love when I get to blow my linguist friends' minds by pointing out that it's [grilled [cheese sandwich]], not [[grilled cheese] sandwich]

someone who understands clothes and gender should make a website about how to adapt the various fancy wedding dress codes to nb/gnc presentation so those of us who don't understand clothes don't have to always just read the "for men" and "for women" websites and interpolate from there

hey, it's a thing I worked on! existing in the real world!

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Never forget the reason for the season (Earth tilting on axis)

"AFK" is an old chatroom acronym for "away from keyboard", describing stepping away from the virtual to attend to the real but 10yo tells me kids these days use it to describe people who have spaced out of real conversation to type in their phones, which makes it a brand-spanking new contronym! 🐦🐦🐦

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

First 5(!) episodes out now! www.youtube.com/@FeltSideUp/...

hello if there are Blood on the Clocktower fans here check out my friends' new channel, Felt Side Up! Trailer and first short out now, full episodes coming soon! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH9i...

"flipping a house" means something different from "flipping the House" means the same as "flipping seats" means something different from "flipping chairs"; language is wonderful

paradox, you say

a hazard of being Jewish is that it doubles the amount of time each year you spend taking psychic damage from year numbers (what do you mean it's almost 5786 already)

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌 DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!

I have found my new personal anthem thanks to @esmanning.bsky.social, this is EXCELLENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=iucc...

discovered today that iOS emojis are so devoted to a Specific Hair Length as the signifier of gender neutrality that they use it for the gender neutral elf even though the man elf has long hair

AI alignment papers be like…. learning from human preferences is important for language models to match human needs and to align with human and social values. in this paper, we *generate synthetic data and use fancy simulations* to align LLMs with human values

I just did this! I hate making phone calls but it was nice to be able to leave a "thank you more of this please" message

happy trans day of I just did my taxes please clap

reminder that tomorrow (march 31st) is trans day of snack. if you are cis, your job is to feed a nearby trans person. if you are trans, you are invited to post your cash sharing application links and handles in order to facilitate this #tdov

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openai’s new ghibli “generator” is explicitly an intentional attempt at humiliation of a prominent objector openai is culturally fascist as well as functionally fascist it’s not an accident

I've had so much practice over the last couple years exercising restraint and not yelling at every internet stranger posting generated slop but the 'ghibli' images are REALLY testing me

hello internet please enjoy my new favorite petunia photo

When we say "AI" is a conservative force, this is definitely what we're talking about. Under this admin (and the conservative institutions that cowtow to it), the racism that's baked in is a feature, not a bug.

Bullshitting news site accuses a pro-Palestinian scholar of terrorism. The site keeps the identities of its staff private. Okay...

Just as an observation about the risks of small on device “helper” AI models, the ios AI email summarizer told me my mom has cancer today (she does not). That was a bad few seconds.

At the playground with the 5yo. Daddy: You can lie on this hammock here if you want. M: I did a poo on my monkey in the night. D: What?! Really?? M: No! You said I can lie on here. #lexical #ambiguity #linguistics

An important post from a friend of mine currently on a Fulbright in Estonia. Consider: the human impact on the individual grantees, the impact on the people they serve, and the hit that the image of the US takes when these folks leave. Fulbright has always been bipartisan. This is a disgrace.

I was in Paris last week for the #AIActionSummit & was honoured to participate in the “AI in public interest” panel. 👇🏾 my thoughts & reflections on what AI in public interest is/isn’t & some concrete steps/initiatives for `bending the arc of AI towards the public interest' aial.ie/pages/aiparis/

if most people can't read in dreams does that mean you don't get to have the boring work dreams about reading emails or analyzing spreadsheets full of text data

remember to wish a tree happy birthday today!

Omg. This is Jasmine. She had an upper respiratory infection and she’s feeling all better but still has a tiny bit of inflammation giving her the funniest little trill-purr.

I don't want to leave! I'm not currently planning to leave! I'm also aware that I might be wrong and letting down all my ancestors who did know when to gtfo!

how 2 limit doomscrolling enough that you're still capable of fulfilling your regular life obligations while also doomscrolling enough to like, keep an eye on whether or not it's time to flee the country

today's mood

Panic and despair without an outlet can be self-destructive. Interrupt the doom spiral: -Do 1 self-indulgent thing that makes you feel happy or content. -Do 1 thing to make your home environment more calm or comfortable. -Do 1 thing to help your community and people in it. Repeat as needed.

Social media is getting fragmented, so if you've newly joined somewhere or are thinking about switching and want more linguistics in your feeds, we've put together this list of tons of linguisticsy options both online and off!

I keep thinking about how the misrepresentation of the McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit convinced Americans that it was too easy to sue corporations — a laughable idea if you think about it for 10 seconds. It's the same with trans kids: The scandal is that care is too hard to get, not too easy.

The corollary to "don't obey in advance" is "don't obey more than you have to" - do the minimum legally required, and make them fight you for everything else

The wee beastie has been a wonderful excuse to rewatch Steven Universe, a show that I now realize did an amazing job of bridging the Obama and Trump pt. 1 years in terms of sensibility, themes, and outlook. So today I’m taking a page from Steven’s book:

What are you planning to do today that is NOT watching the news or doomscrolling?

Finished my second year of temperature cross-stitch!

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

way overdue but I've finally deleted my twitter and facebook accounts!

New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill" www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

to me that's forever @esmanning.bsky.social

famous conman who never delivered any return on multi-billion dollars investments says "trust me, we're going to deliver something that experts say can't be nade"

It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...