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“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

i found a weird feather and thought i was gonna have to use some ai image ID bullshit to figure out what it was but NO. some blessed soul at Fish & Wildlife in like 2006 hand coded a perfectly functional tool to search feathers by how they look THIS is what government is supposed to be for

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

how many people do you think will see this and think it’s a picture of Ben Collins

Join us on July 16 for the next Stories from the Heart, and learn from real-life experiences of language revitalization! We’ll hear from Tarryn Ryan from Kōrero ki Ōtautahi, a program to support learners and speakers of te reo Māori in Ōtautahi (Christchurch). Register at: bit.ly/stories-from...

shout out to my trans homies i love you and I am sorry

ah boy. anybody got a gift link for this so I can know exactly what flavor of Bad Takes to professionally prep for in the coming week?

Out: Better things are possible In (laser eyes etc): Better things are inevitable

holy shit????? ICE is getting rid of seven of the 11 would-be concentration camp warehouses they purchased and sec. mullin indicates new mass detention centers are not priority. huge!

The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...

i have nightmares of cops killing my harmless dog. just this screenshot is hard to see

#Florida resident has translated a rare Guatemalan language in courts, schools and hospitals across the state for more than 20 years. Now she must self-deport and leave her four children behind. www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/l...

The world's first trillionaire did this

more countries need to follow this example

oh cool we’re already at “fully AI-generated videos about how AI steals Indigenous languages” now with bonus slop images of generically “Indigenous” women, and a “nobody’s talking about it” while referring to but not actually naming the specific Māori people who are VERY MUCH talking about it

3- Donate To support those detained in Delaney hall Donate to the families here: linktr.ee/SupportOurFa... Another way to support families: givebutter.com/DHEmergencyF...

1/ 🧵 OMB is advancing a proposed rule that would destroy the American scientific enterprise. Randos keep disagreeing with my 'here's how to fight it' I do this for a living. So before the "how," here's the "who" --- and why you should listen to me on this one.

you know what would make DC more beautiful? more immigrants living in safety and abundance

i made a helpful reference

Savoring this from Toni Morrison. “We really have to learn to love thinking again. Not fretting, not worrying, but thinking. Life really is thrilling. But many people are unaccustomed to enjoying the problematics of life…you can use your mind to learn, to change things and to think things through.”

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

Celebrate leaders preserving and revitalizing languages with the Excellence in Community Linguistics Award! Since 2013, this award honors impactful work in language documentation and preservation for future generations. Deadline: June 30 Submit: lsadc.org/excellence_in_community_linguistics_award

18 May today, time for my yearly translation of a Joy Division song into Old Irish to honour the passing of Ian Curtis in 1980. This time: "Digital" (1978). These are rather abstract lyrics. There are multiple ways of reading the words in a way that have relevance today. @jd-central.bsky.social

Child language development expert here. No. The answer is absolutely not. So-called baby talk is culturally specific. Developing language is not. #linguistics

Are you interested in digital storytelling as a way to support and promote your language work? 💬 Applications are now open for a 6-week workshop with ELP and StoryCenter. No previous experience necessary! Learn more and apply by June 12 at www.surveyhero.com/c/elp-storyt...

I liked this poignant little Nabokovian hall of mirrors (and one of those rare books that’s about a linguist and doesn’t get linguistics totally wrong), but why did the acknowledgments have to thank Pinker and McWhorter as 2/3 of the linguists named 😩

Looking forward to this! Always a good time to learn more about Indigenous data sovereignty in the face of colonial-extractive AI.

a key take away from reading a lot of history for me: the people who survive hard times and eventually brutally humiliate their seemingly invincible enemies are not the people whose first response to adversity is “oh well, guess I’ll die”

the wish is self-fulfilling. in saying it, vance manifests a person speaking english in the united states! job done!

Whale Sculpture from the Chumash culture - 1200 to 600 BCE, California • look at his happy little face.....

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Join us Friday for the next "Stories from the Heart," and hear real-life stories of #languagerevitalization worldwide! Dr. Netra Mani Rai will share about his work to grow writing and speaking in Dumi, a critically endangered language in #Nepal. ⁠📚️ May 15, 5:45 pm Pacific bit.ly/stories-from...

i’ve just come back from 4 language revitalization conferences in 3 weeks and one takeaway I’m chewing on is that no one, from any country, identified working with state-level policymakers on language rights as a priority area Pretty much everyone framed gov/policy as something to evade and survive

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crow neighbors and i have been working on a game where they catch thrown kibbles out of the air one will leap like a goalie to catch it if my throw arc is off one is a big baby and will just come real close for an easy throw but they all seem to like it if I applaud their successful catches 😌

What do you do when the only records that remain of a language were made by someone who had absolutely horrendous views of the people who spoke it? In our latest episode we get enthusiastic about a crossover episode with Claire Aubin of @thisguysucked.com!

Starting on April 15, join us each month to hear real-life stories of language revitalization around the world! The first speaker will be Gibrilla Kamara, sharing about his work to revitalize Limba and Mani, and protect and restore forests, in Sierra Leone. 🌳 bit.ly/stories-from...

can’t stop thinking about how this is exactly what happened to canids after being domesticated. wolf will try and try, dog will just give up on a problem immediately if there’s a human around

"If I'm sick, I'm sick whether I believe it or not. My refusal to be persuaded will not keep me from sickness; it will only keep me from remedy. But I won't be able to make a choice about truth unless I hear it. "Fundamentally, healing involves confrontation." www.the-reframe.com/a-confrontat...

hey remember how a week ago we were all holding our breaths to see if a civilization would be annihilated and we’d all have to live whatever remained of our lives with the unbearable horror of not having prevented it anyway doordash grandma

We do now know the NSF is proceeding with dissolving the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. Congress might reverse it, but it is now already underway. YOU CAN NO LONGER SUBMIT FUNDING PROPOSALS TO SBE. Program officers are being moved to different parts of the agency. Call your Congress member

ELP's spring 2026 newsletter is now available! Each quarter, we share news and inspiration in language revitalization around the world, upcoming events, jobs and funding opportunities, and more. Read the newsletter at: bit.ly/ELPspring26

as a southerner: this is the best holiday

New from 404 Media: the FBI was able to extract incoming Signal messages from a phone even though the app was deleted. Why? Because parts of messages were stored in the iPhone's internal notification database. Shows how secure chat data can come from unexpected places www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

to all who celebrate...

“When the violence of one’s oppressor feels inevitable, when people don’t know how to stop what’s happening, the risk of moral surrender is real. Will we allow our sense of empathy to become dull and fade?”

One week from today! We hope you’ll join us to learn about some amazing language revitalization work in Sierra Leone:

For folks in Montreal, see you there?

"How does one hate a country, or love one?" Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times.