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Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Apr 7

Can't wait for Spořilov!

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Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Apr 6

At least in Polish (where I've also heard it) it makes more sense orthographically!

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Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Apr 5

Look, man, you can just be Protestant.

Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · Apr 5

I've been working on a story about how modern Zionism is a idolatrous heresy that replaces Torah and ethics with the worship of a Moloch-state for months and he just...tweeted it out

Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Apr 3

The economic tradeoff between America and Europe is that America has much more expensive costs for essentials like health care but much more (relatively) affordable consumer goods. Once that's out the window, whew.

LOWρUFO 🐁🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · Apr 3

Hard to put into words how much the right is freaking out rn on the other site

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Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Apr 2

I love it when my LaTeX problem ("why is my multirow cell ragged right instead of justified") can be answered by reading the documentation.

$A text mostly in Computer Modern reading: \multirowsetup Just before ⟨text⟩ is expanded, the \multirowsetup macro is expanded to set up any special environment. Initially, \multirowsetup contains just \raggedright. It may be redefined with \renewcommand.$

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Metropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info · Apr 2

Say hello to a new subway map! 🗺️

Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner.

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Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Apr 1

The balls and strikes metaphor is also good, though not in the way Roberts intended: although they're supposed to be fair, umpires give harsher strike zones to lefties.

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Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Mar 31

Gonna start calling golden milk a "spiced babyccino".

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Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Mar 30

Yes, but as far as I understand it, it took a real period of sustained protests there before it went fully nationwide (that is, centered in Belgrade as you say).

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Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Mar 30

The Serbian protests started in Novi Sad.

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Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Mar 30

Two months after its long-awaited reopening and one month after apparently missing its projected date for returning to full capacity, the Trieste-Opčina tram, now running once every 45 minutes, is a big draw for locals and tourists alike on a mild spring Sunday.

A sizable crowd waits to squeeze into a blue tram pulling into its terminus.

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Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Mar 27

Ron Darling praising Lindor's fundamentals in practice, we're back baby!

Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Mar 27

The common clipping of "casual" is another good one IMO.

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Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Mar 27

The Lorax is all about propaganda of the thneed

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Mar 26

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

Screenshot of the Atlantic Signal exchanges, including Michael Waltz saying "the first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".

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Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Mar 26

Also, I don't have too much experience with Czech dubbing in general but I do really appreciate that they localized some of the references in Simpsons episode titles (The Regina Monologues -> Obtěžoval jsem anglickou královnu, Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em -> Kladivo na Homera)

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Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Mar 26

Forgive me, it was my Czech friend years ago who was being unfair, I should have double-checked. 🙂

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Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Mar 26

Not always true, the Czech translation of HP is generally praised for creative name translations (especially in comparison to the Slovak one, which left the English names alone).

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Bill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · Mar 23

think it's important everyone understands what is happening on tiktok: right now, people are making increasingly ridiculous lebron-centric covers of songs. it is getting weirder by the day. see here:

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Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Mar 24

For many years until last week I thought Travis Scott was the lead singer of Gym Class Heroes who had gone solo.

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Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Mar 23

Does anyone know anything (or know anyone who would know anything) about the cross-border connections between Ukraine and Romania in Zakarpattya/Maramureș? They were reopened in 2023 (see article) but trains were cancelled a few months later. Will they be back? www.aviation24.be/railways/ukr...

Ukrainian Railways relaunches Ukraine-Romania railway connection

The twice-daily connection between Ukraine and Romania has reopened. Back in August 2022, amid the Russian aggression and invasion of Ukraine, railway

www.aviation24.be

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Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Mar 23

Does anyone know anything (or know anyone who would know anything) about the cross-border connections between Ukraine and Romania in Zakarpattya/Maramureș? They were reopened in 2023 (see article) but trains were cancelled a few months later. Will they be back? www.aviation24.be/railways/ukr...

Ukrainian Railways relaunches Ukraine-Romania railway connection

The twice-daily connection between Ukraine and Romania has reopened. Back in August 2022, amid the Russian aggression and invasion of Ukraine, railway

www.aviation24.be

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Guy @guyt.bsky.social · Mar 21

Well, also, people watch the Olympics for feats of athleticism, not charisma. A strategy explicitly rejecting athleticism undermines the enterprise.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Mar 19

I published a piece yesterday about the impossibility of teaching Jewish Studies at this moment in history, and in particular how ridiculous it is to try to teach Jewish History amidst bans on DEI: slate.com/life/2025/03...

I Teach Jewish Studies. There’s a Bitter Irony to What the Trump Administration Is Asking of My Campus.

Students were willing to be honest in class. Now they're worried.

slate.com

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Mar 18

'sold as slave labor to El Salvador' is I honestly think a fair way of describing it

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Mar 18

Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.

c-a-m @cad6711.bsky.social · Mar 18

@washingtonpost.com They were not DEPORTED. Deported means sending them back to their country of origin. These people were sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, without any due process or any analysis as to whether they feared harm in El Salvador!

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