Jonathon Owen
@arrantpedantry
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Here's one of the official movie posters, and you can see more here. None of them have that Greek alphabet abomination. www.themoviedb.org/movie/136833...
Specifically something like one of these, known as a close stool/stool of ease/necessary stool/night stool/probably a bunch of other names. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_s...
I wonder how many T. rex skeletons named Gus there are. www.facebook.com/share/p/1ERo...
Thanks! I saw it fly into a neighbor's yard, and I already had my phone out to take a picture when it flew up onto the fence right in front of me. Scared the crap out of me. This was actually the first photo I got because I had the camera zoomed in.
Very cool! We've had some hawks around this neighborhood for years, and I've never been able to figure out if they're Cooper's hawks or sharp-shinned hawks. Here's one I had a close encounter with last year:
This cake mix-up is a great illustration of a sneaky feature of English phonology: aspiration. But first, some background. www.reddit.com/r/Baking/com...
"Be like your dad," she said tearfully, "suspicious that your wife is trying to poison you." www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05...
Mine's not that old—it's apparently from 1996—but it's a REAL chore to use.
This part really is mind-boggling, though. A backup that's stored on the same volume is not really a backup!
ATTN: @ryanqnorth.bsky.social!!! www.engadget.com/ai/shoe-comp...
Am I looking in the wrong spot? I'm not seeing them online. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a...
aww yeah I'm really excited for @korystamper.bsky.social's new book!
I remember hearing and saying "hoagie" as a kid in Utah, though it seems like "sub" has taken over since then. I'm not sure how Utah ended up using "hoagie" so much more than surrounding states. dialect.redlog.net/staticmaps/q... www.businessinsider.com/american-eng...
As opposed to loudly leaking radiation. gizmodo.com/sunken-sovie...
I've wondered about this too, and according to the News on the Web Corpus, it really is surging! I'd have to dig into the data a little more to see where the increase is coming from, but something is definitely going on here. www.english-corpora.org/now/?c=now&q...
Have you ever wondered what the deal is with "inflammable" and "flammable"? (Of course you have. Everyone has.) You may already know that the "in-" prefix there isn't actually a negative, but what you may not know is that that little prefix has been causing problems for over two millennia.
If I owned a company that offered printing services, I would probably use a different image for my ad.
Sometimes I feel a little like this comic. I want compliments, but then they make me feel kind of awkward and uncomfortable. theycantalk.com/post/1515838...
We've had Luna (the gray one) since 2016, Phoebe (the tuxedo) since 2018, and Zelda (the colorpoint tabby) since 2021.