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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 1h

Getting Joan Mitchell vibes (though a different palette for sure)

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 5h

And they're weighted to sit firmly on the bottom of the vase!

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 6h

Ha! Those are actually scary

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 8h

Did they know more than the one famous fact about him? (Knowing that is something, but knowing about e.g. chance procedures and non-volition would be cool.)

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 9h

I believe it was Dick and Jane and the Scottish Play

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 9h

Quote-post with a frog to scare ICE

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The frog of a violin bow. Very subtly insubordinate, if at all.

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 9h

Go, dot! — Lady Macbeth

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 14h

not in itself, but as the substrate for pungent savory toppings

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 16h

I definitely saw the news first on BlueSky, but it was just reposting links (and that's what I see searching "tennessee" and looking at the Latest tab).

The headline I saw said up to 19 unaccounted for (!)

Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 1d

But to whom, ah but to whom

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 1d

the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

Frida Kahlo, Self Portrait as a Tehuana, 1943

Kahlo appears swaddled in elaborate traditional dress, with only her face exposed. On her forehead, above the iconic unibrow, appears the face of Diego Rivera

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure I’m not the first to post this:

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Dorris Lessing's reaction to winning the Nobel prize for literature 😆👍 #shorts

YouTube video by Onlylife_doneRight

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 1d

Thunberg

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 1d

I think I recognize the concertmaster

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh, negligent editing and irresponsible reviewing (can't tell you how common, though -- I was an academic too long ago in a different discipline)

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 1d

Diana Athill? Editor rather than publisher

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 1d

Can a question be a sentence?

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 2d

Whatever importance one ascribes to autism, it’s 100% compatible with the thesis in this abstract. Like saying they didn’t control for left-handedness

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 2d

It was probably effective as a one-off, but as a set phrase it belongs in the Catechism of Cliché

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 2d

I just looked it up, and Wikipedia says just what I guessed…what do people say?

(I think it’s David Jones who wrote that only soldiers who joined early in the Great War had the right to pronounce Ypres as “Wipers”)

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 2d

Only AI boosters think a PhD refers to specific quanta of knowledge

Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 2d

How do you dress for teaching (he asked idly)? Is your pfp representative?

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 2d

I recall lots of discussion in semantics class about the kinds of weird linkages we can make with “and” — e.g. “try and open the jar”. In yours, you could have made it two sentences without the “and”, but it adds some sense of contingency

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 3d

Is it a question of perspective? If enjambment is something that happens to a phrase, it’s a kind of tap on the brakes. (If it’s something that happens to lines, then agreed, it’s an un-braking.)

Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 3d

It’s good! I’m not into fantasy much (or LotR in particular) but it’s definitely fun

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