if you have to ask
if you have to ask
being eviscerated by the group chat for my lack of irony poisoning
recusing myself from this bit because I watched it too recently not to be sincere lmao
I canβt tell if youβre joking but he breaks bad as in turns bad, he is the guy who knocks etc etc
correct
Walt should be on this list
On name aversion, "handfeel," and glottalization, with musical accompaniment from "My Fair Lady."
Ht @benzimmer.bsky.social @ran-arigur.bsky.social @byagoda.bsky.social @samcorbin.bsky.social
fritinancy.substack.com/p/a-name-tha...
for any knives out-franchise or star wars fans: todayβs wordplay guest columnist is none other than @rianjohnson.bsky.social!!
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...
ours btw
a good thing to do for your mental health if you are a dog owner is to search the breed mix of your dog on google and stare at all of her twins
The biggest obstacle to this website's growth is that almost all of its user base goes to bed at 8 pm
please I am begging you not to tell me to βprepare for an epic dayβ please
A mug depicting KC Green's This Is Fine dog comic, but tragically faded
I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames
while weβre at it pay no attention to when I am posting this either
the time stamp on my text message is none of your concern
More linkstack thanks to @samcorbin.bsky.social @metafilter.bsky.social and @moderntoss.bsky.social! fritinancy.substack.com/p/february-l...
no disrespect to the ancient Roman Republic but couldnβt they have at least put their name in alphabetical order? PQRS was right there
five-year-old came home from school today with chocolate milk stains on every inch of her clothing. βIt consploded,β she explains
Thanks to technology, bananas are becoming obsolete as pretend phones. The future belongs to the Pop-Tart.
iambic tetrameter ass stick
itβs so funny to see a mother scolding her son for lightly punching a snowman that is just sitting on a curb
"If weβre meant to hear 'watermelon water,' why are we reading WTRMLN WTR?"
@samcorbin.bsky.social quotes me and @operativewords.com in her new @nytimes.com piece, "The SYRN Call of Oddly Spelled Brand Names."
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/c...
this just in from new york city: weβre hearing that mayor mamdani just signed an executive order making it illegal to NOT stand at your window and fold your arms and say βwow, itβs really coming down out thereβ
canβt help but hear undertones of βmueller flipped gorpman (who could testify against bleemer!)β in the message I sent the chat: βebay acquired depop (which was owned by etsy!)β
was fun to yap on the radio about the never-ending slangassaince!
youtu.be/ckzLouiWNMY
I imagine it was extremely disturbing
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
presidentβs day much!!!
if I didnβt realize it was a friday before, I sure do now: just reread a line of my column about some symbols and saw that Iβd called them βsimblesβ
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin