“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

The Supreme Court might have to think about Kim Davis, but I do not. I can't be making time for d-tier conservative gremlins.

No one wants your small, picky correction to their fun little bluesky post. This is particularly true if you don't know them from Adam. Anybody CAN interact, but you should not.

Subway could run the funniest promotion right now

géar is exhausted from all the winning yesterday

"He essentially said, 'I’m not going to hide who I am to make you comfortable.' In doing so Mamdani delivered a raciolinguistic reality check that refuses the idea that politicians of color need to translate themselves into whiteness to be viable." educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/z...

Mike Johnson is out here threatening the entire world with a good time youtu.be/2y9mp3Jd3k4?...

Apparently “the Dodgers left Brooklyn and now play in Los Angeles” is such common knowledge that my elder child *snorted* at me for not knowing it. Also, probably you know this, but the baseball Stanley Cup thing just happened recently and Brooklyn *definitely* didn’t win.

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

no evidence whatsoever that mike johnson knows a single thing youtu.be/YR2WiILR6XE

The NYT will gladly pay a dumdum to spout humdingers like the recent little gumdrop that English speakers should have trouble pronouncing Mamdani because articulating an ‘m’ before a ‘d’ like that is not humdrum.

On further reflection, handing operation of our Universities over to a professional administrative class with no personal investment in the educational mission of the university or the creation and maintenance of knowledge might have been somewhat in error.

gonna move next door to JD Vance and only speak Cherokee

My university is forcing all of us faculty to label everything we put on canvas and provide rich, structured descriptions of everything and it’s because of the Trump administration’s high esteem for and normal adherence to the ADA and has nothing at all to do with LLMs needing labeled data.

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

my kids call my graduate advisor "Aunt Pam" (no relation).

New open access article! Collaborative work with the wonderful Dana Serditova examining patterning & potential sources of certain local phrasal constructions in New Orleans English - 'by [residence]', 'for [time]', & 'on [temporal deixis]' authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

got flu, covid, and the second shingles shot today, @lecagle.bsky.social !

built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

The Speech, Sign, and Systems Lab (formerly VoiceLab) is seeking motivated PhD students to join us in Fall 2026! We are part of the University of Iowa’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, consistently ranked among the top 5 programs in speech sciences nationwide.

fun fact: a pruned, discarded branch from a fruit tree IS a fruit tree waiting to happen

I wasted so much of my one precious life not having a cat

the shit-bombing video is so stupid , childish, and awful that the news media are just powerless to describe it.

ICYDK: Godot, the open-source game creation software used to make Dome Keeper, Cassette Beasts, and Brotato, has a VERY beginner-friendly series of online tutorials here. gdquest.github.io/learn-gdscri... It says it requires absolutely zero prior experience with coding, and it means it.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Blockety block block BLOCK!!!

you're telling me that a midterm grades this window?

don't let anyone claim that this is an aberration. this is the platform

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

learning that some people record word lists without using a carrier phrase is surprising and uncomfortable to me in the exact way that learning most other white Americans don’t wash their legs was surprising and uncomfortable

paul stops supporting praat

I was holding steady at Inbox 666 for a couple of weeks, but i'm afraid it's gotten away from me again

The stupidest possible twist to The Matrix is that the technology needed all those human batteries to generate fake Mr. Beast videos

The LSA is a proud member of the American Council of Learned Societies. We encourage all members to read this important statement.

I’m so old? I just tried to telnet to port 25 to verify an e-mail address is real and was shocked to learn I don’t have a telnet client

when my screen says “check for a duo push” my stupid brain sings it to me to the tune of “what’s new pussycat?” with such a reduced vowel in ‘a’ that I could be stepping out onto the moon for the first time.

Made a jar of reusable wetwipes to live on my counter. -gallon jar with gasketed fliptop lid -4 cups water -4 cups 70% isopropyl alcohol -~1 cup white vinegar -orange essential oil drops (for smell) - Spoonful of Dawn dish soap Mix, toss in 12 microfiber washcloths, soak 'em, close lid.

honestly, what are the odds that a species would invent two different things and call them both the “Phonetic Alphabet” when neither is phonetic and one of them isn’t an alphabet?

who has no thumbs and my whole heart? THIS GUY

the Remington Steele and He Man & the Masters of the Universe TV Show themes are the same song. I see what you did, Henry Mancini.

technologically advance a band the automatic doors

Some Christians think the rapture is happening in a window between the 21st-24th as in starting tomorrow and if true dear god come get your children and leave us in peace why tf has it taken this long

If we live in a society where a man is free to be a professional shithead, we have to live in a society where we're free to call a shithead a shithead

I keep getting this ad with some bearded dude confidently saying, "the reason butter is CALLED butter is because of the butyric acid" apparently completely innocent of the fact that he's completely full of shit

find someone who is as obsessed with you as nate silver is with this app

Don't love this new floating "you didn't want to use our app, did you?" bubble thing Overcast has added

Hello, everyone! Here is my introductory video where I talk about my role as the student assistant for the JLA! I'm so excited to share the Journal's information with you all!

when I think about what the United States might be I think about my earliest memories of the oppressive heat in Dublin in the summer of 1976 that stretched into the gloam of bedtime and the relief of being back for the bicentennial holding my toddler body in front of a leaking window air conditioner