Amanita (Termy) 🍄

Bringing It Back Home Getting my endangered alphabets carvings to where they are needed.

I just backed Bringing It Back Home on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/end...

Creating a sign language out of everything and everywhere Mariana Martins: Creating a sign language out of everything and everywhere - An example from the deaf people of Bissau

It was a great pleasure and a honor to act as the co-supervisor for Mariana Martins’ dissertation about the emergence of a new Sign Language in Guinea Bissau, for which she received the doctorate yesterday. The book is available open-access.🧵

www.lotpublications.nl/creating-a-s...

graphic that says no ice in Minnesota itch.io charity bundle

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED!

There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota!

Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

💯 (EXCEPT for the times I write something out and then get interrupted and then forget to post it then find it in my drafts like six months later and think "hey I thought I posted this".)

This is enshittification pure and simple: the aim is to make standalone chapters less portable/readable. Every handbook chapter comes with a carefully curated bibliography. Taking that away diminishes the value and integrity of scholarly work. #OUP is not adding, but substracting value here.

4/4

It seems @oxfordunipress.bsky.social no longer cares about bibliographic metadata. The way they do their handbooks these days is they rob all individual chapters of bibliographies, meaning cites go undetected and the crossref metadata for chapters is the biggest mess possible

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Jon Kudelka, Walkley-winning Tasmanian cartoonist, dies from brain cancer Award-winning Tasmanian cartoonist Jon Kudelka has died after being diagnosed with brain cancer in 2024.

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www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Wellingtonians of Bluesky (or other New Zealanders who know Wellingtonians), I must ask for a favour. I'm heading down to Wellington in about a month and will be looking for work there, so if anyone knows someone who needs my skillset and might vibe with me, I'd very much appreciate the introduction

Neil Gaiman is especially shameless for crawling out of hiding at this particular moment.

did he overhear us talking about predators & think we were summoning him by name?

yiddish does not fuck around when it comes to this kind of thing

Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

Ja!

IT IS INDEED A FUCKING SHARRRRRRRRK!

Oh I never posted this here so I'm posting this here.

New tattoo (a few days ago). SFW, etc.

Sounds like prescriptivism to me.

(However, we really shouldn't say it. Don't ask me how I know.)

for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence

hope that helps

Took me a while to realise 50s and 80s refers to temperatures, not time periods. Was looking forward to a photo of your Lucille Ball-meets-Madonna fits

Facepalm emoji. Just seriously

I'm so glad you're both okay!

Workers Say AI Is Useless, While Oblivious Bosses Insist It's a Productivity Miracle A new survey illustrates the stark divide between how rank and file workers and their bosses view AI tech.

"Much attention has been paid to companies that use AI to justify brutal layoffs. But the employees that keep their jobs find themselves being forced to use new and still-experimental AI tools that may not be all that useful for their specific roles,..."

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Cartoonish drawings of silly cardinals sitting on the vowels a, e, i, o, and u. Their shapes mimic diagrams of vowel tongue positions. The referenced diagram can be found on Wikipedia- source: Jones, Daniel. (1972) An outline of English phonetics (9th ed.).

I was listening to the podcast @lingthusiasm.com and was suddenly struck by inspiration that I HAD to get out IMMEDIATELY. So without further ado, may I present.......

Cardinal Vowels

Some blonde person that looks a bit like a guy in a bright orange hoodie on a VTR250

Pink haired trans woman, definitely NOT a guy, in a black dress and fishnets and sunnies, straddling a CBR500R

Hahah so I upgraded both my motorbike and, like, all the rest of me.

It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can

Hey all, listen to my fren's grape music.

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coworker just dropped "chili is goated when winter slop if the vibe" and i don't think i've ever read a more innocent online-poisoned sentence

So Google is partially copying glottolog data without citing sources or am I missing something?

corncob etc