getting confirmed in Catholicism is fun because you get a saintsona

leaving PA ✨ gonna miss these little stunners

I think yes to this—and ALSO aesthetic and fascism are inextricably linked. Fascism is arguably even more about aesthetic and spectacle than it is about coherent ideology Which is *not* an argument with this point; “tacky” is indeed missing the larger issue even in terms of engaging with aesthetics

I was asked about my thoughts on some stuff related to feminism and "The Trans Question™" today by a few folks, and I think Sara Ahmed's "An Affinity of Hammers" gets at it—especially in that it responds to a "we're being silenced" anti-trans higher ed letter. read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-...

Always pointing out that Elon Musk has deliberately murdered hundreds of thousands of people mostly in the global south and it is estimated that he will have murdered 14 million people via DOGE alone in the next 5 years.

I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.

sorry to self promo but this is my overall argument in my 2025 paper "Referentialism and Discursive Parallels between US 'Alt-Right' and 'Gender-Critical' Conspiracism" escholarship.org/uc/item/5d38...

Feel as though people will truly never understand his death. He was killed for being an Indigenous Queer Man with a Transgender Partner. Every single one of those signifiers on axis/intersections/marginalizations is extremely important, but it is in tandem all at once not just because he “Gay”.

It bears repeating, the "Gender critical" and "Mens Rights Activist" positions are two sides of the same coin. Their advocates share the same essentialised (and therefore violent) conceptions of biological determinism.

I want a Zutara shipper for president

this is a great video, and I have to laud FD Signifier for being one of the only notable online leftists talking about why it's bad when leftists (and it's white leftists specifically) normalize /pol/ and Nazi slang. youtu.be/m8bE13OJ_es?...

new article out in Current Anthropology today on raciolinguistic ideologies of listening (+ labor) in mental healthcare AI! feat. dream team commentary pieces by Josh Babcock, Michael Berman, Jay Ke-Schutte, @nickseaver.website, Summerson Carr, and Rihan Yeh www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

ah, pride month. friendly reminder to mute all lgbtq topics on social media if you don't want to see a thousand 20 year olds arguing over the same three "discourse" topics for 30 days gay

This is the way. We do not need to accept the right’s bad-faith and blatantly dishonest caricature of higher education. Colleges and universities regularly platform views across the political spectrum, perhaps more than any other American institution.

The whole argument for “viewpoint diversity” as an academic virtue fundamentally (mis)construes academia as an instrument of brainwashing rather than a site of learning and knowledge-production.

nowadays everyone regardless of politics yearns to be able to defer to The Unifying Theory for everything, like oh my god bruh shut up

amidst tough times, good news: I will be joining the faculty of CU Boulder Linguistics in the fall as a teaching professor! I am effervescent to be teaching in my home state, with a department I adore 🥰

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people." Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!

i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues. For example: Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $ Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $ Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy

i made a helpful reference

just wanna say that I have articles out about both cuck porn and sissification 😌 thank you to my friends who have tagged me on this article

The most important article you'll read today, this week, this month, and possibly this year www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interrac...

I just want the right to embrace their kinks and stop making it my problem (I think this author is absolutely correct.)

even if one doesn't like psychoanalysis, everyone should read both volumes of Theweleit's Male Fantasies

While otter parents Sebastian and Pintar tried to enjoy a peaceful hammock lounge behind the scenes, baby Bao came with maximum playful chaos. 📹: Animal care staff Katie

Ads have supported our collective sense making for centuries, from newspapers to TV to the web, and now ads are destroying that sense making by atomizing our knowledge so we are isolated in custom information bubbles. I haven’t yet seen something that can replace ads at scale. It’s really worrying.

overheard someone saying they wanted to make their bar "more inclusive"...inclusive for smokers

in the last two months my wife lost two family members, both of our cats died, and my sister's cat too 🥲 menty b so close I'm about to go Catholic again

on MTG www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkcvA9HG/

An underappreciated reason Democrats DO at times sound muddled and vague in their rhetoric is that some cannot decide whether to develop their own rhetoric or merely copy the right's rhetoric.

This statement is meant to be left-punching, but notice that the most popular left-wing candidates (Bernie, Mamdani, AOC) are superb at plain-spokenness, and it is the moderate wing that usually offers language that has been optimized and focus-grouped to death

With respect to Obama, the problem is not policy “gobbledygook” in communications. It is *vagueness*: Using “poll-tested”, overly cautious language that is so generic as to motivate no one. And even more importantly: Media asymmetry; the reach and scale of right-wing media.

Educational linguists: Students of color must master academic language to be successful Dem establishment: Stop talking as if you are in a college seminar to be successful Me: Language ideologies are never just about language

"if you know what I mean": innuendo "iff you know what I mean": dogwhistle

why does every Aldi commercial look like someone being inducted into a cult

People who suddenly feel like their transphobic “jokes” and “fairness in sports” takes are a bad look while the government forcibly detransitions people don’t get to say “oh that’s not what I meant!” You did mean it! People told you what it meant and you did it anyways!

no, my attacks on trans people and doubling down is somehow very different from THEIR attacks on trans people (and subsequent support for me, because I said what they wanted to hear)

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Seeing people talk about “TACO” while Israel shells the capital of Lebanon, and the American President threatens genocide is pretty appalling

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

New episode of Doing CDA with @veronikakoller.bsky.social on metaphor! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

Watching elite mainstream publications raise clavicular’s profile through exoticized coverage is like watching Richard Spencer and the alt right all over again

I cannot stress enough that we as a nation are not in the right headspace to handle April Fool's Day this year

imb4 "homophobes are gay/transphobes are trans": crossdressing kinks ≠ being trans or trans friendly. crossdressing/drag is not inherently subversive or even queer. we are doing a disservice when we conflate cishet crossdressing fetishes with transness for a cheap dunk.

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

This exchange shows dominant conceptualizations of how language works. Calling Molotov not really English reflects linguistic purism tied to the family tree model linguistics helped build alongside race science. Maybe we need better metaphors that capture how messy and connected language actually is

Don't miss @uonenglish.bsky.social @uoncral.bsky.social graduate Daniel Edmondson's keynote at this year's annual @lgas-baal.bsky.social event!

it's really funny to me that Lewis felt the need to lash out at bisexuals, just because

He's got end-stage STEM brain, unfortunately. Thinks because he's a scientist he can master any discipline, especially ones beloved by those thickos and slackers in the humanities departments. The result is some of the dumbest pseudotheology you will ever read outside of a Dan Brown novel.