Holy shit RFK Jr just used the idea that we should "believe all women" to defend the idea that vaccines might have caused their kids' autism, I am INCANDESCENT with rage

And -kin is not the only diminutive ending in English. In fact nappy, a different sort of small cloth, is also most likely a diminutive of nape in origin. (Alternatively it could be a diminutive of nap as a backformation of napkin.)

Pregnant women want to protect their babies. But the trump regime falsely claims Tylenol causes harm—without science to back it. There’s no link to autism! Such fear may push women to riskier meds. Always talk to your OB-GYN about safe options during pregnancy.

No. 10 spokesperson responding to a far right idea: "lol how will you pay for Dachau?" No. 10 spokesperson three days later: "On reflection, Dachau is bad"

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

Last night's #BoardGames: 1. Murder at the Zoo 2. Jungo 3. Cribbage 4. So Clover!

Well-oiled machine. 🤡 @politico.com #H1B www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Thankfully wedgies aren't as common as they were in the 80s and 90s, but I'm sure a lot of millennials have strong memories of ending up in places like this.

Last night a colleague was talking about apps that use machine learning to identify birds, and I asked if they're based on Bird2Vec. A bit disappointed no one laughed.

Stay safe. Sources and documents in the replies.

Never more Dad than when my son's friends sleep over and I spend half an hour the morning after trying to prevent them from leaving with empty stomachs.

I've had two conversations over the last month in which Americans seemed to assume that, being Welsh, I'm not British. Which makes me want to write a 🧵. 1/

Honestly pretty drinkable, and really not as horrifying as reputation would suggest!

Last night's #BoardGames: 1. Forest Shuffle 2. Mountain Goat

everyone's thinking about Silicon Valley but this would also make it basically impossible to hire international faculty also

Interesting regarding AI and Kpop Demon Hunters 1/2

Don't trust American media anymore? I don't blame you! Here are some alternatives: (NZ Herald, not Hearld, apologies for the typo.)

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

The degree to which the entire creative community is massing against Disney right now should not be underestimated. There are people who are staying silent because they don't want to make it more difficult for Iger to walk this back. If he doesn't, I believe things will get much noisier.

[Withnail, close to tears] “I have become vulnerable in the night-time economy”.

Ossoff: "There are families in NE Georgia now who will not have local access to child birth services ... I mean, we are the wealthiest country in the world. We should be building new hospitals. We should be building new clinics."

That was fast. This is also why you don’t surrender to autocrats - you fight them and beat them.

Donate to my campaign to make Laura Loomer’s day worse: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-bluesky

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

I think this comparison is largely right. Yes, it’s a replay of McCarthyism’s ugliest aspects but that was fueled by a widespread sense that the country faced dire external dangers while this is about a deeply unpopular president’s grudges.

Samuel Johnson was born OTD in 1709. Selecting one quote from my notes was a challenge, but here goes: “Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.” #PhilSky

OH THANK FUCK

I spoke against legislation that would give the Secretary of State the power to revoke passports from U.S. citizens for exercising their First Amendment rights. That’s not keeping us safe—that’s punishing dissent.

This is what fascist scholars mean when they say "don't give them an inch."

🚨 Open PhD position in sign language #linguistics 🚨 The focus should be on the structure of signed languages, or connect to other research profiles at the department (e.g. computational linguistics, acquisition, typology, multilingualism) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline: 15 October 2025

I thought I made a funny joke here, but then I can be vain like that

Not exactly surprised, but amused, by the idea of people learning ancient or koine Greek to speak to their in-laws.

Honestly, I doubt it

New rule: Democratic leadership should give their base better candidates than duds like John Fetterman.

Had to stop due to character limit. The Wikipedia section detailing Yaxley-Lennon's lifetime of criminal offences runs to over 5,000 words.

If you want to know about the state of British media, these 'formidable obstacles' include assault of a police officer, ABH, football hooliganism, entering the US on a false passport, mortgage fraud, stalking, endangering a grooming trial, defaming a 15 year old refugee and a lifetime of racism.

Looked up Vivian MacKerrell and he really looks interestingly like a cross between Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann, right?

Rewatching Withnail and I, and it is sobering to realise that Richard Griffiths was several younger than I am when he played Uncle Monty. He was thirty–fuck!ng–nine!

Strive to be the sort of parent where, if you're away, things are harder for the other parent and not easier.

Sut na allai hwn gyfri?

Something I always worry about when staying in a hotel is having to use a stale remote.

Just experienced a first: I'm sitting at the airport waiting for my flight to Philly and a random engineering student just came up to me and asked if I was a linguistics professor at Penn. Turns out he recognised me from my Wired video. A mini insight into what it's like to be famous.

@jrkasstan.bsky.social presenting his vision of how the study of language shift fits into the broader field. He says he's committed to this as the final word on this matter.

#langsky An interesting find! Some characters in a 1900s Welsh-language scifi speaking #Esperanto, as auxlangs have become commonplace in the world

In Chicago. Target acquired.

Last night's #BoardGames: 1. Horrified 2. So Clover

Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics, UC Berkeley: research interests or skills in "..language documentation, description, and analysis; sociolinguistics; anthropological linguistics; language acquisition; language education; areal and language-family expertise" (Oct 31)

Haverford College is looking for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of #Linguistics, with a primary specialization in #Sociolinguistics, secondary specialization(s) open -> www.haverford.edu/provost/news...