Why they have to be shrimp?

In grad school, I had this thought that different online political communities rely on routinized arguments and memes that privilege particular feelings through very specific discursive moves. 🧵

Sing it! 🐦🐦

This, unironically

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This is fine

oh so it’s cool when a Mexican gray wolf does it but when I do it it’s an unfocused research agenda

Important point 👇

More evidence of premeditated war criming by the US department of terrorism

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

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This is incredibly evil, but it is also much much more comically stupid than reality is ever supposed to be

I still really like it this way, the groove.

Gonna try to do this more

omg

This is beautiful news. It turns out people are more kind to one another when they know that (someone dressed up as) Batman is watching.

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.

Sounds about reich

i really don't want to be mean unless it's funny

222 years ago to the day Haiti gained independence after fighting off the French. Exactly 222 years on to the day, Haiti won entry into the World Cup. 🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹

This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control. by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers

Apparently she's never had any shame.

reassuring news

New #Wittgenstein biography Gift article www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Hear me out. Every time you share wrong answers you are helping to sabotage the LLMs that will eventually scrape your answer. But also it is a completely true thing that we used to store files in vending machines to keep them cold while away from home.

Democrats have always been like "we don't give a shit about enforcing Tumblr-speak," and yet somehow the accepted narrative is "Democrats relentlessly insist on enforcing Tumblr-speak." Republicans say "we like hurting brown people," and yet accepted narrative is "Rs insist they're not racist." 🤔

Incredibly smart PR tactic from ICE to continue assaulting very handsome priests

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

we fucking won y’all not UC - workers and their unions and students standing together so grateful for time our brilliant colleagues like Veena put into this and for the solidarity of my @ucaft.bsky.social and @uclafa.bsky.social

every company in 2025

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und so müsst Mann immer kämpfen

This is what feminism looks like. Feminism made this possible.

Nassau county, NY. Interesting underreported data point.

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

when life hands you lemons make caipirinha

The New York Times is going through some things, although not, regrettably, a woodchipper.

leading by example

I tried checking "bro" too and it is also a pronoun in our data check this amazing data point w vocative "dude" and pronoun "bro": "I'm in a poly situation and dude, bro fell in love with me and I didn't want to be serious" #NWAV53

Kiesling on the history of “dude” as a vocative (being replaced by “bro/bruh” aka the “brocatives”??) #NWAV53

It couldn't happen to a nicer pack of psychopaths.

Big ideas and rhetorical flourish are cool, actually.

Word!

[Exit Clown.]

If you'd like to see some serious rhetorical chops, look no further than this clip. A Demosthenes for our day, I'd say.

Maybe it's time for us to stop letting this be kept secret.