All posts tagged cranky federalist

Tweets of the Week: 20 May 2023

i told the bus driver he was hot when i got off the bus because life's short but now he's my driver on the way back too so turns out life is long
— You Will Find Your People is out now📕NYC 5/26 (@hellolanemoore) May 20, 2023

Brian Gaar on happiness:

Then I guess nothing will pic.twitter.com/5qCXecsrPN
— Brian Gaar (@briangaar) May 19, 2023

A thread in which Cranky Federalist takes apart the stories of the USA’s alleged founders:

There's no way these "Adams" and "Jefferson" figures were real. You mean to tell me they founded rival political factions, were bitter rivals, reconciled, then died on the 50th anniversary of the country's independence? https://t.co/2AlSIPPosF
— Cranky Federalist (@CrankyFed) May 19, 2023

A classic from Swear Trek:

pic.twitter.com/jYuskIfn1S
— Swear Trek (@swear_trek) May 18, 2023

Eric Adler notices something odd about his academic colleagues:

Some of my colleagues in the humanities seem eager both to "decolonize the curriculum" and also to remove our college's language requirement. They want a "decolonized" course of study that's entirely in English.

They do not appear to notice the contradictions in their position.
— Eric Adler (@ProfEricAdler) May 18, 2023

MatCro writes dialogue:

GF: I'm sick of you pretending you're a detective. We should split up

ME: Good idea. We can cover more ground that way.
— Mat (@MatCro) July 26, 2015

Sam Haselby has had it with our current crop of “public intellectuals”:

The Iraq War is the historic crime of our era (it poisoned our politics). But it enjoyed bipartisan support, so the primary ideological function of neoliberal elites over the past decade has been to conjure things like the Confederacy and Richard Nixon to blame instead. https://t.co/NwP3oNLl07
— Sam Haselby (@samhaselby) May 17, 2023

Mister Bossy speaks up for the literary canon:

Not qualified to comment on the classical music world but the version of this argument in literary circles has always seemed to me fallacious. Study of "the canon" fosters the material conditions, institutional support and critical practices for receptivity to other traditions https://t.co/M91AFXkHJ0
— Hairy-hairy monster (@MisterBossy) May 18, 2023

The Sunny Side of Franz Kafka presents a shadow of Franz Kafka:

My Kafka bookend that, when the light falls on it, casts a shadow of Franz on the wall. pic.twitter.com/E3vUaCMTfs
— The sunny side of Franz Kafka (@AmschelKavka) May 18, 2023

Buddyhead puts some numbers together:

I’m not great at math but I’m starting to connect the dots here pic.twitter.com/LMZ1iaU3iF
— BUDDYHEAD ☭ (@Buddyhead) May 17, 2023

Christopher Rees reminisces about a ceremonial occasion that went well:

and the part when he put the crown on the King's head backwards, and the part when he got down to swear an oath of allegiance to the King, he got down alright, except he couldn't get up again, so the King and a few Bishops had to help him up. Apart from that it went well. 3/3
— Christopher Rees (@ChrisReesBettws) May 16, 2023

A classic from Murrman5 about what happens when you give advice:

*holds up 2 ties*
which one, I have a big meeting today
"both are nice"
[wife calls later]
"how'd it go"
well, wearing 2 ties was a disaster
— brent (@murrman5) September 22, 2014

Adam Cerious asks for a price check:

me: how much for the funny smelling spray?

employee: perfume?

me: no, the whole bottle
— Adam Cerious (@Browtweaten) May 7, 2023

Law Boy learns about a criminal defense:

never realized that "I want the guy bribing me to like me" might be an acceptable defense for receiving a bribe but that's why i'm not the GOP's star witness https://t.co/6biJmDWTmw
— Law Boy (@The_Law_Boy) May 2, 2023

Tweets of the Week: 26 March- 1 April 2023

Cranky Federalist reminds us of the Golden Rule:

As Jesus said, the most important thing in any crisis is to be the first to use it to own people on the internet
— Cranky Federalist (@CrankyFed) March 28, 2023

Mind of Marisa tells a sad story:

My sister became a vegetarian about 5 years ago and she’s really changed. It’s like I’ve never seen herbivore
— Marisa! (@mindofmarisa) February 11, 2021

Alice from Queens links to an old piece by Matt Bruenig (who is not the son of Matt Groening, very confusing):

Ten years ago, @MattBruenig coined a term for another essential componenthttps://t.co/IJHa3ZwJaF
— Alice from 2019 (@AliceFromQueens) March 16, 2023

Rabbi Ari Lamm reads the Bible in Hebrew, as for example in this thread about the Serpent in the Garden:

Why Read The Bible In Hebrew?

Let's talk about one of the most iconic villains in world history—the Serpent from the Book of Genesis.

Why exactly was the Serpent out to get Adam and Eve?

A thread (for non-Hebrew readers too!) 🧵 1 pic.twitter.com/m56Oq50WK6
— Ari Lamm (@AriLamm) February 3, 2023

Abby Denton shares an insight into the worldview of English speakers:

You can tell a lot about the priorities of a culture by how much of their language is built around different concepts. The English, for example, have infinity words for numbers
— 고모 Gamer Abby Denton (@mizabitha) April 2, 2021

Monica Hesse measures the passing of the years:

I am in Target. I am trying to buy a photo album. I asked where they might be. Worker did not know what a photo album was. I said it was a place to keep pictures. He sent me to the tech aisle. He assumed I wanted memory to store more pictures on my phone. I am 1 billion years old
— Monica Hesse (@MonicaHesse) March 29, 2023

A courtroom exchange:

Judge: I order you to pay $10,000

Mario: Why?

Judge: It’s a fine.

Mario: No itsa not.
— Dad Jokes (@Dadsaysjokes) December 17, 2019

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