Dave Sayers

I read through hundreds of emails and scoured through years of correspondence and background information to write this 4600 word report.

It confirms what we all have been saying about the anti-trans movement from the start. Read it from the top down, I can't even begin to summarize it all properly.

Aurinkoinen pakkaspäivä, sininen taivas, järven ranta, keltainen polkupyörä. Savilahden ranta Kuopiossa.

Aamulla oli menoja lapsen kanssa. Sitten vein hänet kouluun. 10 km polkemista. Oli kylmä, sopiva, hiki. Ihanaa alamäkeä, hengästyttävää ylämäkeä. Sormissa nipisteli, lumi narskui renkaan alla, talvi lumosi.. Teki hyvää.

Mietin, että voisiko auton kyydissä istumista demonisoida kuten esim somea... 🤔

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Please, my magic bean, it is very sick

Here in central Finland tomorrow it will be -25C, but I know I'll be warmer than I ever was during a British winter.

(Short explanation: actual working insulation, district-level heating, cheapest energy in Europe.)

Judge blocks charity’s challenge over trans people’s use of Hampstead ponds single-sex facilities Judge says claim brought by Sex Matters should be made instead by individual who says they have faced discrimination

Also, yah boo sucks to Sex Matters and their mysterious bottomless pockets of their anonymous backers. You're weird! Nobody likes you! Go away and find a hobby that isn't picking on a marginalised community, and get some therapy while you're there. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Standards

xkcd.com/927/

Immediately win favour with the editor(s) of an edited volume, by telling them you read the introduction.

If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

"haha yeah. we also have a fascism problem. good luck with yours!!" -- almost every country, right now

I heard Rev Dr. Bernice King speak at a Juneteenth event and she said, “What man has a legacy not owed to a woman?”

What’s a chatbot’s favorite punctuation mark?

The LLM-dash.

(Couldn’t resist!)

JYU English seminars - 2025-26 2025-26

📢Next in the @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social English online seminar series📢

'(How) is knowledge of linguistics and pragmatics relevant for real-life practitioners of communication?' (Gisle Andersen, @nhhnor.bsky.social), Mon 16 Feb 15:00 EET

👇Abstract/register here. Go go go!👇
r.jyu.fi/engseminars2...

Honestly the amount of research ethics bureaucratic paperwork universities are drowning themselves/staff in for projects that are mostly not dangerous/contentious at all and marketing teams are just flinging stuff up onto the Nazi Sexualiser 5000 no problem

I don't know how representative BlueSky or my timeline are for the US political centre and left, but it's amazing how many people in that range still believe that the fascists will be brought down by this or that procedural technicality.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Some unknown person came up with *the* obvious solution re: Greenland! 🥳

Dear Greenlanders, it works like this: you just keep the towel in place to scare off invaders, and no worries about German tourist hordes - it’s too cold for the Mallorca crowd.

I have neglected the doom. It has not been scrolled.

Zum Schutz vor US-Invasion: Dänemark verstreut Legosteine an Grönlands Küsten Nuuk, Kopenhagen (dpo) - Nach wiederholten Drohungen der US-Regierung gegen Grönland geht Dänemark nun auf Nummer sicher: Das dänische Militär hat heu

Zum Schutz vor US-Invasion: Dänemark verstreut Legosteine an Grönlands Küsten www.der-postillon.com/2026/01/lego...

My article 'Five Key Concepts for Autistic Linguistic Justice' is now free to read in @autisminadulthood.bsky.social.

For the curious or time poor, here's a short thread on the main ideas.

doi.org/10.1177/2573...

Is it ok for linguists to hate new words? Linguists are famously very cool with words changing their meaning, new words arising, and basically language just doing whatever the hell it wants, irregardless (heh) of what the language pedants …

www.languageonthemove.com/is-it-ok-for...

A person on a beach, hands held up high, as a huge tidal wave looms above them. The tidal wave is captioned 'My email inbox'. The person is captioned 'Me after my holiday'.

Here in Finland, Epiphany is a public holiday. And naturally, given its location (!) one's road home is a careful and confidential choice. My favourite Finnish expression roughly translates as ‘better to go a mile in the wrong direction than take a dangerous shortcut’.

great news, everyone! turning a 5 into a 6 because you forgot the year is one of the easiest ones to fudge! turning a 6 into a 7 won't be so simple

When you're proscribing against prescribing, are you...?

(But maybe your user handle gives it away a bit.)

Quick FYI, if you use Firefox and want to set the default search engine to Google without the AI box, here's how you do it.

The holidays are great, I've asked myself what day it is today approximately ten times and I'm still not sure I could tell you

In the episode where Homer adopts a pet lobster it is called Mr Pinchy. In the European French version of The Simpsons, Mr Pinchy is instead called Homard Simpson (homard means lobster in French)

Screenshot of a footnote reading, "I acknowledge the redundancy of 'neurodivergent academic.'"

Because it'll probably get cut, I wanted to post this footnote here for posterity