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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe for Tax Purposes

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done for Tax Purposes

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

4 Noses always hits. Best wishes to your body tomorrow—and may your extremities have an easier go of it soon.

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The *kiruk (on-the-fly reconstruction, don’t at me kuliakicists of bluesky) root is also ubiquitous in Southern Nilotic, where it fairly uniformly means ‘bull’.

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

In the language family that I work with (Kuliak, NE Uganda) there is a similar semantic shift: Nyangi: kiruk ‘steer’ Soo: kik ‘bull’ Ik: cúrúka ‘bull’ Nyangi: gɛɬ ‘bull’ Soo: gɛl ‘steer’ Sound changes are regular—presumably just Nyangi inverted the semantics.

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s been a tough communication/reading comprehension/writing clarity day in The Discourse.

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I got myself out of the spiral. No future guesses allowed though! (Although I should have changed my guess on the first column to maximize success chances). #pastpuzzle en-596 🟩🟥🟩🟥 (+103) 🟩🟩🟩🟥 (-1) 🟩🟨🟥🟨 (-356) 🟩🟩🟩🟩 (0) 4/4 🟩 www.pastpuzzle.com

pastpuzzle.com

Past Puzzle – Daily History Game

Guess the year from 4 historical events. A game inspired by Wordle and history. A new puzzle every day, free to play.

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Guess 2: hmmm this must have taken place in the year 4857

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This seems like a game that punishes being able to guess to the right decade early.

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

All posts consisting of the text: “Moose” and an image of moose eating things are infinitely cool and therefore not profitably judged against each other. I salute your moose.

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’ve been summoned by the medievalist(wife)/linguist signal. It was a good day. www.maptap.gg October 3 100🎯 100🎯 98🔥 100🎯 98🔥 Final score: 990

maptap.gg

🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game

Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.

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Something is Being Born @nabelew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ah, we're back to "the U.S. linguistic security apparatus must revitalize endangered regional language isolates as a layered security measure" well boys let's revitalize all the languages we tried to eradicate so that they can advance our efforts to eradicate OTHER people

smallwarsjournal.com

Centauri, High Valyrian, and Klingon: Why Advanced Encryption Standards Cannot Replace Low-Density Human Dialects

The U.S. linguistic security apparatus must revitalize endangered regional language isolates as a layered security measure.

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 29/09/2026

Professoring is so weird, like I took a bunch of classes in linguistics and then I taught a bunch of courses in linguistics and then wrote a two-hundred page thesis in linguistics and now like a quarter of my job is just making decisions about university and departmental curriculum

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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s actually discouraging how much of the discourse gets diverted to “AI good or AI bad” when the obvious and more pressing issue is “AI *companies* are definitely bad”

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I do not feel that I, who am capable of wiping my own butt or emailing my boss or expressing a coherent argument in writing without Computer, am very likely cultivating less useful skills for offering value in this world than the ever-so-visible alternatives seem to be.

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On the one hand, it is emphasized to me daily that I need to be including more “career readiness” in my courses (often evidently euphemistic for AI). On the other hand, AI people are exclaiming that they don’t know their address and act confused about how one could survive a single day sans Claude.

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We can make and comprehend (beautiful, justified) sentences (that I maybe never want to know the back story of) that have never before been uttered.

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah, that area is really spectacular!

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A lovely trait of language is that w can produce and comprehend novel combinations of words, cursed combinations never before uttered.

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Something is Being Born @nabelew.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Go check out @geraldroche.bsky.social's review of @sophiasgaler.bsky.social's "How to Kill a Language" for a surgical dissection of the history of language oppression denialism, clear and informed reminders of its political nature, and a buncha links to good research (incl. by @chirila.bsky.social):

theconversation.com

Languages are disappearing, and the problem is political

Language loss is often a reluctant choice made to escape violence, not a willing choice made to gain benefits.

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

There were still pretty flowers in Dobërdol, Albania yesterday.

A landscape of flowers in front of a mountain. A big yellow flower is ethereally blurred in the foreground. Smaller pink flowers behind it are either in sharp focus or blurred as they flow in the wind. Behind there is a grassy slope with a rocky summit beyond.

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Master and C-Commander: the far side of the node.

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The New Forest (est 1079) is a lil bit magical.

A radiant white horse shines amid lush greens of ferns and pine trees. Tall white and brown tree trunks loom in the background.

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

www.maptap.gg July 10 98🔥 83🌟 95🏆 98🔥 96🏅 Final score: 953 Sorry #2; I accept my shame

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hard round! We were pretty in synch. www.maptap.gg July 9 97🏅 97🏅 93👑 85😁 94🏆 Final score: 917

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Hah! You will hate this but they gave me 99 pts for being 64 km away. I didnt really know where to tap—just used some inference to make a guess

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Nice! This was a round of knowing vaguely but not specifically for everything for me. And missing by the widest for the one that I had the clearest idea of the location of hah. www.maptap.gg July 8 98🔥 93👑 94🏆 90🎉 99🔥 Final score: 946

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Fantastic. I thought that #4 was the somewhat isolated islands on the end of the other islands, so it took me pretty far astray. I am completely cooked when anything from Japan comes up 😬 www.maptap.gg July 7 98🔥 100🎯 92👑 81✨ 100🎯 Final score: 925

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Perfect conditions in Kampinos Park Narodowy today.

A double track path winds into the forest. At the edges of the path, dense undergrowth gives way to trees. 50 meters or so ahead, the path bends to the left just at the foot of the pale bark of a birch tree, which contrasts with the dark greens of the rest of the image.

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My logic ran into roadblocks in 4, and I have no such background knowledge for five—amazing round!

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

May your soul know true freedom now

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Felt like tough sledding for a while and then had a very fortuitous guess on the last one! www.maptap.gg July 3 99🔥 80✨ 89🎉 99🔥 98🔥 Final score: 948

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Driberg wasn’t feeling so hot himself while he wrote this letter: “I apologize for the length of this apologia, but I have cut it down as much as possible. I shall probably be here [Vaud, Switzerland] another 2 weeks recuperating, though the weather is vile…”

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The letter that this is taken from is particularly juicy—it is Driberg’s account to his mentor of the circumstances that led to Driberg’s removal from the colonial administration. This episode, which has some deep lore, has been written about in eg Abraham 2010, Collins 1983, Daniel 1986.

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I only have the other side of this exchange, but: J. H. Driberg to C. G. Seligman 20.5.26 Dear Seligman, It was extremely kind of you to write me your two letters of the 15th April and the 3rd May, when you are suffering so much from sciatica.

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Let’s be honest—I was too hasty and got Arizona 🤷‍♂️

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Brutal—and befuddling that number one was categorized as easy? www.maptap.gg July 2 89🎉 97🏅 80✨ 87🎓 93👑 Final score: 886

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

(That’s not what a center of gravity is, I know, but 🤷‍♂️)

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Big countries with population centers of gravity on their peripheries are the cruelest in this game.

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SamuelJBeer @samueljbeer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

lol. Mistook #5 for another city that I immediately remembered the actual name of as soon as I saw the error of my ways, ended up tapping as far as possible from the actual answer. www.maptap.gg July 1 99🔥 100🎯 95🏆 85😁 59😑 Final score: 821

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