Spotted while editing #Wiktionary: “Every man has something to do which he neglects; every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.” – #SamuelJohnson, “The Idler”, in “The Universal Chronicle, or Weekly Gazette” (10 February 1759). @archive.org archive.org/details/sim_...
The Universal Chronicle or Weekly Gazette 1759-02-10: Vol 2-3 Iss 45 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Universal Chronicle or Weekly Gazette 1759-02-10: Volume 2-3, Issue 45.Digitized from IA1630216-01.Previous issue:...
archive.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Spotted while editing #Wiktionary: “Every man has something to do which he neglects; every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.” – #SamuelJohnson, “The Idler”, in “The Universal Chronicle, or Weekly Gazette” (10 February 1759). @archive.org archive.org/details/sim_...
@samueljohnson
Brexit is probably the best case study in how billions of Russian black cash combined with novel algorithmic disinformation (Cambridge Analytica) can actually convince people to vote for an outcome that evidently disadvantageous to them both before and after.
Brexit is probably the best case study in how billions of Russian black cash combined with novel algorithmic disinformation (Cambridge Analytica) can actually convince people to vote for an outcome that evidently disadvantageous to them both before and after.
December 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
@samueljohnson
Brexit is probably the best case study in how billions of Russian black cash combined with novel algorithmic disinformation (Cambridge Analytica) can actually convince people to vote for an outcome that evidently disadvantageous to them both before and after.
Brexit is probably the best case study in how billions of Russian black cash combined with novel algorithmic disinformation (Cambridge Analytica) can actually convince people to vote for an outcome that evidently disadvantageous to them both before and after.
On this day in 1784 Samuel Johnson passed away.
His 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755) took nine years to complete and was the most extensive dictionary until the Oxford English Dictionary came along.
#OnThisDay #Anniversary #SamuelJohnson #Literature #Dictionary
His 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755) took nine years to complete and was the most extensive dictionary until the Oxford English Dictionary came along.
#OnThisDay #Anniversary #SamuelJohnson #Literature #Dictionary
December 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
On this day in 1784 Samuel Johnson passed away.
His 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755) took nine years to complete and was the most extensive dictionary until the Oxford English Dictionary came along.
#OnThisDay #Anniversary #SamuelJohnson #Literature #Dictionary
His 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755) took nine years to complete and was the most extensive dictionary until the Oxford English Dictionary came along.
#OnThisDay #Anniversary #SamuelJohnson #Literature #Dictionary
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
✒ English scholar and lexicographer #SamuelJohnson passed away #OTD 13 December 1784. #Literature
✒ English scholar and lexicographer #SamuelJohnson passed away #OTD 13 December 1784. #Literature
December 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
✒ English scholar and lexicographer #SamuelJohnson passed away #OTD 13 December 1784. #Literature
✒ English scholar and lexicographer #SamuelJohnson passed away #OTD 13 December 1784. #Literature
@samueljohnson
It’s entertaining to see how triggering it’s for some people to merely to quote a long dead communist from 20th century 😄
It’s entertaining to see how triggering it’s for some people to merely to quote a long dead communist from 20th century 😄
December 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
@samueljohnson
It’s entertaining to see how triggering it’s for some people to merely to quote a long dead communist from 20th century 😄
It’s entertaining to see how triggering it’s for some people to merely to quote a long dead communist from 20th century 😄
‘Samuel Johnson’ - author of the 'Dictionary of the English Language' (1755)
For the Washington Post 2008.
#TBT #SamuelJohnson #WashingtonPost #WAPO #Portrait #Dictionary #DictionaryOfTheEnglishLanguage #EnglishLanguage #Acrylics #Painting #Illustration
For the Washington Post 2008.
#TBT #SamuelJohnson #WashingtonPost #WAPO #Portrait #Dictionary #DictionaryOfTheEnglishLanguage #EnglishLanguage #Acrylics #Painting #Illustration
December 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
‘Samuel Johnson’ - author of the 'Dictionary of the English Language' (1755)
For the Washington Post 2008.
#TBT #SamuelJohnson #WashingtonPost #WAPO #Portrait #Dictionary #DictionaryOfTheEnglishLanguage #EnglishLanguage #Acrylics #Painting #Illustration
For the Washington Post 2008.
#TBT #SamuelJohnson #WashingtonPost #WAPO #Portrait #Dictionary #DictionaryOfTheEnglishLanguage #EnglishLanguage #Acrylics #Painting #Illustration
@samueljohnson my first rxn to the email was eyebrow raised "gotta be one of those fraud mails", checked, not. Meh.
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
@samueljohnson my first rxn to the email was eyebrow raised "gotta be one of those fraud mails", checked, not. Meh.
@samueljohnson Very cool, thank you. And there was me thinking it might be some distinctive behaviour it does with its wings.
November 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
@samueljohnson Very cool, thank you. And there was me thinking it might be some distinctive behaviour it does with its wings.
@samueljohnson you could actually buy some specially designed devices, like two rubber pipes you stick on the tap and they join together to create a mixed tap :)
November 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
@samueljohnson you could actually buy some specially designed devices, like two rubber pipes you stick on the tap and they join together to create a mixed tap :)
@samueljohnson
"The grid that never came turned out to be a blessing. While development experts spent 50 years debating how to extend 20th-century infrastructure to rural Africa, something more interesting happened: Africa built the 21st-century version instead.
"The grid that never came turned out to be a blessing. While development experts spent 50 years debating how to extend 20th-century infrastructure to rural Africa, something more interesting happened: Africa built the 21st-century version instead.
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
@samueljohnson
"The grid that never came turned out to be a blessing. While development experts spent 50 years debating how to extend 20th-century infrastructure to rural Africa, something more interesting happened: Africa built the 21st-century version instead.
"The grid that never came turned out to be a blessing. While development experts spent 50 years debating how to extend 20th-century infrastructure to rural Africa, something more interesting happened: Africa built the 21st-century version instead.
@samueljohnson Thanks!
It looks like a monster minefield! Increasingly it looks like renting is preferable, but that's not without a whole raft of other issues.
I think I might just get a tent! 😆
It looks like a monster minefield! Increasingly it looks like renting is preferable, but that's not without a whole raft of other issues.
I think I might just get a tent! 😆
November 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
@samueljohnson Thanks!
It looks like a monster minefield! Increasingly it looks like renting is preferable, but that's not without a whole raft of other issues.
I think I might just get a tent! 😆
It looks like a monster minefield! Increasingly it looks like renting is preferable, but that's not without a whole raft of other issues.
I think I might just get a tent! 😆
@samueljohnson Thanks for the link.
Age Concern's website hedges its opinions - presumably in case of litigation, they may be more forthcoming in person.
Age Concern's website hedges its opinions - presumably in case of litigation, they may be more forthcoming in person.
November 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
@samueljohnson Thanks for the link.
Age Concern's website hedges its opinions - presumably in case of litigation, they may be more forthcoming in person.
Age Concern's website hedges its opinions - presumably in case of litigation, they may be more forthcoming in person.
"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time."
✒ #JamesBoswell, Scottish lawyer, diarist, and famous biographer of #SamuelJohnson, was #BOTD 29 October 1740. #Literature
✒ #JamesBoswell, Scottish lawyer, diarist, and famous biographer of #SamuelJohnson, was #BOTD 29 October 1740. #Literature
October 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time."
✒ #JamesBoswell, Scottish lawyer, diarist, and famous biographer of #SamuelJohnson, was #BOTD 29 October 1740. #Literature
✒ #JamesBoswell, Scottish lawyer, diarist, and famous biographer of #SamuelJohnson, was #BOTD 29 October 1740. #Literature
@samueljohnson
I like and follow that YouTuber. If you haven't seen it, check out "Type Ashton" also.
I like and follow that YouTuber. If you haven't seen it, check out "Type Ashton" also.
October 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
@samueljohnson
I like and follow that YouTuber. If you haven't seen it, check out "Type Ashton" also.
I like and follow that YouTuber. If you haven't seen it, check out "Type Ashton" also.
#Poem of the week: "On the Death of Dr Robert Levet" by #SamuelJohnson
An #elegy to the #poet’s personal physician is full of vivid detail delivered with infectious warmth
#Poetry #Literature
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
An #elegy to the #poet’s personal physician is full of vivid detail delivered with infectious warmth
#Poetry #Literature
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Poem of the week: On the Death of Dr Robert Levet by Samuel Johnson
An elegy to the poet’s personal physician is full of vivid detail delivered with infectious warmth
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:01 AM
#Poem of the week: "On the Death of Dr Robert Levet" by #SamuelJohnson
An #elegy to the #poet’s personal physician is full of vivid detail delivered with infectious warmth
#Poetry #Literature
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
An #elegy to the #poet’s personal physician is full of vivid detail delivered with infectious warmth
#Poetry #Literature
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
October 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Guess Alex Jones will be forced to make a desperate run at the American presidency himself, then. The highest office is the new last refuge of the biggest scoundrels. #SamuelJohnson #TheEndIsNear
Just because they service Trump, Alex, doesn't mean you're getting a rim job too.
Supreme Court Rejects Alex Jones' Appeal Of $1.4 Billion Defamation Judgment In Sandy Hook Shooting
www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...
Supreme Court Rejects Alex Jones' Appeal Of $1.4 Billion Defamation Judgment In Sandy Hook Shooting
www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...
Supreme Court Rejects Alex Jones' Appeal Of $1.4 Billion Defamation Judgment In Sandy Hook Shooting
The justices did not comment on their order, which they issued without even asking the families of the Sandy Hook victims to respond to Jones’ appeal.
www.huffpost.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Guess Alex Jones will be forced to make a desperate run at the American presidency himself, then. The highest office is the new last refuge of the biggest scoundrels. #SamuelJohnson #TheEndIsNear
@samueljohnson Oh I have half an eye on those sorts of debates. Consider me an exasperated on-looker there!
October 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
@samueljohnson Oh I have half an eye on those sorts of debates. Consider me an exasperated on-looker there!
Words of wisdom. #SamuelJohnson #QuoteOftheDay
September 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Words of wisdom. #SamuelJohnson #QuoteOftheDay
#OTD in 1709 Samuel Johnson was born. Henry Austen and James Edward Austen-Leigh asserted that Johnson was Austen’s “favourite author in prose”. In her letters she referred to him as ‘my dear Mr Johnson’.
#janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #samueljohnson #englishliterature
#janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #samueljohnson #englishliterature
September 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
#OTD in 1709 Samuel Johnson was born. Henry Austen and James Edward Austen-Leigh asserted that Johnson was Austen’s “favourite author in prose”. In her letters she referred to him as ‘my dear Mr Johnson’.
#janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #samueljohnson #englishliterature
#janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #samueljohnson #englishliterature