Listening to "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" by @charliejane.bsky.social and I just want to say how much slyness the narrator (Marisa Calin?) manages to inject into the words "by a Lady".

My band will be playing at a benefit for All-Options Pregnancy Resource Center tonight at 7pm! We are the Magical Space Wizards from Outer Space, a folk/emo/metal/ska band, and this is our second show ever! We'll be playing along with The Sera-Tones and Negative Glow

Fantastic little story about everyone's favorite mathematician / comedy musician. 🧵

I'll be playing with my randomly-assigned (but totally awesome) ska/folk/metal/emo band Magical Space Wizards from Outer Space as part of the Band In A Hat Showcase on Sunday (6/22),

@standupmaths.bsky.social That beard-growing gag was just *mwah* 😙🤌 Question: Did you intentionally use a shot with a car driving by in the background? Or was that something you discovered in the edit?

Today (5/1): First of May @jonathancoulton.bsky.social Tomorrow (5/2): No Pants Day Saturday (5/3): Free Comic Book Day Sunday (5/4): Star Wars Day (May the Fourth Be With You) Monday (5/5): Cinco de Mayo It's gonna be a packed weekend!

Finally finished The Shadows of the Apt series (audiobook version). Took me awhile; I wonder if @aptshadow.bsky.social wrote anything else while I was listening. *checks internet* ... oh dear

Sometimes I want to know about a thing, but I don't have the right words to do a web search. So I'm asking my favorite linguistics communicators to see if they can help. @gretchenmcc.bsky.social @superlinguo.bsky.social 1/4

@12tone.nebula.tv I was watching one of your recent videos, and a little footnote popped up, and I was happy to see that it stuck around long enough for me to read it. Later, there was another one, but it was gone before I could read it. 1/4

$6 haul from the Monroe County Public Library book sale, including books by @badmachinery.com and @skottieyoung.bsky.social Also, I found a mint-condition, fancy-ass hardback "Dictionary of the Khazars" (male edition) hiding in the reference section. Also "The Right to Arm Bears".

Everyone keeps telling me to sell my Tesla. And I get it. The CEO is an incomprehensibly shitty snotgoblin who has done a fuckton of damage (and who seems to be playing some weird kind of Nazi-chicken with the country). 1/2

Today is the anniversary of the very first Rickroll!

Happy Våffeldagen everybody! Go out and eat waffles!

Happy Ramadan/Purim/Holi/π-Day!

Name a thing you've done to make a comment short enough to fit into a single post. *replaced three periods with a single ellipsis character*

@neorsd.org What's your opinion on garbage disposals?

I made a typo today that raise some interesting questions about how my brain processes language while typing. tl;dr I intended to write "look" but I was thinking about the word "let" and I ended up writing "leck". #linguistics 1/3

INBOX ZERO. 📭

Saw the license plate QOVFEFE, and I have questions... but I don't actually want them answered.

@lingthusiasm.bsky.social On the topic of the linguistics of politeness, I have the following anecdote from a few days ago. In the middle of telling a story to her family, my 10-year old niece stops to say "Dad, you don't have to say 'mm-hm' to everything I say!"

It's Robert C. Baker's birthday today. Eat a chicken nugget in his honor.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (Limiting myself to non-graphical fiction for now.)

Out of context thing I said today: "If I sense a Tommy coming, I'll flip my hair over my shoulder to get it out of the way."

Happy Mole Day everyone! Mole Day is held every 10/23, in honor of Avogadro's number 6.02×10²³, which is really just a big chemistry retcon to make the old loosey-goosey units actually consistent. The traditional food of Mole Day is guacamole, made with fresh avogados.

Does anyone else find typesetting things in LaTeX relaxing?

@adamneely.bsky.social At the end of a lot of your videos, there's that short clip of someone saying "bass". That sound is burned into my brain like the first Pac-Man level on an arcade screen. I was wondering today: is it a sound you made just for that outro, or does it come from somewhere else?

@seananmcguire.bsky.social Got a spam text today that made me do a double take: Hi there! I'm Mia Grant, and we believe you're the right fit for our needs. Hope you're having a wonderful day! Reply YES for more details.

@catvalente.bsky.social Our book club is reading Space Opera next and the question came up that if one were to read the book while drinking, what kind of drink would be appropriate?

Today, walking past Qdoba, I heard "Funky Town", and I only just now figured out the pun in the name of the band "Lipps Inc."

I'd like to apologize in advance to Norah Jones (CW: constipation, mild swearing) I ate a spicy chili bowl Don't know why I couldn't go Drank prune juice, a cup of joe Don't know why I couldn't go Don't know why I couldn't go

Dumb thought of the day: you can sound a lot louder using a microphone than you can using a megaphone.

I just played a game with my wife where the first three moves of the game were bingos. And then the fifth play was another bingo. I ended the game having played five bingos total, for a total of 571 points. (Note: this is because I got lucky not because I'm such a great player.)

I've been listening to @seananmcguire.bsky.social 's October Daye series, and I keep catching myself trying to find ways to avoid saying "Thank you." I have to remind myself that I'm not dealing with the Fae. #octoberdaye

I just opened up a kitchen cabinet and a spider bigger than my hand fell out and bounced off my chest.

Long thread about colonial douchebags, the difficulties of studying history, Wikipedia, and skepticism: 0/26

I'm standing around waiting for a hotel shuttle at the Fort Lauderdale airport, and it's obvious from the T-shirts and hair color that I am deep in the center of a group of fellow JoCo cruisers. I'm not even talking to anyone, but I can feel my jaw unclenching already.

Today's lunch is leftover pizza, taquitos, and kimbap. I definitely have some issues with my home country (USA) and with globalization in general, but it does come with some benefits.