Leah
@dreamsofvenus.bsky.social
Linguist in LA. Vitam faciunt balnea vina Venus.
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better get to sleep so I can wake up and increase shareholder value while my country actively burns down
January 26, 2026 at 5:32 AM
better get to sleep so I can wake up and increase shareholder value while my country actively burns down
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Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
January 25, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
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Who does he argue with
incredible work by the Forward who found the one Jew in Greenland so they could work the Jewish angle on the Greenland story
(spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)
(spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)
Greenland’s only Jew hears a familiar pattern in Trump’s annexation talk
Paul Cohen, Greenland’s only Jew, explains how Jewish history shapes his response to Trump’s renewed talk of annexing the island.
forward.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Who does he argue with
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
"For it is not true that linguistics self-evidently has an object, the term 'language' being notoriously ambiguous and slippery."
"For it is not true that linguistics self-evidently has an object, the term 'language' being notoriously ambiguous and slippery."
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
"If a man steals and is handed over to the king's official, he shall be a slave in the king's manor until he is redeemed from this or until he is given freedom."
"If a man steals and is handed over to the king's official, he shall be a slave in the king's manor until he is redeemed from this or until he is given freedom."
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
"The syllable is of staggering importance in our desire to express ourselves, whether in speech or in writing."
THE GREATEST INVENTION: A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN NINE MYSTERIOUS SCRIPTS by Silvia Ferrara trans. Todd Portnowitz
"The syllable is of staggering importance in our desire to express ourselves, whether in speech or in writing."
THE GREATEST INVENTION: A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN NINE MYSTERIOUS SCRIPTS by Silvia Ferrara trans. Todd Portnowitz
January 21, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
"For it is not true that linguistics self-evidently has an object, the term 'language' being notoriously ambiguous and slippery."
"For it is not true that linguistics self-evidently has an object, the term 'language' being notoriously ambiguous and slippery."
Average linguist I fear
January 21, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Average linguist I fear
That's actually the least surprising thing you could tell me about him
Again this is a guy who got into politics cause he was mad he had to include a mop sink at his 90s wine bar where the tables spelled out S E X
very cool!
January 17, 2026 at 2:41 AM
That's actually the least surprising thing you could tell me about him
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🎵Come out La Migra goons
In your stumbling platoons
Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas
Tell her how despite your guns
all you ever did was run
from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵
In your stumbling platoons
Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas
Tell her how despite your guns
all you ever did was run
from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵
(now brainstorming 'Come Out ICE and CBP' after my wife played Black & Tans driving into town)
January 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
🎵Come out La Migra goons
In your stumbling platoons
Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas
Tell her how despite your guns
all you ever did was run
from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵
In your stumbling platoons
Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas
Tell her how despite your guns
all you ever did was run
from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵
The mighty Santa Cruz, pictured here at near-peak flow
January 13, 2026 at 12:10 AM
The mighty Santa Cruz, pictured here at near-peak flow
Unfortunately I don't think this is true. ICE pigs are swarming around around my neighborhood in LA right at this moment and they have kidnapped like a dozen people so far.
What ICE/BP is doing to Minneapolis is awful.
And it's taking everything they have. By population, Minneapolis is America's 45th largest city.
Keep both in mind at once: the regime's desire for authoritarian domination is bottomless, and they'll act on it, but their capacity to do so is limited.
And it's taking everything they have. By population, Minneapolis is America's 45th largest city.
Keep both in mind at once: the regime's desire for authoritarian domination is bottomless, and they'll act on it, but their capacity to do so is limited.
January 12, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Unfortunately I don't think this is true. ICE pigs are swarming around around my neighborhood in LA right at this moment and they have kidnapped like a dozen people so far.
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Choosing signs for tomorrow
January 10, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Choosing signs for tomorrow
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and now, of all times, it is important to be gayer
January 8, 2026 at 11:19 AM
and now, of all times, it is important to be gayer
Brings to mind the House Unamerican Activities Committee hearing where they investigated whether Christopher Marlowe was a Communist
![Screenshot showing HUAC testimony between Representative Starnes and Halley Flanagan of the Federal Theater Project:
"[Starnes quoting Flanagan:] ... They intend to remake a social structure without the help of money—and this ambition alone invests their undertaking with a certain Marlowesque madness.” You are quoting from this Marlowe. Is he a Communist?
MRS. FLANAGAN: I am very sorry. I was quoting from Christopher Marlowe.
MR. STARNES: Tell us who Marlowe is, so we can get the proper reference, because that is all that we want to do.
MRS. FLANAGAN: Put in the record that he was the greatest dramatist in the period immediately preceding Shakespeare.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:amdlarw6j5qpjurzyfhuq6zu/bafkreicde7amrsg4itxu6bqhztfv3thzybeqr4nedldzkjobdnhkdp2tyu@jpeg)
January 7, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Brings to mind the House Unamerican Activities Committee hearing where they investigated whether Christopher Marlowe was a Communist
Rounded out the year by visiting the extraordinary "Kingdom of Pylos" exhibit at the Getty Villa, which included treasures from the Griffin Warrior's tomb - apparently their first time outside Europe.
January 1, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Rounded out the year by visiting the extraordinary "Kingdom of Pylos" exhibit at the Getty Villa, which included treasures from the Griffin Warrior's tomb - apparently their first time outside Europe.
perfume blog title idea: Totum Nasum
December 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
perfume blog title idea: Totum Nasum
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Roses are red,
Violets are relevant,
Give Hellenistic pachyderms alcohol and you’ll have…
Violets are relevant,
Give Hellenistic pachyderms alcohol and you’ll have…
DRUNK WAR ELEPHANTS
I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself
December 30, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Roses are red,
Violets are relevant,
Give Hellenistic pachyderms alcohol and you’ll have…
Violets are relevant,
Give Hellenistic pachyderms alcohol and you’ll have…
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The Endangered Language Project does great work supporting community language revival work, and they're almost halfway to their goal!
Language champions from 18 countries will be joining the 2026 Ready to Revitalize program - and we have just TEN DAYS left to raise funds for their grassroots #languagerevitalization projects!
🌱 Will you support the revitalization of Indigenous and endangered languages around the world?
🌱 Will you support the revitalization of Indigenous and endangered languages around the world?
Raise to Revitalize
Support Global Indigenous Language Revitalization
givebutter.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The Endangered Language Project does great work supporting community language revival work, and they're almost halfway to their goal!
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Someone much more clever than I am pointed out that Frosty the Snowman could be considered a golem, so I ran with that.
December 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Someone much more clever than I am pointed out that Frosty the Snowman could be considered a golem, so I ran with that.
I think people often underestimate how bad this was. At least 20 million people died!
A man tore China asunder, and claimed to be the brother of Jesus Christ because he failed the exam to get an email job
December 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I think people often underestimate how bad this was. At least 20 million people died!
Browsing through old London Reviews and found this incredible letter
December 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Browsing through old London Reviews and found this incredible letter
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PER MY LAST TABLET,
“Why is it my lord is silent while I wag my tail and run about like a dog?”
I’ve been left on read too many times.
A man named Ashur-resiwa is begging a superior to answer his previous 3 letters, and we can maybe all relate to both sides of this particular coin.
I’ve been left on read too many times.
A man named Ashur-resiwa is begging a superior to answer his previous 3 letters, and we can maybe all relate to both sides of this particular coin.
December 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
PER MY LAST TABLET,
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*scuttling across the floors of silent seas* man I should've been a guy who can't decide how to wear his pants
December 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
*scuttling across the floors of silent seas* man I should've been a guy who can't decide how to wear his pants