Will Bennett

The media on climate change and global warming did not prepare me for so many headlines about ice

Why does this have to exist?

Impala

+1 for the phrase “hands across the hatch act violation”

No, YOU’RE pharyngealized in Woleaian

@edzitron.com please can you look into adoption of AI in “rest of world”? I feel like one of the main LLM use cases that is actually holding up is people pretending to know languages they don’t know

As a clade, fish include all of the largest animals and none of the most poisonous ones
#science #taxonomy #🐟🐠🐡🍤

No one knows why the Latin firm wasn’t “lethar”

Which level of prosodic domain boundary does semicolon indicate?
Because if it’s the colon I’m gonna be mad as hell.
#lingsky

Rouet pre-match "I'm not worried about New Zealand" to Pelletier post-match "It's just fun to play rugby". Canada don't give a shit about anything but balling and it's incredible.

What a show from Canada!

US military officers observe Russia-Belarus war games as Trump gets closer to Minsk U.S. military officers observed joint war games between Russia and Belarus on Monday for the first time since Moscow used Belarus as a launchpad to enter Ukraine, as U.S. President Donald Trump deepens ties with Moscow's closest ally.

So the US is now involved in supporting BOTH sides of the war in Ukraine? Hmm

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

As a society, the one thing we were totally unprepared for was annoying leftists being right.

That just raises even more questions!

Watching the #RWC2025 and the match commentator just said something was “like Belgian karate” and I’m so confused. What could that possibly mean?

Who pooped in the Kleenex? Fess up!

I am 10 hundred percent here for this

I found a dead bat today

It’s curvy

I filmed a giraffe dick today

“I’m so anti-rape that even ‘ratepayers’ is uncomfortable to say”
#awkwardphonologyjokes #placeassimilation #coda

Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally.

theconversation.com/universities...

Oh look, a book!
global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Holy shit. ICE is offering agents cash bonuses for arresting immigrants? No wonder they aren’t following procedures - they are incentivized not to.

It’s actually short for HUMANsplaining, just so you know

I need the right one to win and it’s not

Guys Alex makes amazing things for us to enjoy

Someday for my next (next?) book imma hire a research assistant to comb through vids of my toddler looking for examples of his speech, and I fully intend to use this as an opportunity to challenge the record of cute to time on clock to pay
#clickacquisition #linguistics #phonology #clicks

Humphrey’s Executor? I hardly even know’or!

Just saw a young black dude in a MAGA hat. Not a common thing here in South Africa. I’m a little perplexed.