Geek, 言語学者. Ex-Googler & Amazonian. Co-founder of @LOPSA. SRE, Dev/emergency response Ops. For US I’m socialist, but internationally, liberal. Gay. he/him/his.
Apr 20, 2022 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
When I was a queer activist in NC, before Lawrence, when I was a class 2 felon for whom I chose to sleep with, I had an enemy.
He was a US senator named Jesse Helms. He was a vile man. Evil. I hated him.
But I’ve come to the conclusion that Ron DeSantis is worse—much worse.
Jesse Helms was, by all accounts, one of those smarmy “southern gentleman bigot” types. Think angry Lindsey Graham but worse, and ghoulishly enjoying himself. Back then (as until very recently) gay men were hugely overrepresented among Capitol Hill staffers, so I heard about what
Apr 20, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The saga continues:
They’ve apparently made a tweak so that Ukrainian speaking exercises ignore numbers entirely—neither counting towards or against completion—so you can now just say the non-number words and get credit.
An exercise like «одна студент, три студенти, п'ять студентів» (one student, three students, five students) you can speak it all—or just say «студент, студенти, студентів». It ignores the numbers it “can’t hear” and marks you right.
