Bex Sentance

"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:

tweet screenshot Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) Fascinating @benthompson vision of the future of the Internet-i.e., "The Agentic Web" Scenario: Before I go to sleep, I tell ChatGPT "Plan my 5-year-old's birthday next Saturday, budget $500. When you've made the reservation, email these 20 ppl a printable invitation to attend. Also my wife wants to go to England in mid-July. Find 5 plausible flights for the family and make several distinct itineraries. Finally, pls edit this work memo." When I go to sleep, the Al agent negotiates slots with two bowling alleys, buys a cake, emails printable invites, plans the trip, copy-edits, etc.

"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...

Thumbnails of the twelve theme banners from 2023: Women Being Awesome; Genius at Work; Pre-Canon; Fix-It; Big Bangs; Cultural Differences; Spies & Assassins; Time Travel; Unusual Jobs; Undercover; Arts & Crafts; Amnesty.

At the end of the year I like to gather Fancake's themes together and think about all the fanworks we recced. Here's 2023. See something you like? Head to the comm for links to each theme. fancake.dreamwidth.org/2240783.html

one star and five star reviews are the same weight, its all valid. theyre both right. just because im the one who made something doesnt make me the expert on it. that said, if you ask ME id say everything a make is heckin incredible and im the worlds greatest author. you are too

please god I wanna go back so bad

Trying to sing along to What Makes You Beautiful but I only know the Key of Awesome parody lyrics

A series of balloons in star, round, and heart shaped, some with the Google logo containing the numbers 25 in place of the two Os.

A large, lit up number 25.

An array of cupcakes with circles on top in the Google logo colours. Some have white circles with the Google logo with the numbers 25 in place of the Os. Others have glittery letters sticking out of them saying Hello 25.

An array of colourful balloons in red, blue and green with a large white balloon at the top featuring the Google logo with the number 25 in the middle.

At a Google event and don't know anyone but everything is very Instagrammable

new tingler THIS PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE GETS ME OFF IN A FUN AND SINCERE WAY BECAUSE IT’S OKAY FOR PEOPLE TO ENJOY POPULAR THINGS WITHOUT BEING SHAMED FOR THE PERCEIVED “BASICNESS” OF THEIR BEVERAGE CHOICES out now on amazon www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH3N4KBR or patreon www.patreon.com/posts/this-p...

I feel like I can say I called that one in late 2019: econsultancy.com/why-are-ther...

Vidding: A History

Vidding is Hard

Table of Contents

Multimedia edition

Vidding: A History is an engaging history of a fascinating art form & fan subculture. The book emphasizes that "vidding"--the practice of creating short video montages remixed from movie and TV footage and edited to popular songs--has a surprisingly long history . . . www.amazon.com/Vidding-Hist...