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@MerriamWebster @lisarobel TFW you realize the SpongeBob meme would have been so popular two centuries ago. DoN't YoU aGrEe? 🤪

Both ‘okay’ and ‘ok’ are oll korrect. In the 1820s & 1830’s, it was fashionable to deliberately misspell words. For example, ‘all right’ became ‘oll wright.’ The trend also extended to abbreviations All correct —> oll korrect—> o.k.

@ZachGorchow Makes me almost nostalgic for the days when I worked for NH and they told us that no budget meant you had to keep coming to work for your full regular shifts and just not get paid until a budget got passed. And then hope they passed a bill to give you back pay for those hours. 😮‍💨

Headline from Whitmer/Brinks/Hall joint statement: "Gov. Whitmer, Leader Brinks, Speaker Hall: Legislature Will Pass Full Budget This Week, Government Will Run as Normal" Nowhere in the statement was discussion of a bill with continuation spending to fund the government.

@thing12games We had a baseball diamond at the schools I went to.

We then played the Venn Diagram game “Things in Rings” It was hotly debated that “Diamond” and “squeegee” were not in the “expect to find in a school” circle. I said there are married teachers (Diamond Ring) and janitors (with a squeegee). Thoughts?

@PonchoRebound Okay, you got me curious enough to search and watch that video for the first time. Dude at the beginning has a serious addiction problem, and his dog needs to be rehomed to someone who will care for it. Is this what a post-tiktok world looks like? I miss the cat rescue videos.☹️

Thinking about the woman in the original Switch announcement trailer, the one who brought her video game system to her neighbors’ chill rooftop cocktail party and forced everyone to play it. Queen.

@WLNS This isn't news. It was news in 1983 when it happened. Maybe read the fearmongering drek you get paid to promote before you push it out on an unsuspecting public.

Social Security retirement age set to change in 2025. trib.al/e3vtQtx

@AllThatWildlife I sat on my porch roof in Michigan long enough that my fingers got cold and pruny and my knees got stiff. Totally worth it.

Last night in Morgantown (West Virginia), I managed to catch a burst of intensity from the northern lights. It didn't last long, but I sure enjoyed the show! #aurora #WildAndWonderful

@PonchoRebound Is this that secret gathering of friends everyone talks about?

"What's this?" "The convention!" "There are only five other people here. Essen should have tens of thousands" "Oh, you must have misunderstood! This is SN, short for 'Seven Nerds.' It's a small party I host every year." "I want my $800 back now." "Sorry, no refunds."

@sciencewithtyus @AlHendiify Why couldn't they give us infrared vision instead of a reason to bleed every month. 😩

@AlHendiify Retroviruses gave us a placenta that's pretty cool.

Why aren’t there viruses that make us smarter wtf

@PonchoRebound Boy-o-boy. That driver's license quote person has never met a weekday commuter who has to operate heavy equipment for their job and who relaxes on the weekend with their Harley. That said, I'm half leery about folks after their first PhD. I've met too many to do otherwise. 😒

In fact, multiple PhDs are rare, frowned upon, and/or seen as useless. “A PhD is an apprenticeship for becoming a researcher. Having multiple PhDs is like trying to become a skilled electrician by going to trade school multiple times.” “It’s like having two driver’s licenses.”

There’s something almost charming about how the MCU believes that PhDs are stackable and the more you have, the smarter you are. (Bruce Banner has seven, Jane Foster has “multiple”.) I’m surprised they didn’t have Stephen Strange have, like, five MDs.

@am_anatiala Why did this godforsaken platform think the right ad to feed me as a reply in this thread was one from the Senate Republicans saying "thank you". 🤦‍♀️

look im sorry but im not into being dommed via email thanks

@captainraffi Have you tried checking out Strava? It may help identify some connections.

@PonchoRebound Took me a minute to figure out you weren't using a euphemism for corn. Sweet corn season hits hard in these parts, and finding a good local fix can become an embarrassing obsession.

It's not even lunch on a Monday yet: I was sharing my screen with a big client and I needed to google the medical term "PRN" but I accidentally googled "porn" and the first three results were purple links.

@SenFoongLim Can you hear the toilets calling? They yearn for the bleach and the brush. Their mournful skibididibidi calls echo down the empty hallways. Oh wait. You were looking for wrong answers only. My mistake. 😉

Sons are out at a friend's house for the evening, wife is travelling with her football team and they're playing an away game... what's a guy to do? #WrongAnswersOnly

@AlHendiify I have 2 questions: 1. Is this the same party that was recently carrying around specimen jars with bodily fluids in them? 2. Have any of them done the math on Barron Trump's conception?

Why did Sean Collins goin immediately to a drinking metaphor from… ykw nvm

@skwinnicki Job searches are the worst, especially when you stack up rejections. I'm taking hope from the fact that one app got me an interview and the writing assignment from another is going to be manifested into the world. Hopefully my next app turns into an offer.

@skwinnicki It's probably going to be a lot more coalition building and grant writing than sitting in the wild playing rail calls, but the folks doing on the ground work are good people to work with. audubon.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Audubon/…

Getting down lately about the academic job market (who isn’t)? I recommend hanging out with my white-collar middle management dad and his work pals, my goodness academic research sounds so dynamic and fun in comparison I’m dying of boredom on their behalf

@sailorsctaustin IS THAT THE "I VOTED" WEREWOLF FROM MICHIGAN?!?!? reddit.com/r/Michigan/com… The primaries are over. Someone needs to slap an "I voted" sticker on it.

@PonchoRebound If my knowledge of anthropology tells me anything, it's that mysterious shapes are simply humanoid figurines w/ unknown cultural or religious purpose. This metallic figurine likely served as a totem that worshippers whispered their secrets to... secrets nobody else would hear.

FUTURE ANTHROPOLOGIST: This curious artifact was widespread in the early 21st Century and could be found in most middle-class dwellings. No one knows exactly what it was but it was clearly a revered object; every example we've found is pristine, as though only used once or twice.

@beyondthepaid @MSUArchives I had to do The Pit my first term because my AP credits came in after I'd already signed up for classes. I'm so glad I only had to do it once. That was enough.

@MSUArchives The Pit. Ugh. Today's students will never know the anguish

#DYK that before registration was completed online, MSU students registered for classes in different buildings on campus? This photograph shows students registering for classes in the Auditorium in 1949. One week until classes begin! #MSUHistory