminate their national identity enough nor keep it stagnant after the end of the martial law. Almost as if they're living in a different country.

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Simon Berger @chakarchinggis.eurosky.social · 01/03/2025

Joyeux Nouvel An mongol ! ᠼᠠᠷ ᠱᠢᠨᠡᠳᠡᠡ ᠰᠠᠶᠬᠠᠨ ᠱᠢᠨᠡᠯᠡᠡᠷᠡᠶ Сар шинэдээ сайхан шинэлээрэй ! Bonne année du Serpent de Bois à toutes et tous ! #mongolsky #tengri #TsagaanSar

Peuple de Gog et Magog, monté sur un serpent géant, derrière la muraille de fer bâtie par Alexandre le Grand pour les enfermer. Au-delà du mur, deux cavaliers (géants ?), dont l'un souffle dans une trompe. Miniature ottomane par Osman, tirée du Metaliʿü'l-saadet de Mehmed Suûdî Efendi, Istanbul, XVIe s. ; ms. BNF Supplément turc 242, f.76.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Do Americans think diplomacy is just about "making deals"? Do they believe demanding indulgence makes their country look strong? Or that they're best represented by men who get their intel from social media? Is this what they call the "epistemic gap"?

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Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 @ryanhk.blue · 20/02/2025

The Democratic Party says it is preparing to disband. Hard to blame them when they’ve been effectively barred from standing in HK’s “patriots-only” elections but it’s still another dark sign of the times — truly the end of the era when HKers had any hope of affecting change through the ballot box.

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民主黨成立小組跟進解散及清盤程序事宜 (21:52) - 20250220 - 港聞

【明報專訊】創黨逾30年的民主黨醞釀解散，民主黨中委會今晚（20日）開會討論未來路向，議程包括解散民主黨。會後民主黨決定成立小組，處理解散及清盤安排。

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This is being circulated in Mr. 糖山‘s social media: A 50 Kana 五十音 table from Japanese-era Taiwan (Shōwa 17: 1942) with sinographic equivalents to be pronounced in Taiwanese Hokkien 😁

A 50 Kana 五十音 table from Japanese-ers Taiwan (Shōwa 17: 1942) with sinographic equivalents to be pronounced in Taiwanese Hokkien

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Ben Mitchell @ohbendy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

In the same way the Latin script has loads of extra letters like ⱭƁƐƏꞰŊÞẞƔ for different languages, the Myanmar script has lots of extra letters for some of the 100+ languages of Burma. Even where language groups use the same letters, different communities have their own preferred letterforms.

Image showing the letters used by 22 of the languages spoken in Burma, with the various letterforms preferred by each group

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

This book has Chinese phonetic transliteration marked above the Manchu text. Very cute.

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