Z-Kat

"I guess a torpedo is the only kind of pedo Americans are willing to fire"
– anon, the internet, 2026

I'm now wondering why in Czech you can do pivo > pivko > pivečko, but only káva > kávička 🤔

one of my ex-girlfriends once produced the word "kousíneček". Like, I get that "to je kus" and "je to kousek" mean dangerously different things, and if you want to make kousek shorter, then kousíček, but that's quite far enough

Yeah you can make practically anything a diminutive, twice.

Oh excellent I need to check this out. I attempted to read that book on Proto-Indo-Europeans called "The Horse, The Wheel and The Language" (which sounds like the name of a DJ and MC duo who like getting high on ketamine) but I was annoyed by the end of the foreword :D

My favourite thing about this story is that the Simpsons predicted it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Sp...

(this tweet has literally lived rent free in my head since february 2022)

Tweet from Noah Wyle(der) "The US can easly enter Russia from the "backdoor". The theatre is not limited to Ukraine only. Russia is the underdog here" A map shows a hypothetical invasion route from Seattle to Yakutsk and onwards towards Moscow, through BC, Alaska and Chukotka, including a 3000 mile stretch of "non existing road" on either side of the Bering Strait

"according to Russian military experts it could work"

Sounds like a great reason to uninstall the app alongside the myriad other reasons not to use Spotify. There are plenty of other ways to listen to podcasts, I use castbox.fm

I'm a millennial and I'm already tired of WW3 fearmongering. The latest take I heard is that the dead ayatollah firing a shahed drone at RAF Akrotiri is going to start WW3. In the words of Gen Sir Mike Jackson "we're not going to start the third world war for you"

I reckon it's based on recent experience - the last time we got a hung parliament in the UK it didn't exactly go very well

oh this is fun

Samuel Danks Waddy - Wikipedia

@actualnames.bsky.social
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_...

I hope someone wrote a rebel song called "the bludgeon of the home rule shillelagh"

“Charlotte embodies the new Conservative Party” yes, losing your deposit

Language angle on the Gorton & Denton by-election!

In case anyone falls for this BS (img from Reddit, but also being pushed by the Daily M@!l): be aware that Labour, the Conservatives, and most other UK parties have been producing multilingual campaign leaflets since before I was born.

(PDF) “Will you fuck off please”. The use of please by London teenagers PDF | The paper investigates how the politeness marker please is used by young people to distinguish themselves from adults and create an identity of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

Aijmer, Karin (2015). “Will you fuck off please”. The use of please by London teenagers. Available online: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Can't help hearing that read in the voice of a certain orange president

Labour party van with a picture of Angeliki Stogia on the side and the text "VOTE UNITY". A picture of Zack Polanski and Hannah Spencer on the back is emblazoned with the message "TO ALL VOTERS DO NOT LISTEN TO THESE PEOPLE DO NOT VOTE FOR THE GREENS THEY WANT TO LEGALISE ALL DRUGS AND TEACH OUR CHILDREN TO USE DRUGS INCLUDING CRACK AND HEROIN AND LET OUR DAUGHTERS BE USED FOR LEGAL PROSTITUTION NO GREEN MADNESS IN OUR COMMUNITY"

Which is really weird tbh, because the Labour campaign in this one sent a very reactionary small-c conservative message. I have a friend in the constituency who had this parked outside her house 🙃

Not sure I agree that the Labour party under Starmer are progressive, but I didn't really pay any attention to their candidate in this by-election specifically

From the musictheory community on Reddit: What chord is this? Explore this post and more from the musictheory community

talking of voice leading, did you see this conundrum from r/musictheory today?
www.reddit.com/r/musictheor...

Dublin Digital Radio Dublin Digital Radio is an online digital radio station dedicated to providing a quality platform for the various communities striving to create a socially and culturally progressive city.

Yeahhbuzz and Kanaman (fka Kanji Kinetic) rolling out right now here: listen.dublindigitalradio.com
#radio #hardgroove #techno

That's what we do on en.wikipedia with posts from Twitter and similar things. Lastname, Firstname and/or @handle (date) and then the tweet/skeet text is the title.

Download the Crossplay app Go word to word in Crossplay, a 2-player game from New York Times Games designed for friendly competition and social connection.

come play me at NY times Scrabble)
nytimes.onelink.me/B892/7dfqom9m

cheers for the game was fun 😁

In Middle English -eþ could be a plural ending too. In Old English you had -þ for third person singular and -aþ for plural (all three persons)

I see nothing wrong with eating fajitas for breakfast :D maybe with some huevos rotos

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Confusingly it's actually several secret fourth things at once depending on where the person is in the class ladder

New manager, same shit. #ENICOut