@lynneguist.bsky.social this seems like grist for your mill :)

New on the Wordnik blog: Five Words from ... Dress Codes, by Richard Thompson Ford: blog.wordnik.com/five-words-f...

It's the eleventh of the month: time for some more things I learned while looking up other things, including unwanted disciples, hating the number 17 for not being perfect, "women and children first", and the Medina standard: buttondown.com/thingslearne...

I think this is a good librarian question! Many research libraries have probably run into the “big broken book” problem before …

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Happy linguistics-degree-word-assignment-day to all who celebrate: xkcd.com/2602/

New issue of Logodaedaly, Wordnik's newsletter for word game enthusiasts! Interviews with game creators, upcoming events, and a call for new contributors! mailchi.mp/wordnik/logo...

Absolutely this: "I’ve learned that when you coin a new term, the definition is not what you give it. It’s what people assume it means when they hear it." @simonwillison.net (simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/14/...)

AI can ‘same-ify’ human expression — can some brains resist its pull? Emerging evidence suggests that LLM outputs can shape the text and thoughts of human users.

You know if you want to desame-ify your writing you could always increase your vocabulary (said the dictionary editor for no reason 🤔) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It's the 11th of the month! Time for another edition of Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things, including the elusive mountain walrus, a stirring anthem against Daylight Saving Time, and Email Debt Forgiveness Day! buttondown.com/thingslearne...

I think about this book every year because it’s a murder mystery about daylight saving time and shuffling an hour of light around every year makes me want to kill somebody

If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question

If you were laid off from Block (or anywhere) and want to stay remote, @roost.tools is hiring for multiple SWE roles and levels.

If you're the kind of person who's deeply satisfied by figuring out why a service has multiple databases and ripping some out, we might be for you! roost.tools/careers

Sticker with black text on a yellow background reading “I find it kinda bussin’ I find it kinda cap That the dreams in which I’m dying Are the ones that kinda slap”

“Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.”

new post from Daniel on OSS docs! Always worth reading :)

New on the Wordnik blog: Five Words from ... The Notebook, by Roland Allen (
@zibaldoni.bsky.social): blog.wordnik.com/five-words-f...

Roses are red
Violets are prime
This is the sort
Of linguist that I'm

Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers

new marketing campaign for print dictionaries, as totemic items to ward off dementia: "researchers found higher scores in lifetime enrichment were associated with a 38% lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease ... enrichment included ... dictionaries and library cards" www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

This month in Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things: the Odeillo Solar Furnace, broadcasting "Destroy Mount Rushmore", and searching for smells: buttondown.com/thingslearne...

🚨 Tell your Senators to vote NO on the GOP’s so-called “SAVE” Act”, which would:

Require continuing voter purges w/ NO PENALTY for erroneous purges.

Subject election officials to potential PRISON TIME & citizen suits for mistakenly registering a single voter—even if the voter is a citizen! 1/

Study shows Operation Metro Surge costs taxpayers $18 million a week North Star Policy Action, a progressive research institute, released the study Thursday.

18 million per week. That’s what we are collectively paying to hunt and kill people in Minnesota.

I never wanna hear that we can’t afford to take care of our fellow Americans ever again. Healthcare. Education. Infrastructure. We can afford it all.

www.kare11.com/article/news...

If Graham can hold up this bill for venal and treasonous reasons, then @amyklobuchar.com & @smith.senate.gov can block the whole spending package until Dems get the GOP to agree to clawback ICE detention funds.

Angular numbers? 😂

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It’s the 11th of the month, time for a new edition of Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things! This month: hemerology, ubuesque, and the fattura della morte buttondown.com/thingslearne...

This implies that when given notice, these facilities will change their behavior and conditions for the better. So... Democrats should be requesting NON-STOP rolling daily visits to these facilities. Whatever the "tour" mode is should become permanent.

The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026
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