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Reem Zeidan was shot and killed by Israeli forces while trying to get food for her family in Gaza, particularly her starving 5 year old daughter. This is the legacy of the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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In a time when values fall apart, humans remain the true miracle. We are not just numbers in the news, but faces, families, and children with dreams. I seek your kindness to stay strong and connected. I love being among you, though sharing my pain is hard. I still need your support more than ever😔

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nobody: the Bantu languages:

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I love this whole thread, up and down, but I am struck by the phrase "It’s simply not possible to know someone through 26 documents," because think of HOW LONG those 26 documents survived. It's breathtaking.

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This car, alas, is not mine.

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does anybody know who the person was from the Other Site who did audio reconstructions of Vedic? is that person here or do they have a channel somewhere or can you remind me of their twitter name?

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does anybody know who the person was from the Other Site who did audio reconstructions of Vedic? is that person here or do they have a channel somewhere or can you remind me of their twitter name?

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I love her. Also, parents of toddlers, don't sleep on the potty training one she just put out. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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A new typology database: Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs). atlas.evolvinglanguage.ch Take a look at the article on apprehensional morphology for an example: atlas.evolvinglanguage.ch/contribution... #linguistics #typology

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www.howtogeek.com/duolingo-is-... #langsky hard agree

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NEW: On Thursday, Comptroller Brad Lander joined the court-watchers at 290 Broadway, one of the city's three federal immigration court buildings, and walked with immigrants away from their court appearances in order to deter ICE agents from abducting them. hellgatenyc.com/lander-accom...

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Imagine breaking up with the person you once sieg heiled

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τίς τ' ἄρ σφωε θεῶν ἔριδι ξυνέηκε μάχεσθαι;

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There’s something that sticks in my mind about how distinctive phonemes (in this case, /l/) can become emblematic of a community or an identity. The sound itself carries something big. I don’t have any fleshed out ideas about it, but it feels important 🐦🐦

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Good introduction :)

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“I look at my past self & I see someone who watched [news shows], and I felt politically active — but when I look back, I did nothing. I was angry all day, but nothing happened from that anger.” “Now, I do not watch [news shows]. I’m 1000x more politically active & then I can go to bed at night”

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Wednesday Wisdom: Don’t lie or be fake! Freytag, Arabum proverbia, vol. 2 no. 419 p. 535, 1839.

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BREAKING: Trump has banned all foreign-national Harvard students and researchers from entering the US on student or foreign exchange visas. Shifts legal fight from one over State and DHS powers to presidential powers

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also she has been through bad-faith attacks before. this is from a year ago today: www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

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making a shirt that says “1sg.ERG ❤️ ergativity-ABS”

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Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya. Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.

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Favorite meter is dactylic Favorite word for zero: nil Favorite type of paint: acrylic Favorite kind of pickle: dill

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re: earning your pronouns i was reading a Telugu story where the obnoxious prince character was called అతను atanu ("he" relatively formal) but at the end he became a decent king and suddenly his pronoun was ఆయన āyana ("he" very formal)

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WHAT ARE MY PRONOUNS PRIVATE SIR YOUR PRONOUNS ARE SIR AND OR GOD SIR AND WHAT ARE YOUR PRONOUNS PRIVATE SIR PRIVATE DOES NOT HAVE ANY PRONOUNS YET SIR AND WHY IS THAT PRIVATE PRIVATE HAS FORSAKEN PRIVATE’S OLD PRONOUNS AND HAS NOT YET EARNED NEW ONES FROM THE CORPS SIR

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"What I found particularly disturbing was that a bomb would drop, maybe on a crowded tented area, and then the drones would come down and pick off civilians, children. And we had description after description. This is not an occasional thing. This was day after day after day." youtu.be/TpVuNncow7k

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Now I’m trying to think of other word order shibboleths besides “bacon egg and cheese” and “red white and blue”

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🚀🚀🚀

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5. there's a separate set of numbers for counting people (like Irish) 6. literary/classical Telugu has initial nasal mutation (also like Irish) 7. the future & habitual tenses have the same form 8. female persons share a gender w inanimate objects in the singular, but with male persons in the plural

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i hate it when that happens

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“They killed my mother — and before that, my brother. I urge everyone: do not go to the American aid distribution points soaked in blood. This bag only contains 2 empty flour sacks — nothing else — & yet they shot & killed my mother as she tried to get us something to eat today.”

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I'm thinking about Egyptian Arabic words for "nose". There are three. Classical Arabic anf أنف derives from PS *ʔanp-, which is cognate with most Semitic nose words like Hebrew אַף (af). However, Egyptians use manākhīr, a pl of منخار, minkhār, "nostril." They also use būz, "snout," in pejorative

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