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Samira Verhees
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Formerly a full-time linguist: East Caucasian languages, in particular Botlikh. More on that on my website.

Currently a data engineer and an independent linguistics […]

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Finished spinning my homegrown flax. It's not the most beautiful yarn, but spinning is rather difficult. Up next: preparing the yarn to either weave or embroider with it, and plant the seeds of last year's plants for the next cycle. #1m2vlas #flax #spinning #spindle
Hand holding a spindle with spun yarn of varying thickness wrapped around it. Plastic container with dried flax seed pods.
January 23, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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The proliferation of built-in AI features feels like being assigned a confident and inept assistant that you're not allowed to fire because he's the CEO's nephew.
January 12, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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Looking for translations of the word maize in Iranian languages. I'm writing a small chapter about maize for the typological atlas of the languages of Dagestan, and I'm wondering if there are parallels there for compounds like hajj-wheat, prophet-wheat, king/shah-wheat. #iranian #indo-iranian […]
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January 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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went to the forest just before dark looking for mushrooms that light up under a uv-light. found a few decaying sulphur tufts, and a bug (possibly a milipede?) inside a tree bark. #mushtodon
two decaying sulphur tufts on a forest floor with gills lighting up under a uv-light several decaying sulphur tufts on a dark forest floor, partially lighting up under a uv-light two decaying sulphur tufts in center and a few smaller pieces to the side on a forest floor, lighting up under a uv-light a bug inside the bark of a tree, lighting up under a uv-light in the dark
December 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM