aka Francis S. Poesy

Hard work wins over talent that doesn't work hard. So as an indolent hack I figure that puts me in a solid third place. Not too shabby!

@ShamashAran How am I supposed to get a stamp!?! Do I need ID for that? And what if I just want to email my vote? Where do I put the stamp then?

Voting by mail is illegal because you have to buy a stamp every time you do it. That's a poll tax.

@AnnaTizard Read Josh Fireland's Chokeville. It's a master class in fun fight scenes, amongst other things. Also take a look at Johnny Shaw's "Jimmy Veeder Fiasco" series.

#authors Anyone here like writing fight scenes? Ever thrown in some comedy, or weird objects as weaponry? I want to hear from you. 👋 #writingcommmunity

@Joseph_Spurgeon I'll take "Things that Satan Would Say" for $200 Alex.

I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but Reformed Protestants do not believe that the Protestant Reformation was the start of the church. We trace our lineage back through the Protestant Reformation, through the Middle Ages, into the early church, into the Bible, and we own all of that. So Saint Patrick belongs to the Protestants, as does Augustine, John Chrysostom, and all the rest of the saints. The Protestant Reformation was not the start of a new church. It was an attempt to purify and reform the church and move it away from the abuses of the papacy and its money-hungry, power-hungry twisting of the faith that was delivered once for all to the saints.

@JoshPhillipsPhD If I wanted to count my books, I'd be a mathematician, not a reader. All I know is I have too many books and I need some more.

Alright, I’ll play along. I’m in the 4%: 501 - 1,000 range Where are you? Book ownership among Americans -0 books: 9% -1–10 books: 20% -11–25 books: 14% -26–50 books: 13% -51–100 books: 12% -101–200 books: 10% -201–500 books: 7% -501–1,000 books: 4% -Over 1,000 books:3% yougov.com/en-us/articles…

@JeffSBrayAuthor Cinderfella.

MEMORY MONDAY: On this Memory Monday, we want to remember one of the greatest comedians, Jerry Lewis. Today would've been his 100th birthday. What is your favorite role of his? The Nutty Professor or maybe The Bellboy? Who could forget the team of Martin and Lewis? #MemoryMonday

@bernardtjoy Philosophy has turned from the love of wisdom to the love of ideas which makes it infinitely less interesting. The drive to innovate in a venture that ostensibly is in search of objective truth, requires that no truth be considered objective, as that would stop the innovation.

Yes, it's fairly clear by now that philosophy has been in a long period of terrible decline.

Post your favorite airframe.

@JoshPhillipsPhD Just because a novel is by Thomas Hardy doesn't mean it will leave you in a pit of despair, questioning why you ever read it. Oh, no, wait! That's exactly what it means.

I need to make a distinction: Just because a novel is long does not mean that it’s difficult. Tolstoy’s novels are long. They are not difficult.

Rather similar to the rules for X-treme Battle Golf.

So, who exactly thought calling their architectural style "Brutalism" was a good idea? And why did anyone listen to them. I mean, like, what was that pitch meeting like?

@pegobry_en I mean, they named it Brutalism!

One reason why brutalist architecture looks like this is because brutalist architects didn't care about future generations and so didn't care that the concrete would look like mud 20 years thence, which also tells you about what brutalism is about

@MerriamWebster Where do 'Yo' and 'Whatup' fall in the hierarchy?

‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’ ‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’ ‘Hello’ is not related to either. Goodbye.

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear. - Edward H. Harriman

@NickJFreitas @GigaBasedDad Not to mention the obvious category errors.

@GigaBasedDad The traditional ones are also capitalist.

Which way western man?

Happy Employee Appreciation Day to all employees whose love language is either empty corporate platitudes or boiler-plate HR praise statements.

@SirEvanAmato 21

Polling my audience: At what age do you become too old to wear a graphic tee?

@MerriamWebster Uppercase because it is based on a persons name.

ALSO Lowercase k for “thousand.” Uppercase K for “Kelvin.”

The Greek word for “thousand” is ‘chilioi.’ The French changed the spelling to ‘kilo.’ ‘kilo’ = k

@MerriamWebster poul =

pole = 💈 poll = 🗳️

@bernardtjoy But why?

Thinking, or God forbid philosophy, is just not a very good evolutionary strategy.