Is anyone on Mastodon knowledgeable about Tironian notes? I've got tentative readings of two headings in a 9th c. Text from the Loire Valley, which mix Tironian notes and Latin charaters. But there are 13,000 T. Notes in Schmitz, many of which look very similar. Thanks!!
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Christians: This Friday we celebrate!
Non Christians: Cool! What’s the occasion?
Christians: Our god died. Tortured to death quite horribly, in fact.
Non Christians: You celebrate that?
Christians: There are sound theological reasons.
Non Christians: Bit weird, but ok.
Christians: We call it “Good Friday”
Non Christians: …
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In fact the word good stood for "holy", not the modern meaning:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Fri…
And of course christians don't celebrate good friday, but commemorate it. It's like say that jews people celebrate Holocaust_memorial_days.
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Completely agree!
The use of eth in Anglian and Brythonic names seems to imply a soft 'th' sound, whereas the use of thorn seems to imply a harder one; and my understanding is that the same is true in modern Icelandic (Seyðisfjörður, Egilsstaðir vs Þórsmörk, for example).
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I see GamerGate is in the news because it’s coming up to the tenth anniversary. Ten years ago, I was in the middle of a nervous breakdown caused by transphobic harassment from TERfs organised on social media. They were using the same tactics that, months later, would be the hallmark of GamerGate.
And yet the surviving narrative is that this sort of organised, “culture war” harassment originated with GG.
It didn’t. They did it to trans women, and probably others, first, and we raised the alarm, and nobody thought it mattered enough to do anything.
And then they came for the rest of you.
They keep doing this. We keep raising the alarm. We keep being ignored.
Maybe one day people will learn.
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New Zealand goose: How one blind bisexual bird became an icon
Henry the goose spent many years in a love triangle with two swans, helping raise their children.By Yvette Tan (BBC News)
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Job hunting, oh my
I'm looking for work again, after the most recent temporary thing came to an end. (Arguably I did it all too quickly!).
Apart from the challenge of persuading myself that I'm actually good enough to do _any_ described job, I find I haven't a clue what job titles mean these days. Cambridge University hides everything under a "Computer Officer" blanket, and I know I'm a system administrator (who does networks and other stuff too), but the job market is full of "Thing Analyst" and "Site Reliability Engineer" and "DevOps" and I haven't a clear idea what boxes if any I fit into.
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I made an HTML/DOM viewer you can paste into your console to view or debug any website in 3D. Choose from random/gradient/clear colors or whether layers have sides.
You can save it as a bookmarklet so it's 1 click away. It's just a tiny IIFE JS function.
gist.github.com/OrionReed/4c37…
3D DOM viewer, copy-paste this into your console to visualise the DOM topographically.
3D DOM viewer, copy-paste this into your console to visualise the DOM topographically. - DOM3D.jsGist
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Star Trek Prodigy is silly.
"You want us to jump? I do not think that option is logically sound"
"In outer space, there is no sound"
"Your rebuttal is correct, but nonsense"
Etymology is so cool.
The term "microblog" comes from micro + blog, ie small blog.
Then, "blog" is a shortened form of "Web log". And a "log" comes from "log book", which is a book used to record events on a journey.
So get this, the "log" in log book is because you would use the book to record the progress and speed of a ship by using a reel attached to a chip log... So called because it's made of wood... ie a log.
So a microblog is a small record of your journey.
I think that's very poetic that this very post is a direct descendent of mariners from 400 years ago.
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I had to sign up to a private dentist (no NHS in the area). One thing I always notice the few times I've had to go private for things is that you don't get lectured.
With the NHS it's like waiting for the NordVPN bit in a YouTube video, except you can't skip it.
You need to lose weight, stop drinking, eat better, exercise, wash behind your ears, phone your mother, come more often, not come as often, get more sleep, work less, just be happier, find some "me" time, stay informed but worry less, get out more, close the door (were you born in a barn?).
I wonder if there's been any papers on contrasting primary care providers who moan at their patients and those who don't. I can't help wondering if it's counterproductive.
It's made me much happier to book checkups knowing that we both start on the basis that I'm trying.
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I've been with the same NHS dental practice for maybe 10 years.
The biggest difference is that there seems to be a revolving door of dentists where if you are unlucky (like my wife) you never see the same dentist twice.
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"they find that basically nonbinary people do whatever the heck they like"
damn right lol
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@Sesquipedality It's an interesting exercise in attempting to express the reasoning in accessible language. To me it seems a little patronising but it's been a long time since I was 14 so I'm a poor judge of that... and was never very typically 14 anyway.
Problematic how?
You know goats have those excellent rectangular pupils in their eyes? Well apparently they give the goat an excellent field of vision to detect predators. They also swivel in their sockets to ensure that the pupil remains parallel to the ground.
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The Busy World of Richard Scarry Soft Toys with Cars - Select Character
The Busy World of Richard Scarry Soft Toys with Car #358 - Huckle Cat in Blue Car – Huckle Cat Soft Toy is made of white plush with orange accents and dressed in a bright yellow shirt, grey pants, and red suspenders.Rockin' A B
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Saw someone hyperventilating over LLMs “passing the mirror test”, so …
TL;DR This short program “recognises itself”: show it a file containing its own source code and it will print “This is me!”
Underwhelmed? You should be! But I did have to type a lot of backslashes.
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In the 90s we had Eliza. Why couldn't we just have been happy enough with "Super Eliza" and watching ourselves drawn eating a twelve foot donut with Freddie Mercury?
Why did we have to jam this garbage machine into absolutely everything?
We got an email from the Serbian Registry of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS), the organisation that is responsible for the `.rs` top-level domain.
Looks like they are a big fan of Rust. 😊
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“Mrs Jones lost her husband” “Has she looked down the back of the sofa?”
The remarkable witness statement of Johnny Mercer
How a government minister tried and failed to get to the bottom of serious war crimes allegations
By me, at Prospect
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Jeff King: The House of Lords, Constitutional Propriety, and the Safety of Rwanda Bill
The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill will receive its second reading in the House of Lords on 29 January 2024, having cleared the House of Commons unamended. There are a great many p…UK Constitutional Law Association
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It is perfectly proper for House of Lords to insist House of Commons think again with certain types of legislation.
This delaying power is expressly part of the Parliament Acts.
It is not an outright veto.
If Commons in their next session pass same Bill a year from now then it becomes law.
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…
Rwanda bill likely to be stalled at least till April after seven defeats in the Lords
Peers voted for numerous amendments making it improbable the legislation will return to the Commons this side of EasterRajeev Syal (The Guardian)
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@ajlanes I see. I suppose the intent was that if the Lords kept sending something back over and over, the Commons would take the hint.
(I have to admit, in my Reductio Ad Absurdum, I struggled to come up with a hypothetical policy more obviously immoral than "send refugess to a country known for its genocides and human-rights abuses".)
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No, there is no absolute veto is the Bill is passed by the Commons again a year later in identical terms.
You would then be looking to the monarch to not give it royal assent.
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A fair description by the Home Secretary of the COVID PPE profiteers who benefitted so much from this government during the pandemic
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I would like to see greetings cards saying
"GET WELL SOON"
and inside
"The well is firmly cemented to the ground. You cannot take it.
What now?"
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Sure! Be forewarned, the MS is very hard to read (which is why it remained for us to decipher.)
Line 1: the start seems to be "Versus in baptisterio" but after that -- "Petri" something maybe. Extremely hard to read. The last character that looks like some Carolingian miniscule A's -- "abstergentis"? "delati"?
Line 14: we read "De petra manante"
We = me + Mike Fontaine (Cornell) + Rachel Fickes (Middlebury library.)