"Kalmyks often suffer from hypochondria, which is treated as follows: the patient is accused of some kind of injustice, theft, etc., and beaten so hard that the bodily suffering clarifies self-consciousness and leads the patient to a more correct judgment of himself." 😬

My favorite case is Pervis Payne, who raped and killed a mother and when her two toddlers walked in to see what the screams where he stabbed them too, killing one wounding a second. Multiple eyewitnesses including a police officer saw him enter and exit the apartment, his clothes

This is why I hate the innocence project. Their testing proved beyond any shadow of a doubt this man killed and raped that woman and her child. They knew this. They moved on to the next tactic to get him out anyway. They don’t care about innocence. They just want to get murderers

"I heard wearing this headset can connect me with the other side of this strange camera, Let me check...hmmm..." #snowleopard camera trap footage from Diqing Protected Area

Rewatching LOTR. Intentional or not, but the choice to render Gollum's “precious” as “prelest” in Russian was v apt & captures both modern & religious/archaic meanings well: Prelest as delight, beauty, allure; Prelest as spiritual deception which may lead one towards insanity

“I love learning languages” Oh, what are you studying? German, Farsi, Turkish?? “Angelic Syriac” ….

Inner Mongolia, 2007. Photo by A. Yin.

An incense burner in the shape of a lion, 12th century, Khorasan

Thinking about this Bialetti moka pot

The Red Tower

Charles William Bartlett

1. Williams was a career criminal who was originally being sentenced to 20 years on separate crimes. He even tried to escape assaulting a guard with a metal bar shortly before the murder trial. 2. Someone who was freshly released from jail told police Williams had confessed the

A mosque in Honhot, Inner Mongolia (East Mongolia) 🇲🇳

your 20s are for doing niche research on long-forgotten manuscripts on classical malay sufism

Sarfaranga Cold Desert, Skardu, Pakistan. Photos by Asad Sarfraz.

Trilingual Nenets-Khanty-Russian-speaker on YouTube recos tonight. May she live long!!

The Wikipedia page for Finn-men, Inuit who were seen kayaking in the seas around Scotland. Some of their boats have been preserved.

London has been a positive influence thus far (keeping me busy so that I barely have time for social media)