I mean, it probably wouldn't hurt? Since we're definitely in a "throw it all at the wall and see what sticks" era

hi if you’re canadian and you hate the horrible LED headlights that are way too bright you have until april 20th (blaze it) to complain to transport canada about it in this survey

Facebook post by Ella Minnope. 3 August 2020. "Stop asking 'Who wears the pants in the relationship?' and start asking 'Which one of you is the feral raccoon and which one of you is the little old lady with a can of tuna trying to coax a weird ugly gray cat into her house?"

I think my marriage is 🦝4🦝

I am definitely the feral raccoon in my marriage, alas.

FOLKS!!!!

@naomialderman.bsky.social has bought Zombies, Run!

Yes, the old app a bunch of us used to all exercise together to and do our mini events is back in her hands!

Small thing, though. The banks apparently were empty 👀

So there's a couple of things to do to help out (mini thread)

Listening to audiobooks, I find myself very keenly aware of authors that don't use logophoric reflexives in PPs, where I definitely expect them ("she put it down beside her(self)"). Terry Pratchett, for example, never does.

Oh I also somehow didn't say more than half a sentence about the mysteries of reflexive licensing, and didn't launch into anything about the distribution of logophoric reflexives in English fiction! This was an accomplishment.

Tangents I did NOT successfully restrain myself from: closest conjunct agreement and the doubly-filled COMP filter (which one of my students doesn't have!).

Sometimes I have to almost physically restrain myself from going on Yet Another Tangent in class. Today it was about the resumption strategy for obviating relative clause islands (an island effect I only kind of have).

And actually there is already a classification system that does this! E-bikes are all designated Class 1/2/3, but laws and regulations then ignore those classes.

Yup, electric scooters and e-bikes get ridden very irresponsibly. My view is that there should be a cut off between things that boost human effort (ie pedal-assist motors) and anything that operates via a throttle.

I ride a Class 1 e-bike, which basically means a motor provides magical extra gears for going uphill. The university where I work already had a rule that you couldn't use the motor on campus, but as of today all e-bikes are totally banned from campus.

Feeling very salty today about irresponsible electric "bicycle" riders (throttle-controlled electric mopeds) ruining things for e-bike riders more generally.

I don't know if mileage rates were set when cars got fewer miles per gallon or what, but in my experience they're usually like 3x the actual cost of gas, and I don't know about you but my car isn't depreciating in value *that* fast.

If you are ever in a position to get reimbursed for travel, then FYI driving your own car but not keeping receipts and just charging the "mileage rate" is by far the best deal. Feels like a grift.

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Remember, if our solution to homelessness doesn’t start with more housing, we don’t really want to solve homelessness.

#UrbanTruth

Also called a rep, psyching myself up to call others this evening.

My contribution to the "this is meaningless, but what else can we do" sweepstakes today is that I had to create a linguistics assignment and made it about Farsi.

FYI if you’re talking about the #Artemis II mission and you want to get the spaceflight terminology right, the mission is “crewed,” not “manned.” (NASA made the terminology change official decades ago, so this isn’t new, but a lot of folks just aren’t aware.)

Daily Telegraph 1, obverse.

Daily Telegraph 2, reverse.

The first cuneiform text found after George Smith's decipherment of the Epic of Gilgamesh's Flood Tablet in 1872 was a literary text called šarru ana dīni lā iqūl, or 'The King Does Not Regard the Law'.

'The King Does Not Regard the Law' concerns rulers who act out in a state's self-interest:

A filing cabinet its top and part of one of the drawers covered in I voted stickers from many years and several places.

Wisconsin votes today. Get out there and do your duty. I did the thing. Voter 68.

Can You Say That? The aim of this project is to investigate the (im)possibilities of sentence structure in English and Danish, and the differences between the two languages. By contributing, you help further our unders...

Hey if you need something to do over this long weekend, have a go at my PhD student Anna-Merete’s survey. It’s sentences to rate, you just need to have any English variety as your first language, and it’ll take you 10–15 minutes. #linguistics

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Microsoft, to its billions of customers:

You must use this product to be hired or promoted.

It is the future. We are spending billions per day, choking the rest of the economy.

You cannot avoid it. You cannot uninstall it.

It is risky. Do not rely on it for anything important. It is a toy.

(And hah, I thought you were just joking about the orange colour, but of course Irn-bru has an official tartan 🤣 www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetail... )

I am deeply amused by the name "Mussels" for a hockey team, but delighted both by the existence of the team and it having an official tartan—and a nice one!

For example, I recently moved to New Jersey, and let's just say that the official state tartan isn't going on my shortlist for future sash acquisitions. www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetail...

Happy Tartan Day! In recognition of this day, I encourage you to look up what possibly-weird tartans have been registered for jurisdictions or institutions you are associated with.

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WIRED is doing more hiring! Come be a staff editor and work across our newsroom and with our international editions. Great, dynamic gig, moving quickly so don’t hold off on applying:

What Color Is That? No seriously, what color is that? I genuinely cannot tell. Aim your camera at a color — get its name, details, matches, plus colorblind palettes and simulation. Save colors with personal labels.

Someone asked for an app to point your camera at a color and find matches. Cool. Here.

BUT ALSO: I'm colorblind and never thought to make this for myself! Save colors ("new paint," "mom's fave"), get colorblind-friendly complements, simulate what you see vs. what others see. Legit using this daily.