Notices by Lew Perin (wrenpile@mastodon.social), page 4

@natecull Gendering the City

@lain Boil it first!

@enkiv2 You had one job…🙃

@natecull @smays Money is speech, according to the Supreme Court.

@enkiv2 mobcap

I love NY Times headlines — where else do obstacles abound these days?

«Trade Talks With China Open in Washington, as Obstacles Abound»

@smays Not a Velar, doesn’t count!🙃

@natecull @aparrish It isn’t whataboutist to say there’s tribalism in all of us. There are probably evolutionary reasons for this.

That doesn’t mean we should just give in to it, of course…

@natecull @aparrish More or less.

And you could make a case for the Ottomans as better colonists than the Brits or French.

@aparrish @natecull But when was Turkey a colony? In C.S. Lewis’s youth, it was an empire, actually.

So Land/Range Rover now makes an SUV called the Velar.

Was the branding consultant who coined the name a secret phonologist? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velar_consonant

And better still, is “Velar” a reference to the kind of K Street lobbyist who might buy the thing?

@kensanata This brings back my college years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moka_pot

@enkiv2 There’s a Charlie Parker tune called “Drifting on a Reed”.

You really don’t sound like a programmer!😜

@natecull I can’t believe there isn’t a good joke to be made using af Klint and Klimt.

True, nobody ever saw them in the same place at the same time…

@annika Maybe you would like to do my Mom's taxes then?