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mrg

@mrg.name

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Just some guy with a camera. Also, I've got a {Chinese, classical Chinese, Italian, Japanese} dictionary and I'm not afraid to use it.

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mrg @mrg.name · 10/11/2025

OPHANIM אוֹפַנִּים (Optical Photon and Antimatter Imager) is a 3800 megapixel camera used in the AEgIS αἰγίς high-energy physics project at CERN. In this blog post The Owlet of Minerva tries to pick apart the scientific, biblical Hebrew, medieval European and Buddhist iconography of the instrument.

A circular circuit board with various icons and a text in latin along the circumference and multicoloured squares in the centre.

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mrg @mrg.name · 07/09/2025

I just finished the Duolingo Mandarin to Cantonese course. I am a little annoyed that there wasn’t a nice achievement screen to screenshot and share. Wonder what to do next, Glossika, perhaps? I’m still far from being able to handle native content like movies and podcasts.

A screenshot of the Duolingo mobile website showing a finshed course.

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mrg @mrg.name · 02/09/2025

Hip hip hurrah! 🎉🥳🥂 May you have many happy years together!

Hip hip hurrah! is an oil-on-canvas painting from 1888 by Danish painter Peder Severin Krøyer. It depicts various members of the Skagen Painters standing and sitting around a table in the shadow of tree, toasting in champagne.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip,_Hip,_Hurrah!

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mrg @mrg.name · 27/08/2025

Och här kommer själva grafen!

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mrg @mrg.name · 27/07/2025

Apparently Tom Lehrer survived his obituarist.

The byline for the New York Times obituary for Tom Lehrer says:

"Richard Severo, a New York Times reporter from 1968 to 2006, died in 2023. Alex Traub contributed reporting."

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mrg @mrg.name · 19/06/2025

I wasted soo much time on this. I never really got the hang of it since I had…lost the instructions.

The title screen of the Commodore 64 game ”Spy vs Spy” from 1984.

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mrg @mrg.name · 09/05/2025

Somehow there wasn't room in my life for a @lrb.co.uk subscription, a full-time job and a full-time family. Still thinking perhaps I should have cancelled the family instead...

A pile of about 30 issues of the London Review of Books still in their plastic packaging.

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mrg @mrg.name · 18/03/2025

A cartoon from 1939 where Hitler, wielding an axe, points at a goose labled ”Poland” saying: ”All I want of him is a thin slice of his neck.”

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mrg @mrg.name · 14/01/2025

Age yourself with your first computer. I still have it in storage somewhere, including CRT monitor, tape deck, original packaging and manuals.

A Luxor ABC80 computer released in 1978 with CRT monitor and tape deck.

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mrg @mrg.name · 13/11/2024

Hedda Morrison's Photographs of China from the Harvard Yanching Library. More than 8500 photographs from China 1933-1946. curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/hedda-morris... HT: glammr.us/@overholt/11...

A black and white photo of a Chinese tomb. 剛鐵墓 ; Tomb of Gang Tie. By Hedda Morrison, 1908-1991, German, creator, photographer

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mrg @mrg.name · 12/11/2024

Yikes.

A search result for Saul Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals' from Amazon's Kindle store. The first result is Alinsky but the following are: "Rules for Radicals Defeated: A Practical Guide for Defeating Obama", "Rules for ANTI-Radicals: A Practical Handbook for Defeating Leftism" and "New Rules for Radicals: TNT for Faith-Based Leaders".

The list just goes on and on with conservative takes on "Rules for Radicals".

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mrg @mrg.name · 27/10/2024

My first little Book of Songs: “*[k]ˤro[n] *[k]ˤro[n] goes the birdie”

A cartoon image of a bird of prey with a speech bubble that says contains the Baxter-Sagart Old Chinese transliteration of the Chinese character 關 guan, the first word in the Book of Songs, supposedly onomatopoeia for the call of an osprey.

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mrg @mrg.name · 27/10/2024

What? I just cancelled my Washington Post subscription but didn't get a chance to tell them why. Ah, well, I suppose they'll figure it out. 🙉

A screenshot of the Washington Post's cancel subscription form with the option "Other" checked but nowhere to enter a detailed reason.

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mrg @mrg.name · 10/09/2024

Sorry to raise this thread from the dead but I KNEW I had seen that guy before (and not in the TMNT).

A human flanked by a humanoid duck and a humanoid boar all wearing post-apocalyptic combat gear. A promotional image for the RPG Mutant: Year Zero.

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mrg @mrg.name · 24/08/2024

Reskeet with a favourite book from your childhood.

The cover of the children’s book “The Penguin that Hated the Cold”. A penguin dressed in a scarf and mittens warming himself over an open fire in front of an igloo.

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mrg @mrg.name · 18/06/2024

The YouTube subtitles of The Long Season referred to the main character as “vigilante” which struck me as not very appropriate in the context. (I don’t recall the Chinese term used though). Perhaps people are using cc-cedict and just lazily picking the first meaning listed.

A Chinese-English electronic dictionary showing “vigilante“ as the first meaning for the Chinese word 义警

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