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

October 21st, 2022

chordbug "MySQL is named after its creator's daughter, My" sounds a little bit like a surreal joke but it's true

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 10:14 PM, Oct 21st, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

ecpankratz Very happy to present the new tartan of clan "oops guess I forgot to convert this to numeric" @accidental__aRt pic.twitter.com/d5kRb8A6MI

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 8:35 PM, Oct 21st, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

FiboKowalsky I should care less about lecture slides and put a bunch of screenshots from papers or other people's slides. OTOH I see so many things can be explained in a much better way than it is in standard textbooks. But why I should care if such efforts eat my research time?

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 5:08 PM, Oct 21st, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

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via Twitter for Android

GabrielBerlin Ich habe neuerdings Zugang zum Heizportal und dank der dort angezeigten Infos werde ich den Winter über ausschließlich mit Klopfen auf die eigene Schulter heizen! pic.twitter.com/FPsrHXDL94

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 2:40 PM, Oct 21st, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

derwahremawa Warum? Unaufgeforderte wahre Behauptungen sind Splaining. Aufgeforderte wahre Behauptungen (d.h. korrekte Antworten auf Fragen) sind Bildungsarbeit, diese ist nur bezahlt statthaft. => Akzeptable Beiträge müssen umstritten oder falsch sein und es darf niemand danach gefragt haben

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 1:16 PM, Oct 21st, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

SoVeryBritish How to get an adrenaline rush that lasts for days:

1. Tell someone to get to the back of the queue
2. Say “can you move down please?” on the tube
3. Shush a noisy person in a cinema
4. Ask a teenager to turn their music down
5. Inform someone that their behaviour is not on

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 1:15 PM, Oct 21st, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

cactus_chef Ich lese gerade einen @faznet-Beitrag über Selenskyjs Videobotschaft, die gestern im "Harmonie"-Saal des Kongresszentrums übertragen wurde, WÄHREND ICH VOR EBENJENEM SAAL SITZE.
Es sind Zufällchen wie dieser, die mein Leben so langweilig machen.

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 1:14 PM, Oct 21st, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

LilithWittmann Aber liebe , ich finde, da fehlt es an Ambition.
Ein souveränes Europa sollte direkt den Mond kolonialisieren. Ihr dürftet sogar zuerst fliegen.

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 12:44 PM, Oct 21st, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

derwahremawa »Wardrobe malfunction« heißt auf Italienisch Ferruccio Busoni

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 8:43 AM, Oct 21st, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

mer__edith You can start by learning that "AI" is first & foremost a marketing term used to mystify & oversell a vast array of data-centric techniques that generally require resources only a few companies have & are frequently protected from validation & scrutiny by trade secrecy twitter.com/scottjshapiro/…

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 7:25 AM, Oct 21st, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

LieneSchlustig Mini zeigt mir mal wieder, dass ich etwas am Handy zu umständlich gemacht habe und es einfacher geht.

"Nicht die Augen verdrehen, Mama, ich habe Dir Wissen zugefügt, keinen Schaden." ☝️

Wenn sie Dich mit Deinen eigenen Waffen schlagen. 😂

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 7:17 AM, Oct 21st, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

hyaenedelrey trug heute zum ersten mal seit wahrscheinlich jahren einen jutebeutel als einzige tasche und ganz ehrlich wer hat euch ins hirn geschissen diese qualen - schlüssel nicht auffindbar, ALLES fliegt durcheinander - muss niemand erleiden

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 7:15 AM, Oct 21st, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

Amandatron89 Recently I convinced the institute to let me buy pizza for the campus once a month, not as a moral boosting strategy, but as bait.

Today with the postdoc committee, I hosted the first Pizza Solves Everything event pic.twitter.com/5UxwlBWcGE

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 7:13 AM, Oct 21st, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

eltheriault my agent pointed out that I chaotically switched between american and british english in my manuscript and I was horrified until I realized I was simply using canadian english.

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 7:06 AM, Oct 21st, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

UrsulaV …somehow this requires a manifesto about needing a “right to sex” instead of, I dunno, a manifesto about lowering housing prices.

(Meanwhile, of course, young women were also having less sex, but hey, that’s probably Good and Pure or something.)

via Twitter for iPad (retweeted on 7:03 AM, Oct 21st, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

nellinelke Männer schieben einmal einen Kinderwagen und schreiben dann eine Spiegel-Kolumne über ihre Erfahrungen.

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 7:01 AM, Oct 21st, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

nameshiv How to know quality of Indian food while phoning in order:

"Hi this is xyz restaurant"= stick to tandoori

"Helloooo"= expand to rice and paneer dishes

"WHAT IS IT??"= empty your ATM and order everything

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 7:01 AM, Oct 21st, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

deech Wife: I *hate* getting things to look right google docs why can't I just write this in plain text with some annotations and have it figure out how it should look
Me: is there a tense for when you make a bad wish now and the monkey's paw curls in 1978

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 6:59 AM, Oct 21st, 2022 via Twitter for Android)