Ergative Absolutive
@ergative-abs.bsky.social
SFF booknerd; calligrapher; Islamic geometric art doer; figure skating appreciater; coffee-drinking, granola-baking, tofu-eating wokeratum; psycholinguist by vocation, fretful porpentine by aspiration.
Contributer at Nerds of A Feather
Contributer at Nerds of A Feather
It's an attack-the-biscoff-spread-with-a-spoon kind of night.
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
It's an attack-the-biscoff-spread-with-a-spoon kind of night.
This is fantastic! I'm a bit skeptical that lack of resistance will hold up under actual usage, but the nature of the discovery of this particular drug suggests a promising route to finding other new antimicrobials.
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is fantastic! I'm a bit skeptical that lack of resistance will hold up under actual usage, but the nature of the discovery of this particular drug suggests a promising route to finding other new antimicrobials.
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We might have FINALLY met our match…
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
November 19, 2024 at 7:47 PM
We might have FINALLY met our match…
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
honestly, from what I've read about Assyria, it should be wayyyy higher up on the Jock axis.
Thought it said Nero at first!
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
honestly, from what I've read about Assyria, it should be wayyyy higher up on the Jock axis.
My favourite times on social media are times like now, e.g., when someone does something dumb in or adjacent to #romancelandia, and then the Romance Readers And Writers roll up their sleeves and Respond To The Discourse.
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
My favourite times on social media are times like now, e.g., when someone does something dumb in or adjacent to #romancelandia, and then the Romance Readers And Writers roll up their sleeves and Respond To The Discourse.
Re: 'oh noez rich people will leave if we raise taxes on them':
*Even if that were true* (Massachusetts, etc.) so what? If they're not actually contributing to the well-being of the place where they live, then why should that place care whether they stay?
*Even if that were true* (Massachusetts, etc.) so what? If they're not actually contributing to the well-being of the place where they live, then why should that place care whether they stay?
November 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Re: 'oh noez rich people will leave if we raise taxes on them':
*Even if that were true* (Massachusetts, etc.) so what? If they're not actually contributing to the well-being of the place where they live, then why should that place care whether they stay?
*Even if that were true* (Massachusetts, etc.) so what? If they're not actually contributing to the well-being of the place where they live, then why should that place care whether they stay?
Save the unhinged crossover AU crackfics for AO3, please.
There is no earthly reason why this abomination should have ever been conceived, let alone developed and marketed. And even less rational justification for it being so unfathomably delicious or utterly addictive.
It is crack in a bottle and must be regulated, before the whole country is lost to it.
It is crack in a bottle and must be regulated, before the whole country is lost to it.
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Save the unhinged crossover AU crackfics for AO3, please.
Ok, so I'm detected reduced VOT (voiceless plosives have less aspiration; voiced plosives are fully voiced during the closure); fully high back rounded vowels, rather than fronted /u/s, and a tense phonation. Also a hint of reduced rhoticity.
the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent
November 14, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Ok, so I'm detected reduced VOT (voiceless plosives have less aspiration; voiced plosives are fully voiced during the closure); fully high back rounded vowels, rather than fronted /u/s, and a tense phonation. Also a hint of reduced rhoticity.
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Isaac Chotiner Larry Summers interview when
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Isaac Chotiner Larry Summers interview when
Hope y'alls enjoyed your aurora. Here in Scotland it's been raining for a week.
November 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Hope y'alls enjoyed your aurora. Here in Scotland it's been raining for a week.
This particular pot gives the sense that it's got somewhere much better to be than here.
November 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This particular pot gives the sense that it's got somewhere much better to be than here.
hooo boy, Finance Office is responding to a query about expense reimbursements by asking for a voice call. Methinks they're going to advise me to sidestep a policy stranglehold in a way that doesn't look good in writing, but is the simplest solution all around.
#academicChatter
#academicChatter
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
hooo boy, Finance Office is responding to a query about expense reimbursements by asking for a voice call. Methinks they're going to advise me to sidestep a policy stranglehold in a way that doesn't look good in writing, but is the simplest solution all around.
#academicChatter
#academicChatter
Ok, so Lara Naki-Gutmann has done The Birds, and Jaws, so clearly next year she's got to do Snakes on a Plane. Or Anaconda.
#figureSkating
#figureSkating
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Ok, so Lara Naki-Gutmann has done The Birds, and Jaws, so clearly next year she's got to do Snakes on a Plane. Or Anaconda.
#figureSkating
#figureSkating
I miss the days when we could mock bad books.
Now they're all either written with AI, and so anathema even to the would-be hate-readers, or else they were written with brain power, and for that reason I feel bad excoriating them for being bad, because the worst brain-written book is still not AI.
Now they're all either written with AI, and so anathema even to the would-be hate-readers, or else they were written with brain power, and for that reason I feel bad excoriating them for being bad, because the worst brain-written book is still not AI.
A California winemaker is struggling to sell his Chardonnay ... so he's written a romantasy novella about it. The novella, unsurprisingly, looks awful.
www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/ar...
www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/ar...
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I miss the days when we could mock bad books.
Now they're all either written with AI, and so anathema even to the would-be hate-readers, or else they were written with brain power, and for that reason I feel bad excoriating them for being bad, because the worst brain-written book is still not AI.
Now they're all either written with AI, and so anathema even to the would-be hate-readers, or else they were written with brain power, and for that reason I feel bad excoriating them for being bad, because the worst brain-written book is still not AI.
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Review: The Hymn to Dionysus, by Natasha Pulley
"To stay sane, we must go mad"
@ergative-abs.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/revi...
"To stay sane, we must go mad"
@ergative-abs.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/revi...
Review: The Hymn to Dionysus, by Natasha Pulley
To stay sane, we must go mad Cover design by Rachael Lancaster Natasha Pulley is back, reverting to fantasy after her brief, not-entirely...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Review: The Hymn to Dionysus, by Natasha Pulley
"To stay sane, we must go mad"
@ergative-abs.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/revi...
"To stay sane, we must go mad"
@ergative-abs.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/revi...
November 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
hey, @gretchenmcc.bsky.social , please explain null copulas to Variety.
November 8, 2025 at 6:44 AM
hey, @gretchenmcc.bsky.social , please explain null copulas to Variety.
Petition to stop using the tired old 'Que(e)rying' pun in academic papers about gender/sexuality stuff. Please. Find another pun.
#academicChatter
#academicChatter
November 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Petition to stop using the tired old 'Que(e)rying' pun in academic papers about gender/sexuality stuff. Please. Find another pun.
#academicChatter
#academicChatter
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I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?
Srsly. Mr Absolutive said all but one borough went for Mamdani, and I said, on the basis solely of having read that book, 'it was Staten Island, wasn't it?'
Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Srsly. Mr Absolutive said all but one borough went for Mamdani, and I said, on the basis solely of having read that book, 'it was Staten Island, wasn't it?'
I fucking love Ella Baron so much.
November 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I fucking love Ella Baron so much.
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2) Work traditionally
3) Specialize in portraits and likeness
Drop me your portfolio here if that's you! 🩷
I'm looking for artists that:
1) Are open for a commission this month
2) Work traditionally
3) Specialize in portraits and likeness
Drop me your portfolio here if that's you! 🩷
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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I'm looking for artists that:
1) Are open for a commission this month
2) Work traditionally
3) Specialize in portraits and likeness
Drop me your portfolio here if that's you! 🩷
I'm looking for artists that:
1) Are open for a commission this month
2) Work traditionally
3) Specialize in portraits and likeness
Drop me your portfolio here if that's you! 🩷
I'd like to stop hiccoughing now, please. please. please. please.
November 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I'd like to stop hiccoughing now, please. please. please. please.