169. Leonora Carrington's costume designs for a production of 'the dybbuk.'

We know it's Ireland but:
"ethnic cleansing" is not really what even hardened nationalists tend to call '99. Albania and Croatia are the most credible countries to talk of this way, the point in nat narratives is always that NATO are callous Saurons orchestrating behind the scenes, but not the orcs

Seems like loving women and being a lesbian go together eh

I will accept that the cost of a creative universe orbiting the Silm is such Exquisite Nonsense as this

These alterations are even better when treated as if separate people made them with their own quizzical touches to the thing

Probably the only person to shake my faith in the idea that the Silmarilion shouldn't be adapted, well done

@matt-levine.bsky.social's Certificate of Dumb Investment wins again

The glinner lacked natural predators until now

This is the experience needed to understand Lisp

Sent a tangentially related thought here and not somewhere else

Wrong person

Cold culture war (1865-1945)
Hot culture war (1945-now)

How's it supposed to be false

> of different groups
A wise man this Isaac

Rhetorical framework of why "we started it": "keep things the same" is the human action with the most resemblance to White's move by the laws of physics, and only "actually let's not" has Black's move. All continuous, with some apparent interruptions, from that decision

Ignoring it means you'll lose

So you're really a Bernsteinist-Salvatoreist-Poroshenkist eh?

In Serbian the default is ćurka (said to be imitative but I have no clue how). There's also the name puran, supposedly from "peruano" or suchlike because the bird eas brought in from Peru

I've mentioned this before, but on the day of the Mumbai terror attack in 2008, I was in the yeshiva lunchroom in Mir (Yerushalayim) and I overheard two American bochurim debating where Mumbai is - one said "India" and the other said "no, I heard on the radio 'Hodu', that's Turkey"