nearly 10% of bird species on the planet can be found in australia, with about half of those being species only found in australia. this is not one of them. (but i do love pigeons, so i’m delighted nevertheless!)

#opentowork #editing #proofreading #freelance

does the eagle know its role in Prometheus's punishment or is it just showing up every day like "holy shit, free liver AGAIN??"

Skimmed the Vanderbilt Report. It's one thing to disagree with the authors, but this is the sort of document that actively makes me have less respect for anyone involved. There are problems in the humanities and social sciences, but this report is about policing ideology, not "objectivity".

So great to celebrate with Rukiya at her PhD graduation on Tuesday. My first PhD supervision, and as principal supervisor, and a really wonderful experience all round 🤗

need FFS ;_; Now I’m locked out of any major surgery for like 3 years because of nurse school If you want to help me rush into the operation room right after that: www.gofundme.com/f/help-valer...

No, employer, I do NOT wish to become an unpaid AI Champion or Gemini Trainer. I don't want to use up my valuable PD hours at an AI bootcamp and I definitely don't want to attend weekly AI Enablement Support Sessions. I know more about LLMs than most of the volunteers running these.

I am pleased to share that the Editorial for the special issue ‘A Sociolinguistics of Islam: Exploring Multilingualism & Meaning in Faith’ is now online:

Challenging things are at the moment - and they really really are for me - I am extremely proud of the lesson I taught today and how well it was received.

Bit belated, but I hope you all had a conspicuous Trans Day of Visibility. Hey look, you can see me!

On these permission seeking conversations, see this excellent blog post by Mark Dingemanse ideophone.org/dont-seek-pe... >>

oh hey look! what joy! a new (online advance) publication. my analytic bestie and comrade Dr Emma Tennent and myself offer psychologists a provocative recommendation; don't recruit participants for psychological research. (get in touch if you'd like a copy 💗) #EMCA psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

I just backed Bringing It Back Home on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/end...

It was a great pleasure and a honor to act as the co-supervisor for Mariana Martins’ dissertation about the emergence of a new Sign Language in Guinea Bissau, for which she received the doctorate yesterday. The book is available open-access.🧵 www.lotpublications.nl/creating-a-s...

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

This is enshittification pure and simple: the aim is to make standalone chapters less portable/readable. Every handbook chapter comes with a carefully curated bibliography. Taking that away diminishes the value and integrity of scholarly work. #OUP is not adding, but substracting value here. 4/4

It seems @oxfordunipress.bsky.social no longer cares about bibliographic metadata. The way they do their handbooks these days is they rob all individual chapters of bibliographies, meaning cites go undetected and the crossref metadata for chapters is the biggest mess possible 1/n

💔 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Wellingtonians of Bluesky (or other New Zealanders who know Wellingtonians), I must ask for a favour. I'm heading down to Wellington in about a month and will be looking for work there, so if anyone knows someone who needs my skillset and might vibe with me, I'd very much appreciate the introduction

Neil Gaiman is especially shameless for crawling out of hiding at this particular moment. did he overhear us talking about predators & think we were summoning him by name?

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.