Erik Wennstrom (Dr. When)

I will be playing at the Band in a Hat Showcase tonight, 5pm, at the Jefferson Street Music Studio! Participants were randomly assigned bandmates and given 6 weeks to prepare a 15-minute set. My band is named Shiver, and I believe we are scheduled to go third.

24 Apr

My band, The Magical Space Wizards from Outer Space will be playing this Thursday (April 30th) at The Orbit Room with The Lennon Beasley Experience. Show starts at 7pm!

28 Dec 2025

My band, The Magical Space Wizards from Outer Space is playing at the Blockhouse on Friday, January 16th, 8pm!

30 Aug 2025

Listening to "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" by @charliejane.bsky.social and I just want to say how much slyness the narrator (Marisa Calin?) manages to inject into the words "by a Lady".

16 Aug 2025

My band will be playing at a benefit for All-Options Pregnancy Resource Center tonight at 7pm! We are the Magical Space Wizards from Outer Space, a folk/emo/metal/ska band, and this is our second show ever! We'll be playing along with The Sera-Tones and Negative Glow

bloomingtondsa.orgBread & Roses Bash: A Fundraiser Party for the  Hoosier Abortion FundBloomington DSA cordially invites you to the first Bread and Roses Bash—an all-ages fundraiser party in support of the Hoosier Abortion Fund. Enjoy snacks, drinks, and live music, and support the only...

16 Aug 2025

The event is called The Bread and Roses Bash, and it begins at 7pm at the I Fell Building (415 W 4th St). Tickets start at $10: bloomingtondsa.org/bash

3 Aug 2025

Fantastic little story about everyone's favorite mathematician / comedy musician. 🧵

Opal@opalescentopal.bsky.social

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

20 June 2025

I'll be playing with my randomly-assigned (but totally awesome) ska/folk/metal/emo band Magical Space Wizards from Outer Space as part of the Band In A Hat Showcase on Sunday (6/22),

20 June 2025

5–7:30pm.We're the 5th out of 9 bands. The show is free! Due to the heat, the location has been moved to the Banneker Community Center (930 W 7th St).

17 June 2025

@standupmaths.bsky.social That beard-growing gag was just *mwah* 😙🤌 Question: Did you intentionally use a shot with a car driving by in the background? Or was that something you discovered in the edit?

2 May 2025

Today (5/1): First of May @jonathancoulton.bsky.social Tomorrow (5/2): No Pants Day Saturday (5/3): Free Comic Book Day Sunday (5/4): Star Wars Day (May the Fourth Be With You) Monday (5/5): Cinco de Mayo It's gonna be a packed weekend!

12 Apr 2025

Finally finished The Shadows of the Apt series (audiobook version). Took me awhile; I wonder if @aptshadow.bsky.social wrote anything else while I was listening. *checks internet* ... oh dear

12 Apr 2025

I'm exaggerating for humor here. I'm not really able to read through an entire series one book after another, so even though I finished "Empire in Black and Gold" back in 2022, I've also read or listened to many many other books, even some that weren't written by @aptshadow.bsky.social

Sometimes I want to know about a thing, but I don't have the right words to do a web search. So I'm asking my favorite linguistics communicators to see if they can help. @gretchenmcc.bsky.social @superlinguo.bsky.social 1/4

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"When she has an accident, I am so surprised because most of the time she is really good about it." If you asked someone to determine whether "most of the time she is really good about it" is *true* or not, they would fall back on the "more than half" definition, 3/4

but that's clearly not what is intended here. The speaker would hardly be surprised by an accident if this person was only careful 40% of the time. Is there a term for this, where there is an accepted "official" meaning, but where that meaning is frequently not what is actually intended? 4/4

If you ask people to define "most", I think most people would say "more than half". But if you look at how the word is used, it often seems to mean something more like "large enough (for some purpose)" or maybe "enough more than half" or even "all but a negligible amount", as in: 2/4

@12tone.nebula.tv I was watching one of your recent videos, and a little footnote popped up, and I was happy to see that it stuck around long enough for me to read it. Later, there was another one, but it was gone before I could read it. 1/4

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Honestly, your videos are far from the worst offenders in this category, but given my vague impression of your online personality, my sense is that you might actually listen to this (hopefully) constructive criticism. 3/4

Based on this same vague impression, I have also made the decision to not rein in my usual tendency to overqualify and hedge my comments. 4/4

So I'd like to humbly request that you leave a bit more time for your footnotes. I often watch YouTube on my TV through the Xbox, and frame-by-framing isn't really possible. 2/4

30 Mar 2025

$6 haul from the Monroe County Public Library book sale, including books by @badmachinery.com and @skottieyoung.bsky.social Also, I found a mint-condition, fancy-ass hardback "Dictionary of the Khazars" (male edition) hiding in the reference section. Also "The Right to Arm Bears".

29 Mar 2025

Everyone keeps telling me to sell my Tesla. And I get it. The CEO is an incomprehensibly shitty snotgoblin who has done a fuckton of damage (and who seems to be playing some weird kind of Nazi-chicken with the country). 1/2

29 Mar 2025

But selling my car doesn't cost him anything and doesn't reduce the number of Teslas on the road. And neither I nor the environment can afford just trashing it, so I'm gonna plaster it with the stickers I get from donating to liberal charities and get something else when it finally falls apart. 2/2

29 Mar 2025

Today is the anniversary of the very first Rickroll!

25 Mar 2025

Happy Våffeldagen everybody! Go out and eat waffles!

14 Mar 2025

Happy Ramadan/Purim/Holi/π-Day!

2 Mar 2025

Name a thing you've done to make a comment short enough to fit into a single post. *replaced three periods with a single ellipsis character*

23 Jan 2025

@neorsd.org What's your opinion on garbage disposals?

I made a typo today that raise some interesting questions about how my brain processes language while typing. tl;dr I intended to write "look" but I was thinking about the word "let" and I ended up writing "leck". #linguistics 1/3

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Clearly, I "hear" what I'm typing more than I thought I did. 3/3

But "mitting" is clearly phonetically based. The word's not in my vocabulary, but