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

November 6th, 2020

Ich kann keine Buchstaben sortieren, ich bin betalphatisch herausgefordert.

via Twitter Web App

Classic Star Trek: beam down/land somewhere, immediately inadvertently divide the planet into a friendly and a hostile faction (each with a face and a robe), snap your fingers, hostile faction turns around, apologizes, fly away happy.

via Twitter for Android

bjorn_fahller @thingskatedid Yes! A colleague wrote such a regex, and swore it was correct, because it was tested with so many valid matches. It actually matched all non-empty strings.

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 9:17 PM, Nov 6th, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

thingskatedid Test for negative cases as well as positive!

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 9:14 PM, Nov 6th, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

Bedlam_Beersie @Saltwatertattoo They’re stepping on a water balloon with pinholes in it full of shaving cream to scare a crab out of their sock before they use the sock aid to put it on. The shaving cream reminds the crab of the ghost octopus that’s been chasing it. It’s all very straightforward.

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 7:37 PM, Nov 6th, 2020 via Twitter Web App)

comically inconsistent

via Twitter for Android

Nadja_Rohner In Küttigen ist ein Siebenschläfer in den Holzschopf des Forstbetriebs eingebrochen, hat sich am Zucker vergriffen und ist dann im Fondue-Caquelon ins Foodkoma gefallen. (Das Foto stammt vom Forstbetrieb Jura, kauft ihnen doch chli Holz ab: forst-jura.ch/bestellungen/ ) pic.twitter.com/POyDTglE9Z

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 3:21 PM, Nov 6th, 2020 via Twitter Web App)

AOC There are folks running around on TV blaming progressivism for Dem underperformance.

I was curious, so I decided to open the hood on struggling campaigns of candidates who are blaming progressives for their problems.

Almost all had awful execution on digital. DURING A PANDEMIC.

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 3:20 PM, Nov 6th, 2020 via Twitter Web App)

Ach ja, die Indogermanesen. Sie krabbelten eines Tages aus dem Schwarzen Meer und eroberten von dort aus ganz Eurasien. Und sie sprachen diese seltsame Sprache, in der jedes Wort mit einem Stern beginnt.

via Twitter Web App

peterbreuer Das Wort „rockig“ macht den Witz kein bisschen besser. pic.twitter.com/alj0cft1gg

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 2:32 PM, Nov 6th, 2020 via Twitter Web App)

KidsWriteJokes Why did a cat have two tails

because he needed two tails

via Hootsuite Inc. (retweeted on 2:31 PM, Nov 6th, 2020 via Twitter Web App)

Dunkelmagier Der Durchsagenmann hat gerade Leute gecalloutet die "alle fünf Minuten am Getränk nippen" und meinen deswegen die Maske Stunden am Stück abgesetzt lassen zu können, we love to see it

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 1:11 PM, Nov 6th, 2020 via Twitter Web App)

labenzticker Ascha, die: Zigarettenascheflöckchen, die beim Abaschen nicht in dem für sie vorgesehenen Gefäß landen, sondern erst einmal elegant ein paar Runden in der Luft drehen um dann auf der Kleidung des Rauchers zu landen. Vgl. → Busiasch labenz.neutsch.org/Ascha

via Labenzticker (retweeted on 1:07 PM, Nov 6th, 2020 via Twitter Web App)

"Ich hab ne ganze App-Idee nur um diesen Moment gebaut."

via Twitter for Android in reply to texttheater

"Ich war da aber jetzt nicht gerade mit 120000 Swag-Punkten unterwegs." …en-einer-offenen-beziehung.podigee.io/s1e2-die-spani…

via Twitter for Android

"der neue Film von, mit und über Til Schweiger"

via Twitter for Android

L3viathan2142 Klausuraufgabe: Beweisen Sie eine dieser Aussagen durch die andere mithilfe des de-Morganschen Gesetzes. twitter.com/dominikrzepka/…

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 10:22 AM, Nov 6th, 2020 via Twitter Web App)

cactus_chef Welcher Staat entscheidet den WAHLKRIMI?

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 8:57 AM, Nov 6th, 2020 via Twitter Web App)

brynguist For my syntax class, once we get some practice talking about passives using linguistic terms, we're going to go through a few of the examples from the embedded thread and talk about why they don't match the linguistic definition of passive. And then here's my summary twitter.com/brynguist/stat… pic.twitter.com/H0PsHFAxWN

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 5:50 AM, Nov 6th, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

brynguist Linguists, I'm sorry to say, but if we want the general populace to use the term "passive voice" only for passivized verbs, we're gonna have to teach them about unaccusatives vs. unergatives. People hate unaccusative intransitives where subject = any action perpetrated by human! pic.twitter.com/SybUv69YbV

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 5:48 AM, Nov 6th, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

sam_spills Hot take after an annoying day: I don't have to be grateful for my job. I'm compensated at the rate necessary for the company to hire good people to do good work. In exchange, I do good work.

That's it. That's the relationship.

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 5:45 AM, Nov 6th, 2020 via Twitter for Android)