Someone should made a COVID-19 squirt gun that shoots water exactly 6 feet to make social distancing fun.
— J.R. McGrail 📎 (@JRMcGrail) July 23, 2020
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It's hard to generalize.
Someone should made a COVID-19 squirt gun that shoots water exactly 6 feet to make social distancing fun.
— J.R. McGrail 📎 (@JRMcGrail) July 23, 2020
Roll for initiative 🧙🏼♀️ https://t.co/4pPv2lPPDr
— Sarah Parvini (سارا) (@sarahparvini) July 21, 2020
I would like to speak to the manager. pic.twitter.com/SBo7F9OluB
— John Gruber (@gruber) July 19, 2020
A short poem by the prolific Australian writer Les Murray (1938-2019) - I’ve spent way too much time over the years trying to figure out who the woman in the poem mistook him for pic.twitter.com/rPerGrWfG2
— Nancy Pearl (@Nancy_Pearl) July 19, 2020
A page from an early notebook of mine pic.twitter.com/WcWaF2tHDb
— Nancy Pearl (@Nancy_Pearl) July 16, 2020
Speaking of Oceania.
— Merlin Mann (@hotdogsladies) July 14, 2020
Holy shit.
Has any other 80s pop hit ever aged better?
No. No song has aged better.
Just sublime.https://t.co/PNnqHtwDbR
Garden pic.twitter.com/fmeErGqLDr
— Jerry W. Grayson (@w_grayson) July 13, 2020
Pretty flowers from our garden. pic.twitter.com/8BetIcFoEF
— Jerry W. Grayson (@w_grayson) July 13, 2020
“This ‘Equity’ picture is actually White Supremacy at work” by @EEC_WAhttps://t.co/7MLgOWnCco
— Douglas Allen (@DouglasHAllen) July 10, 2020
Or, if you're a woman, paste a picture of a male colleague, so they can see you're knowledgeable.
— Dr. Suki Jones Mozenter (@SMozenter) July 9, 2020
🤣🐊🐊 draining the swamp.
— Laurie LeClair (@LaurieLleclair) July 9, 2020
This @mcsweeneys piece by @RonFein is the 21st century's finest work of mathematical literature, full stop.https://t.co/ItoUsbZLPw
— Ben Orlin (@benorlin) July 9, 2020
Dr. Pamela E Harris asks academic institution leaders/colleagues probing questions abt cultural biases she's experienced-and experiences-in her studies and career. Read + hear the audio "Do I Owe You?" on the eMentoring Network in the Math Sciences blog at https://t.co/LI2PXQk3Ps
— American Mathematical Society (@amermathsoc) July 9, 2020
(JK, real heads know the villain of FoxTrot is Jason)
— Daniel D'Addario (@DPD_) July 9, 2020
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) July 9, 2020
Yep get this girl in the room ⚡️ https://t.co/8R3fob2cxv
— Anaïs Mitchell (@anaismitchell) July 8, 2020
I see London, I see Strantz. https://t.co/o1qSY93WLb
— Tim Gavrich (@TimGavrich) July 9, 2020
It’s 17 years later. Time for this sequel. pic.twitter.com/EcrGsS0p7N
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) July 9, 2020
A Female Burr... 👀 I promise Sir Lin you won’t have to change any keys for me.🤷🏾♀️ pic.twitter.com/ohR7KsYBOM
— Khaila Anyè Wilcoxon (@K_Anye23) July 8, 2020
My daughter ordered a microscope 🔬 on @amazon with her allowance and it says it will be delivered today by 9pm and her response was “Can you text them and tell them 9 is my bedtime and I need it before that to look at the dead bug I found”
— Stephanie Worth (@RvaUnicorn) July 8, 2020
citation in a pandemic is pulling text from the epub you illegally downloaded because the hard copy is in the office you're not allowed to access and then searching for it on Google Books to find the page number because otherwise it's not "correct"
— Jeffrey Moro (@jeffreymoro) July 8, 2020
Great examination of how we use names in math - including those of racists and anti-semites - from the @amermathsoc #amsmathgradblog.https://t.co/Mxj0VEsXlV pic.twitter.com/VWB2Jm7ISO
— Dave Kung (龚仲孝) (@dtkung) July 8, 2020
A deer entered a Colorado store. The store owner gave him some chocolate chip cookies. The deer left the store and returned after half an hour with all his family members 😍
— Akki (@akkitwts) July 4, 2020
pic.twitter.com/Ak1boMoEmG
"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." Jonathan Winters #leadership#quote#management#LFreakquote
— Dan Rockwell (@Leadershipfreak) July 4, 2020
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
— Samantha (@SamKallis) June 30, 2020
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“Everything changes, even change,”
— Nancy Pearl (@Nancy_Pearl) June 29, 2020
Robert Frost famously said that free verse was ‘playing tennis without a net’ - in this marvelous poem, Rachel Hadas is not only playing tennis with a net, but winning pic.twitter.com/oYChX7lv0x
These 5 lines by Randall Jarrell contain more irony seasoned w/pain than any other poem I know. Jarrell was also a brilliant & unsparing critic (read No Other Book & Poetry and the Age). He once said he had ‘an uneasy respect’ for a poem I’d written. pic.twitter.com/3gBvBsCWfr
— Nancy Pearl (@Nancy_Pearl) July 3, 2020
Serious question: assuming a student feels safe in their home this summer, why would someone pay to live in a dorm by themselves to eat take-out food and take all your classes on-line?
— James S Murphy (@James_S_Murphy) July 2, 2020
https://t.co/xRBAi1mUTq Publish and/or perish.
— Douglas Allen (@DouglasHAllen) July 1, 2020
Rabbit, rabbit.
— Merlin Mann (@hotdogsladies) July 1, 2020
Nursery progress #2 pic.twitter.com/g3Bmk1Cy4V
— Daniel D'Addario (@DPD_) June 28, 2020
Nursery progress 👨👨👧 pic.twitter.com/saHJF5NhSa
— Daniel D'Addario (@DPD_) June 27, 2020
infinitely zooming flamingo fibonacci spiral pic.twitter.com/hhxzkUnjeR
— THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE PODCAST (@thehumanxp) June 27, 2020
— John Siracusa (@siracusa) June 27, 2020
“While I—not young / Or beautiful, / An ordinary woman—“
— Nancy Pearl (@Nancy_Pearl) June 27, 2020
Another wonderful poem by @KathaPollitt, this one based on Homer’s Odyssey pic.twitter.com/ylHcHUT2x3
Yes! At MK they need to redo Pecos Bills' with more Louisiana foods. I want beignets for breakfast and Po Boys, gumbo, fried catfish, etc for lunch/dinner.
— Ara Wagoner📱🏰🎶 (@AraWagco) June 25, 2020
OMG if I could get good fried okra at the Magic Kingdom I might actually cry.
Would it even cost Facebook that much actual revenue to start behaving with a little integrity?
— J.R. McGrail 📎 (@JRMcGrail) June 25, 2020
Roasted only
— J.R. McGrail 📎 (@JRMcGrail) June 24, 2020
They changed the Sosumi beep sound which has been the same since 1991. Burn it all down.
— James Thomson (@jamesthomson) June 23, 2020
Michael Bolton. He sings most of it.
— Clark Boyd (@clark_boyd) June 24, 2020
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Karens suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced." https://t.co/25oWXLYHNB
— J.R. McGrail 📎 (@JRMcGrail) June 24, 2020
My 12 year old daughter is getting fed up of being called carrot etc now. Ive told her every like is a show of love for the hair. Help me out please guys! pic.twitter.com/RlTrCwOOBq
— Matt Westwood (@mistermatt79) June 22, 2020
My second daughter hates her natural curly afro hair and doesn't like having "short" hair or getting teased.
— Sara Dubare (@FizzyBazza) June 22, 2020
I've told her she has such beautiful hair and will see how many likes she can get on twitter.
Please show your love for her natural curls ❤❤ pic.twitter.com/4eX3ommSiY
Please stop using the word luminous to describe a book. Thank you.
— Caitlin Luce Baker (@Cait_onthe_Luce) June 23, 2020
First DubDub. Second DubDub. Current DubDub. #WWDC2020 pic.twitter.com/I14kF1JqQN
— rhonda 💸. ✊🏿🏳️🌈 (@rhondaregister) June 22, 2020
This was from a publicist from a self-publishing company
— Nancy Pearl (@Nancy_Pearl) June 23, 2020
@BarackObama is on the John Wick train and I’m here for it.
— lonestarag05 (@lonestarag05) June 23, 2020
Free. This site is absolutely free. https://t.co/NRVcB5TxrJ
— Tracelator (@Tracelator) June 23, 2020
I think you mean hard-working.
— John Siracusa (@siracusa) June 23, 2020
Look what came in the box of ARCs from @HarperCollins today! Pub date 9/8. @HarperOne @JeffSchwager10 #writersllibrary pic.twitter.com/dJLDaDo4x2
— Nancy Pearl (@Nancy_Pearl) June 23, 2020
The AMS 2020 Fall Sectional Meetings will be held virtually. The AMS is grateful to the four institutions originally scheduled to host these meetings and appreciates their understanding. We hope to hold in-person meetings with them in the future. https://t.co/dYSI9pV1U8. pic.twitter.com/GFg5ktmAMT
— American Mathematical Society (@amermathsoc) June 23, 2020
How to empty seat pic.twitter.com/SxDJ5M1sdN
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) June 22, 2020
my daughter, a randomly chosen fifty percent of the times I try to see if she wants her pacifier vs. my daughter, the other fifty percent of the time pic.twitter.com/fPG16xMXFk
— Daniel D'Addario (@DPD_) June 22, 2020
For Juneteenth, I donated to the @amermathsoc 2020 fund which supports the scholarship of Black mathematicians. If you wish to donate, you can do so here (https://t.co/UQji6buAgA).
— Michael Levet (@Michael_Levet) June 20, 2020
Thank you for the book review! What an appropriate time for this resource. Representation matters! @amermathsoc #Womenwhocount https://t.co/5XOpVYy9cH
— Shelly M. Jones (@ShellyMJones1) June 18, 2020
I GOT INTO HARVARD LAW SCHOOL😭😭
— joel (@joetys) June 17, 2020
“The life that matter’s not the one I’ve led.”
— Nancy Pearl (@Nancy_Pearl) June 19, 2020
Another favorite poem, this one by William Matthews, 1942-1997 pic.twitter.com/zsl2kGVNgC
Would you support Juneteenth, the day American slaves learned of their emancipation, becoming a national holiday?
— Political Poet (@mdnij34) June 18, 2020
Strawberry daiquiri!
— Nancy Pearl (@Nancy_Pearl) June 17, 2020
Beware. The archive is open. @JoshMalina and I when we were lovers back in college. pic.twitter.com/CBHY7U6h97
— Julian Fleisher (@JulianFlei) June 14, 2020
Beware. The archive has been opened. Me and @IamSuzanneCryer posing for something, somewhere, sometime a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. pic.twitter.com/WhCKuw1xAK
— Julian Fleisher (@JulianFlei) June 14, 2020
"Taaaaaaaaaaake onnnnnn meeeeeee…taaaaaaaake meeeeee onnnnnn…" pic.twitter.com/UZs9ImD2i9
— Merlin Mann (@hotdogsladies) June 14, 2020
I teach Gen Z (am Gen X) and find them hysterical. I have to leave the classroom sometimes because I am laughing so hard. They are savage overall but I love it. 😂
— Czikimonkey (@Czikimonki) June 14, 2020
To make sure nobody shares a photo of you, put a GettyImages® watermark on your face mask. pic.twitter.com/zSCkyic3LV
— Danielle Baskin (@djbaskin) June 14, 2020
Do you want to return to normal? Normal was pretty fucked up. Normal got us here.
— Dave (@davewiner) June 13, 2020
The benefits of wearing a lab coat
— New Scientist (@newscientist) June 13, 2020
More from @tomgauld https://t.co/M2o5ypJndu pic.twitter.com/HFZVITI2LU
Six days ago, @jacobschneider and I got the call from our adoption agency telling us to book a rental car because our daughter was waiting for us... We are today suddenly, finally back home with her in Brooklyn as a very happy family of three. 👨👨👧
— Daniel D'Addario (@DPD_) June 12, 2020
Remember when some double or triple albums would have side 1 and 3 on one record and 2 and 4 on the other, so you could have the automatic plays plop them down in order?
— Bill Janovitz (@billjanovitz) June 12, 2020
Well shoot, I mentioned this to my engineer spouse and was delightfully treated to a ten minute lecture on why that might not be the best method. 🙄
— wellwhatnow (@wellwhatnow) June 11, 2020
And as a professor of engineering I just have to say... get that chain as close to horizontal as possible to create the greatest moment at the base to take it down.
— Dustyn Roberts (@dustynrobots) June 11, 2020
is this anything pic.twitter.com/qcxtrKMR2V
— liva worst (@realchoppedliva) June 11, 2020
The National Park Service employee who chose the verb “commit” here should be awarded a Nobel Prize in literature pic.twitter.com/YjmgMb9xNS
— Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein) June 9, 2020
The editors of the AMS Inclusion/Exclusion blog call for the mathematics community to join the #Strike4BlackLives on June 10th and #ShutDownMath. #ShutDownSTEM #ShutDownAcademia https://t.co/znYgPeZxcX pic.twitter.com/SqSo6MpCQW
— American Mathematical Society (@amermathsoc) June 8, 2020
Inauguration tweet lost on Buffer now just sending https://t.co/ymWXCyOwXs
— J.R. McGrail 📎 (@JRMcGrail) June 7, 2020
Good for you, lady. https://t.co/AsVxFZOBSD
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) June 6, 2020
we will form a committee https://t.co/iPldj2h6XF
— Adia Benton (@Ethnography911) June 4, 2020
Momma, hey momma
— J.R. McGrail 📎 (@JRMcGrail) June 3, 2020
Come lookin' for me
I'm here in the meadow
By the red maple tree
Momma, hey momma
Look sharp, here I be
Hey, hey
Momma, look sharp pic.twitter.com/uTFad70yIm
Watching Rogue One again
— Angry Staff Officer (@pptsapper) May 27, 2020
It might be the best Star Wars
Like, the best one, PERIOD
I know, I said it
You're about to spend the next 25 minutes watching a guy solve a Sudoku.
— Ben Orlin (@benorlin) May 17, 2020
Not only that, but it's going to be the highlight of your day.https://t.co/gnuI31x0PT
You're about to spend the next 25 minutes watching a guy solve a Sudoku.
— Ben Orlin (@benorlin) May 17, 2020
Not only that, but it's going to be the highlight of your day.https://t.co/gnuI31x0PT
Not tonight Netflix, I’ve found something else to watch till at least midnight. pic.twitter.com/1JzqqNWrXT
— Lee Madgwick (@LeeMadgwick) May 22, 2020
Unplug the router, take his cellphone away before bedtime. Really people this isn't so hard. https://t.co/E8sBWNTYx2
— J.R. McGrail 📎 (@JRMcGrail) May 20, 2020
Prophylactically taking this for Coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/wNpV7MFZIF
— J.R. McGrail 📎 (@JRMcGrail) May 19, 2020
New working paper alert!
— Jonathan Smith (@jonisaacsmith) May 18, 2020
Have you ever wondered whether starting at a public 4-year college pays off for students and the state? Wonder no more.
My working paper with @JoshuaSGoodman and Mike Hurwitz answers your questions.
https://t.co/lB45JSw3p8
(1/n)
She's so good at this. https://t.co/dJG9FgyWL4
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 15, 2020
On today's Daily, the deeply personal debates surrounding whether to reopen. The story of Jasmine Lombrage, co-owner of The Bullfish Bar + Kitchen in Baton Rouge. https://t.co/LGqndaKS3n
— Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) May 15, 2020
15-minute episodes. The Quibi version of The Talk Show? 🤔
— Troy Groove (@GrooveTroy) May 15, 2020
Common Cold https://t.co/38sw97ajVy https://t.co/v2HXhWI6ds pic.twitter.com/bXscrkXmgL
— XKCD Comic (@xkcdComic) May 13, 2020
Just got back from a 1 hour bike ride, and the minute I'm in the door it starts pouring with hail and thunder. Thank you.
— Dave (@davewiner) May 11, 2020
I’ve noticed that with every killing of an unarmed black person, there are white folks who decide that they want to “fight racism.”
— Ally Quaranhenny (@thearmchaircom) May 10, 2020
I’m not here tryna kill your vibe, I’m happy you’re here, but it’s also time for some honesty. So let’s sit down and have a chat.
I’ll second that. https://t.co/T2Dt3j1Cfo
— Rob Long (@rcbl) May 9, 2020
"That said, you’ll be pleased to know that, rather than double down on our containment efforts, we’ve decided to dissolve the velociraptor containment task force altogether & focus instead on how we can get people back into the park as quickly as possible" https://t.co/T3HAxmViZn
— Katie Hinde (@Mammals_Suck) May 8, 2020
That birb Kondo’d the shit out of their life.
— Bryn Greenwood (@bryngreenwood) May 7, 2020
Logan's Run https://t.co/w3g5wjDDqq
— J.R. McGrail 📎 (@JRMcGrail) May 6, 2020
May The Fifth be with you. pic.twitter.com/nNDXptpKuR
— Andy Ihnatko (@Ihnatko) May 5, 2020
Remove the newspaper - duh 🙄 https://t.co/0AzRXtpMJ3
— Mira Mira on the wall (@ShoutsAndMiras) May 5, 2020
Finished a near 4hr call/chat/discussion with @asymco. It was a pleasure to listen to his insight, mainly on Apple, but other things as well. But to have the chance to engage in the conversation? pic.twitter.com/Xv1au72Nha
— Sohrab Osati (@SohrabOsati) May 1, 2020
@siracusa you have officially converted me from a spaghetti sauce buyer to a spaghetti sauce maker. Thank you for your contribution to this great country.
— Mark (@secretvideotape) May 1, 2020
New Zealand. Wow. pic.twitter.com/CmQRLHD2MP
— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) April 21, 2020
Always out there making that paper, aren't you, John?
— Merlin Mann (@hotdogsladies) April 28, 2020