My new book, UNABRIDGED, published by @groveatlantic.bsky.social, is out! It took a long time to report and write and I'm proud of it and would be grateful if you bought it and would love to see people when I'm traveling to promote it. Consider this an official book thread

Many things are being destroyed & the news of it is a psychological & political onslaught. So it’s important that you create things. It can be art, cookies, a community pantry, a garden, a mask bloc. It can be beautiful, practical, silly. Just create & share. It’ll do your brain & the world good.

I got called a "chopped unc" last night in person by a younger internet woman (playfully), because I admitted that I was an Elder Millennial. Not an incorrect descriptor for me, just interesting to be labeled as if the worst thing you can be is old. knowyourmeme.com/memes/just-f... #AmResearching

Paid for by the NEH Public Scholars fellowship I was privileged to receive in 2022. Your federal tax dollars getting put back into the economy.

I'm planning to talk a bit abt the history of disability and the Ugly Laws in my intro lesson for our Misfits class. In my prep, I learned that PBS's American Experience (now "paused" thx to Trump's cuts) recently released a documentary about the history of the Americans with Disabilities Act

CBS parent company Paramount canceled Colbert to win approval from Trump's FCC to merge with Skydance. Now ABC parent company Disney suspends Kimmel as it seeks DOJ approval to buy Fubo — and its affiliate Nexstar seeks FCC approval to buy Tegna. See how this works?

Even though it’s been against the law since 2016, the San Francisco Police Department has been caught sharing ALPR data with non-California agencies. Ignoring these laws exposes sensitive location information to misuse and puts entire communities at risk. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Welp, so much for teaching Shakespeare.

I'm cited on Wiktionary?! That's so cool. And in the same breath as my beloved cranberry morphemes? A dream. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cutthro... The thesis was from 2012, but who's counting. #CutthroatCompounds

Newspapers disappear. Communities’ stories shouldn’t. Community Webs librarians are archiving grassroots news to preserve the web we built. Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/08/27/p... 🧵

People keep asking me what Land Back looks like. Imma hold this up as a great example.

My catch of the day: DEFENSE AND DEPTH -> DEFENSE IN DEPTH #AmEditing

Happy Brody Stevens Day! Check in on someone you love, tell someone you love them ❤️ POSITIVE ENERGY www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJx6...

Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

sadopopulism #WordOfTheWeek

NOT a #CutthroatCompound: TRY-US TRANSPORTATION (tryustransportation.net). It's a syntactic freeze (like cutthroats are), but it's not a company that habitually tries us, it's a vocative request for you to try them. It's the same as DO-ME eyes, FUCK-ME pumps, and PICK-ME girls. #AmResearching

Was asked to edit a rough draft written by ChatGPT today. Hated it. Editing it felt hollow. There's no perspective to deepen and inquire about. It's fucking drivel blended up by an energy suck machine that takes from stolen, uncredited work. Anyway, I did my best. #AmEditing

If you’re trying to erase history, you’re on the wrong side of it.

Is this fake Nintendo controller brand not a #CutthroatCompound? PlayStation + Game Boy = PlayGame? amazon.com/Controller-Classic-Button-PopSockets-PopGrip/dp/B08WP7CNYP/ref=sr_1_19

@swiftonsecurity.com Hi. Long time first time. You don't need more planesona fodder, but I just took a look around Wplace for the first time, and there's labeled plane yuri at SFO:

"Webster's defines..." If you don't say @merriam-webster.com specifically, that's just sparkling dictionary. (M-W lost the exclusive rights to the name Webster in 1983. Now anyone can call their quality uncontrolled dictionary Webster's.) (Also that's a trash opening to a speech.)

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Join the #EFA as we run a follow-fest starting now until Sept. 5 and enter for a chance to win a free 1-year professional EFA membership! Winner to be announced at the EFA Virtual Conference and 55th Anniversary Celebration.

I think the really important thing about the "trans sports debate" is that it's NOT REAL, the things that people are fearmongering about are NOT REAL and are NOT HAPPENING. Cis women are not competing at a disadvantage against trans women, cis men aren't transitioning to win at sports, IT'S NOT REAL

I got this eeBoo "100 GREAT WORDS" puzzle at the Oakland puzzle exchange last month, then I did it, then I made a @wordnik.com list of its 100 words: www.wordnik.com/lists/eeboo-... My top 2 favorites are 🧡CREPUSCULAR and MELLIFLUOUS 🧡

Everyone: Fuck cancer. Person with cancer: Cool, so you’ll wear a respirator? Everyone: No, not like that.

#AmResearching Trying to ante-date or date at all) some #Cutthroat placenames, and found a lovely story about the attempted re-naming of TICKLE COCK BRIDGE. Lotsa NSFW placenames and then some potential recent ones from video games.

every time someone says “I asked ChatGPT” I hear “I asked the hallucinating machine of confident lies” and idk it just doesn’t engender a sense of trust you know

For years, Prime Day has exacerbated worker injuries. Instead of cutting back, Amazon doubled the number of Prime Days this month. One warehouse worker told us, “I’m tired of there being an ambulance at my job site almost every night."

EFF's @tsnvaa.bsky.social will be sharing the history of Flock in the U.S. and the growing risks and concerns with the technology at this teach-in for the Denver community on 7/15 from 6-8pm MT. You can join online at bit.ly/FLOCKteachin.

I'm not sure I've seen it mentioned elsewhere, but LLMs use so many em dashes likely because they were trained on a vast quantity of stolen science fiction and fantasy books (especially indie pub work). Its a well-known joke amongst SFF writers that we overuse em dashes. They stole it from us.

"He's charming, clear about his goals, understands technology and communication, and people genuinely seem to like him. He must be destroyed." -- the newspaper of record, dynastic handsy politicians, ancient governors nobody remembers, and the political consultants who got us here

"Brianne don't pigeonhole yourself into only researching cutthroats! There's more to linguistics than compound morphology!" OK, BUT HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO STOP. THEY ARE EVERYWHERE AND FUN AND DESERVE TO BE COLLECTED. Two products from the Milwaukee Tool company: SAWZALL (1951), HACKZALL (2007)

Screenings of "Rebel with a Clause" this month in New York City, Cleveland, Columbus, Three Oaks (that's in Michigan, not far from South Bend), Pelham (New York), and West Newton, Massachusetts. Brandt and I hope to see some of you there! For a list of events, please visit rebelwithaclause dot com.

So far I have 159 terms as preliminary #2025WOTY candidates. My July "short list" for what will survive the year: big beautiful bill; face card; locked in; goon-; many such cases; reheated nachos; third culture; hard launch; born to X, forced to Y (snowclone) www.wordnik.com/lists/2025-w...

Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships

Wondered why William Tecumseh Sherman has that middle name. Evidence lacking, but learned that his buddies called him CUMP. #AmResearching

Terms I learned this week: 1. TUSSENVOEGSEL: the in-between of surnames like "van" in Vincent van Gogh 2. RING RUST: what a boxer gets when competition-rusty — they may practice but it's not the same 3. CUNTISSIMO: a trendy superlative from Marina and the Diamonds (April 2025 song) #AmResearching

Join Dennis Evanosky to trace the remains of the “Coney Island of the West” on this walking tour. We’ll take a first-hand look at Neptune Beach, which entertained thousands from 1917 to 1939, and what happened after it closed. Tickets and more info: alamedapost.com/tours/#nb

My grandma deliberately rode her bike to destroy the topiary letter "S" (but not the other 4 letters) outside her local Shell gas station one Halloween night, and she wound up as the YWCA Ambassador to the World Health Organization. :)

Hello, Oddlings! Curation is now OPEN for our next phenomenal salon in San Francisco! The theme is COUNTERFEIT, and we're eager to hear from both new and experienced speakers. The talk proposal is just *3 sentences*. Submit now, and join our stage! oddsalon.com/speak

Yes, this is bad for porn. But porn famously has no clear legal definition. As such: This is a direct path to censoring anything the GOP wants to censor and can argue is “adult” - info on birth control, queer identity, anything about trans people or gender diversity or safe sex or HIV or drag or

Aah, the inaugural issue of Paper Airplane is out! Think "Highlights" for adults. I've got an article AND A CRAFT PROJECT in here for you. All proceeds--all of them, for reals--benefit the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants. Do good! Have fun! MAKE CRAFTS! PaperAirplane.pub

Aerial images show how much these parts of the Bay Area have changed in the last decade.

I have made myself a Genius account specifically to transcribe and annotate the lyrics for "Better Than Anything" by Irene Kral (1963) which is so deliciously full of jazz and pop culture references: genius.com/Irene-kral-b... I need help on 2, though. (1/2) #Jazz #GeniusLyrics

folks facing a heatwave or just heat in general - be aware of these medications which can sensitize you further to heat

In case you can't tell what just happened, JK Rowling instructed her followers to take photos of anyone in a women's restroom who doesn't match their idea of Western feminine beauty standards. Short hair? Thick cheekbones/jaw? Too tall or broad-shouldered? You're now "a man" and will be harassed.

we are about to enter the golden age of scams, people are going to lose millions

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.