El Cabbage
@alcabbage045.bsky.social
He/him/هو/إيّاهُ; Particle physics PhD candidate with a love for science and the humanities
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They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
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Pre-Islamic Arabic and Greek! The #Safaitic abecedary we posted earlier this week was far more interesting than originally thought. A close re-reading of the stone revealed the entire Safaitic alphabet in the Greek letter order!
See the study here: www.academia.edu/144853577/Al...
See the study here: www.academia.edu/144853577/Al...
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Pre-Islamic Arabic and Greek! The #Safaitic abecedary we posted earlier this week was far more interesting than originally thought. A close re-reading of the stone revealed the entire Safaitic alphabet in the Greek letter order!
See the study here: www.academia.edu/144853577/Al...
See the study here: www.academia.edu/144853577/Al...
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A brilliant thread by my brilliant friend @bnuyaminim.bsky.social. But let's think about this circumstantial evidence a bit more. Are names really indicative of one's language or ethnicity (hard to pin that down actually)? This Nabataean from NW Arabia belongs to the clan of Banī Baʿlnatan...
So I'm adding Baalnathan (also a nice baby name) to my list of probably- or possibly-Aramaic Nabataean names, like Rabbel. Another minor piece of circumstantial evidence that the Nabataeans weren't just "Arabs that wrote Aramaic". (Discussion in this article 👇)
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What can Nabataean Aramaic tell us about Pre‐Islamic Arabic?
Nabataean Aramaic contains a large number of loanwords from Arabic. Together with other evidence, this has been taken as an indication that the Nabataeans used Aramaic as a written language only, whi...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A brilliant thread by my brilliant friend @bnuyaminim.bsky.social. But let's think about this circumstantial evidence a bit more. Are names really indicative of one's language or ethnicity (hard to pin that down actually)? This Nabataean from NW Arabia belongs to the clan of Banī Baʿlnatan...
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🗿NABATAEAN NEWS🗿
Recently (2024), Laïla Nehmé published four #Nabataean texts from a burial site in north-western Saudi Arabia. Three are very fragmentary, but the fourth is the longest Nabataean text on stone found so far! Two things that stood out to me:
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Recently (2024), Laïla Nehmé published four #Nabataean texts from a burial site in north-western Saudi Arabia. Three are very fragmentary, but the fourth is the longest Nabataean text on stone found so far! Two things that stood out to me:
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November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🗿NABATAEAN NEWS🗿
Recently (2024), Laïla Nehmé published four #Nabataean texts from a burial site in north-western Saudi Arabia. Three are very fragmentary, but the fourth is the longest Nabataean text on stone found so far! Two things that stood out to me:
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Recently (2024), Laïla Nehmé published four #Nabataean texts from a burial site in north-western Saudi Arabia. Three are very fragmentary, but the fourth is the longest Nabataean text on stone found so far! Two things that stood out to me:
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More Numidian mysteries!
Most Numidian stelae have at least two lines or (à la limite) one line containing several words. Only in one cemetery do we find a series of really short inscriptions (Mechta el Maza, near Bouchegouf, Guelma province, Algeria), esp. RIL 1085-1092.
But…
Most Numidian stelae have at least two lines or (à la limite) one line containing several words. Only in one cemetery do we find a series of really short inscriptions (Mechta el Maza, near Bouchegouf, Guelma province, Algeria), esp. RIL 1085-1092.
But…
November 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
More Numidian mysteries!
Most Numidian stelae have at least two lines or (à la limite) one line containing several words. Only in one cemetery do we find a series of really short inscriptions (Mechta el Maza, near Bouchegouf, Guelma province, Algeria), esp. RIL 1085-1092.
But…
Most Numidian stelae have at least two lines or (à la limite) one line containing several words. Only in one cemetery do we find a series of really short inscriptions (Mechta el Maza, near Bouchegouf, Guelma province, Algeria), esp. RIL 1085-1092.
But…
Well I’m bookmarking this. Can’t wait to see the “surprise” 👀
An important 'time out' by a very clear thinker. Much of what Shoemaker claims about the Hijaz on the eve of Islam is conclusively disproved by material evidence, which grows by the year. I have a surprise, too, from my last survey mission (May 2025) between Taif-Mecca and Medina
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Scepticism as method in the study of Quranic origins: A review article of Stephen J. Shoemaker, Creating the Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Study (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022) | Bull...
Scepticism as method in the study of Quranic origins: A review article of Stephen J. Shoemaker, Creating the Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Study (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022) - Volu...
resolve.cambridge.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Well I’m bookmarking this. Can’t wait to see the “surprise” 👀
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Biblia Hebraica Quinta publication moving slower than ASOIAF 😔
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Biblia Hebraica Quinta publication moving slower than ASOIAF 😔
Anyone on here have institutional access to this article perchance? www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
The Arabs and the Ummah of Muḥammad
This essay starts from a somewhat simple question: What was the ummah of Muḥammad? It has become commonplace in the historiography of early Islam to understand the ummah of Muḥammad as primarily the “...
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Anyone on here have institutional access to this article perchance? www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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On top of the raw cruelty and the lack of any reason for this beyond the GOP commitment to allowing every rip-off they can imagine, this is also a decision to make prison *worse* at reforming/rehabilitating people, because we're making it harder for them to stay connected with people outside.
It literally took decades of advocacy to pass these reforms, which would have prevented prison phone and teleconferencing companies from ripping off inmates and their families to the tune of hundreds of millions annually
F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
On top of the raw cruelty and the lack of any reason for this beyond the GOP commitment to allowing every rip-off they can imagine, this is also a decision to make prison *worse* at reforming/rehabilitating people, because we're making it harder for them to stay connected with people outside.
Between the genocidal massacre by the UAE-backed RSF in El Fasher and Israel’s resumption of the genocide in violation of the ceasefire, today is one of the darkest days for humanity
October 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Between the genocidal massacre by the UAE-backed RSF in El Fasher and Israel’s resumption of the genocide in violation of the ceasefire, today is one of the darkest days for humanity
The UAE is a parasitic state, an artifice built on the backs of slave labor and funded by stolen wealth obtained through genocide. The day it’s leveled to the ground can’t come fast enough
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The UAE is a parasitic state, an artifice built on the backs of slave labor and funded by stolen wealth obtained through genocide. The day it’s leveled to the ground can’t come fast enough
Hot take, but it feels like some continental European biblical scholarship just consists of coming up with just-so stories of biblical composition history, and declaring everything that contradicts those hypotheses to be late developments/insertions. I know that documentary textual criticism…
October 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Hot take, but it feels like some continental European biblical scholarship just consists of coming up with just-so stories of biblical composition history, and declaring everything that contradicts those hypotheses to be late developments/insertions. I know that documentary textual criticism…
Congrats to Ireland on joining CERN! 🥳 Now (long past) time to kick out Israel. Genocide, occupation and apartheid should have no place in particle physics or any other science
October 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Congrats to Ireland on joining CERN! 🥳 Now (long past) time to kick out Israel. Genocide, occupation and apartheid should have no place in particle physics or any other science
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Israel violating a ceasefire deal as a mob of Israeli settlers attack an American journalist and Palestinian grandma & an Israeli soccer match has to be cancelled because of violent fans is all the worse when you remember the deal calls to "de-radicalize" Palestinians and not Israelis
October 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Israel violating a ceasefire deal as a mob of Israeli settlers attack an American journalist and Palestinian grandma & an Israeli soccer match has to be cancelled because of violent fans is all the worse when you remember the deal calls to "de-radicalize" Palestinians and not Israelis
Question for Semiticists: The Semitic root ḥ-r-m (related to holiness, consecration, taboo) has a pharyngeal in West Semitic languages, even those that preserve velar/uvula fricatives. However, an apparent Akkadian cognate is ḫarmu. Why not the expected a>e coloring instead of a velar if this was…
October 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Question for Semiticists: The Semitic root ḥ-r-m (related to holiness, consecration, taboo) has a pharyngeal in West Semitic languages, even those that preserve velar/uvula fricatives. However, an apparent Akkadian cognate is ḫarmu. Why not the expected a>e coloring instead of a velar if this was…
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immigrant grocery store owner who voted for Trump to lower grocery prices and then got wrecked by tariffs. mfer you run a business called "Wong Kai Imports" what the hell did you think was gonna happen
"A beloved family-run grocery store in Florida may have to close its doors after 43 years because of tariffs." www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/ar...
October 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
immigrant grocery store owner who voted for Trump to lower grocery prices and then got wrecked by tariffs. mfer you run a business called "Wong Kai Imports" what the hell did you think was gonna happen
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"In the West Bank and Jerusalem, far from Hamas-controlled Gaza, more than 19,000 Palestinians were swept up since Oct. 7. As of this month, more than 11,000 Palestinians were still locked up in Israeli prisons, almost a third of them under “administrative detention,” without charges or a trial."
"There must be pressure to end the unsparing detention of the thousands of Palestinians held in Israel’s prisons, many under conditions that defy international laws mandating humane treatment of detainees."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...
Opinion | The Israel-Gaza War Always Had an Unacknowledged Third Front
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"In the West Bank and Jerusalem, far from Hamas-controlled Gaza, more than 19,000 Palestinians were swept up since Oct. 7. As of this month, more than 11,000 Palestinians were still locked up in Israeli prisons, almost a third of them under “administrative detention,” without charges or a trial."
It’s only a violation of the ceasefire when the subhuman side is the one that violates it. Otherwise it’s just a sparkling “test” and “fragile ceasefire holds”
October 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It’s only a violation of the ceasefire when the subhuman side is the one that violates it. Otherwise it’s just a sparkling “test” and “fragile ceasefire holds”
I love that “breakfast” and “dinner” have the same etymology (literally “break-fast”), but one is Germanic and the other is Latin
October 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I love that “breakfast” and “dinner” have the same etymology (literally “break-fast”), but one is Germanic and the other is Latin
Now that the Israeli POWs have been released, I’m really worried the Israelis will resume the genocide again now that they have nothing to lose. These next moments will be critical
October 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Now that the Israeli POWs have been released, I’m really worried the Israelis will resume the genocide again now that they have nothing to lose. These next moments will be critical
When I’m giving an experimental particle physics presentation and inevitably get to the “results” section
October 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
When I’m giving an experimental particle physics presentation and inevitably get to the “results” section
I miss the age of electronic anarchy 😢
Doing some book research into the mid-90s internet - this is a glossary from The Internet For Beginners, Usborne, 1997. It has made me feel very nostalgic
October 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I miss the age of electronic anarchy 😢
Someone once said that deities always answer prayers in the most ironic way possible, and they were not joking
September 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Someone once said that deities always answer prayers in the most ironic way possible, and they were not joking
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A disaster that Starmer insists on ignoring the mountain of empirical evidence from across "Western" democracies that adopting rightwing positions and frameworks only ever helps the Right win legitimacy and votes.
An utter disaster that so many Democrats in the U.S. insist on doing Starmerism.
An utter disaster that so many Democrats in the U.S. insist on doing Starmerism.
The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.
September 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A disaster that Starmer insists on ignoring the mountain of empirical evidence from across "Western" democracies that adopting rightwing positions and frameworks only ever helps the Right win legitimacy and votes.
An utter disaster that so many Democrats in the U.S. insist on doing Starmerism.
An utter disaster that so many Democrats in the U.S. insist on doing Starmerism.