got a wrapped from the online pet store and it was basically, like, your cats sure love to drink water with these water filters! and i like almost nothing about this timeline

the noun ‘accent’ implies the existence of the verb ‘eccent’ which would let us do away with phrasing like “do an accent” or “put on an accent”.

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

It's probably tedious to hate liquid glass, but I'm comfortable being tedious.

the thing about the end of the semester is I miss teaching? and I had two amazingly locked-in groups this semester and have to start over at 0 again in January?

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test" when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter it's diagnostic

Noticed my daughter (18;1) has demoted the White House to the white house by switching away from compound stress and I love this kid so much

read my child's human geography textbook and would like to humbly ask my fellow scholars to shut the fuck up about language if you can't be bothered to consult a linguist or literally any of our work

when reading advice online, as a guitarist, I *constantly* have to stop and remind myself that the person saying X is a great pedal or Y is a great sounding guitar sincerely believes that eric clapton or john mayer are pleasant to listen to

it just struck me that 'tweet' is a stupid name for a little text post and I think that means I'm finally healing

I lose so much of my life worrying about what Easter egg hunts were like at Charles Hockett's house.

Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors

[ ] tall [ ] tan [ ] young [ ] lovely guys, I think I might not be the girl from Ipanema

whatever value it may have had, duolingo stopped being an educational app the day they decided to replace real human beings with ai. now it's just an attention monetizing trash generator like all of this other crap

I am torn between a sincere, lifelong, desire to make technology as accessible as possible and the understanding that all of this digital accessibility work we faculty are being made to do is so that LLMs will have high-quality labeled training data when they steal our course content

I wonder what the Microsoft people think "Do not ask again" means

“strong floor, no ceiling” sounds like the title of a Lean In- inspired self-help book organized around kegels as the path to self actualization

me: I am a rational, adult, human professional person also me: but if I don’t OPEN the e-mail then it can’t hurt me.

tip: if you’re baking something and need half an egg, just use a small one. the recipe doesn’t have to know how many shells your egg came out of.

Trying to explain to my kids that there used to be stores you could just go to and buy things in person and that packages took 6 to 8 weeks for delivery but were *events* when they arrived as we walk past multiple neighbors who haven’t bothered to bring in their Amazon, Chewy, or Target orders yet

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

I bet Trump used an autopen to sign the Epstein Transparency Act.

It’s here! The 2026 LSA Annual Meeting Program is live! Huge thanks to everyone who submitted abstracts, the 200+ reviewers, and the 2026 Program Committee for making this possible! Start planning your New Orleans experience! We can’t wait to see you there! #LSA2026 web.cvent.com/event/d45318...

bought 9 foods at the grocery store in Trump’s America, where people chose the promise of low prices over not electing a rapist and swindler, and spent over $100: spinach, feta cheese, ricotta, scallions, carrots, potatoes, phyllo sheets, cocoa powder, and cat food. $107

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

write what you mean, you cowards! stop saying listeners are “confronted” with variation or “perceive speech despite variation.” Just come out and say that you think variation attacks people in dark alleys, steals their shit, and leaves them for dead.

today just felt like it lasted ALL DAY long, you know?

meant to type: "please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions" but managed to type: "please do not hcontact me if you have any questions" and am tempted just to remove the 'h'

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Chuck Schumer looks at the Maginot Line and thinks, “perfect strategy, no notes, there’s no getting through that!"

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

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.

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/...