Kobe Bryant

I’m chairing the Ordinary and At Times Quite Venal Committee this year. Yeah it’s a huge honor

Oh Auden 😞 I’m so sorry. I hope you get treated really soon

Like, we're sort of stuck between ideally wanting our news to be informative and pragmatic but actually preferring the sensationalist stuff. Do we want objective or subjective? Which do we actually click on, now that there are more choices as to what news we read?

WAIT NO NVM I am seeing the at the leftmost die is 30-sided. As you were!!!!!!

If you’re adding the numbers, doesn’t this mean that that student #1 in a 30-person class will never get called on? Because the sum will always be at least 2?

The spring cleaning impulse is profoundly salutary

This is causing problems for me vis a vis, figuring out how we came to pronounce “laity” the way we do

I’d try “lie-say-ih-tee”

@yankeepapist.bsky.social I don’t know who else would relate to this

Just mixed up ROFR and ROCOR in my head

Amazing

Also that sesame street fair isle sweater is extremely goated

Her EYES

We got an entryway bench and a Chinoise umbrella stand, and all of a sudden it feels like I live in real house. Stately manse hours up in this B

[mellifluously] Gerenian horse-lord Nestor

Incrediblr

Oh my gosh he’s a “sales engineer,” too

The diction in this writing is unbelievably funny

I love sentences… subject verb object… can’t go wrong

Yes, yes, and YES!

Re the latte treat discourse… be kind. If your name was Jakub Griegel, you would probably also be a stinky giant pissbaby

And it always sounds great in the line!

I think that Emily Wilson might overuse the word “quick” in her translations, but fuck if I can blame her for it. “Quick” is a great word

shoplifting is bad. cheating on your taxes is bad. smoking on the train is bad. not picking up your dog’s poop is bad.

we live in a society, act like it!

Amarcord is such a delight

Live free or die. Except if we don’t like you in which case get fucked, I guess? Fucking embarrassing

They are functionally the same thing! Warm sweet treat beverages

As if you’ve never enjoyed a delicious hot chocolate with whipped cream. Get real!

I’m not sure that such a place exists but it occurs to me that watching Jeopardy at a bar with other nerds—the way sports enthusiasts do at sports bars—would be a lot of fun