Ben Nagy

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I turn latin poetry into long lists of floating point numbers

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The bartender at my local pub is from Cork. His response to anyone ordering an Irish Car Bomb: "Can't make you that, but I can make a 9/11. It's just two kamikazes dropped in a Manhattan."

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In classical Athens, the word for a person who voluntarily chose not to participate in the institutions of the democracy -- who chose, for example, not to vote -- was *idiōtēs*, which is in fact the etymological root of our word "idiot." Maybe the @nytimes.com should publish a piece about THAT.

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Labour now on course to win Trumble-upon-Hartlepool in a historic defeat. They've not held that seat since Viceroy Sir Pudding of Wembley Stadium took it from King Wessex in a high stakes poker game in 1662

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we saw you from across the bar and were wondering if you'd contribute to our edited volume

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Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

ffs bluesky NO I AM NOT VERIFYING MY EMAIL fuck off

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#Ulysses at Sea - by Andrew Deacon - from the #Meanjin archive (Summer 1961) meanjin.com.au/poetry/ulyss... - "Nothing changed / And he was what he saw."

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New piece! I struggled with this one a lot back when I started it a year or two ago, but it finally came together nice and easy when I went back and took a second look at it. 😊

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"Whatever he considers to be beneficial to the commonwealth and the dignity of divine, human, public, and private affairs, he shall have the right and the power to do and to execute." From the statute that conferred absolute power on the Roman emperor (*Lex de imperio Vespasiani*, section 6). 😬

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gays deserve absolute immunity for any official acts performed as a part of “be gay, do crimes”

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Artjoms Sela @artjomshl.bsky.social on Metronome / Plotting Poetry 7 / Einsiedeln / Switzerland

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Published TODAY with @archumanities.bsky.social, my translation of three early modern Latin epics from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania www.arc-humanities.org/978180270157...

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attn scholarly organizations, this is now considered best practice

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My group is busy working on papers to submit to the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) workshop in Dec -- last year was great; if you have work in this space, please do consider submitting and hope to see you there! (Deadline July 8.) 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/

Computational Humanities Research 20242024.computational-humanities-research.org

Teaser: my new project tries to explain, at the sentence level, syntactic features that characterise classical poets' styles. It is, literally, time for some game theory.

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void answerQuery(string query) { return "well that's a very interesting question, but the upshot of my thesis is it depends on a bunch of factors"; }

it'll lay on the jargon with a mix of self-loathing & fear of being exposed

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I Believe The World Is Flat On A Curved Manifold

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Digital-savvy people, please help! I am looking for a platform to host a walking tour after I can no longer run them: something like a clickable map where you can add pictures, text, etc? e.g. this one I co-made on for an Oxford tour (oxfordstories.ox.ac.uk/medieval-churches-oxford)

oxfordstories.ox.ac.uk

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this is an absolutely incredible resource for free, well-formatted, public domain ebooks in epub, kepub, and azw formats standardebooks.org

Standard Ebooksstandardebooks.org Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. Download free ebooks with professional-quality formatting and typography, in formats compatible with your ereader.

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#PhallusThursday What makes a wall really great? Phalluses. The Romans knew it. Hadrian’s Wall is a great example with a great many phalluses to be found along the structure such as this one. 📸 Carole Raddato 🏺AncientBluesky

I made a late night salad sandwich

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What would your most nerdy knuckle tats say? MEN. ..DE

what would your most nerdy knuckle tats say? mine are REAL NEWS

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Things that grabbed my attention during my 2nd time at the Musei Capitolini: 7th-century trireme warfare, epitaph for a child with portions in Greek & Latin, big orange kitty giving a cow a hug, & a dude getting his head stepped on by a horse. Are you morbid?

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🏳️‍🌈 it's Pride Month! 🏳️‍⚧️😏 and you know 🧠 what that means twinks 👦 bears 👨 and qweens 💃⚧️ !!! 👏 GET 👏 THAT 👏 RESUME 👏 UPDATED 👏 and come on down to the 💁‍♀️ Raytheon 🚀💥 pride float 🫧 to talk about exciting 🤯 opportunities 🙇‍♂️ in defense 🦾 cyberwarfare 👩‍💻 and mind control 🌀 let's get that bread 🍞 dolls !!! 👯💰

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*beatboxing sounds*

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Calling all Ovidians! Don't forget that the new journal Ovidius is accepting submissions on any aspect of Ovid and the afterlives of his work, including academic articles, translations, and original creative works! ovidiusjournal.org/ojs/index.ph...

Ovidius: Journal of the International Ovidian Society ovidiusjournal.org

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Me: I am a serious linguist, a specialist in historical European languages, learnèd in the specific sound changes behind modern-day languages like German Also me: (cackling at the chemist's)

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Without me there is no daily eel history. Is that vital? Well…if you choose to build your life such that you don’t need eel history, you might be too far gone anyway.

the final stage of poster’s madness is believing that YOUR account is utterly vital to the operation of the entire site, and that if you leave, the management and all the users will lament to the heavens about your absence

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A stunning aerial view of the Parco degli Acquedotti, south east of Rome. The park is named for its seven aqueducts which supplied the city with water. Photo: Valentino Ligori 🏺 AncientBlueSky

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"Attack and dethrone God" Elmo poster spotted in Sydney