Andy Hollandbeck
@logophilius.bsky.social
Saturday Evening Post managing editor, clarinetist, mediocre pianist, writer, and lapsed peevologist.
He who sows thorns should not go barefoot.
He who sows thorns should not go barefoot.
I personally want to see more statues of our current president erected, but only so, a little bit down the road, I can experience the joy of watching them be pulled down to the raucous cheers of a delighted crowd.
February 19, 2026 at 7:23 PM
I personally want to see more statues of our current president erected, but only so, a little bit down the road, I can experience the joy of watching them be pulled down to the raucous cheers of a delighted crowd.
There's a big-ass hockey game going on right now. You ever wonder why it's called "hockey"?
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In a Word: Hockey, Meet Puck | The Saturday Evening Post
Who put the hock in hockey?
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February 19, 2026 at 7:16 PM
There's a big-ass hockey game going on right now. You ever wonder why it's called "hockey"?
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Today, fucks were given.
February 19, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Today, fucks were given.
To be fair, not all conservatives are low-intelligence. Some of them are extremely smart and evil.
A decades-long study suggests that men with higher intelligence quotient ratings are less likely to hold conservative political views.
Higher IQ leads to lower conservatism in men in decades-long study
A decades-long study suggests that men with higher intelligence quotient ratings are less likely to hold conservative political views.The study comes from researchers at Saarland University and Philipps-University Marburg, institutions in Germany.According to PsyPost, "The team based their research ...
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February 19, 2026 at 2:44 PM
To be fair, not all conservatives are low-intelligence. Some of them are extremely smart and evil.
Totally explains the right's attack on higher education, doesn't it?
A decades-long study suggests that men with higher intelligence quotient ratings are less likely to hold conservative political views.
Higher IQ leads to lower conservatism in men in decades-long study
A decades-long study suggests that men with higher intelligence quotient ratings are less likely to hold conservative political views.The study comes from researchers at Saarland University and Philipps-University Marburg, institutions in Germany.According to PsyPost, "The team based their research ...
bit.ly
February 19, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Totally explains the right's attack on higher education, doesn't it?
A life without coffee? Puh-leeze!
My internal organs would seize!
There is no greater curse!
Not a thing could be worse!
(Except for a life without cheese.)
#alimerickaday
My internal organs would seize!
There is no greater curse!
Not a thing could be worse!
(Except for a life without cheese.)
#alimerickaday
February 18, 2026 at 10:42 PM
A life without coffee? Puh-leeze!
My internal organs would seize!
There is no greater curse!
Not a thing could be worse!
(Except for a life without cheese.)
#alimerickaday
My internal organs would seize!
There is no greater curse!
Not a thing could be worse!
(Except for a life without cheese.)
#alimerickaday
Backpfeifengesicht.
I repeat: Backpfeifengesicht.
I repeat: Backpfeifengesicht.
Emmer: "Another reform they claim they want is they want ICE agents to identify themselves, to show identification. But they don't want identification for voters in elections. I mean, this stuff is just intellectually inconsistent."
February 18, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Backpfeifengesicht.
I repeat: Backpfeifengesicht.
I repeat: Backpfeifengesicht.
To some it might seem recondite
To be drunk on a Tuesday night
And having good times
Writing limerick rhymes
And have them come out, well, all right.
#alimerickaday
To be drunk on a Tuesday night
And having good times
Writing limerick rhymes
And have them come out, well, all right.
#alimerickaday
February 18, 2026 at 4:03 AM
To some it might seem recondite
To be drunk on a Tuesday night
And having good times
Writing limerick rhymes
And have them come out, well, all right.
#alimerickaday
To be drunk on a Tuesday night
And having good times
Writing limerick rhymes
And have them come out, well, all right.
#alimerickaday
It was delicious, but my body is telling me that tres leches is dos leches too many.
February 17, 2026 at 11:01 PM
It was delicious, but my body is telling me that tres leches is dos leches too many.
According to the clocks around me, I am 6 minutes, 2 minutes, and 1 minute early and 2 minutes and 4 minutes late to this meeting. #time
February 17, 2026 at 6:57 PM
According to the clocks around me, I am 6 minutes, 2 minutes, and 1 minute early and 2 minutes and 4 minutes late to this meeting. #time
"The Good Old Days" by A Certain Kennedy
By turning vaccines into "maybes,"
I'm bringing back measles and rabies.
And if I have my way,
By the end of the day
I'll bring back thalidomide babies.
#alimerickaday
By turning vaccines into "maybes,"
I'm bringing back measles and rabies.
And if I have my way,
By the end of the day
I'll bring back thalidomide babies.
#alimerickaday
February 16, 2026 at 10:31 PM
"The Good Old Days" by A Certain Kennedy
By turning vaccines into "maybes,"
I'm bringing back measles and rabies.
And if I have my way,
By the end of the day
I'll bring back thalidomide babies.
#alimerickaday
By turning vaccines into "maybes,"
I'm bringing back measles and rabies.
And if I have my way,
By the end of the day
I'll bring back thalidomide babies.
#alimerickaday
Headline writers: Can you please cut it out with CLOBBERED, PULVERIZED, SLAMMED, EVISCERATED, etc. in headlines? It reeks of sensationalism, not journalism.
February 16, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Headline writers: Can you please cut it out with CLOBBERED, PULVERIZED, SLAMMED, EVISCERATED, etc. in headlines? It reeks of sensationalism, not journalism.
Reposted by Andy Hollandbeck
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: the weaponizing of normal speech disfluency is normal practice in political journalism
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 8:23 PM
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: the weaponizing of normal speech disfluency is normal practice in political journalism
I watched "Colossal" last night. It's a very bizarre concept well and elegantly presented. It's exactly the kind of short story I'd want to write.
The final expression on Anne Hathaway's face — literally the last 2 seconds of the movie — is both LOL funny and painfully meaningful.
The final expression on Anne Hathaway's face — literally the last 2 seconds of the movie — is both LOL funny and painfully meaningful.
February 16, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I watched "Colossal" last night. It's a very bizarre concept well and elegantly presented. It's exactly the kind of short story I'd want to write.
The final expression on Anne Hathaway's face — literally the last 2 seconds of the movie — is both LOL funny and painfully meaningful.
The final expression on Anne Hathaway's face — literally the last 2 seconds of the movie — is both LOL funny and painfully meaningful.
Dear historians: "Ruination" is right there as a title for your book about the 2nd Tr*mp administration.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
February 16, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Dear historians: "Ruination" is right there as a title for your book about the 2nd Tr*mp administration.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
From the line at Barnes and Noble, you'd think it was December 24.
February 14, 2026 at 7:54 PM
From the line at Barnes and Noble, you'd think it was December 24.
Dictionary (and dictionary-loving) folk, if you can get to Bloomington, IN, next weekend, you should register for "The Whole World in a Book," a symposium celebrating (and exploring) the Madeline Kripke collection. (I'm not associated, just a fan.)
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The Whole World in a Book Symposium
In conjunction with The Whole World in a Book exhibition, the Lilly Library is excited to offer a day of enlightening lectures on all things lexicographical.
libraries.indiana.edu
February 13, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Dictionary (and dictionary-loving) folk, if you can get to Bloomington, IN, next weekend, you should register for "The Whole World in a Book," a symposium celebrating (and exploring) the Madeline Kripke collection. (I'm not associated, just a fan.)
libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-librar...
libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-librar...
Maybe you can relate:
Well, hell ... come on now ... little luck?
Stupid-ass piece of shit ... mother-fuck!
Suck my cock you damn whore!
I won't try anymore!
The lid on this pickle jar's stuck!
#alimerickaday
Well, hell ... come on now ... little luck?
Stupid-ass piece of shit ... mother-fuck!
Suck my cock you damn whore!
I won't try anymore!
The lid on this pickle jar's stuck!
#alimerickaday
February 13, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Maybe you can relate:
Well, hell ... come on now ... little luck?
Stupid-ass piece of shit ... mother-fuck!
Suck my cock you damn whore!
I won't try anymore!
The lid on this pickle jar's stuck!
#alimerickaday
Well, hell ... come on now ... little luck?
Stupid-ass piece of shit ... mother-fuck!
Suck my cock you damn whore!
I won't try anymore!
The lid on this pickle jar's stuck!
#alimerickaday
This just reeks of "I survived a childhood of weekly spankings and no seat belts, therefore spanking is perfectly fine and seat belt laws are overreach."
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 13, 2026 at 2:50 PM
This just reeks of "I survived a childhood of weekly spankings and no seat belts, therefore spanking is perfectly fine and seat belt laws are overreach."
"Trump Administration Declares Smog a Health Food"
February 12, 2026 at 10:29 PM
"Trump Administration Declares Smog a Health Food"
I would be willing to bet
You don't know that I play clarinet.
And it ain't no sin
To include myself in
This impressive and artistic set:
#alimerickaday
You don't know that I play clarinet.
And it ain't no sin
To include myself in
This impressive and artistic set:
#alimerickaday
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 PM
I would be willing to bet
You don't know that I play clarinet.
And it ain't no sin
To include myself in
This impressive and artistic set:
#alimerickaday
You don't know that I play clarinet.
And it ain't no sin
To include myself in
This impressive and artistic set:
#alimerickaday
"I don't know what you're complaining about. This administration simply cannot be any more transparently racist and fascist!"
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Transparency, like all the rest of this administration’s vocabulary, has lost its meaning.
#EpsteinFiles
#PamBondi
#TrumpAdministration
"I think I am the most honest human being that God ever created."
Don🤥ld J Trump 🇷🇺
Transparency, like all the rest of this administration’s vocabulary, has lost its meaning.
#EpsteinFiles
#PamBondi
#TrumpAdministration
"I think I am the most honest human being that God ever created."
Don🤥ld J Trump 🇷🇺
February 12, 2026 at 6:39 PM
"I don't know what you're complaining about. This administration simply cannot be any more transparently racist and fascist!"
I'm doing what I can to make backpfeifengesicht as well-known as schadenfreude, because both are so salient whenever I see news about the current administration.
Don't know what it means? Google it; that will only help my cause.
Don't know what it means? Google it; that will only help my cause.
February 12, 2026 at 5:10 PM
I'm doing what I can to make backpfeifengesicht as well-known as schadenfreude, because both are so salient whenever I see news about the current administration.
Don't know what it means? Google it; that will only help my cause.
Don't know what it means? Google it; that will only help my cause.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Remember that "we're pulling 700 agents out of MN" was a mollifying way of saying "we're keeping 2,000 agents in MN."
Remember that "we're pulling 700 agents out of MN" was a mollifying way of saying "we're keeping 2,000 agents in MN."
Leave with a big Minnesota winter boot up your ass, Nazi fucks!
Border czar Tom Homan: Immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota coming to an end
Homan addressed reporters Thursday morning at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, the base for the ongoing federal immigration operation in Minnesota.
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February 12, 2026 at 4:10 PM
I'll believe it when I see it.
Remember that "we're pulling 700 agents out of MN" was a mollifying way of saying "we're keeping 2,000 agents in MN."
Remember that "we're pulling 700 agents out of MN" was a mollifying way of saying "we're keeping 2,000 agents in MN."
I'm spending the rest of the day pondering the ramifications of this question: Instead of paying influencers, why didn't they just use AI?
Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon paying influencers $400k-$600k to post months of AI hype content. Absolutely busted, failed industry, embarrassing era
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Google and Microsoft offer lucrative deals to promote AI, but even $500,000 won't sway some creators
Tech companies including Google and Microsoft are paying influencers hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote AI products.
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February 11, 2026 at 7:38 PM
I'm spending the rest of the day pondering the ramifications of this question: Instead of paying influencers, why didn't they just use AI?