yiddish does not fuck around when it comes to this kind of thing

Oh I never posted this here so I'm posting this here. New tattoo (a few days ago). SFW, etc.

for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence hope that helps

"Much attention has been paid to companies that use AI to justify brutal layoffs. But the employees that keep their jobs find themselves being forced to use new and still-experimental AI tools that may not be all that useful for their specific roles,..." futurism.com/artificial-i...

I was listening to the podcast @lingthusiasm.com and was suddenly struck by inspiration that I HAD to get out IMMEDIATELY. So without further ado, may I present....... Cardinal Vowels

Hahah so I upgraded both my motorbike and, like, all the rest of me.

It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can

Hey all, listen to my fren's grape music.

coworker just dropped "chili is goated when winter slop if the vibe" and i don't think i've ever read a more innocent online-poisoned sentence

So Google is partially copying glottolog data without citing sources or am I missing something?

Cough cough permanent FBI office in AoNZ that was organized in secret cough cough Cough.

100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.

USA verüben den 10000sten völkerrechtswidrigen Angriff. US-Amerikaner auf Bluesky: This is not who we are!

ooohhh we are in the Douglas Adams timeline. speedrunning the 10 million years between the magratheans' building Deep Thought to give them the information they wanted & becoming the naturalised machinery of the computer deep thought told them to make to tell them what information they had asked for.

ANYWAY sorry to get back onto my bullshit but this is something dear to me: naloxone (Narcan etc) saves lives. If you can access it, training is easy and you could save a life.

If you know a high school student interested in language and/or puzzles, tell 'em about the linguistics olympiads, there are lots of national versions in many countries plus an international competition!

I) Be stubborn. Be pigheaded. It's your art. Also read a lot. I mean, a LOT. Now, go write.

B1) granted, it's difficult to pull off plotless fiction at longer lengths but why not shoot for the stars if that's what calls to you. C) The Hero's Journey AS A TEMPLATE THAT ALL STORIES FOLLOW is bunk. Please do not follow advice that tells you you have to use it.

I want to print YOU DON'T GET GOOD AT A THING BY NOT DOING IT onto little cards and just hand them out in conversation sometimes

MEDIA: RDR3 is in pre-production! Get excited! ME, A TOOL FAN WHO ALSO LOVED RDR2: [long drag on cigarette, stares into distance]

So been a weird 2025, with plenty of highs and lows, but almost all my highs are personal rather than professional, which is good. Among the highs are I started "properly"* transitioning and presenting full-time, I won an award or two, a number of students I worked with graduated with success

CW: SA - generally what we learn from both RWers & democrats is that rape is a meaningless gotcha to sling at your political enemies and cover up as an embarrassing indiscretion (or discredit the victim as a lying bitch) when your own guy does it. in the end no one actually thinks it's a real issue

is this yet another Omelas story

If his dream come true is to get away from his son, he could have just sent him to boarding school or something.

Hazard Pay - A dystopian puzzler, destroy evidence and cover up the crimes of your employer. Checkout the new trailer for the fresh demo, boosts appreciated! #GameDev #Godot #PuzzleGames #IndieDev www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOsZ...

Cool crisis over, ready to face the world again

Sorry but yeah this is where I'm at. Christmas is a very bad time for me.

Saw this at the exact moment I was talking about Chinese wordplay with a friend.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

oh noes

The surprisingly connected origins of "vice" (as in vice-president) and "weak". #etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #vice #vicepresident #weak youtube.com/shorts/fn-gk...

This entire weekend

“Stonehenge. Where the virgins lie. And the prayers of devils fill the midnight sky…And you, my love, won't you take my hand? We'll go back in time, to that mystic land. Where the dew drops cry, and the cats meow. I will take you there. I will show you how…” 💙

{DaH moQbara' tonSaw'mey Sa'agh} now Mok'bara fighting:technique-PL 1s:2p-reveal "Now I will show you the forms of Mok'bara." - Kahless the Unforgettable to his father & brother in the underworld before leading them into battle against the tyrant Molor as recounted in the paq'batlh (paq'rav 3:2-3)

HRT IS NOT a requirement to be trans and not every trans person wants it or needs it But it sure as fuck is a requirement for A LOT OF PEOPLE TO BE ALIVE (myself included, given I tried to not be alive a few times and haven't tried since starting HRT). That makes it a medical necessity for me and a

transitioning is the best choice i’ve ever made in my life and the only regret i have with it is that i didn’t do it when i was younger

Have spent the day resolutely focused on all the people who helped, who risked their own safety to ensure the safety of others. It’s no small thing in all that horror. Hate is a sickness.

In tears today over Bondi and as I watch friends - Jewish and non-Jewish, but especially Jewish - trying to make sense of the trauma. It's horrific to know that people want you dead just for who you are, but to see that illustrated so vividly is a level of trauma I can't comprehend.

How we defining AI here?

Another first for me, Mycina haematopus. Snuggled in next to a fallen log. I was doubtful but on picking one, it really did “bleed” which is why it’s called “bleeding fairy helmet.” #fungifriends #mushrooms

Vocal Fries episode coming Monday!

I guess if noone else has shared this with @loweringthebar.bsky.social yet I'd better (but I'm sure others have). Escaping by water is generally futile. HIDING in water, sans SCUBA gear or at least a snorkel, is even LESS likely to work I reckon. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Today in "linguists are NOT KIDDING when we say that your capacity for language includes the ability to understand sentences that have never before been uttered" Font stroop task edition

ALMOST slept through the @becauselanguage.com WOTY liveshow because I just can't party the way I used to and bounce back the next morning, but I MADE IT. Someone very kindly commented on my glow up, and all I can say is I really want to thank Zoom's "touch up my appearance" feature. 🙏🏻

I've never been good at bragging, but I've been told to do it more often. And since I argued a while ago Sociolinguistics is how we survive

It is just fucked. So fucked.

Oh no