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linguist a less cruel world is possible neurosomething (autistic) all posts reflect private opinions
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16.02.2026 08:36 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
15.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 32894 🔁 11291 💬 557 📌 503Ian McShane looking at you with the approval you never got from your dad.
15.02.2026 19:37 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0„Billionaires really like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as a good and natural thing.“ Yup.
15.02.2026 18:39 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Edge offered intellectually insecure reactionaries a pass. Without even opening a book, they could dismiss all of feminism, postcolonial theory and queer studies. They could […] devote their brains instead to the race science and rape apologetics that now pass for scholarship on edgelord podcasts.”
15.02.2026 18:38 — 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 2A benefit of free buses I hadn’t heard enough about until this piece from @galvinalmanza.bsky.social
14.02.2026 23:59 — 👍 1528 🔁 427 💬 15 📌 12And you can pin the Linguistics feed
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Ein Bild des bündnisgrünen Aufrufs "Rettet die Erneuerbaren Energien", den schon 122.000+ Bürger*innen unterzeichnet haben. Hier: https://dabeisein.gruene.de/forms/katherina-reiche-zerstort-die-energiewende-und-macht-uns-abhangig-rette-die-erneuerbaren-energien-mit-uns
Über 120.000 sagen: Rettet die Energiewende!
Stoppt Katherina Reiches "Netzpaket"!
Auch ein gemeinsamer Appell aus Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft fordert einen Richtungswechsel der Bundesregierung für statt gegen die Erneuerbaren Energien in Bürgerhand.
Bitte verbreitet die Appelle!
Reading "The Language of Food" and learned about the concept of "negative differentiation", the phenomenon that we use more specific expressions for negative experiences compared to positive ones (introduced through a study of reviews about beers).
15.02.2026 10:05 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Academics, ich pitche euch ne Idee für 1 Veranstaltung, die ihr an euren Hochschulen planen könntet:
Am 19. Mai ist Diversity Tag und am 23. Mai ist Tag des Grundgesetzes. 1 perfekte Woche, um zum Austausch über Gefährdungen der Wissenschaftsfreiheit & Strategien gegen Angriffe einzuladen!
Die AfD bedroht unsere Demokratie. Ihr könnt den Appell unterzeichnen und auf #Prüf Demos gehen oder in eurer Stadt selber eine organisieren
14.02.2026 18:57 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Pathology language focuses on what others can observe.
The Neurodiversity Paradigm insists that internal experience matters.
If a system defines autism entirely by how inconvenient we are, that system isn’t neutral.
Rather, it’s telling everyone what it’s REALLY about.
If only there was an intellectual discipline that could explain why the white men who run universities are so eager to shut down gender studies.
13.02.2026 19:07 — 👍 109 🔁 32 💬 1 📌 0No amount of neurodiversity awareness training will ever make up for the fact that the average person takes it personally when you want to have lunch alone.
12.02.2026 12:32 — 👍 115 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 5Beim Feminismus sollte es nicht um die Gleichberechtigung von Frauen und Männern gehen, sondern um die Gleichberechtigung *aller* Menschen.
13.02.2026 11:23 — 👍 55 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
Map of Africa with dots indicating individual languages that might have provided lexical material to the Raizal language. Light-colored dots indicate higher numbers of possible word matches, with Twi and Ewe having the highest number of possible matches.
Since I'm about to co-teach a class on Raizal (San Andrés islander creole), I made a map to visualize possible African origins of individual Raizal lexemes compiled in Bartens 2003.
12.02.2026 14:49 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0Kind of amazing how the right was able to successfully sell so many centrists on a left wing “war on science” because we said phrenology is fake and trans people are real while they continue to deny evolution and climate change
12.02.2026 20:03 — 👍 125 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 1I don't want self-driving cars. I want cars with speed governors and doors that won't open when cyclists are approaching.
12.02.2026 15:33 — 👍 298 🔁 37 💬 16 📌 4Große Liebe für Leute, die über alle Sprachen der Erde generalisieren, ohne die leiseste Ahnung zu haben…
12.02.2026 16:15 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Yup. Read in coordinates with the lingtypology package.
12.02.2026 15:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0some of their heritage. Contrastive lexicology can help to retrieve some of what has been lost through the horrors of the slave trade and colonization.
12.02.2026 14:49 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The highest rate of possible matches is found in Twi and Ewe, pointing to the Atlantic coast of (southern) West Africa as likely origins of some of the original speakers.
In Carribean creoles, it is often very hard to trace the exact ancestry of original speakers, which deprives today's speakers of
Map of Africa with dots indicating individual languages that might have provided lexical material to the Raizal language. Light-colored dots indicate higher numbers of possible word matches, with Twi and Ewe having the highest number of possible matches.
Since I'm about to co-teach a class on Raizal (San Andrés islander creole), I made a map to visualize possible African origins of individual Raizal lexemes compiled in Bartens 2003.
12.02.2026 14:49 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Sicherheitsbeamte mit kugelsicherer Weste, Handschellen und Pfefferspray klingeln in Nordhausen morgens bei jungen Bürgergeldbeziehenden, um sie zum 1-€-Job zu fahren. Der SPD-Landrat diffamiert sie öffentlich als "Generation von Faulenzern." Oh Wunder, ich bin dagegen.
www.zeit.de/2026/07/buer...
sigh
11.02.2026 14:28 — 👍 10510 🔁 2577 💬 82 📌 36
Geld sparen durch digitale Unabhängigkeit. Wann geht es in Deutschland endlich los?
Aus der taz vom 10.2.2026
Steuergeld für Microsoft
von Svenja Bergt
online unter:
www.taz.de/!6152601
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
08.02.2026 22:23 — 👍 17709 🔁 5376 💬 242 📌 251
The first attempt to reconstruct Tyrannosaurus rex, in the 1905 paper in which Osborn named it and a panel mount of the skeleton (middle), from the 1916 paper in which Osborn described and named it.
Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵)
Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM.
Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.
