Vincent Szopa
@fledglinguistic
Writer, techie, macrodata refiner, movie guy, fun inspector. Not a linguist. 💉: Yes 🇺🇦
My current tulip holdings are in the single digits, but that includes this sultry and sophisticated number that insisted with a groan that I shoot it in the shade. It preferred I return at night, “When the veil is thinner.” #gothtulips
Yes, one of these shelves was installed incorrectly. I’m leaving it as an Ozymandias-style warning about hubris.
If you start watching this now, at midnight - or anytime you finish - you’ll have taken in one of the best movies of all time. If that’s not enough, it might just prepare you for a great year of being yourself.
Inside text: “An abundance of thanks to you.” I sincerely hope the designer of this was inspired by Severance. Or that it was the other way around.
Today I learned the ZIP code for non-US addresses is 001, while the international phone code for the US is 001.
Haven’t read this for a long time. It’s amazing how much I remember of Pynchon's cutting observations and endlessly lyrical humor. His sardonic, head-spinning, bawdy tales are as American as it gets.
Oh, good, something to agitate me (the content) while making me laugh (the writing). Thanks @elienyc.bsky.social !
Laughed out loud at the terse phrases used to tease and intrigue, deployed as quick asides from a supposedly superior mind that Knows. A mind that is deigning to inform the hoi polloi of the Future. Exactly like Chief Executive Dumbass' Apprentice on Twitter.