I know pedocon’s real and all, but it’s insane the Jan 6 pardon covered ~ 1500 people and there are now at least a half dozen since arrested for child sex crimes. That’s one in every 250! Over the course of a year! I think Pitcairn Island is the only population beating that per capita rate.

Tennessee Dems not holding back👇🏽

It’s 1976. Things many American school kids probably don’t know how to do: *secure a tourniquet during an active shooter drill *edit a pdf *share the wifi password *order a burrito taxi on dad’s credit card *avoid lead poisoning from drinking out of the hose *67 bro

Winter Garden French artist Géraldine Theurot

Just gonna throw this out here, but I don't think #Trump should be allowed to handle firearms during cabinet meetings, right?

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

The Himesaki #Lighthouse in Sado, #Japan, celebrated its 130th anniversary on December 10. 🎂🥂🎉 Built by Western engineers during the #Meiji period, it is the oldest surviving iron lighthouse in Japan. #灯台 #佐渡市 #日本 #MaritimeHistory

2025 in a nutshell. On the left, a report from January saying Ibaraki lifted nationality restrictions for clerical council jobs. Mie, which had already done that, today says it's reviewing the policy out of security concerns. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

素晴らしい店を発見し、店主と話し込んでしまった

I haven't lit my candles yet tonight, but here's a memory from the 7th night of Chanukah as it was celebrated in 2013 in Tai National Park, Cote d'Ivoire while I was doing fieldwork for my PhD.

Really enjoyed this fantastic piece by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social and @cnygren.bsky.social Here are few favorite pull quotes of mine + one little quibble at the end:

My life's work lies in ruins The Center for European Studies, the African Studies Center, the Carolina Asia Center, the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies are all slated to close.

Have you heard the word about the Pole?

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Police in Nagareyama, Chiba, arranged for ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman to address pupils at a junior high school about cross-cultural exchange. That's not a sentence a younger me would have expected to write. www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/455803

Please kill me

Sun-bathed brutalism

In case you missed it, the call for papers for #LL17 in Limerick is now live! We've updated our website to help spread the word, but please share! www.linguisticlandscape17.com

Years ago, I was tasked with setting up some broadcasting gear in a fancy conference room I'd never been in. The previous event - an architectural presentation for some new DC memorial, had run way, way over its allotted time.

Mapping Diversity from OBC Transeuropa analyses street names in 32 European cities showing how many are named for men or women. Christianity skews the numbers just a bit as Mary takes top spot. mappingdiversity.eu More detail www.balcanicaucaso.org/en/cp_articl... #LinguisticLandscapes #OSM #maps

It's Bandcamp Friday! From my EP Five: aubreyvangelded.bandcamp.com/track/thwart...

Ok what arrived in my mailbox! #LinguisticLandscapes

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦

Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.

@profanity.accountant me

Nice.

This is the truest thing anyone ever wrote about Japan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Day of the Jerkass

THIS!!!!!! (Former FM of Lithuania)

Released 46 years ago today Metal Box, the second studio album of Public Image Ltd, featuring the single "Death Disco (Swan Lake)" Public Image Limited - Death Disco - Top of the Pops #punk #punkrock #postpunk #publicimageltd #PiL #metalbox #history #punkrockhistory #otd #postpunkhistory

Some shots from this month's roll for Eastern Standard Photo's film club. Each month we get a subject prompt and a roll of film and have to shoot it based on that concept. This month's was "motion" and the film was Ilford Delta 3200. 🎞️ #believeinfilm

TESOL's position statement on "AI" is, as usual, a day late and a dollar short. It fails to define its terms, nods vaguely to "limitations and biases", and presupposes that "AI can sharpen and enhance our learning experiences" despite all evidence to the contrary. www.tesol.org/media/myuncu...

Bakery Square construction in Pittsburgh, 2018. 🎞️ #believeinfilm Kodak Ultra Max

Call for application. Master of Arts in Human Rights and Democratization (International Program) at the Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand. Full and partial scholarship available. Deadline March 2, 2026. ihrp.mahidol.ac.th/news/call-fo...

The list of Toadies: Tim Kaine, Virginia Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada John Fetterman, Pennsylvania Maggie Hassan, New Hampshire Dick Durbin, Illinois Angus King, Maine Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire Jacky Rosen, Nevada youtu.be/Ehqr0pG7er8?...

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Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

Some shots of Allegheny Cemetery from a photo-walk with folks from the Eastern Standard Photo community. Shot with a Yashica D on Kentmere 400 🎞️. The last grave is actually a late friend's. I didn't know he was buried there and was a little surprised to stumble upon it.

Hurricane Melissa has just broken the record for the driest eye ever observed in a tropical cyclone, with a temperature of -4.75°C. This is nothing short of astronomical.

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

Around 3.7 million hectares of oil palm plantations have been seized in Indonesia, with nearly half transferred to nascent state firm Agrinas Palma Nusantara, catapulting it into the world's largest palm oil company by land size www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Now hear me out— What if, I say, WHAT IF, William Burroughs was hired back in the wild and horny 1980s to write the script of a Moomin movie? And it was bankrolled by a porn studio that was a money laundering front for a cocaine cartel so had an unlimited budget as long as there was bukkake in it?

They canceled my work on race and media. So I built a @resistanceschool.bsky.social instead. Now we are teaching over 600 students. Week 2 of Race, Media and International Affairs starts today. We move ✊🏾💪🏾

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs. Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

It’s been a while. Nice to get the chance to write again, and it’s a pretty tasty beer if you can get ahold of it. www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/10...

EuroSLA is holding a free social webinar for Early Career Researchers on the topic of abstract writing. Come join us on 31 October 2025 at 13:00-14:30 CET. More info on our webpage: www.eurosla.org/social-webin...

Next in our ANU Southeast Asia Institute seminar series: Professor Itty Abraham (Arizona State University). Online, 15 October 2pm AEST. Abstract and registration: events.humanitix.com/bandung-at-7...