Sarah Shulist (she/her)
@sarahling.bsky.social
Linguist, anthropologist, all around mouthy person. Queen’s U, Kingston, ON. Opinions represent me and only me.
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On the eve of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Pierre Poilievre spoke out for the group he says faces the most hate-based violence.
Um, and apparently that group is…Christians? (It isn’t).
I called for backup on this one. Luckily @pampalmater.com answered:
Um, and apparently that group is…Christians? (It isn’t).
I called for backup on this one. Luckily @pampalmater.com answered:
September 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
On the eve of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Pierre Poilievre spoke out for the group he says faces the most hate-based violence.
Um, and apparently that group is…Christians? (It isn’t).
I called for backup on this one. Luckily @pampalmater.com answered:
Um, and apparently that group is…Christians? (It isn’t).
I called for backup on this one. Luckily @pampalmater.com answered:
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Orange Shirt Day is a time to reflect on Canada's continuing violence against Indigenous children.
It is a time to remember that Canada still takes Indigenous children from their families.
It is time to demand that these crimes stop. Not 150 years from now. Not a decade from now. NOW.
It is a time to remember that Canada still takes Indigenous children from their families.
It is time to demand that these crimes stop. Not 150 years from now. Not a decade from now. NOW.
September 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Orange Shirt Day is a time to reflect on Canada's continuing violence against Indigenous children.
It is a time to remember that Canada still takes Indigenous children from their families.
It is time to demand that these crimes stop. Not 150 years from now. Not a decade from now. NOW.
It is a time to remember that Canada still takes Indigenous children from their families.
It is time to demand that these crimes stop. Not 150 years from now. Not a decade from now. NOW.
While I welcome increasing conversations on residential schools in Canada, after several years of noticing how the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation is engaged with at my kids' schools, it feels like the orange shirt story has become a sanitization of genocide.
September 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
While I welcome increasing conversations on residential schools in Canada, after several years of noticing how the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation is engaged with at my kids' schools, it feels like the orange shirt story has become a sanitization of genocide.
"How the Word is Passed" is my favourite non-fiction book of all time, both because of its information and because of its prose. An adaptation for young readers is amazing to hear about.
Thank you CBS Mornings for having me. Excited to have this book out in the world today.
Clint Smith on adapting "How the Word Is Passed" for young readers
YouTube video by CBS Mornings
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September 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"How the Word is Passed" is my favourite non-fiction book of all time, both because of its information and because of its prose. An adaptation for young readers is amazing to hear about.
This....requires a very strange definition of "civilized society".
Matt Walsh advocates for mass murdering people with schizophrenia by convicting them of who knows what and then killing them.
This is political violence btw.
This is political violence btw.
September 30, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This....requires a very strange definition of "civilized society".
I have been a little bit under a rock and missed this *horrifying* action at U Alberta. The speed with which these kinds of attacks on freedom of expression are picking up in Canada is incredible - like movement that has finally hit the top of a hill and is racing down now.
"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."
What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression
I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...
cfe.torontomu.ca
September 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I have been a little bit under a rock and missed this *horrifying* action at U Alberta. The speed with which these kinds of attacks on freedom of expression are picking up in Canada is incredible - like movement that has finally hit the top of a hill and is racing down now.
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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?
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?
September 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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?
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?
We are less than 24 hours after Kirk's death, and I've seen multiple people fired for saying anything negative about him, mainstream news outlets comparing him to Malcolm X, and a dominant discourse that treats him as a visionary leader. This is fucking *bananas*.
September 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We are less than 24 hours after Kirk's death, and I've seen multiple people fired for saying anything negative about him, mainstream news outlets comparing him to Malcolm X, and a dominant discourse that treats him as a visionary leader. This is fucking *bananas*.
As someone living outside but within spitting distance of the US, the feeling of dread at how the apparatus of maximum violence will respond to political violence against it is both intense and familiar.
September 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
As someone living outside but within spitting distance of the US, the feeling of dread at how the apparatus of maximum violence will respond to political violence against it is both intense and familiar.
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Wild how political alliance with Zionism sweeps all sorts of wild statements about Jews under the table
![Kirk said that Jewish people control “not just the colleges; it’s the nonprofits, it’s the movies, it’s Hollywood, it’s all of it.” Kirk also said ”the number one funding mechanism of radical, open border, neoliberal, quasi-Marxist policies, cultural institutions, and nonprofits" is “Jewish donors.” Claims that wealthy Jewish people and donors control major institutions and Hollywood are common antisemitic tropes. [Salem Media Group, The Charlie Kirk Show, 10/26/23; The Washington Post, 10/17/22; The Times of Israel, 11/17/22]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ynhvprwsjim3ttkefxsttf7y/bafkreihmfboekpsywtuu27tn52lfsfu34q7yt4gg3ycvstxonyedx6rxsa@jpeg)
September 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Wild how political alliance with Zionism sweeps all sorts of wild statements about Jews under the table
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Politicizing tragedy is always out of bounds and a horrific desecration of the victim if it’s in service of trying to prevent future tragedy by taking obvious and proved remedies.
But it’s perfectly fine if it’s in service of demonizing an out-group for retaliation with literally zero .
But it’s perfectly fine if it’s in service of demonizing an out-group for retaliation with literally zero .
Fox News' Jason Chaffetz: "I don’t think it was a coincidence that the shot rang out when you have a question about transgender mass shootings. Hopefully I am wrong. I will probably get criticized for jumping to conclusions... I don’t think that is a coincidence but we will see."
September 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Politicizing tragedy is always out of bounds and a horrific desecration of the victim if it’s in service of trying to prevent future tragedy by taking obvious and proved remedies.
But it’s perfectly fine if it’s in service of demonizing an out-group for retaliation with literally zero .
But it’s perfectly fine if it’s in service of demonizing an out-group for retaliation with literally zero .
Oh hey, Happy Star Trek Day.
I wrote a thing.
I wrote a thing.
I have been slightly AWOL on here, but I am popping in to share a new article that I wrote which has just been published in the Journal of Linguistic Anthroplogy (open access!).
It is about Star Trek, the Universal Translator, and utopias.
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It is about Star Trek, the Universal Translator, and utopias.
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper uses Star Trek's “Universal Translator” (UT) as a point of departure for considering the imagined future of mediated linguistic interactions and of contact across difference. Although such...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Oh hey, Happy Star Trek Day.
I wrote a thing.
I wrote a thing.
I have been slightly AWOL on here, but I am popping in to share a new article that I wrote which has just been published in the Journal of Linguistic Anthroplogy (open access!).
It is about Star Trek, the Universal Translator, and utopias.
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It is about Star Trek, the Universal Translator, and utopias.
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper uses Star Trek's “Universal Translator” (UT) as a point of departure for considering the imagined future of mediated linguistic interactions and of contact across difference. Although such...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I have been slightly AWOL on here, but I am popping in to share a new article that I wrote which has just been published in the Journal of Linguistic Anthroplogy (open access!).
It is about Star Trek, the Universal Translator, and utopias.
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It is about Star Trek, the Universal Translator, and utopias.
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Joining ICE to fulfill his lifelong dream of killing some brown people. Pretty fucked up.
So, who wants to join ICE?
"All his life he had hoped to fight wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. He’d joined the army hoping to fulfill this desire. But our foreign wars had wound down by the time of his enlistment, and he never got a chance to fight abroad."
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
"All his life he had hoped to fight wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. He’d joined the army hoping to fulfill this desire. But our foreign wars had wound down by the time of his enlistment, and he never got a chance to fight abroad."
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
July 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Joining ICE to fulfill his lifelong dream of killing some brown people. Pretty fucked up.
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"Don't wash your Holocaust trauma with Palestinian blood"
Amen.
Amen.
July 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"Don't wash your Holocaust trauma with Palestinian blood"
Amen.
Amen.
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The heatwaves next week are literally going to kill people even if the grids don’t go down; meanwhile, tech billionaires are trying to convince us that using the fake answer machines will solve all our problems.
June 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The heatwaves next week are literally going to kill people even if the grids don’t go down; meanwhile, tech billionaires are trying to convince us that using the fake answer machines will solve all our problems.
Having stood in a lineup starting at 4:00 a.m. to get a family doctor, I can confirm this game would sell out in <30 seconds.
Blue Jays announce giveaway where first 15,000 fans get a family doctor
Blue Jays announce giveaway where first 15,000 fans get a family doctor
TORONTO – In an effort to sell tickets to baseball games, Blue Jays team president Mark Shapiro has announced a new giveaway where the first 15,000 fans who enter the Rogers Centre during an upcoming game will be given their very own family doctor.
thebeaverton.com
June 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Having stood in a lineup starting at 4:00 a.m. to get a family doctor, I can confirm this game would sell out in <30 seconds.
Relatedly in "very specific book details that make me nope out", I have never forgiven Ali Hazelwood for writing a novel in which a tenured Harvard professor accused of sexual harassment was immediately fired and academically disgraced.
I like fantasies too, but that one hit too hard.
I like fantasies too, but that one hit too hard.
unfortunately having once been a grad student if the main character of a book is a grad student with endless energy, time, and resources I'm immediately like "that's literally not how this works"
June 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Relatedly in "very specific book details that make me nope out", I have never forgiven Ali Hazelwood for writing a novel in which a tenured Harvard professor accused of sexual harassment was immediately fired and academically disgraced.
I like fantasies too, but that one hit too hard.
I like fantasies too, but that one hit too hard.
This is how genocide always sounds. "We are the good, the just, the deserving." This is the same language that still justifies the dispossession of Indigenous lands on Turtle Island, and that always contains the logic that whoever opposes us is therefore evil at worst and misguided at best.
June 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This is how genocide always sounds. "We are the good, the just, the deserving." This is the same language that still justifies the dispossession of Indigenous lands on Turtle Island, and that always contains the logic that whoever opposes us is therefore evil at worst and misguided at best.
… Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped
Look at that low plane, fine, then
Uh oh, overflow, population, common group
But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
Perhaps a tweak to the algorithm is in order?
Look at that low plane, fine, then
Uh oh, overflow, population, common group
But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
Perhaps a tweak to the algorithm is in order?
Hemingway, Eichmann
Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin
Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia
British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn
Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X
British politician sex
J.F.K. blown away
perhaps a tweak to the algorithm is in order?
Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin
Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia
British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn
Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X
British politician sex
J.F.K. blown away
perhaps a tweak to the algorithm is in order?
Cat’s foot, iron claw
Neurosurgeons scream for more
At paranoia’s poison door
Perhaps a tweak of the algorithm is in order
Neurosurgeons scream for more
At paranoia’s poison door
Perhaps a tweak of the algorithm is in order
June 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
… Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped
Look at that low plane, fine, then
Uh oh, overflow, population, common group
But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
Perhaps a tweak to the algorithm is in order?
Look at that low plane, fine, then
Uh oh, overflow, population, common group
But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
Perhaps a tweak to the algorithm is in order?
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Yes yes yes, and:
1) someone leading the NYT podcast on trans youth was cited 3 times by Thomas as reason to restrict care,
2) I don't think this case is the big setback (I think the right/NYT stuff is!), and
3) I don't know any trans person (myself incl) who was optimistic on the Supreme Court?
1) someone leading the NYT podcast on trans youth was cited 3 times by Thomas as reason to restrict care,
2) I don't think this case is the big setback (I think the right/NYT stuff is!), and
3) I don't know any trans person (myself incl) who was optimistic on the Supreme Court?
This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
June 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Yes yes yes, and:
1) someone leading the NYT podcast on trans youth was cited 3 times by Thomas as reason to restrict care,
2) I don't think this case is the big setback (I think the right/NYT stuff is!), and
3) I don't know any trans person (myself incl) who was optimistic on the Supreme Court?
1) someone leading the NYT podcast on trans youth was cited 3 times by Thomas as reason to restrict care,
2) I don't think this case is the big setback (I think the right/NYT stuff is!), and
3) I don't know any trans person (myself incl) who was optimistic on the Supreme Court?
"I assume most academic research begins with literature scanned and synthesized by [LLMs]" is the functional equivalent of saying "I am willing to accept that all of our knowledge apparatus, moving forward, is going to be built on a foundation of absolute bullshit".
Editors should stop letting people do the “big reveal,” that they used chatgpt, for the end of the essay. At least show it up front so I don’t waste my time reading it. www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/17/1...
June 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"I assume most academic research begins with literature scanned and synthesized by [LLMs]" is the functional equivalent of saying "I am willing to accept that all of our knowledge apparatus, moving forward, is going to be built on a foundation of absolute bullshit".
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We spent years being manipulated by conservatives with the ear of establishment centrists and liberals into addressing a fake free speech crisis, precisely so people could be punished for speaking out against perhaps the most contemporaneously well-documented genocide in history
The valedictorian at a west Ottawa high school says she's been told not to come to school Monday after she made pro-Palestinian remarks during a speech at her commencement ceremony.
Valedictorian told to stay home after making pro-Palestinian remarks in grad speech | CBC News
Elizabeth Yao, the graduating valedictorian at Bell High School in west Ottawa, said she was told not to go to school on Monday after she made pro-Palestinian remarks during a speech at her commenceme...
www.cbc.ca
June 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
We spent years being manipulated by conservatives with the ear of establishment centrists and liberals into addressing a fake free speech crisis, precisely so people could be punished for speaking out against perhaps the most contemporaneously well-documented genocide in history
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“As a commitment to truth and reconciliation, I must acknowledge colonial and genocidal atrocities today, including the massacre of more than 17,000 Palestinian children in Gaza.”
That’s what an Ottawa high school Valedictorian said to cheers.
She was told not to come to school the next day.
That’s what an Ottawa high school Valedictorian said to cheers.
She was told not to come to school the next day.
June 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
“As a commitment to truth and reconciliation, I must acknowledge colonial and genocidal atrocities today, including the massacre of more than 17,000 Palestinian children in Gaza.”
That’s what an Ottawa high school Valedictorian said to cheers.
She was told not to come to school the next day.
That’s what an Ottawa high school Valedictorian said to cheers.
She was told not to come to school the next day.