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🏁 crossword column for @nytimes.com ✍️ humor for NYer πŸ“– writing a book about the WOTY-verse

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doing better and doing worse, the yin and yang of mental health… don’t know you personally but I know some degrees of this so I am sending an arm-squeeze across the way. whatever keeps your worst self safe is worth doing

30.07.2025 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

wasps I hate you and stay away from me, but also thank you for inventing figs

29.07.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

men claiming they are 144 ants tall on dating apps when they’re only 138

29.07.2025 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

calculating how many ants tall I am instead of getting ready for work

29.07.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

kind of wild that we measure our height in cms and inches. what’s the point of comparison, ants? basically I should just say that I am 126 ants tall

29.07.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

crazy not to text me back when I’m manic.... it’s been a full 3 minutes so I don’t know what you’re doing that could be more important

29.07.2025 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

mental health status: eating pasta on toast

28.07.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

say what you will about the soupy heat: it does wonders for my skin and hair

25.07.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

reporting live, red-eyed, from having turned in the last homework assignment I had for this program

23.07.2025 05:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it’s honestly disgraceful how much I like working under pressure. β€œmy kingdom for a deadline!”-coded

23.07.2025 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

1% of free-stuff channel members have claimed 99% of items posted to the free-stuff channel at my office. is this class consciousness

22.07.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(I’m just living here temporarily while at lingstitute, but thrilling nonetheless)

22.07.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love living in a studio. watching my burrito cook in the microwave while sitting on the toilet

22.07.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

drives me crazy when plants’ official names are like β€œfalse lily” or β€œfool’s indigo” … judgy much

21.07.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Appraiser touching a coat. Caption: coat that if touched loses all value $0-$0

Appraiser touching a coat. Caption: coat that if touched loses all value $0-$0

Model plane. Caption: plane from when people were smaller $22,000-$30,000 (in big people money)

Model plane. Caption: plane from when people were smaller $22,000-$30,000 (in big people money)

A mirror in which you can see the photographer. Caption: photographer trapped in mirror. $5,000-$6,000

A mirror in which you can see the photographer. Caption: photographer trapped in mirror. $5,000-$6,000

Appraiser and man both laughing, looking at some weird bowls. Caption: bowls that make you laugh $350-$500

Appraiser and man both laughing, looking at some weird bowls. Caption: bowls that make you laugh $350-$500

I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh

18.07.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 6363    πŸ” 2198    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 79
Talking Black in America β€” Social Justice
YouTube video by The Language & Life Project Talking Black in America β€” Social Justice

ran out of all my remaining Lingstitute notebook space bc of how much I wrote down from this episode. the whole series is worth seeing for context of what’s being discussed (free on youtube) but if there’s only one ep you watch let it be this

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Ut...

18.07.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

slopulism

10.07.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I feel like β€œempirical” can either be a good or bad word. good in the sense that it’s about facts based on observation, but bad in that it gate-keeps the outer edges of what has been deemed worth observing

17.07.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

have there been actual studies about the linguistic microcosm of reality tv? I don’t think I’ve heard comfortability/uncomfortability anywhere but on these shows (also uncomfy, thank you chelsea LiB season 6) and I feel like the use of β€œ[blank] and I” as object v subject is also rarer save for there

16.07.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

she said it was β€œbecause I have amazing skin” and I don’t even care if that was a coded defense, I am taking the compliment

16.07.2025 03:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

pre-21: got carded πŸ˜’

post-31: got carded 😌

16.07.2025 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

hahahaha (yes)

15.07.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

a friend has described her disdain for LA chill as β€œplease do not keep your problems a secret until it is too late”

15.07.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

academia is not entirely my field and I’ve done only a couple of linguistics/socio surveys so I welcome the feedback β€” I didn’t know that people mostly included cis/trans as a separate question, and I guess I could have left this one at fem/male/NB (or prefer not to answer) for my purposes

15.07.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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academic literature is profoundly unserious

15.07.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My phone just autocorrected "duck" to "fuck" when I actually really did mean to say "duck," and I feel like I have finally broken its spirit

14.07.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 10007    πŸ” 716    πŸ’¬ 339    πŸ“Œ 72

for some reason it is not a superlative for the mysterious adjective β€˜palimps’ and that has me mad

14.07.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

not for a single moment in my life have I ever understood what the word β€˜palimpsest’ means. at this point I’m just not looking it up on principle

14.07.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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i’m in a group chat with some girls on trips, one is currently in paris and the other in florence. they’re sharing pics of the best-looking pasta and architecture i’ve ever seen in my life and i’m sharing this

13.07.2025 03:32 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

or 18 under…!

12.07.2025 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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