BlueSkaiz
@blueskaiz.bsky.social
Corvid Sapiens Sapiens - Writes stories - Codes databases - she/her - Infrequently inspired
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This is such a great question that I think it deserves a whole thread.
The cuneiform writing system included numbers, and we know how to say the names of many of these numbers in both Akkadian and Sumerian (languages that cuneiform was used to write). Let's start with Sumerian.
The cuneiform writing system included numbers, and we know how to say the names of many of these numbers in both Akkadian and Sumerian (languages that cuneiform was used to write). Let's start with Sumerian.
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We know the symbols the Babylonians used to write numbers, but they must surely also have been able to say the numbers out loud, so the numbers must had pronounceable names (as we have twenty-six as well as 26). Do we know these names? Were they ever written down?
We know the symbols the Babylonians used to write numbers, but they must surely also have been able to say the numbers out loud, so the numbers must had pronounceable names (as we have twenty-six as well as 26). Do we know these names? Were they ever written down?
February 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is such a great question that I think it deserves a whole thread.
The cuneiform writing system included numbers, and we know how to say the names of many of these numbers in both Akkadian and Sumerian (languages that cuneiform was used to write). Let's start with Sumerian.
The cuneiform writing system included numbers, and we know how to say the names of many of these numbers in both Akkadian and Sumerian (languages that cuneiform was used to write). Let's start with Sumerian.
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📽️ WATCH: At ProPublica, we’ll be devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing the second Trump administration.
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January 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
📽️ WATCH: At ProPublica, we’ll be devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing the second Trump administration.
If you are a federal employee and have tips, documents, data or stories you can share that the public should know about, reach out: www.propublica.org/tips/
If you are a federal employee and have tips, documents, data or stories you can share that the public should know about, reach out: www.propublica.org/tips/
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We couldn't do a series of jaunty ocean critter stickers with @ethankocak.com and not do a mantis shrimp. Behold, the final sticker in the series, coming this February, the Precocious Peacock Mantis Shrimp!
There's only one way to get them, subscribe to my Patreon.
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There's only one way to get them, subscribe to my Patreon.
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January 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
We couldn't do a series of jaunty ocean critter stickers with @ethankocak.com and not do a mantis shrimp. Behold, the final sticker in the series, coming this February, the Precocious Peacock Mantis Shrimp!
There's only one way to get them, subscribe to my Patreon.
www.patreon.com/Andrew_Thaler
There's only one way to get them, subscribe to my Patreon.
www.patreon.com/Andrew_Thaler
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Gritty continues to be a real one
January 22, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Gritty continues to be a real one
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Fed is best.
Leaving aside idiosyncratic/vernacular applications of “dinner” & related lexical items (eg, “supper”)
Leaving aside idiosyncratic/vernacular applications of “dinner” & related lexical items (eg, “supper”)
I think 4:21 PM is a perfectly reasonable time to eat dinner. 👵🏻 
I had a few projects this afternoon while J was doing some volunteer work. It had been a grey day and slowly got dark as I finished my stuff. I was reading on the bed, in the dark, and I thought, "Oh no, I better start dinner."
Reader, it was 4:21 PM.
(Sunset was 3:53 pm)
Reader, it was 4:21 PM.
(Sunset was 3:53 pm)
December 12, 2024 at 1:58 AM
Fed is best.
Leaving aside idiosyncratic/vernacular applications of “dinner” & related lexical items (eg, “supper”)
Leaving aside idiosyncratic/vernacular applications of “dinner” & related lexical items (eg, “supper”)
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Dev diary day! I’m excited to finally share this look into Civ VII’s new emergent narrative system.
Dev Diary #4: Emergent Narrative | Civilization VII
Get developer insights and additional details about the narrative systems of Sid Meier's Civilization VII!
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December 4, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Dev diary day! I’m excited to finally share this look into Civ VII’s new emergent narrative system.
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A List of Things People Blamed on Dancing
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December 4, 2024 at 2:53 PM
A List of Things People Blamed on Dancing
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Researchers Uncover the Oldest Record of Humans Using Fire in Tasmania, Almost 2,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Known.
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Researchers Uncover the Oldest Record of Humans Using Fire in Tasmania, Almost 2,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Known
A new paper reveals how Aboriginal people changed the landscape by burning, demonstrating how similar practices could help manage modern bushfires
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December 4, 2024 at 4:02 AM
Researchers Uncover the Oldest Record of Humans Using Fire in Tasmania, Almost 2,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Known.
🏺 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...
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"Cadbury egg from Hell"
pca.st/episode/68ed...
pca.st/episode/68ed...
Fossil Forensics - Weird & Dead
A podcast about evolution's most embarrassing and bizarre stories as told by two very gossipy paleontologists. Amy and Meaghan happily dish the details on everything from fossilized dinosaur butts to ...
pca.st
December 4, 2024 at 3:21 AM
"Cadbury egg from Hell"
pca.st/episode/68ed...
pca.st/episode/68ed...
The only version of this gimmick I will accept
elf on the shelf idea- kill him off and spend the rest of the month telling your kids they have to solve his murder
December 2, 2024 at 3:25 AM
The only version of this gimmick I will accept
Become ungovernable
Good morning! ☀️
This is me.
This is what I’ve always taught my kids.
Is this you?
Let’s be us together!
Resist. ✊🏽🕊️
This is me.
This is what I’ve always taught my kids.
Is this you?
Let’s be us together!
Resist. ✊🏽🕊️
December 1, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Become ungovernable
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Margaret Bourke-White, Locks, Sault St. Marie, c. 1929
November 30, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Margaret Bourke-White, Locks, Sault St. Marie, c. 1929
The one man Pride and Prejudice TT guy made it to NPR.
I'm an early adopter!
I'm an early adopter!
November 27, 2024 at 3:23 PM
The one man Pride and Prejudice TT guy made it to NPR.
I'm an early adopter!
I'm an early adopter!
Okay, the scale of construction here is just amazing
November 27, 2024 at 3:55 AM
Okay, the scale of construction here is just amazing
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I have a sports metaphor story for this!
I have a younger brother who was a very competitive baseball player as a kid. Was on all the local travel & developmental squads.
One of his coaches had a very interesting and counterintuitive (to me) philosophy of the game, as it was played at that level.
I have a younger brother who was a very competitive baseball player as a kid. Was on all the local travel & developmental squads.
One of his coaches had a very interesting and counterintuitive (to me) philosophy of the game, as it was played at that level.
This does not mean “don’t worry about it,” or even that “it’s just a distraction.”
It means fight, delay, push back, express doubt, and do anything you can to remind anyone who’ll listen that Trump and Trumpers threaten all sorts of things and hope you’ll jump out of the way.
Don’t forfeit.
It means fight, delay, push back, express doubt, and do anything you can to remind anyone who’ll listen that Trump and Trumpers threaten all sorts of things and hope you’ll jump out of the way.
Don’t forfeit.
November 23, 2024 at 4:11 PM
I have a sports metaphor story for this!
I have a younger brother who was a very competitive baseball player as a kid. Was on all the local travel & developmental squads.
One of his coaches had a very interesting and counterintuitive (to me) philosophy of the game, as it was played at that level.
I have a younger brother who was a very competitive baseball player as a kid. Was on all the local travel & developmental squads.
One of his coaches had a very interesting and counterintuitive (to me) philosophy of the game, as it was played at that level.
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An #Archaeology flamingo thread in 16 skeets
One day, I saw this Egyptian pot 🏺 from 5000+ years ago (now @metmuseum.bsky.social ). Maybe it represents the famous Dance of the Flamingos?
Wanting to see if that hunch was true, I dug in. The research-hole didn’t take me where I thought it would…
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One day, I saw this Egyptian pot 🏺 from 5000+ years ago (now @metmuseum.bsky.social ). Maybe it represents the famous Dance of the Flamingos?
Wanting to see if that hunch was true, I dug in. The research-hole didn’t take me where I thought it would…
/1
November 18, 2024 at 6:47 PM
An #Archaeology flamingo thread in 16 skeets
One day, I saw this Egyptian pot 🏺 from 5000+ years ago (now @metmuseum.bsky.social ). Maybe it represents the famous Dance of the Flamingos?
Wanting to see if that hunch was true, I dug in. The research-hole didn’t take me where I thought it would…
/1
One day, I saw this Egyptian pot 🏺 from 5000+ years ago (now @metmuseum.bsky.social ). Maybe it represents the famous Dance of the Flamingos?
Wanting to see if that hunch was true, I dug in. The research-hole didn’t take me where I thought it would…
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