ACES-certified editor, fetish writer, studying #OldNorse, used to be into #DPRK. 두만강 No war but the class war.
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Seriously, you're about to screw yourself over with #Substack. Transfer to @buttondown.com @ghost.org @beehiiv.com or even freakin' @wordpress.org while it's still an option. If you're unconcerned about white nationalists, at least have some sympathy for your business model.
Substack wants — even more than its general friendliness to Nazi accounts — to lock you into its ecosystem. The longer you linger, the harder they are going to make it for you to leave and take your mailing lists/payment relationships with you. They’re actively fucking with your money
Warning: Low-Entropy Day
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Seriously, you're about to screw yourself over with #Substack. Transfer to @buttondown.com @ghost.org @beehiiv.com or even freakin' @wordpress.org while it's still an option. If you're unconcerned about white nationalists, at least have some sympathy for your business model.
#OtD 30 Aug 1979 screen icon and Black Panther supporter Jean Seberg killed herself following harassment by the FBI which resulted in the death of her premature baby exactly nine years prior. Learn more: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1026...
Went out to get a new license plate mount for the stupid plastic grill on my car (got new plates with one of my medals, 'cos I can). Everywhere, blue/green ribbons are tied to trees, signs, lights. There must've been a service. Sidewalks were full of parents holding sobbing children. #GunControl
"Holmes, permit me to introduce your new physician, Dr. Watthey." "Indeed? I'm unfamiliar with such a lineage." "Well, I was born Watson, then to reject the patriarchal structure I was Watperson. But there's a 'son' in that too. I think I got up to Watperperperperperson before the penny dropped."
Work asks me to do some things I'd rather not, like create a Facebook account or get certified in AI for business. But I think getting mad at someone for what work's making them do is like hating someone because of the government they find themselves under.
Day three of end-o'-summer cold. Took a magnesium bath before bed, sweated it out under a wool blanket. That always helps. Currently plundering our tea collection, expect to deadline at least two boxes of remnants. Wanted to shock my metabolism with hot/cold shower, but someone was doing laundry.
And the evilest, cruelest, least human among us can advise us to pray.
Yesterday's sinus infection has blossomed into today's full-body debilitation. I rarely get colds, and (so) when I do, they are devastating.
This just in from the Temple of Mammon …
"It's better to be thought a moron than to burst into someone's online thread, form a snap judgment rather than read all the words due to curiosity calcified by self-righteousness, be gleefully wrong at the top of one's lungs to strangers all around the world and remove all doubt." – WC Fields
Four shootings in my city in under 20 hours, one a short walk from my apartment, one across the street from where my wife works. Today's editing project is a conference program on all the ways we're destroying our lakes, wildlife, and drinking water for profit. It's a beautiful world … for you.
The Toxic Avenger is clearing medical debt as marketing for the movie.
Of course the cautionary tale for digital decay would be… Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce’s romance. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... The internet forgets, but the Wayback Machine remembers ➡️ web.archive.org/web/20231129... #Wayback1T #WaybackMachine
Not the biggest point, but "carat" is for diamonds. For gold, it's spelled "karat." (Also: "Blue Ivy and others"? Really?)
"How he got into my encrypted files, I'll never know."
I've been thinking about shopping around for some kind of Spandex hood with abstract patterns to defy facial-detection tech at large. I wonder how far an N95 mask goes toward that end.
Tried to create a Facebook account for work. Discovered the setup process requires a video selfie. Why the fuck would anyone agree to this? Why would anyone willingly provide their biometrics to a known corrupt and unsecure system?
Had a great time at the State Fair yesterday. Long day of it: showed up around 1 pm, didn't leave until we saw Los Lobos play at 8:30 pm. Thank gods for the motorcycle parking: cheaper, plentiful, easier to get to (and out of). The soft-serve beer was everything that was promised, and more.
e.g., Sept–Dec 2001: Enter the Eagles Skyline Cruiser Green Snake Mortal Combat: Crippled Avengers Red and Black Blood: the Last Vampire Perfect Blue Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust My School Mate, the barbarian Bio-Cops One by One The Mad Killer Bullet in the Head Once a Thief #HongKongCinema #Anime
Just discovered my old Kung-Fu Grilling journals! This was a long-running event where friends came over with food for the grill, then we'd see Hong Kong movies through Asian Media Access at midnight. This means I have a record of all the movies we watched, and I've wanted to know what those were.
Rebecca wanted me to demonstrate how I breathe a dying fire into life. Strangely, Bluesky mirror-reversed the video for no reason I can understand.
#Camping for three days, and you know that means lots of cooking in a cast iron skillet over a wood fire.
Anyone done a study on the crossover between getting high and misogyny?
FRAUD ALERT: I have nothing to do with these phony books using my name on the cover. I have not written a memoir or partnered/inspired any cookbooks! Attempts to get Amazon to take these down have gone nowhere.
If you have a story about using the Wayback Machine, the @archive.org wants to hear from you docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sounds good to me. I think it keeps things clear.
There's no noun form (e.g., "organizing a move-in") or adjectival (e.g., "setting a move-in date")? The latter is probably covered by the adjectival phrase.
Actually, they had another instructor discussing Old Norse myths, and he had to drop out, so the program manager suggested to me this audience would be interested in something else in that sphere. I just have to disclose that I'm going to be prejudiced in favor of the giantesses, not the gods.
No other event or condition has had me aggressively wondering how long mayoral terms are and what it takes to boot someone. Frey onboarded with so much promise and has only been a boot-licking toady and betrayer of the community. He'll have to move out of state when he leaves office.
I picked up the word "dryasdust" from a word-a-day desk calendar. My editing professor had never heard of it and disliked my use of it. I'll grant that it's old, peaked in 1895, but it's not unheard-of and I still like it. #vocabulary
I do tech and email support for our university-based lifelong learning community. Their program manager has been urging me to teach a course, so this winter I'll present on the origins of Scandinavian giantesses and their subsequent roles in Old Norse mythology.
I do tech and email support for our university-based lifelong learning community. Their program manager has been urging me to teach a course, so this winter I'll present on the origins of Scandinavian giantesses and their subsequent roles in Old Norse mythology.
I guess it's a popular question.
A student asked me this when I volunteered at our community college library. The books were present. The student didn't look around, just beelined to the desk with their question. I pointed to all the books.
Poetry reader Johannah Simon would like to read more prose poems that deal with longing & desire in a fresh and unexpected way. Submit here: buff.ly/3OYTRme
Texas Republicans are holding a Black woman, a Democratic state rep, hostage in the legislative chamber. They have locked the doors and have banned her from leaving.
Hey! @junecasagrande.bsky.social quoted me in her LA Times piece about the "ChatGPT hyphen" — in other words, the marvelous em dash. :)
Looked around for something new (to me), found #HippoPockets. Scooted out, picked up the fish pocket and the "OG" which comes off kinda like taco but without the cumin. Very delicious, reasonably priced, glad to find a new place to like. #Minneapolis
And apparently the D in Dürer is aspirated or open or something.
Yesterday at @artsmia.bsky.social I learned that toilette (and toilet) comes from toile. #etymology #vocabulary
I tried to play with that, but I think when I blocked that, I also blocked anyone from reposting me. Either the controls were unwieldy or I did it wrong.
Oh, I'm playing through Netflix on my computer. I mean, I can do it on my phone, but I like the larger screen.
Just realized: it is impossible for me to see nothing but words in my Bluesky timeline. Most people are either reposting news articles or sharing photos, at a 4:1 ratio. No matter how I scroll, there is never just a column of text.
"This is the third time you've gummed up and shorted out the panini press. You try to slip one more thick, cheesy panini past me, I'll give you a thick, cheesy discharge from our entire southwestern franchise."
If you're wondering [something you have never, ever, ever had any cause or desire to wonder about], then let me [vent my recent fixation like I'm a fucking expert].
“On which instance this week are you arriving late?” “Which number of lateness is this for you this week?” “Which late arrival is this for you this week?” “Counting your tardies this week, which one is this?” Not elegant, not organic, but not impossible.
I'm very much enjoying Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit. It's a slow-paced game with lovely music. You help ghosts reconcile with heavy unresolved issues, and then fish, forage, collect crawly things and skip rocks at clams. You make food and furniture, you raise pets. It's creepy and cute and calming.
Toxic masculinity is a celebration of insecurity. It looks ridiculous, like this and cars with angry eyebrows over the headlights. It also looks like spousal abuse and psychological implosion because you're too scared to admit what you're feeling.
Slightly diminish a band: Sammy Beetle Bailey
Slightly diminish a band: The Chest-Cold Kennedys
US English: Maneuvering UK English: Manoeuvring I knew about that unexpected (to an American) O in the UK version, but it wasn't until I took a closer look today that I realized the UK version does not have an E between the V and the R.
They even said please....
About as Good as Ezra They Might Be of Average Height Distraction! at the Disco Severaldeth 7½ Cent
Acquaintance raised a conversational point: Which '80s videos (not the songs, but the visual production) from the dawn of MTV had the greatest influence on you? So I created a top ten playlist (plus extra songs that were very important and the videos don't factor). #80sMusic #1980s
Currently enjoying BBC4's "I Literally Just Told You." Competing modifiers: "I told you," "I just told you," "I literally told you" are all fine. "I just literally told you" is understandable but sounds clunky, ill-fitting, like "tiny little X" (correct) vs. "little tiny X" (no editor). #AmEditing
Ridin' the clutch and grindin' the gears.
Currently reading 'Unnatural Death' by Dorothy L. Sayers and it is lightly strewn with fantastic words and usage. Also notable is the coded lesbian representation, just a quiet "we exist" to the reader. I'm trusting the racist tropes were a subtle indictment of the British mindset of the era.
I enjoyed it, though even at the time I knew it was super-hokey. It's rather cutesy, tongue-in-cheek, the synthesized score disappointed me, but the performances kept me going. It is eminently quotable. I had read the book prior but don't think that influenced me. It's just candy.
"Your package has been shipped" just means an intern has paired your purchase in an unlikely yet spicy relationship with another purchase, the culmination of many seasons of tension.
#AmEditing
I like playing these little game apps on my phone (even though they're all just Chinese data-miners), but once in a while I reach an "accomplishment," like "Congrats on 10,000 merges!" and I'm like, what the fuck am I doing with my life.
New Sunday Times profile in which I succeed, like a fencer in a 2hr marathon match, in fending off Qs abt my personal life & consistently turning focus back to my work & ideas. (Contra the interviewer's claim, many ppl do know me! They're called friends, & you know who you are ❤️) archive.is/BtZD0
Stuck in the mire of "you don't have any debt? That's gonna hurt your credit score" vs. "excellent, you're still paying into college loans, feeding the machine? Let's bump up your credit score a few notches." To my mind, if you owe nothing, that's good money management and shouldn't be punished.
Sunday nights I take care of Mom: errands, meds, socialization. I've been depressed, so to lift my spirits I suggested grilling burgers for us, which she usually loves. But she had something "better," the sweet onion teriyaki 6" sub at Subway. So. Yeah. We split one of those miserable things.
Rhode Island grammar nerds, "Rebel with a Clause" is going to be at JPT in Newport this Tuesday, Aug. 12. The filmmaker and I will be there as well, and we will come bearing a nonmandatory grammar quiz.
You're just clearing the path for him to hang himself on his own merit. Making sure he doesn't use a slip knot.
Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.
Move over, Soup Nazi: here comes PieroGo Fuck Yourself. Are they better or worse than getting a massage (in your underwear!) from a teen in Epstein's mansion?
Oh, I'm getting it back. I know where she lives.
Apropos of nothing, my wife asked me to recommend a book, so I gave her my copy of 'Written Out.' She wanted me to let you know she's enjoying it very much.
Oh my gosh, what I wouldn't give for it to merely be a leopard noshing a pooch. My shit referrals start at "tactical baby accouterment carriers" and "born-again crypto" and go sharply south, in all senses of the word.
Someone must've already coined "malgorithm," the downward spiral of reels you don't want to see, which are fed to you because blocking these accounts still counts as attention to IG's system.
I just block anyone who's cocky or arrogant about positions I disagree with, and the best part is that I'll never, ever, ever be popular enough for anyone to notice or care.
Hoping this was an Australian poll, as the South Pole would be tilted away from the sun during a US summer.
Oh, ssssshhhhit.
Yes, I do something similar, it's a good trick. My own cats were much more fighty, Lexi only put up a little resistance, howled for about a minute, then resigned herself to her fate.
But we did it, I corralled Lexi into the carrier, the vet was very friendly and gentle, and Lexi was surprisingly well-behaved. Not just for the vaccinations but even for getting her nails trimmed. Don't have to worry about that for another year.
Busy morning: had to take my mom's cat, Lexi, to the vet for a grossly overdue checkup. Mom was reluctant to do so, because two years ago I brought her other cat, Gabby, in for signs of illness (leukemia) and she had to be put down. Lexi hasn't been warm to me ever since, so today was tricky.
I'd hate to see the runners-up.
"And then the suspect bit the guard's thumb." "Right, we get that, but you need to make that relevant to the reader. Why should they care about a mere thumb?" "… The thumb is considered a finger?" "Good. I smell a Pulitzer."
One of those days where I'm feeling chatty and … I guess everyone else is busy.
It's good to have options.
"with work being performed in [areas]" > working in [areas] #AmEditing
How do we make better language choices? And what's beyond conscious language? Check out our episode with @karenyin.bsky.social, author of the Conscious Style Guide. Wherever you get your podcasts. becauselanguage.com/123-consciou...
"Oops, I've stuck my finger in the pulse of this cuisine."
This is unconscionable, ghoulish, and manipulative. How dehumanized do you have to be to think this was a good idea?
Speaking as someone who anticipates dying alone, if you wish others to die alone, I'm not on your side.
I have no problem grilling a nice steak or sauteeing spinach before a donation, but I also take Blood Builder supplements for double-red cell donations.
And Then There Were My Mother's Sister's Children
I hear the rhetoric posed by otherwise good causes, threats of violence, wishes to die alone, savoring others' suffering in the name of equality. I recall Suffragette (2105), what it took for women to get men to take them seriously. I wish there were an option other than hatred on all sides.
It almost reads like one person created all three.
Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole". (It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)
R George 