Seth Cable, The Linguist
@sethcable.bsky.social
Linguistics perfesser, because what the hell else was I supposed to do?
Let them all come.
Let them all stay.
Open borders now.
Let them all stay.
Open borders now.
July 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Let them all come.
Let them all stay.
Open borders now.
Let them all stay.
Open borders now.
It’s so funny/weird how the old “intro to philosophy” debate between ‘Turing Test’ vs ‘Searle’s Chinese Room’ now has a political valence…
July 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It’s so funny/weird how the old “intro to philosophy” debate between ‘Turing Test’ vs ‘Searle’s Chinese Room’ now has a political valence…
FYI: The proper listening order is:
1) "Mr. Jones" (Counting Crows)
2) "Mr. Wendell" (Arrested Development)
3) "Mr. Krinkle" (Primus)
1) "Mr. Jones" (Counting Crows)
2) "Mr. Wendell" (Arrested Development)
3) "Mr. Krinkle" (Primus)
July 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
FYI: The proper listening order is:
1) "Mr. Jones" (Counting Crows)
2) "Mr. Wendell" (Arrested Development)
3) "Mr. Krinkle" (Primus)
1) "Mr. Jones" (Counting Crows)
2) "Mr. Wendell" (Arrested Development)
3) "Mr. Krinkle" (Primus)
Really worth watching:
Bringing Down a Dictator - English (high definition)
YouTube video by ICNC - International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
www.youtube.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Really worth watching:
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wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
May 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
Mothers Day!!
May 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Mothers Day!!
May is coming!
April 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
May is coming!
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This is the maddest report I can remember reading.
Cops armed with tasers broke down the door of the quakers meeting house, *because they felt they might be involved in protests*
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Cops armed with tasers broke down the door of the quakers meeting house, *because they felt they might be involved in protests*
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
March 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This is the maddest report I can remember reading.
Cops armed with tasers broke down the door of the quakers meeting house, *because they felt they might be involved in protests*
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Cops armed with tasers broke down the door of the quakers meeting house, *because they felt they might be involved in protests*
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
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Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
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Columbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university.
www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...
www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...
Letter from Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan after fleeing the United States to Canada
Visit the post for more.
www.normanfinkelstein.com
March 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Columbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university.
www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...
www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...
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every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
March 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
Just a couple rad dudes fully bro-ing the hell out!!
March 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Just a couple rad dudes fully bro-ing the hell out!!
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There are so many examples of this that you really have to conclude their very clear intent is to not ever be out of power again.
Do republicans want to set up a situation where every red state gets funding withdrawn because abortion is illegal in the state. That’s where we’re heading here. The explicit coercion is something conservatives once supposedly cared about!
Duffy on the New York City subway: "It's dangerous. It's dirty ... they don't want you to drive your car. They want you to take a train. If you want me to take a train, make the train safe, make it clean. But if you won't do that, we're gonna pull money."
March 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
There are so many examples of this that you really have to conclude their very clear intent is to not ever be out of power again.
I keep telling my dog this is “Massachusetts False Spring”, but he refuses to believe me…
March 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I keep telling my dog this is “Massachusetts False Spring”, but he refuses to believe me…
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A young lady originally from Whitehorse is being detained in a detention center in Arizona. She was detained March 3rd, after her visa was denied.
Facebook post from her Mom is in the pics below. It's a disturbing sequence of events.
Do not travel to the US.
Facebook post from her Mom is in the pics below. It's a disturbing sequence of events.
Do not travel to the US.
March 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
A young lady originally from Whitehorse is being detained in a detention center in Arizona. She was detained March 3rd, after her visa was denied.
Facebook post from her Mom is in the pics below. It's a disturbing sequence of events.
Do not travel to the US.
Facebook post from her Mom is in the pics below. It's a disturbing sequence of events.
Do not travel to the US.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex condemned ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, calling it a “tyrannical” move.
“If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too."
“If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too."
AOC Rips “Tyrannical and Un-American” Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a serious warning about the ICE arrest of Palestinian activist (and U.S. green card holder) Mahmoud Khalil.
newrepublic.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex condemned ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, calling it a “tyrannical” move.
“If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too."
“If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too."
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Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
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Becky is a @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social regular. What an unimaginable, awful thing to happen. Her dad wants people to spread the word. Please share.
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Becky is a @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social regular. What an unimaginable, awful thing to happen. Her dad wants people to spread the word. Please share.
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NYC Monday 3/10/25 - Release Mahmoud Khalil - US Permanent Resident detained by DHS for exercising free speech
March 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
NYC Monday 3/10/25 - Release Mahmoud Khalil - US Permanent Resident detained by DHS for exercising free speech
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the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps
block the path
block the path
March 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps
block the path
block the path
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"Oaths are promises that fetter us to the state’s way of organizing the world through coercion and violence... Oaths barricade against the possibility for transformation because swearing them binds us to a fixed way of interpreting reality."— @melissaf-b.bsky.social in @christiancentury.bsky.social
An ungovernable faith
By refusing to swear oaths, 16th-century Anabaptists took away the state’s primary tool for...
www.christiancentury.org
March 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"Oaths are promises that fetter us to the state’s way of organizing the world through coercion and violence... Oaths barricade against the possibility for transformation because swearing them binds us to a fixed way of interpreting reality."— @melissaf-b.bsky.social in @christiancentury.bsky.social
I’ll have you know I’m *not* becoming a middle-aged crank. It’s completely normal to wake up in the middle of the night obsessed with “more logical” replacements for the Gregorian calendar…
March 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I’ll have you know I’m *not* becoming a middle-aged crank. It’s completely normal to wake up in the middle of the night obsessed with “more logical” replacements for the Gregorian calendar…
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