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Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

NPR Morning Edition: "this is, at the very least, controversial advice" This is why we're $#&@ed. It is malpractice those with a public microphone to call it anything except "insane and dangerous" advice

To me, that is a core part of the anti-trans-rights movement, they are afraid that if people realize that things we take for granted as facts of nature are really just social constructs, then we might start questioning all the other social constructs, like money, value, political power, etc.

Listen, when I shuffle loose this mortal coil, all I ask is that the pyrotechnics be 1) IATSE Local 2 and 2) tasteful.

@colbertlateshow.bsky.social might as well run for president now; whether he breaks or continues the #northwesternUniversity alum losing streak would be equally notable

but yes conservatives who want to spend ten years in grad school to teach a 5:5 load for $45K a year and yes you do have to pay for parking should have the same opportunities as liberals to do so, and largely do.

This is political violence

This is political violence

at Back To School Night (nonUSians: parents meet teachers and learn about the curriculum) I learned that one of the social studies themes is "oppression" (woo!); the units are: 1) oppression of Jews by Nazis ii) oppression of India by Britain c) oppression of American colonists by Britain

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

Let’s not elevate a more or less coarse form of entertainment into a sine qua non of honest, open thought or of mutual respect; the performance of debate overlaps only occasionally and by accident with these, and more often — particularly where people’s rights are at issue — indicates their absence.

wow hard to believe that professors and teachers — the people Kirk made a literal career out of *putting on a watchlist* — don’t have nice things to say about him

"Charlie Kirk gave me the courage to be more transphobic" is a wild thing to put in a both-sides hagiography www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

The only thing I'll say about it is I'll remember most when professors began to be put on lists, and how our jobs have been harder ever since

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.

Listen to me: Our profit from the post office is the post office. Our profit from a library is the library. Our profit from a school is the school. And our profit from our lives is life. Our life. Ours.

why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"

I had luck before on the badsite; let's try bsky: this term I'm teaching intro linguistics with a typology/diversity lens I love to harness expertise of friends/colleagues to show students languages I know little about SO if you know/use/study a language that's not normative AmEng, I need YOU! 🧵

The Gender Census is open until 30th August - take part if you can! 🏳️‍⚧️

Are you interested in trans issues and identify as trans? Do you want to help improve health care for trans people? Have you not received psychological therapy from a mental health professional? If so, please consider taking part in this research project tinyurl.com/4sw9mryy #TransResearch

It pains me that this phrase even exists

Slightly diminish a band: Mighty Mighty Regional Managertones

this dc situation looks pretty horrible. i wish i had more to say except that autocracy is always mundane and petty and vicious and encourages you to look away and be safe. and you can live quite normally under it until you're a direct target

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.

Why does every app need to have a streak counter these days? I don't need that kind of pressure in every domain of life

Absolute worst part, imo, is the pressure from school administrators to "welcome our new overlords" by adopting AI. It's also happening in elite universities, to my utter bafflement & horror. Anyone who calls bullshit on AI is treated as if only ignorance could explain their perspective.

This iteration of the anti-trans movement is isomorphic to the entire anti-DEI campaign: classifying non-discrimination policies as discrimination, making human rights infrastructure cannibalize itself. This from the UK is rhetorically identical to the ruling in the US that ended affirmative action.

God forbid you ever take a position that’s not immediately palatable to people and fight for it on principle…

While all of Gaza starves and the entry of aid is prohibited, American mercenaries with the assistance of an IDF armored convoy are able to bring Domino’s pizza in when they feel like it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Well at least he died doing what he found himself able to tolerate as a means to an end

dear reviewers, please stop using $@%^ing LLMs to review papers. sincerely, the editor

in all sincerity, a strong commitment to dismantling the patriarchy is a trait I always find extremely attractive in a man

Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.

Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls detained, beaten, and choked in Israel during humanitarian aid trip #ChrisSmalls was among 21 others when he was singled out, detained, and beaten by Israeli forces on Saturday. thegrio.com/2025/07/29/a...

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

Hello. It's almost been 10 years since UNDERTALE released. Now, I'm looking for your memories. Let's turn back together. Face the flower and speak. memories.undertale.com

absolutely GEEKING OUT due to hearing 'nosotres' in the wild #linguistProblems

Every country makes ~3 beers that all taste the same, and taste the same as the 3 beers in all the other countries; prove me wrong

Who the fuck thinks there aren't any conservative academics at Harvard!?!

It's nice(?) to know that if I'm allowed to continue teaching the youth about language, I will never run out of real life examples to point to

Premium pronouns? I see how it is

internalizing american notions of race and ethnic division as timeless truths about the world is a shortcut to smoothing out your brain

My birthday is very close to July 4th; it seems each year I am less excited for both

Chat: I want to do a deep dive on a musical genre I have (nearly) no knowledge of; what should it be? (and why?)

I think that if you were not familiar with the supposed political values of the Democratic Party, its performance over the last five months would lead you to conclude that they are primarily a pro-genocide party with center right economics and a fierce commitment to loyalty and gate keeping.