#Tag · bonfire.cafe

slowly but surely developing an #akkadian sense of humor. or rather finding things they left behind funny.

they are so sassy 😭

i mean, a lot of these are complaints. so, they have a reason for the sass. they read like corporate emails where you really want to say something else but have to be professional about it.

i need a time machine to visit #babylon for sure.

i'll attach one.

wednesday the valkyrja

@superheroine@disabled.social · last week

a quote from this tablet. #babylon

“I am not getting water for my sesame field. The sesame will die. Don’t tell me later, ‘You did not write to me.’ The sesame is visibly dying. Ibbi-Ilabrat saw it. That sesame will die, and I have warned you."

the full tablet (well, what's left of it) really starts with a "i hope this email (clay tablet) finds you well!." link attached.

most of the other ones do too, lol. though i read those elsewhere.

https://thewhippet.org/the-whippet-129-lethal-allele/#from-a-letter-of-complaint-to-ancient-babylonian-administrators

The Whippet

The Whippet #129: Lethal Allele

A newsletter for the terminally curious: science, history and weirdness with 0% contemporary politics, because oh my god sometimes you need a break.

white and black etching of a clay tablet with cuneiform text.

wednesday the valkyrja

@superheroine@disabled.social · last week

slowly but surely developing an #akkadian sense of humor. or rather finding things they left behind funny.

they are so sassy 😭

i mean, a lot of these are complaints. so, they have a reason for the sass. they read like corporate emails where you really want to say something else but have to be professional about it.

i need a time machine to visit #babylon for sure.

i'll attach one.