Yer ma is opening an Embassy of Tlön in an abandoned LPG station on the edge of town #PolishTwitter #Borges

tl;dr: - @returnireland requires cans to carry a logo - IE is a tiny market: int'l brewers can't add logos to everything just for us => Most int'l cans not from megacorps won't be available here after May - Solution: drop the logo requirement permanently, not just until May.

my new favorite fun fact is that the words "lord" and "lady" descend from old english words that mean "bread-guardian" and "bread-kneader", respectively!!

@ProfBrianCox "UFO" means "unidentified flying object" – yet the first thing people do is identify it ("It's aliens"). This shouldn't annoy me. But it does, Brian.

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proof that ya just can’t gerrymander people that shag more than ya

That time the pubquizlord said "the Welsh name for Wales is Simroo" and I screamed "Kumreeeeee".

Etymological life coach, reporting for duty 🫡

@Baintex stopping. Then it is quiet for a random time, maybe 40 minutes. Then it starts again. What causes this and how can we stop it?

.@Baintex Hello, we're staying in a apartment in Spain which has your "Easy Lock" fitted on the door. It randomly makes a loud beep sound which is preventing us from sleeping at night. The beeping starts with no warning and continues to beep 6, 10, 20 times before (1/2)

choose your new years resolution:

Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!--Friedrich Nietzsche

cake venus

The Italian ideogram for "exorcise before use".

I'VE SEEN YOU AROUND TOO FRIEND. I think you imagined the second bit.

SOMETIMES YOU AT THE BAR SOMETIMES THE BAR EATS YOU

So I've been thinking, and I've concluded that the moral of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen is: Don't try to rip off your general contractor if there is also a horny dwarf around.

if fatima lives in ireland she may not have to retrain it would have been life-changing to have been picked for @artscouncil_ie's basic income for the arts pilot. i wasn't😭but what a HUGE step toward addressing arts income insecurity. opening to all eligible artists in 3 years.

SO FINNISH AND HUNGARIAN ARE NEAT, BUT THERE ARE ACTUALLY DOZENS OF URALIC LANGUAGES, DEPENDING ON HOW YOU COUNT THEM, AND MOST OF THEM ARE STRUCTURALLY MUCH FURTHER FROM MAINSTREAM EUROPEAN LANGUAGES. LIKE IN MARI YOU HAVE THESE ASPECTUAL CONVERB CONSTRUCTIONS WHERE ONE VERB