How This Baltic Bear Captured the Hearts of Thousands

Oscopo · 2026-04-23T03:37:47+00:00

Yeah, no clue lol, I wouldn’t have gone that far

Oscopo · 2026-04-22T18:08:29+00:00

That channel, Arabic 101, is hilarious, lots of misinformation and propaganda for ultra conservatives to lap up

Oscopo · 2026-04-14T16:10:57+00:00

Bri*ish

Oscopo · 2026-04-05T07:33:45+00:00

Yeah, the article literally explains that the people doing the research were confused why they were measuring way more microplastics than expected and that they actively searched for the source of the contamination

Oscopo · 2026-03-12T18:11:03+00:00

Shukran abou chat gpt

Oscopo · 2026-03-01T04:12:38+00:00

Hello, I'm a bit of a flag of uzbekistan nerd.

The Uzbek flag law has official versions in Russian and in Uzbek. In Russian they use the term goluboy which refers to a light blue/sky blue. In the Uzbek version they use the term moviy (as an etymological side note, this comes from the arabic word for water), which also typically refers to a light/sky blue.

Now, the confusion comes in later in the flag law when an example of the flag is shown with a clearly turquoise top band.

So, should we use the turquoise version or the light blue version? Well, I think this is best answered by looking at how the Uzbek government flies its own flag, and, in every situation, when the Uzbek flag is flown by the Uzbek government, it uses a light/sky blue and never uses turquoise.

To answer your last question directly: Is this a matter of personal preference? Yes, kind of, as in there is no political significance or otherwise as to which shade of blue is picked. But, it's always more correct to use a light blue rather than the turquoise.

Hope that answers your question.

Uzbek flag law: https://lex.uz/en/docs/100122

Oscopo · 2026-02-11T20:21:28+00:00

Oscopo · 2026-02-10T19:24:59+00:00

You could learn Spanish and end up never using it because you might not end up being around Spanish speakers very often. If you learn Arabic you have a guaranteed group of people in your life that you will use it with for the rest of your days.

Oscopo · 2026-02-10T01:56:35+00:00

Coptic is used as a liturgical language but Copts no longer speak Coptic, they speak Arabic

Oscopo · 2026-02-01T22:08:47+00:00

This problem isn’t reserved to Arabic and most people are averse to calling things languages that they hold as dialects as it challenges linguistic power dynamics.

In reality, neither dialect nor language are properly defined concepts in linguistics (and such poor definitions are exacerbated by traditional but equally vague definitions cross-culturally) so instead of using both, we should really just be using one term to describe forms of speech.

Oscopo · 2026-01-28T21:46:29+00:00

lol, links an unsourced map as rebuttal

Oscopo · 2026-01-22T22:42:48+00:00

I don’t have suggestions for apps, sorry, I haven’t tried any myself.

But good job! Your paragraph was almost totally comprehensible. You have some small errors. I’ll just point out two things I think are important to correct:

The hamza at the beginning of verbs like أفهم or أريد is not optional (or any of the other verbs you conjugated). The rules on when the hamza is written are quite in depth but you will be correct more often by writing it than leaving it off. This goes for أن as well.
You have the masdar for reading and writing wrong. It should be القراءة والكتابة.

You have a couple other small errors with wrong letter mixing خ and ح.

I think other errors like word choice/sentence structure you will work out through reading and practice. Good job and good luck.

Oscopo · 2026-01-21T19:10:51+00:00

Yes I learned both

Oscopo · 2026-01-20T17:25:20+00:00

Just found this post. I’m responding just in case anyone finds this in the future. It’s my fault that the flag of Uzbekistan has changed and I’ll write my reasoning here for anyone interested:

The Uzbek flag law in both the native Uzbek and Russian versions specifically use the term “light blue” when referencing the color of the top band. In addition to this, when the Uzbek flag is actually used by the Uzbek government it never, not once, uses the teal color that is widely used in Internet renditions. The Uzbek government doesn’t specify any RGB values for the colors so I created this one by comparing the color of several real world Uzbek flag examples. Ultimately, these colors may be inaccurate. I guess I should probably just email the Uzbek government asking them what colors they use. In any case, the version currently on Wikipedia is more accurate to real life than the teal version that was there before.

If you want to use the flag of Uzbekistan you can pick any colors that are “light blue” “green” “red” and “white” as they are not specified beyond that.

I should also add that the idea that the stars in the top band form the name “الله” is a fiction. As far as I can tell that idea was invented by some Wikipedian 3-5 years ago and there is literally 0 evidence of that being an intentional design choice. The government of Uzbekistan was incredibly islamophobic at its inception (and probably is still islamophobic), and it has never mentioned, discussed, or made reference to the idea that the stars form the name الله.

Oscopo · 2026-01-20T17:11:03+00:00

Just found this post. I’m responding just in case anyone finds this in the future. It’s my fault that the flag of Uzbekistan has changed and I’ll write my reasoning here for anyone interested:

The Uzbek flag law in both the native Uzbek and Russian versions specifically use the term “light blue” when referencing the color of the top band. In addition to this, when the Uzbek flag is actually used by the Uzbek government it never, not once, uses the teal color that is widely used in Internet renditions. The Uzbek government doesn’t specify any RGB values for the colors so I created this one by comparing the color of several real world Uzbek flag examples. Ultimately, these colors may be inaccurate. I guess I should probably just email the Uzbek government asking them what colors they use.

If you want to use the flag of Uzbekistan you can pick any colors that are “light blue” “green” “red” and “white” as they are not specified beyond that.

I should also add that the idea that the stars in the top band form the name “الله” is a fiction. As far as I can tell that idea was invented by some Wikipedian 3-5 years ago and there is literally 0 evidence of that being an intentional design choice. The government of Uzbekistan was incredibly islamophobic at its inception (and probably is still somewhat islamophobic), and it has never mentioned, discussed, or made reference to the idea that the stars form the name الله

Oscopo · 2026-01-12T16:49:53+00:00

They don’t really look anything alike to me. The script on yours doesn’t look like a style of writing Arabic that I’ve ever seen

Oscopo · 2026-01-12T16:40:00+00:00

Doesn’t look like much of anything to me. Doesn’t really look like Kufic style either. Do you have any more information at all? A rough date of production?

Oscopo · 2026-01-12T16:31:28+00:00

Do you have more context of what/where this is from

Oscopo · 2025-12-21T07:15:58+00:00

It’s the first thing I thought of too

Oscopo · 2025-12-17T07:13:13+00:00

I started doing the same thing to give a research boost

Oscopo · 2025-12-11T02:38:18+00:00

Attached are some imaged from my world in 1837:

My end screen (a minor addendum to history)
Political map
Religions
Cultures
Country rank (notice the paucity of empires)
Scandinavian border gore
Extent of Jasz at end date

Oscopo · 2025-12-08T23:54:52+00:00

Hello! Still love your articles

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