Soft edges and hard Pittsburgh, PA

This morning a driver struck and killed Louisa Gag, a biking advocate and transportation planner. Gag had coauthored a Vision Zero Action plan: visionzeronetwork.org/wp-content/u...

Congrats to the amazing Alan Cumming for his Emmy nomination for hosting Traitors! The show also was nominated for best reality competition, directing, cinematography, editing, and production design. Well deserved! This is from our recent shoot styled by Cynthia Altoriso with HMU by Damian Monzillo

Latest comic: Future historians baffled by Slop-henge

my founding fathers

What if Mitch McConnell donated his body to science and they're hiding it somewhere in plain sight

Your attention please: All episodes of "The Prisoner" are now playing at @criterionchannl.bsky.social Be seeing you ... #tvsky

John Hinckley Jr. in 1981

Whether the media describe childhood bilingualism as a gift or a problem depends on the identity of the children, as new research by @naomifillmore.bsky.social and @htorsh.bsky.social shows languageonthemove.com/childhood-bi...

NO NEW COPS

Venezuela was hit by one of the biggest earthquakes in its history, toppling buildings in Caracas, knocking down power lines and triggering a tsunami warning in the Caribbean. Read here: bloom.bg/4vtpSqp 📷: Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images

People don't lament deaths of small universities enough. Usually smaller institutions, focusing on vocational courses, with lower entry grades and set in poor neighbourhoods, facilitate social mobility for non-traditional students. Better so, than most prestigious research universities.

NEW 🇰🇭🇹🇭 Thailand tried to use economic leverage against Cambodia during the 2025 border conflict, but it didn't have its intended impacts. The episode provides a case study in the limits of "geoeconomics" in Southeast Asia.

👏🎉 Huge congratulations to Nick Ellis on receiving the EuroSLA Distinguished Scholar Award! A pioneer of usage-based approaches to language learning, Nick’s bridge-building across traditions has shaped the field and inspired generations of scholars over four decades. www.eurosla.org/eurosla-dist...

The 5.6.7.8's, a Japanese all female pop band from Tokyo who made an appearance in the film 'Kill Bill: Volume 1' #WomensArt

"On social media, Japanese users have begun sharing the hashtag #推しエスニックといつまでも —roughly, “may my favorite ethnic restaurant stay with us forever”—alongside a petition (...). The phrase is affectionate, even playful. But beneath it lies a serious anxiety".

Want to read a story about a troublemaking trans girl with super powers? Well, today’s day! Retconned is now for sale! Paperback: bookpeople.com/book/9798996... amzn.to/3SjzghG Ebook: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... books.apple.com/us/book/retc... amzn.to/3SjzghG

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First of all, thanks for everyone who's ordered a zine! It's been a bit chaotic printing and shipping as orders come in, though, so I think I'm going to switch to a schedule of printing, packing, and shipping zines twice a week, probably Tue/Fri. That'll let me be more methodical.

Article on changing immigration rules in Japan, and their impact on small restaurants run by foreign owners. Gift article. Sounds like this change results for a great loss for everyone involved. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/w...

Currently happening: Anti-war protest in Ginza. #若者憲法集会　#若者憲法集会2026

Quant à la francisation des enseignes commerciaux, PFK est très strictement « commis au morceau » ⚜️🤝🍗 #Montréal #LinguisticLandscape

Tonight I am beginning a reread of @cstross.bsky.social Accelerando and it is an Experience not unlike, I imagine, train surfing on a high-speed maglev. Awesome, breathtaking, but you REALLY gotta hold on or your brains get flung right off into the void. anyway go read it, if only for the lobsters

Last chance before I put this stuff up on eBay! Shares appreciated!

It's almost time! Just Super: Retconned releases on June 5, 2026! The ebook is available for pre-order now at Apple Books, Kobo, and Amazon. Preorder for the trade paperback will be available soon. books.apple.com/us/book/retc... www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2QYMV9T

How far have we fallen?

I had to sit through an ed tech product pitch today so for all my #academicsky followers and comrades, here's what Turnitin is currently selling (stick around for what's on their product roadmap) so you can prepare yourselves to strenuously reject it. 🧵

If you're new here: I am chronically ill in a way that means my energy levels are very low and erratically distributed (Parkinson's and 5 years of Long Covid. Getting slowly worse.) I depend on the internet's kindness for thriving and surviving. I try to give back in entertainment and weird art!

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

I wrote a silly little coda for the pub of my novel TIVT (www.scribblehub.com/series/18773...), and have now posted it on Scribble Hub.

Meanwhile the European federation of teachers union is calling yours out. See below a useful book by our union to hold yours to a higher standard. @etui.bsky.social @etuce.bsky.social @aob.nl @ucu.org.uk PDF for whole book here: www.csee-etuce.org/en/item/7245... bsky.app/profile/oliv...

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

#LIMINAL -|~|+ INTIMATIONS in the backstreets of #tokyo #photography by Verl Adams © my personal account👇 @verladams.bsky.social #streetphotography #東京 #urban #street #alley #bar #shinjuku #snow #b&w #classicmono

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

Yesterday, 92% of us voted YES (w/ 99% participation) to authorize a strike if @propublica.org management refuses to compromise on core issues. We need a fair contract that will protect the in-depth investigative reporting that our readers expect. Support us: www.gofundme.com/f/support-pr...

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We have a zine! Over the past year, I've been working w/ Pusat Sejarah Rakyat and the International Institute of Social History to bring together organisations around Southeast Asia working on archiving and disseminating "people's histories" and the histories of social movements in the region. 1/4

Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy. Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit. [email protected]

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

Reading the news today

Another from that Holga shoot. 🎞️ #believeinfilm

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

The LDP won 21m votes, roughly one-in-five adults. Hardly needs saying that many Japanese oppose the party and its policies 自民 2103万票(36.7%) 中道 1044万票(18.2%) 国民 557万票 (9.7%) 維新 494万票 (8.6%) 参政 426万票 (7.4%) みら 381万票 (6.7%) 共産 252万票 (4.4%) れ新 167万票 (2.9%) 保守 146万票 (2.5%) 減税 81万票 (1.4%) 社民 73万票 (1.3%)

My spring/summer course is called “Language Ideologies in a Galaxy Far, Far Away”. There is so much good material, I am so very tired of my students’ media studies being done badly, and this is how I’m going to marry all my many academic loves into a single special interest polycule.

The Omiwatari freezing of Lake Suwa, described in this article from last month, has not occurred this season. The chief priest of the local shrine confirmed it today. That makes it eight consecutive seasons, which is the longest break in 512 years. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/gene...