The University of Essex Language & Linguistics dept was critical to my journey - part of the reason that I am in the field I am in and have the career I have now. If you can’t help be on the picket line, you can help by donating to the hardship fund (see links in Nina’s post below)

Getting stuck on what message to put in your Valentine's Day cards this year? You can always borrow one of these bangers from my kid (3;5): "Uncle S, do whatever you can to protect [baby]." "[cousin], I am very hopeful that you have a bed."

Shame on @nature.com for publishing this ableist trash, and shame on the authors for writing it: Short 🧵>>

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

One thing that gets lost in the "technically it's ehebophilia" crap is that these fuckers aren't attracted to youth at all. They're attracted to vulnerability. They're delighted to hit on an adult woman as long as she's a student or an employee: someone they can easily hurt & control

Just told my house rep’s voicemail that I cannot believe they would think for a second about giving more money to the people who are tear-gassing and kidnapping children Like what the fuck is wrong with you guys

“just give poor people cash” works. Again.

This is unconscionable. Evil. But it happened in May 2023, when Biden was president. So no, we don’t “reform immigration detention,” we destroy ICE, CBP, and DHS. We can’t reform this soul sickness.

there is no earthly reason to believe that these goons will comply with any new regulations! it’s like if I put a sign on my door ordering the pines not to drop their needles! they’re pines and those needles will drop! zero funding, “reform” my ass, this guy must be stopped

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Yeah, I'm surprised this isn't a more central point. Abolish ICE and let everyone go!

this is completely insane and more people need to say that doing this is completely insane

Good. We hate you. Everyone hates you. Even you hate yourselves.

Spouse described Winnie the Pooh to M (3;3) yesterday. This morning: “Can we talk more about the golden bear who poops mama?”

WATCH NOW: Jack Smith testifies before the House Judiciary Committee

lol please enjoy the entirety of my chat history with microsoft copilot

The cognitive dissonance of constantly reading that I need to spend some time mastering generative AI while not knowing a single person in my industry who uses it to do good work 🤙

Promo for my latest book!

Anthropic: Best for coding applications Gemini: Best for summarizing meetings and taking notes Grok: Best for harassing women and sexualizing children ChatGPT: Best for assisted suicide

🥳🥳🥳 A wild @betsysneller.bsky.social appears in the Inquirer!!! 🥳🥳🥳 www.inquirer.com/life/philly-...

Woohoo! What a thrill to talk about Philly English (my fave), AND to get to hype up another Betsy! (if you haven't checked out Philly Ms Rachel ... just ... go do it).

Downtown Lansing is getting her orchi today, good for her

Aside from her poetry, which is beautiful, Jane Zwart taught me my favorite classroom trick, which is Rumpelstiltskin-ing. One day when no one was contributing she said: "You guys. Don't worry. My whole job is to be Rumpelstiltskin, and turn anything you say into gold."

Charging officers has not helped, in large part because it sends the message that it's one bad apple and oh look we'll get them. I want to see state attorney generals charge the entire fucking system that leads up to these shootings.

“I feel like we’ve lost the plot a little bit and that’s one of the reasons that we’re seeing apple consumption ... go down,” said a seventh-generation apple grower in PA. “The whole experience has been so consolidated and so driven by capitalism, and in some ways it’s very shortsighted.”

I hate to tell you fashionistas, but this cardigan will bobble within three minutes of wearing it. Why? The "yarn" is actually roving - i.e. fibres with no twist to them - and you don't want to wear roving.

Actually wait, #ADS2026 friends, does anyone know if there's going to be a live stream for WOTY? It's time to hype this up! Also time for me to send an email to my socio students to let them know, if in fact they can access a live stream

#ADS2026: are we singing WOTY like WOTY WOTY WOTY WOTY rockin everywhere (Bubba Sparx) or WOTY OTY OTY OTY (Megan Thee Stallion) #linguistics 🐦

i have to sew in the lining but uh. WHIM FOLLOWED

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. Here's why. gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...

I keep wanting to say something, and I keep not knowing what to say. The trans community does not harm cis people by existing. They are just trying to live their lives, same as anyone else. That life doesn't look exactly like mine; my life doesn't match anyone else's. That's okay.

This is Attorney General Pam Bondi’s ethics pledge. She was a lobbyist for Ballard — the same firm hired to lobby for both Paramount AND Netflix. But Trump’s Justice Department said Bondi will oversee the Warner Bros. merger. It reeks of corruption. Bondi must recuse herself.

Slowly coming to the truly awful realization that no, my back isn't sore because I slept weird.... I just need to strengthen my core.

Extremely disappointed in my senator @slotkin.senate.gov .

The WOTYoty

We have been fundamentally betrayed. I know an individual man or woman made this invention or that discovery, but all of it occurs on the mountain of progress we collectively made. HUMANITY made the steam engine; HUMANITY went to the moon. WE did it, together. We've always been a collective.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

What's especially crazy about this is that it's an unbelievably cheap intervention. It costs approximately zero dollars and saves lives. There is essentially no material elements to compete over. There's nothing left but animus.

Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."

Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire". www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Meanwhile some of the most interesting organic radical action on the ground is coming from rural communities protesting data centers. Somehow that doesn’t excite a lot of people who preach about radial action.

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Look I don’t want to dogpile this guy’s mentions, but if you, as a constitutional law expert, ever find yourself arguing that the first amendment makes bad grades illegal you should probably do some self-reflection. And if that isn’t what you meant, then reconsider the utility of good writing.

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

That's because we want it to do our housework, not write our novels, ya planks