Stan Carey
@stancarey.bsky.social
Editor, writer, lapsed biologist in the west of Ireland
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🦣 @[email protected]
Copy-editing, writing: https://stancarey.com
Language: https://stancarey.wordpress.com
Strong language: https://stronglang.wordpress.com
🎞 https://letterboxd.com/stancarey
🦣 @[email protected]
Yes! I love that film
November 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Yes! I love that film
It's been decades since I watched The Cremator, so I'm long due a revisit. Yet to see anything by Herz that I didn't enjoy
November 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
It's been decades since I watched The Cremator, so I'm long due a revisit. Yet to see anything by Herz that I didn't enjoy
It's indistinguishable from satire
November 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
It's indistinguishable from satire
I'd swear that's Enda Kenny in the schoolboy jumper
November 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I'd swear that's Enda Kenny in the schoolboy jumper
And we've been in mutual thrall ever since
November 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
And we've been in mutual thrall ever since
Probably wise to be sceptical about this graph
bsky.app/profile/chro...
bsky.app/profile/chro...
Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now.
But there's an even more important reason...
But there's an even more important reason...
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Probably wise to be sceptical about this graph
bsky.app/profile/chro...
bsky.app/profile/chro...
(If you haven't seen the skit, I recommend it for originality, comedic timing, social insight, sheer daftness, all that good stuff)
November 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
(If you haven't seen the skit, I recommend it for originality, comedic timing, social insight, sheer daftness, all that good stuff)
They are, but not because the glass flowed down
November 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
They are, but not because the glass flowed down
Maximum flow rate of medieval glass is about 1 nanometre per billion years, so the "old glass" bit is a myth
ceramics.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Just what kind of matter glass is is complicated, though
math.ucr.edu/home/baez/ph...
(I know you know this, but some readers might not)
ceramics.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Just what kind of matter glass is is complicated, though
math.ucr.edu/home/baez/ph...
(I know you know this, but some readers might not)
Viscous flow of medieval cathedral glass
A popular urban legend concerns the apparent flow of stained glass windows in medieval cathedrals, where the glass windows are commonly observed to be thicker at the bottom than they are at the top. ...
ceramics.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Maximum flow rate of medieval glass is about 1 nanometre per billion years, so the "old glass" bit is a myth
ceramics.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Just what kind of matter glass is is complicated, though
math.ucr.edu/home/baez/ph...
(I know you know this, but some readers might not)
ceramics.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Just what kind of matter glass is is complicated, though
math.ucr.edu/home/baez/ph...
(I know you know this, but some readers might not)
Depends on the sentences! Ordinarily I'd advocate restraint when it comes to semicolons. However: bsky.app/profile/stan...
I normally look askance at outlandishly long sentences, but this academic book has one with 261 words and it's more intelligible than many sentences one tenth its length.
Clarity hinges on structure, and the sentence has 11 semicolons creating a precisely executed parallelism.
Clarity hinges on structure, and the sentence has 11 semicolons creating a precisely executed parallelism.
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Depends on the sentences! Ordinarily I'd advocate restraint when it comes to semicolons. However: bsky.app/profile/stan...
Great stuff. Looks like it's among the first uses, but the OED has a citation from 6 May 1977 in, of all places, the Times Higher Education Supplement: "News of an RCA post-punk disco at which a 'new wave' band, The Jam, were to perform led me there in a spirit of sartorial self-lessness."
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Great stuff. Looks like it's among the first uses, but the OED has a citation from 6 May 1977 in, of all places, the Times Higher Education Supplement: "News of an RCA post-punk disco at which a 'new wave' band, The Jam, were to perform led me there in a spirit of sartorial self-lessness."