My Uber driver tells me he fondly remembers his class with @profchander.bsky.social in 2011.
Jack Lynch
@jacklynch000.bsky.social
Extinguished Perfesser of English at Ruckers–Nork; mooseophile; wine guzzler; author of many books, a few of them readable; harmless eccentric. C18 BritLit, dictionaries, book history, fakery, life-writing, political smartassery. https://jacklynch.net
How am I supposed to acquire superpowers if the dental hygienist insists on the lead shield during X-rays?!?!?!
![élan
noun lay-LAHN
energy and enthusiasm
m-w.com/word-of-the-day
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for August 4, 2026 is:
élan X \ay-LAHN| x noun
Élan refers to energy and enthusiasm.
// The dancers performed with great style and
élan; we were exhausted just watching them.
See the entry >
Examples:
"Carrying the production with the élan of a cheerful college quarterback, [Luke] Brady is an immediately likable leading man..." —](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qs4jbeuzlaqcurfdqdl643tg/bafkreifuuck7is6oofzuqug6xenrifc5enat3dmngbszzbo7fcrohumlfi)
“We’ll see significant train service reductions for Amtrak and NJ Transit on the order of a 62% reduction.”
nj.com
I think you mean "an assessment by FORMER National Park Service staff."
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
theonion.com
And I'm proud to be an American Where at least I know I'm free And I won't forget the men who died Who gave that right to me And I gladly stand up next to you And defend her still today 'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land God Bless the USA
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
theguardian.com
Fear not! You've got more than six weeks to place your order before my birthday!
Who among us hasn't made the occasional $8 billion donation while at the gas station convenience store?
Circle K AI self-checkout user claims machine ‘hallucinated’ an $8.5B donation to Red Cross
“I just wanted a hot dog,” the incensed shopper declared.
nypost.com
I do not think I know pirates. When I want to know about pirates, I ask the learned @nushpowell.bsky.social, as any reasonable person should.
Enoch Powell, thou shouldst be living at this hour. (No thou shouldstn't.)
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · last wk.Morning.
I have so many questions about the previous night.
Samuel Pepys@samuelpepys.bsky.social · last wk.Going to Sir William Batten (having no stomach to dine at home, it being yet hardly clean of last night’s turds) and there I dined with my Lady and her daughter and son Castle, and mighty kind she is and I kind to her.
Have you swallowed something toxic and urgently need to induce vomiting? This should do the trick.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Hannity: "My President, Lindsey probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. It may even be a little bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property. Because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. You."
Hot take: the Odyssey needs a prequel where we get the story of the war, the people who fought in it, their passions and rivalries, and their shields.
It's royalty statement day! Let's see ... £224.59 for 180 days' sales is almost £1.25 a day! Or, assuming a forty-hour work week, a princely 21.6p an hour! Drinks are on me, everybody!
![Tweet from atrophy wife 🎀 (@zuza_real):
Y'all still follow Jonathan Swift? The man who literally supports eating babies?
(some time later)
Obviously the whole time I knew he was joking but it's still not okay. Here's why [1/20]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w4mumltio4x5yohskj2mo64c/bafkreicdipjn4fyrvxkv75lf2mnfnj7p55ofbo7y36ghxj5zqe6ruml77a)
Not just Apple. Word spellcheck has just informed me I should alter 'denouement' to 'denousement'. Which sounds like an old school Brooklyn gangster: Did youse guys get to the denousement yet?
staring at the yiddish phrase "vhol vhit toust" (װהאל װהיט טאוסט) for way too long until i saw the word for butter shortly after and realized it was just "whole wheat toast"
At the grocery store, a single cantaloupe rang up at $169. Look, I'd expect that at a Whole Foods, but....
Either Dear Leader is juking the stats, or the zombie apocalypse has begun.
I want to hear what John Barron thinks about this shocking dishonesty!
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago
Apropos of the *Odyssey* conversations, I haven't seen anyone mention the great African American classisict Frank M. Snowden, Jr. (AB, PhD Harvard, taught for most of his career at Howard), who wrote 2 foundational books about Black people in antiquity.
Hurrah! The air is finally"acceptable"! I no longer have to reject air!
