Grammarian and Errorist are at it again! 🖊️

Not many career paths lead to being friends with the dictionary, but I’m happy to find myself in one. Thanks for the early copy of the Twelfth Edition, @merriam-webster.com! Narrative is a bit disjointed and it’s kind of a slow burn, but by the Qs I couldn’t put it down. Five stars.

I never feel more saintly than when I put a pristine copy of a desirable book in someone’s little library box.

Nerdy items for your consideration (grammar, fonts, oh my) store.dftba.com/collections/...

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

Hey Instagram, maybe give @britannica.com their checkmark. I’ve heard the references look out for their own and you don’t want to find yourself in verbal fisticuffs with @merriam-webster.com

Well that was cathartic. #NoKings

No, in this country we don’t tolerate senators being forced to the ground and cuffed for asking questions. We don’t tolerate masked agents rounding people up on the streets and disappearing them in unmarked vans. And we sure as hell don’t tolerate

Our van broke down in Roswell so naturally we wrote a song about the 1947 UFO incident while we were stranded there. Now our song is featured in the latest episode of the Via Podcast. It’s a fun trip through UFO lore and bizarre desert mysteries. Tune in here: mwg.aaa.com/via/podcast/...

Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social

My science fiction book club Discord is alliiivvee 🧟‍♂️ Come say hi.

I’m launching a sci-fi book club!

The trouble with receiving a notebook so perfect and special is that I will never have thoughts good enough to write in it

This was absolutely fascinating @acollierastro.bsky.social

Now would be the perfect time for a massive new open world game to take over my life. Give me a backpack with upgradable tools and set me loose upon a world of someone else’s making, please.

I wish my brain would consult me before deleting files. The difference between stalagmites and stalactites? Fine. How to use a Punnett square? If you must. But NOT my current hotel room number, brain.

Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community. Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.

Every time I read about banning books, I think of this: Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius. If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.

I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired. History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them. Signed, a physicist

“Giddy up jingle horse” is actually such an insulting thing to say to a reindeer

Getting winded from chasing the kind people into all the microblogging warrens of the internet. But the skies do seem curiously blue here.