Will Bennett

The invidious Nord be at it again

Nerd tip: if you just gloss “Thule” as “North Pole”, you’ll save yourself the hassle of explaining what Thule means

For the record, this was a MUCH better and more interesting and more important paper than the previous one I published in this journal

I’ll be sure to write a good paper next time, very helpful
#reviewer2

“1 - the manuscript should be edited to be much shorter
2 - the authors should state their research questions in a way that can be tested with their methods
3 - they should employ modern statistics in their analysis of their data
4 - their conclusions should be supported by their results”
Ok, thanks

This is not what I thought the ai bubble’s end would look like

Google AI telling me I should just use Safari instead #aioverview

Inkhorn - acorn - eggcorn
Is a strong candidate for most irritating triplet ever

What’s your favorite leafy green?
Rocket.
Rock what?
No, like arugula.
Yeah but WHICH rugula?

A restroom with a handicap sign, which can only be accessed by climbing three stairs

#aspirational #disABILITY

A restroom with a handicap sign, which can only be accessed by climbing three stairs

#aspirational #disABILITY

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Just saw video of ICE posted in a forum completely unrelated to their mission. I’m not sure where on the creeping fasch barometer that it, but it feels like the kinda thing that demarcates a new phase or degree of normalness

Pre-plan your best salacious remarks in the comments #bondi

The media on climate change and global warming did not prepare me for so many headlines about ice

Why does this have to exist?

Impala

+1 for the phrase “hands across the hatch act violation”

No, YOU’RE pharyngealized in Woleaian

@edzitron.com please can you look into adoption of AI in “rest of world”? I feel like one of the main LLM use cases that is actually holding up is people pretending to know languages they don’t know

As a clade, fish include all of the largest animals and none of the most poisonous ones
#science #taxonomy #🐟🐠🐡🍤

No one knows why the Latin firm wasn’t “lethar”

Which level of prosodic domain boundary does semicolon indicate?
Because if it’s the colon I’m gonna be mad as hell.
#lingsky

Rouet pre-match "I'm not worried about New Zealand" to Pelletier post-match "It's just fun to play rugby". Canada don't give a shit about anything but balling and it's incredible.

What a show from Canada!

US military officers observe Russia-Belarus war games as Trump gets closer to Minsk U.S. military officers observed joint war games between Russia and Belarus on Monday for the first time since Moscow used Belarus as a launchpad to enter Ukraine, as U.S. President Donald Trump deepens ties with Moscow's closest ally.

So the US is now involved in supporting BOTH sides of the war in Ukraine? Hmm

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

As a society, the one thing we were totally unprepared for was annoying leftists being right.

That just raises even more questions!

Watching the #RWC2025 and the match commentator just said something was “like Belgian karate” and I’m so confused. What could that possibly mean?

Who pooped in the Kleenex? Fess up!