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Dec 21, 2019, 10:29 PM -05:00 What is it about the Farine Five Rose sign blinking crimson in the darkness that I find so sinister?
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Dec 20, 2019, 7:17 PM -05:00 
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Melissa Hunter (@himelissahunter) on X
I really do love this time of year — the Christmas music, the twinkle lights, the woman in front of me in line at Costco who just told her husband, “We can give your cousin a pile of dog shit for all I care.” -
Dec 20, 2019, 5:45 PM -05:00 Look, I like Christmas music, okay? Fight me.
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Dec 17, 2019, 9:38 PM -05:00 Van Gogh immersive exhibit #vangogh
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Dec 10, 2019, 2:28 PM -05:00 I feel this is accurate :-)
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Dec 10, 2019, 12:31 PM -05:00 Definitely not alone. I'm sure everyone had seen this already, but it's too appropos not to share: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
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Sara Soueidan (@SaraSoueidan) on X
Fun Fact: it's been almost six years since I started working on the Web and I still suck at git. I get by, but deep down I am secretly hiding the feelings of incompetence and terror I have whenever I use it. 😅 And I "secretly" hope I'm not alone! 😂 -
Dec 8, 2019, 12:46 PM -05:00 In the Beginning Was the Website
I don't think I've ever felt quite as old as I felt when, last year, I discovered the IndieWeb, an online community of people dedicated to resurrecting the personal website.
This makes me feel old because I've maintained some sort of personal web presence/site/blog since around 1998 or so, when I made my first hand-coded HTML pages available online at U of T. Apparently, enough time has past not only for the concept of a "personal website" to have become quaint and old-fashioned (displaced by a cluster of much more convenient social media sites) but also for it to have been picked up again by an enthusiastic band of hobbyists with a taste for the retro and a fondness for old-school fan pages.
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Dec 7, 2019, 4:24 PM -05:00 I think I was listening to "Episode 11: Germanic Ancestors" but I'm not sure how much of it will make sense if you haven't listened to the previous episodes (unless you have a background in this stuff?)
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Dec 7, 2019, 2:59 PM -05:00 Well, as the title suggests, if you are interested in the history of English and other Indo-European languages, including Farsi, then yes :)
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Dec 6, 2019, 5:37 PM -05:00
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Nick Walton (@nickwalton00) on X
AI Dungeon 2 is done! 🐲 This has been the product of hundreds of hours, but it's been completely worth it. AI Dungeon 2 is a first of it's kind completely AI generated text adventure that allows you to enter any action you can imagine. Play it here: https://t.co/Fr8w82g1sG -
Dec 6, 2019, 4:21 PM -05:00 There would be a dramatic bit where some Indo-European suddenly decides to say an "F" instead of a "P" and is henceforth know as "Proto-Germanic-Man". Or some random sheep herder develops a speech impediment and starts saying "S" instead of "K" and they are henceforth "Satem-man".
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Desmond Rivet (@desmondrivet) on X
@englishhistpod It's like, you know how superheroes have catchphrases, and a superhero origin movie will always have a bit where the hero gets to say the catch phrase and that's how you know they're for real now? We need a movie like that for the origin of German or Sanskrit. -
Dec 6, 2019, 4:08 PM -05:00 It's like, you know how superheroes have catchphrases, and a superhero origin movie will always have a bit where the hero gets to say the catch phrase and that's how you know they're for real now? We need a movie like that for the origin of German or Sanskrit.
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Desmond Rivet (@desmondrivet) on X
Learning about Indo-European migration on @englishhistpod and it sometimes feels like I'm listening to DnD prep or superhero origin stories -
Dec 6, 2019, 2:29 PM -05:00 "And here we have the origin of the Germans! Over here we have the very first ancestors of the Celts and the Romans!". I feel like each branch needs a character sheet with all their different powers.
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Desmond Rivet (@desmondrivet) on X
Learning about Indo-European migration on @englishhistpod and it sometimes feels like I'm listening to DnD prep or superhero origin stories -
Dec 6, 2019, 2:21 PM -05:00 Learning about Indo-European migration on @englishhistpod and it sometimes feels like I'm listening to DnD prep or superhero origin stories
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Nov 28, 2019, 6:44 PM -05:00 Also, that is supposed to say "salt" :-)
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Nov 28, 2019, 1:19 PM -05:00 #MarcellaHazan 's famous (infamous?) tomato, butter and onion sauce is actually a surprisingly good, rich sauce, considering what went into it - four ingredients, including the salt. No garlic, no basil, no olive oil.
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Nov 28, 2019, 12:52 PM -05:00 I...guess that means it sounds good? :)
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Nov 27, 2019, 11:46 PM -05:00 This is Marcella Hazan's "Famous tomato sauce" , in progress. Only four ingredients: tomatoes, butter, sky, onion. You don't even chop the onion. I will give a full report.
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Nov 20, 2019, 12:45 AM -05:00 I really don't care. Not a fan. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/don-cherry-podcast-launch-1.5364771
CBC
Don Cherry says Sportsnet made it 'impossible' for him to clarify his Coach's Corner comments | CBC Sports
With his weekly TV platform gone, Don Cherry entered the podcast world on Tuesday, saying Sportsnet executives "made it impossible" for him to clarify the remarks that got him fired. -
Nov 17, 2019, 11:54 PM -05:00 Seeing Mythic! #mythic @segalcentre
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Nov 17, 2019, 7:58 PM -05:00 Closely followed by a thrilling escape on the Razorback.
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Desmond Rivet (@desmondrivet) on X
The high point of any #Expanse novel is Bobbie Draper saving the day in power armour. -
Nov 17, 2019, 5:42 PM -05:00 The high point of any #Expanse novel is Bobbie Draper saving the day in power armour.
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Nov 10, 2019, 5:26 AM -05:00
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That One Guy (@WhoThat_One_Guy) on X
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Nov 7, 2019, 10:12 PM -05:00 Who's Dana Schwartz I'll bet she's funny I should find out more about her
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Dana Schwartz - on hiatus (@DanaSchwartzzz) on X
I should not be on this website because if I even come across a single random tweet that's like "who's dana schwartz lol she's overrated I don't like her" I want to curl up in a ball and cry!!!!!!!!!!!!!