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Which will use about 100 calories to chew. Weight loss on a plate.

Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also so that you can explain why words like 'television' are abominations and should be replaced by words taking their parts from only one language.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It'll surely boil down to a disagreement about what 'the internet' means.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

if they'd only continued with 'five by five'...

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ten minutes on the naughty step for you.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Although this translation of Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae is as yet an unfinish work, and there as yet remains not only some errata but also some difficult passages, I have determined to externalize this piece ..." Never mind Latin, he doesn't even seem to know English.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm entirely certain the I own more books that I can read in the rest of my life. (This is probably true of some individual books, to be honest.) But it somehow doesn't stop me buying more...

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'd heard of 'pumpkin spice' several years before I found out it wasn't a spice with the flavour of pumpkin, it was the spice that is added to pumpkin to make pumpkin pie taste interesting. (After which it did make a bit more sense, I admit.)

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One is old enough to pre-date the current convention. The other should know better. I leave it to the taste and discretion of the reader to decide which is which.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I like the book under the piano: "The Wedding Ring - a dirge."

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bit ironic that it's the ones who need it most who get (accidentally) excluded from the help.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

Obviously Deep Purple’s ‘Smoke on the Water’ was originally written for two cymbalons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCr5...

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Trio Anderscht: Deep Sitter | Wirtshausmusikanten | BR Heimat - die beste Volksmusik

YouTube video by BR Heimat - Die beste Volksmusik

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out what kind of men think their wives should be barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What bugs me is how often it's a song I don't actually like. :-(

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the hi-tech version of getting rid of the unlucky ones by chucking half of them in the bin without looking. Except more unfair.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"ayn randian paradise" is my entry for the 'oxymoron of the decade' competition.

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"I don't fucking think so"

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Literary criticism is in the house.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Makes note in diary: "Dear diary, today somebody on social media admitted to having been wrong about something and corrected mistake."

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For me it's when I put the winter (warmer) duvet on the bed instead of the summer one, which happened a week ago. Of course, there immediately followed a couple of nights of throwing said duvet off while asleep...

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Possibly also "dotheringenue".

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh, and of *course* somebody else already made that joke. But I'm not deleting mine just on that account.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Clearly 'disingenue' ought to be a noun, complementary to 'ingenue'.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I can never decide how much of this kind of thing is actual AI product and how much is confected by actual people.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"We have technicolor and we aren't going to waste a single bit of it."

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And (mirabile dictu) most can read quite a bit faster than the podcast will go. If somebody feels compelled, they can do the podcast, even if it's (I suspect all too often) an AI reading out the text. But make the text available too! This is rapidly becoming a pet peeve for me.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I repeat my already oft-repeated proposition. Award grant funding by lottery, and exclude from the subsequent lotteries people/groups who don't produce anything. I still think this would be a more effective use of researchers' time and funders' money.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"and yes I do know Watson & Crick used Franklin's data" Has to be worth a try.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Though it does seem to double as emotional self abuse. No, wait, that came out wrong.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You can have too much of a good thing.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In the Anglophone world the issue of whether they start with 0 or 1 is something of a religious war :-)

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well, if you exclude 0 from the natural numbers which a lot of people do), you could call it naturalization.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don't think that's a problem, because it can't be 0 unless it started off as 0, which would not be a good start.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And now we know why the emu wars were such problem.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They're probably just being proactive in avoiding the dreck avalanche that will hit the underloaded ones later in the year.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's enough to make you want to take refuge in an hospital, or a least hide in an hotel.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What was wrong with NRSV2.0? Ok, I'd have preferred "Newer Revised Standard Version", but there's obviously an issue with using the initial letters.

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The last person making allegations like that didn't have a leg to stand on.

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I attended a small group discussion on the utility of LLMs in research for classicists at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social yesterday. Biggest take away: always check the results! Other points new(ish) to me in thread. 1/

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yes: they can be a good tool when used to save time/effort on grunt work (and which can then be used to better ends) by people who could do it without them, and a very bad tool when used by people who couldn't do it (and therefore can't tell when they've got it wrong).

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We gotta make way for the ... (with apologies to David Bowie)

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Petition to distinguish computer science from computing science.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

SISTINE CHAPEL (Anagrammed Lines) Rome. Along a gold Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo paints a God's lore. On the solar ceiling: gospel, Adam, theological promise, and angels.

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