Reposted by wyrturmChapps @chapps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Oddly, they don’t include photos of the cat and dog. Here’s ΖΜΑΡΑΓΔΙΝ (Zmaragdin, ‘Emerald’) the cat (who is appropriately on its own luxe pillow), and a leaping ΩΚΕΑΝΟΣ (Okeanos, ‘Ocean’) the dog. 📸 Anatolian Archaeology 811538
Reposted by wyrturmTrekNews.net @treknews.net · 08/09/2026For 6 decades, we’ve been inspired to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before. Here’s to 60 years of adventure, friendship, hope, and a vision of a better future. 🚀✨ Happy 60th Anniversary, Star Trek! 🖖 #StarTrek60 #StarTrek 627170
Reposted by wyrturmGretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 02/09/2026Ahhh I didn't know that that's INCREDIBLE 1367
Reposted by wyrturmDr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 27/08/2026A syntactic gem of Modern French, in my humble opinion, is t'inquiète. It's used to mean 'don't worry' in casual language, despite having no negative words and being literally translatable to 'yourself-worry'. Word order alone marks it out as a negative imperative – the positive would inquiète-toi. 78112
Reposted by wyrturmGretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 05/08/2026It's gotten so much easier to start learning so many more languages, you used to be limited to the 3-5 major languages that a local bookstore or educational institution had decided it was worth making available, and now you can just like, look things up in hundreds of them 614917
Reposted by wyrturmigreja cuntolica lacrostolica @cuntolicismo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026as pessoas se impressionam tanto com inteligencia artificial quando nos ja temos uma maquina com sentimento e vontade própria e ela se chama impressora. e todos os sentimentos e vontades dela são voltados pra praticar o mal. 101199507
Reposted by wyrturmAriel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026settling the GIF pronunciation debate once and for all based on which version makes this pun work 619040
Reposted by wyrturmdepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 11/06/2026obsessed with this extensive and bizarre list of collective nouns on wiktionary. love that it starts with a warning not to use them 22660117
Reposted by wyrturmBrendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 10/06/202618th century "cat contract" (納貓兒契式; based on a Yuan-dynasty original), laying out the cat's duties and responsibilities: tirelessly guarding the grain, repelling the "mousey bandits" (鼠賊), not messing with the livestock, not stealing numnums "of any kind whatsoever" (不得偷盜食諸般). 141349522
Reposted by wyrturmAvocado 🥑 @avocadotoast97.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Problem with languages: 1. All of them are interesting so you can't choose 2. It takes years to learn any 3. Life is too short 🥲 #langsky #langtwt 2105
Reposted by wyrturmAsdrúbal I Suárez @asdrubalivan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026In great news...! Wooooow! 011
Reposted by wyrturmThiago Ambrósio Lage (吕乐文） @thamblage.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Sobre o meclivros.mec.gov.br: - loga com a conta gov.br; - 14 dias pra ler o livro emprestado, pode renovar; - só empresta um livro por vez; - leitura so navegador; - tem como personalizar a exibição. Boas leituras! (Prints nas próximas postagens)meclivros.mec.gov.br 151118588
Reposted by wyrturmMaarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Just learned that French "os" (bone) is pronounced "os" in the singular and "o" in the plural and I don't know whether to love it or hate it 75710
Reposted by wyrturmDan Conway @magisterconway.bsky.social · 22/03/2026So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread: 3639202001
wyrturm @wyrturm.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Ossessionato che anche azoto liquido hanno utilizzato per salvare la Torre di Pisa www.youtube.com/watch?v=-05J...youtube.comStoria e Segreti della Torre di PisaYouTube video by Storia Di Pisa 000
Reposted by wyrturmMatuww Scripts @matuww.bsky.social · 26/02/2026#writingscripts #memes #linguistics 084
Reposted by wyrturmrapositos sabor bib’sfiha da avenida brasil @raposatriste.bsky.social · 24/02/2026vou desmaiar com o departamento de russo da minha universidade 6305107
Reposted by wyrturmColin Gorrie @colingorrie.bsky.social · 18/02/2026If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...deadlanguagesociety.comHow far back in time can you understand English?An experiment in language change 19936561333
Reposted by wyrturmMatt Orion @orionmatt.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala 132134844537
Reposted by wyrturmYoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 07/02/2026In Spanish, “for you” is ‘para ti’, but “with you” isn’t ‘con ti’: it’s ‘contigo’ instead. What’s this ‘-go’ doing there? It’s a remnant of the same Latin word that gave us ‘con’. So etymologically, ‘contigo’ contains this word twice: “with you-with”. Click my graphic to read the full story: 1/ 710627
Reposted by wyrturmDani 🍋 Дани @loqu84.eurosky.social · 06/02/2026Hace tiempo me encontré este gráfico que expresa la relación entre los niveles del marco europeo de exámenes de lenguas y creo que expresa bien que la diferencia entre los niveles no es lineal. 2112
Reposted by wyrturmbloody mare 🎃👻🍄 vovó mango SINISTRO @reddish.bsky.social · 24/01/2026confirmado japão já tinha garotas mágicas desde o século 14 131145349
Reposted by wyrturmdepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 20/01/2026via the article for the album "a thousand suns" 182522395
wyrturm @wyrturm.bsky.social · 19/01/2026QTP with a video game that transports you back to your childhoodmedia.tenor.coma picture of a man holding a cane with the word wololo written above himAlt: a picture of a man holding a cane with the word wololo written above him 000
Reposted by wyrturmPseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org · 17/01/2026Tap for the whole thing. It’s worth it, we promise 16821
Reposted by wyrturmitramselas.bsky.social @itramselas.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Sé que és famosíssima, però com que cada dia la trobo més vigent i necessària, aquí la teniu, per si algú no la coneixia: 98643
Reposted by wyrturmdepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 15/01/2026wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage 92124453984
Reposted by wyrturm🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Btw did everyone already know that sign language can also exhibit metathesis?? 'cause nobody told me!! 14517
Reposted by wyrturmLaura Palmer de peruca preta (RIP) @ponzuzu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026CNN, se vocês acham que meu trabalho como tradutora da língua da Batatolândia é muito caro, pelo menos me contrate para revisar a tradução tosca de Google que voces fazem. Assim evitamos traduzir o nome desse energúmeno, Steinmeier, para PEDREIRO. 1231761
Reposted by wyrturmPentapolim @stlemke.com · 08/01/2026nunca confie em ia pra absolutamente nada 012041
Reposted by wyrturmXosé Castro 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @xosecastro.bsky.social · 02/01/2026ESTO ES IMPORTANTE Si alguien modifica una foto tuya (Photoshop, IA…) para desnudarte o denigrarte: 1. Ve a la web de la ONG stopncii.org 2. Sube la foto original y la modificada. Borrarán la modificada de todas partes en internet. Debes ser mayor de edad y ser foto de ti, no de otros.stopncii.orgStop Non-Consensual Intimate Image Abuse | StopNCII.orgStopNCII.org is operated by the Revenge Porn Helpline which is part of SWGfL, a charity that believes that all should benefit from technology, free from harm. 3224622579
Reposted by wyrturmYoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Latin had six noun cases, but in all Romance languages except Romanian, nouns and adjectives only have one singular form and one plural form left. What happened? This extra large infographic tells you how the Latin case system collapsed – and why it's the accusative case that lives on in Romance. 514642
Reposted by wyrturmDani 🍋 Дани @loqu84.eurosky.social · 01/01/2026#LangSky hoy empieza el mes de enero y eso me da pie a hablaros de otro locurote del serbocroata que son los nombres de los meses. En esta historia entra muy en juego la adscripción étnica. 1121
Reposted by wyrturmCliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026great news, everyone! turning a 5 into a 6 because you forgot the year is one of the easiest ones to fudge! turning a 6 into a 7 won't be so simple 119060
Reposted by wyrturmJay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them. 420288717296
Reposted by wyrturmRaveline @raveline.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Every language is a love language when you love languages. 410237
Reposted by wyrturmWord Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Story time! The star Betelgeuse gets its name from Arabic يد الجوزاء <Yad al-Jawzāʾ>: "Hand of Orion" (kind of, see below). In the 1200s this was misread as بد الجوزاء <Bad al-Jawzāʾ>, and was transliterated into Latin as "Bedalgeuze." 🧵 1/10 15822
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American Sign Language
In American Sign Language, several signs which have a pre-specified initial and final location in reference to the body of the person signing (such as the signs RESTAURANT, PARENT, or TWINS) can have the order of these two locations reversed in contexts which seem to be purely phonological. While not possible with all signs, this does happen with quite a few. For example, the sign DEAF, prototypically made with the "1" handshape making contact first with the cheek and then moving to contact the jaw (as in the sentence FATHER DEAF), can have these locations reversed if the preceding sign, when part of the same constituent, has a final location more proximal to the jaw (as in the sentence MOTHER DEAF). Both forms of the sign DEAF are acceptable to native signers.[4] A proposed prerequisite for metathesis to apply in ASL is that both signs must be within the same region on the body. Constraints on the applications of metathesis in ASL has led to discussions that the phonology breaks down the body into regions distinct from settings.[5]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ldv7gbrnwo3n7y5pwdmbrw6v/bafkreifwvowmygqmxgfw5cvp6hkqlrrqpthozd33ir2vdrgvvjlbeq2zka)
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Trees, like animals, can also experience albinism, though it is extremely rare.
jumpingjacktrash
the reason it's rare is because without chlorophyll, the plant can't get energy, and dies shortly after sprouting unless it has some other source of food. so if you see a plant as big as the one in the picture that doesn't have any green in its leaves, it's getting its nutrition from the roots of a neighboring plant of the same species, feeding on the sugars created by the other plant's photosynthesis.
albino plants are basically vampires.
heywetotheotherworld
For a long time, scientists thought they were parasites, and couldn't figure out why the bigger plants didn't release chemicals to kill them.
Turns out, the lil' ghost redwoods benefit their hosts by filtering toxins and acting as a sort of backup immune system.
They're vampires, and they're commensal, symbiotic mutualists!
carnivalseb
this is super cool! I had no idea
monticellomarshmallow
This is among the coolest things I’ve ever seen!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yhpcrxbxkp2nsnpno7ow3uw4/bafkreidu5pmokabu4agoa4hcsppwdjdyeoa474odklp2xaown7gio45lju)
