Bex Sentance

Only a day left to get our awesome bundle of works (books! comics! visual novels!) starring aromantic characters. Check it out, if that's your thing. :D

Thank goodness everyone spent months deciding that the Chinese were stealing our data so we could switch to good old patriotic American data stealing

pleading with the richest man in the world for him to let you continue covering international news is so fucking grim

Oh wow things are that bad over there huh?

FSNNA 2026 Committee Application FSNNA held its first conference in October 2018 to gather fan studies scholars in one place to meet, share new research, and promote the study of fanworks and fan cultures. During the Covid-19 pandemi...

Psst! Hey you!
The FSNNA Organizing Committee is recruiting new volunteers to bring fresh perspectives & ideas to the committee, and we'd love it if you applied!

Applications are open till Jan 31, 2026. Don't miss out!

"This doesn't mean watching people who are non-criminals" and if you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you

The LingComm Grants are back!

These grants started in 2020, as "hey let's help get lingcomm projects going during lockdown"

They've since run in 2022 and 2024, and thanks to generous folks we've always given out more than expected

But they only work if people apply!!! Please share this!!

we lost the pivot to video
we can fight the rotation of video

"This can occur before your project launches, while it is live, or after it is successful." OH THANKS. THANKS FOR THAT

Apparently November 26th is National Linguistics Day in the UK because it's de Saussure's birthday??

Just found this out from @adamcschembri.bsky.social at #LingComm25 and the chat immediately goes wild

World Linguistics Day, anyone???
#linguistics

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

Holy moly, when I checked on this yesterday it was at 80,000 signatures. Now it's at 170,911 signatures and growing as I type this. I think people are a wee bit unhappy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

EXCITING NEWS 📣 #TWC is officially launching a new section of the journal titled Multimedia, spearheaded by our newly (re)named Symposium & Multimedia Editors.
You can read more about this decision here:

"The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves."

— bell hooks

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EXCITING NEWS 📣 #TWC is officially launching a new section of the journal titled Multimedia, spearheaded by our newly (re)named Symposium & Multimedia Editors.
You can read more about this decision here:

Subset Games co-founder Jay Ma went through hell to make Fulcrum Defender For the past few years, Subset Games co-founder Jay Ma has been sick with long Covid. She made her latest game, Fulcrum Defender, to prove she could still do what she loves.

I got the privilege to talk @jarmustard.bsky.social about her new @play.date game, Fulcrum Defender. Jay has been living with long Covid for the past few years, and she made this game to prove she could still do what she loves. Please send her all your love and well wishes.

I wish jrr tolkien could do just a little bit of haunting just to fuck up those tech guys who keep naming their shitty companies after his lore

The newsroom's vanishing women: ITN, Channel 4 News and the long shadow of NDAs How can it have taken years for the truth about Channel 4 News and gagging clauses over harassment cases to come out?

NEW | On NDAs...

THE NEWSROOM'S VANISHING WOMEN: ITN, CHANNEL 4 NEWS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF NDAs

How can it have taken years for the truth about Channel 4 News and gagging clauses over harassment cases to come out?

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-newsro...

When you TERF so hard you wind up transing someone's gender

Trump’s anti-trans Executive Order is bad BUT it technically defines everyone as female. It states:

“'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell."

Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.

This is an AI ripoff of Black artists Navi Robins, I wish people would post the original artwork

Next we'll be turning "to web search" into a verb associated with a corporation... 😨

I like your header image very much 🤩 Lovely to see you on BlueSky!! I'm not a heavy user yet, but I am a user 😉

See also: John Mastodon

to all my ASEXUAL AND AROMANTIC buds asking the answer is YES 'bury your gays' is the upcoming book i have been talkin on with ace lead that proves love and early readers have thought this too. so excited for buds to meet one of my favorite characters ever tornightfire.com/catalog/bury...

Magic the Gathering and Pokemon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of people sitting in the corner of the cafeteria

Next stop - Bluesky domination? 😆 Welcome @interhacktives.bsky.social !

There are like three simultaneous panics about AI art happening online right now. Here's why it is important to not assume generative-AI tools are better or more prevalent than they are.
www.garbageday.email/p/pokmon-gun...

Hell's Diplomat. Henry Kissinger is dead but the newspapers' habit of making excuses for him lives on. Here's my review of the op-eds and obits.

NEW | I read the obits of and op-eds on Henry Kissinger so you don't have to...

HELL'S DIPLOMAT

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/hells-dipl...