A thought inspired by @belovedofoizys.bsky.social 's podcast

Those nerds went with "diabetes mellitus" when "sugar beetus" was right there

I do actually want to know why I keep hearing people pronounce the letter "t" in such contexts as the first one in "important" like a "d" instead of a glottal stop like I do.

Handel's, the ice cream chain, should obviously release a grape ice cream with cracker pieces in it. Call it "Messiah".

2 things: 1. Most locations in Homer's Odyssey are outside of Greece, and many aren't real places at all! 2. Kevin Sorbo, have you SEEN your OWN Hercules show?!

Love it when an electric car motor sounds like an eerie alien choir

Just saw an ep of Justice League Unlimited where a US general (played by JK Simmons) tried to nuke an island with a Spanish name, claiming that the collateral damage was worth it because of drug trafficking. Guy would make Sec Def in today's admin.

*about to 3d print something* "Nozzle Tweezer would make a good name for a Star Wars character."

Nobody who uses LLMs is allowed to give me shit for teaching a dead language any more, because the automation of writing is as clear a death of language as anything.

happy Piccolo Day

You can gain a power level of 9000 Vegeta has a low opinion of Earthling potential.

This is in fact what my hand looks like on the fretboard of my 5-string bass when I play Killing in the Name

In memoriam youtu.be/uVzLzClY2E8?...

Put on a green hat with my purple shirt today and I think that's what people mean when they say they're going to become the Joker.

me, a linguist, listening to 2-month-old episodes of Knowledge Fight: "I think Alex Jones has mullah-moolah merger"

Would the crude be cheaper if it were unbrent? Like, could I brend it myself?

Save him for the Prado gala in Madrid, which is where he lives! (I have no idea if there's a Prado gala, I just like mentioning that I saw him there over spring break)

The ghost of Umberto Eco, screaming: "ALL THE NAZI OR FASCIST SCHOOLBOOKS MADE USE OF AN IMPOVERISHED VOCABULARY, AND AN ELEMENTARY SYNTAX, IN ORDER TO LIMIT THE INSTRUMENTS FOR COMPLEX AND CRITICAL REASONING!"

Rockin' out to RATM's "Killing in the Name" and singin' "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" while mowin' my lawn in the rain to avoid gettin' fined by my local government

Every 5/4, people like me celebrate the brave heroes who stood up to an empire and were cut down by its military. And I'm not just a Kent State alumnus, I also like Star Wars, so there's a second thing to think about today too.

Combination mediation service and smash burger joint called "Squash That Beef"

Just saw a promo on my YouTube app for "Listen in the background with Premium!" and the example they were showing me had a thumbnail with text in a language I don't know with a little "auto-dubbed" tag. Oh boy lemme pay money to listen to your fuckaas robot voice and not look at the video.

Unnecessary "reply all"s are the "bomber full of bullet holes diagram" of your coworkers' email skills

it’s simple. Dems need to 1. prepare retaliatory gerrymanders in every blue state now that the VRA has been overturned 2. pack the court (and prosecute Thomas/alito) in 2029 I will only even *consider* primary candidates who support both of the above going forward

Another Aragorn fact: Bob Anderson was the sword master for the LotR films, and he was also in the Darth Vader suit for the duels in episodes V and VI, meaning Aragorn learned how to swordfight from Darth Vader (from a certain point of view).

If only there were a widely-read series of epic poems describing a protracted war over the land that controlled a strategic waterway 3000 years ago that we could use as a cautionary tale

Gandalf: Oh yeah the palantir totally made Denethor go bonkers, leading many good people to die needlessly Peter Thiel: Interesting...

It is a grave insult to make a typo in a search bar and when I'm reaching for the backspace I hit enter instead so that the search thinks I'm a dummy

Tests like the Kobayashi Maru mean that, in essence, Starfleet Academy evaluates cadets by playing space D&D with a really sadistic GM.

I picked the right time to have an NPC in my D&D game who is basically just fantasy Alex Jones (with the voice and everything) (he is a frog person)

What the world really needs is the "self-destructing short video" company to also be a "glasses that can secretly record people" company

The most annoying thing about being both diabetic and a bass player is that my fingersticks are in an arms race against my fretting and plucking calluses.

Werner Herzog:

If the Italian word for "tomato" ("pomodoro") means "apple of gold" this suggests that the golden apples of mythology were tomatoes. Garden of the Hesperides? In Mesoamerica! The "to the fairest" fruit lobbed by Eris? A tomato!

the ancient roman mind would have melted trying to comprehend the name charli xcx

In the phrase "hoisted by my own petard", the petard refers literally to an explosive device, but tracing its etymology only a few steps back shows that it kind of means "fart". Do with this information what you will.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

In ancient times the Romans brought public restrooms to Paris, a technology that has been lost to Parisians for centuries and will likely never be recovered despite half-hearted attempts.

To be free of debt is to be free of social connection, which is tantamount to oblivion.

As a Latinist and an etymology guy, my professional opinion is that the spelling "Utahn" was a mistake. Spell it "Utahan" and pronounce it the same.

Peter Jackson:

In the new Daredevil show, one of Kingpin's ersatz ICE guys looks like a grown-up Ben Shapiro and I bet that was a factor in his casting

Giulio Douhet rolling in his grave again (whose name I only know because of @iwriteok.bsky.social en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_...

I've seen enough about this Afroman case. My next D&D character is going to be a bard seeking revenge on some guards by going from town to town and singing songs about them.

Some of my students in a study hall period were chatting about this so I booted up Kerbal Space Program on the big screen and showed them what a moon mission looked like live.

I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

If I had a nickel for every ventriloquist-dummy-themed villain in DC comics...