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Leah Litman

@leahlitman.bsky.social

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

Rudy press conference at 4 seasons total landscaping

November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM

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Dr. Wes Robertson

@scriptingjapan.bsky.social

It's time for the February #Japanese slang review! Click the link below to learn about the words

イルメン
フッ軽
チピチピチャパチャパ
人の心とかないんか
エビ揉め
思ったよりヤバいのが出てきたなどうすんだこれ
チンピク
片目界隈
百合デート
踏めば助かるのに

wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2025/02/28/j...

Japanese Slang Review – February 2025

And it’s time for the second Japanese slang review of 2025 (see all prior posts here)! In these posts I deep dive into the world of Japanese terms you probably won’t see in a textbook, …

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February 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM

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Dr. Wes Robertson

@scriptingjapan.bsky.social

It's time for the first #Japanese slang review of the year! Click this link to learn about:

ふてほど
ダンパ
暗黒微笑
もう付き合っちゃえよ
シコい
ヌクモリティ
建国顔 & 傾国顔
SAN値
花吐き病
責任転換

wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/j...

Japanese Slang Review – January 2025

And it’s time for the first Japanese slang review of 2025 (see all prior posts here)! In these posts I deep dive into the world of Japanese terms you probably won’t see in a textbook, l…

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January 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM

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Rebecca Starr

@rlslinguistics.bsky.social

Later on Saturday, how do voice actors change their pitch and voice quality when performing different character types in straight and gay romances in Chinese audio dramas? I'll be presenting this work with Yang Yanyu at 4:30 in Salon D. #LSA2025

January 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM

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Dr. Wes Robertson

@scriptingjapan.bsky.social

Seeing a lot of "how to learn #Japanese" discourse on the timeline. Reminder that I offer three FREE textbooks on my website (@ wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/free-resourc...) which cover the content of N5 -> N4 and a bit of N3.

January 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM

Maggie Camp

@magillama.bsky.social

we made it down to the ooh aah point. getting back up to the top was more the challenge.

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Dec 4

Have you been here? The view serves as a reminder of what we are working to protect.

December 4, 2024 at 3:06 AM

Maggie Camp

@magillama.bsky.social

A Type A Duck

A lake filled with swimming ducks with a sign that says no waiting swimming or fishing with a duck sitting on top of the sign

November 25, 2024 at 4:59 AM

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Jae DiBello Takeuchi

@jaetakeuchi.bsky.social

Bc of paywall, I could only read the first bit of this article, but people w/in #Japan and beyond have been criticizing Japan’s resistance to 夫婦別姓 for as long as I can remember (I first moved to Japan in the 1990s). The time is long past to make it happen. #ジェンダー
mainichi.jp/articles/202...

BeMe：夫婦別姓導入へ4度勧告「恥ずべきだ」　国連委と建設的対話欠く日本 | 毎日新聞

スイス・ジュネーブの国連欧州本部で10月、女性差別撤廃委員会（CEDAW）の日本政府への8年ぶりの審査があった。CEDAWから最終見解が示され、選択的夫婦別姓の導入や皇室典範の改正などさまざまな勧告が出された。私たちはどう受け止めるべきなのか。国際人権法の研究者で、審査を傍聴した藤田早苗・英国エセ

mainichi.jp

November 23, 2024 at 1:17 PM

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu

@ethankutlu.bsky.social

I am thrilled to share our new paper which investigates the role of continuous measures in linguistic diversity research. We found that children who are exposed to more linguistic diversity (e.g., language, dialect, accent) are perceptually more flexible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...