Roses are red Violents are blue No apartments near me. I got mine, fuck you! #a2council

I assume that his physio is @siegel.bsky.social and you can’t convince me otherwise

Josh is superb, and these glasses make him look a bit like an owl 🦉

Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction

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"You don't forget the best." We've lost an icon and a legend. Thank you for giving us Cookie Fleck and so much more. Rest in peace.💙

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Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! Premieres tonight on HBO

Who could ask for anything more?

Nancy Friedman: 52 Things I Learned in 2025. Incl. “Seventy-one percent of people in Iceland are Costco members” and “In Sweden, the largest size of Hellmann’s mayonnaise — 600 grams — is called “American size”. [fritinancy.substack.com]

Self-reflecting birds of Northern California

Hung around in a pharmacy’s waiting area in line for seasonal vaccine boosters with @justinwolfers.bsky.social once

Haaaave you met Brett, the mad genius/good witch/benevolent overlord of Mac users?

Finally finished last week’s episode of WWDTM, and isn’t it perfect that @joshgondelman.bsky.social knew that “slop” was @merriam-webster.com’s word of the year without missing a beat!

Indeco IFP28X pulverizer with googly eyes.

this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member

Such a lovely interview just three months ago Spinal Tap is back. Director Rob Reiner says they're still dialed up to 11 one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5527051:n...

(2/2) First among them: Dick Van Dyke, who when he joined us 15 years ago was not only as delightful, kind and funny in person as he was on screen, he also — for the first time ever in public! — performed the lyrics to the “Dick Van Dyke Show” theme. Happy 100th, DVD! www.npr.org/2010/10/23/1...

My new special Positive Reinforcement didn't make any prestigious end-of-year lists for me to post about, but I am really proud of it, and I think you'd like it if you haven't seen it yet! :)

@joshgondelman.bsky.social Nice dance moves tonight, eyepatch! 😄

I have a joke about the Trojan horse, but nobody gets the hidden meaning

Gehry designed the Stata Center — a building on MIT campus which, in his words, "looks like a party of drunken robots got together to celebrate." MIT Prof. Dimitri Bertsekas, an outstanding photographer, has a series of photos he took of the building on his website: web.mit.edu/dimitrib/www/MIT%..

RATGDO: Rage Against the Garage Door Opener Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/t...

This year, I endeavored to answer all prompts in @ivacheung.com's delightful annual November #LyricsPrompt challenge with a Tom Lehrer—authored or inspired song. bsky.app/hashtag/Lyri... RIP, Tom, and thank you for years of joy. youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs And thank you, Iva, for hosting again!

Slack chat with deceased coworkers

Google paywall AI summaries

Day 15: Evening #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025 Bruce Springsteen, "Dancing in the Dark" "I get up in the evening, And I ain't got nothing to say."

Day 15: Evening #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025 Paul Simon, "Late in the Evening" youtu.be/ilzvuie7Bks?...

@recdiffs.bsky.social @hotdogsladies.bsky.social, you are urgently needed on location!

@felixsalmon.com @emilypeck.bsky.social @espiers.bsky.social 🎈🎈🎈🎈! support.apple.com/en-us/105117

I've long had the benefit of Brett-as-a-friend service of one-on-one help solving my Mac conundrums. Now your team can have the benefit of his knowledge, inventiveness, and attention to detail — plus a customer-service and documentation partner. Hire bearandglass.co, make your life at work better!

which rooms #askingforafriend

RIP Susan Stamberg www.npr.org/2025/10/16/118488...

They changed the text on the web in a way that suggests that they are referring to Route 74, which is still confusing, since it looks to be nowhere near where the couple lives, and also seems to be a pretty minor road rather than a high-speed highway. Oh, well. The dogs are super cute.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

The concept of “winning” and “losing” at Monty Hall is often poorly defined…

I'll be there at 6pm with the Grammar Table! And Brandt and I are doing a Q&A after the movie.

Slightly downgrade a band The Doggie Doors

"Fresh Air" and its archives don't get called "a national treasure" often enough. Here, Terry Gross plays for Rob Reiner a 35-year-old clip of Carl — which Rob apparently hasn't heard before — talking to her about watching a rough cut of "When Harry Met Sally"…

Slightly diminish a book War and Truce

me, to the judge: “Well if THAT’s what they meant, they should have used punctuation.”

Sergei Eisenstein’s “Joker”

If you live near these places, go meet Gary — he is charming, and funny, and friendly, and very nice. And if you don’t live near them, you can travel to one and listen to the audiobook on the way. It’s a perfect length to make for a nice day trip.

FYI, authors, it’s going to take me longer to edit your 300-page AI-generated book than it did for you to “write” it using AI. #writing #writers #editing #proofreading #books #AI

Oh no the dreaded “you have been added to our editorial management system” email

it finally happened www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Living like a king (doting over my pet flea while hiding in plain sight in Tom Lehrer’s song about a plagiarizing mathematician).

Rhode Island grammar nerds, "Rebel with a Clause" is going to be at JPT in Newport this Tuesday, Aug. 12. The filmmaker and I will be there as well, and we will come bearing a nonmandatory grammar quiz.

I knew @joshgondelman.bsky.social was funny and nice, but seeing him do a live hour of new jokes, as well as running into him on the subway on the way over made me truly *cherish* just how funny and how nice!