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A medieval manuscript image of two men holding hands. Annouces a Symposium in Gender in Medieval Insular Literature, held 29-30 May in Aberystwyth, Wales.

You're going to see this from me a lot for a while. Please share, and contribute if you are a medievalist working in this area! It's going to be great. #medievalsky #genderstudies
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We, the activists, creatives, teachers, learners and speakers of the Cornish language community, call on our community and all organisations working with the Cornish language to commit to take no part in the use of Generative AI and to refrain from promoting or publishing any materials using it. While in another world GenAI and LLMs could be useful tools, we do not live in that world. We live in a world where GenAI guzzles drinking water, strips countries in the Global South of their resources and then dumps its e-waste in them. We live in a world where workers, especially creatives and language experts, are losing their livelihoods to GenAI and where our work is stolen for profit. We live in a world where using GenAI has been shown to impair cognition, flatten languages and worsen exploitation.

Our language is a small, indigenous, minoritised one and it is especially vulnerable to these problems—to the risk of being drowned by slop. Our language is a treasure. It must not be surrendered to faceless corporations and thoughtless machines. Our language is human and it does not live on circuitry or in an algorithm. It lives in the mouths and minds of people. We, as speakers, believe that Cornish is a language that thrives only through human creativity and passion, through authenticity, community, effort and trust. Our language must be for the people, of the people and by the people. We will not work with GenAI and we will not trust those who do. We call on our community to pledge not to engage with GenAI and to join us in resistance.

Ni, an weythresoryon, awenogyon, dyskadoryon, dyskoryon ha kowsoryon issinys a’n gemeneth Kernewek, a bys orth agan kemeneth ha pub kowethyans owth oberi gans Kernewek a omri dhe gemeres rol vyth yn devnydhya SK Dinythus ha sevel orth avonsya po dyllo asnodhow vyth orth y usya. Kynth y hallsa bos SKDin ha PYB toulys dhe les yn bys aral, nyns on ni trigys y’n bys na. Trigys on ni yn bys le may ma SKDin ow kollenki dowr fresk, destryppya powyow y’n Soth Ollvysel a’ga asnodhow ha diskarga y e-wast ynna. Trigys on ni yn bys may ma oberoryon, yn arbennik awenogyon ha konygyon yethow, ow kelli aga fygansow orth SKDin ha le mayth yw agan ober ledrys rag budh. Trigys on ni yn bys le mayth yw diskwedhys bos usya SKDin aperya gallos godhvosel, platthe yethow ha gwethhe drogusyans trevesigel.

Agan yeth yw taves byghan, teythyek, ha lyharivhes hag yth yw goliadow yn arbennik dhe’n kudynnow ma—dhe’n peryl a bos beudhys gans skomblans. Agan yeth yw tresorva. Ny godh dhyn y hepkor orth korforethow heb bejeth ha jynnow heb preder. Agan yeth yw denel ha ny vew war drogylgh po yn awgrym. Y few y’n ganowyow ha’n brysyow a bobel. Avel Kernewegoryon, ni a grys bos Kernewek yeth na sewen marnas der awen ha passyon tus, dre lelder, kemeneth, assay ha trest. Res yw bos agan yeth a-barth an bobel, a’n bobel ha gans an bobel. Ny wren ni oberi gans SKDin ha ny wren ni fydhya y’n re neb a’n gwra. Ni a bys orth agan kemeneth a arwostla sevel orth omworra gans SKDin hag a omjunya genen yn omsav.

Please sign and share widely to support a #Cornish language for the people, of the people and by the people.

Mar pleg, gwrewgh sinya ha kevrenna yn efan dhe skoodhya #Kernewek yw a-barth an bobel, a’n bobel ha gans an bobel.

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Tech wythout heart ys a horror.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
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This, from the Quakers, is worth reading. It's a serene, confident, utter rebuke of the hate and fear that's peddled by Sex Matters. The last two pages are smokin'. If you're on the wrong side of the Quakers, you really need to sit down and have a good chat with yourself.

If this does end up livestreamed I'd love to attend online! I hope all goes well with it regardless!

Petition: Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services Introduce a law to legally protect the right of those aged 18 and over to transition using NHS services. This should specifically cover physical transition, including hormone treatment and surgery, as...

Okay folks! We’ve a real opportunity here. This petition is at 78,000 (ends 28 July!). With a good push, we can get it over the line.
MPs *don't need to stick to the exact petition topic*. We can brief them to discuss any & ALL issues with trans healthcare.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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trans healthcare is often lifesaving for more reasons than suicidality. for example, my disordered eating basically disappeared overnight after i got top surgery, because it was dysphoria the whole time (lose weight = smaller boobs = pursue indefinitely until it becomes unsafe). this is important!

For those who don't know her, Inky is a terrific artist, a great art director, and a wonderful person.

Do yourself and your organization a favor by hitting her up with commissions or by hiring to get your graphic art department into good shape.

Half the reason I enjoy reading the adjudications is the roasts; they're often hilarious and sometimes even offer good advice/learning material for an amateur/novice poet like myself.

Os daw Cymru'n annibynnol ac os oes angen arian newydd, bydda' i'n cynnig ailsefydlu'r Ddafad - gwell na'r "Hywel" sy'n cael ei gynnig gan Gwlad!

A formline design of a brown wolf and it's pup. The wolf is sitting on its haunches with its head tilted downward, while the pup is sitting in front of it, pawing at its leg and looking upward with it's tongue stuck out.

🐺🍂 Just the two of us

#formline #telekitneticart

A simple Indigenous formline style illustration of a crewmate character from the video game, among us. The crewmate’s suit is red and has black highlights

A simple Indigenous formline style illustration of an imposter character from the video game, among us. The crewmate’s suit is black and has red highlights

#formline

Congrats Deborah!

Thirding this!

Discovered if I switch my WhatsApp language settings to Irish, the Meta AI thing goes away, because it's not supported in Irish yet. Minority languages: the last bastion against Tech Nonsense ??

Hiya! The only life update i have is that I'm stressed in the middle of final year, and hope you're doing better! I don't think we share many fandoms so I'll just say I saw our old boss recently and she seems to be doing well! Hope everything's alright with you, and Japan's treating you well!
-Ffi

A Patrician Bullshit Flowchart diagram ending in unsubstantiated bullshit from people who have listened to one too many Clannd albums. You're welcome.

Syniad da!

Mae hynny'n wir, ond dwi'n gobeithio na ddaw ef i Aber fel ei dad, oherwydd 'swn i'n gallu ymdopi gyda bod yn yr un dre gydag unrhywun o'r teulu brenhinol, a bod yn onest.

"Usually ACAB includes language police, but there's an exception to every rule," as I understand it.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus gyfeillion!
Happy St David's day pals!

With the horrors around us, I think it's more vital than ever to cling to Dewi's exhortation - gwnewch y pethau bychain a glywsoch ac a welsoch gennyf fi, do the little things that you heard and saw from me.

Rest Of Party Thanks Fucking God 2 Guys Who Like Etymology Found Each Other

Rest Of Party Thanks Fucking God 2 Guys Who Like Etymology Found Each Other
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Ydy gwefan Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru yn gweithio i unrhywun arall? Dwi eisiau chwilio am rhywbeth ond dyw'r catalog yn gweithio imi...

Is the National Library of Wales working for anyone else? I want to search for something but the catalogue isn't working for me.

Thanks a tonne!

Question: Are there any good resources you'd recommend for learning about the Gaulish language in depth, from the perspective of knowing a fair bit about Insular Celtic and Indo-European linguistics? (Preferably in French, English, Welsh, or Irish?) Many thanks for this explanation!

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.

More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):

1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇

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I'm glad to hear you've found more - someday I'll have to make a pilgrimage to Cork to pay my respects to the brave cúlaeg-shipping scholars of ages past and present.

Dissertation stress mostly, but things are starting to look up. I've instituted a "No doing or even thinking about my assignments (incl. diss) after 7pm or on weekends" rule and it's been helping keep me going, even if it means that i have less time to study. How about you?

There comes a point, when doing this self erasure, that you lose the ability to understand your wants.

Choosing to transition is the first step of "actually I do want something," but it is just one of many. I wonder if the rest of my life will be spent learning what it is, exactly, that I want.