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

November 9th, 2019

Chekhov's item placed on the roof of a car

via Twitter for Android

durst Die eine Star Trek Folge, in der Geordi und Data sich mit einer Unmenge an .DS_Store auf dem USB-Stick konfrontiert sehen.

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 11:20 PM, Nov 9th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

"What is it like?" - "It's awesome." - "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down. Not in so many words. Executive summary, please."

via Twitter for Android

yuvalpi Interesting results! "Get the fuck up" is undoubtedly grammatical, with the expletive following the main verb, whereas in this construction "get" functions as an auxiliary, but apparently it's not enough to make it completely ungrammatical.
Thanks all who answered & @stronglang twitter.com/yuvalpi/status…

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 9:58 PM, Nov 9th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

"Bist du fündig geworden?" - "Nein, ich bin unfündig geblieben."

via Twitter for Android

ubiquity75 You can’t introduce yourself into a chain of social, cultural, economic and political factors, crunch numbers as “data,” then puke your findings out again. There’s a reason researchers spend their lives pursuing questions in these domains and it’s not because they don’t know R. twitter.com/there_are_two_…

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 7:01 PM, Nov 9th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

GoodGermanWords

In Germany, is called “Wrong Hare” and if that’s not logical enough for you, it’s also called “Livercheese”



pic.twitter.com/ofF76Z4Qtq

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 6:55 PM, Nov 9th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

random_walker This is the most interesting short piece I've ever read about gig work: nytimes.com/2018/08/18/opi…
The root cause of the rise of insecure and temporary work in the US is not technology, but rather a profound restructuring of jobs that began over 40 years ago. pic.twitter.com/uGkwY9O6bH

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 6:54 PM, Nov 9th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

ShadiBartsch Just to make my classics pals groan:
Scylla: the face that lunched a thousand ships

via Twitter for iPad (retweeted on 6:40 PM, Nov 9th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

CodepointsNet “My name causes an issue with any booking! (names end with MR and MRS)” on travel.StackExchange:

travel.stackexchange.com/q/149323/31048…

Interesting view into old software/interfaces interpreting stuff, even ASCII-only.

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 6:05 PM, Nov 9th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

durst tut mir leid dass ich mich schon wieder entschuldigen muss aber ich wollt echt nochmal sorry sagen wegen dem übertriebenen verzeihungsgesuch vorhin

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 6:03 PM, Nov 9th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

bomelino böse sein

😡 ist nicht lieb
😡 haben andere schon gemacht
😡 niemand mag bösewichte

lieb sein

😊 cool & trendy
😊 innovativ & out of the box
😊 erzeugt endorphine

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 5:17 PM, Nov 9th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

derwahremawa Braunkohlerepublik Deutschland tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/ene…

via Facebook (retweeted on 12:26 PM, Nov 9th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

BuckRivera Der öffentliche Nahverkehr muss attraktiver werden, um die Vielflieger ins Boot zu holen. twitter.com/archillect/sta…

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 12:23 PM, Nov 9th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

theNeo42 Die Impressumspflicht für Freiberufler*innen, deren gewerbliche Anschrift ihrer Wohnanschrift entspricht, gehört abgeschafft/modifiziert. Denn wer sich z.B. antifaschistisch äußert, dessen Anschrift wird ganz schnell in rechtsextremen Kreisen verbreitet; es besteht Lebensgefahr.

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 12:23 PM, Nov 9th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

literalbanana What’s your favorite meme that expresses something hard to express in non-meme English?

via Twitter for iPad (retweeted on 12:21 PM, Nov 9th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

The_Rabbit42 My tax proposal is simple: everyone has a Zelda-style wallet with a max capacity. Once you make idk $99,999,999 you're done. Can't hold anymore. The rest falls to the ground and other people can pick it up.

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 8:11 AM, Nov 9th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

existentialcoms To say these people added value to the world and therefore "deserve" their billions is absurd. They subtracted value, an enormous amount of value, and stymied progress to seize control and extract wealth. Computers and the internet would be more advance if they had never existed.

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 8:09 AM, Nov 9th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

DasSurma Incrementing variables in for-loops

i++
- overused
- nonsensical
- imbalanced

i-=-1
- hipster
- expressive
- symmetric

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 12:38 AM, Nov 9th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)