asinissima puellarum vivarum

Latinist; can technically read Homer; plays with Finnish and some modern langs; suffering from Käärijä brain rot

[m0th0er]

[starcrier]

and you know what? i am REALLY sick of these ads that are openly mocking people for being concerned about the products they’re selling.

Amazon’s super bowl ad where the Alexa mocks Chris Hemsworth for being worried about giving spy software control over his entire life. Waymo’s ad with the intro “the robots are coming!” mocking people who are rightfully extremely concerned about sharing the road with, or riding in, self-driving cars.

i don’t know, it’s just genuinely insane to me. “Oh, you have legitimate concerns about our shitty product? sounds like you’re just lame!!!” like what kind of “quiet part out loud” marketing is that?

[latinthusiast]

Saw a Claude ad that was just a bunch of questions, starting from criticisms of AI and ending with questions more like "can AI make me a better mother?" and then a message like "Can AI help me learn to ask better questions?" and "Keep asking questions" and it made me want to throw up all over the place

[plasmapop]

11/07/2026 • somethingy somethingy double dactylic the doubling patterns within civil war. it’s the proem of the pharsalia

[bippus]

when i was born they rushed all the nurses into the room. called the whole hospital. Here’s the baby that doesn’t cry they said

[sagehole]

we love to applaud performative masculinity

[bippus]

I was a stoic

[mylifewasamazinguntiliwasborn]

i’m still not over the linguistic miracle that is the Finnish expression “noni” and its variations

NOni (emphasis on the first syllable): “well now you’ve done it, good job” meaning you’ve majorly fucked up

noNI (emphasis on the last syllable): “I TOLD YOU DIDN’T I” meaning I totally was right and this argument is over

noni (literally no emphasis): “Anyway” or “I need to rearrange my thoughts, give me a sec”

NOniin (emphasis on the first syllable): “i admit my defeat you were right” meaning it definitely answers the noni above

noNIIN (emphasis on the last syllable): “let’s get started” or “okay anyway let’s continue”

NONni (emphasis on the first syllable): “aw, that sucks”

nonNI (emphasis on the last syllable): “without further ado, let’s get started”, usually after a long wait before a lengthy speech/presentation

nonni (again no emphasis): “you’re such a disappointment”

nonnnnnni (the length of the -nn- defines the meaning): “that’s too bad” or “i told you so” or “why would you drop the family heirloom vase it was literally worth 500k euros”

No. Nii. (the pause between no and nii defines the meaning): “yea, just like I was saying” or “and that’s about all I know about this issue” or “okay you’re right” or “hold on i need a moment to figure what to say next”

noniii (the length of the -ii defines the meaning): “ah, it’s finally working” or “I’m not so sure about that one”, or “well I guess you’re right but consider the following:” or “ah, buckle your seat belts, the ride’s about to begin”

no NIIN (sometimes no is almost swallowed and it sounds like “nNNII”): “finally finished”, usually after a lengthy speech/presentation

no nii-IH (if you forget the singsong tone this won’t work): “that’s what i’ve literally been trying to say for the past three hours” or “i know right ugh”

no niiii-i (the last -i is really short and sort of fades into the void of eternity, probably the most passive-aggressive word in the entire Finnish language): “i fucking agree” or “yeah tell me about it” after a very negative discussion, in which you usually complain about someone or something

NONIH (only mothers know how to say this one): “do this or so god help me” or “it’s six am on a Saturday morning and you’re about to clean up the entire house and the neighbour’s house too”

NOHNI (everyone driving a car naturally aces this one): “fucking. drive. you. slow. ass. slug” or “it’s fucking green it’s been green for 84 years” or “please don’t fucking hit me please” or “how the hell did that one even get a licence”

[heavvymetalqueen-deactivated202]

the truly terrifying thing is that this made perfect sense to me.

[plasmapop]

30/04/22 • poem for the anniversary of lucan's death, cut out from his wikipedia + talk page

Lucan's Death - clarify

a youth born in a century he regarded as a kind of death, who grew up in a city burning with rhetoric.

he studied poetry until it bled into history, the biography of a dying Republic

the wound at the core of the Silver-Voiced war-ode he was not allowed to recite or publish.

A conspiracy is when you are discovered breathing fire (and the rest of the story is better unsaid).

bleeding to death—30 April 65 AD—what survives, or who? an Orpheus looking back on a City in flames,

the poem superfluous. his last words were disrupted. an unspeakable judgement given to crime. but

his masterpiece of grief escaped, circulating unfinished in the veins of other poets. read it and he lives.

[latinthusiast]

whenever a former student reaches out to me to say hi or ask a question it makes my heart sing

[latinthusiast]

if i had a nickel for every wild animal i've accidentally stepped on...

1 for the honeybee i stepped on at a swim meet

1 for the flounder i stepped on while swimming in the ocean

a BUNCH for the various crabs that i've stepped on while swimming in the ocean

1 for the spotted ray i stepped on while swimming in the ocean

and 1 for the rat i stepped on yesterday while walking down the sidewalk in my neighborhood

[hellallamerican]

images of gay georgia from the 1970s and 80s, from the collections of the Digital Library of Georgia and the University of Georgia Libraries. queer southerners forever and ever.

[aeide]

test weaving of penelope's tapestry on the chiusi skyphos:

reference:

there are some adjustments I need to make for tension, but I'd like to make the next version into a header band for a warp-weighted loom so I can try weaving the whole pot, including telemachus and penelope.

[transfemme-shelterdog]

Oh my god it looks so fucking stupid

[transfemme-shelterdog]

Daytime shot

[transfemme-shelterdog]

It's the Freedom 250 fight, sponsored by Monster, Crypto.com, and RAM. Winner gets 1,000,000 USD in crypto

[aquaflv]

when you go to a doctors office their favorite thing to do is tell you "okay check out at the front desk" when you're done. and the front desk tells you ummm you can just go! and you're like don't I have a copay? and they're like we don't know, we have to ask your insurance company first. and you're like well my insurance card says the copay is $30, can I just pay it right now while I'm standing in front of you? there's a card reader right there on the desk. and they're like nooo we have to send a representative on horseback during the next waning moon to meet with their claims adjusting associate director of benefits management and client services in the secret glade to negotiate. and you're like oh okay and go home. and you get twelve emails asking you to take a survey about your experience

[aquaflv]

AND THEN in eight months you start getting phone calls from unknown numbers and when you finally check your voicemail they're like Your Balance Is Past Due We're Going To Kill You (even though by this point you have forgotten that you ever went to the doctor). and so you go to your MyChart account and log in with your username and password and you have to reset your password for security reasons. and you get two emails that say Your Password Has Been Reset. Was This You? and you have to go find your phone and enter your two factor authentication code and then you have to select which location you visited and then you have to click through all the Reminder: Complete Your Health History Profile where they ask if you've had any new surgeries even though you definitely told the nurse about this at your visit and then you have to find the Pay Bills tab and your balance is $179.23 and you're like why is it so expensive I thought the copay was $30? and you download a PDF of the charges and find out that they charged a late fee of $15 a month even though that doesn't add up to $179.23 and you don't even remember being told you had any balance at any point and you could call a representative and ask about it but that would probably take at least half an hour and there's no way it would actually get rid of the charges. so you go pay it anyway and you have to go find a paper check to look up your bank account routing number because they'll charge you an extra 3% if you pay with a credit card and there's a fee of $2.75 for convenience also. and then you get three emails that say We've Received Your Payment! Thank You For Your Payment!

[rabioheab-deactivated20200416]

earlier this year 2 boys got expelled from my school for going on a teachers email and sending another teacher an email that says “you’re a disgusting little man” and i laugh about it all the time because imagine opening an email from your coworker and thinking it’s important and then it says that

[latinthusiast]

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[lhma]

[reference by seenbyasku on IG]

[latinthusiast]

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[localpubliclibrary]

Man no one even remembers laptop in bed. It was laptop in bed for years. Now it's just phone in bed. Maybe tablet. But usually phone. So much has changed

[latinthusiast]

me looking at this post on laptop in bed: O_O