The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @texttheater ever

September 5th, 2018

Susan_Hennessey This is.... well, there aren’t words. nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opi…

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 11:10 PM, Sep 5th, 2018 via Twitter for Android)

jacarlvs Normalize apologizing to children.

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 10:37 PM, Sep 5th, 2018 via Twitter for Android)

kjhealy You spent a solid millennium slowly building an institution that is imperfectly but still pretty good at having productive, substantive arguments. And guess what! It functions mostly via safe spaces with extremely strong ground rules about what's up for discussion.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:31 PM, Sep 5th, 2018 via Twitter for Android)

kjhealy Depressed by the number of academics on here who insist the sacred value of Free Speech demands putting up with all manner of flood-the-zone-with-shit / nothing-can-be-presupposed nonsense that they wouldn't tolerate for thirty seconds at a brownbag Q&A in their own department.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:31 PM, Sep 5th, 2018 via Twitter for Android)

mangorijima I'm hearing that Twitter is testing a feature to show people's online status and should this feature go live, I'd like to share what my online status means in advance:

Offline: I'm not available
Do Not Disturb: I'm not available
Idle: I'm not available
Online: I'm not available

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 10:27 PM, Sep 5th, 2018 via Twitter for Android)

Uitdrukking van de dag: een Schweinshaxe naar binnen haxen

via Twitter for Android

the_maki Du, ein Twitterer (doof): „Danke für Eure Likes, Herzchenpoperzchen!“

Ich, ein Schüler von Otto Wagner im Jahr 1909 (klug): pic.twitter.com/s4du5dYbTr

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 10:20 PM, Sep 5th, 2018 via Twitter for Android)

DavidAFrench Given his constantly-expressed authoritarian intent, his grotesque incompetence is a blessing. twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…

via Twitter for iPad (retweeted on 10:09 PM, Sep 5th, 2018 via Twitter for Android)

linguistlaura Linguistics question: who's worked on person switch in asterisked meta-language, like *scuttles[3sg] over to the buffet, rubbing my[1sg] belly in anticipation* where the two are coindexed?

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:23 PM, Sep 5th, 2018 via Twitter for Android)

@ojahnn Nur in München (?): Busse mit Anhänger

via Twitter for Android in reply to ojahnn

Nur in Bayern: Metzgerei im Bahnhof

via Twitter for Android

LinguaCelta Update on our Leipzig journey: turns out the question “I’m sorry, maar könnten Sie wat langzamer sprechen alstublieft?” is not entirely useless. Code-switching through exhaustion for the win!

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 4:50 PM, Sep 5th, 2018 via Twitter for Android)

"Deutschland ist ein blasses Stück Land (...) mit einem ganz speziellen grauweißen 360-Grad-Licht" (Iggy Pop im mobil-Interview) <3

via Twitter for Android

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via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 12:09 PM, Sep 5th, 2018 via Twitter for Android)

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via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 12:09 PM, Sep 5th, 2018 via Twitter for Android)

@Vilinthril Weird conflation of a linguistic construction and its creepy use

via Twitter for Android in reply to Vilinthril