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Jonathon Owen
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Editor • Writer • Linguist • Ironic meta-pedant • Villain • Cat person
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The good news: Scientists have found a way to regrow teeth.

The bad news: They're all AI slop megateeth.
A snippet on Facebook from an article about regrowing teeth. The image shows a lower jawbone with an empty socket on the left, and on the right side there's a new tooth that's about five times the size of the surrounding teeth. There's also redundant labels on both sides that don't seem to be pointing at the right things.
January 5, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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December 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Merry Christmas from Zelda, who is very pleased with her present of an empty box.
A gray and brown colorpoint tabby cat sitting in an empty cardboard box letting in its side
December 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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What's wrong, Babe? You've barely touched your eggnog puke cake.
A post about a cake recipe on Facebook. It's supposed to read eggnog poke cake, but the tail of one of the g's is covering the top of the "o" in "poke", so it looks like "puke"
December 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Occasionally it does, but it usually hops around so that the dialogue box moves out of the way of the result in the document. It's weirdly infuriating!
December 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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I've got the CSI: Miami meme in Scrabble.
A Scrabble rack showing the letters YEEEAH
December 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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New-to-me entry in the annals of verbification: "rake-stepped"

gizmodo.com/fallout-ai-r...
Screenshot from a Gizmodo article reading, "It’s not uncommon for a streamer on the precipice of premiering one of its banner shows to release a helpful little recap video to catch folks up to speed. What shouldn’t be a sentence written, let alone read, is that Prime Video appears to have rake-stepped once more with AI, making new slop in the form of a Fallout ahead of its second season. Surprise! It comes complete with inaccuracies and hallucinations about the show."
December 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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A panel from Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin's mom walks into his room and asks, "Well, how's your healthcare plan coming along?" Calvin replies, "I've almost started!"
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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My mom actually found one once by chance, so of course she had to by it.

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A novelty keychain shaped like a Utah centennial license plate, with the name Jonathon on it
December 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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The -th ending for plurals was a regular part of the verb paradigm in Old English, so the real question is, when did it disappear from the dialects that became Standard English?

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/macian
December 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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I think this is a record. We have twenty-two pies for eighteen people.
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Did everyone else make these paper springs from the edges of continuous-feed paper whenever you printed a banner?
A strip from the edge of a sheet of continuous-feed paper, along with a paper spring made from such strips
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Maybe this would also be a good time to mention that everything in my shop is 20 percent off this weekend? I've got shirts, mugs, stickers, and much more for word nerds and grammar lovers. No coupon code needed! arrantpedantry.myspreadshop.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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But even in Disney movies, broccoli is clearly for bludgeoning!
October 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I love this note on the pronunciation of Canaan. It's such a perfect example of Wikipedia editor pedantry.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan#...
A passage from the Wikipedia article on Canaan, which begins "The English term "Canaan" (pronounced /ˈkeɪnən/ since c. 1500, due to the Great Vowel Shift) . . ."
October 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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I thought the "You're doing it wrong" genre of articles had peaked years ago, but "You're breathing wrong" has to set some kind of new high-water mark. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/h...
Screenshot of a headline reading "How exhaling at the wrong time saps your strength"
October 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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How do you get it to tell you that you got a reverse rainbow? I just get this.
Screenshot of my NYT Connections results, showing a perfect game done in reverse order of difficulty
October 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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September 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Benoit Blanc from Knives Out saying "It makes no damn sense. Compels me though."
September 16, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Well, that's helpful! hudi.apache.org/docs/concepts/
Screenshot from a page with the heading Concepts. The text below it reads: Apache Hudi (pronounced “Hudi”) provides the following streaming primitives over hadoop compatible storages • Update/Delete Records (how do I change records in a table?) • Change Streams (how do I fetch records that changed?)
September 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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It's epigraphs all the way down.
Michael Scott from The Office sitting in front of a whiteboard that reads "'You miss 100% of the shots you don't take —Wayne Gretzky' —Michael Scott"
September 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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One fun part of my job is that I get to research and write about the animals on the covers, though of course it's always heartbreaking to discover how many of them are vulnerable or endangered, like this cute little wallaby.
Screenshot of a colophon that reads: The animal on the cover of Async Rust is a rufous hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus), also known as the mala. It is the smallest of the hare-wallabies, weighing 800 to 1,600 grams, with a body length of 12 to 15 inches and tail length of 10 to 12 inches. Females are slightly larger than males. Its fur is a light grayish- to reddish-brown with a lighter belly, and like kangaroos and other wallabies, it is capable of maneuvering on all fours or hopping on its powerful hind legs. Rufous hare-wallabies are solitary and nocturnal, dwelling in burrows beneath grass hummocks that provide shelter from the heat of the day. They live on a diet of seeds, fruits, and plants. The rufous hare-wallaby was once widespread in the western half of Australia, though habitat loss and predation by introduced animals such as cats and foxes caused it to go extinct in mainland Australia in the 1990s. The rufous hare-wallaby is classified as vulnerable, and current populations are primarily restricted to a few islands off the coast of Western Australia. However, programs are in place to protect current populations, and it is being reintroduced in parts of Northern Territory. Many of the animals on O’Reilly covers are endangered; all of them are important to the world. The cover illustration is by Karen Montgomery, based on an antique line engraving from Lydekker’s Royal Natural History. The cover fonts are Gilroy Semibold and Guardian Sans. The text font is Adobe Minion Pro; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is Dalton Maag’s Ubuntu Mono.
September 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I was just scrolling through Hulu and did a little double take at this.
September 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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The goat Double Butt from Bob's Burgers. It has two anuses and appears to have two sets of cheeks as well, though it only has two rear legs.
September 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM