nabelew
@nabelew.bsky.social
Linguist (revitalization, documentation, sociolinguistics) but also not a professional account so I’m gonna say cuss words 🤷♀️ she/her
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Hey look it’s possible to tell different kinds of stories, in which indigenous people make choices and practice solidarity and resist oppression and overcome harm. Many such cases.
apnews.com/article/alas...
apnews.com/article/alas...
November 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Hey look it’s possible to tell different kinds of stories, in which indigenous people make choices and practice solidarity and resist oppression and overcome harm. Many such cases.
apnews.com/article/alas...
apnews.com/article/alas...
This is a good article about data sovereignty, AI grift, the marginalization of Indigenous languages, and how these and many other things converge to wreak superfluous harm on Indigenous communities.
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
This is a good article about data sovereignty, AI grift, the marginalization of Indigenous languages, and how these and many other things converge to wreak superfluous harm on Indigenous communities.
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According to reports, ICE officers are being told to trust the results of a faulty facial recognition app over evidence of citizenship.
The Trump administration is steamrolling our due process and privacy rights to support its mass deportation agenda.
The Trump administration is steamrolling our due process and privacy rights to support its mass deportation agenda.
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
i haven’t been a religious person in a long time but part of me still lights up when i see clerics doing what they’re supposed to do
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
i haven’t been a religious person in a long time but part of me still lights up when i see clerics doing what they’re supposed to do
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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The winner of the 2025 Linguapax Award has been announced, and it's an amazing group in Colombia doing important work on language maintenance and revitalization under very difficult circumstance. Read more below
www.linguapax.org/en/hilo-de-j...
www.linguapax.org/en/hilo-de-j...
Hilo de Ju’gthë’sx Pthuuse’jnxi’s project wins the 2025 International Linguapax Award | Linguapax InternationalHilo de Ju’gthë’sx Pthuuse’jnxi’s project wins the 2025 International Linguapax Award | L...
www.linguapax.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The winner of the 2025 Linguapax Award has been announced, and it's an amazing group in Colombia doing important work on language maintenance and revitalization under very difficult circumstance. Read more below
www.linguapax.org/en/hilo-de-j...
www.linguapax.org/en/hilo-de-j...
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ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them.
After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer."
www.calonews.com/featured-top...
After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer."
www.calonews.com/featured-top...
November 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them.
After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer."
www.calonews.com/featured-top...
After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer."
www.calonews.com/featured-top...
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Really excellent resource for Know Your Rights materials in lots of Indigenous languages:
June 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Really excellent resource for Know Your Rights materials in lots of Indigenous languages:
heh i grew up in this church
they said no thank you to illegitimate power at every turn and nearly got kicked out of methodism for it
they said no thank you to illegitimate power at every turn and nearly got kicked out of methodism for it
This video was taken at approximately 12:55 PM and these church bells are not ringing the hour. They are ringing, and ringing, and ringing as the protest passes by
September 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
heh i grew up in this church
they said no thank you to illegitimate power at every turn and nearly got kicked out of methodism for it
they said no thank you to illegitimate power at every turn and nearly got kicked out of methodism for it
Hypersomnolent Franzbrot is going to sweep the triple crown
I’d bet the house on Time Blind Baja Blast, honestly
July 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Hypersomnolent Franzbrot is going to sweep the triple crown
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All of these stories are brilliant, but this one in particular makes me choke up every time
Language as a gift given to a child who may never know the world of rivers and flowers that language used to describe
Language as a gift given to a child who may never know the world of rivers and flowers that language used to describe
"I often imagined my mother and father mending the wounds of their own hearts with the thread of our language."
In this moving story, Mandeep Dhillon reflects on the choice to raise her son in Punjabi and Mè'phàà, and how language carries memory, meaning, and family across distance and time.
In this moving story, Mandeep Dhillon reflects on the choice to raise her son in Punjabi and Mè'phàà, and how language carries memory, meaning, and family across distance and time.
Thread of Five Waters
YouTube video by Endangered Languages Project
youtu.be
July 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
All of these stories are brilliant, but this one in particular makes me choke up every time
Language as a gift given to a child who may never know the world of rivers and flowers that language used to describe
Language as a gift given to a child who may never know the world of rivers and flowers that language used to describe
All of these stories are brilliant, but this one in particular makes me choke up every time
Language as a gift given to a child who may never know the world of rivers and flowers that language used to describe
Language as a gift given to a child who may never know the world of rivers and flowers that language used to describe
"I often imagined my mother and father mending the wounds of their own hearts with the thread of our language."
In this moving story, Mandeep Dhillon reflects on the choice to raise her son in Punjabi and Mè'phàà, and how language carries memory, meaning, and family across distance and time.
In this moving story, Mandeep Dhillon reflects on the choice to raise her son in Punjabi and Mè'phàà, and how language carries memory, meaning, and family across distance and time.
Thread of Five Waters
YouTube video by Endangered Languages Project
youtu.be
July 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
All of these stories are brilliant, but this one in particular makes me choke up every time
Language as a gift given to a child who may never know the world of rivers and flowers that language used to describe
Language as a gift given to a child who may never know the world of rivers and flowers that language used to describe
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When is this going to end? What is there to even say anymore?
BREAKING: At least 116 Palestinians, including 38 people near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to medical sources in the enclave.
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July 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
When is this going to end? What is there to even say anymore?
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When you are feeling weary or despairing, remember that there are people in every corner of the world taking life affirming action in the direction of more justice. The fact that you can't see it all is a comfort because it means there is an excess of positive actions happening all at once. #onwards
July 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
When you are feeling weary or despairing, remember that there are people in every corner of the world taking life affirming action in the direction of more justice. The fact that you can't see it all is a comfort because it means there is an excess of positive actions happening all at once. #onwards
this thread resonates a lot
July 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
this thread resonates a lot
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Guest opinion: "Three years after the Normandale Park shooting, I have the uneasy feeling that my city has moved on, failing to absorb important lessons about its most expensive bureau."
Normandale Survivors Asked Police For An Explanation. What Portland Got Was a Partial Apology and More Excuses.
[This opinion piece is being published to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the death of Deg, one of the victims of the 2022 Normandale Park shooting that left two people dead and another thre...
www.portlandmercury.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Guest opinion: "Three years after the Normandale Park shooting, I have the uneasy feeling that my city has moved on, failing to absorb important lessons about its most expensive bureau."
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The recently concluded Yoorrook Justice Commission found that the colonization of Victoria, which involved "massacres, disease, sexual violence, child removal, cultural erasure and linguicide," amounted to genocide. This thread provides the report's text on the loss of First Nations' languages.
July 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The recently concluded Yoorrook Justice Commission found that the colonization of Victoria, which involved "massacres, disease, sexual violence, child removal, cultural erasure and linguicide," amounted to genocide. This thread provides the report's text on the loss of First Nations' languages.
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People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
July 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
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Okay. Once again we're doing this the harder way.
The work remains the same. Hold onto each other, get people food and medicine and shelter and safety. Tell the truth. Break the locks. The labor of hope.
The work remains the same. Hold onto each other, get people food and medicine and shelter and safety. Tell the truth. Break the locks. The labor of hope.
July 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Okay. Once again we're doing this the harder way.
The work remains the same. Hold onto each other, get people food and medicine and shelter and safety. Tell the truth. Break the locks. The labor of hope.
The work remains the same. Hold onto each other, get people food and medicine and shelter and safety. Tell the truth. Break the locks. The labor of hope.
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do not use the "make everything permanently worse for my entertainment" machine. do not use the "steal air from black people in tennessee" machine. do not use the "poison all information everywhere" machine. do not use the hallucinating machine. do not use the "dispossess the poor" machine.
June 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
do not use the "make everything permanently worse for my entertainment" machine. do not use the "steal air from black people in tennessee" machine. do not use the "poison all information everywhere" machine. do not use the hallucinating machine. do not use the "dispossess the poor" machine.
love it when a headline is a question that's very, very easy to answer:
NOPE
NOPE
Could AI be used to bring endangered languages back from the brink? | Region Canberra
Imagine taking the light rail down Northbourne Avenue on a busy afternoon, surrounded by fellow commuters. It'd be fair to…
region.com.au
June 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
love it when a headline is a question that's very, very easy to answer:
NOPE
NOPE