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Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve been procrastinating on buying tickets to Chile for research (and thus pushing the trip back) and the tickets get cheaper every time I look which is not helping my anxiety as much as you’d think it might be

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 9h

I also have a linguistics starter pack here, including many people who've themselves made starter packs of various areas of #linguistics! Feel free to leave more linguistics-y starter packs in the replies!
go.bsky.app/UUM7Gcx

Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.bsky.social · 10h

If you're looking for people who love language and linguistics, @superlingo has a starter pack for that!

Lauren Gawne @superlinguo.bsky.social · Nov 19

I made a linguistics and language podcast starter pack for you, if you're looking for your new favourite linguistics podcast: go.bsky.app/5pirXas

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Erika’s (Too) Online @erikas.online · 6h

Don't forget @tyanna.bsky.social's linguistic anthropology starter pack! bsky.app/starter-pack...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 6h

🚨🚨🚨

And THREE stood up!

Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.

When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!

No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.

LET’S GO!

#DefendHigherEd
@aaup-penn.bsky.social

Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment

With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.

www.thedp.com

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Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 4d

Gentrification font in the middle of the forest. Relentless!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12d

As fascism becomes more entrenched, microblogging will become even less reliable and likely useful as a site for communicating. So many bots, bad actors and an inability to discern.

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Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 20d

E-bike autumn

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Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 20d

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Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 21d

It’s because dreaming of new cabinets is the only thing that brings me joy isn’t it.

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Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 22d

My favorite part is the political humor on social media

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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International Gender & Language Association @igala.bsky.social · 27d

IGALA is on Bluesky & Instagram (IGALA_insta) now!
Help us grow online and off by following AND nominating yourself or a colleague for an executive board position 🙃

IGALA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS DUE SEPTEMBER 30TH
PRESIDENT-ELECT, SECRETARY, COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER, TREASURER
tinyurl.com/nomyourself
tinyurl.com/nomyourfriend

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Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 28d

Empanada and Kiwi having a (supervised!) interaction! They approached each other it was very interesting 🐥🐈

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28d

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29d

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 29d

It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious.

@mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes.

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...