Vincent Szopa
@fledglinguistic.bsky.social
Writer, techie, macrodata refiner, movie guy, fun inspector. Not a linguist. 💉: Yes 🇺🇦
Yes, one of these shelves was installed incorrectly. I’m leaving it as an Ozymandias-style warning about hubris.
January 12, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Yes, one of these shelves was installed incorrectly. I’m leaving it as an Ozymandias-style warning about hubris.
If you start watching this now, at midnight - or anytime you finish - you’ll have taken in one of the best movies of all time. If that’s not enough, it might just prepare you for a great year of being yourself.
January 1, 2026 at 2:41 AM
If you start watching this now, at midnight - or anytime you finish - you’ll have taken in one of the best movies of all time. If that’s not enough, it might just prepare you for a great year of being yourself.
Right now this stump looks like an agitated cat.
December 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Right now this stump looks like an agitated cat.
Just a slice of an amazing career.
December 16, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Just a slice of an amazing career.
Inside text: “An abundance of thanks to you.”
I sincerely hope the designer of this was inspired by Severance. Or that it was the other way around.
I sincerely hope the designer of this was inspired by Severance. Or that it was the other way around.
December 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Inside text: “An abundance of thanks to you.”
I sincerely hope the designer of this was inspired by Severance. Or that it was the other way around.
I sincerely hope the designer of this was inspired by Severance. Or that it was the other way around.
As I exit a small apartment...
November 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
As I exit a small apartment...
This IS a nice parade.
June 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This IS a nice parade.
Today I learned the ZIP code for non-US addresses is 001, while the international phone code for the US is 001.
June 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Today I learned the ZIP code for non-US addresses is 001, while the international phone code for the US is 001.
Watching the wheels go round and round
#pynchoninpublic
#pynchoninpublic
May 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Watching the wheels go round and round
#pynchoninpublic
#pynchoninpublic
Haven’t read this for a long time. It’s amazing how much I remember of Pynchon's cutting observations and endlessly lyrical humor. His sardonic, head-spinning, bawdy tales are as American as it gets.
May 6, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Haven’t read this for a long time. It’s amazing how much I remember of Pynchon's cutting observations and endlessly lyrical humor. His sardonic, head-spinning, bawdy tales are as American as it gets.
Three greats to have on physical media.
March 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Three greats to have on physical media.
Oh, good, something to agitate me (the content) while making me laugh (the writing).
Thanks @elienyc.bsky.social !
Thanks @elienyc.bsky.social !
March 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Oh, good, something to agitate me (the content) while making me laugh (the writing).
Thanks @elienyc.bsky.social !
Thanks @elienyc.bsky.social !
Laughed out loud at the terse phrases used to tease and intrigue, deployed as quick asides from a supposedly superior mind that Knows. A mind that is deigning to inform the hoi polloi of the Future. Exactly like Chief Executive Dumbass' Apprentice on Twitter.
February 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Laughed out loud at the terse phrases used to tease and intrigue, deployed as quick asides from a supposedly superior mind that Knows. A mind that is deigning to inform the hoi polloi of the Future. Exactly like Chief Executive Dumbass' Apprentice on Twitter.
Sartre on arguing with fascists.
January 23, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Sartre on arguing with fascists.
My first pass at parsing this was:
- questions dog = dog that is a press secretary
- is Trump's pick for adviser
- but the dog has an inconsistent resume
- ergo: yet another terrible choice
- still, cool that a dog even got that job
- hooray English
- questions dog = dog that is a press secretary
- is Trump's pick for adviser
- but the dog has an inconsistent resume
- ergo: yet another terrible choice
- still, cool that a dog even got that job
- hooray English
December 13, 2024 at 2:53 AM
My first pass at parsing this was:
- questions dog = dog that is a press secretary
- is Trump's pick for adviser
- but the dog has an inconsistent resume
- ergo: yet another terrible choice
- still, cool that a dog even got that job
- hooray English
- questions dog = dog that is a press secretary
- is Trump's pick for adviser
- but the dog has an inconsistent resume
- ergo: yet another terrible choice
- still, cool that a dog even got that job
- hooray English