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Philip Garrett
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Premodern Japanese historian, Newcastle University. At least I got to this site in time to claim my own name....
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Wednesday, 6pm. If I can get 2 more done tonight then all the on-time submissions are done!
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January 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Tuesday morning and 48,000 words of essays to go:
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January 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop.

I want our World Wide Web back.
yeeeerika.bsky.social erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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47 of 79 done: as of this essay, 100,000 words read and about 21,000 words of feedback written
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January 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Still not halfway with the Meiji marking yet, but I did see dolphins swimming past at lunchtime
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January 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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How far have I got through the marking as of today?
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January 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Sheffield is an important centre of expertise on East Asia, both within the UK and internatiinally! Please share and sign to support our colleagues!
Sheffield Uni Needs East Asian Studies!
The University of Sheffield has been a global leader in East Asian Studies since its inception as the national centre for modern Japanese Studies in 1963. Korean Studies was introduced in 1979 and mai...
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January 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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This roll of film has travelled from fridge to fridge in the family since it expired in 1997. Came out better than expected when I used it around campus back before the weather got really cold
#filmisnotdead #mynclpics #kodakektar100 #spotmatic
Analogue photograph of northern cupola of Armstrong Building, Newcastle University. Image shows red tiled roof with brick tower rising above it Gateway tower in middle of Newcastle University campus. A red brick tower with slightly ogive arches in centre of picture; to the left, a weeping willow suffused by afternoon sunlight A closer image of the gateway tower. Image shows view through brick and stone arch past pedestrians towards student union and Victorian buildings Analogue photograph of Queen Victoria Road, looking towards one of the towers of the Armstrong Building, magnificent home of the History Department. The far-inferior Percy Building of the English Department and Merz Court, which belongs to something unmentionable like scientists, are in the foreground to the left.
January 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I tried Lomochrome Purple, but this was the only decent picture I got from the roll.
(Do we tag things here? If so, #filmisnotdead #lomochrome #spotmatic)
Analogue photograph of Cragside house in Northumberland, showing arched bridge at centre and house above, flanked by pine trees. Colours are shifted to purples and turquoise by the film emulsion
January 9, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Sunrise yesterday. Guess which idiot forgot they'd left the camera on ISO 20,000?
Sunrise over the North Sea. The sun has just crossed the horizon, lighting a narrow band of sky yellow and the clouds above and sea below peach to orange. Most of the sky is cloudy, and the foreground shows the exposed rocks of the shoreline at low tide, some of which are glinting yellow and red from the sunlight. To the right of the image are railings and a line of seafront houses. Brown's Bay, Cullercoats.
December 17, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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It's that time of year again when we have to declare whether the department holds any chemical weapons. We are a History department.
We maintain a purely conventional arsenal as a deterrent against Archaeology. That lot keep making swords...
December 12, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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The cat is mortally offended that I am trying to work rather than devoting 100% of my attention to him
December 12, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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Wherever I go on the internet, sooner or later Horse Etymology finds me
egasmb.bsky.social Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · Dec 11
The story also goes that marshals and mares are related to Chinese ma 馬 (horse < OC *mraːʔ), Mongol mori ᠮᠣᠷᠢ, Japanese uma 馬, Korean mal 말 etc. However, this is contested and there are problems with these identifications. Eurasian horse word etymology is a huuuuge field.
December 11, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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Started laughing at Parhae, still haven’t stopped
November 30, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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As new folks trickle into Bsky the premodern and early modern Japan starter pack now has over 50 people! Hoping more of our Japanese colleagues will join us soon. go.bsky.app/AzGURTW
November 24, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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This kind of thing is what I come online for and, incidentally, also why all discussion of phonology and linguistics got banned in our household…
zevhandel.bsky.social Zev Handel @zevhandel.bsky.social · Nov 24
Did you know? All three basic Mandarin pronouns have irregular historical developments.

More interesting: All three give the appearance of being frozen in time — preserving ancient pronunciations.

Let’s check it out!

(Reposting a 🧵 from Twitter here to get some content onto my Bluesky account.)
Three stacked ice cubes, with the characters 我, 你, 他 superimposed on them so it looks like they are frozen in ice.
November 24, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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Just so this page doesn't look too empty.... here's a picture I took in Northumberland last autumn, then took a year to get developed (because sometimes I like to make life hard for myself and take analogue photos - this one was on Kodak Pro Image 100)
Analogue (film) photograph of Acer palmatum leaves in Northumberland, taken with an old Pentax Spotmatic IIa camera and Kodak Pro Image 100 film. Then left for a year.
November 20, 2024 at 6:49 PM