Niwlen Ster
@niwlenster
Kernow, kernoweger. Siaradwr Cymraeg. She/hi. Writer, poet, artist. Queer, polyam, ancom. Do no harm, take no shit.
Realistically I cannot, and do not want to, beat The Mummy, but I would like to honourably mention Tilda Swinton as Gabriel in Constantine, a similarly bisexual film.
Me and my book, Gwedrow-Mires [Mirrors], have won the Gorsedh's Holyer an Gof publishers' awards in my class (Books in Cornish for Adults) and the Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek Cup, named for @kowethas.bsky.social. You can buy it here, by the way..... cornish-language.org/product/gwed... 😉
@sophiasgaler.bsky.social I loved loved loved How to Kill a Language, Sophia, fantastic book. But Cornish was not felled. We are here. Omma yth eson ni. Bew on ni hwath, we live still. And we are growing. It hurts to see our name listed among the dead.
This joke only really works in Cornish (but the alt text explains it).
Two months to go from "20mph very good" to "20mph obviously bad". @jostevenslabour.bsky.social just says whatever.
I love doing a bigotry because you believe the people you're bigoting are all bigoted. 🙄
1) Kernow. You didn't do shit. 2) Oh, OK, so when 'Britain' tracks an American spaceship using our tech, that is something we are doing, but when Britain allows American planes to fly from our bases to bomb Iran, that is nothing to do with us. Gotcha.
Speaking a language at its very least political implies, above a certain age, the political belief that that language should be spoken by you. This was nowhere near what I was saying about the FACT that speaking a minority language is a political act, and it's still wrong.
Language is political, minority languages especially so. Learning Cornish is an explicitly political, explicitly radical act, whether or not you acknowledge it as such.
What, this Jenni Murray? Ew. The only good transphobe is a dead transphobe.
Brilliant Maps, published in 2019! Let's see if there's anything interesting... Oh. Oh, it says Cornish is extinct. The language that was officially reclassified as critically endangered in 2010. The language that I speak. That is officially recognised in Europe. Fuck you @brilliantmaps.bsky.social