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Susie Dent (@susie_dent) on X

Word of the day is 'sequaciousness' (17th century): the blinkered, unreasoning, and slavish following of another, no matter where it leads.

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Susie Dent (@susie_dent) on X

In the past, you could be reckful (considerate) as well as reckless. People were also gormful (careful); feckful (responsible), ruthful (compassionate), wieldy (agile), ept (adroit), and definitely gruntled. Bring back the lost positives.

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woahh mann (@ashhhhhhole) on X

quarantine taught me that u don’t need fun to have alcohol

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feminist next door (@emrazz) on X

Day 13 of an argument happening under one of my tweets: “oh sorry emrazz I’ll untag you” Me: what no I’m invested now you can’t cut me off like this

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David Roberts (@drvolts) on X

I forget who originally sent me this poem, but I go back to it periodically, and it's hitting particularly hard this week.

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𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐤 𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 (@Steampunk_T) on X

this stunning snowball fight was filmed in Lyon by Louis Lumière in 1886. Colorized by JoaquimCampa https://t.co/eVeqUEaYgK

Neil Mather

Sep 6, 2020, 3:36 PM -04:00

A home on the web

My personal site is a repository for my memories, experiences, feelings, recipes, tips, photos, and more. […] it is an ever-growing extension of myself that I have total control over, my mirror and memory aid. I want to be able to look back at this when I’m eighty and thank my past self for surfacing things that I otherwise would have forgotten. – On personal sites, and adios analytics — Piper Haywood Hmm, reading this and also Amy Hoy’s post recently (How the Blog Broke the Web) is making me...

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vicki (@vboykis) on X

I'm an introvert, so I'm not having as hard of a time as the poor extroverts, but something that I really miss is ambiently being around people. I sometimes like being in cafes, in workspaces, surrounded by conversation and the pulse of busy-ness, feeling like a part of humanity.

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𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐤 𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 (@Steampunk_T) on X

The Art of Flavio Bolla

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Susie Dent (@susie_dent) on X

Etymology of the day: ‘window’ was a gift from the Vikings, whose word for a hole in a wall or roof was ‘vindauga’: ‘eye of the wind’. Before ‘window’, the Anglo-Saxons used ‘eye-thirl’, in which ‘thirl’ meant ‘hole’: hence ‘nose-thirls’ or ‘nostrils’, ‘nose holes’.

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Andrew Nadeau (@TheAndrewNadeau) on X

The year is 2030. Bakery art is so realistic, literally anything could be cake. The uncertainty has gripped the world in fear. I go to hug my wife for comfort. She is cake.

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Göran Strand (@Astrofotografen) on X

What an extremely beautiful sight in the sky this morning, a crescent planet Venus and a crescent Moon. This was truly an amazing sight to watch. Video will follow later. Nikon D850 with Nikon AF-S 600mm f/4 D IF-ED II and Nikon AF-S TC-20E III teleconverter #VenusMoon #Nikon

Ana Rodrigues

Redesign in progress

I announced on twitter a couple of days ago that I went a bit rogue on my blog. I removed all the CSS after converting it from Jekyll to Eleventy and I want a brand new design for it. The trouble is I'm not a designer. It doesn't help that I have an irrational hate for white backgrounds. I was just now looking up on Pinterest for some inspiration when I realised that I wasn't looking at "blog designs". I was looking at notebooks. When I want to think about my blog, I look at everything but we...

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Bo Bolander (@BBolander) on X

me: jesus, all i have in the cupboard is two tins of tuna fish, an expired box of jello, and egg noodles 1950's cookbook author's ghost, calling from hell: well well well, not so high and mighty now, are we?

Khürt Williams

Jan 7, 2020, 8:10 PM -05:00

Portal

📸 A section of the D&R Canal State Park trail between Rocky Hill and Kington has a tunnel that runs under Route 27/Main Street on the border with Kingston and Princeton. A few years ago I walked this section of the park as part of a longer walk from Griggstown in Franklin Township. I remember that the first time I saw this tunnel it felt a bit spooky when seen from a certain angle. One cannot see into the tunnel which, due to its length appears cavernous, and which makes disconcerting noises...

Tantek Çelik

Jan 7, 2020, 11:02 PM -05:00

Dark clouds with wisps of sky barely visible between them, one of them making a tilted V, over a yellow orange horizon from the recent sunset behind the Pacific Ocean, waves crashing, leaving a smooth wet sandy shore with a mirror image reflection of the bright horizon, and a negative space letter T from the reflected wisps of sky surrounded by dark clouds Walk on the beach at sunset, another item crossed off a list. Cracks between dark clouds let the light in, painting single letters separat...

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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.”

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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

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That One Guy (@WhoThat_One_Guy) on X

This made me happy

Neil Mather

May 30, 2019, 4:28 PM -04:00

SICP Reading Group

With a couple of friends we’re starting a Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) reading group. I’ve started SICP solo a couple of times in the past, but always gotten distracted somehow and fallen off the wagon. What better way to do it than catching up with friends every couple of weeks and chatting about it? My own personal motivations for wanting to go through SICP: – get familiar with a Lisp, so I can go on to tinker with Emacs better and maybe tinker around with Guix ...