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Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
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do you gotta personify the dead trees in the vacant lot too. they're having a hard enough time without you imagining they have an opinion about what's happening
Wondermark #1578; In which Trees are a Lot
Wondermark #1578; In which Trees are a Lot
December 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
do you gotta personify the dead trees in the vacant lot too. they're having a hard enough time without you imagining they have an opinion about what's happening
Wondermark #1578; In which Trees are a Lot
Wondermark #1578; In which Trees are a Lot
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good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
Anatomy of a Sex Scene: Heated Rivalry Edition - Reading the End
Heated Rivalry, AKA the gay hockey show, has been getting a lot of buzz for its explicit(-ish) sex scenes, and a lot of that buzz has been coming from viewers and critics whose experience with the rom...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
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the image of the earth is off-screen. and big. real pretty. honestly it's a shame you can't see it
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December 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
the image of the earth is off-screen. and big. real pretty. honestly it's a shame you can't see it
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I'm in the The First Members' Office Building of the House of Representatives where a multipartisan group of members of Japan's parliament have gathered with plaintiffs, lawyers, and representatives of the Marriage For All Japan movement to talk about same-sex marriage.
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I'm in the The First Members' Office Building of the House of Representatives where a multipartisan group of members of Japan's parliament have gathered with plaintiffs, lawyers, and representatives of the Marriage For All Japan movement to talk about same-sex marriage.
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My first-ever piece for @unseenjapan.com ⤵
Supporters of marriage equality in Japan faced a setback on November 28th that surprised many. After a series of favorable court rulings across the country, the Tokyo High Court ruled that the lack of recognition of same-sex marriage was constitutional.
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Surprise, Anger, and Frustration as Tokyo’s High Court Rules Against Marriage Equality - Unseen Japan
Supporters of marriage equality in Japan were met with an unexpected setback after a series of affirmative rulings.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
My first-ever piece for @unseenjapan.com ⤵
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Supporters of marriage equality in Japan faced a setback on November 28th that surprised many. After a series of favorable court rulings across the country, the Tokyo High Court ruled that the lack of recognition of same-sex marriage was constitutional.
buff.ly/HlG6HWe
buff.ly/HlG6HWe
Surprise, Anger, and Frustration as Tokyo’s High Court Rules Against Marriage Equality - Unseen Japan
Supporters of marriage equality in Japan were met with an unexpected setback after a series of affirmative rulings.
unseen-japan.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Supporters of marriage equality in Japan faced a setback on November 28th that surprised many. After a series of favorable court rulings across the country, the Tokyo High Court ruled that the lack of recognition of same-sex marriage was constitutional.
buff.ly/HlG6HWe
buff.ly/HlG6HWe
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Has this been posted yet
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Has this been posted yet
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Whenever the camera zooms-in on the eastern side of the dohyo at the Kyushu tournament, a beautiful woman in kimono always appears--whose presence captivates viewers, not just in Japan, but throughout sumo fandom.
Who is this exquisite woman in the same, dedicated, and very plum seat for the ...
Who is this exquisite woman in the same, dedicated, and very plum seat for the ...
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Whenever the camera zooms-in on the eastern side of the dohyo at the Kyushu tournament, a beautiful woman in kimono always appears--whose presence captivates viewers, not just in Japan, but throughout sumo fandom.
Who is this exquisite woman in the same, dedicated, and very plum seat for the ...
Who is this exquisite woman in the same, dedicated, and very plum seat for the ...
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As usual Kody is thinking smart thoughts about art making. It reminds me of a throughline in my own current research, which I have worked through in several recent talks: the uses of convention and its significance, in contrast to the unconventional. A thread:
Been thinking about art-making and intentionality all day and how that intentionality - that level of decisiveness that's joyously required if you don't have a kitchen of chefs who want up their minds in post - is what I love about art, and, on the flip side, is also why AI generations suck.
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
As usual Kody is thinking smart thoughts about art making. It reminds me of a throughline in my own current research, which I have worked through in several recent talks: the uses of convention and its significance, in contrast to the unconventional. A thread:
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I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
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Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
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Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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1900s America even
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
1900s America even
Well well well, what a November basho this has been! A day of chaos today, sets the scene for more drama on the final day tomorrow.
Can my boy Hoshoryu take it all tomorrow?
Can my boy Hoshoryu take it all tomorrow?
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Well well well, what a November basho this has been! A day of chaos today, sets the scene for more drama on the final day tomorrow.
Can my boy Hoshoryu take it all tomorrow?
Can my boy Hoshoryu take it all tomorrow?
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I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
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New from @EmpirePodUK
Our series on Writers of Empire continues with a look at colonial cartoons. How should we feel about racist depictions in our most beloved children’s books? @anitaanand.bsky.social & I wrestle with the conundrum of the colonial undercurrents in comics.
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Our series on Writers of Empire continues with a look at colonial cartoons. How should we feel about racist depictions in our most beloved children’s books? @anitaanand.bsky.social & I wrestle with the conundrum of the colonial undercurrents in comics.
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
November 19, 2025 at 6:02 AM
New from @EmpirePodUK
Our series on Writers of Empire continues with a look at colonial cartoons. How should we feel about racist depictions in our most beloved children’s books? @anitaanand.bsky.social & I wrestle with the conundrum of the colonial undercurrents in comics.
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
Our series on Writers of Empire continues with a look at colonial cartoons. How should we feel about racist depictions in our most beloved children’s books? @anitaanand.bsky.social & I wrestle with the conundrum of the colonial undercurrents in comics.
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
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It is with great sadness I inform you that the great Tatsuya Nakadai has died. You might remember me mentioning him frequently during Kurosawa Month when I reviewed every Kurosawa movie. Nakadai was the face of the director's later works, incl. my favorite "Ran." We will never see such talent again.
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It is with great sadness I inform you that the great Tatsuya Nakadai has died. You might remember me mentioning him frequently during Kurosawa Month when I reviewed every Kurosawa movie. Nakadai was the face of the director's later works, incl. my favorite "Ran." We will never see such talent again.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Kids these days are so fantastically ignorant that they can't recognize the Grand Nagus himself even when granted a personal audience. The average teenager can barely name 5 or 10 of the Rules of Acquisition.
November 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Kids these days are so fantastically ignorant that they can't recognize the Grand Nagus himself even when granted a personal audience. The average teenager can barely name 5 or 10 of the Rules of Acquisition.
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New word alert: 迷惑ハロウィーン ("meiwaku harouin") -- "troublesome Halloween!" Plural no less. Kinshi da yo!
October 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
New word alert: 迷惑ハロウィーン ("meiwaku harouin") -- "troublesome Halloween!" Plural no less. Kinshi da yo!