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abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 15

you know you're at the rare specialties linguistics school when #linguistics #cuneiform

screenshot wi-fi menu that shows a personal hotspot named in Cuneiform characters

(yes, Neo Twindrills XL is mine, an evolution of having named a phone Twindrills multiple models ago)

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 15

Happy Birthday Rembrandt #netherlands #leiden #rembrandt #arthistory

A statue of Rembrandt in his hometown of Leiden, bedecked with fresh flowers because it is his birthday

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 14

here is a photo I took in November 2021 at pretty much exactly the same spot but looking the other way. I had only been in the country for several weeks at this point. I remember that I took this picture after taking the trash out and wandering just a […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

The canal is a bit more bleak but there's an entire honkin' swan in it

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 14

Here is today's Medieval Cozycore. The pink house is an authentic, original medieval whorehouse. The people who live there now are probably not sex workers. Though they could be, I haven't checked. There's actually a lot of shots I'd like to take and post […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

view of a canal in Leiden filled with bright green lilypads perused by coots (yes the birds are called coots) and several old brick buildings ranging from the 1500s to the early 1900s. The oldest one is extremely pink. It's painted pink to recreate the look of very old sun-faded red paint that it had a reputation for.

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 14

the beauty of Indo-European linguistics is that you can be looking at a strange word from a small culture on the other side of the world 3000 years ago and say "wattari. wattari. Must mean... watery" and it's not a joke #linguistics

excerpts of a Luwian dictionary for words related to water, which includes "wattar" for water and "wattari" for become watery

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 14

Today in women in the ancient world: this Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription bears the warning “Whosoever would tear down this engraving or efface my name from it, may the gods oppose them, may his masculinity be severed, may her femininity be severed, may they […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Page of textbook showing hieroglyphics with phonetic transcription and literal gloss

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 11

Odin got a bit hyper this morning when he realized that mommy had *not* snuck out the door at the crack of dawn this time

Odin the Newfie full of love, wonder and drool

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 10

More medieval cozycore for those of you burdened with modern reality. Okay actually this is more 1600s cozycore but you understand I used to live down at the entrance to this canal. I had to seriously consider whether marrying my husband and moving to a […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A historic canal in Leiden full of row boats and lily pads, with antique brick houses from the 1600s. Plenty of trees and flowers

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 9

There may be less Odin Posting while mommy is at Bronze Age Languages Summer Camp all day but rest assured he continues to bode While I was writing the alt text for this post, he suddenly ran across the house, jumped on top of me and started to lick my neck to say thank you for dinner

Odin the Newfie pulling his cutest drool-face because mommy has popcorn

You know that one Ace Attorney case, the one about the circus trick where you stick your head in a lion’s mouth…?

Odin looking angelically up towards daddy

It is so hard to get a decent double selfie with Odin, he does not understand the assignment

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 9

I am here to report that news in Chinese transcribes Kanye West as “grampa who never shuts up”

Chinese to English dictionary for a word that is pronounced kan-yeh and is defined as “idle chatterer, big talker” (the second character is literally “grampa”)

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 9

Medieval cozycore IS real and it CAN heal you. #netherlands #leiden #cozy #cozycore

Alleyway in historic Leiden with small businesses in old brick townhouses, tiny picnic tables, bushes and flowers, and a red reclining tricycle; a cathedral is glimpsed through the end of the alley, and a blue sky above

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 7

Mommy left for linguistics school at 7 am and got home at 10 pm and had to get a whole lot of matting out of Odin’s chin that spontaneously formed somehow (daddy can’t do it alone because combing Odin against his will takes like six limbs)

Odin the Newfie standing proudly next to a mountain of dead hair and tangles mommy pulled out

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 6

Good Afternoon Leiden, the academic’s quiet paradise #netherlands #leiden

Cozy canal in Leiden, lined with rowboats and antique brick houses; a classy yellow bike on the bridge

Cozy narrow market alleyway with Dutch sports flags and Chinese-Indonesian restaurant

Plaza facing antique houses, one of which has a painting demonstrating orbital mechanics on it because Leiden is just Like That. A worker is maintaining the paint job on one of the houses. A cathedral looms in the corner

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 6

Good Morning Leiden #leiden #netherlands

Perspective view of a street in old Leiden in the morning; a Dutch bicycle leans against a very old brick building with traditional red and white shutters

An old tug boat docked by dense lily pads outside antique buildings with modern ones in the distance

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 5

You could get a doctorate out of studying the Wall of Post-Its in this bubble tea shop. Dutch, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Slovakian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Arabic…

A cacophony of hundreds of cute girly post it notes on a wall, in many languages, about basically everything but especially bubble tea

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 4

I have never been so frustrated with my voice as I have been today, trying to record something of great personal importance to me and hearing how short my voice falls of the power and presence this speech deserves. But my voice is, and always will be, no […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 4

This morning’s translation exercises included a guy panicking about being promoted to Prime Minister of Imperial China and submitting his resignation three times in one week (all refused). Looking it up, this guy served under five consecutive emperors, kept […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

my Chinese translation notebook at an angle to show green ink sparkling pink in sunlight

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 3

Rare footage of Odin getting offended (my husband is blowing air in his face from just off-camera)

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 3

found a relic from a happier, more naive age. (I did not work for Twitter Security team, they gave me this shirt as a gift at defcon in 2014 or so)

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 3

I like to rag on Confucius for being so “kids these days!” so here’s a fair and balanced quotation of his better side: The Master said: “Everyone is respectable from birth. Why do you assume that those who are young now will not surpass our current […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Handwritten Classical Chinese study notes in real green ink with elegantly uncapped fountain pen

Paper held at an angle to catch the light and show the ink’s sparkling sheen

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 1

euro truck simulator's approximation of (the dramatic part of) our neighborhood after the Amsterdam update this is where Odin gets on the train to become Public Transport Odin #ets2 #eurotruckSimulator2 #amsterdam #trains

euro truck simulator of the jenga tower buildings in Amsterdam Zuid

view of a station platform with Amsterdam Zuid behind, including the boat building

that office building with the... boulder hat?

an amusingly simplified Dutch intercity train

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 1

while we were waiting for my husband outside the snack stand, we met a family with a little girl who wasn't afraid of Odin at all. :neodog_melt_blush: Odin was very pleased and rolled around on the ground begging for more attention.

Selfie: me (pink shirt) and Odin the Newfie (pink tongue)

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jul 1

Today on ancient diplomacy: The King of Han said (to another ruler): “You and I have both been ordered to submit to King Huai and swear an oath of brotherhood with each other. Okay! My dad is your dad, bro! And your dad seems like he’d make for a GREAT stew […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Excerpt from a Classical Chinese textbook that is mostly in Chinese with some vocabulary glossed in English

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jun 30

1) Odin investigates a case of smol 2) Odin studiously gazes through a gap in the railing straight at Mila’s house

Odin the Newfie snuffling a dog a fiftieth of his size

Odin cannot be dissuaded from waiting for the appearance of his beloved on yonder balcony in the dustabce

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jun 30

Terribly amused by this alleged "CEO" who set up a bot to make himself sound smart by generating "intellectual discourse" replies on his behalf, which proceeded to write a comically high-brow pseudo-intellectual reply to a joke diagram, get flagged by one of […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A reply to me from "Frank Phoenix" who has an AI-generated portrait:

A chart can clarify the surface, but classical Chinese political thought is an architecture of systems rather than a set of categories. Confucian, Legalist and Daoist traditions interact through context, not through static labels.
When we compress these layers into a single diagram, we gain accessibility but lose the structural depth that makes the tradition coherent. Understanding the architecture matters more than the taxonomy.

My reply to him:

I was GOING to say I think you might have misunderstood the spirit of a chart that has the word "motherfucker" written on it, but given that you've been posting a take like this exactly once a minute to different people, you're clearly a bot trying
to stir up discourse.

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jun 30

I have clarified any and all confusions you may have had about ancient Chinese political thought in one convenient chart. #history #politics #classicalchinese #philosophy

A hand-drawn flow chart in cute colors: "Ancient Chinese Political Schools"

Confucianism: If everyone would just be POLITE and show their rulers some RESPECT then we wouldn't even NEED any laws

Daoism: Bro, stop trying to fix everything, you're making it worse. The best ruler is one who sits back and doesn't rule a thing

Legalism: There is no problem so small it can't be solved by beheading ten thousand men about it

Confucianism says to Daoism: "You lazy oafs"

Daoism says to Confucianism: "You pompous dicks"

Daoism says to Legalism: "you're REALLY throwing off my groove"

Legalism says to Daoism: "your 'groove' isn't in the budget"

Legalism says to Confucianism: "you NAIVE motherfuckers"

Confucianism says to Legalism: "Sir, I can excuse the slavery, human sacrifice, sexism etc etc, but I draw the line at coarse language"

In the center, with all schools pointing toward the same outcome: "The rivers flood, the crops fail, millions die."

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jun 28

Odin saw y'all's posts

Odin the Newfie sitting in front of mommy's laptop and pulling a face that is either laughing very hard or screaming very loud, not sure

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jun 28

Odin conked out on the cool balcony after several nights of being extremely restless due to heat and wild thunderstorms.

Odin the Newfie collapsed in an absolute heap of fur on the shady balcony

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jun 27

wiktionary language tags: Modern Chinese: This account can communicate in Chinese. Middle Chinese: This user can converse in Medieval Han. Classical Chinese: Milord doth have literary ambitions. #classicalchinese

screenshot of wiktionary user language badges in different flavors of Chinese

abadidea@0xabad1dea· Jun 26

the temperature has dipped below 30 after a high of 37 (99), so I think it's safe to call that Odin has officially survived The Hottest Day Of His Life (So Far) He was a real trooper about it. Didn't fuss, though he can't have been comfortable. We hosed him down three times.