Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Silly guys

Please leave a comment telling the government that you DO NOT want Medicaid tied to a work requirement and why that is unfair, especially for disabled people. Begging you all to take 2 minutes to do this please.

Substack is 100% doing another round of big cash payouts for reputation laundering. A fair number of people accepting that money aren't hurting for it so I'm not clear on why they're doing it. BTW, if you're still on Substack, why, but also, here's a resource to get off: leavesubstack.com

New platform, so I think I haven't recommended Christoph Anderl's wonderfully titled "Zen in the Art of Insult: Notes on the Syntax and Semantics of Abusive Speech in Late Middle Chinese" yet: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/55852533.pdf

Japan has a pun for photo-obsessed nuisances. The 2017 buzzword インスタ映え (insuta-bae, "Insta-genic") got reworked into インスタ蝿, pronounced the same but written with the kanji for "fly" or "pest."

One thing I’ve noticed is that people who primarily tell others what to do are impressed by AI. The people who actually do the things are not impressed by AI. Gee, wonder why that might be.

TIL about Lucy Osler's very useful term "distributed delusions". I was looking for a way to avoid talk of "AI psychosis" (which weaponizes mental health stigma to do victim-blaming while the LLM comes off scot-free), and this seems a useful reframing doi.org/10.1007/s133...

the beauty of Indo-European linguistics is that you can be looking at a strange word from a small culture on the other side of the world 3000 years ago and say "wattari. wattari. Must mean... watery" and it's not a joke #linguistics

imagine coming up with musical gold with the melody and lyrics up through "Do, a deer, a female deer Re, a drop of golden sun Mi, a name I call myself Fa, a long, long way to run So, a needle pulling thread" and then just completely phoning it in once you got to "La"

this is “pete hegseth wants an all-white military”

“The entirety of the document consists of very specific battle plans for the scorched-earth military conquest of Azerbaijan and a clear directive that all persons named in the will immediately begin deploying troops to carry out these objectives” - @theonion.com theonion.com/lindsey-grah...

I appreciated this Wired review of this chair that I will almost certainly be buying and also I love that whoever created this graphic knows exactly who this chair is for www.wired.com/review/amsea...

the yiddish word 'meyle' (מילא) means "oh well, whatever, nevermind" and it makes me really want to translate Smells Like Teen Spirit into yiddish

i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious

"Bogus" should be Sanskrit: Bhogus Bhoguṣam Bhoguṣā Bhoguṣe Bhoguṣas Bhoguṣas Bhoguṣi Bhogo

Braut Haaland is good representation for us Big Galoots. The Oaf community been in a bad way ever since Fetterman so it's good to see someone redeem Ogres on the world stage like this

Let’s learn Mingrelian, Laz & Svan!!

I slept through my prerecorded presentation, but Q&A can still happen on YouTube and Bluesky! #linguistics #conlang #lcc12

listen Dracula canonically wears a straw boater’s hat at one point in the book so all bets are off sartorially

He just notice you are holding an hot dog. #seagull

i artfought @biskyriznu.bsky.social artfight.net/attack/15429... #artfight

Some pencil drawings for @biskyriznu.bsky.social and Shellsiege on tumblr!

The reflecting pool we have at home.

Netflix currently approaching Platner to see if he’d like a special

Scott Jennings speaking to Mitch McConnell

If you see this, quote with the last four games you played.

Riding the bus is cheap. Turning your gold into piss is free. theonion.info

A short and easy survey about nonbinary names: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Closing date: 19th July 2026 #nonbinary #survey

quitting while im really far behind

I'm looking for a native English speaker (preferably American) who is also a (historical) linguist and can proofread 90 pages or more of my PhD thesis. Deadline end of July. I'm going to pay you obviously!* 🐦🐦 *My budget is about 570$, so the number of pages will depend on your rate per page.

Quote with your fanart!

Ope I think I forgot to put my Artfight here earlier artfight.net/~Dillon #artfight (I'm not exactly the best artist but I like to get goofy with it)

Almost forgot, my first attack this year is on DracAlly of their awesome sea foam dragon #artfight #dragon #ocean artfight.net/~DracAlly

I don’t think my small human child OR small cat adults appreciated days in a row of thunder followed by fireworks. Day after day of sky noise and explosions. 36 hours of power outage. “Let’s terrorize all of our pets and children and wildlife, it’s a party” kind of sums up the whole US though.

🚨 PHILLY STRIKE ALERT 🚨 As of 12:01pm, 1600 IBEW Local 614 PECO workers are on strike—the first in the utility company’s 145-year history. “PECO's lack of seriousness over six months of bargaining has forced us to this point. We are officially on strike. We strike strong, and we strike to win.”

I am really into leather(-bound grammar books).

I would kill or die for Larry

Neal continues his war on bollards.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Just a reminder. I'm always surprised how many people aren't aware of this. #Libraries

Pro-tip for hot weather (and/or distance running): Buy Gatorade or Powerade POWDER. It's so much cheaper and easier to store than the drinks. If you don't need sugar, though, Nuun electrolyte tablets are great.