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pfp from https://tinyurl.com/yckvdjaj. despite appearances, I am not a moth.
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Temeraire: The Roleplaying Game is coming to Kickstarter in early 2026! I've been working closely with Magpie Games to bring the world of Temeraire to life in this exciting new RPG.
Follow along & be among the first to take to the skies when the project launches! www.kickstarter.com/...
Follow along & be among the first to take to the skies when the project launches! www.kickstarter.com/...
December 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Temeraire: The Roleplaying Game is coming to Kickstarter in early 2026! I've been working closely with Magpie Games to bring the world of Temeraire to life in this exciting new RPG.
Follow along & be among the first to take to the skies when the project launches! www.kickstarter.com/...
Follow along & be among the first to take to the skies when the project launches! www.kickstarter.com/...
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The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.
December 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.
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This is huge news in the brewing world. I guess it makes sense. An institution that educates brewers from all over the world needs to be located in a liberal democracy, a country that is open to the world.
The Siebel Institute is relocating from Chicago to Montreal.
www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
The Siebel Institute is relocating from Chicago to Montreal.
www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
World-famous brewing institution leaving U.S. for Canada
A renowned American beer brewing school is heading north and getting ready to settle in at a new address in Montreal.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is huge news in the brewing world. I guess it makes sense. An institution that educates brewers from all over the world needs to be located in a liberal democracy, a country that is open to the world.
The Siebel Institute is relocating from Chicago to Montreal.
www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
The Siebel Institute is relocating from Chicago to Montreal.
www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
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MORE good news: A Canadian bill is just about to receive Royal Assent (yes this is a thing) and soon, if your parent is a Canadian citizen who spent 1,095 days of physical presence in Canada before you were born, you will be a citizen regardless of where you were born and where you live.
November 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
MORE good news: A Canadian bill is just about to receive Royal Assent (yes this is a thing) and soon, if your parent is a Canadian citizen who spent 1,095 days of physical presence in Canada before you were born, you will be a citizen regardless of where you were born and where you live.
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The STM maintenance workers have announced an end to their month-long work slowdown (buses and metros run at rush hour and late night only) -- which is very convenient for people!
But they're only doing it before a new government law forces them into arbitration -- which is bullshit.
But they're only doing it before a new government law forces them into arbitration -- which is bullshit.
November 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The STM maintenance workers have announced an end to their month-long work slowdown (buses and metros run at rush hour and late night only) -- which is very convenient for people!
But they're only doing it before a new government law forces them into arbitration -- which is bullshit.
But they're only doing it before a new government law forces them into arbitration -- which is bullshit.
Ugh :(((
woof. expected but still dislike it
Breaking: Prime Minister Mark Carney's newly released federal budget is taking a hatchet to temporary immigration levels
The government originally planned to cap foreign student visas at 305,000 over the next two years but Carney will slash that in half by 2026
nationalpost.com/news/politic...
The government originally planned to cap foreign student visas at 305,000 over the next two years but Carney will slash that in half by 2026
nationalpost.com/news/politic...
November 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Ugh :(((
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A Handy Guide [1/4]
September 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
A Handy Guide [1/4]
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For #MosaicMonday this fantastic photo of a mosaic (and a lovely fish 🐟) that was discovered in the submerged ruins of #Roman Baiae.
Photo: Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei
Photo: Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei
August 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
For #MosaicMonday this fantastic photo of a mosaic (and a lovely fish 🐟) that was discovered in the submerged ruins of #Roman Baiae.
Photo: Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei
Photo: Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei
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For a taste of her topic and writing, here's one of her promo threads for the book, about a ramp in Florence that is almost certainly a disability aid for the Medici, but mostly not recognized as such by historians. (and I doubt the Medici would have admitted it, for reasons in the thread)
Friends, let's visit the largest, most famous disability access ramp on Earth...
with a twist! About how our feelings about a bit of history can reverse completely based, not just on the historian’s POV, but what questions we ask 1/?
(Countdown to "Inventing the Renaissance" https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS
with a twist! About how our feelings about a bit of history can reverse completely based, not just on the historian’s POV, but what questions we ask 1/?
(Countdown to "Inventing the Renaissance" https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS
Inventing the Renaissance - Ada Palmer
In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating.
www.adapalmer.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
For a taste of her topic and writing, here's one of her promo threads for the book, about a ramp in Florence that is almost certainly a disability aid for the Medici, but mostly not recognized as such by historians. (and I doubt the Medici would have admitted it, for reasons in the thread)
Québec mentioned!
Scientists have identified what appear to be the oldest rocks on Earth. Fresh isotope dating has pegged rocks on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Quebec at at 4.16 billion years, settling a 20 year dispute. buff.ly/U2LHfZX
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
These Canadian rocks may be the oldest on Earth
Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in Quebec has long been known for its ancient rocks, but…
buff.ly
August 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Québec mentioned!
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'Cherry in Bloom' painting by contemporary U.S impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt #Spring
March 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
'Cherry in Bloom' painting by contemporary U.S impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt #Spring
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“Fine Furs, Sleek Horses” (輕肥), Bai Juyi 白居易 (772-846)
February 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“Fine Furs, Sleek Horses” (輕肥), Bai Juyi 白居易 (772-846)
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A Sinological translation of The Man from Nantucket:
In ancient times, on Nantucket Island, there was an unmarried young man
Whose [employment of a?]* private detective was so protracted that it caused financial losses,**
* (or “tenure as a”)
** (Yingyu da cidian, s.v. “suck it,” definition 4)
In ancient times, on Nantucket Island, there was an unmarried young man
Whose [employment of a?]* private detective was so protracted that it caused financial losses,**
* (or “tenure as a”)
** (Yingyu da cidian, s.v. “suck it,” definition 4)
That stylish young poet, John Keats,
Was shocked when he first met Will Yeats,
For the latter was clad
Like a suburban dad
In tennies and t-shirt and sweats.
Was shocked when he first met Will Yeats,
For the latter was clad
Like a suburban dad
In tennies and t-shirt and sweats.
Shorter Keats:
Though it verges upon the perverse,
Beauty's better than Truth, which is worse.
Modern poets can't do
All the things the Greeks knew,
'Cos we've taken an urn for the verse.
Though it verges upon the perverse,
Beauty's better than Truth, which is worse.
Modern poets can't do
All the things the Greeks knew,
'Cos we've taken an urn for the verse.
January 13, 2025 at 6:36 AM
A Sinological translation of The Man from Nantucket:
In ancient times, on Nantucket Island, there was an unmarried young man
Whose [employment of a?]* private detective was so protracted that it caused financial losses,**
* (or “tenure as a”)
** (Yingyu da cidian, s.v. “suck it,” definition 4)
In ancient times, on Nantucket Island, there was an unmarried young man
Whose [employment of a?]* private detective was so protracted that it caused financial losses,**
* (or “tenure as a”)
** (Yingyu da cidian, s.v. “suck it,” definition 4)
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don't really feel like litigating Biden's choice, but the Hunter pardon really does illustrate the logic of the low trust equilibrium--which is to say, how corruption spreads itself through society.
December 2, 2024 at 1:57 PM
don't really feel like litigating Biden's choice, but the Hunter pardon really does illustrate the logic of the low trust equilibrium--which is to say, how corruption spreads itself through society.
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If you put a photosensor behind the laser, it will trigger when the reflected beam hits it, and the mirror realm (MR) photosensor will trigger when the direct beam entering the MR hits it.
Now consider what happens if we put a vampire between the sensor and the laser.
Now consider what happens if we put a vampire between the sensor and the laser.
November 24, 2024 at 9:01 PM
If you put a photosensor behind the laser, it will trigger when the reflected beam hits it, and the mirror realm (MR) photosensor will trigger when the direct beam entering the MR hits it.
Now consider what happens if we put a vampire between the sensor and the laser.
Now consider what happens if we put a vampire between the sensor and the laser.
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Shine a laser pointer at a mirror. You'll see two laser dots. The first is the one reflected off the mirror. The second is the one that goes *into* the mirror; you'll see a straight line from your laser, into the "mirror realm", ending at a laser dot.
This has some unusual consequences. 🧵
This has some unusual consequences. 🧵
November 24, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Shine a laser pointer at a mirror. You'll see two laser dots. The first is the one reflected off the mirror. The second is the one that goes *into* the mirror; you'll see a straight line from your laser, into the "mirror realm", ending at a laser dot.
This has some unusual consequences. 🧵
This has some unusual consequences. 🧵
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In 1657, Jin Shengtan 金聖嘆 broke off from his commentary on 'The Romance of the Western Chamber' to list "33 Nice Things" 不亦快哉三十三則.
It's one of the most likable things I know of in any language. I translated it to cheer myself up a while ago, if anyone could use it. www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good
It's one of the most likable things I know of in any language. I translated it to cheer myself up a while ago, if anyone could use it. www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good
November 8, 2024 at 4:07 AM
In 1657, Jin Shengtan 金聖嘆 broke off from his commentary on 'The Romance of the Western Chamber' to list "33 Nice Things" 不亦快哉三十三則.
It's one of the most likable things I know of in any language. I translated it to cheer myself up a while ago, if anyone could use it. www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good
It's one of the most likable things I know of in any language. I translated it to cheer myself up a while ago, if anyone could use it. www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good
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搬興廢東生玉兔，
識榮枯西墜金烏。
Let fortune change, for good or ill —
The Jade Hare of the moon will still
Rise nightly from the east.
Whoever lost, whoever won,
It will not in the least
Detain the westering Gold Bird of the sun.
(From the opening to an anonymous Yuan-dynasty lyric.)
識榮枯西墜金烏。
Let fortune change, for good or ill —
The Jade Hare of the moon will still
Rise nightly from the east.
Whoever lost, whoever won,
It will not in the least
Detain the westering Gold Bird of the sun.
(From the opening to an anonymous Yuan-dynasty lyric.)
November 6, 2024 at 6:02 PM
搬興廢東生玉兔，
識榮枯西墜金烏。
Let fortune change, for good or ill —
The Jade Hare of the moon will still
Rise nightly from the east.
Whoever lost, whoever won,
It will not in the least
Detain the westering Gold Bird of the sun.
(From the opening to an anonymous Yuan-dynasty lyric.)
識榮枯西墜金烏。
Let fortune change, for good or ill —
The Jade Hare of the moon will still
Rise nightly from the east.
Whoever lost, whoever won,
It will not in the least
Detain the westering Gold Bird of the sun.
(From the opening to an anonymous Yuan-dynasty lyric.)
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"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned."
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned."
November 6, 2024 at 11:23 AM
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned."
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned."
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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.
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.
November 6, 2024 at 7:14 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.
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.
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Ma Zhiyuan 馬致遠 (ca. 1250 - 1312), "To the tune 'Bo bu duan'"
September 3, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Ma Zhiyuan 馬致遠 (ca. 1250 - 1312), "To the tune 'Bo bu duan'"
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Silmaril in bio
September 25, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Silmaril in bio