Daniel Galef

I always forget this part but should probably say something now so that the news won't just be a single post on the day of that 90% of people will miss: I have sold a story to Subtropics and it will be published this Spring! No-context spoilers for the story:

@Boi_die @AlexYablon If I didn't know who the guy was I wouldn't ever have guessed that. The tweet is so clumsy it comes across as the exact opposite, like he's trying to imply that Jewish academics would remove the book because they think *it's* antisemitic

@AlexYablon He's doing the "colleges are mean to Jewish people!" bit they've been trying to do when you have the people who constantly bash universities also constantly use actual anti-Semitic slurs and say Hitler was right

isn't gatsby more of a 9th or 10th grade book

@JohnRaleeh have you considered instead courting the elderly and infirm

Being single for almost 10 years is starting to wear down my ethics about age gaps. I am becoming one of those guys who may have to go for younger women who don't know/don't care that I'm kind of a loser

@Eric_T_Racher i assumed that "gantelope" was a joycean made-up portmanteau but looked it up just in case and now have learned a lovely new word today

Samuel Beckett

@hausofdecline @celinedionysus_ hyphen placement?

@celinedionysus_ Keeps impaling himself on his long ass sword

I keep reading Dinergoth as Dingeroth, which sounds like a dopey bumbling Lovecraftian elder god

I was curious about what proscribed use this was about and went looking for the specific quotation in the entry. Apparently it was the (now common) form "due to," meaning "because of," which I would never have thought was at all controversial

@SketchesbyBoze I was curious about what proscribed use this was about and went looking for the specific quotation in the entry. Apparently the (now common) form "due to," meaning "because of," which I would never have thought was at all controversial

This is a Count of Monte Cristo-worthy display of delayed revenge on the part of James Murray, first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

@CapelLofft An awful lot of non-Christians (and Christians) were burned, hanged, drowned, quartered, and crushed by Christians to try to sell us on the claim that it was the non-Christians who were contemptuous for the sanctity of human life

The early Christians lived for centuries in societies that thought nothing of the lives of the helpless, weak and dependent: the rule of the whims of the strong, autonomous and dominant was the norm. They had to be lights to the world against that darkness. So will we again

What the Lords did last night was quite evil, but let's be honest: it's a symptom of a broad trend, the reversion to a pre-Christian contempt for the sanctity of human life as the last embers of our ethical and spiritual inheritance are consumed in the fire of secularism.

@DrFrancisYoung what a gnomic thing to say...

Maybe I should have given up tweeting about fairies for Lent, but I have no sylph control

@oood If I were in this situation I would fold on the spot

Yay!!

@AdamDraper gail.com/boxcat.jpg

@AliveAndWell99 @drethelin The building was named for a prof who was the last man at the university to lecture in full academic dress (cap and gown) which sounds fancy but he never replaced or mended it so by the time he retired in the 1910s it was fraying to rags and held together by safety pins

@AliveAndWell99 @drethelin In my undergrad I had professors who lectured in a suit and tie and professors who lectured in a faded graphic tee with a punk band on it. When I started I tried to do the Zuckerberg thing and have a regular Teaching Outfit, but turns out that's weird in and of itself

Something I didn’t realize before is the 19th century “lecture” circuit was basically just mark twain going around doing standup comedy

@jbougie1312 @squirrelpalooza @FusionEDC @facetedcarapace @MooStation common misconception it's actually for "armalight"

@squirrelpalooza @FusionEDC @facetedcarapace @MooStation short for “automatic”

one of the most disgusting incredibly common aspects of American culture is 30 cars idling outside of a fast food place waiting for chicken nuggies for 40 minutes

@ulovetyrabanks @meatsweatmcgee I get symbolically pardoning everyone convicted under an unjust law (& I don't know the details of this---DID they?) but don't get pardoning one specific (great) man. Was Turing's case uniquely unjust because there's a movie about him? Seems insulting to equally wronged nobodies

@meatsweatmcgee this is like how the queen pardoned alan turing for being gay 60 years later

oh well thank god he was exonerated later

@ejlflop annoying going for a walk with a friend who has a slightly longer stride length and you have to walk farther than he over the same span

king opens infinitely long coastal path

@ejlflop skill issue. my strides are discrete and of finite magnitude

@Guy43792007 @meadandjuniper The Canadian national cocktail contains clam juice in it

@meadandjuniper Soda bars, when they still existed, used to have beef, egg and seafood options.

It’s weird there aren’t more savory drinks. Take broth for instance. There are so many broths I would absolutely drink straight out of a mug. So how come there’s no Starbucks for broths? Am I just weird?

@meadandjuniper The Brits used to drink beef tea, things like Bovril or Oxo

@JoshPhillipsPhD When I said I wanted to be an English Major, I meant I wanted to wear a red coat. What the devil would I need the books for?

@RolloIan69365 @JoshPhillipsPhD Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?

“Oh. You want to be an English major?!” “Yes.” “Great! Here’s some books to read.” “No.” 🙄