: One of my most cherished beliefs is that Oktoberfest should take place in October
: Currently reading: Character Limit by Kate Conger š
: What is the Costco āchicken bakeā supposed toā¦be
: āThe purpose of a system is what it doesā āGuy who doesnāt know what āpurposeā means
: Want to read: On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice by Adam Kirsch š
: Want to read: Hope for Cynics by Jamil Zaki š
: Still have no idea which Vlog Brother is which
: Currently reading: Numbercrunch by Professor Oliver Johnson š
: Currently reading: Penance by Eliza Clark š
: I forget which Web 3.0 was āthe metaverseā but: lol, lmao
: The Oakland Wye implies the existence of the Oakland Ex and the Oakland Zee
: Currently reading: More, Please by Emma Specter š
: The LLM people get so mad when you (accurately) call it ānext-word predictionā
: Do polling place stickers in the UK say āIāve Votedā?
: Please stop saying āUSiansā on here thank you
: Whoever does indigoās PR deserves a raise: a color nobody thinks about ever yet we all just accept ā¦
: Everyone who credits Riverdale or Bridgerton with bringing colorblind casting into the public ā¦
: Still think āitās not about youā is the sickest burn you could possibly give someone when required
: Slack’s desktop app will really be like “there are 7 new messages. the channel can be ā¦
: If your anti-something-ism amounts to nothing more than hatred toward something-ists, you might just ā¦
: You just know those encampment people for whatever reason think the plural of āZionistā is spelled ā¦
: Iām bringing it back: Drumpf.
: Please stop, you are not on a first name basis with Kenji Lopez-Alt. (His first name is James.)
: Who called it tax fraud and not ESOPās fables?
: āEaster eggā outside of the U.S. suddenly referring to an egg made out of chocolate and not an ā¦
: Who called it aerosolized virus and not SARinā gas
: I canāt explain it but Google Meet has March 2020 energy
: Nobody: The New Yorker: suĆØde
: Iām not a Proxyman, Iām a proxy, man.
: Want to read: No Judgement by Lauren Oyler š
: As long as they insist on spelling āAussieā with a double S like that Iām gonna pronounce it with an ā¦
: Amanda Gorman is the last example I can remember of someone having a literal 15 minutes of fame
: what did y’all think “land back” meant? tepees? wigwams? hogans? losers. ā¦
: Want to read: The Riddles of the Sphinx by Anna Shechtman š
: Itās a shame that āGenocide Joeā just so happens to be alliterative, since the inevitable āGenocide ā¦
: Itās wild that āWesternā is a whole ass genre of movie and not likeā¦one period piece from 1949 that ā¦
: Itās not lost on me that liberals are the sole political cohort completely unfazed by Bidenās age in ā¦
: āMy name is Asher Levā ok andā¦???
: BABAYAGA seems like the ideal NYT Crossword entry. And yet
: [Insufferable Bo Burnham voice] š¶ How is the best case scenario Joe Biden š¶ Well he won an ā¦
: I think some more accurate Zoom copy would be like š š¬š¼šāšæš² šŗššš²š±. Imagine how embarrassing it would ā¦
: Currently reading: Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg š
: Pomelos are making some pretty big assumptions that I care enough to remove both the outer peel and ā¦
: Itās so funny that Ed Snowden became a Bitcoin guy lol
: Cannot think of a funnier monkeyās paw than people wishing for non-WebKit browsers on iOS and Apple ā¦
: When you say, āDonāt love a thing that doesnāt love you backā what youāre really saying is, āDonāt ā¦
: Itās a cold and very broken āBazingaā
: Were cars at that time just generally not fast and this guy happened to have one that was? Whatās ā¦
: You canāt even read the newspaper for free anymore. Because of Enshittification
: So did we ever figure out why Ludacris says it like āUrsherā in that song
: āIlliberalismā isnāt a thing. You made that up
: You donāt hear too much about the āprofessional managerial classā anymore
: Am I the only one who just has no interest in Arc or the Browser Company? The Web sucks; when I need ā¦
: An alternate universe identical to ours except Taylor Swift sings all her songs in the Southern ā¦
: Who called it parental leave and not pregnant pause
: JoJo Siwa is short for Joelle Joanie Sign in with Apple
: āHimalayan pinkā is probably my favorite culinary hapax legomenon (it can only apply to salt and ā¦
: Want to read: Come and Get It by Kiley Reid š
: The one orange peel theory I can get behind is that they should be as easy to peel as dekopons
: I think enough time has passed that we can all agree that Bottoms wasā¦not good
: Your regular reminder that user avatars are still supposed to be round rects
: Itās absolutely deranged that every social network (and now some apps) has its own entirely ā¦
: āFruit Stripeā sounds like a gum ChatGPT would invent
: Want to read: Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie š
: Extremely weird to think that Mayim Bialik ever hosted Jeopardy! The Liz Truss of game show hosts
: Every time I mount a DMG to install a new Mac app feels like chasing the high that would give me in ā¦
: Ok but if weāre talking about the ratio of his age to hers it should have been called April December
: Might switch to using Bazaar for version control in 2024
: āIs your heart half full or half empty?ā āPhilosophical millennial Instagram caption
: āIām prepared to suffer the consequencesā āGuy who will absolutely not suffer any consequences
: Bad news. The Try Guys are now down to just one Guy
: Want to read: Probably Overthinking It by Allen B. Downey š
: Bobsā Red Mill and Big Boy
: Did we ever figure out why itās pronounced like āTa-Nehasi Coatesā?
: Does anyone know if Anthony Bourdain had anything to say about Henry Kissinger? Anyone at all?
: Oh, For Fuckās Sake Superstar #IntensifyAMusical
: Want to read: Determined by Robert M. Sapolsky š
: Want to read: Breaking Twitter by Ben Mezrich š
: Hey its Godot. Iām not gonna make it tonite sry š
: Want to read: The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa S. Kearney š
: As soon as I saw the Bored Apes I just knew someone was going to go to prison over this
: RIP George Orwell you would have loved the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
: Northeasterners have their own version of Midwesterners saying ābagelā the way they say āhaggle,ā ā¦
: Currently reading: Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis š
: Iām gonna need everyone to stop coming across as ābasicā when using or talking about ChatGPT
: Has there ever been a worse āclarificationā than āfree as in speech, not free as in beerā?
: Italian-American dishes love being āalla Normaā
: TIL sludge, slush, and slosh are just related onomatopoeias
: Itās super weird that when 9/11 happened we couldnāt text our parents about it and instead one of ā¦
: Did they ever figure out if tech will save us or if tech wonāt save us?
: āChatGBTā is the new ālabtopā
: Seeing what Oppenheimer actually looked like in real life for the first time THIS is the guy that ā¦
: Jai alaiā¦ā¦not so much anymore
: The first time someone in the UK used the āAre you OK?ā line on me I checked to see if I was ā¦
: āSystem under testā is a term that only a QA engineer could have come up with. So dramatic. Itās ā¦
: Biscoff is short for biscuit with coffee
: Cryptocurrency ended up not really being a thing
: Gen X loves making up words like āenshittificationā and expecting everyone to go along with it
: Is there a word besides British English ātoiletā that also refers to the things inside it? Maybe ā¦
: The best part of Downton Abbey is when they’re like, āThereās this new menās fashion sweeping ā¦
: The way non-Jews pronounce āIsraelā (with three syllables somehow) is absolutely deranged. Do you ā¦
: Get outta here with āpre-boardingā a flightā¦weāre about to do the exact same thing in like ten ā¦
: Brigham and Womenās Hospital? In this economy?
: āOn the phoneā and āon their phoneā have two entirely different meanings
: In 2014 you couldnāt spend 10 minutes online without seeing a thinkpiece called āSF I love you but ā¦
: Calling Barack Obama a āwar criminalā is like the most hack zero-information college dorm room ā¦
: Remember when people thought COVID would permanently kill off, like, buffets and handshakes
: It will never stop being funny to me that there are millions of people online convinced they are ā¦
: Who called it Chick-Fil-A and not Xtian Famous Foods
: I never got the whole āairline seats are so uncomfortable nowā meme. It’sā¦a seat? Do you ā¦
: [looking at grocery list] OK, waters cress and melon, got it
: I’ll go on the record that āpeople pleasingā is the āgaslightingā of 2023 onward in terms of ā¦
: My all-time favorite negative polarity item has got to be āspring chickenā
: Whenever I see a British person say something like āHaving a cheeky beer at the pub xā I translate ā¦
: Itās so weird that we ever called it ācoronavirusā
: British infomercials from the 1960s were like āAct now! Just Ā£5/19/11Ā¾!ā
: Matthew Yglesias: Getting intellectually invested in public housing solves the very niche problem ā¦
: Life pro tip: you signed yourself up for that email list and you can take yourself off.
: All the FRP people had to say back in 2012 was āhot signals are like TV channels, cold signals are ā¦
: If the neighborhood were in England it would be called DuMBO
: Your regular reminder that āeating the richā is not like, a cool edgy way to talk about killing ā¦
: Are Goobers the only candy that use a Bantu loanword as their name?
: Never understand why elementary school geography textbooks would show D.C. as a circle when itās ā¦
: Square kiosks are natureās way of telling you that if youāre using a Square kiosk you really have no ā¦
: āJust causeā is my favorite contronym.
: They canāt ever make small steamer trunks without lids because āsteamer basketā is already taken
: Ice cream trucks are the only food trucks that are allowed to a) drive around and b) play a little ā¦
: Singer-songwriters love going on tour for their new album and playing the songs from it in the most ā¦
: Iāve been crossposting everything to Peach and Ello (and now here) this whole timeā¦anyone else?
: Finally looking up what ācraicā means like two months after watching Godās Creatures
: Billy Penn: New bike lanes slated for Market Street in Old City will be Phillyās first with a ā¦
: Does Australian English have the merelyāmealy merger?
: Thereās this weird tic in the current online discourse where every journalistic profile of a ā¦
: Oh youāre from California? Name everything every chemical is known to the State of California to ā¦
: Todayās non-constituent title
: Tfw you realize you havenāt checked Wikipediaās list of unusual deaths in months and thereās bound ā¦
: You can just get a bag of dekopons at the store now for like $4. What a time to be alive.
: Taylor Jones: Why are there so many spellings of Chanukah, and which one is right?
: Oliver Johnson on Long COVID and Russian Roulette: I think some people have maybe got the wrong ā¦
: Whatās the longest animal name you can play H-O-R-S-E with? Adam Aaronson: Thereās nothing special about horses. You could just as easily play Z-E-B-R-A or ā¦