🌑ﾠ ابن الهيثم, the new release of Principia, adds a new rotating and pulsating reference frame wherein equipotentials are drawn. This provides valuable context when planning low-energy transfers and other trajectories involving the Lagrange points. github.com/mockingbirdnes…

🐸🖤 𒁹pallas 🖤🐸 @mikeharazin We should call finite verbs buttered verbs.

The #beta review period has begun for #Unicode Version 15.1, slated for release later this year. blog.unicode.org/2023/05/unicod…

"Instead of asking for a Sumerian speaker, how about you learn Amorite?!" Yasmaḫ-Addû is back and this time he can't speak Amorite. ☹️ What could be the context of his request for a Sumerian scribe & why would his father then scold him for not knowing Amorite? Find out below!

Orange cat spotted in attendance at RAI68 Leiden Hope it's a good omen!

Very rare to see this level of tailoring nowadays, even on the wealthy.

A new version of 𒂗𒈨𒅕𒃸, adding input of signs by sign list number as well as transliteration, and incorporating the changes to the OGSL since September 2021. github.com/eggrobin/Enmer…

One of my favourite features in Akkadian is that sometimes(!) the adverbial marker -iš can be used like the English -ish. abru "brushwood pile" -> abriš "like a brushwood pile", or in other words: brushwood pileish 😁

today I got lucky and saw something rare: the hand-operated antique drawbridge was opened so an antique boat could leave the special dock reserved for museum piece boats

UK roadsigns as labware: Liebig condenser. (1/15)

✨🎉✨ Unicode Version 15.1 has been released! ✨🧨✨ Bringing the total number of characters to 149,803! ✨🍾✨ Find more information here → unicode.org/versions/Unico… #Unicode15_1

achievement unlocked: get cited in a Unicode Technical Standard unicode.org/reports/tr55/#…

“Clothes make the awīlum” In Old Babylonian schools, if you didn’t wear the newest Prada™ robes but instead clothes hand-made by your mum, you were considered to be less loved by her. … or so argued this spoiled son of a high official. Here is the letter of Iddin-Sîn to Zinû!

The Mesopotamian ice trade 🧊🌨️ This letter was sent to our favourite good-for-nothing, Yasmaḫ-Addû, by the vassal king of Carchemish. It shows us that the practice of harvesting ice and exporting it goes back to as early as the 1750s BCE! (1/6)

"sharks are older than the north star" is now the worst fact i know