many of us out here tired of speaking reasonably and charitably into the void

at umass today to, among other things, give a talk on social meaning sources of hermeneutical injustice—joint work that grows out of discussions with @floresophize.bsky.social and @elinm.bsky.social

“Grocery stores throw out far more food than is shoplifted. Why don't shoplifters just take the food from the dumpster then. Because they have cameras on the dumpsters and security will be sent out when they see them on the monitors.” ~ mastodon.social/@AlSweigart/... Grapes of Wrath 1939:

finally representation for all my nonbinary homies

still many first-time experiences at this lateish age: this morning I went to the airport and learned my flight is tomorrow, not today

@kirstimiller30.bsky.social www.news-medical.net/news/2025102...

Found out that the latest Nobel Peace Prize winner is a staunch ally of Netanyahu's and signed a cooperation agreement with the Likud party, which makes perfect sense. This is a prize that went to Kissinger and Obama, after all.

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes: - Without the patients' consent to participate in research - Affecting minors - 1700 of them - Taking highly sensitive information from said journals This is a HUGE breach.

Here’s video of the incident

Is it national poetry day? Time for this masterpiece

The United States is simply not politically stable enough, nor sufficiently committed to democratic and international principles, to host the UN.

thoughts on travel to the US while trans at this moment in time? with/without US passport?

Free speech in the US. Now a university has banned all mention of trans people and is encouraging abusive misgendering. conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

Paul Elbourne signed this? Wow. Who knew. dailynous.com/2025/09/19/p...

just learned a friend has moved to a town called "peniscola" a few hours from barcelona ... what a name wow

wow. glad I already objected to the pre-update ToS and consequently already have no account here

The media doesn't want you to know that like 92% of Americans died last year from illegal drugs. But we're not going to let them conceal the truth any longer.

After the third attempt to manufacture a Radio Transwanda from this story I'm starting to take it personally

When the recognition campaign started I thought we could do that and stop genocide at the same time, but I was wrong. Unless recognition is the incredibly belated first step that will fast-track cutting ties with Israel, it's performative bs. ALL GOVERNMENTS KNOW WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. #SANCTIONSNOW

Money from Japan's national pension is invested in Israel (and companies complicit in genocide and ethnic cleansing.) The Japanese government is currently considering buying killer drones from Israeli weapons companies. Japanese robots are manufacturing shells that Israeli is dropping on Gaza.

It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens.

oh my fucking god www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

can one, as a nation, simply assassinate a foreign head of state without so much as a comment from other heads of state? is this also a right?

This deleted (but archived) Truth Social post of Trump's from Thursday night is like something out of Twin Peaks: media-cdn.factba.se/realdonaldtr...

I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

This is now the standard language on all federal government job applications listed on USAjobs.

do I need to rethink coil now that I find myself into some ambient doom stuff? I hated them when I was much younger but is it time to try again?

This one Dril tweet in December 2023 was a more accurate depiction of actual events than anything you’d have got off newsstands, from broadcast media or out of the mouths of politicians. It hasn’t got much better since.

both highly highly respectable people

This is what the U.S. does, reward war criminals. That's why they will never stop destroying the world.

The moral imperative to disobey and even take action against unjust laws is one of the defining tenets of the 20th century and defined protests such as the suffragette movement, Rosa Parks seat protest, US citizens burning their Vietnam draft cards and the fight to decriminalise homosexuality.

The journalists responsible for this must be prosecuted as accessories to genocide.

marcolli et al book: interesting or not?

Today we'd like to introduce two pieces by the Institute of Barbarian Books, based in Hiroshima, "What do we mean when we say "Free Palestine"" (from the 'city of peace')? instituteofbarbarianbooks.substack.com/p/what-do-we... It is not a random thing to introduce this essay now.

Quick little fact check here: Israel has armed the Burmese military for decades, including during the Rohingya Genocide. Protesting Israel’s genocidal regime directly and materially benefits the people of Myanmar.

time for an academic boycott of the UK too maybe?

germany arms exports 今更なんなんだよ

This has now received national media attention in the UK, and been boosted by one of our most influential and wealthy cultural figures. This on the basis of a woman doing a normal working class service sector job in a polite way. It is *manifest* the complaint is just trans women existing in public.

Zurich in February! Come talk with us about how social information expresses in grammar! This is especially amazing for me: I went into linguistics wanting to do linguistic anthropology but instantly fell in love with semantics. Here the two really come together 🔥🔥🔥❤️

did not expect to see Chomsky linked up with Epstein. Martin Nowak would have been an easier pick

`nude photo' shuffles into my audio space for the first time in long. what a comforting sound. also what a complex feeling, given the kinds of allegations that exist about this person. nude photo? comforting? here: I think not

I went to SchwuZ exactly once. I had a good time bc of the people I was with but the music was absolutely horrible and it was too expensive. Subsequently they chose to censor pro-Palestine expression and I decided not to go back (not that I was dying to anyway). Sad they disappear but not surprised.

Is Languages a real journal or a predatory one?