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A sweet romantic with too many ideas. Insides on the outside. And sci fi! Words and languages! They/them
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Any old journos or academics out there have a full transcript of Winston's 1996 'ostentatious houses' speech? It seems to be not on the internets. Asking for historical community research purposes, for real!

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How did no one tell me that ā€œiambic pentameterā€ was named after an Ancient Greek female stand-up comedian who told dirty jokes? (From Edith Hallā€™s ā€œIntroducing the Ancient Greeksā€).

guishable laughter. In an archaic hymn to Demeter attributed to Homer, the goddess of arable farming is inconsolable because her daughter Persephone has been kidnapped by Hades and dragged down to the underworld. Demeter boycotts Olympus and goes to Eleusis, but nothing can ease her pain. Then her hostess, the queen of the surrounding territory, has a brainstorm. She enlists the help of the only female stand-up comic in ancient mythology, whose name was lambe after the rude iambic jokes she recited. Demeter finally bursts into laughter. Iambe the comedian gave her name to the poetic meter that the Greeks always used for poems of insult and satirical abuse; it probably had its origins in prehistoric festivals, in ritual obscenity and jesting. But the Greeks
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Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

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Hercules initiating the olympic games, according to this c1450-75 tapestry. BUT THE HORSES

Medieval tapestry c1450 with shiny knight and randy horses.
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Made it to a midnight church service last night, first time in ages. Chiefly for the singing and the organist. And blow me down if I didnā€™t find my old root of unworthiness and not good enoughness! Ah bless you religion.

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There is a human death toll to the restrictive immigration policies of the West. If Western countries donā€™t want people from poorer countries to migrate to them, they should repatriate more of the wealth they stole from these countries

Revealed: More than 1,000 unmarked graves discovered along EU migration routes
Revealed: More than 1,000 unmarked graves discovered along EU migration routes

Bodies also piling up in morgues across continent as countries accused of failing to meet human rights obligations

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X, formerly Twitter, has been removed by Australia's tech industry group DIGI as a signatory for its Code of Practice On Dis/Misinfo after a complaint by Reset Australia that users couldn't even report electoral misinfo (under X's Civic Integrity policy)

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Un camembert! Aka pie chart. Iā€™m charmed. blog.duolingo.com/names-for-pi...

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gaylourdes.bsky.social
@gaylourdes.bsky.social
A sweet romantic with too many ideas. Insides on the outside. And sci fi! Words and languages! They/them
36 followers74 following94 posts