You guys, I liked having regulatory agencies and a functional government
kevin b mcgowan
@kbmcgowan.bsky.social
phonetician, linguist, associate professor, musician, gen x nerd, he/him
not only are we stuck dealing with the same old bullshit, we're now dealing with that bullshit in a world without glen hansard
Carville is not yesterday's man, he's the last millennium's man, and he should be the first but not the last of the centrist talking heads to get the gate. They've done a lot of damage, and they should be resolutely ignored.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2w ago81-year-old demands political party accomodate him and him alone. www.mediaite.com/media/news/j...
alas, to a cat, the bin of future cat litter and the pans of current cat litter are not distinguishable in the moment of need
just to be clear, if you try to add me to a Microsoft Team and I say, “oh, no, I couldn’t possibly! no, thank you” I am _not_ initiating the thing where I pretend to say ‘no’ but eventually drink the tea, eat the biscuit, or enjoy the meal.
on one walk to work this morning I watched two separate drivers blithely, intentionally drive the wrong way on two separate one way streets. on the bright side, this seems to be the one time people observe the posted speed limits.
I sometimes hate that you can't say, "actually, we linguists don't correct people."
we used to, not all that long ago, have this vast information resource of which one could ask questions like “can my pitcher filter cyclospora cayetanensis?” and be reasonably assured that the answer was at least directly related to the question.
one of my kentucky senators is a girl who lives in canada; you wouldn't know her, but she's very real and very alive
Netflix currently approaching Platner to see if he’d like a special
I feel like the name TransUnion should have been reserved for a MUCH more interesting and less evil organization of human beings.
the sheer number and variety of ads i've been shown for this new simulacrum of ground beef suggests to me that it must taste like sawdust and regret.
the only thing I know for certain about the author of connections is that she has cot/caught merger causing us to routinely disagree about homophones
we named this cat Salainn (Irish, “salty”) before we knew of his obsession with licking sweaty humans. Nominative determinism?
someone comes and knocks on our door every weekday morning and it’s almost too bad there’s no way we’ll ever find out what they want.
woke up to my cat vigorously sniffing my nose and the whole day is going to be a little bit sideways
Almost 200yrs ago, the French novelist Honoré de Balzac wrote these words: ""Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oubli parce qu’il a été proprement fait.” "The secret behind great fortunes without an apparent cause is a crime, forgotten because it was well-executed."
WuTangIsForTheChildren@wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 2mo agoCongratulations to Elon on becoming the world’s first trillionaire from London 🔥
unknown dogs get ‘tu’ but unknown cats are always ‘usted’, even in languages that don’t make the distinction.
When they said “demographic cliff” I guess I thought they meant we’d run out of people not “we’d run out of people who arrive able to read"
I have 1916 unread messages in my inbox and I feel so patriotic. Might go write a proclamation and occupy the post office.
to my cats, I am the annoying coworker who keeps greeting you all day long like it’s been weeks since we’ve spoken.
considering interrupting the lecture the 13yo is currently giving the living room on pokémon to tell him everything I know about aquarium filtration in considerable detail
maintaining a native garden is mainly hunting, gathering up, and detaining foreigners and it's *uncomfortable* how much i enjoy it
if i don't open your email or text, you didn't send it. that's just math
I know parents who are thrilled when their kids grow up and move away. I KNOW these parents, but I will never understand them.
All of the white republicans who claim not to be racist and live in freshly gerrymandered districts could do the funniest thing right now
the gardening/seed planting internet has convinced me that plants cannot/do not occur in the wild. huge if true.