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🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bu ayın gündüzü Valinordan gecesi Utumnodan...

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🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ben de bi dolanayım dedim, çok sıkı giyinmişim, alışveriş ettim mutfağı sürüpdüm 😏

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

All cats speed Greek regardless of their land of origin, which is why it only takes a single letter (repeated) in Greek to summon any cat: ψψψψψψψψψψ

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🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

They speak The Language ™️, of which all human languages are pidgins 😸

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 24/07/2026

The dauntedness derives in part from the mass of relevant literature on Homer, and partly from a difficulty in keeping track of chronology – much like watching some Christopher Nolan films. The feeling was validated by an insightful (and damning?) comment that arrived shortly after posting:

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"That's a novel way to look at the two epics, which I found interesting. However, my view would be that, as Homer was finalising the form of the two epics at around 800BC, he was completing an oral tradition of probably a couple of centuries prior. So the long line of bards that collectively composed the two epics would have done so before the establishment of the alphabet, and would themselves have lived in times when the Greeks didn't have writing.
As for the earlier Linear B tablets, is it not possible that they hadn't discovered any? We didn't know about their existence until they were unearthed from ruins, ancient Greeks didn't mention them.
And besides, if only the palace scribes could write and read the Linear B symbols, it is fair to assume that kings and leaders of the greek armies didn't know how to write their names, only draw their own symbols.
And even if Homer and the other epic poets were aware of the newly introduced alphabet, how many people in their audience would be familiar with this new writing system that some greeks somewhere came up with? It was probably not yet part of the everyday life so as to resonate with people, and not so fancy sounding as "quantum" is for today's movies.”

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 24/07/2026

I rarely write about Homer, being daunted by the topic, but since the poet is having a moment, here's a piece about the alphabet, writing, and their absence in the epics. Inspired by a chat with @viewsproject.bsky.social, I hesitantly suggest a theory for that absence. dannybate.com/2026/07/24/h...

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Homer’s ABCs

Or: Why don’t people in the Iliad and Odyssey write anything down? Sing, goddess, of how Homer is all the rage right now. My timelines have become streams of Nolan-inspired analyses, hot takes and …

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🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Completely forgot the Gotham game, getting carried away by the WC semi. Thanks timeline 🎈 What a horrible camera angle, NWSL TV! 🙈

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🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Bence büyük resmi küçümsememeliyiz üstad. Şimdiye kadar kupayı kazanan ülkelerin tamamının doğu veya batı yarımkürede bulunması tesadüfi olamaz 🤨

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🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Zeytinyağlı taze fasulye yanına kendinden kuru fasulyeli pilav yaptım 😋

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Soccer in America is a sport for rich kids, and until this changes we won’t be competitive at the World Cup.

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Thank you to Belgium for enforcing the rules-based international order

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 07/07/2026

😙👌

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🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

...and Venezuela is the current world champion 🎈

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🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Belgium have eliminated arguably the most corrupt international sports organization and the Orange Nazi Clown from the World Cup 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Well said. I get a cringe ever time pundits evaluating an instance spout out "intent." (My other pet peeve is "not enough" but that's a separate matter.)

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🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Senegal's blunderous gift of a game and tour to arguably the most boring team of the tournament in Belgium has been the one cloud in the sky though. Yet again, in this smothering heat and humidity I could use one 😏

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🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

yani en son ne zaman hayvan gibi akan, mizahlı, okuyucuyla sohbet eder gibi gaste yazısı okumuştun ki? 🤭

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🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I share your pain and feel thankful I'm not "inside" academia. Thought about partly revising our book should an offer for a 3rd imprint arrive and got distraught immediately. Without GScho (and SciHub) it couldn't have been written in the first place. Now one is enshittified and the other is gone. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Unfortunately they too jumped the LLM bandwagon but theirs is at least turned off by default.

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🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I've been using it as the default engine for [i'm not sure but probably] about a decade. (Long before they pimped themselves to Google, Mozilla made a deal with them and offered them and I accepted.) On very rare occasions I need G. I go the "&udm=14" way.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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The Unquiet Ghost of Andrew S. @shoutingboy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

FWIW it’s on the Vatican website and the Tolkien reference is in par. 213 in English, Italian, and Armenian (I didn’t check the others). I think they’ll try to keep paragraph numbering consistent. And the URL looks like one they’d keep. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)

ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________

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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I will have soo much more to say about this but putting an apology for the Catholic Church permitting slavery in the context of how AI is changing work is a bold yet theologically boss move

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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

"Leo raised the trans-Atlantic slave trade in relation to what he called the new forms of slavery and colonialism that the digital revolution is fueling, such as the unregulated labor required to procure rare minerals needed for AI chips."

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

📣 "It is difficult for parents by themselves to resist the influence of business models ⁠that monetize attention and time. Therefore, it is essential to form an alliance among policy-makers, educational institutions and families that is capable of concretely supporting adults in this task." YESSSS

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🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

You are already a top philologist with an excellent book to show it 👍🏼

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🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Rewatching at least one episode is my daily routine.

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🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Neither a theologian nor a historian myself, but I'm inclined to see variations rather than independent development. As for shellfish, not everyone is ok with it or other things afaik.

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🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Skeletor Skeletoris Skeletori Skeletore Skeletorem

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🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I spent several hours tweaking 2 bars (+ 1 beat) last night. Finishing up is a sorry excuse to escape tweaking. Tweaking is eternal, forever and ever. Happy tweaking! 🎈

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