Fei Kayser

@acapellascience Becquerel rhyme excellent. Didn’t see it coming. Listened to it a second time just for that rhyme. Reminds me of Sondheim rhyming “egos” with “amigos”and getting Cole Porter to chortle with that. Totally on that level, a Cole Porter rhyme using a foreign word. 👍👍👍

3. The First Nobel Groaner. my sister says this one is the best lyrically but she has questionable taste. Could use a second verse for obvious reasons. I don't love my delivery to be honest and the visual is meh. C, escaping D-tier mostly on the strength of the Becquerel rhyme.

SEVEN SCIENCE CAROLS: Tier List 1. Science Night. Too obvious not to include but bit of a slow start tbh. My throat hurt while recording it. I like the big chord on "See" a lot, "spare not your child" goes hard as a line, but it's not entirely enough. C tier.

@LanguageLog Really interesting. Went on to read the related page: languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=22077 “这个 particular 中国 market 是非常 fragmented, 但那 bubble 后来 busted 之后，我们可以 reconsider 我们的 options.” A gem.

The Englishization of Chinese enters a new phase: Xinyi Ye came upon this post on Zhīhū 知乎 ("Did you know?"), a Chinese social media site that is comparable to Quora: Rúhé kàndài huíguó rénshì shuōhuà jiádài Yīngwén? 如何看待回国人士说话夹带英文？ "How… dlvr.it/TBfmNQ

@Gurdur @The_AshB @avra_cadaver @esthercarmen Where was this? The kids are dressed so nicely! I was just at a little Zeitreise today. I only have Hanfu, so just dressed normally, because I didn’t want to impose too much Zeit-reising on the Steampunk theme by Hanfu-ing.

4/n Something for @The_AshB, @avra_cadaver and @esthercarmen; again a photo I took at the small steampunk festival, August last year. I don't know these people, but my god, they put in real effort.

well folks, it's a Sunday; I wish all my tweeps a good lazy Sunday. I thought I'd do a retrospective for y'all; these are photos of mine from a small steampunk festival last year. Little did the plague-doctor below know how topical it would get half a year later. cc.@AviWoolf

@mylesjude2 @CJLeung_DST Xiao Li Fei Dao from Gu Long and Bing Chuan Tian Nü from Liang Yusheng. Gu Long is like TS Eliot, revolutionary colloquial language and form. Liang Yusheng is like Tolkien, lore and stories that wind so deep like the spirals of a snails’s house.

@CJLeung_DST Who would you say is your favorite main character from each of these writers works ✍️ 📚 📖

Why’s Jin Yong the master of wuxia novels? Many think that his books are just about flying kung fu masters. They’re actually meditations on age-old questions on Chinese culture and politics. In this 🧵, I’ll explain the themes for those not familiar with Chinese culture. 🧵1/19

try to make something of their own. Prost! Bottoms up. Genesis: "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."

And here´s a toast, to those who try to make something from nothing, who build with only their hands and the ether. Who open a shop, who start a store, who begin a song, who draft a picture, who conceive a life, who support one too, who — God-like — from the void and the darkness

Genesis (page 91) open.substack.com/pub/feikayser/…