Jesse Sheidlower
@jessesword.com
Lexicographer. The F-Word (new edition Nov. ’24!), sfdictionary.com, ex-OED, coder (mainly Perl and Python), Threesome Tollbooth #cocktail bar manager, adjunct @ Columbia.
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Jesse Sheidlower
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· Oct 22
News: the 4th edition of The F-Word is coming out in two weeks from Oxford UP! Everything you could want to know about the word _fuck_.
This is a major revision: 500 pages with 150 new entries, 150 antedatings, & 2,500 new quotations. See link below for more info!
jessesword.com/fword.html
This is a major revision: 500 pages with 150 new entries, 150 antedatings, & 2,500 new quotations. See link below for more info!
jessesword.com/fword.html
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Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
OK, Pluribus is awesome and I cannot wait to watch the rest of it.
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
OK, Pluribus is awesome and I cannot wait to watch the rest of it.
My sense of what words might count as "common" vocabulary is, I think, rather different from most people's. Still: is the word _rudder_ really something that anyone needs to have explained?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My sense of what words might count as "common" vocabulary is, I think, rather different from most people's. Still: is the word _rudder_ really something that anyone needs to have explained?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
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This seems like a SLIGHT overreaction to some British children saying the word "candy"
November 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This seems like a SLIGHT overreaction to some British children saying the word "candy"
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The second of the English dictionary #WotY2025 is out. Collins has gone for 'vibe coding'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Vibe coding' named word of the year by Collins Dictionary
The art of making an app by describing it to artificial intelligence (AI) tops 10 new terms on the shortlist.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The second of the English dictionary #WotY2025 is out. Collins has gone for 'vibe coding'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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With the assault-by-sub-sandwich trial in progress here's a re-up of my post, "Is a sandwich a weapon? And if so, does it enjoy constitutional protection?" blogs.illinois.edu/view/25
Is a sandwich a weapon? And if so, does it enjoy constitutional protection?
blogs.illinois.edu
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
With the assault-by-sub-sandwich trial in progress here's a re-up of my post, "Is a sandwich a weapon? And if so, does it enjoy constitutional protection?" blogs.illinois.edu/view/25
Remembered to buy tickets to GlobalFEST; last year I left it too late and missed out.
www.lincolncenter.org/series/linco...
cc @activecultures.bsky.social
www.lincolncenter.org/series/linco...
cc @activecultures.bsky.social
globalFEST · Lincoln Center
The cultural catalysts at globalFEST have been promoting the world's greatest musical traditions for over 20 years. This annual festival features an eclectic array of…
www.lincolncenter.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Remembered to buy tickets to GlobalFEST; last year I left it too late and missed out.
www.lincolncenter.org/series/linco...
cc @activecultures.bsky.social
www.lincolncenter.org/series/linco...
cc @activecultures.bsky.social
In case you haven't done this yet, you should donate and get the great first issue! It has terrific pieces by @korystamper.bsky.social, @emckean.bsky.social, and even people I don't know!
We're so close—help us get over the finish line!
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Nick Norlen’s Paper Airplane is raising $10K for USCRI—and we’re just $2,500 away.
Donate now and get the debut issue FREE: PaperAirplane.pub
November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
In case you haven't done this yet, you should donate and get the great first issue! It has terrific pieces by @korystamper.bsky.social, @emckean.bsky.social, and even people I don't know!
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Plunging headlong into the 21st Century, we are now on Bluesky. You can still follow us on the platform formerly known as Twitter @IrishTextsSoc and our website irishtextssociety.org
Irish Texts Society
This is the website of the Irish Texts Society which contains information about the Society, news, events and publications.
irishtextssociety.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Plunging headlong into the 21st Century, we are now on Bluesky. You can still follow us on the platform formerly known as Twitter @IrishTextsSoc and our website irishtextssociety.org
This weekend's sourdough effort. Looked and tasted pretty great, but I probably overproofed it a bit.
November 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This weekend's sourdough effort. Looked and tasted pretty great, but I probably overproofed it a bit.
Got that taken care of. 5m.
November 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Got that taken care of. 5m.
I was looking at a charity event based in German-speaking countries, for which they're using the hashtag #kinderlachenschenker, and they give the English version as #childrenslaughtergiver, and—oh dear. I don't think the alternate reading is something they're looking for.
October 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I was looking at a charity event based in German-speaking countries, for which they're using the hashtag #kinderlachenschenker, and they give the English version as #childrenslaughtergiver, and—oh dear. I don't think the alternate reading is something they're looking for.
If you need a break from , you can distract yourself w/two new fandom entries in the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "newfan" & its frequent plural "newfen"! Both fr. 1945–, the former now rare.
sfdictionary.com/view/3036/ne...
sfdictionary.com/view/3037/ne...
sfdictionary.com/view/3036/ne...
sfdictionary.com/view/3037/ne...
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction: newfan
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
sfdictionary.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
If you need a break from , you can distract yourself w/two new fandom entries in the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "newfan" & its frequent plural "newfen"! Both fr. 1945–, the former now rare.
sfdictionary.com/view/3036/ne...
sfdictionary.com/view/3037/ne...
sfdictionary.com/view/3036/ne...
sfdictionary.com/view/3037/ne...
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It's all hands on deck. I am shamelessly asking, one more time, for reposts and signal boost as this bird glides toward a landing in a few hours. It's gonna be a beautiful book, and there aren't going to be very many available afterwards!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow
Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.
www.kickstarter.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It's all hands on deck. I am shamelessly asking, one more time, for reposts and signal boost as this bird glides toward a landing in a few hours. It's gonna be a beautiful book, and there aren't going to be very many available afterwards!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
The OED on _aunt_ n. sense 1.b.
October 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The OED on _aunt_ n. sense 1.b.
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five days and a few hours to go and at this point I'm just gonna be shameless: if you can help signal-boost this thing, I'd be grateful. I've done very well through my own channels, but haven't had much luck breaking out beyond them.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow
Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.
www.kickstarter.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
five days and a few hours to go and at this point I'm just gonna be shameless: if you can help signal-boost this thing, I'd be grateful. I've done very well through my own channels, but haven't had much luck breaking out beyond them.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
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A few thoughts on Philip Pullman's new book THE ROSE FIELD (minor spoilers) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Philip Pullman’s Anti-Escapist Fantasy
In his fiction, the author of “The Golden Compass” tells us how to love this world. It isn’t easy.
www.theatlantic.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
A few thoughts on Philip Pullman's new book THE ROSE FIELD (minor spoilers) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
This is an absolutely delightful essay.
October 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is an absolutely delightful essay.
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Smart, thoughtful @nytimes.com review of UNABRIDGED by Dan Piepenbring, which also mentions my efforts to get the farting sense of "Dutch oven" into the dictionary
Wut? It’s in the Dictionary. A New Book Explains How.
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Smart, thoughtful @nytimes.com review of UNABRIDGED by Dan Piepenbring, which also mentions my efforts to get the farting sense of "Dutch oven" into the dictionary
Finally saw a film regarded as one of the best of the 21st C, & it was AWFUL. Not as in "I hate this director" (there are some; not this), but genuinely terrible. And crix are all "Mysterious!" instead of "Nonsensical!" I'm not a film guy, but I really don't get it: doesn't feel like a taste thing.
October 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Finally saw a film regarded as one of the best of the 21st C, & it was AWFUL. Not as in "I hate this director" (there are some; not this), but genuinely terrible. And crix are all "Mysterious!" instead of "Nonsensical!" I'm not a film guy, but I really don't get it: doesn't feel like a taste thing.
Everything is bad, but at least we have the Dapper Louvre Heist Guy photo.
October 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Everything is bad, but at least we have the Dapper Louvre Heist Guy photo.
Happy publication day, Moby-Dick! Today in 1851!
(Actually, it's the British edition, titled _The Whale_, that was published today; the US ed came out on November 14. But you knew that.)
(Actually, it's the British edition, titled _The Whale_, that was published today; the US ed came out on November 14. But you knew that.)
October 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Happy publication day, Moby-Dick! Today in 1851!
(Actually, it's the British edition, titled _The Whale_, that was published today; the US ed came out on November 14. But you knew that.)
(Actually, it's the British edition, titled _The Whale_, that was published today; the US ed came out on November 14. But you knew that.)
Impressive array of lots in this auction, but surely the best is this item, Whitman drafts of three poems from Leaves of Grass:
www.swanngalleries.com/auction-lot/...
www.swanngalleries.com/auction-lot/...
Lot - Walt Whitman. Manuscript Signed, draft of three complete poems from his Leaves of Grass. Np, [1891?].
www.swanngalleries.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Impressive array of lots in this auction, but surely the best is this item, Whitman drafts of three poems from Leaves of Grass:
www.swanngalleries.com/auction-lot/...
www.swanngalleries.com/auction-lot/...