melannechthon

a displaced 17th. century Quaker, with post-modern sensibilities, and excited by poetry in all its forms...

[Trefor Bazett @TreforBazett]

This is a super🧵about all my threads on #LaTeX.

Writing in #LaTeX is a great skill for anyone in STEM to be able to make beautiful documents with math in them. I've got a complete beginner to master series on YouTube/Twitter and I want to break it down in this thread. 1/

[Viced Rhino 🦏 🏳️‍⚧️ Ally @VicedRhino]

📣 New Podcast! "Answers In Genesis Are Bad At Their Job!" on @Spreaker https://t.co/zdzSUUV37Q

[melannechthon @melannechthon]

@VicedRhino I saw this on Facebook this evening. Glasshouse Gaslighting, bring your own stone?? Aaaaaaagh!

[Viced Rhino 🦏 🏳️‍⚧️ Ally @VicedRhino]

Worth mentioning that this is also indicative of how the right doesn't actually care about the people who support them.

They will blatantly lie to them in order to attract them, and then just admit that that's what they're doing once it's too late to do anything about it.

[Jenny Jones @GreenJennyJones]

I love this and feel emotional every time I hear/watch it.
Beautifully done.

[melannechthon @melannechthon]

Check out my membership card from https://t.co/rygPEu1LBv!

[Paulier#FBPE #GotTheTorriesOut #LGBU @Paulieraw]

This is in Chatham. Well done to whoever put it there.

[Iskandar Ding @iskdin]

Some of the essential references of my thesis.

Many people see ‘Wow you know so many languages!’ I see a complete tragedy and a sadistic, gatekeeping desire intrinsic to my subject. I’m fortunate enough to be able to read academic Russian and Japanese bc I’m from China. But then there are the books - Gershevitch’s Sogdian grammar, a fundamental read in this field, is out of print, and I was given my copy as a present; the best Sogdian textbook to date is written in Japanese, and I had to pay the exorbitant postage with my scholarship money - lucky I actually have a scholarship at all.

I’m in the UK, which means that scholarships in humanities see your just about surviving as a big achievement. Windfuhr’s fundamental text in the picture cost about £200, but I was lucky to get it for about £2 because the seller in 2014 probably did his zeros wrong. The two Russian texts are accessible only if you belong to a university.

The best Yaghnobi dictionary written so far is, as the picture shows, in Czech - I have to activate all my knowledge of not just Slavic, but also Indo-European, linguistics in order to read that thing, and still half the time I need to rely on AI. No, it’s no fun.

It’s no fun because no Yaghnobi person has access to all these fundamental texts. It’s no fun because even I as a privileged person has to seek across the globe for these texts. It’s no fun because, so many of my friends who speak Iranian languages want to know more about their linguistic history, but the nearest copy of a grammar is in some goddamn Staatsbibliothek that they need a visa to access, or written in a language they need to pay months of salary to learn how to speak.

No, it’s nothing to be proud of to be based in the West and to know so many languages just to access one’s discipline’s key texts. It’s a disgrace.

[Prof Dimitra Fimi @Dr_Dimitra_Fimi]

What are the five topics you can talk about for 30 minutes with zero prep?
Mine are:

1. J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Children’s fantasy through the centuries
3. Fairies
4. Miniature books and worlds
5. The tradition of invented languages

[melannechthon @melannechthon]

@PapaPiccolino @maklelan 'Never' is too pessimistic. Yes, it's weird, it's anachronistic, and it's unsupported by informed reading. In time it will be laid down by his Tribe, reframed, and relegated to the footnotes.

[ثقافة سودانية @SudaneseCulture]

Preparing traditional Sudanese coffee “Alsharaqraq/الشرقرق”: (water boiling pot) and “Aljabana/جَبَنة: (red clay pot)

#SudaneseCulture #ثقافة_سودانية

[ثقافة سودانية @SudaneseCulture]

Sudan has more pyramids than any other country on earth - even more than Egypt

#Sudan #Sudan_Nation_Of_The_Pyramids

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

The blue bird of Happiness

[Nina Willburger @DrNWillburger]

Apparently it's #WorldBeeDay: a beautiful #Roman intaglio depicting a bee. From Syria.
1st to 3rd century AD
🐝🐝🐝

Photo: Yale University Art Gallery.

[melannechthon @melannechthon]

@clicks1222

[melannechthon @melannechthon]

@g0blinegg Do Impostors ever experience Impostor Syndrome directly, or only by proxy? Salopcism will play Oulipo Dynamo in an out of season friendly, we hear... 🙂📚

[melannechthon @melannechthon]

Listening to "Drs. Matt Browne & Chris Kavanagh - Decoding the Gurus" at https://t.co/Gz7aZXcxVM

[melannechthon @melannechthon]

@ImagesByJonEvan Genius Loci?