Public
- Public
- Network
- Groups
- Popular
- People

Conversation

Notices

Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 06:54:02 JST Ars Technica

Ohio doc who said vaccines “magnetized” people loses medical license
Tenpenny lost her license for refusing to cooperate with a board investigation.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/08/ohio-doc-who-said-vaccines-magnetized-people-loses-medical-license/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.social permalink
Attachments
1. Untitled attachment
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/873/204/225/993/956/original/536f219ec9a6d518.jpg
- Joel VanderWerf (joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 07:05:52 JST Joel VanderWerf
  in reply to
  
  @arstechnica Full marks to the editor who chose that "air quotes" screen cap.
  
  In conversation about a year ago permalink
- MaybeMyMonkeys (maybemymonkeys@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 07:09:30 JST MaybeMyMonkeys
  in reply to
  
  @arstechnica how did she ever become an M.D. in the first place?
  
  In conversation about a year ago permalink
- Martin Elliott (spxme@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 17:44:10 JST Martin Elliott
  in reply to
  
  @arstechnica
  Tuppence short of a shilling
  
  In conversation about a year ago permalink
- CrowGlittering5133 (crowglittering5133@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 03:06:09 JST CrowGlittering5133
  in reply to
  
  @arstechnica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_quotes
  In conversation about a year ago permalink
  Attachments
  1. Air quotes
    
    Air quotes, also called finger quotes, are virtual quotation marks formed in the air with one's fingers when speaking. The gesture is typically done with both hands held shoulder-width apart and at the eye or shoulders level of the speaker, with the index and middle fingers on each hand flexing at the beginning and end of the phrase being quoted. The air-quoted phrase is, in the most common usage, a few words. Air quotes are often used to express satire, sarcasm, irony or euphemism and are analogous to scare quotes in print. History Use of similar gestures has been recorded as early as 1927, and Glenda Farrell used air quotes in a 1937 screwball comedy, "Breakfast for Two." In 1889, in Lewis Carroll's last novel, the author described air brackets and an air question mark. The term "air quotes" first appeared in a 1989 Spy magazine article by Paul Rudnick and Kurt Andersen, who state it became a common gesture around 1980.The gesture was used routinely in the TV show Celebrity Charades (1979) as the standard signal for a quote or phrase. In the 1965 Bewitched episode "Prodigy," Gladys Kravitz ...

Public

Conversation

Notices

Feeds