Ira Lightman

maths storyteller, poet, maker of public art, plagiarism sleuth, PhD truther, of a decent basis, truth wilful outlier

[Ira Lightman @iralightman]

I have a new book out on Kindle, a sort of pastiche of Briggflatts (in its mode, and haunted by its music).

https://t.co/N9z21bi90O

[Kevin Daly @kevinddaly]

The fact that people think Betty White improvised The Great Herring War while Bea and Rue corpsed (they were acting) is a testament to the strength of the writing and performances on The Golden Girls.

Everything in that scene was written, blocked, and rehearsed.

[Lauren Milberger @LaurenMilberger]

1) She did NOT improv this
2) 4-camera sitcoms are rehearsed & scripted within an inch of their life
3) It’s network, it can't run long, plus new stuff can mean the well-rehearsed cameras cut off your head/miss something
4) The writers confirmed 🔼
Good acting isn't improv!

[geovanni @ProvidedbyGeo]

It didn’t, nor does it matter dumbass, you’re still wrong. It’s been debunked already. Providing a “source” that just pulls up similar tweets isn’t a source. LMFAO! Especially when writers who worked on scene have stated they NEVER improvised.

LMFAOOOOOOOO!!!!! You look stupid as fuck.

[mmoodysings @mmoodyjazz]

I wish ya’ll would STOP with this lie. On a scripted sitcom with brilliant writers, that dialogue was in fact scripted! Enough!!

[S.L. Falls is ✨️writing✨️ @S_L_Falls]

Writers, be true.

[mariana Z @mariana057]

How many times do you have to click 'I accept cookies' before they send you the cookies?

[💗 @ma1ybe]

This man murdered Chloe Devey Waterhouse by stabbing her. Headline glorifies him as a maths graduate while reducing her to the ‘sweetheart’ of a violent man who didn’t love her. Chloe held a first-class maths degree and a Master’s in statistics.

[Ira Lightman @iralightman]

@MathewJLyons Thank you for gathering all these

[UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest]

Here is Roger Ebert's first paragraph of his review for "The Mummy" and it is why he was the greatest film critic to ever live

[Jack Parker @JackParkr]

Remembering Bonnie Tyler’s brilliantly random advert for Jaffa Cakes today.

One of the wackiest things ever broadcast on TV.

Rest in peace

[alexa @alexadoingstuff]

You could literally land a plane by yourself after your instructor jumps to his death mid flight and they’d still use a picture of a man

[goma @soigomaa]

The kiss happened in Sydney in August 2023. In front of cameras. In front of her teammates. In front of the world. She said it wasn't consensual. Immediately. Publicly. Without hesitation. What happened next was designed to break her.
The Spanish football federation closed ranks around him. Former teammates were pressured to support his version of events. His allies called her a liar. His mother locked herself in a church and went on hunger strike in protest at how her son was being treated. D3ath threats arrived at Jenni's door. She didn't change her story. She filed a criminal complaint. Testified in court. Sat in front of a judge and described exactly what had happened to her on the happiest day of her career.
Luis Rubiales resigned in disgrace. Was banned from football by FIFA. In February 2025 a Spanish court found him guilty of s3xual a55ault. The judge ruled that a non-consensual kiss is s3xual a55ault. Period. She held her ground against an institution that tried to destroy her. And the institution fell. Her name is Jenni Hermoso. And she never changed her story once.

[Richard Lawson @rilaws]

Odyssey is terrific. Comfortably seats eight and features the thoughtful engineering touches we’ve come to expect from Honda

[Ira Lightman @iralightman]

@anarchpetditty @vjoshuaadams But to return to the question of that Canto, here's my favourite British poet Allen Fisher, who began with a deep analysis of Olson and others. I find I have to have read lots of Fisher in order to contextualise any page, and he's very hard to anthologise
https://t.co/iSOnO0CVmU

[The Vertlartnic @TheVertlartnic]

Long Covid Unlikely To Explain Increase In People Too Ill To Work, Because That Would Be Too Obvious, Say Experts

[Ira Lightman @iralightman]

@anarchpetditty @vjoshuaadams It's a long form project though?

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

It’s a pity the Higgs boson’s deep impact hasn’t been communicated better.
It wasn’t profound because it was unexpected, but because it gave overwhelming evidence that the vacuum of our Universe behaves, in a deep sense, like a superconductor. Permeated by a field that breaks a fundamental symmetry of nature and shapes the forces within it.
Democritus imagined atoms more than 2,000 years before they became experimentally real to us. That didn’t make the discovery any less revolutionary. The Higgs was that kind of moment.

[Royally Sage @sage1411]

My brother posts this every year in the family chat on the 4th. Still hilarious.