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Alex West
@ajw87.bsky.social
Interested in the Columbian exchange. Philology. Manuscripts. Plants. #OldSundanese #MedievalIndonesia #TupianLanguages Old site: https://indomedieval.medium.com/ New site: https://medium.com/@WestsWorld he/him
Book: https://brill.com/display/title/68202
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December 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I received a notification that I'd been blocked by this account (which I'm sure I've never engaged with) so I went to ClearSky to check out what they were all about and
December 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
More charming Lisbon graffiti, this time from the walls of the international school in my neighbourhood
December 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I was curious as to whether Harold's eye-skewering was described in non-Tapestry sources and apparently it is. Fascinating.
December 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
December 12, 2025 at 8:24 AM
This video is unintentionally hilarious.
December 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Went for a walk up to the Sé the other day and came across this antisemitic graffiti on one of the walls
December 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Don't think that's true. A lot of EU initiatives were British ideas, including the Single Market. Britain had a lot of carve-outs but it wasn't any more disruptive to the workings of the EU than any other member state.
December 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Hell yeah, looking very nice indeed
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I've been working with this book recently and I've found it fairly useful. It isn't perfect—there are a few flubs with the pinyin and Sanskrit, and I think it needed more decisive input from an editor—but the selection of texts is good and I've learned a lot so far.
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
[small hillock of beige glop and turkey breast appears on my tl]

me:
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Post a film set where you're from
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The meme has to come out again, I'm afraid
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This is an entirely ridiculous view of the US military and of US power overseas.
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"Why doesn't the EU just become one country? It would solve a lot of problems"

I'm sorry. Sometimes this meme is appropriate. 🤷
November 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Don't make me tap the sign

(the sign: Wikipedia's list of countries by Human Development Index)
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Edward Conze seems to have been an interesting character.

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_...)
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I live fairly near the Assembleia da República, the Portuguese Parliament, and went past it yesterday. Facing the building, there was a huge billboard bearing the words "ISTO NÃO É O BANGLADESH" ('this is not Bangladesh') next to André Ventura's face.
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Having said that, this is probably the best response to this sort of thing
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Yesterday I suddenly got hundreds and hundreds of views, but almost no reads, on my old blog (indomedieval.medium.com). This has happened a few times in the last months. Not sure what's going on with it.
November 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's a film about sociopathic gym bros. Couldn't be more pertinent. We're all living in their world now.

It's that thing Werner Herzog said about WrestleMania: You have to know in which world you are living. You can't avert your eyes.
October 31, 2025 at 8:26 AM
When the British empire collapsed, life got *better* at home. Living standards and life expectancy all went up in Britain over the last half of the twentieth century. It's still one of the most developed countries in the world.
October 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
October 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Graduated from my MA eight years ago. Time's still flying.
October 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If I ever did something as strange and embarrassing as that, you'd never hear from me again. Even if I *were* a world leader. I'd be in a cave somewhere. In a hole in the ground.
October 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM