David Byron

Mencken nails it:

No time like the present to avert one’s gaze….

Have you ever wondered HOW exactly is Hungarian is a Finno-Ugric language? How it is actually related to Finnish and Estonian? Well friend this is your lucky day! Buckle up and let's find out! 🧵 First, let's start with how languages can be similar.

Born on this day in 1697, in London, painter and satirist William Hogarth. Here by himself, with his pug (good man!), in 1745.

@psframes Any mention of Pieter De Hooch is an opportunity to post Ustinovs story about the Dutch De Hooch expert and the Duke. x.com/psframes/statu…

In 2020 I was one of 7 dems that won a district that Trump won, so I held a series of listening sessions with people who voted for Trump and voted for me to understand their actions. I reread the transcripts yesterday and much of it felt like it could have been said today. THREAD

@PieterBeullens @lefineder @uptick222 Attributions of authorship in the screenshot you posted suggest sloppy data curation… to say the least.

@dcbyron @lefineder @uptick222 Could you elaborate, please?

Here are the best-selling authors in the Medieval period based on the number of surviving manuscripts of their work in a massive database. It is noticeable how prominent ancient writers are in top spots, 6 of the top 10 authors wrote in the 5th century or earlier, in the Greco-Roman period. It is as if the most well-published authors in the world today were born hundreds of years in the past, in a civilization that collapsed.

@PieterBeullens @lefineder @uptick222

@lefineder @uptick222 I found the answer to my own query. Let's tentatively agree that the initial data might be flawed? mappingmanuscriptmigrations.org/en/works/facet…

Les Américains élisant Trump pour la deuxième fois :

@buitengebieden youtu.be/cb5DITStXlI?fe…

What is going on here? 😂

@suzania youtu.be/tnbPbObY1l4?t=…

Swang

Election Touchscreen Map Takes Deeper Look Inside Key Swing Voter | Onion News Network ONN political analyst Jason Copeland breaks down the latest presidential polling trends going on inside Pennsylvania resident Nick Camden.

And so we reach the fluoride-in-the-water stage of campaign season, which I assume is followed by the faked-the-moon-landing stage.

Jordan Peterson on dragons

Here’s the thing. It’s all out in the open. The Proud Boy colors. The vile language. The praise of those who stormed the Capitol. The racist “jokes.” The threat to use force against the “enemy within.” You can’t vote for this and say you didn’t know.

"We're withholding our endorsement because our owner is frightened of government retaliation if Donald Trump wins" is a more forceful and eloquent statement than any newspaper editorial ever written.

From the folks who brought you “Democracy Dies in Darkness”

Today is the 609th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt. Don't forget.

@AmericanGwyn - writing - douchepiphany - soapkenning

@GrammarTable The University adopted, but quirk-servingly adapted, the AP style guide.

@dcbyron David, on the AP part of your comment: Are you saying AP wants capital "the" generally in such instances or are you saying that the university style guide as a whole is adapted from AP? Or something else?

They work at ____ (the, The) Council of Independent Colleges. Link in next tweet.