So, this is a weird one, but if anyone thinks they might be interested in seeing (online) a work-in-progress showing of a verbatim theatre project to do with Classical Greek archaeology and the 19th Century, DM me your email for an invitation.
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Artemisia Vulgaris
@CommonMugwort@social.coop
mastodon 4.5.18Literary translator and under-employed actor - at the crossroads, looking for ways to survive the coming collapse of industrial civilisation. Generally in Athens.
(@amaenad from Twitter only older and less irate)
Photos: @CommonMugwort
I don’t content warn food, nor anything else you might see on any newsstand.
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Performs everybody but Shakespeare (up to 1642) with:
Worships:
the Olympian pantheon, especially Dionysos and increasingly Hekate
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@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social This is what capers look like in bloom. I think they might be my favourite flower.
This is some mind-blowing science here: the engine propelling bacteria - a complex structure made of molecules, powered by protons.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-physical-life-force-turns-biologys-wheels-20260420/
Signeage galore.
#Athens #UrbanPhotography
Σε δύο εβδομάδες, η ομάδα του παιδιού μου θα παίζει στην Βρετανική τηλεόραση. 10 Αυγούστου.
#UniversityChallenge
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@clew@ecoevo.social This in a country that eats olives with olive oil from olive wood bowls 😆
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This was all compounded by the way they refused to understand that Αθάνατος (it means immortal and is the common Greek name - like century plant in English - for the particular agave species that is widely naturalised here) is a. not a native plant and b. not hugely different from its cousins that are cultivated for their fiber (sisal etc) and their sap (syrup, tequila).
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@clew@ecoevo.social Actually, they really struggled with hemp, too. The seed, the fiber, the psychoactive buds - just couldn’t accept they were the same plant. As with agave, one of the sticking points was the Greek common name. They knew hemp was a kind of rope, but everyone knows κανναβούρι is birdseed.
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@etp@indieweb.social my pleasure. Spreading the word about wonderful work is one of my favourite uses of social media.
Boosting this mostly because I am entranced by the seed-saving process described. @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social
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@sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social Me too! There are some fabulous old hand painted signs around Athens, but this is a favourite. I’ve been trying to get a good picture of it for months, but there’s always either a motorbike parked outside, or I’m too close and my reflection dominates. Here it was Sunday, I stood far away and cropped it.
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@Coho@mountains.social Coir is really cool, yes!
I think jute comes from the mallow plant, but I don’t know about burlap.
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@foufoutos@kafeneio.social Αν βγάζει νόημα το κρατάω. Έχω προσθέσει και άλλα εν το μεταξύ, αλά εκείνα τα μετέφρασε η 80-χρωνή μαμά μου, η οποία (ας είναι καλά η γυναίκα) είναι ακριβολόγος και, εντάξει, αποφοίτησε από το Λύκειο το 1963. Δημιουργεί διαφορετικά μεταφραστικά προβλήματα 😆
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@BashStKid@mastodon.online This is one of the things that I find so delightful; how many different people, areas of expertise, how much time, collaboration, and patient data collection it takes to solve such a puzzle.
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@clew@ecoevo.social Sort of? The tree and its fruit are both ελιά. The oil is so ubiquitous we often just call it oil (λάδι), but it’s proper name is ελαιόλαδο, and you don’t have to speak Greek to know that’s a compound of plant name+oil.
But it’s more complicated than that, because the Ancient Greek word for oil is ἔλαιον, which means”olive oil”. I think it’s the origin of the English word ‘oil’ too. The synonymy is buried, but deep.
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Ένα απόσπασμα θα το βρείτε εδώ. Φοβάμαι πως το μετάφρασαν με AI https://www.efsyn.gr/ellada/dikaiomata/505619_sabbato-toy-pagkosmioy-xesikomoy
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@foufoutos@kafeneio.social Το Λευκός Εθνικηστής λέγεται; Αυτό με απασχολεί αρκετά. Τα υπόλοιπα…χαλάλι. Ως Αμερικανίδα εμφανίζομαι.
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@etp@indieweb.social @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social Does sound a bit fiddlier. I am clumsy enough to mid like the thought of trying to space wet tomato seeds.
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@King_Wataba@universeodon.com @troublewithwords@wandering.shop I learned a thing today, isn’t it nifty?
Here’s what I’m making, in steps one through fifty.
I went outside today, look what I saw.
These are the posts I love please give me more
I made this thing and I want you to know it.
I made one badly but still want to show it.
I just plain love this stuff, it’s my jam galore
These are the posts I love, please give me more.
Trying out something new, what do you think? (1/2)
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Real life mundane things, and those we adore,
Whimsical shitposts ‘bout stuff we deplore.
These are the posts I love please give me more (2/2)
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@humanrightswatch@mastodon.online I wish I believed that state-led missions would be search-and-rescue and not search-and push-back
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Αν είχα καταλάβει πως θα δημοσιευτεί στην εφημερίδα θα είχα διαλέξει πιο κολακευτική φωτογραφία!
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@etp@indieweb.social There’s a quote from a guy who’s spent those 50 years researching it.
Aimed at the general public, mind! It’s very well written; I even feel I understand it, to what extent I can.
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@MauroGata@mastodon.social They are fewer than they used to be, and who makes them anymore? I photograph them so they won’t be forgotten.
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