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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

😁 Yes please note I choose to photograph my beer at the end of the day rather than my trephined thumbnail to ruin everyone's breakfast at the start of it 🍻

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Fun fact in Egypt ربنا يشفيك can be used sarcastically to mean cool tf down

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I've been trying this thing. This is October 12, I think you're in the future #pastpuzzle en-604 🟩🟩🟥🟥 (+4) 🟩🟨🟨🟥 (-479) 🟩🟩🟩🟩 (0) ▪️▪️▪️▪️ 3/4 🥉 www.pastpuzzle.com

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's to make sure we follow regulations and policies but the videos dramatize everything with hammy scripts

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Is not due for a couple weeks but I'm getting it out of the way

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Persian proverb of the day جوجه را آخر پاییز می‌شمارند Formal pronunciation: jujeh rā ākhar-e pāyiz mishomārand Literal meaning: "Chicks are counted at the end of autumn." ~Don't count your chickens before they're hatched

ASKED about predictions that Iran’s economy faced imminent collapse, Abdolnasser Hemmati, its central-bank governor, reached for a Persian proverb: chickens are counted at the end of autumn. Maybe so, but the early-autumn tally looks bleak. The currency has never been weaker. Inflation is at its highest since the second world war. Oil loadings fell to zero last month for the first time since 1979.

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you don't have institutional access I'm sure the PDF is coming soon to a Russian website near you

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am just realizing now that Fuat Sezgin's monumental Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums was translated into English by Joep Lameer in 2023 and it's now available online if you have institutional access referenceworks.brill.com/display/db/s...

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"It wasn't a traditional debate format. It was a forum. In fact, the candidates received the questions in advance and Marx read his answers from the black folder he was holding."

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Political discourse in America has reached the point where we are having non-debates

Colorado Governor candidates Victor Marx and Phil Weiser share stage for a non-debate

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well they're not mutually exclusive. Thank you for the free map offer though!

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You're networking right now! All it is is talking to people who are into the same stuff

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

editor at a university press series whose office was across from mine — they'd all worked with the people before and with a book it's usually more about work quality which can't really be evaluated any other way.

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

of non-specialists would be quite small, but who knows with like game developers or something but that would likely be its own niche with its own networks. When I got recommendations for the people I worked with I emailed and DMed people I knew from social media/academic networking and talked to an

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There is quite likely more than one model but in my experience the authors paid out of research funding. You'd also have control over pricing. I think regarding copycats the issue is more about referrals and having a network of clients who likely have specs they need. I'd guess the market

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Collect some data first then iterate as the kids say these days

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Instead of creating thousands of drawings you could make a website with some samples and promote the idea on social media and other academic spaces targeting potential clients, charging per drawing and see if anyone's interested and build up a portfolio from there

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There might be more of a market in academic archaeology than one might think. When I was finishing my book and I got a cartographer, indexer, and copy editor I was surprised that for indexing and copy editing there are people who just focus on academic Middle East material and they're very in demand

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I know plenty of successful people with no or half-assed LinkedIn profiles.

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My last posts on LinkedIn if I ever get a real job

Half Baked meme where Scarface quits and says fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, fuck you, I'm out

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hadith of the day كُنْ في الدنيا كأنَّك غريبٌ أو عابِرُ سبيلٍ kun fid-dunyā kaʾannaka gharībun aw ʿābiru sabīl "Be in this world like a stranger, or a wayfarer"

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well I could see Maarten guessing wrong to get yellow clues, which is smart. That improves the odds

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I had a similar experience to you Maarten #pastpuzzle en-600 🟩🟩🟩🟥 (+2) 🟩🟩🟩🟥 (+3) 🟩🟩🟩🟥 (+7) 🟩🟩🟩🟥 (+6) x/4 🟥 www.pastpuzzle.com

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I didn't realize till today that Kimberly Guilfoyle was Gavin Newsom's ex-wife. Talk about a horseshoe theory of politics.

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is the gubernatorial race, both our senators are Democrats. John Hickenlooper is up for reelection but Fiftyplusone gives him a >99% chance of winning. There hasn't been much polling in the governor's race but the consensus is the Dem Phil Weiser, the current state attorney general will win

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'll end with this. Inspired by the 1983 Chuck Norris film Lone Wolf McQuade, Marx has posted social media videos in which he disarms people holding dummy firearms. He claims to hold a world record for fastest firearm disarming.

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In his campaign for governor he refused to debate in the primaries, has been accused of violating multiple campaign finance laws, and has not been endorsed by most members of the Colorado GOP establishment.

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He knew Charlie Kirk and was active in the Turning Point USA world.

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He's some kind of evangelical and has a non-profit in Colorado Springs. He claimed falsely to have rescued 45k women and children from conflict zones. He's also claimed to have been in gunfights with ISIS and to have multiple black belts.

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm just tuning into the Colorado governor race now and the GOP candidate, Victor Marx, is a real piece of work. He was born in Louisiana to a man named Karl Marx, who Victor claims forced him at age 3 to behead a cat and at age 7 to shoot and kill a man in Mississippi.

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I find Frank Zappa's version more credible

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A lot of Jesus in my feed this morning.

Screenshot of Matt's QT about Christian influencer who claims to have met a manosphere Jesus above Adam posting a link to video of Frank Zappa's "Jesus Thinks Your a Jerk."

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the mountains paying with the astro mode on my phone

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I guess I'm doing alright. My press wouldn't even pay me if it was less than 75, I just made the cutoff

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I did as well and chalked it up to the air quality

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well they need to recoup their costs, which I think is like 20k for a book. I'm sure they've lost money on mine

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well it's sold about 300 copies in two years, about 200 hardcovers and 100 electronic, but in my case I'm only getting 5% of the cover cost on electronic copies because I need to hit a threshold of 250 hardcovers before I start getting the 5% royalties on that.

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