Twitter Bookmarks for July 2025

I love single sign on because you only have to sign on once, 8 times a day

— barrald (@barrald) July 29, 2025

maryland is the most pathetic state shape ever. like "oh yeah no i don't need a lot of land, ill just take your scraps. that's fine i'll take this fuckass area and i don't need anything else. sorry for bothering you." type shit. id be embarrassed to be proud to be from maryland

— cumweiser (@cumweiser) July 26, 2025

My coworker has been bragging about her husband’s potato salad and she brought some in to share - it has potatoes, tuna, eggs, and mayo. No seasonings. It’s like something you would give a Komodo dragon on its birthday.

— snozzberry (@snozzberry) July 25, 2025

Here's my take on Colbert: he was originally a genuine conservative Christian. He found that he could get laughs by slightly exaggerating his actual beliefs. The act worked because he was affectionately lampooning people like himself. The dissonance of getting approval for

— robkroese (@robkroese) July 24, 2025

The most essential stabilizing feature of a society is a status hierarchy that young people—especially young men—can reliably climb by following a clear and pro-social set of rules. 1/

— paulnovosad (@paulnovosad) July 22, 2025

'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". ' (found via HN)

— sridatta (@sridatta) July 21, 2025

Losing it over this therapy horse that vigorously plays the piano to wake kids up from anesthesia

— bogwitchbooks (@bogwitchbooks) July 20, 2025

Basic History for the Uninformed: 1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state. 2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state. 3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt,

— ImtiazMadmood (@ImtiazMadmood) July 17, 2025

English town names tell a lot of history. Anything ending in -caster, -cester or -chester was a Roman fort. -bury and -borough are Saxon forts. If it ends in -by it was settled by vikings (by is still the Swedish and Norwegian word for village.) -ford is a river crossing.

— agraybee (@agraybee) July 16, 2025

Some words go together like jelly and peanut butter… wait, that sounds super weird. A pair of words that is used in a fixed order in an idiomatic expression is called an ‘irreversible binomial.’ ‘Peanut butter and jelly’ is an example of an irreversible binomial.

— MerriamWebster (@MerriamWebster) July 16, 2025

The NYT published a piece by Omer Bartov accusing Israel of genocide. His defense of Hamas’ human shields is “What else can they do?" and then all blame is shifted to Israel. Apparently, if you’re weaker, using civilians as cover is fine. No solutions, just excuses. Detail: 1/

— Aizenberg55 (@Aizenberg55) July 15, 2025

What’s your favorite Simpsons pamphlet, magazine, or book?

— Criminalsimpson (@Criminalsimpson) July 14, 2025

So I asked Grok 4 to tell me it's opinions on 10 controversial topics. This particular query was answered in 11s, meaning, it didn't go out and search for results but answered them solely from within its training dataset. Are its answers left-wing, right-wing, or centrist?

— robertgraham (@robertgraham) July 11, 2025

In 1977, Iran was one of America’s closest allies. By 1979, it was chanting “Death to America.” What changed? Jimmy Carter. He betrayed our ally, empowered the Ayatollah, and gave birth to 46 years of terror. Here’s just one way Carter broke the world

— RodDMartin (@RodDMartin) July 8, 2025

because when men stopped dancing we lost the masculine dance forms. now the available dance patterns don't speak to us. bring back masculine dancing

— MasterTimBlais (@MasterTimBlais) July 5, 2025

A strange part of adulthood that no one talks about, is were all homesick for a place and time that no longer exists, and that we can never revisit.

— ThrillaRilla369 (@ThrillaRilla369) July 5, 2025

— Thuislander (@Thuislander) July 2, 2025

— ConceptualJames (@ConceptualJames) July 2, 2025

A reminder that Brandon Jacobs was a bruising 6-foot-4, 264-pound running back in the NFL. Reminder necessary because his son, Clemson freshman Brayden, makes him look like Darren Sproles. https:// x.com/BrandonJacobs2 7/status/1940195169883890070/video/1 …

— Jon_Blau (@Jon_Blau) July 2, 2025