Marcelo

Mi cuerpo celeste favorito es Fomalhaut. ✨

[Marcelo @defiantmarcel]

Hoy les traigo su 🧵 etimológico cagadito de la semana:

Del lugar en que el Finlandés le es más fiel al Proto-Indoeuropeo (PIE) que sus propias lenguas descendientes: el cielo.

[Marcelo @defiantmarcel]

The quinceañeras are back in their natural habitat: the parks and fountains of Chicago. Nature is healing.

[Marcelo @defiantmarcel]

Amigos, recuerden que la vida no se trata de encontrarle sentido a las cosas (esencial), sino de darles sentido (contingente).

[Marcelo @defiantmarcel]

This is one of those images that just keep getting worse the more times you look at them.

[linux 🚩 @tuvati]

I fucking guess bro

[Marcelo @defiantmarcel]

Cuánto daño nos hizo como generación Les Amours Imaginaires hace 16 años que salió lol.

[Marcelo @defiantmarcel]

Crecer es darse cuenta que la mejor parte de Romance Sonámbulo de García Lorca no es la que comienza “Verde que te quiero verde”, sino la que comienza “Compadre, quiero cambiar mi caballo por su casa”.

[Marcelo @defiantmarcel]

Hoy ando bien Can you sing with all the colors of the mountain? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

[sofi @freddyrosalie]

latinos characters written by latinos are so good, not one mention of their abuela so far

[Celebrity Tailor @KLASSIQTUNEZ]

The Devil Wears Prada is peak millennial experience

2006: Be free! Follow your dreams!
2026: I will do anything for financial security

[old toons @oldtoons_]

It is an unwritten rule to always quote this Diva when removing a large coat coming in.

[Marcelo @defiantmarcel]

Thinking about king Ashurnasirpal today.

[Marcelo @defiantmarcel]

Absolutely despise airline pricing algorithms. It’s like “oh did you just search this flight? Surprise it’s 100 dollars more expensive now than when you googled it 5 minutes ago. Searched it again? It’s another 100 dollars more now 🤑”

[Sam Rosenfeld @sam_rosenfeld]

the modern professor's feeling of warm relief and gratitude at encountering artisanal, human-crafted bad writing while grading papers

[Marcelo @defiantmarcel]

“Conspiracy theories are fake because they’re just a cover-up” for even more delusional shit is such a wild take. Like wtf do you mean Agartha is fake because it’s trying to cover up an elite in underground facilities controlling the world by disseminating esoteric beliefs.

[Marcelo @defiantmarcel]

Acabo de ver la película más reciente de Michel Franco.

O sea, quién le sigue financiando sus proyectos? Por dios, por favor, ya paren. 😩

[Marcelo @defiantmarcel]

Hace dos semanas me lastimé el hombro sin razón aparente mientras me cambiaba de ropa. Hoy mi maestra de yoga me dijo que era por algo de chakra del corazón, que tenía que dejar de llevar un peso que no me correspondía.

Yo, en mi momento más místico.

[Marcelo @defiantmarcel]

Detesto la palabra “encimera”

[Marcelo @defiantmarcel]

Me acabo de enterar que hoy hubiera sido el cumpleaños 100 de mi abuelo.

[iwsfutcmd will see you at VC5 @iwsfutcmd]

ironically, this is the most common word order around the world, by a smidgen

SOV (Subject-Object-Verb, "The farmer the duck killed", e.g. Hindi, Japanese, Turkish) is slightly more common (41%) than SVO ("The farmer killed the duck", e.g. Mandarin, English, Vietnamese) (35%)

VSO (Classical Arabic, Tagalog, Welsh) is uncommon but not rare (7%)

VOS (Malagasy, most Mayan languages inc. Q’eqchi’, Classical, and Yucatec, Ojibwe) is quite rare but still reasonably-widely spread geographically (2%)

OSV & OVS are *exceedingly* rare, only generally found deep in the Amazon and a few one-off languages in random places around the world

(note: this is in reference to *default* word order. in many languages, especially highly inflected ones, word order can be free but there's still a fallback, unmarked order)

[Marcelo @defiantmarcel]

Flew Chicago-Denver round trip this weekend with Frontier, and both the outbound and return flights had a layover. Both connecting flights were delayed. 🫠

[Marcelo @defiantmarcel]

De hecho, hay una canción de James Blake que lo explica.

[Marcelo @defiantmarcel]

James Blake siempre tiene una canción perfecta para mis estados mentales.