Thom – e/ach hans run retweetledi
Perhaps the best post-match FA Cup final interview of 1995 — or indeed, any year — was given by Everton goalkeeper Neville Southall.
This is pure gold.
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Thom – e/ach hans run
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Thom – e/ach hans run
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Be merry! We meet again, at the turn of the tide.
Sheffield, England Katılım Eylül 2015
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@MaloraHightower @kaulshiloshudon FWIW you can add Wiktionary to the 'site search' section of Chrome's settings. I use the URL wiktionary.org/search-redirec… and the shortcut 'define'. So you just type "define castle" in your address bar and go straight to the Wiktionary page.
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@kaulshiloshudon I don't think you can, alas, but you can go to where google used to get it from en.wiktionary.org/wiki/castle - click to expand the "etymology tree"
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QME
Jettied medieval houses look so cool. Jettying was a way to add more space to your dwellings without encroaching onto the street, and the cantilevering also made the structure less prone to collapse.
The Last Homely House@AHomelyHouse
My favorite medieval buildings are the ones where it looks like the framer was drunk as a lord, but it still pulled it off and stood for centuries anyway.
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@DAMendelsohnNYC I suspect almost all the post-Homer usage is people making a linguistic flex rather than reflecting commonly understood shared meaning tbh, but fun to speculate!
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@lemonwatcher Thx. Still seems to mean “shifting” (as in the Marius) in the De amicorum multitudine passage.
And of course, Plutarch is ~ 800 years after Homer; one wonders to what extent the flavor changed. In Plato & Thucy & Plutarch it seems to have come to mean “variable,” “shifting.”
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Night thoughts on “polytropos”, 2:
1/2: Polytropos is an *extremely* rare word in Greek, occurring only a handful of times in extant Gk lit: 2x in #Odyssey (vs 60+ for “polymetis”, “of great cunning”), a couple of times in Thucydides (the “shifting” fortunes of war), & Plutarch.
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@DAMendelsohnNYC End of 'De amicorum multitudine'. He says people with a multitude of friends must have a [polytropon] soul (alongside fluid/changeable), but true friendship seeks something steadfast. I'm wrong remembering this as wily/cunning though. 'Faceted' might be a contender.
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@lemonwatcher In Plutarch I see it only in “Marius” where it’s used of the “exceedingly changeable” fortunes of war. Where is the passage you’re referring to?
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@DAMendelsohnNYC Athenaeus uses it in Deipnosophistae as something lacking in Dorian harmonies. It's also quote directly in a Socratic dialogue where it's clearly implied as wily/cunning. The Plutarch usage contrasts it against steadfast friendship which seems along similar lines.
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Yet, despite its rarity, p’s meaning wd, I think, have been fairly clear to a Gk: “adaptable,” “resourceful,” “able to think outside the box.”So is this striking rarity worth trying to convey—should we use an equally récherché English word? (What??) An interesting challenge!
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@ad_rizzle @JoePostingg Not sure Diogenes really counts given his early upbringing and education.
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We finally have enough eyeballs that all bugs are shallow, and so far it sucks to be updating my kernel three times a week.
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@Archibald1878 @TheEvertonian78 Scored the first ever winner at the new stadium.
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@TheEvertonian78 He’s 21 and there’s not an Everton fan that’s heard of him.
If he was any good he’d be around the first team by 21.
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If you’re wanted by United atletico and leipzig you shouldn’t have a contract that runs out in a months time. Such poor club management if so
Stretford End@StretfordEndx
🚨 Manchester United have added 21-year-old Everton winger Kingsford Boakye to their shortlist ahead of the upcoming summer transfer window, as they continue to evaluate attacking reinforcements. The young winger has been attracting attention with his performances and is now firmly on the radar of several top clubs. Brighton, Atlético Madrid and RB Leipzig are also monitoring his situation closely. Boakye’s contract runs until June 2026, making him an attractive target as clubs prepare for potential negotiations. [@tuttosport] #mufc
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@gnomeslair These are cute, but it's a bit of a tragedy to see these systems shorn of their full functionality and programmability. They're also twice as expensive as the remakes: retrogames.biz/products/
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Wait, what?
▪️ The C64 Handheld: funstock.eu/products/thec6…
▪️ The Spectrum Handheld: funstock.eu/products/the-s…
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This is how I sign off my PR reviews.
Benche@_Benche_
We have a record of Cleopatra's handrwiting: γινέσθωι "make it happen", appending a tax exemption.
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@GeodesicForce @AdsoOfBelk Old perks tree was removed, replacement is much more limited. Can't reduce import prices, and starting resources are randomised, so harder to rely on trade. Food and livestock production nerfed.
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@lemonwatcher @AdsoOfBelk What was gutted? (I haven’t played in 1+ year)
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Manor lords is fairly fun but from what I can tell it kind of fell into that early access pit where game development progress paradoxically slows down dramatically as soon as the game becomes a hit
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@LJayDeeJay @AdsoOfBelk Yep, although the old perk tree was removed more than a year ago at this point? I think it's entirely valid to say that in Early Access a game isn't finished and all bets are off. But I also think the time could be used a little more wisely on more focused, vertical experiments.
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@lemonwatcher @AdsoOfBelk I definitely understand that viewpoint. I would just stress that this perceived backslide is temporary. But I would agree that most of the additions to the game since the release of the early access so far haven’t been to the core of the game itself, which is a salient criticism.
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@LJayDeeJay @AdsoOfBelk I've already got my money's worth by a long way, but I'm also less likely to dive into early access games with small teams in the future because I'd like to avoid getting bored of a game before all the features are in.
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@LJayDeeJay @AdsoOfBelk Yeah, totally aware of that and to be clear, I'm still pretty addicted to the game and rooting for its success. But I would stand by the point that not only has the game not progressed in early access so far, from the player point of view it's gone backwards.
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@samth It’s also just not true that there was no downtime in the periods shown green here.
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This graph is basically fake, the vast majority of the downtime is in features not in the "before" part of the graph and the git service still has good uptime.
Vaggelisdrak@vaggelisdrak
GitHub outages since Microsoft acquisition 🤣
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@yaqobhyndes That's huge overreach. A bunch of people who don't know what they're doing, with nothing at stake, are following a script telling them to run away in the first 10 seconds of battle. They could have just written a computer program and saved everybody the sunburn.
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This group of French researchers (Sur le champ) trained about 200 re-enactors to test the crowd dynamics of hoplite warfare and routing more generally. It's really interesting how the often frustratingly vague statements of ancient writers become clear with this footage
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