Overheard: "Turns out #SongofAchilles is a song sung by #Cacophonix"

It is a common thing in our modern age for all my Othello essays to be discussing his "trans". And it has me reevaluating the whole play, until I realise it's a spelling mistake. #othello #trance #typo

It's nearly the end of the school year, and I think one of my favourite classroom giggles was when in a prepared reading someone unwttingly mispronounced "flaming braziers" as "brassières".

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"It all began with a picture of a Faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself: 'Let's try to make a story about it.'" Happy 125th birthday to C.S. Lewis!

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These chapter titles still evoke a very particular feeling of summer concentration, with the ancient 3-in-1 tome we had, back before regular TV times - and getting fed up with the book and reverting to the films was not only not an option, but the films also a distant memory.

Worthy thoughts over at Katelyn Beaty 's substack. Unpacking the Evangelical Bro Code, Part 1: Churches Aren't Paying Women for Their Work katelynbeaty.substack.com/p/evangelical-…

Stellar article quoted by Katelyn Beaty in her Substack, and worth it: christianitytoday.com/ct/2023/octobe… By Jen Wilkin

Watching #PercyJackson and this is the face I pulled when Poseidon is called a noble and wonderful lover

"The Bro-code is not just toxic narcissists. It’s really wonderful, well-meaning, men who assume the best of other men. They don’t realize how their implicit trust is guiding them to harm the women who have little to no access to them." - Katelyn Beaty's substack, again.

Voice from study: "I think I may have found a Balrog in my Ethics reading".

#billieeilish might have taken the award but #ryangosling stole the show #oscars2024

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Circumlocution is a great word that circumlocutes other shorter words.

This latest from #JohnMacArthur only serves to confirms his influence and platform seem increasingly dangerous. Some academic merit aside, certain MacArthurisms in belief and in culture have gone unchallenged too long. Sophie Killingley premierchristianity.com/opinion/john-m…

Overheard: "That '[sic]' is the most judgemental little thing – like, I know there's an idiot in the room, and it's not me".

This needs to be condensed to under 10k words, and not cheese everyone off. Pray for me.

We need another term: foul weather friends, who are only around when things are awful but totally don't need you when the weather's nice, they've had nice snacks, and everything else is a better plan than you - e.g. literally cats.