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From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 183-187: The island of Mindanao is the most misunderstood part of the nation. Decades of on and off conflict in its Muslim region has long stolen the headlines. Under President Duterte, this...
Took a trip to Texel today, visited Ecomare, saw the baby seals and the lighthouse at the northern tip of the island. Shot photographed lots of seagulls that were flying along the ferry on the way to and from the island. 👉 View 6 more images
This is a fun experiment that started as a way to generate deterministic "usernames" for Nostr npub keys (see the last section). English is really hard to deal with even for simple syllables, so the result is not as good as I'd want it to be (a string you can read to an other person over the phone and make sure they...
the sea was wet as wet could be, the sands were dry as dry. you could not see a cloud, because no cloud was in the sky: no birds were flying overhead — there were no birds to fly. — lewis carrol verbal, mental, literal, philosophical, emotional ... whatever it is, this is undoubtedly a drought. dry as dry. nothing...
Ninety percent of wildfires start within a half mile of a road. The Trump administration wants to build more of them.
Mark Thompson joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Peter Parker discreetly declining to be one of the everybody who was Kung Fu fighting in Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge.
Our Germany-dwelling Texas-bred friend Stuart Clayton alerted me to the existence of québecois faque, “eye dialect spelling of fait que,” which means “So, therefore, in that case.” Stu sez “Here’s a tie-up to France French ‘du coup’ which up until now I could never remember”: The word “faque” (also spelled “fak”) is...
...uhm, what lines? Uhh, why... these: Ὁμήρου Ὀδύσσεια αʹ · 1–21 1 ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ 2 πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσεν· 3 πολλῶν δʼ ἀνθρώπων ἴδεν ἄστεα καὶ νόον ἔγνω, 4 πολλὰ δʼ ὅ γʼ ἐν πόντῳ πάθεν ἄλγεα ὃν κατὰ θυμόν, 5 ἀρνύμενος ἥν τε ψυχὴν καὶ νόστον ἑταίρων. 6 ἀλλʼ...
A near-Herculean feat of transcription, if I do say so! Read it here.
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