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Ken Shirriff (@kenshirriff) on X

How did Russian cosmonauts know where they were? The Globus INK (1967) showed the position of their Soyuz spacecraft on a rotating globe. It is an analog computer built from tiny gears. I reverse-engineered the wiring (which inconveniently had been cut) and we powered it up. 🧵

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Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) on X

The @thenation ran Justice Sotomayor’s full dissent as its own piece and you should read every urgent word of it: https://t.co/jLMJ2fjZft

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Netlify (@Netlify) on X

!false hahahahahahahahaha it's funny cuz it's true haaaaaaa

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nader dabit (@dabit3) on X

*Breaking News* In light of the Coronavirus outbreak, many companies are moving away from REST and GraphQL and back to SOAP

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Susie Dent (@susie_dent) on X

English has an ancient law: in words like 'chit chat', 'zigzag', and 'seesaw', we always put the part with an i (as in 'pit') or e (as in 'be') first. We instinctively know this rule of 'ablaut reduplication'. You can't have a pair of flop flips or jamjims, or play pong ping.

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Susie Dent (@susie_dent) on X

Word-discovery of my morning is 'bumfle': Scots for a wrinkle in clothing or an unsightly bulge. Goes well with 'cover-slut', 17th-century English for a garment put on over another in order to hide a tear or stain.