Jack Sheriff

Jack Sheriff @jacksheriff.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:57 UTC

The more I learn about the history of language, the more solidly I move into the descriptivist camp OTOH, arguing with prescriptivists doesn't sound like a fun way to spend my afternoon

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Jack Sheriff @jacksheriff.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 22:03 UTC

Well, yeah. That's a frightening aspect of this whole thing. But will events really play out that way? My hope is that we'll only see that in isolation. But maybe I'm just being naive.

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Jack Sheriff @jacksheriff.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 21:52 UTC

Wouldn't it still be illegal for the troops to carry out that order? The ruling doesn't make the order legal; it makes the President immune from prosecution for giving the order. Granted, depending on troops to refuse to carry out an illegal order isn't much comfort, but it's not nothing.

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Jack Sheriff @jacksheriff.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 14:05 UTC

That’s one I only recently realized I had wrong

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Jack Sheriff @jacksheriff.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 18:34 UTC

Is it Rum Tum Butter?

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Jack Sheriff @jacksheriff.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 14:57 UTC

That's very cool. And also kinda weird, since it's survived this entire whole time. It feels very different from the JWST images where we're seeing galaxies as they were billions of years ago--compared to those images this is practically current events.

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Jack Sheriff @jacksheriff.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 20:38 UTC

My first reaction when I learned about these little guys was--not positive. But after thinking about how I am their entire world, how they are born, live and die without ever leaving my face, well, it made me feel a little special!

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Jack Sheriff @jacksheriff.bsky.social [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 19:50 UTC

2038-01-19

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Jack Sheriff @jacksheriff.bsky.social [ View ] May 08, 2024 at 15:46 UTC

The traditional sharing of the cones

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Jack Sheriff @jacksheriff.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 29, 2024 at 20:53 UTC

Yep, that's the line that really made me grin

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Jack Sheriff @jacksheriff.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 23:45 UTC

I’ve known for a long time that your satirical work was wonderful, but today I learned how powerful an angry Alexandra Petri could be

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