tranna karenina

@einegeniesserin.bsky.social

dyspeptic

Hwaet

@cog1.bsky.social

I am noting a thing that seems to be endemic to Reform, which is that ‘being a veteran’ somehow makes one eminently suitable for public office, and always morally right, whatever the circs.

This is imported fetishisation of the armed forces from the US and feels deeply uncomfortable to me.

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría

@brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social

I have pathological :q typing to exit anywhere I write in my computer. Damm vim...

The Confidence-Man

@fidele-log.bsky.social

The other made no demur; pen, ink, and paper were provided, and grave as any notary the cosmopolitan sat down, but, ere taking the pen, glanced up at the notification, and said: "First down with that sign, barber—Timon's sign, there; down with it."

Sue Merrill

@sydpep.bsky.social

Criticizing someone for a speech idiosyncrasy is unkind and petty. I ignored the Valley Girl "like" and even Chuck Todd's "Look" at the start of each inane sentence. I squirm silently hearing "At the end of the say." But must every guest on a news show begin all responses/comments with "I mean"?

Mysterious Times Magazine

@mysterioustimesmag.bsky.social

The Vampire of Berwick – Britain’s Medieval Walking Dead.

Long before Dracula gave Britain its elegant, aristocratic vampire, our dead were considerably less sophisticated. They got out of the grave, lumbered around frightening the neighbours, spread disease and occasionally required somebody to…

maki

@makimaki0.bsky.social

also fascinating is how my for you page slowly went from being full of nice fanart and innocuous fandom posts to wall-to-wall psychotic discourseposting, ragebait, and qrts dunking on bad-faith bs that’s better off ignored in the span of about a month #noticing

Adam Coffman

@adamcoffman.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

A #HistoryOfMath moment, for no particular reason... My usually taciturn PhD advisor once related an anecdote about his experience as a Chern student (so, 1970s) - he said Chern was of the opinion that there were infinitely many complex structures on \\(S^6\\) - but that they were just hard to find.

Reg Schofield

@rws63.bsky.social

There is no question Dolly Parton loved Jesus but the way she loved , showed respect , grace , support and gave from a heart kindled with an overwhelming sense of kindness to everyone,she lived her faith out . What an amazing lady.She will be deeply missed and now she can sing with the angels🙏

Tae_jeon

@taejeon10.coys.social

When she worked there, she befriended a forensic auditor. He was exactly how you would imagine one to be: meticulous, rigid, neat — with a touch of OCD.

One of the things she learnt from him was that transactions & payment for petty crimes generally happened in the window of 1 mnth before & after.