Erika — Post-ac Momcore Valium Arc

Erika — Post-ac Momcore Valium Arc

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Linguist, anthropologist, writer, and editor.
English/日本語/Русский 👍🏻
Chicago by way of Astana by way of Kyoto by way of Detroit
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I dreamt I was cleaning out an apartment in Astana I’d never lived in, filled with WAY too much stuff, and wandering down hallways in my building? Solving old mysteries and telling my former students how much I want good things for them. So that’s pretty interpretively straightforward.

I mean sometimes it feels that way

Scorpio: Fragments of memory will come back to you at unexpected moments, detailing your previous life as some sort of pet to an intergalactic traveller. You will miss this time of no responsibilities intensely but they are gone forever.

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Polaris is a real one for showing up late to the fight because she had to go get coffee.

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It drives me nuts when people say we need to make sure poor people have access to AI. The entire schtick is focused on providing AI slop to the masses while ensuring the elites get real human professionals. Having a human teacher or doctor or lawyer cannot become a bespoke luxury for the wealthy.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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Jane Austen knows every type of toxic masculinity that exists, and she's so good at writing them. In Mansfield Park alone you've got the classic Nice Guy who gets Friendzoned, the Master Manipulator, and a guy who negs.

I'm re-reading Mansfield Park and OMG it's basically the plot to Risky Business. Seriously, it's so modern, it's "teen siblings throw a party while parents are away on business and things get out if hand" You can just HEAR them wanting to scream STFU at Mr Yates as he spills the beans to the dad.

Always

y’all masking?

The baby (8 mos. 1 wk.) has got good at alveolar stops, and now has discovered diphthongs, but this means they’ve started chanting “DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!”

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We can still do it. The Soviet Union was going to last forever until it didn’t. We built them. We can take them apart.

i guess i should just go ahead and make a meme out of this. Sigh. can you believe i once thought i stood a fair chance of living to see nuclear weapons eliminated entirely? how naive of me

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This is a wug, but cuter 🐦🐦

If you see this, post a bird. 🪶 #kidlitart

Baby smell update: aloeswood

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"Four reminders: not all bizarre behavior is mental illness; not all ineptitude results from psychiatric deterioration; not all egregious deeds are clinical symptoms; and madness is not synonymous with evil. ... his behavior is not psychosocial alterity, it is white supremacist Reason laid bare."

Just opened up Piranesi, a book that everyone agrees is wonderful, and the very first thing is a quote from The Magician’s Nephew, a book that has absolutely haunted me since I read it as a child. So I guess I’m in for a ride.

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st. clueless, of the vhs

i love writing silly words on the shout box

Inspired by @nuclearanthro.bsky.social: This is the fucking greatest idle game I’ve ever played, you won’t see the world building coming, I’m so glad someone has preserved it.

Wall Destroyer:Rewrittender-clemens.github.io A modern rewrite of Wall Destroyer

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Just at the most basic level it is really unhealthy to have to thought about Donald Trump as much as everyone in America has over the last nine or so years. Spending a decade of my life thinking about a super boring, super shitty crook and all the bad stuff he's doing or might do. It's embarrassing.

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We interrupt your doomscroll for some important lexical semantics

Francie is here with a BLEP vs. MLEM tutorial. A blep is when the tongue is just hanging out at rest, stationary. Mlem is an action word for when the tongue is performing a licking motion - hence the name which is an onomatopoetic interpretation of the sound it makes.

Hot take, ACAB includes belief in hell.

It’s useful to remember that “apocalypse” literally means “revelation.” What choices do we make when we see the pain of the world clearly? What does it reveal about who we are? Is that who you want to be? I admit that I am often disappointed in myself and very tired.

the apocalypse is ongoing. it’s been happening since before we were born. if you’re waiting for some irrefutable tipping point to do something different; it’s not going to happen

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Tricky translation issue: Japanese often obscures gender even when you are 99% sure the character speaking is assuming a gender, so if you translate it straight, in English the character will sound woke and progressive on gender, which is not really implied in the Japanese BUT

Guess who’s at the hospital early in the morning again? It’s me! I don’t usually mask outdoors, but you better believe I’ve got a supply of KN95s for the hospital itself.

Ok I'm going to be corny and start a thread. Masking in public is hot!! Quote-post with your hottest masked photos, friends, I wanna see em 🖤😷

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we are at a little bit of a quandary as to what happens if they discontinue our autistic son’s favorite yogurt, which appears to be happening. I have become keenly interested in a society that continue to whatever funny little thing people need and also some justice

i mean an actual revolution would kill millions just from the collapse of all government services, to say nothing of sectarian conflict and pogroms. a lot of social media revolutionaries might just die. many would. i think it’s worth avoiding if we can!

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I know Nanaimo is a Canadian place bame but I swear, I keep hearing it as 七芋 Ah yes, that famed Canadian locale, Seven Potatoes

The entire US right now

We can only save democracy if I personally fuck it up!

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Still true

Accelerationism is just nihilism masquerading as idealism

Childcare: STERILIZE EVERYTHING YOUR BABY EVER TOUCHES Also childcare: And then give them piles of soft toys that you will never be able to properly wash but also that everyone who makes them knows the baby is going to eat.

If you ever want to feel just absolutely terrible, research nursing homes!

And Frederick Douglass’ words are still 100% true given that enslavement is still lawful in the US as punishment for a crime. Prison is slavery, and the US loves its prisons with disgusting abandon.

"Fellow-citizens! I will not enlarge further on your national inconsistencies. The existence of slavery in this country brands your republicanism as a sham, your humanity as a base pretence, and your Christianity as a lie. It destroys your moral power abroad; it corrupts your politicians at home."

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Think of this every time you hear "god bless America." Every time.

"A worship that can be conducted by persons who refuse to give shelter to the houseless, to give bread to the hungry, clothing to the naked, and who enjoin obedience to a law forbidding these acts of mercy, is a curse, not a blessing to mankind."

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Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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i want what they have

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal police indict ex-President Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association, source confirms.