AnnaDushime Ist das schon die SNL Parodie? twitter.com/anandwrites/st…
DorsaAmir My new favorite historical artifact is this 1,000 year old, 14-sided die from Korea with instructions for a drinking game 🎲
Known as a juryeonggu (주령구, lit. “liquor command tool”), each side of the die has an action, like “drink two cups” or “dance without music”. pic.twitter.com/UauP0jyiPk
The nerve to make a bold statement like that without further explanation and then top it off with “cannot fail”.
“We are now 20 years beyond what were conceived in 1948 as future events. Yet anyone who reads this novel today cannot fail to notice that the diminished language Orwell called Newspeak is on the rise.” (Valerie Martin)
???
Schön gesagt. pic.twitter.com/pLMbl5vSlQ
_noujoum Er: "Dieses war der erste Streich."
Ich: "Und der zweite? Was ist der zweite Streich?"
Er: *schweigt geheimnisvoll*
Ich: "HALLO KANNST DU MICH BITTE DRINGEND ÜBER AUSSTEHENDE STREICHE INFORMIEREN?!?"
vagina_museum 💀SPOOKY FACT💀 In the third trimester of pregnancy, you have more than 500 bones in your body.
wundert sich, wenn Leute in 2021 immer noch Status-Updates in VP-Form schreiben.
tallinzen @zehavoc @carlosgr_nlp @kchonyc But there isn't a single scale of "quality". It is a good thing when different venues provide their reviewers with different review criteria. I would never want to organize a workshop if we just do ARR for everything, what's the point if you're seen as curating leftovers?
formschub »Was macht denn da so einen Höllenlärm in der Küche?«
»Ach, die Spülmaschine schleudert gerade. Ist gleich vorbei.«
haspelmath Exactly 45 years ago, the unergative and unaccusative verb classes got their names – but why are these names so weird? dlc.hypotheses.org/2598
hauckundbauer Heute in der #FAS pic.twitter.com/lSIwgpGTGH
beispielwiese Jemandem genug sein.
Jemandem geneigt sein.
Jemandem zugeneigt sein.
Jemandem zu geneigt sein.
peterbreuer Fast vergessen, den Stab meiner Sonnenuhr in den Winterhalter umzustecken.
*versucht einzuschlafen* Geh aus, mein Hirn
wayfu reading robag wruhme's track titles feels like noticing stroke symptoms pic.twitter.com/DfqihFMHJx
texttheater Kompromissvorschlag: Wir stellen die Uhren weiterhin im Herbst zurück, aber im Frühling nicht mehr vor.
_HannahRitchie It's common to think that:
– middle-income countries only have high CO₂ emissions because they're making stuff for rich countries
– rich countries have only managed to reduce CO₂ because they're exporting emissions elsewhere
🧵with data on how we can test these assumptions pic.twitter.com/dx2RpjF6VD
OliverJia1014 The Kyoto International Manga Museum’s surprisingly nuanced stance on piracy, acknowledging both the good and the bad. pic.twitter.com/X8n5ypYMdX