‘Probably’ is often pronounced /probly/, losing the syllable ‘ba’. This is called haplology. Some people have an issue with that, but what they don’t know is that ‘probably’ is the result of haplology too: in Middle English, it was ‘probablely’. Click my new graphic for more cases of haplology:

I have a little bit of a take on the weekend's discourse and it is that I think we should be better at differentiating between "people who want to have kids are either not having them or having fewer than they'd like" (bad! must fix!) and "the overall fertility rate is going down" (eh, ah well)

Guys. The Ancient Greeks weren't white. They were more like cephalopods than modern humans -- their skin was bioluminescent and constantly shifting its color. And they didn't live in in idyllic seaside villages; they could only survive near deep-ocean vents. They DID have Matt Damon accents, though

Of course I own a copy of The Guardian's top novel

"okay you've done this big study to find out how to reduce the amount of plastic in your body, what's the first thing you found??" "okay step one: eat less plastic"

Toby giveth

all this odyssey-posting has got me thinking about this again

So Badgers has been added to the BFI archives. Honestly this feels like quiite an honor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNqb...

You truly are a genius thought leader to be asking a question so multifaceted and deep. My programming skills aren’t just Ruby and Python, they’re any type of gem — and any type of snake!

“Hey mister, what you doing?” “Creating a fine spray of water in the form of very small drops floating in the air"

My favorite thing about Mr. Blobby is how whenever Americans find out about him they take psychic damage

Rewatching 30 Rock and I think this is still possibly one of the best constructed jokes in anything, ever.

Happy Birthday to Margaret Calvert today. 90 years old and what an impact! Her work is in every local town. A Margaret thread 🧵1/11

prestige miniseries anthology of The Bloody Chamber send tweet

critics have described my DJ sets as rewarding easy categorisation, burdened by context, and reinforcing boundaries between genre

Surely they've suffered enough?

Don't worry, the giant relief of Brunel's head at the ss Great Britain isn't real and cannot hurt you The giant relief of Brunel's head at the ss Great Britain:

arrived home to discover the pleasant silence in the back seat was caused primarily by my five year old writing “67” on her baby sister’s forehead with a ballpoint pen

I do firmly believe that this is one of the most important parts of democracy in These Isles and we should cherish it. A sitting Minister going down to third standing next to a person dressed as a gannet keeps our politicians from thinking too much of themselves.

I started this thread on twitter back in 2017. I add to it occasionally whenever the opportunity offers itself, but want to start it again so I can add to it on here. So… Amazing how grater technology has developed. My current grater (left) and an original 80s grater, the size of a brick!

We have loaned a remarkable object to the V&A’s exhibition The Music Is Black - an African thumb piano made using a Huntley & Palmers biscuit tin. This early 20th century instrument transforms an iconic Reading export into a living piece of African musical heritage. 🎹 1992.162.18 #FridayFinds

Leia is no longer a princess after 64 minutes into A New Hope. You are permanently divested of royal titles when the planet you enjoy sovereignty over explodes. She should have just been Leia at that point.

New rubbish dialogue reaches me every other day on wadges of pink paper—and none of it makes my character clear or even bearable. . . . I must off to studio and work with . . . Tennyson (that can’t be right) Ford. Ellison? (? — No!)—well, a rangy, languid young man. —Alec Guinness, diary, 1976

Plumbert won’t see your messages calling him a monster but your friends made entirely of fruits and vegetables will

Physicist Steven Weinberg was born #OTD in 1933. His 1967 paper "A Model of Leptons" presented a unified theory of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear interactions, and is the most cited paper in particle physics. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ Image: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

you get a lot of american bluesky liberal posters who will argue america has a more nuanced and developed concept of race and integration than any other country in the developed world who will turn around and sound like enoch powell when talking about british food. on a daily basis

The presence of Myha'la has convinced me that all I actually want is an all-Industry (fully in character) version of Traitors

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

the onion's called shot will end up being true no matter what

We're all trying to find the minifig who did this

Highest petrol prices I've seen so far ... unbelievable profiteering

29 April? Yes, that’s right! Tenth anniversary of the day a stone marten ran into a 66,000 volt transformer, causing a short circuit that stopped the Large Hadron Collider at CERN working for a week 🧵

My best craft advice is "Put a giant worm in it." You can never go wrong with a giant worm. Sci-fi: Giant worm on an alien planet Fantasy: Giant worm in mountain sitting on a pile of gold Horror: Giant worm (eats people) Romance: Giant worm causes third-act breakup Mystery: Giant worm investigates

Food £200 Data £150 Rent £800 Used Boxed Sets of The Upper Hand £3,600 Utility £150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

*hammering on child’s door* “Turn that racket off! You are actively decreasing the share of my monthly subscription fee that goes to The National!”

Thinking or trying somewhere new for my haircut this week.

WAITER: would you care for dessert JEFF: i’ll have the jello GEOFF: i’ll have the geollo JEFF: jesus christ not this again GEOFF: geosus christ

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

Happy Miss Congeniality Day to all who celebrate!

Happy Perfect Date Day, everyone

Good job it's not full, or this would have been a very nasty crash

I'm brave enough to admit that I would, in fact, buy this the day it goes on sale or see it opening night. Yes, I would.

Your annual reminder that William Shakespeare was born in what is now Turkey, never visited England and almost certainly could not read or write in English.