Ain't no rule says a dog can't participate in the Olympics
18.02.2026 16:42
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Ain't no rule says a dog can't participate in the Olympics
Well, I went ahead and wrote it. An attempt to work through the discomfort people feel with AI agents on social media by reframing it as an aesthetic problem.
Recipe? 👀
It’s toast time for donkey George and a run with Caroline & Kirsty Kirsty Clinch #toasttime @carolineartist.bsky.social @kirstyclinch.bsky.social
Je suis un animal très souple 😝
A round, light brown tablet made of clay with three lines of cuneiform scripts. Two rulings, or traced straight lines, enclose the writing. The photo also shows the sides of the tablet, including a few damaged parts.
May as well dive right in.
Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?
According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”
Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
TRANSPOSITIONES: Journal for Transdisciplinary and Intermedial Culture Studies, an English- and German-language journal, invites submissions for a special issue "Animals, Ethics, and Cultural Difference: Conflict, Coexistence, and Representation." Abstracts due 10 February, more at link below 🌿🐎🐂
Throw back to 2021 #BabyAnimals
This one is for my Chinese lit scholar friends...
In Chinese it’s “fire dragon fruit” (even cooler) (especially remembering dragons aren’t usually fiery in China)
Thank you so much!! 🥳
Thank you!! 🥳
Thank you!! Hope you’re staying warm!
Thank you so much!!
The populist politician
#Resistance
BL Stowe 17; 'The Maastricht Hours'; 14th century; f.84r
When AI algorithms start watching rivers and dolphins. My latest for @thediplomat.com on how China’s AI systems are becoming environmental infrastructure—and what that means
(not really, I have to teach…)
Passed my qualifying exams - now time to sleep for a minimum of three weeks…
And another: Aide 愛德?
just got tricked by another one: chanting (禪廳?)
Baoyu was right about gender
many are now seeing this
蒙兀兒帝國 帶鑲嵌短劍柄
三國吳黃武元年馬畫像塼拓片
Taipei's National Palace Museum is offering a set of horse-themed digital wallpapers, including a #jade dagger helm from the Mughal Empire, and a rubbing of an illustrated brick from the Three Kingdoms period: www.npm.gov.tw/Media-Downlo...
Rania Huntington talks about this passage in relation to fox spirits!
@casntweets.bsky.social 🐶!
New article on dog stars just dropped! Not my main field, but a really fun topic to explore 🐕🐾
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
another problem here being that such institutions are already having trouble finding enough TFs (at least where I am) because of declining grad student cohort sizes in the humanities, which is about to get a lot worse as those cohort sizes are slashed this year…
When my son was born, the moon was not bright; when my son died, the moon first gave light.
(Preceding lines perhaps necessary for the full impact, but not so arresting)
I suppose it’s partly the simplicity of the original that permits nearly direct translation (兒月兩相奪), but the lilting, wistful sense of metre is wonderful, and “away” is lovely somehow
My son and the moon stole each other away, and thus my son's life could not last long.
translations of Chinese poetry are so often sinologese, but such immense beauty in the simplicity of parts of Meng Jiao’s lament for his infant son as translated by Owen – the first line here especially:
Paintings of hammerhead sharks depicted in the "Oki National Products Illustration Notes". From Japan, Edo Period, ca 1735
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
