Dec 2026: Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year 2026 is...

'morged'

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it's been a day. a good one. the best of ones.

y'all should read this. the whole little series I just posted too - it takes Obie's thesis to its obvious conclusion. marries it up with what anthropic are reaching for and adds some wine and a frisky teddy and -> LGD

grok (ugh... you bastards spoiled a perfectly good word) that and you grok ai development

#ai #programming #youhearditherefirst #firstrunneradvantage #gottapeetobehonest

Cool -- SlashDot reports on what made British roads safer, and one of those points is roundabouts. Sure wish we had more of those here in Ontario.

Speaking of which, here's a radical idea: instead of treating a signaled intersection as a four way stop when the lights fail, how about turning it into a roundabout?
#YouHeardItHereFirst :)

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/10/1533256/how-britain-built-some-of-the-worlds-safest-roads

How Britain Built Some of the World's Safest Roads - Slashdot

Britain's road death rate has declined 22-fold per mile driven since 1950, dropping from 111 deaths per billion miles to approximately 5 today, according to new analysis from Our World in Data. Annual road fatalities fell from 5,000-7,000 deaths in the 1920s and 1930s to 1,700 in recent years despit...

I've been talking with the kids, who have friends from the GTA. And we realized that Ottawa doesn't have a similar acronym.

Until now.

Greater Ottawa Including Nepean and Kanata.

GOINK

#ottawa #YouHeardItHereFirst

**Thwack** is *officially* the word that describes the sound of “leather on willow” #cricket #linguistics #makeitso #youhearditherefirst #davebarragreeswithme #thwack #tellyourfriends
Florence Road are going places
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#BlogTour | #BookReview: The Grapevine by Kate Kemp @Phoenix_Bks @Tr4cyF3nt0n #TheGrapevine #YouHeardItHereFirst #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles

"Australia, 1979. It's the height of summer and on a quiet suburban cul-de-sac a housewife is scrubbing the yellow and white chequered tiles of her bathroom floor. But all is not as it seems. For one thing, it's 3 a.m. For another, she is trying desperately to remove all traces of blood before they stain.…

http://damppebbles.com/2025/03/11/blogtour-bookreview-the-grapevine-by-kate-kemp/

#BlogTour | #BookReview: The Grapevine by Kate Kemp @Phoenix_Bks @Tr4cyF3nt0n #TheGrapevine #YouHeardItHereFirst #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles

“Australia, 1979. It’s the height of summer and on a quiet suburban cul-de-sac a housewife is scrubbing the yellow and white chequered tiles of her bathroom floor. But all is not as it …

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Next big thing: Stubai Schokolade #youhearditherefirst
@randulo ‘spoontula to surpass spork as every-day-carry eating utensil’ news now… #YouHeardItHereFirst
I called the return of The Landlady a few years ago at Dicks. I think this summer will be the return of the stand-alone Asse Festival. It’s time. I also think the unofficial name of #mondegreen should be The Asse Festival. #phish #youhearditherefirst