Feb. 4, 2024, 12:19 p.m.

Perfect Sentences, 58

Perfect Sentences

You're on your own out there with those man-eating semicolons.

Steering the Craft, Ursula K. Le Guin


A conversation ensues in which the mugger starts recommending adaptive technology.

KJ Charles on Bluesky

Submitted by Kelsey.


If you survive long enough, polemic becomes canon.

Richard Barbrook in an interview with Nathan Schnieder, 2023


Take it from someone sitting here on a deadline: writing is the most miserable, solitary[,] and tedious activity in which a person can take part, with the possible exception of golf.

"Ava DuVernay takes on an unconventional adaptation in new film 'Origin'", Sean Burns for WBUR

Submitted by Keith. I've never played real golf so I can't speak to the veracity of the statement but do agree that writing is simultaneously the greatest and worst activity in the world. There's a thesis to be written somewhere about how part of the derangement of Online derives from the fact that the written word has such primacy and writing is, in fact, the preferred pastime of the deranged.


But it’s also NOT NOT a moon of Venus.

Twitter thread about quasi-moons by Latif Nasser

Submitted by yuva. Runner-up sentence:

Once Skiff realized Zoozve wasn’t a threat, he stopped tracking it.

Sentence about actual astronomy or scene in a Murderbot book? Who can say!


Tucker Carlson, uninhibited by any intellectually honest grasp of U.S. history, proclaimed that Chauvin was about to be “lynched.”

"The retconning of George Floyd", Radley Balko's newsletter The Watch

Submitted by Melissa.


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