voiced anal fricative, PhD
@maureenkosse.bsky.social
PhD in linguistics from the University of Colorado Boulder. Research: far right and "alt right" discourse, semiotics, syntax. she.
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Appeasing the far-right gives the broader public the impression that their narrative is true. There is no way to stem support for Reform by endorsing their policies. Either you are fighting against them or you are, regardless of how you see yourself, fighting for them.
November 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Appeasing the far-right gives the broader public the impression that their narrative is true. There is no way to stem support for Reform by endorsing their policies. Either you are fighting against them or you are, regardless of how you see yourself, fighting for them.
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Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
so tired of dems doing bong rips from the republican tailpipe. you have to be a chucklefuck to not understand that (1) conservatives fully manufactured this discourse on "identity politics" and (2) dems will always be on the back foot if they continually allow conservatives to make first strikes.
Again it’s not good that the most prominent leaders of the party keep insisting it’s a trap to talk about “identity” when the Trump administration is pushing white supremacy.
Speaking at a Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized the Democratic Party for failing to reach everyday Americans, arguing that it “got sucked in” to a conversation about identity. #TribFest25
November 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
so tired of dems doing bong rips from the republican tailpipe. you have to be a chucklefuck to not understand that (1) conservatives fully manufactured this discourse on "identity politics" and (2) dems will always be on the back foot if they continually allow conservatives to make first strikes.
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Again it’s not good that the most prominent leaders of the party keep insisting it’s a trap to talk about “identity” when the Trump administration is pushing white supremacy.
Speaking at a Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized the Democratic Party for failing to reach everyday Americans, arguing that it “got sucked in” to a conversation about identity. #TribFest25
Pete Buttigieg critiques Democrats for focus on identity
The former U.S. transportation secretary said the Democratic Party should focus more on issues gripping the country, such as health care and housing affordability.
www.texastribune.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Again it’s not good that the most prominent leaders of the party keep insisting it’s a trap to talk about “identity” when the Trump administration is pushing white supremacy.
I refuse to believe that Ben Shapiro is only now realizing what his place in the rightwing media ecosystem has wrought
November 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I refuse to believe that Ben Shapiro is only now realizing what his place in the rightwing media ecosystem has wrought
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Excited to share that, with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social , we’ve published a new article in New Media & Society!
We examine how far-right actors on X (formerly Twitter) instrumentalize wellness culture to spread reactionary ideology.
Thread below 🧵
We examine how far-right actors on X (formerly Twitter) instrumentalize wellness culture to spread reactionary ideology.
Thread below 🧵
The wellness pipeline: Tracing far-right health narratives on X - Piotr Marczyński, Catherine Tebaldi, 2025
This article examines how far-right groups advance political agendas through digital platforms, specifically by embedding reactionary ideology within health and...
doi.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Excited to share that, with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social , we’ve published a new article in New Media & Society!
We examine how far-right actors on X (formerly Twitter) instrumentalize wellness culture to spread reactionary ideology.
Thread below 🧵
We examine how far-right actors on X (formerly Twitter) instrumentalize wellness culture to spread reactionary ideology.
Thread below 🧵
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One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)
New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: @deccamuldowney.bsky.social and I write about OpenAI's transparent attempt to shift accountability.
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users
OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbot should be used for medical or legal advice.
buttondown.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)
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The overwhelming majority of "critiques" for things associated with queerness & feminism are just "it's cringe." "Girlbosses are annoying," "blue hair & pronouns are twee," "poly ppl are ugly," "feminists don't get fucked enough," etc
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The overwhelming majority of "critiques" for things associated with queerness & feminism are just "it's cringe." "Girlbosses are annoying," "blue hair & pronouns are twee," "poly ppl are ugly," "feminists don't get fucked enough," etc
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this! the AI industry and CS at large literally treats the human condition as a problem to be solved
"We are tearing people down by convincing them that they can't function without these tools. And we are doing this purely because some very rich unhappy oligarchs would like to become even richer if no more happier. There is nothing benevolent about this."
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
this! the AI industry and CS at large literally treats the human condition as a problem to be solved
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apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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Our (with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social) introduction to the special issue is now available! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Introduction to “Chronotopes of Gender” | Signs and Society | Cambridge Core
Introduction to “Chronotopes of Gender”
www.cambridge.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Our (with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social) introduction to the special issue is now available! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
applied for two positions today please do blood rituals for me
November 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
applied for two positions today please do blood rituals for me
everyone should read Smalls (2021) Fat, Black, and Ugly: The Semiotic Production of Prodigious Femininities: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Fat, Black, and Ugly: The Semiotic Production of Prodigious Femininities
Taking up the trinomial “fat, Black, and ugly” as a discomforting point of departure, this piece explores several ways fatness and Blackness are discursively constructed as social comorbidities for f...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
everyone should read Smalls (2021) Fat, Black, and Ugly: The Semiotic Production of Prodigious Femininities: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
hollering into the void: OCD is not shorthand for your fun lil quirks or hangups around organization, it's an irrational and sometimes dehabilitating condition that destroys your quality of life from the inside out
November 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
hollering into the void: OCD is not shorthand for your fun lil quirks or hangups around organization, it's an irrational and sometimes dehabilitating condition that destroys your quality of life from the inside out
new gender triad: fellows, fellas and fellers
November 1, 2025 at 2:19 AM
new gender triad: fellows, fellas and fellers
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Reading about “the persistent link between contemporary far-right politics and ‘alternative’ health and wellness” while watching the MAHA agenda unfold in real time and cannot recommend this paper enough, even if just for the incredible lit review on masculinity, the body, and fascism
The Science of Desire: Beauty, Masculinity, and Ideology on the Far Right
Author(s): Tebaldi, Catherine; Burnett, Scott | Abstract: Scores of male right-wing influencers offer advice to young men online on fitness, diet, and bodybuilding. Representations of the “right” kind...
escholarship.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Reading about “the persistent link between contemporary far-right politics and ‘alternative’ health and wellness” while watching the MAHA agenda unfold in real time and cannot recommend this paper enough, even if just for the incredible lit review on masculinity, the body, and fascism
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So a socio- #linguistics paper I wrote with Joe Walther (UCSB) just went live in Social Media + Society on how different social feedback signals feed subsequent #hatespeech on #Twitter. I wanted to take a moment and write about what that paper, and the older paper Rick Dale and I worked on, show 🧵
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October 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
So a socio- #linguistics paper I wrote with Joe Walther (UCSB) just went live in Social Media + Society on how different social feedback signals feed subsequent #hatespeech on #Twitter. I wanted to take a moment and write about what that paper, and the older paper Rick Dale and I worked on, show 🧵
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Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally.
Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"
Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"
Progressives really hope, and maybe even believe, that there is some magic thing they can hijack to attract conservative voters.
The focus on this mythical quest is the central reason they lose.
The focus on this mythical quest is the central reason they lose.
I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
October 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally.
Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"
Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"
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I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
October 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
apnews.com/article/erik...
bummer to see @apnews.com taking money from the conservative Christian Lilly Endowment to launder Erika Kirk as a sympathetic public figure
bummer to see @apnews.com taking money from the conservative Christian Lilly Endowment to launder Erika Kirk as a sympathetic public figure
Erika Kirk's words spotlight forgiveness in a divided nation
Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, has sparked a conversation about forgiveness after forgiving the man accused of assassinating her husband.
apnews.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
apnews.com/article/erik...
bummer to see @apnews.com taking money from the conservative Christian Lilly Endowment to launder Erika Kirk as a sympathetic public figure
bummer to see @apnews.com taking money from the conservative Christian Lilly Endowment to launder Erika Kirk as a sympathetic public figure
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This is one way incepted bullshit about trans equality is invoked rather than anything real: students can absolutely tell you what a pronoun is, both in grammatical and social usage. It’s out of touch bigots like Emmanuel who either can’t or pretend they can’t to pander to other old bigots.
Emmanuel explicitly says he wants to shift the topic away from trans rights but he does so in the worst possible way.
The solution is to vocally affirm trans rights and immediately ask why Republicans are so laser-focused on the genitals of 13-year-olds. Don't shit on college students instead!
The solution is to vocally affirm trans rights and immediately ask why Republicans are so laser-focused on the genitals of 13-year-olds. Don't shit on college students instead!
October 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is one way incepted bullshit about trans equality is invoked rather than anything real: students can absolutely tell you what a pronoun is, both in grammatical and social usage. It’s out of touch bigots like Emmanuel who either can’t or pretend they can’t to pander to other old bigots.
anyone else tracking sexuality discourse on Reddit? trying to decide if I want to write a paper or actively intervene on terfification (or both, if my heart can handle it)
October 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
anyone else tracking sexuality discourse on Reddit? trying to decide if I want to write a paper or actively intervene on terfification (or both, if my heart can handle it)
someday people will see that CupcakKe is an s-tier genius and lyricist and not just a tiktok exploitable
October 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
someday people will see that CupcakKe is an s-tier genius and lyricist and not just a tiktok exploitable
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you can't talk about US politics and polling honestly without having a conversation about how the American news and information diet is comprised of infotainment sewage and agitprop.
Yet you could pluck literally any news story from the feed and find ZERO mention of Republican propaganda successes.
Yet you could pluck literally any news story from the feed and find ZERO mention of Republican propaganda successes.
October 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
you can't talk about US politics and polling honestly without having a conversation about how the American news and information diet is comprised of infotainment sewage and agitprop.
Yet you could pluck literally any news story from the feed and find ZERO mention of Republican propaganda successes.
Yet you could pluck literally any news story from the feed and find ZERO mention of Republican propaganda successes.