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The number of dead kids in the Israeli bombing of a girl’s school in Minab, southern Iran, has now reached 148.

Don’t let them sell you dead children as “collateral damage of a just war”. The death of Khamenei does not justify 148 dead children.

Thank you!

Are there any good panagrams, but, like, for phonemes?

data: W3-JWST-3A-FINAL, released: 2026-02-08, PI: W.Best, processed: C.Blanchard

🔭 JWST Program 5437 - A Census to the Bottom of the IMF in W3: Atmospheres, Disks, Accretion, and Demographics: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

data: W3-JWST-3A-FINAL, released: 2026-02-08
NASA, ESA, CSA, STSci/ #JWST NIRCAM 440, 360, 182

we're apparently far enough from bear as a regular verb that most people get garden pathed by "sea bears foam, sleep bears dreams" now

Seems like

juxtaposition ~ ezafe ~ construct states ~ incorporation ~ the Greco-Latin compounding vowel "infixes" (or defixes? since what vowel depends on the left elements' class)

kinda form a nonlinear continuum

californian guy who thinks it's madera uchiha

Schrödinger was a horrible pedophile, people who use the equation he formulated don't implicitly condone pedophilia

Minimalism, generativism, etc is more than just Chomsky and maybe it's like time to highlight the names of other important people and just downplay his

groundhog, earthhog, hedgehog, guinea pig, hog deer, water hog - I feel like English was trying to do to "hog" what Navajo did to "dog" and what you might think happened to deer in other Germanic except that went the other way in English

sitar feels like it should be part of the same etymological family as kithara, zither, guitar, etc

Iran is missing out on the propaganda break of the century tbh

the great satan actually the great satan but they're too busy martyring protestors because a woman fell short of a dress code

Maybe imitative of their chatter?

I think I noticed someone who has /ælbani/ for Albany, NY but
/ɔɫbəni/ for Albany, OR

sweet summer abomination ruining all that is good and pure in the world

I tried asking chatgpt for job recommendations, because yeah I *really* don't know what I'm doing in the world, and it seems to be under the impression that linguists (or linguistics grads) in general are good at the whole explainy thing and is telling me to try to be a technical writer

I'll look into that. I saw somewhere that there's a way to use karabiner-elements to make a linux style compose key but I hit a wall with it I didn't feel like getting past at the time. I think it needs a reimplementation of the xcompose ruleset or something which is annoying to even fetch

Clarifying - macos, not iphoneos or ipados, though i guess some people might be interested in the others

Does anyone know of an easy way to add symbols to the way apple handles keyboards? like I'd like to hold e and get ə or n and get ŋ

misread uhg as "ultra high german" and now I'm wondering why it's so easy to hallucinate what acronyms stand for

I guess german for phishing using dating apps is "lovescamming"

Narrow, knotted clouds of purple and green glowing gas are seen against a field of stars.

NEW HUBBLE IMAGE DROPPED!! 🌌

phancy that

not accepting ʌ vs ə but accepting ə vs ɨ

I guess while I think Iran's gov is evil I kinda think it's neat that they invented a new kind of republicanism and a part of me wonders if there's some community out there that inadvertently discovered better than parliamentary capitalism and just aren't spreading it because domain dissimilarities

idk where I'm going with this.

like just anecdotally I guess there's a place for consensus decision making processes and there's a place for robert's rules of order. The co-op's cool but you need some centralized decision making to work at scale. Switzerland's system has low voter turnout, etc

...and if that sounds scary I wonder what that means about academia? idk there were the language wars and I guess the political government equivalent of that would look like feuding cartels, which is probably... uh, why one or the other is situationally inappropriate

I kind of wonder what attempting political government according to the ways academia, industries, and synods try to govern would be like. I guess a degree of representational republicanism with a greater emphasis on participation and trying to connect lobbying groups to solve each other's problems

There's an analogy to be made between congregationalism like baptism and anarchism which I think should be cautionary. The parallels of episcopalianism and monarchism also seem obvious. Like this explains a lot of the USA landscape, even why we tend to have anarchists more than communists