Dillon D. W. J. Hartwig

This is the same depraved shit they did during slavery, I say for the 8 millionth time.

Thank God for Catholics (not Catholic I just like the Lent all-you-can-eats and community fish-fries)

Text in Knrawi / Soc'ul' / Kilīmos-sāîl, see link for romanization and details

A #conlang / #neography text I'm especially proud of, feat. @fyorr.bsky.social (creator of Kilīmos-sāîl & associated script)

A trilingual (Knrawi / Soc'ul' / Kilīmos-sāîl) sign

The text is too long to reasonably put here, so for more details go to: www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/c...

Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.

“Never again” is meaningless if it doesn’t include this. There’s no reason to mince words other than cowardice: these are concentration camps and never again is now.

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

Crazy that there’s a song whose sole purpose is the doxx the muffin man

الشَّيءُ يَبْدُؤُهُ في الأَصْلِ أَصْغَرُهُ ... وَلَيسَ يَصْلَى بِكُلِّ الحَرْبِ جَانِيهَا والحربُ يلحق فيها الكارهُونَ كما ... تدنو الصِّحَاحُ إلى الْجَرْبَى فَتُعْدِيهَا

—On War—
🐪

Things begin small —
and the one who starts a war is not
the one who burns in it.

War draws in even those who oppose it
like a mangy camel
makes the others sick.

— anonymous, from the Ḥamāsah of Abū Tammām (d. 845 CE)

I'm probably the only person that's ever had a practical reason to learn both Icelandic and Hmong

They didn't just remove him - Senator Sheehy (R-Montana) literally broke his arm.

"Always, always, always, concentration camps are an end run around the existing legal system. [People get] rounded up because whoever's in power wants to do something that they can't do using the letter of the law. And anytime you create or expand that kind of detention … things always get worse."

Text in Knrawi / Soc'ul' / Kilīmos-sāîl, see link for romanization and details

A #conlang / #neography text I'm especially proud of, feat. @fyorr.bsky.social (creator of Kilīmos-sāîl & associated script)

A trilingual (Knrawi / Soc'ul' / Kilīmos-sāîl) sign

The text is too long to reasonably put here, so for more details go to: www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/c...

just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war

Do Great Apes Use Iconic Gestures? Iconicity is increasingly recognized as a core property of language, raising the evolutionary question of whether great apes use iconic gestures. This article challenges current theories of ape gestu...

"Do Great Apes Use Iconic Gestures?"

Insightful, detailed discussion by @mperlman.bsky.social. Great to see a bunch of threads of evidence—including comparison to human children—in one place.

wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Does anyone know a copy editor who specializes in editing phonetics and phonology paper? I need their service. I don't want to pay any company #linguistics #language #phonology

requiem for vanished birdsong

John Fetterman says "I think they just blew up 80 of Iran's mullahs too. Which, I mean, that was pretty great actually!"

God this fucking flippancy about killing people just makes me sick. This supposed to be the US's deliberative body and they're out here trying to be funny about mass death.

!!!!!

1910s during or around the Philippine–American War after the Spanish–American War, from Tagalog bundok (“mountain”), adopted by occupying American soldiers serving in the mountains or rural countryside of the American-occupied Philippines under the United States Military Government of the Philippine Islands. The term was reinforced or re-adopted during World War II under the U.S. military, where terms like boondockers (“shoes suited for rough terrain”) came originally in 1944 as U.S. services slang word for field boots. It was later shortened to boonies by 1964 originally among U.S. troops serving in the Vietnam War in reference to the rural areas of Vietnam, as opposed to Saigon.[1]

The word "boondocks" has an interesting etymology

Boyagi.

The man on the train who wore the emerald ring, and the Orangutarantula who filled an entire room. Based on a dream I had a few years ago.

Haitian Creole: The Complete Beginner’s Guide An overview of the sounds, sentence structure, tenses, nouns, and basic phrases in Haitian Creole

For most people, a Creole is a broken version of another language. This couldn't be further from the truth. This is an extensive overview of the Haitian Creole language!

#language #Linguistics #Langsky #Languages #Haitiancreole

medium.com/language-lab...

New insights into nineteenth-century ASL benjamins.com/catalog/dia.... #linguistics #signedlanguages #ASL

Remember to be kind to yourself and mean to ICE

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE

it will result in dead trans people

and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing

you see the pipeline right?

we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die

WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

Tried to find the original post mentioning horehound candies (the #conlang sign in my reply there being "horehound") but I guess Will deleted his account here; either way got around to getting some and honestly not a huge fan lol

transgender for everyone and abolish ice and no war. just the basics

Show of hands: who would be interested in a not-social media based directory website of artists who pledge to never use AI in their process?

Is this something you would share around to everyone you know? Something you'd very much like to be listed on?

ICE was very active in Minneapolis today, they kidnapped multiple people. ICE didn't leave, the media has moved on but we are still under federal occupation.

i have become the de facto owner of my local coffee shop by spitting in every cup of coffee