"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.

If we see 1900's nationalist antisemitism not just as hatred of Jews qua Jews, but an ideology where Jews stand for cosmopolitan threats to the hard borders of the nation-state, we see why the Israeli right had to reinvent political antisemitism from first principles. www.haaretz.com/world-news/e...

honestly? if it weren't a crass justification to be anti-immigration and anti-Islam, it would be almost refreshing to see one of the nu atheists acknowledge that western atheism never challenged or shook off their latent Christian frameworks

new ablaut dropped: chad, chud, chode

Later on the thread: framing a politician who ran on affordable childcare and housing as “Third World Resentment” is absurd, and could only work when “Third Worldism,” like “woke” becomes a semantically bleached racial dogwhistle.

This is actually not about academic freedom at all, it is not about not being able “to put forward controversial or provocative claims without fear of losing their employment” It’s about taking serious quality of research, ethics and human rights when giving people a position at a university.

It's even easier. Cofnas & all other scientific racists fail to meet basic academic standards. They don't read or engage with evidence & their interpretation of data is demonstrably specious. Instead of doing good scholarly work, they hide behind "controversy". He has no business at a university.

Love how bluesky is debating whether Kent's resignation is antisemitic or not and meanwhile the nazis are like "HELL YEAH!!! FELLOW GOYIM WAKE UP! STOP THE JEW WAR!!!!"

Why, after years of scrutiny, isn’t there any evidence that large numbers of children were given irreversible treatments without assessment? “The journals are corrupt! And the doctors are corrupt! And the debate was suppressed! And the data is coming out any time now!” Like listen to yourselves

I don’t choose that word lightly. The idea that an entire field of medicine, as well as numerous academic journals, systematically suppressed evidence that gender-affirming care doesn’t work is a conspiracy theory. Meanwhile, none of these people can provide a shred of evidence for their core claim

NEW: From Noam Chomsky to Larry Summers, elite academics shared more than they want to admit with Jeffrey Epstein, reports @lsmwilson.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/argument/the...

putting aside the dubiousness of marking abstracts as ideologically "left" or "right", the rightwing account for all of the social sciences boils down to "god/nature preordained a hierarchy" or "everything can be explained through free markets" which doesn't provide insight nor explanatory power

I'm truly sick of how people keep responding to the endless airtime given to the male grievance movement with "We should give them even more of our attention and focus" instead of, say, talking about its impact on WOMEN.

Not to be that guy but - see also: people laughing at that one mural of Trump and Putin kissing. The "joke" is literally just "it's funny because a man kissing another man is emasculating and we want to humiliate Trump" and nobody seems to think about what message that reinforces.

oh hey look! what joy! a new (online advance) publication. my analytic bestie and comrade Dr Emma Tennent and myself offer psychologists a provocative recommendation; don't recruit participants for psychological research. (get in touch if you'd like a copy 💗) #EMCA psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Every time I see this opportunistic grifter getting platformed, I'm going to start posting a link to the debate where @candiceodgers.bsky.social absolutely takes him to task tyde.virginia.edu/livestream-o...

be wary of "leftists" who play around in alt right/groyper intellectual sewage. it's possible to oppose Israel without taking up "goy" memes and at this point many "leftist" spaces are /pol/ lite :|

it's so annoying when leftists get chided for not being empathetic or open minded enough towards the right, but it reveals an assumption that none of us were raised in the red environments we now oppose

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if loving beaver makes me woke, so be it

“Go talk to a librarian” “No, it’s too slow.” Who needs to think about topics or actually do research when you can ask an LLM to give you an answer plausible enough that you feel satisfied regardless of the actually truth? (A lot of very smart people, sadly.)

The Wojakificaftion of Misogny This video surrounds the discourse around memetics and the applied framework of reasoning that comes with viewing this form of media. Tune in here for the full video ;))) youtu.be/20-se7nDAk4

A note on footing. While we may disagree often with what others are saying, we don't always elaborate on our disagreement. Most often we signal disagreement briefly and indirectly. Including through changes in footing. 1/

for Musk and associated 4chan fucks, the entirety of "anti DEI" is about targeting Jews. many, if not most, literally believe that DEI is a Jewish white genocide plot.

If gender were the immutable biological reality they claim to believe it is, they wouldn't need to spend so much energy policing it like this.

My new video is out on YouTube now: "Why the New York Times Loves Stupid Questions" youtu.be/ztQJ7XGuPhc

📣 Call for Applications: ECPR SGEU ECR Pre-Workshop “The Far-Right as a Social Movement in Europe” organized with @larboe.bsky.social, 30 June 2026, one day ahead of the ECPR SGEU Conference in Catania, Italy.

"we have to be nice to people who are ex MAGA or else they'll go even further to the right!!" so we agree, MAGAs have no independent moral convictions

There's this specific kind of white resentment that comes out a lot in online spaces, where white people act like being racialized gives you a 'weapon' in arguments that they can never access or deploy except by proxy, and they get *really* weird about that perceived 'non-white privilege.'

The pattern is here is consistent with the recursive antisemitism propaganda: fighting antisemitism/Iran because (insert conspiracy here about Jewish cabals)

It's actually profoundly similar to the way that eugenicist anti vaccine organisations worked to disrupt messaging around COVID (and previously MMR)

It’s #ThursJay! Enjoy this Steller’s Jay having a drink of water #birds

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it