Ted Mackey

he/him, musician and PR. awk fionnula what about ye? i thought i smelt vinegar x

[Ted Mackey @eddardmackey]

What if @dragraceukbbc took place in 1750? (Yes, I have too much time on my hands and this is the only use I get out of my music degree) @BluHydrangea_ @Divinadecampo @ChipShopBird

[Ted Mackey @eddardmackey]

@antpaxton @exhaustdata In the very first scene both Horatio and Marcellus see the ghost, before Hamlet is even introduced. They even recognise it as the deceased King. So to me, it’s implied to be a literal supernatural entity (that also has a symbolic role obviously).

[Ted Mackey @eddardmackey]

@MaiHwa_ @goodmanw the reason it’s a ‘rap recap’ is because this is literally dactylic hexameter, the metre of the original Greek (or as close as English can get, we don’t have pitch accent).

[Ted Mackey @eddardmackey]

A national anthem about Jesus coming to England with Joseph of Arimathea in order to learn tin mining from the celts feels very Mormon coded

[conor @conorwfc]

0 reason this shouldn’t be the national anthem btw. Pisses all over God Save the King.

[Ted Mackey @eddardmackey]

@seanwhelanRTE Micheál Martin attended a CoW meeting back in February - the 35 countries (34 + Ukraine) I think includes anyone who has been represented at a meeting?

https://t.co/RQcTch6Ajr

[Ted Mackey @eddardmackey]

@yorksranter @SeanUlidia @PSNIBelfast I know the acronym is RN in French, I already pointed that out in the post above? I didn’t realise it was a generic football fan trope though.

[Ted Mackey @eddardmackey]

Astaghfirullah! This is unacceptable. Peering into ladies’ private quarters?! It’s not proper! Worse than that, it’s haram! Lower your gaze!

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Trump:

The Islamic Republic of Japan attacked our aircraft carrier.

[Ted Mackey @eddardmackey]

@zoebread hello just fyi this can be decoded (in case the name it encodes is your real legal name and you don’t want that out there!)

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

I enjoyed every second of this interview. Which makes one of us…

[Ted Mackey @eddardmackey]

to experience the same per capita death toll as an gorta mór, Britain would need to redo World War II thirteen times in a row

[rosa @RO5A7INA]

like good on ireland for fighting for their independence but they were very much complicit in british imperialism and i don't get why people on here commend specifically the irish so much for fighting against british imperialism.. well the reason is pretty obvious but still

[Ted Mackey @eddardmackey]

“The cult of Lesley appears to have arisen very quickly. Her three recorded epithets – abbeycentre, forestside, bloomfield – suggest an association with religious devotion, nature, and fertility, although scholars debate whether ‘abbey’ is a later addition by Christian scribes.”

[Ted Mackey @eddardmackey]

millennia from now the archaeologists digging up Belfast a millennial from now are going to conclude that Lesley was some kind of minor deity

[Ted Mackey @eddardmackey]

@MrBruh_II @TRAPPADUNYATRAP @hellspatisserie Belfast is now the global capital for shopping centres named in honour of random woman called Lesley. That’s a bit special.

[Ted Mackey @eddardmackey]

@barfieldgussy day court! (Aaaaaah) fighter of the night court!

[Ted Mackey @eddardmackey]

@jaarosch @theo_nash The Aeneid opens:
Arma virumque cano (lit. Of weapons of man-and I sing). You can render it easily as “I sing of weapons and a man”.

But is it “A” man? Or “THE”man? Does “Arma”here mean weapons? Or war itself? Or should you use ‘arms’ to match the sound?

[Ted Mackey @eddardmackey]

alternatively you can approve this design so i am constantly reminded the concept of money

[Ted Mackey @eddardmackey]

@Revolut please update your etching machines to support cuneiform so I can live my dreams of having a complaint to Ea-Nasir themed debit card to life

[Ted Mackey @eddardmackey]

due to my adhd i frequently forget to inspect the quality of the sumerian copper i buy, as such i assert this is an accessibility feature

[Ted Mackey @eddardmackey]

@n00rdung @Trans_Lykeia To be fair, Wilson makes this exact point in her introduction - and warns that due to her self-imposed metrical constraint (iambic pentameter), she inevitably ends up condensing several Greek words into one English word, even if it’s not completely accurate 1:1.

[Ted Mackey @eddardmackey]

@GarrickKingston @kein_motorrad @Trans_Lykeia I quite like complicated, etymologically it means ‘folded together’ or ‘folded on itself’ in Latin, which is pleasingly similar to πολυτρόπως - as someone who is primarily a Latinist I’ve always just assumed that’s why she chose it?