Ethan Plaut
@ethanplaut.bsky.social
Research: Disconnection, tech refusal & beautiful, broken media. Sometime coder & dusty journo. Now Aotearoa NZ, always Chicago, formerly Stanford, SF, Phnom Penh, Fukui. Silence when I can. Music when I can't. Tangata Tiriti, Jew, he/him.
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gotta bring bring Bumpsy and Bumptious back
[browsing OED to procrastinate boxing up my academic life for the latest restructuring]
[browsing OED to procrastinate boxing up my academic life for the latest restructuring]
![bumpkin, another form of BUMkINI (in a ship).
Bumpology.
Humorous.
ff. BUMP
after words in -ology.
The (alleged) science of
bumps; ' phrenology
So Bumpo sopher [after
pirilosopher, one who is learned in bumps,
7834 GEN. 1
THOMPSON Exerc. (1842) III. 414
The argu-
ment is a specimen of the same defective bumpology.
Englishman's Mag
I Feb.
general principles of
x886
Pall Mall G. 23 Aug. 4/2 Phrenology,
scientific.
able bumposopher that ever discoursed † Bumpsy, a. Obs. exc. dial.
Also bumsie.
[?f. BuMp sb. or vbl] Tipsy, intoxicated.
IIX TARLETON Fests (1844) 8, i being a carousing, drunk so long to the watermen that one of them was bumpsie.
I630 J. TAYLOR (Water P.) Epigr. Whs. 11.
264/2 Strait
staggers by a Porter or a Carman, As bumsie as a fox'd flapdragon German.
Bumptious (bompfas), a. [A humorous for-mation, suggested perh. by BuMP sh. or v., and words in -tious, like fractrous.
(Not in Craig
1847, nor in any earlier Dict.)] Offensively self-conceited; self-assertive. (colloq. and undignified.)
1803 MAD. D'ARBLAY Diary & Lett.VI. 324 No my dearest
Padre, bumptious! no I deny the charge in toto. I821 CLARE Vill. Minstr. I. 36 The bumptious serjeant struts before his men.. And look as big as if King George himsen. 1847-78 HaLLIwELL, Bumptious, proud, arrogant. Var.dial.
1857 C. MAxwELL Lett. in Life x. (1882) 295 Buckle's History of Civilisation—a bumptious book, strong positivism, emancipation from exploded notions, and that style of thing.
Hence Bumptiously adv., Bumptiousness.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iiaclrkg2ynzmgml4gjycp35/bafkreib5moea4mk573gfypjz6kuk5noje7gumdo5hkopkicyrr2wvffci4@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
gotta bring bring Bumpsy and Bumptious back
[browsing OED to procrastinate boxing up my academic life for the latest restructuring]
[browsing OED to procrastinate boxing up my academic life for the latest restructuring]
happy 14th anniv. to all who celebrate the greatest academic listserv email of all time
![Screenshot of email reading:
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011
Subject: [cultstud-i] Whales
Hi,
Just wondering if someone had written something interesting on the question of why we love the whales so much.
Thanks](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iiaclrkg2ynzmgml4gjycp35/bafkreib2obvotydjipflq3mziuhkxevzvnghyhim6zptbem7hzpgrq6xme@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM
happy 14th anniv. to all who celebrate the greatest academic listserv email of all time
October 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
October 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Solid haul from annual Bookarama sale!!
October 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Solid haul from annual Bookarama sale!!
seasons really seasoning oucherrrre in auckland today
September 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
seasons really seasoning oucherrrre in auckland today
tf is this conman’s glorified gofundme for his environment-destroying scam cruise doing on the jumbotron screen in my bougie gym
September 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
tf is this conman’s glorified gofundme for his environment-destroying scam cruise doing on the jumbotron screen in my bougie gym
pedantically sad the copy editors also let slip two misspellings of “carillonist”
August 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
pedantically sad the copy editors also let slip two misspellings of “carillonist”
calamitous self-own 🧪
August 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
calamitous self-own 🧪
flashback to using pushbutton airhorns and canned applause in 2020 when I was most gripped by the madness of covid lockdown online lecturing
![Comic by @tomgauld.bsky.social
[drawing of a remote control with many buttons]
UPGRADE YOUR PRESENTATIONS WITH THE MEGA-REMOTE-5000
PREVIOUS SLIDE -
LIGHTS ON/ OFF
NEXT SLIDE
POIGNANT
- MUSIC
LASER POINTER -
DRUM ROLL -
-
DISCO BALL-EMERGENCY
FUNNY GIF
STIFF DRINK
EJECT -
AUDIENCE MEMBER
LAUGHTER
• DISTRESS FLARE
SOUND MORE AUTHORITATIVE
— SIMULATE NAKED AUDIENCE
OPEN ESCAPE HATCH
DINNER RESERVATION FOR AFTER
TOM GAULD](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iiaclrkg2ynzmgml4gjycp35/bafkreifudmsxsot5ycoibfepozker2dk6bj5ns4ziayb2jeomewph7gsne@jpeg)
August 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
flashback to using pushbutton airhorns and canned applause in 2020 when I was most gripped by the madness of covid lockdown online lecturing
Betteridge’s Law, Podcast Edition (redux)
August 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Betteridge’s Law, Podcast Edition (redux)
Great audience for the UoA 3-minute thesis finals!!
August 8, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Great audience for the UoA 3-minute thesis finals!!
Betteridge’s Law, Podcast Edition (lolsob)
August 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Betteridge’s Law, Podcast Edition (lolsob)
sort of elegant mate in 2 from a speed game
July 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
sort of elegant mate in 2 from a speed game
Return by END of THIRD TERM 1965 (13th November) or IN ONE DAY IF RECALLED
July 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Return by END of THIRD TERM 1965 (13th November) or IN ONE DAY IF RECALLED
memes really do come true
July 17, 2025 at 6:09 AM
memes really do come true
"University Bookshop Limited (In Liquidation) is in liquidation from 2 July 2025 and will be trading during the start of Semester Two..."
"...ubiq was established in April 1966...From a small shop on the University of Auckland campus, we’ve grown into New Zealand’s leading academic store..."
"...ubiq was established in April 1966...From a small shop on the University of Auckland campus, we’ve grown into New Zealand’s leading academic store..."
July 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
"University Bookshop Limited (In Liquidation) is in liquidation from 2 July 2025 and will be trading during the start of Semester Two..."
"...ubiq was established in April 1966...From a small shop on the University of Auckland campus, we’ve grown into New Zealand’s leading academic store..."
"...ubiq was established in April 1966...From a small shop on the University of Auckland campus, we’ve grown into New Zealand’s leading academic store..."