Erika’s (Too) Online
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👩🏻💻 Linguist, anthropologist, writer, re: marriage, kinship, population and the internet
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📍Eternal second city girlie (gender-neutral)
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🧲 Accidental Magneto linguistics expert
📍Eternal second city girlie (gender-neutral)
English/日本語/Русский/יידיש 🆗
🏳️🌈 they/she • あの奴 • она • זי
✡️ 🤝 🇵🇸 land back worldwide
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· Oct 16
The Relationship People
Japan has often been portrayed as a mysterious, sexless, troubled land. Birth rates and marriage rates have been decreasing for decades, and national surveys sh…
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Hi new followers! Time for a new introduction post, if only because the link for my book is through a different publisher. (Yay media conglomeration? Wait no).
I'm a linguist and anthropologist. I used to be an academic, now I'm just writing. I wrote one book! I'm working on another.
I'm a linguist and anthropologist. I used to be an academic, now I'm just writing. I wrote one book! I'm working on another.
Jupiter Ascending hits at least 3 out of 5 of these
Top 5 film genres:
• the costumes are elaborate enough to carry the whole thing
• reincarnation love story (but maybe not this time)
• everyone dies by the sword
• someone took so many drugs to make this
• beautiful woman is slowly compressed by the patriarchy into a hard and terrible diamond
• the costumes are elaborate enough to carry the whole thing
• reincarnation love story (but maybe not this time)
• everyone dies by the sword
• someone took so many drugs to make this
• beautiful woman is slowly compressed by the patriarchy into a hard and terrible diamond
Top 5 film genres?
❶ Implausibly witty people try to out-manœuvre one another in politics/diplomacy/espionage
❷ Implausibly witty people commit and/or solve an audacious crime
❸ Implausibly witty people fall in love
❹ I don’t know what’s going on, but it’s beautiful
❺ My friends voted to watch this
❶ Implausibly witty people try to out-manœuvre one another in politics/diplomacy/espionage
❷ Implausibly witty people commit and/or solve an audacious crime
❸ Implausibly witty people fall in love
❹ I don’t know what’s going on, but it’s beautiful
❺ My friends voted to watch this
November 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Jupiter Ascending hits at least 3 out of 5 of these
Watching Sailor Moon with my partner:
"So Mamoru is who? What? Midnight Taco?"
"So Mamoru is who? What? Midnight Taco?"
November 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Watching Sailor Moon with my partner:
"So Mamoru is who? What? Midnight Taco?"
"So Mamoru is who? What? Midnight Taco?"
Top 5 film genres:
• the costumes are elaborate enough to carry the whole thing
• reincarnation love story (but maybe not this time)
• everyone dies by the sword
• someone took so many drugs to make this
• beautiful woman is slowly compressed by the patriarchy into a hard and terrible diamond
• the costumes are elaborate enough to carry the whole thing
• reincarnation love story (but maybe not this time)
• everyone dies by the sword
• someone took so many drugs to make this
• beautiful woman is slowly compressed by the patriarchy into a hard and terrible diamond
Top 5 film genres?
❶ Implausibly witty people try to out-manœuvre one another in politics/diplomacy/espionage
❷ Implausibly witty people commit and/or solve an audacious crime
❸ Implausibly witty people fall in love
❹ I don’t know what’s going on, but it’s beautiful
❺ My friends voted to watch this
❶ Implausibly witty people try to out-manœuvre one another in politics/diplomacy/espionage
❷ Implausibly witty people commit and/or solve an audacious crime
❸ Implausibly witty people fall in love
❹ I don’t know what’s going on, but it’s beautiful
❺ My friends voted to watch this
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-Two girls bond over evil
-Art drives people insane
-Australia is weird
-Everybody who died shows up at the end as ghosts and makes you cry
-Repo Man
-Two girls bond over evil
-Art drives people insane
-Australia is weird
-Everybody who died shows up at the end as ghosts and makes you cry
-Repo Man
November 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Top 5 film genres:
• the costumes are elaborate enough to carry the whole thing
• reincarnation love story (but maybe not this time)
• everyone dies by the sword
• someone took so many drugs to make this
• beautiful woman is slowly compressed by the patriarchy into a hard and terrible diamond
• the costumes are elaborate enough to carry the whole thing
• reincarnation love story (but maybe not this time)
• everyone dies by the sword
• someone took so many drugs to make this
• beautiful woman is slowly compressed by the patriarchy into a hard and terrible diamond
I'm not even in academia anymore but the predatory journals still want my free labor for books well outside my area of expertise
November 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I'm not even in academia anymore but the predatory journals still want my free labor for books well outside my area of expertise
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Top 5 Film Genres:
Here's An Apocalypse You Can't Just Shoot, So What Now, Dipshit
Incredible Magic/Surreal Thing Happening to Normal Ppl Who Still Gotta Be At Work At 9:00 Tomorrow
Space Normies
Style Over Substance But It's SO 😱 U Don't Care
Auteur Swan Song/Magnum Opus Insanity
Here's An Apocalypse You Can't Just Shoot, So What Now, Dipshit
Incredible Magic/Surreal Thing Happening to Normal Ppl Who Still Gotta Be At Work At 9:00 Tomorrow
Space Normies
Style Over Substance But It's SO 😱 U Don't Care
Auteur Swan Song/Magnum Opus Insanity
Top 5 Film Genres:
Average Joes ineptly involved with crime
Yearning and Burning
The Vibes Are Off
Arty But Not Too Arty
Hotel Transylvania
Average Joes ineptly involved with crime
Yearning and Burning
The Vibes Are Off
Arty But Not Too Arty
Hotel Transylvania
Top 5 Film Genres:
Finish The Puzzle And Die!
Never Mind "What Is It?" Just Eat It
Henge-porn
These Ghosts Are NOT A Trauma-Metaphor
If You Go To That Cabin The Trees Will Try To Fuck You!
Finish The Puzzle And Die!
Never Mind "What Is It?" Just Eat It
Henge-porn
These Ghosts Are NOT A Trauma-Metaphor
If You Go To That Cabin The Trees Will Try To Fuck You!
November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Top 5 Film Genres:
Here's An Apocalypse You Can't Just Shoot, So What Now, Dipshit
Incredible Magic/Surreal Thing Happening to Normal Ppl Who Still Gotta Be At Work At 9:00 Tomorrow
Space Normies
Style Over Substance But It's SO 😱 U Don't Care
Auteur Swan Song/Magnum Opus Insanity
Here's An Apocalypse You Can't Just Shoot, So What Now, Dipshit
Incredible Magic/Surreal Thing Happening to Normal Ppl Who Still Gotta Be At Work At 9:00 Tomorrow
Space Normies
Style Over Substance But It's SO 😱 U Don't Care
Auteur Swan Song/Magnum Opus Insanity
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One of my favorite lines from Richard Powers’s THE OVERSTORY is “Something slow and purposeful wants to turn every human building into soil.”
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
One of my favorite lines from Richard Powers’s THE OVERSTORY is “Something slow and purposeful wants to turn every human building into soil.”
Yeah this sounds about right, and the horror of course is that tens of thousands in repairs is still cheaper than rent
We don’t know how or why our otherwise apparently solid home inspector missed these issues, we are aware we may want to look at suing someone, also it’s true that when you buy a house you are starting an invisible Expensive Catastrophe countdown clock, and at least we have a house
November 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Yeah this sounds about right, and the horror of course is that tens of thousands in repairs is still cheaper than rent
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many people are saying!
November 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
many people are saying!
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A lot of y’all were relying on the news to be your daily reminder that anti-Black racism and transphobia are bad and now that the news is doing a lot of normalizing of the perpetrators of both, it’s like out of sight and out of mind
November 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A lot of y’all were relying on the news to be your daily reminder that anti-Black racism and transphobia are bad and now that the news is doing a lot of normalizing of the perpetrators of both, it’s like out of sight and out of mind
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“Why do women, especially women of color leave physics?”
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
In the meantime, he got the professional networking opportunity, and I didn’t. And Lawrence Krauss gets to write nasty things about me in the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times gets to write about me like I’m a crazy queer bitch who hates men.
That’s the other side of these emails
That’s the other side of these emails
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“Why do women, especially women of color leave physics?”
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
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It's in the fucking name. That it happens to so many of us that it's never just the one person who is harmed.
It's me, too.
It's me, too.
November 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It's in the fucking name. That it happens to so many of us that it's never just the one person who is harmed.
It's me, too.
It's me, too.
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This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Assigned Goth at Birth
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Assigned Goth at Birth
Battlestar Spilled Milk
November 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Battlestar Spilled Milk
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Nov 12–16: Ginkgo gold drop
Ginkgoes often shed en masse after the season’s first sharp cold night—sidewalks turn gold.
Ginkgoes often shed en masse after the season’s first sharp cold night—sidewalks turn gold.
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Nov 12–16: Ginkgo gold drop
Ginkgoes often shed en masse after the season’s first sharp cold night—sidewalks turn gold.
Ginkgoes often shed en masse after the season’s first sharp cold night—sidewalks turn gold.
Literally whatever happened to "with great power comes great responsibility?"
November 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Literally whatever happened to "with great power comes great responsibility?"
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Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for 30 Seconds Before Vanishing Day to all who observe.
November 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for 30 Seconds Before Vanishing Day to all who observe.
This ffs. Even if she seduced him in the most conniving and heartless way possible for power, even if it was entirely her idea, his power is why it happened?? You can't remove it from the equation to just make the whole thing ok somehow.
everyone saying “she was a consenting adult“ either can’t read or doesn’t want to deal with the fact that even a woman who is consenting to a relationship is at an inherent power differential with *the president of the fucking United States*
November 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This ffs. Even if she seduced him in the most conniving and heartless way possible for power, even if it was entirely her idea, his power is why it happened?? You can't remove it from the equation to just make the whole thing ok somehow.
Porn (across media, not just videos of live humans having actual sex) is a good and normal form of human self-expression that deserves our affirmative support.
In a lot of ways other leftists chose this path folks. They shrugged and didn’t care when Patreon banned a ton of hypnosis and TF creators, or when YouTube started their ASMR crackdown. Now it’s coming for queer porn creators, more and more. Who will stand up?
November 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Porn (across media, not just videos of live humans having actual sex) is a good and normal form of human self-expression that deserves our affirmative support.
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
They had a really bad night last night but they still made sure I had the blanket 😭
The wee beastie did the cutest bedtime thing. You're not supposed to give kids blankets until they're two? So they have no idea why THEY should want a blanket. But they always see ME putting blankets on myself, so they decided they needed to put their blanket on top of me, because I needed them ALL.
November 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
They had a really bad night last night but they still made sure I had the blanket 😭
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It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
Happy 44th birthday to me! I have been gifted jewelry, baking pans, and neurotoxins! As always, I don't quite know how to be this age but I'm at least not going to LOOK worried about it.
November 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Happy 44th birthday to me! I have been gifted jewelry, baking pans, and neurotoxins! As always, I don't quite know how to be this age but I'm at least not going to LOOK worried about it.
I actually think it might be a good thing if we generally work to de-normalize language this violent?? The bigger problem is uneven enforcement of whatever rules so, congrats for banning a really famous white guy?
patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I actually think it might be a good thing if we generally work to de-normalize language this violent?? The bigger problem is uneven enforcement of whatever rules so, congrats for banning a really famous white guy?
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CONTROVERSIAL OPINION:
comics are important and we should think of them as a part of a balanced literary diet
comics are important and we should think of them as a part of a balanced literary diet
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
CONTROVERSIAL OPINION:
comics are important and we should think of them as a part of a balanced literary diet
comics are important and we should think of them as a part of a balanced literary diet