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dyke linguist, londoner by birth, berlinerin by choice
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@lynneguist.bsky.social norwegian language council picks "tekoligark" (tech oligarch) as woty
johanp.bsky.social Johan P @johanp.bsky.social · 14d
Se også: Språkrådet har kåret «tekoligark» til årets ord 2025.

www.nrk.no/vestland/are...
December 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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hellafitzgerald.bsky.social
I cannot stress how important it is that we make “bitch, do something yourself” a language-embedded meme on the level of “kim there’s people that are dying”
feralstreeep.bsky.social feral streep @feralstreeep.bsky.social · Aug 10
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
Elizabeth Taylor in an 80s press conference speaking on the stigma of AIDS “…And it so angered me that I finally thought to myself, Bitch, do something yourself.” from the documentary “Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes.”
December 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:
1. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when a 36-year-old writer is asked on a network news show about the Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community particularly in regard to the Well-Known Preponderance of Homosexuals in the Arts she replies that if you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture you would be pretty much left with ''Let's Make a Deal.'' The interviewer's lack of response compels her to conclude that he has no idea what she is talking about and she realizes that soon many of those who do know what she is talking about will be what is generally regarded as dead. 2. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that on New Year's Eve Day… …a 36-year-old writer takes a 31-year-old photographer to get a chest X-ray and listens to him say with what can only be described as a certain guarded hope, ''Maybe I just have lung cancer.'' 3. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has a telephone conversation with a dying 41-year-old book editor whom even the most practiced verbal assassin has called the last of the Southern gentlemen and hears him say in a hoarse whisper, ''I'm sorry but I just hate old people. I look at them and think, 'Why don't you die?' '' 4. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that an aspiring little avant-garde movie director approaches a fairly famous actor in a restaurant and attempts to make social hay out of the fact that they met at Antonio's and will undoubtedly see each other at Charles's and Antonio's and Charles's are not parties and Antonio's and Charles's are not bars and Antonio's and Charles's are not summer houses in chic Tuscan towns - Antonio's and Charles's are funerals. 5. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer is on the telephone with a 38-year-old art director making arrangements to go together the following morning to the funeral of a 27-year-old architect and the art director says to the writer, ''If you get there first sit near the front where we usually sit and save me the seat on the aisle.'' 6. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 24-year-old ballet dancer is in the hospital for 10 days following an emergency appendectomy and nobody goes to visit him because everyone is really busy and after all he's not dying or anything. 7. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer takes time out at a memorial service for the world's pre-eminent makeup artist and a man worth any number of interesting new painters to get angry because the makeup artist's best friend and eulogist uses a story that she has for years been hoarding for her book which she can't write anymore anyway unless she writes it as a historical novel because it's about a world that in the last few years has disappeared almost entirely.
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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theguardian.com
How the cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core and will mean millions more infections ahead
How the cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core and will mean millions more infections ahead
Reports highlight devastating impact of slashed funding, especially in parts of Africa, that could lead to 3.3m new HIV infections by 2030
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
lexiecalised.bsky.social
spannender rbb-artikel und vor allem spannende spracheinstellungen im kommentarfeld
Wie "English only" als Alltagssprache Berlin verändert
In Teilen Berlins wird Englisch zur Alltagssprache, besonders in Cafés, Restaurants und Geschäften. Das finden einige Menschen super - andere stellt es vor Herausforderungen. Von Christina Rubarth und...
www.rbb24.de
October 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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benwritesthings.bsky.social
apropos junge Frauen in Städten
October 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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katbrownwrites.com
“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.”

What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC
www.bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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linguistlist.bsky.social
Calls: 78th Student Conference on Linguistics / 78. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft
Calls: 78th Student Conference on Linguistics / 78. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft
About the conference: The StuTS (Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft) is a three-day student conference on linguistics held biannually. Organized by volunteer linguistics students, it is hosted usually but not exclusively, by German-speaking universities. Since its inauguration in Hamburg in 1987, StuTS has brought together thousands of enthusiastic linguistics students to present their work, learn about exciting new topics in inspiring keynote addresses, talks, and workshops, and me
dlvr.it
September 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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phkraemer.bsky.social
Wogegen die HU klagt:
Eine Verpflichtung zu stabilen Beschäftigungsbedingungen.

Wogegen die HU nicht klagt:
Eine Verpflichtung zu Stellenkürzungen und schlechteren Bedingungen für verbleibende Beschäftigte.

Traumhafter Arbeitgeber, so lockt man Spitzentalente an.
September 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
lexiecalised.bsky.social
1/ i was spending a couple of months abroad and my then gf set me up with someone she knew (yay polyamory !) who had moved to the same city. i arrive at the pub where we were meeting and realise we have already been on a date a year before in my home city.
thefence.bsky.social The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · Aug 12
The Fence is FOR LOVERS, so for next issue's Fencepost, we want your most memorable, mundane, mortifying and miserable dating experiences.

So please reply, or issue a discrete DM, with your maddest, baddest, and raddest adventures in the dating game.
A sad hand, holding wilted roses.
August 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
lexiecalised.bsky.social
@lingucat.bsky.social taz.de/Vermuellung-... ist mülllawine schon in deiner tristabensammlung ?
Vermüllung in Uganda: Der Preis des Mülls
Ein Jahr nach der Mülllawine hat Shadia Nanyonjo weder ihr Zuhause zurück noch eine Entschädigung erhalten. Die Stadt lädt ihren Abfall in einem geschützten Gebiet ab.
taz.de
August 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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kirbyconrod.bsky.social
I'm looking to chat with nonbinary and/or trans speakers of several languages, especially including Irish, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, Polish, Icelandic - but also any other languages (aside from English / Spanish / French). DM or email me!
May 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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robfordmancs.bsky.social
Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?

Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
February 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
lexiecalised.bsky.social
anne lister @badgayspod.bsky.social ep lets fuckign gooo
February 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
lexiecalised.bsky.social
realising again and again that writing is hard because thinking is hard
January 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
lexiecalised.bsky.social
wow zoteros had a real glowup
January 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
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The principle “Life cannot be delegated” is simply a guidepost. It keeps before us the possibility that we might, if we are not careful, delegate away a form of life that is full and whole, rewarding and meaningful. We ought to be especially careful in the cases where what we delegate to a device, app, agent, or system is an aspect of how we express care, cultivate skill, relate to one another, make moral judgments, or assume responsibility for our actions in the world—the very things, in other words, that make life meaningful.
December 31, 2024 at 3:22 AM
lexiecalised.bsky.social
fun multilingualism situation: speaking norwegian to the (probably british) barista in the thirdwave coffee shop in stockholm and being replied to in english. at first i thought bc she took me for a tourist (which i am tbf), then realised it was bc she didnt speak scandinavian
December 31, 2024 at 1:46 PM
lexiecalised.bsky.social
already hyped for radio 4s special shipping forecast-themed programming on nyd !!
December 26, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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crystaljjlee.com
oh my god overleaf I DO NOT WANT AI WRITING INTEGRATION
December 10, 2024 at 9:11 PM
lexiecalised.bsky.social
~structural ambiguity~
pamelaweaver.bsky.social Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.bsky.social · Dec 7
Ah here, could she not just put up a tree like the rest of us.
Photo featuring Englad's queen Camilla with kids and reindeer. The caption reads: Camilla decorates royal household with sick children.
December 8, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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gretchenmcc.bsky.social
Hey, I just met you
And this is freaky
But which one is bouba
And which is kiki?
gwillow.me G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · Nov 2
Hey I just met you
I'm off to hunt whale
but here's my novel
so call me Ishmael
November 2, 2023 at 11:42 PM
lexiecalised.bsky.social
does anyone know a good reference for the dominance of english in linguistics/psycholinguistics/psychology ? it needs to refer specifically to english, rather than WEIRD in general. thanks !

#linguistics
December 2, 2024 at 9:59 AM