Lee Murray

("it puts the lotion on its skin", etc.)

it puts the lotion on its skin, etc.

Trump Demands Murdoch is Deposed in Epstein Suit

syntax tree of the week

Post by @gayeddietruther reads "they call me the information withholder for reasons i won't get into"

Headline reads "Physicians Aroused Over Gland Theft"

from the same article

Headline reads "Gland Larceny: testicle theft a real problem in 1922 Chicago". Author is Dale M. Brumfield, dated Dec 13th 2020.

I can't even be mad

A black and white cat draped over the far edge of a rectangular cat bed. Most of his body sits below the edge of the bed and can not be seen. His face rests on the edge of the bed and one paw is stretched out on the bed with claws visible, resembling Gandalf in the Balrog scene of LOTR. He is looking directly into the camera.

fly, you fools

Thank you for your attention SLUT ("the end" in Swedish)

14 years ago in med school we got this unforgettable lesson in the dangers of using both English and Swedish in the same PowerPoint presentation

Yes (and thankyou)! Straight to the pool room.

That's going straight to the pool room.

Post by @SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe reads: Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords starting to look like a reasonable basis for a system of government

syntax tree of the week

A Kleenex tissue box photographed from above, opened by tearing away the perforated section of the box top. The cut-out section is shaped like the body of a wug. Two wug legs have been drawn on the box, at the bottom of the cut-out section.

This tissue box contains one _____.

Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.

This is the literal destruction of knowledge.

Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

This is high art

"One thing that we've found out in our impact surveys is that sometimes people find our enthusiasm for science/linguistics overwhelming and too much to handle at the time, which we'd never have known without surveys"

(eep!)

-Charlotte Vaughn @charlottevaughn.bsky.social
#LingComm25

Laura Wagner, on measuring impact in lingcomm:
“Not that any of us would ever have wrong ideas… but itš useful to have data to back up that we’re doing things the right way.”
#LingComm25

This book was not at all what the title led me to expect. 0/5 stars.

OG syntax tree.

maybe due for a re-airing, methinks

Or have I been desensitised by years of teaching?

...or am I just insufficiently caffeinated?

I had to read this a few times to figure out what the OP was complaining about. Is it that it's probably a transcribed speech rather than a specifically-written letter?