The Kyrgyz people mainly live in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and China, and are one of the official ethnic groups of China. Within China, they are mostly distributed in the southwest of Xinjiang. The practice of eagle falconry among the Kyrgyz can be traced back to 4000 years ago, and is now considered a national-level intangible cultural heritage in China.
The eagles (or sometimes northern goshawk/other birds of prey), are captured from the wild, tamed, then released back into the wild after five years. With the help of the eagles, hunters on horseback are able to hunt pheasant, rabbits, and foxes more easily.
Because of their nomadic lifestyle, eagle falconry played an important role in the past, but in recent years, increasing settlement of the Kyrgyz, environmental destruction, and other factors has meant eagle falconry has become more of a pastime. However, Akqi County is invested in keeping the tradition alive and holds seasonal tourist events where they showcase their falconry as well as promote other cultural traditions through events and exhibitions.
It’s easy to forget JRR Tolkien was a fairly prolific academic translator with an interest in early medieval literature and philology. It’s so inspiring that he found time to write The Hobbit while fighting for his life over Beowulf.
JRR Tolkien’s introductory notes for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight are like “This is a superb little poem. I really enjoy the author’s ability to weave existing narratives within folklore into one cohesive tale. This was fun!” and his lectures and notes on Beowulf are lowkey like “Translating and analyzing this was my Waterloo. I have been looking at it for 40 years. I am Sisyphus and this poem is my burden. All of you are misinterpreting it. Me too probably. God help us all.”
I read his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and even though it was correct, his translation of “midgard” as “middle earth” made me double-take every time.
CONCLAVE [2024] ↳ Isabella Rossellini as Sister Agnes Eminences, although we Sisters are supposed to be invisible, God has nevertheless given us eyes and ears…
Tiramisu is super super easy. You don’t even need a mixer, though it helps if you dislike hand whipping whipped cream.
This recipe doesn’t even use eggs, because I’m in America and dislike having to find pasteurized ones or carefully half cook mine to avoid salmonella.
Ingredients:
8oz mascrapone
8oz whipping cream
¼ cup sugar
1tsp vanilla (measure with your heart)
Coffee
Instant espresso powder if you don’t have an easy way to make super strong coffee
Kaluha or such if you like boozey tiramisu
Lasyfingers
Directions:
Make 1 cup (8oz) of extra strong coffee, or normal coffee and add instant espresso powder.
Take 8oz of whipping cream, add approx 4 tbl spoons sugar (caster if you have it, but regular granulated is fine), add splash of vanilla, whip into medium stiff peaks
Fold in 8oz.of room temp mascrapone until fully mixed.
Dip ladyfingers in coffee for a second or two and place a layer of them in a loaf pan. Cover with powdered coco. Spoon on whipped cream. Layer another row of dipped ladyfingers. Continue repeating layers until our of room.
If you want to make it slightly boozy, add kaluha or Bailey’s or some other liquor that’s good in sweet coffee to the coffee before dipping the lasyfingers
If you can’t easily get ladyfingers, vanilla wafers will do in a pinch.
Note: traditional tiramisu is made with raw eggs, and is slightly more complicated because you make a pseudo meringue mixture to fold into the mascrapone instead of using whipping cream, but Ive had both and the whopping cream one is super good if less sophisticated.
I thought it was a joke so I cross checked and nope, he really did write off a bunch of unsold inventory that needs power to be recharged as donations to areas without power. Supposedly as batteries and WiFi nodes.
As someone who has been impacted by the fires and knows people whose homes have burnt down, the thing people need is money. Not whatever the fuck Elon Musket is doing
there’s a really funny 3d printing controversy going on btw.
if you don’t know, there’s a very popular 3d printing model out there called “benchy”. this is used for benchmarking your 3d printer because it’s a difficult print and will help test it out.
this is so widely used that people make their own little versions of it, remixing the 3d model to make benchy look cooler and stuff. however, a new company owns the benchy license. they are sending copyright takedowns to all those who wrongfully uploaded the benchy model.
of course, this is pissing off the 3d printing community greatly. everyone loved benchy and have used it for years. so someone on reddit decided to make a new model that is designed as a 3d printing stress test. one that works a lot like benchy, and people are freely able to edit it as they please. you know what they called it?
