SkivingWords

This is now read only, I am not posting on here anymore. I am on b.l.u.e.s.k.y. now under the same nickname.

[Haggard Hawks 🦅📚 Words | Language | Etymology @HaggardHawks]

The opposite of hibernation is AESTIVATION—the act of retreating somewhere during the hot summer months.

[SkivingWords @SkivingWords]

@daniel_m_lavery I don't know how old this book is but Vermont is still like this in April.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘estivate’ (17th century): to enter a state of torpor or suspended animation the moment summer appears.

[Paul Holdengraber @holdengraber]

🔶 FERNANDO PESSOA
Born on this day, in 1888

“Of the three things remain: the certainty that we are always starting, the certainty that we need to continue, the certainty that we will be interrupted before we finish.”

[rgpoulussen.bsky.social @rgpoulussen]

Four percent of the sand on Normandy beaches is shrapnel that has been broken down over the decades into sand-sized chunks. See the smooth sphere? It's shrapnel, sanded down to a smooth, microscopic ball. #WW2 #HISTORY

[NASA @NASA]

What’s Up, June skywatchers?

In early June, Mars and Saturn have some early morning meetings with the Moon. Later, Jupiter makes an appearance, and a full moon shines down on us on June 21.

Get more skywatching tips here: https://t.co/BDogzQLD8c

[Oliver Darkshire 🌈 @deathbybadger]

repeating 'its fine, I have time, there is no rush' to myself as the spectre of my own mortality hovers to one side like miss piggy winding up to punch a hole in kermit's throat

[SkivingWords @SkivingWords]

@cosmiclaurel The crack down the length of the wall is concerning but you could rent it out to the SCA on weekends for fighter practice

[Daniel M. Lavery @daniel_m_lavery]

"He has known chicken and as a result can never again know peace." https://t.co/d3oBfnA9NA

[Oliver Darkshire 🌈 @deathbybadger]

it's a sunday, so naturally I am thinking about being Trapped in a Marriage With Henry VIII. here is the one page rpg.

[SkivingWords @SkivingWords]

It is also VERY SUREALLY tangentially connected to the plagiarism HBomberguy video that came out right after they had this talk. Just holy crap.

[SkivingWords @SkivingWords]

This panel about parasocial relationships that happened too early for me to make it at PAX Unplugged is great https://t.co/bisaMhT8VX

[SkivingWords @SkivingWords]

@victoriaying People not having any concept of appropriate boundaries are so off putting. It is so hard to figure out what might actually get through to them. Being rude is definitely a tool, and it sucks the onus to define and set them keeps going to you (and your family!)

[SkivingWords @SkivingWords]

We couldn't fly in and out of Philadelphia because it was a prohibitive price. Newark was a much cheaper choice. Riding trains was mostly a dream.

[SkivingWords @SkivingWords]

We survived walking, multiple trains, plane delay in Newark but have returned home from the first convention I've done since 2007.

[SkivingWords @SkivingWords]

I'm in Philadelphia at PAX Unplugged and it has been an insane day. I've been using Twitter as read only but I'm gonna break that a bit b/c this is an exceptional weekend.

[SkivingWords @SkivingWords]

@philippawarr I'll be there! I'm shy though! I will try to say hi in some way that isn't entirely bumbling.

[SkivingWords @SkivingWords]

@matticus It's a good autumnal game

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

You: "I want to write like the greats!"

The greats: