taoish

@taoish@mastodonapp.uk

Author, standup comedian, and independent scholar.
Interested in palindromes, antiquity and the early medieval, ancient coins, Daoism aka Taoism, comedy, politics, and music among other rabbit holes.

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AnnaAnthro, to Argentina
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    taoish,

    @AnnaAnthro
    As long as the fine is in Argentine pesos, who cares?

    aaronm, to medievodons
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    Does anyone recognize this #Medieval #Diagram
    Source is BAV Ott.lat.877 f.1r. I think this was originally a flyleaf that just had the title of the work (Bede's Historia Anglorum), but the cruciform thing is puzzling me
    @medievodons #Medievodons

    taoish,

    @aaronm @medievodons
    That cross figure is a variant (with extra letters) of a figure poem by Ps.-Venantius Fortunatus, which in turn is based on a couplet from the middle of a North African church inscription composed by Calbulus and found in the Codex Salmasianus (Anthologia Latina). There are several witnesses.

    I would love to correspond with anyone researching this, as I am. It's an example of a "labyrinth," best known from the Tabulae Iliacae (1st c. BCE).

    taoish,

    @aaronm @medievodons
    PS the cross figure is upside down in that image.

    taoish,

    @NFerey @aaronm @medievodons
    The figure in Amiens 223 is (a more accurate version of) that same figure. Plus a wonderful doodle on the recto!

    taoish,

    @NFerey @chronohh @aaronm @medievodons
    The last two figures in Hrabanus Maurus' book feature palindromes as the intexts. It set off a burst of Carolingian "versus recurrentes" over the next century, many by Irish peregrinni in the circle of John Scottus Eriugena.

    emmalbriant, to Facebook
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    🤦‍♀️ according to Snopes people whose was abused, who had a claim, thought the class action settlement from 2018 scandal might be a scam, they had not heard about data misuse… 😩 If this is you - This is REAL!!!! The deadline to submit a claim in the settlement is August 25, 2023!!!! Please SHARE? Thanks! https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/yes-this-facebook-class-action-settlement-is-legitimate/

    taoish,

    @emmalbriant
    How can I know whether my data was abused?

    riewarden, to Theatre

    I'm looking for Edinburgh Fringe shows about hidden or forgotten history! I feel like I saw lots of shows like this advertised last year, and I didn’t actually see any of them. Please recommend these to me 🥰💛

    taoish,

    @riewarden
    I've got two hidden Edinburgh shows for you-

    "Ancient Coins from Forgotten Kingdoms" Burrito N Shake, 13:15

    Also my palindrome Improv show has chunks of lurid Palindrome history in between guest comedians, while we work on our palindromes.

    Palindrome Fight! Brewdog West (50 Lothian) at 16:55

    Both shows are all month, 5-27 Aug except Tuesdays. PBH Free Fringe so just show up, I'll pass a hat in case you are moved to contribute. @histodons

    AnnaAnthro, to Arkansas
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    taoish,

    @AnnaAnthro
    This article is crap and NPR should be ashamed of itself.

    Yes, some of the blatantly unconstitutional laws banning drag as a way to persecute gays have been paused by temporary injunctions.

    They are still on the books, awaiting decisions by ideological conservatives who have abandoned any consistency with previous court rulings. No one on the Republican side has any courage to oppose them. And all kinds of police harassment, zoning etc. can get the same result.

    jynersolives, to philosophy
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    Found on FB: philosophers ranked after their punk credentials. Diogenes is the GOAT of course, while Hobbes and Heidegger are basically cops.

    taoish,

    @jynersolives
    Laozi is way too far down, and Zhuangzi, who should top the list isn't even on there.

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    taoish,

    @abolisyonista @psychictides @academicchatter
    For people of a certain age, "nee" is what you put before a woman's maiden name, after her slave name (oops I mean married name).

    taoish,

    @bike @abolisyonista @academicchatter
    Not sure I follow, could you give an example please?

    taoish,

    @abolisyonista @academicchatter
    If they are a classicist or a medievalist, the elegant way is to cite them as "Fred Rezekhani (olim Susie Rezekhani)" or whatever.

    azforeman, to linguistics

    "Six Moods of Rōdakī"

    In which I read some passages from the poet Rudaki (9th-10th centuries) in a reconstruction of Early New Persian pronunciation and also in my English translation.

    Complete with nasalized long vowels, still quite peripheral short vowels, and phonemic /xʷ ð β ɣ q w ē ō/. The text shown, as before, uses ذ for all instances of /ð/, and ڤ for /β/.

    @linguistics @poetry @medievodons @histodons
    @bookstodon

    video/mp4

    taoish,

    @azforeman @linguistics @poetry @medievodons @histodons @bookstodon

    Thank you for sharing! I can't gauge the accuracy of the translation, but you definitely captured the rhyming, and the poems are meaningful in English as you recite them.

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    @CitizenWald @bookstodon
    Not a book but the singer Billy Bragg collects ancient Celtic coins. https://numismatics.org/03-06a/

    taoish, to random

    Donald Trump is a nepo baby.

    If he had just put his dad's wealth into a Vanguard fund, he'd be 10x wealthier and we'd all have been spared a lot of stupid drama.

    A_Passion_for_Jazz, to guitar

    ♪♫ "All I play is #truth & #emotion."

    taoish,

    More to the point, here's a recording of Jimi Hendrix's heaviest song, "Midnight"
    https://vimeo.com/332484455

    @A_Passion_for_Jazz @jazz

    bojacobs, to nuclear
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    Our high-level nuclear waste, spent fuel from nuclear reactors, is the most substantive creation of human civilization. It will outlast everything else humans have made.

    It is how our descendants will know us, we are the people who made that.

    How do we warn the 1,000s of generations who will experience risk from this radioactive waste?

    @sts @histodons

    https://vimeo.com/663187398

    taoish,

    @MisuseCase @doomscroller @bojacobs @sts @histodons

    "The half-life of plutonium is 90 years" ??

    What a wildly misleading statement. As if nuclear waste was 100% plutonium? (It's not, uranium is the main fuel ) and as if all plutonium isotopes were the same (also, no). And this completely ignores what is left after radioactive decay - the resulting elements can also be toxic and/or radioactive, often much longer.

    taoish,

    @doomscroller @VoxDei @MisuseCase @bojacobs @sts

    Agreed. In a weird way, it's reassuring to block a misinfo-pushing troll here. It suggests that Mastodon is worth the bad guys' time now.

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    @mike805 @GrittyLipids @bookstodon @histodons

    QT @mike805
    "Where is that church that is divided between sects with a line down the middle? Every now and then someone steps on the line and there's a rumble."

    It's called "the back seat of my parents' car."

    shooboo, to random

    I’ve been on this network for a bit over a week now and haven’t been able to find a fun mix for my timeline. So far it feels like 90% of the discussion is very meta, about Mastodon/Twitter/Threads and how awesome the fediverse* is. The rest is variations of “conservatives bad!”, which I guess is common sense, but boring. I miss shitposting and memes and geeky tech content. Looking for follow recommendations 😅

    taoish,

    @shooboo
    My twitter feed wasn't funny after a week either. Maybe obvious but find someone who makes you laugh and go through their feed. Boosting is big here.

    These folks have all made me laugh:

    @dreamthievin
    @dgar
    @ElleGray
    @adhdeanasl
    @Alice
    @jimmerthatisall
    @Skepticat
    @donni
    @UnFitz2
    @the_etrain
    @lolennui

    NickEast, to books
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    All books are propagande when a government fears people might start thinking about why things are they way they are 🤔

    @bookstodon @litstudies @histodons @politicalscience

    #Book #Books
    #Propaganda #BannedBooks
    #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing

    taoish,

    @plount @NickEast @bookstodon @litstudies @histodons @politicalscience
    Do you imagine that books of child pornography are not banned in the US? I think this is a simplistic view.

    You may be confusing prior restraint with illegality. It's very hard to block a book from being published in the first place in the US. (Eg Pentagon Papers) That does not mean that you can't be prosecuted for publishing it.

    supernovae, to random

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    @supernovae
    But you're not gonna say the diner's name, or even the city? wtf

    taoish,

    @supernovae thanks! Near tbe fancy new museum that a Walton built? That's on my list too.

    jmccyoung, to random
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    Libgloss
    http://liber-glossarum.huma-num.fr/exist/apps/libgloss/TheLiberGlossarum_fr.html "The Liber Glossarum is a vast encyclopedic glossary compiled from materials that are heterogeneous in nature (patristic, exegetical, encyclopaedic, scientific, grammatical, lexicographic, etc.) and homogeneous in their origin, which is Visigothic Spain in the 7th century. It was released at the end of the 8th century century, probably in the entourage of Charlemagne..."

    taoish,

    New, online digital edition of the Liber Glossarum, a very important early medieval encyclopaedia. And free! http://liber-glossarum.huma-num.fr/index.html

    H/t @jmccyoung
    @histodons
    @medievodons

    stevesilberman, to random
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    I'm not sure I've ever seen a man so utterly inauthentic, so fake from top to bottom, so excruciatingly awkward, so stilted, so robotic, so tightly wound, so zombie-like as he mouths this bullshit - every single word a lie, a cover up, or a hypocrisy. (It's Pence.) https://tinyurl.com/bd4pu9yn

    taoish,

    @stevesilberman Pence vs. De Santis: Robot Wars II

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