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Alex West
@ajw87.bsky.social
Interested in the Columbian exchange. Philology. Manuscripts. Plants. #OldSundanese #MedievalIndonesia #TupianLanguages Old site: https://indomedieval.medium.com/ New site: https://medium.com/@WestsWorld he/him
Book: https://brill.com/display/title/68202
The meme has to come out again, I'm afraid
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This is an entirely ridiculous view of the US military and of US power overseas.
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"Why doesn't the EU just become one country? It would solve a lot of problems"

I'm sorry. Sometimes this meme is appropriate. 🤷
November 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Don't make me tap the sign

(the sign: Wikipedia's list of countries by Human Development Index)
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Edward Conze seems to have been an interesting character.

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_...)
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I live fairly near the Assembleia da República, the Portuguese Parliament, and went past it yesterday. Facing the building, there was a huge billboard bearing the words "ISTO NÃO É O BANGLADESH" ('this is not Bangladesh') next to André Ventura's face.
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Having said that, this is probably the best response to this sort of thing
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Yesterday I suddenly got hundreds and hundreds of views, but almost no reads, on my old blog (indomedieval.medium.com). This has happened a few times in the last months. Not sure what's going on with it.
November 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's a film about sociopathic gym bros. Couldn't be more pertinent. We're all living in their world now.

It's that thing Werner Herzog said about WrestleMania: You have to know in which world you are living. You can't avert your eyes.
October 31, 2025 at 8:26 AM
When the British empire collapsed, life got *better* at home. Living standards and life expectancy all went up in Britain over the last half of the twentieth century. It's still one of the most developed countries in the world.
October 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
October 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Graduated from my MA eight years ago. Time's still flying.
October 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If I ever did something as strange and embarrassing as that, you'd never hear from me again. Even if I *were* a world leader. I'd be in a cave somewhere. In a hole in the ground.
October 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I'm not one to draw lines in the sand, but if you've never eaten a curry of any kind then you aren't British. Simple as that.
October 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The opinion-submitter submitted a British opinion to a British account and included a reference to a British thing. The subject might be relevant to other countries but so what? What's there to complain about there?
October 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Bought this today as a workout for both my Latin and my Portuguese
August 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Gibraltar

luv me rock
luv me steak bake
luv me timothy taylor
simple as
August 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Just for reference, Sumatra is the big island here in the eastern Indian Ocean

(I feel "Sumatra" is like "Timbuktu" in that it has an exotic aura and a lot of people have heard of it but they'd struggle to place it on a map)
August 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Can you imagine a world without the United States of America
July 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
But only one man on the Wikipedia list of prominent Wesleys is English, and personally I've never met anyone from the UK named Wesley (or Westley).

What's going on there?
July 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I can't stress enough that the island of Java isn't a small place isolated from the outside world. It's literally the third-most populous contiguous landmass on planet Earth after Afro-Eurasia and the Americas. It's an interesting place!
July 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Watching this. It's good.
June 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Okay, well, I did it anyway. Just ten rad flicks that came to mind
June 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
"globally"
June 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I actually stopped drinking (alcohol) last year. And I'm lactose intolerant!

Cycling's pretty much impossible in Lisbon outside of the Baixa. The only people you see cycling here are Dutch tourists and people delivering food.
May 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM