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Russell Lee-Goldman

@rleegoldman

He/him. Language learning (CJK), linguist, Wheel of Time enthusiast.

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I like how the same guy who wrote this also wrote “smooth lions are eating me” about sharks. that’s range

14.02.2026 04:34 👍 396 🔁 46 💬 5 📌 1

if i was vibrating before, now i am a human earthquake of incandescent rage

15.01.2026 04:58 👍 73 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

this stabs at my heart, man. that statue in Sugarland is so beautiful, and the Hindu community of greater Houston is incredibly kind and cool. My cousins grew up there and i used to spend summers with them. i know this country doesn't want my brown born-in-the-usa ass, but it still hurts to see it.

09.01.2026 19:05 👍 64 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 0

I would love to log in but the smoke is making it impossible to find my laptop

15.12.2025 21:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Stealworkers

11.12.2025 13:55 👍 8360 🔁 1923 💬 192 📌 257

Guy stealing from mankind for his personal benefit fancies himself to be stealing from the gods for mankind's benefit

17.11.2025 12:45 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

It's kinda like if you were born intuitively feeling like the A button should be on the right, X should be up, B down, etc. but life hands you an Xbox controller and everyone gets super weird the moment you ask about button remapping.

14.11.2025 02:43 👍 1447 🔁 422 💬 20 📌 3

Oh not sure how I missed that!

06.11.2025 21:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tarot cards

06.11.2025 21:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

03.11.2025 21:59 👍 5120 🔁 1928 💬 89 📌 26

Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.

11.10.2025 17:57 👍 160 🔁 77 💬 3 📌 2

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

11.10.2025 23:14 👍 8438 🔁 4756 💬 6 📌 175
wie heißt du?
was?
wie du heißt!

wie heißt du? was? wie du heißt!

this is a cool thing that German does that i don't think there is an English equivalent for.

if somebody says "what?" to your question, you restate the question but as *indirect* not direct.

in German this means the sentence is put into subordinate clause syntax (verb at the end)

09.10.2025 14:48 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 5 📌 1

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

08.10.2025 10:29 👍 27040 🔁 10278 💬 424 📌 184
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DHS agents retreat as Chicago cops refuse to shield them from swarming protesters Department of Homeland Security agents were seen abandoning one attempt to arrest a man in Chicago over the weekend after being outnumbered by protesters. In at least one case, the Chicago Police Department was ordered not to assist federal agents swarmed by demonstrators, according to reports. In v...

Department of Homeland Security agents were seen abandoning one attempt to arrest a man in Chicago over the weekend after being outnumbered by protesters.

05.10.2025 20:00 👍 767 🔁 183 💬 22 📌 22

Bleh!

07.10.2025 07:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’ Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign ‘radical agreement’ to cuts to departments, students and speech

Newsom: "If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding – including Cal Grants – instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom"

03.10.2025 01:43 👍 613 🔁 171 💬 9 📌 28

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.

Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

01.10.2025 19:21 👍 3124 🔁 573 💬 19 📌 48

The only LLM I will proudly display in my home.

01.10.2025 17:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh and the music is A+ imo.

28.09.2025 03:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was just replaying SoM and it struck me just how simplistic the story is. I think the main draws at the time were the multiplayer aspect, the weapon/magic leveling and the fact that it was jrpg-like but just this side of action rpg.

But it’s definitely not enough for me to keep playing.

28.09.2025 03:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

5yo: Bro is just “b-r-o.” Theres a little w inside it but we don’t write it. #linguistics

27.09.2025 18:53 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

5yo: “A hundred things can mean dude.”

#linguistics

(They don’t always have the expected figure/ground relationship for “mean”)

26.09.2025 03:43 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on.

They've outlived dozens of ships.

20.06.2024 04:00 👍 7436 🔁 1389 💬 198 📌 591

It doesn't happen often, but sometimes this miserable country's obsessively singular focus on Creating Value For The Shareholders yields good results

25.09.2025 01:08 👍 338 🔁 76 💬 4 📌 0
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The WI Dem party flags that GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden has tweeted more than 550 times in the 5 days since the 22-year-old Utah man killed Charlie Kirk.

And in those posts, Van Orden has:

15.09.2025 14:53 👍 665 🔁 315 💬 33 📌 16
Jeopardy screen focused on the category. I love that for Yuri

Jeopardy screen focused on the category. I love that for Yuri

Ummm @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social I had a very different idea of what this was about.

12.09.2025 02:57 👍 204 🔁 47 💬 2 📌 5

(like I said, it super doesn't matter and I have no idea who niccus is, it was just a missed connection I saw while watching the twitch vods)

10.09.2025 04:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@james.loadingreadyrun.com this is like, the most minor thing ever, but re: the name of the morning show, I just wanted to say that a viewer named "niccus" (no idea who they are) suggested it first in the live chat, as "Morning, Moonbase," and I read Molly's comment as riffing on that.

10.09.2025 04:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0