enricodandolo.bsky.social
Assyriologist at the University of Heidelberg. 🇪🇺🇺🇦
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It is true that there's more where they come from, but there should still be consequences for crimes and incompetence both from an ethical and a political standpoint.
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I could've sworn there's a couple of Italian and Spanish articles, too, but I might be misremembering
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Probably fair to say that most of this misogyny was aimed not specifically at Kamala (though there was plenty of that) but more generally the D party / the liberal project as a whole. A male nominee would still have lost male votes to misogyny even if leaning into lib masculinity (like Walz did).
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Feels like these things always end up involving Civil -- the man did so much amazing work that will likely never see the light of day again because it was never properly published ...
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Would also be very interested in this! I think the translation I read at Oxford in 2017 was the one by Victor Watts which seemed quite accessible but didn't have much of an apparatus if I recall correctly
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especially stings in the concept of Knights of the Nine which just plain does not work if you're playing any kind of mer
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The thing I missed most in Oblivion was the religious and cultural diversity Cyrodiil / the IC is supposed to be famous for -- instead of thousands of cults with unique perspectives on the nature of the Aurbis, we got Fantasy Catholicism and that's it
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Oh yeah fuck the Trial of Vivec fr. The only Tribune I vibe with is Almalexia, largely because despite being an immortal dictator she at least bothered to actually run the country rather than fucking off to play with gears / write drug-fuelled poetry
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This is probably largely MK's influence, but I feel like the out-of-universe message of The Elder Scrolls lore is "the Velothi / Psijjic Endeavour is objectively good and everyone not pursuing it is on a cosmological dead end". Which would make Boethiah / Lorkhan the big goods of the franchise.
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MEA was a major improvement upon DAI because it made the filler content feel like it actually mattered in some small way, I will die on that hill.
(You'll also have to scrape me off the "DA2 is the best-written game in the series" hill)
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That's SAA 16/28, Sherua-etirat scolding Liballi-sharrat, right? So her sister-in-law. It's interesting that Sherua-etirat's status was higher than the future queen's, given how she's dressing down a woman who isn't even a part of her own household. Do we know what she got up to under Ashurbanipal?
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The problem of being CC'd in long email chains that have nothing to do with you is a lot older than we thought.
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The Trump administration is staffed half by Molag Bal, half by Mehrunes Dagon, but for some reason all of them think they're either Boethiah or Vivec.
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@ringwiss.bsky.social argues it should be considered a filibuster which is good enough for me bsky.app/profile/ring...
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Makes sense, thank you!
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What are ork AWACS officers called tho
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In order to get to a liberalism that builds we need to first have a liberalism that fights.
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Not counting dictionaries/glossaries, it's probably tied between the Reallexikon der Assyriologie, the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia series, and Jagersma's Descriptive Grammar of Sumerian.
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I'm about to start a PhD in the US in the summer and I'm frankly terrified. But it's a great offer and I don't really have a lot of other options in terms of potential supervisors / funding sources so I just keep telling myself it'll be okay 🙃
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Means "my slave" -- it's probably a nickname for Arad-[deity], "slave of [deity]".
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Bitter irony in Ardiya's name ...
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I think in box four you'd get "Bible Times" and that's it. Whenever I have to do small-talk about what I do, the usual reaction is "oh so what's Mesopotamia? is that in, like, Roman times?"
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Dutchman definitely feels like Wagner's weakest finished opera to me (including Rienzi, which at least makes sense) ...
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Flavius Aetius 2028?
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Very, very lost armadillo? 😂
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They've been fantasising about that for years -- so high on their own supply they can't fathom the idea that not everyone is an irredentist imperialist ghoul. Imagine thinking the Poles would agree to let Russia annex half of its neighbour in exchange for Lviv ...
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The Sorbish minority is entitled to the same protections, but doesn't generally contest elections.
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The fact that her standard approach to any situation involves "okay, how can I deal with this while minimising awkward interactions with other people" makes her extremely relatable
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Some of the reconstructed signs look a bit like the real proto-cuneiform sign forms but for the most part it's fanciful nonsense -- although the scribe clearly knew, roughly, what proto-cuneiform generally looked like. A bit like AI generating vaguely script-like gibberish.
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One of my all-time favourite tablets is K 8520 - a Neo-Assyrian lexical list where the scribe seemingly tried to fancifully reconstruct proto-cuneiform sign forms ...
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Ich hatte bisher den Eindruck, dass die Geisteswissenschaften von den Kürzungen am wenigsten betroffen sind (weil vorwiegend nicht aus Bundesmitteln finanziert). Merken Sie einen parallelen Zensurprozess auch bei privaten Drittmittelgebern?
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I believe the chancellery usually organises its own press conferences so they have more control over the questions asked. The chancellor only does the Bundespressekonferenz rarely.
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I've found @HistorywithCy alright -- it's like an "undergrad survey" kind of level but they clearly have done at least some of the reading.
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I've always gotten the impression that while we may know individual numerals, we're very poorly informed as to how they were used. E.g. do you count in status rectus or absolutus? I've generally been taught to transcribe figures using Arabic numerals and not worry about their pronunciation ... 😅
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Martin Worthington 2020, Ea's Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story. Very technical but absolutely mindblowing.
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What the fuck? How?
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D&D 4e my beloved
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"Verstünd' ich sein süsses Stammeln! Gewiss sagt' es mir was, vielleicht von der lieben Mutter?" ("Understood I but its sweet warbling! Surely it's speaking to me, perhaps of my dear mother?")
It fits so well and also I love the idea of Sieglinde playing matchmaker for her son
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Apparently there's not just one, but four anime (going on what's listed on TV Tropes) featuring scantily-clad underage girl Nobunaga ...
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It's such a shame! I ended up playing a pirated copy on an emulator and it was well worth it
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It's been a long long time since I read it but I remember being intrigued by Etzel and Dietrich von Bern: they're both heroes and villains of their own stories, but in the Nibelungenlied they're helpless observers who don't know what's going on but are inexorably drawn into the maelstrom anyway.
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These essays give me life, your Sisyphean (Siegmundian?) efforts are greatly appreciated!
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I'm the original uploader -- unfortunately, Rheingold and Götterdämmerung got copyright strikes. DM me if you want a direct link!
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He's so imposing! I also really like Peter Klaveness's quietly deranged menace as Hagen, even if vocally he's not that convincing
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Having her awake lets her (tacitly, ofc) consent to a proposed double suicide -- I really like that in the Copenhagen Ring. Siegmund may be the only one singing, but it's clear that they're of one mind so it's not as gross to me
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side note: at this point, I find it difficult to remember that "Siegmund and Sieglinde pull out the sword together, hand in hand" and "Sieglinde is awake for the annunciation scene" aren't in the stage directions as written bc they're both such good changes
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Wotan really went "this is Siegmund, we trained him wrong as a joke" and accidentally created the only man worth a damn in the whole Ring
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Just finished Metaphor: Refantazio and cannot recommend it enough. The whole game feels like a love letter to liberal democracy and an indictment of doomerism, on top of just being a fantastic JRPG.
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That also sounds extremely like Thorkild Jacobsen tbf