GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

sinclair pulled its kirk tribute six minutes before it was set to air on its abc affiliates

The left is boycotting Sinclair for pushing ABC to yank Kimmel off the air, the right must now boycott Sinclair for not airing a Kirk tribute.

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Fired a professor, removed the Dean and Head of Department and still forced out. This whole thing was in bad faith, but if you are going to be forced to resign then you might as well go down swinging rather firing people who have done nothing wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

In honor of Jimmy Kimmel get suspended in part for saying "And by ‘statistical fact’, [Vance] means ‘complete bullshit’,” in response to Vance's false claim that most political violence is from the left, here's the DOJ report showing the opposite, that the DOJ conveniently just memory-holed:

I expected the tyranny and the blustering and the mockery of everything they’ve ever claimed America was supposed to stand for what I didn’t expect was the depth and speed of the capitulation at every level

New day, new timeline cleanse. This time: names my toddler (3;0) has given her stuffies. She did this all on her own. I give you: Snow Leopard of the Valley

Timeline cleanse: some lil friends I made in my garden recently. #bloomscrolling

✨ New JSLX INTERVIEWS series In these conversations recently retired scholars reflect on their careers, share personal stories, and give unique insights into the history of sociolinguistics The first three feature Shobha Satyanath, John Rickford & Momoko Nakamura Now in Early View:

Incredible

I want to once again reiterate what I said earlier. The reason the vast majority of Democratic and so-called centrist elites have acquiesced over and over again is that they are COMPLICIT. Because they actually know that direct confrontation is how you defeat fascists and choose not to do it.

"Imagine how encouraging it would be to receive this email as a 2nd year grad student: “Splendid work! I jumped on this right away because I think that this is a very important finding and I hope to refer to it in later discussions of the speech community... we can talk more next week.”"

I am so grateful to the editors of Diachronica for letting me write this piece in memoriam of Bill Labov. And so grateful that they let me write what I most wanted to - a piece about Bill's *goodness*, his love for humanity, and how those things *resulted in* what we think of as his genius 🐦

www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour... is now out, @betsysneller.bsky.social 's beautiful tribute to Bill Labov

Lovely memoriam for Bill Labov by @betsysneller.bsky.social Death to the enemies of sound change! www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

this is such a grotesquely cynical excuse for letting both gigantic tech companies and Donald Trump's MAGA aristocracy run rough-shod over the interests of everyone else

Just sitting back, eating some popcorn, watching people attempt to make the Supreme Court’s decision that racial profiling is ok for the purpose of ethnic cleansing about something else that makes them feel more comfortable.

“During the course of the 26-day sit-in, the Black Panther Party played a leading support role in providing food for the demonstrators. Over and over again, the disabled protesters credited the BPP with literally sustaining their struggle, “keeping us alive body and soul,” as one person put it.”

they’re so close

the fatal flaw with the Bluesky is dying proposition is that it ignores the broader truth that I am also dying, as are you, and everybody you know. By dying Bluesky lets us know that it’s one of us, that it shares in our beauty and our pain. Grow or die? No, there is no “or.” Bluesky understands

lol @ the editors of Washington post not knowing that “in community” is a phrase

have been also learning lately that data centers primarily draw water from public drinking water systems with huge implications for access, infrastructure quality, cost of buildout, and water rates for residential customers who already usually subsidize industrial use, in addition to capex

If you made a horror movie in which the bad guys sent flying robots to drop grenades on women and children taking refuge in tents, it would seem too comically evil to be believable. But that's what Israel is doing in real life, right now, every day.

This, from the Quakers, is worth reading. It's a serene, confident, utter rebuke of the hate and fear that's peddled by Sex Matters. The last two pages are smokin'. If you're on the wrong side of the Quakers, you really need to sit down and have a good chat with yourself.

remembering that time a reporter said "Go Green!" to me during a radio interview about my research and I had no idea there was a correct answer ("Go White!") so I just nervous-chuckled for a very long time (bc it took them forever to realize I didn't know what to say) lol

For decades the program has supported writers who would become big names – Alice Walker, Michael Cunningham, Louise Erdrich and more. Last week, applicants got an email saying the program would be no more.

It's always been a crime against humanity to bomb a hospital, no matter who you thought was hiding underneath. But in these repeated horrors committed by the Israeli military, the official excuses are getting more breathtaking.

This but also for people who are not billionaires.

IMO if you are a billionaire witnessing people getting kidnapped, put in cages, killed & spirited away to countries they’ve never been to at the hands of our government and you are talking about your favorable tax rate instead of how many millions it’s costing you to mitigate harm you are a monster.

If you're ever feeling bummed out about a rejection, just remember: Bill Labov didn't win the dissertation award he was nominated for 🐦

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Really grateful to the editors of @jslx.bsky.social for this opportunity to write about Bill's legacy -- both scholarly and some personal -- from our perspective as 3 students from his later years. 🐦 w @laurelmack.bsky.social & Meredith Tamminga onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Private equity looted 3 Connecticut hospitals. Services cut, nurses buying their own supplies etc. They will do it to your hospital if we don't stop this trend right now. 1/ Today I'm releasing a report on the truth about private equity in health care. tinyurl.com/adangerousprospect

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

Where’s the lie

M: Did you know I have a friendly dragon? Me: oh yeah? M: yeah yeah her name is Little Dolly Parton 2;11 #LinguistBabyPhotos

U.S. taxpayers have spent $24 billion on Netanyahu's horrific war in Gaza. Instead of starving children, that money could pay for: 700,000 public housing units 500,000 low-income kids receiving health care 500,000 veterans receiving VA care 600,000 kids in Head Start Combined.

When will it stop

These are incredible

Another lovely Labov obit by @betsysneller.bsky.social @laurelmack.bsky.social and Meredith Tamminga. This one takes a birds eye view of how Labov has contributed to where the field is going, which is a nice forward-looking complement to Eckert's obit onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@jslx.bsky.social are proud to publish an obituary for William Labov, written by three of Bill’s students @betsysneller.bsky.social, @laurelmack.bsky.social & M Tamminga. We are grateful to Bill’s colleagues and family for the OA costs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @lhlew.bsky.social

Infinite growth is a ridiculous metric and also the only one capitalism values. To the exclusion of human happiness, ecological sustainability, or basically any other good you can think of.