One of the coolest stripes I've seen on a cat

read old books

But I am just a plain simple menswear guy

when they go mean we go green

today i am old enough to run for president

The frogs were introduced to Portland to protest ICE and keep down the cane beetle population, but once they start multiplying they're hard to get rid of. Don't lick them; you could get high.

Sorry, but the Frankenstein monster is not scary. I’m not gonna pee my pants for a zombie that doesn’t bite and loves philosophy. That guy sounds like a good hang.

Are we allowed to tip the TSA agents?

Shibboleth

From Jewish Self-Government in the Middle Ages, I don’t understand what it means

From Jewish Self-Government in the Middle Ages, I don’t understand what it means

Shibboleth

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur. from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

so many angry people in the replies to block

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

it’s so important, now more than ever, that we remember: there’s a cowboy with a big knife in Dracula, because Dracula takes place in cowboy times.

Actual footage of the outcome of the Christian Zionist attempt to jumpstart the apocalypse. Maybe screen for anemia next time.

‘Crusader’ among Jews with cultural awareness is said with about as much love as ‘the Black Death’

If you see this post, a random photo (or meme) from your photo gallery without explaining it.

Who’s the worst Kennedy?

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.

two mad posters fighting in the quote tweets

Portland never stops being Portland.

Sometimes I wish I had a real and large following so I could ask random stuff like "is there anyone who's a native speaker of a mongolic language, fluent in english, and also a linguist I can ask a bunch of random questions" and have a real chance of getting a yes lol

“𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵𝘀 (סֻכּוֹת) 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺; 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝗵𝘂𝗮 𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝘂𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗼.” (Neh 8:17) I was recently in an email debate with a well-known Israeli rabbi (whom I won’t name). 🧵1/5

my cat sleeps on his back

People often ask—why does Sukkot involve getting an etrog? And the answer is found in the Talmud—it’s to chuck at the High Priest’s head if he’s a Sadducee.

At long last, we have created the shadows from Plato's classic allegory of The Cave

huge notice that pops up if you try to edit the cat article

the Church of England has gone woke

GUY WHO JUST CAME BACK FROM DOING THE JABBA'S PALACE COMEDY FESTIVAL: You know, I gotta say they're really great in there, they're just like us. I thought it was only gonna be women in chains and a trapdoor monster they feed slaves to but like, they also have a band that plays cool music.

gut yor

klein and coates seem to agree with each more than the people reacting to them made me believe

spilled wine all over my bedsheet thank you very much

me: i want to sleep in a human-sized hotdog bun 911: sir that's.....ok actually that sounds great me: so who do we call 911: [shouting in background] we're checking now

DHS appears to suggest that it will deny citizenship to "globalists"

I don't think the leopards have ever eaten faces quite so blatantly as this.

The problem I have with Jonah is that I, too, find it annoying when the person I'm yelling at actually listens and modifies their behavior. Rude af

I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email

yom kipoor or yom kipper?

5 days after c-section!

Paris, France, the 90 minutes I spent in the airport was very stressful

As an Illinoisan, I am especially prickly about this. Sure, like half our governors this century have ended up in jail, but also, they _did_ end up in jail.

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

i’m abandoning my cat (going on vacation for two weeks)