Daniel Kennedy @fliglman Twitter profile

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

3 months

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

3 months

not saying I'm a bot or anything, but if someone in real life told me to ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about onions or whatever I'd probably give it my best shot

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the crows have been freed up from working the land due to higher agricultural productivity and are converged on industrial cities to partake in booming commerce, trade, and industry

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Daniel Kennedy

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@Nick_Wellings Onions, Onions, And nice cheese, In a little toastie please.

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Daniel Kennedy

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4 months

Menswear Guy: notice the uneven spread and buckling of the peanuts around the neckline...

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Postcard of a peanut vendor wearing a suit made of peanuts circa 1890.

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Daniel Kennedy

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The people soiling themselves with rage when Sally Rooney said she didn't want to work with Israeli publishers don't seem to be very vocal about this one

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8 months

The IDF has attacked and destroyed two Palestinian publishing houses in the occupied West Bank.

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Daniel Kennedy

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@PetreRaleigh I could have sworn spotify were already doing this

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3 months

@typewritersarah Error. Cannot generate user query. Onions, onions, and nice cheese, In a little toastie please.

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

4 months

the fact that someone made a Sisyphus simulator is just wonderful

addams family stan account🫃 (librarian)

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6 months

im in fucking tearss

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Daniel Kennedy

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5 months

Finally, non alcoholic crisps

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

8 months

I have removed the dead lion that was on the syrup can and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me it was so dead so inexplicably dead and so covered in bees

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Daniel Kennedy

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Saw someone make a "it's one banana, what could it cost" joke earlier today and somebody QTed it with a speech bubble screenshot of Lucille Bluth. Something has to be done

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Daniel Kennedy

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5 years

@DanielMadison78 @DaveVescio better hope the boss's desk is at a 13% angle too

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

6 months

I will never read anything that's called "towards a something of something" Don't waste my time. Get back to me when you've written a something of something

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

4 years

@cubmoth a precursor to Sir Charles Cancelled who was famously invited on television to talk about how people laughed at his tweets

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

1 year

@flglmn I see where you're heading with this: the bugs were what made the sun look yellow

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Daniel Kennedy

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7 months

just remembering the time i took a page of Hemingway's the Sun also Rises, removed the quotation marks, changed the names of the characters and convinced a handful of people that it was Sally Rooney

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Daniel Kennedy

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6 months

I was once talking about literary fiction with a guy who had a phd in literature and he asked: "but what kind of things do you really read, like for fun?" and I had to explain to him that I actually liked literary fiction and read it for fun

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Daniel Kennedy

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1 year

@i_zzzzzz Three-Horns shouldn't mix with Long-Necks

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

3 years

@darrenrichman the one flaw is I can't read 100 year old English handwriting "I will պատ աատմա until you stop drinking"?

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3 months

Autofiction is when you oughta know what fiction is

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

7 months

Me trying to chat up Irish Satan: So, is there a Tánaiste an Bháis?

The Irish For

@theirishfor

7 months

So yes - Taoiseach an Bháis as a term for Satan predates the use of Taoiseach as a title for the head of government in Ireland.

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3 years

@i_zzzzzz Covid still in with a chance

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Daniel Kennedy

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1 year

Don't know what we were all complaining about, In context the first line is actually pretty good

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3 years

Was reminded of the Sholem Aleichem line: "Let's talk about something more cheerful. Have you heard any news of the cholera in Odessa?" earlier today when I brought up Covid in conversation to lighten the mood

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

8 months

a comforting thought if you're struggling with edits: once the book is out there no one's going to even read it anyway

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

2 years

@i_zzzzzz on reflection it's very funny that they chose that as a name for a magazine

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

4 years

translation seems to be one of those rare creative endeavours where you're regularly confronted by people claiming that what you do is either "impossible" or at best some sort of elaborate scam

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

2 months

@EXECUTIVESTEVE it's no coincidence

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

3 months

nevermind the artist, separate the art from its fans

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

2 years

3 years to the day since the release of my first book-length translation. Shout out to the tens, if not dozens, of readers out there who've been buying my translations of weird Yiddish literature

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

2 years

@Bill_Gerrard the most logical explanation is that this film was already made and that's where the phrase comes from

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

2 months

Love how this is lit like a primetime detective series from the 90s

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

4 years

me on facebook: "Who even are some of these people?" me on twitter: "Haha, here's KautskyNutsack again, I hope his mum's feeling better"

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

4 months

website: you need to log in to see the thing you clicked on me: ok [logs in] website: welcome back to the website me: where's the thing I clicked on? website: where's the what now?

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

1 year

@Seamus_Malek Adam Curtis firing up Abode Premiere as soon as he sees this

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Daniel Kennedy

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3 years

writing advice: try, if possible, to be very good at writing

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

9 months

you're in her DMs, I'm in her REMs making her sit an exam she hasn't studied for and collecting her teeth

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

4 years

@Sotherans what about Noah's ARC?

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

4 months

if you listen carefully you can hear a thousand old geocities sites screaming in purgatory

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the memory of the internet: the server room that houses the wayback machine at the internet archive. (sound on)

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

2 months

@Dorianlynskey masterful dunking in the comments section, lol

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

1 year

@ceaubin "you can only hit one"

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@quendergeer lol

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

9 months

we're gonna need a bigger Hague

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@violinbug

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Daniel Kennedy

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7 months

I like the idea of there being a Crow Town neighbourhood where all the best crow restaurants are

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

4 years

It's always funny to me when someone looks for book recommendations for someone who doesn't like books: "My son doesn't read!" Just get him an egg or something, some twigs, who cares

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Daniel Kennedy

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1 year

@PetreRaleigh be funny if his dog was really called "Box office" though

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Daniel Kennedy

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5 years

@flglmn "Catch 22: war is funny and we should do it more often? Find out why Ian McEwan thinks otherwise"

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

1 year

The aesthetics of author photos is fascinating to me. You have to look a little silly, but you can't step over the line. This looks like three authors and one crime-solving vampire from a Netflix series that gets cancelled a week after it airs

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

7 months

they should award a secret Michelin star to someone who's really good at making lunch for themselves without telling anyone about it

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

2 years

Sadly this MasterClass course seems to be teaching writing short stories or whatever instead of teaching Posting

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

2 years

@flglmn impossible Jesuit beauty standards?

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@fliglman

2 years

Not sure that's the name I'd have gone for if I had a journal for semiolinguistics

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

4 years

it's the pair of belts that does it for me

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

2 years

Buzz Lightyear in the new film is constubstantial (ὁμοούσιος) with the Buzz from the original film and not "of similar substance" (ὁμοιούσιος) as was proposed, for example, at a later church council at Seleucia in the year 359

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Daniel Kennedy

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7 months

my sister pointed me to the hilariously accident-prone biography of the guy who invented the saxophone. In the multiverse of infinite possibilities I think this might be the only timeline blessed with the sensually dulcet tones of that eponymous instrument

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

5 months

it still is a fucking mayonnaise factory

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

4 years

I still think Gary Oldman's was the best onscreen Thatcher interpretation

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

6 months

@PetreRaleigh my heart goes out to the interpreter who had so translate "my film is not a movie" on the drop of a hat

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

6 months

But Oyler explained that she was trolling when she pretended not to understand the difference between routine channel of information centered on the Grand Secretariat & palace memorials (zouzhe 奏摺) processed by the Grand Council

asheeshksi.bsky.social

@AsheeshKSi

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I don't get why people are up in arms about the Bookforum review. It's kid glove stuff compared to the Qing dynasty bureaucracy book review.

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Daniel Kennedy

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2 years

@bartlebytaco be really funny if Bill regularly forced main cast members to sit with him while he watched films

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

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I've received enough emails like this to view retirees who dabble in translation as an infinitely greater threat to my livelihood than AI [in this case I had no choice but to suck it up and accept a lower rate]

Jamie Richards

@JRichWords

2 months

Where do people get this idea that translation is a hobby you pick up in retirement? For some of us this IS our livelihood and profession, and one we’ve spent years and years working toward. Not an empty nesters’ alternative to birding for a little pocket money.

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Daniel Kennedy

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2 years

This one seems popular! While I slink back to my cave be sure to check out some of my translations

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It’s funny how Americans talk about being in the army as if it’s a good thing. If someone told me they were a veteran I would assume they did Abu-Ghraib

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

5 years

@mashable family of four crushed to death by glitching house

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You never really see these other ones in literature do you? Every author today is too much of a coward to write: "she lay trendelenburg..."

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@PetreRaleigh how to the kids even understand memes if they don't have any history

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Daniel Kennedy

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1 year

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@generalslug

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the baby staring wistfully out the window at the trees is killing me

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1 year

It's funny when French menus use the possessive to describe the accompaniments, like "poulet rôti et ses pommes de terres." I'm always like: Hold your horses, Poulet Rôti, those are MY pommes de terre

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

3 years

The trolley problem when you're a European translator

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

1 year

@flglmn it would be funny if they gave it to him for free deliberately as an insult. Product as shameful punishment

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4 years

@sannewman Norm: "Ok, enchanted monkey claw, you made your point. But I still have 3 wishes left."

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@darrenrichman much obliged

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If I ever translate another book I'll demand the phrase "done into English by..." on the title page

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@fliglman

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@ycsm1n that's clearly Johnny Depp

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@Rascl15 I'm sure we would have brushed our hair if we knew we were going to be visible, lol

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@PetreRaleigh thumbnail looks like a shitpost too. Doubt it's real

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1 year

I thought these were the new Ian McEwan covers for a minute

Cake 🍰

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1970s Dog Food/Fags packaging #70s #dogs #foodpackaging #brandingarchiveuk #dogfags

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Daniel Kennedy

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3 years

@VideoNotAvail @i_zzzzzz still, 14 : 3 though, Covid earned those points

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Daniel Kennedy

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6 months

This actually happens. The list appears in your mind at 4am one night

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When you turn 35, you should win an itemized list of all the people you didn't realize were flirting with you in your 20s.

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1 year

Can't believe I have to get up early tomorrow for a "business trip" I've been called upon at the last minute to solve a Yiddish typesetting emergency [not a joke]

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5 years

@Rubberbandits She also gave the best fashion advice: "Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank and buy a revolver."

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2 years

have just had a conversation about Christmas presents in Yiddish so the child wouldn't understand. Which is simultaneously both a cliche and very much not

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8 months

I have to admit I'm not impressed when people learn a language just to read Ibsen or whatever. You should be learning a language because of your unrequited yearning for a rustic goatherder who regards your big-city bookish ways with goodnatured scorn

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your mom is an inherently bourgeois institution

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@PetreRaleigh future linguists sorting through competing theories of where the"-pilled" suffix comes from

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The gap on my resume? That’s when i was unemployed, I should have thought that was obvious from the context

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

7 months

for balance: I know some translators who are stupid assholes

Jamie Richards

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"Most translators are the worthiest of people: gifted, erudite, hardworking, and modest in their material needs. People who crave money and fame choose other jobs. Babysitting would pay better..."

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Greeks just having a relaxing dream about a hat

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This is amazing. The most common dream, by country.

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

4 years

find someone who looks at you like this lady looks at her skeleton

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@fliglman

1 year

the wording of this makes it sound like I somehow missed days of anti-pigeon-holder discourse

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So as it turns out the pigeon holder is actually an extremely safe an efficient way to hold a pigeon still long enough to give it medicine

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

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look at these hateful goblins and their disappointed little faces (got to stop and smell the schadenfreude every now and then]

𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖆𝖇𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍

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Bahahahahhah

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Daniel Kennedy

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@alan_maguire A tv writer? You mean like Jessica Fletcher? But she's not real

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

6 months

All books will be Japanese novels about cats by 2531 unless publishing laws change, says professor

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Novel about a white guy who becomes a millionaire by writing books about cats under a false Japanese name, being found out, cancelled, eaten by cats, etc.

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2 years

Someone sent me an SMS to follow up on an email they sent this morning. M'dude, that Yiddish poem is literally a hundred years old, there is no such thing as a Yiddish translation emergency, calm down

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

5 years

chauve-souris is still the funniest French word to me: as if its hairstyle is the most remarkable thing about it

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Daniel Kennedy

@fliglman

4 months

@robpalkwriter That’s the sort of funny thing that would happen in one of his old sitcoms

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Daniel Kennedy

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2 years

Why does that insulin company have a name like it's an Etsy shop that sells cute little crochet cakes or something?

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Daniel Kennedy

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1 year

A fun stage is when your kid takes the reins of their vocabulary learning and you can just sit back and enjoy the ride. The 7 year old called me an "incompetent knucklehead" the other day. Very proud

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