Kevin Wardrop

@kevinwardrop.nitemayr.com

Can we, just for a moment, briefly enjoy the poor choice of words of placing a number, next to the word incalculable, rather than a florid "a loss beyond mere numbers" or "felt in larger measures"

Jacob Dickinson

@jjldickinson.bsky.social

In the form and disposition of his ten books of epistles, [Symmachus] imitated the younger Pliny; whose rich and florid style he was supposed, by his friends, to equal or excel.

Peter Sagal

@petersagal.bsky.social

Loyal readers may remember that last month, President Trump filed a defamation lawsuit against the NYT so magnificently florid and prolix, and so lacking in actual claims, that a judge told the lawyers to go home and do it again but this time, you know, according to the law n’ stuff. They have!