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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Geeking out over the fact that Forbes Library in Northampton Mass has its own cataloging system: forbeslibrary.org/help/cutter-...

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Cutter Classification – Forbes Library

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/06/2025

The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼

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Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

These devils got to go and I hope they waited them out. Come up here and get me. FUCK ICE 🧊

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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

If like me you are a ronin academic with none of those bourgeoisie library accounts, this is a viable alternative if you are willing to edit Wikipedia at least 10 times a month. It has JSTOR, DeGruyter, U Chicago, lots of horrible excellent publishers.

wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org

The Wikipedia Library

More than 100 of the world's top subscription-only databases, with content in 30 languages, free for Wikipedians of all backgrounds

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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Nutty: The last Viceroy of New Spain was of Irish descent and his name was O'Donnohue, except in Spanish he was called en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_O%...

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Juan O'Donojú - Wikipedia

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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I thought you might could use a handsome llama from 1658. archive.org/details/geor...

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for. Kudos, Sir.🌦️

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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

”Alexander Hamilton (1762–1824) was a British linguist who was one of the first Europeans to study the Sanskrit language. He taught the language to most of the earliest European scholars of Indo-European linguistics. He became the first professor of Sanskrit in Europe.”

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Alexander Hamilton (linguist) - Wikipedia

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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

One thing (of many) that makes me sad about academia is that the notion of publishing content not only *on* the web but *in* the web has never really become normalized. The web offers incredible functionality to scholarly work of many (all?) kinds. And yet the powers that be live in a stupid,

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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I have been learning some German. I find the word “schloss” for ‘castle’ disappointing/awesome.

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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Do you think these people remembered their own names? pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_I...

A screenshot from the Wikipedia page for Maria II of Portugal, whose full names is Maria da Glória Joana Carlota Leopoldina da Cruz Francisca Xavier de Paula Isidora Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga.

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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

These numbers surprised the hell out of me.

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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Let's remember the Pope that could have been. 🍕⚽

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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

aww man couldn't they drag out the pope thing a little more? I needed news from somewhere else. also, it's pizzaballa. 🍕⚽

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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I'm just saying, I hope we have Pope Pizzaballa.

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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Props to this guy, who put his whole 500+ page book under a Creative Commons license. I think of people like this as heros. Honestly I might buy the book just to support him.

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Wilde, G. Religión Y Poder En Las Misiones De Guaraníes [2009] : G. Wilde : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Let us pause to typologically wtf en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominat...

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Nominative–absolutive alignment - Wikipedia

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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Wow. “Donald Trump's current approval compared to the share of votes he won ” www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This is the guy who started dating backwards from the birth of Christ. Yes, Eurocentric and Christian-biased, but also interesting because it overturned the notion of a known date of creation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_...

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August Ludwig von Schlözer - Wikipedia

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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Pretty amazing database on early (missionary, mostly Catholic) language documentation. www.relicta.org/index.php

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RELiCTA

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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Was reading about an interesting language called Chiquitano, from Bolivia, which is spoken very differently by men and women. Namely, in the “male” language, there is a lot of agreement marking, but in the female language, there isn’t. etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files...

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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Good morning Bluesky !

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Pat @patalinguist.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Get a list of all the roads in a town using overpass-turbo.eu For instance, the tiny town of Jemez Springs, New Mexico has 80 something "highways": [out:json]; area["name"="Jemez Springs"]->.a; way(area.a)["highway"]; out tags; Or just try this to see the result: overpass-turbo.eu/s/2259

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overpass turbo

A web based data mining tool for OpenStreetMap which runs any kind of Overpass API query and shows the results on an interactive map.

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 09/04/2025

The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand how words come together to make meaning. Read Joseph Howlett’s interview: www.quantamagazine.org/where-does-m...