The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid
@pinkatydid.bsky.social
the alter ego of @laymanslinguist
Such a wonderful day to spend at the Hopi cave dwellings in Canyon de Chelly (Tséyi')
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Such a wonderful day to spend at the Hopi cave dwellings in Canyon de Chelly (Tséyi')
Just a quick life-changing road trip nbd
(Pictures will remain sideways until morale improves or I figure out how to make this app listen to me)
(Pictures will remain sideways until morale improves or I figure out how to make this app listen to me)
October 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Just a quick life-changing road trip nbd
(Pictures will remain sideways until morale improves or I figure out how to make this app listen to me)
(Pictures will remain sideways until morale improves or I figure out how to make this app listen to me)
POV you try to take a bubble bath but it immediately starts to thunder outside
September 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
POV you try to take a bubble bath but it immediately starts to thunder outside
I like when first dates bring me flowers which leads me to wonder why I always have to scramble to, for instance, knife the top off a plastic water jug in order to keep them alive. This cannot be how other grownups live.
August 30, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I like when first dates bring me flowers which leads me to wonder why I always have to scramble to, for instance, knife the top off a plastic water jug in order to keep them alive. This cannot be how other grownups live.
Just two predators ~15 mins after the hatchery guys showed up to restock the lake.
(They did not try to catch a single fish. They just spent 3 hours of enrichment time watching them like an aquarium.)
(They did not try to catch a single fish. They just spent 3 hours of enrichment time watching them like an aquarium.)
August 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Just two predators ~15 mins after the hatchery guys showed up to restock the lake.
(They did not try to catch a single fish. They just spent 3 hours of enrichment time watching them like an aquarium.)
(They did not try to catch a single fish. They just spent 3 hours of enrichment time watching them like an aquarium.)
The good news: Absolutely nailed my grandma's tomato pie recipe
The bad news: I had to bake so many things that it caused a carbon monoxide detector to go off and the fire department had to come and I've been microdosing brain death since I moved here two years ago
The bad news: I had to bake so many things that it caused a carbon monoxide detector to go off and the fire department had to come and I've been microdosing brain death since I moved here two years ago
August 26, 2025 at 4:56 AM
The good news: Absolutely nailed my grandma's tomato pie recipe
The bad news: I had to bake so many things that it caused a carbon monoxide detector to go off and the fire department had to come and I've been microdosing brain death since I moved here two years ago
The bad news: I had to bake so many things that it caused a carbon monoxide detector to go off and the fire department had to come and I've been microdosing brain death since I moved here two years ago
Hiking at the ponderosa pine lakes >>
August 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Hiking at the ponderosa pine lakes >>
So close, that is a truck
July 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
So close, that is a truck
Welp, time for leftists' annual tradition of reconciling "cookouts with my friends are fun" with "American nationalism is a plague"
Meet back here in 4 months for "bringing families together over a big shared meal is nice" vs "American nationalism has always been a plague" 🦃
Meet back here in 4 months for "bringing families together over a big shared meal is nice" vs "American nationalism has always been a plague" 🦃
![JULY 4TH Checklist [picture of a hot dog bun on a late with some veggies]
•Hot dogs
•Beer
•Chips
•The unshakeable feeling ofdread that this country is doomed and there is absolutely nothing we can do to prevent its inevitable collapse
•Ketchup](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2qjssyuej5uj36fl5vcpdd5v/bafkreighltuayu5zj2p7u2yxv4y4f77hcq2gcwbxt6pzajex5swnyadpbq@jpeg)
July 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Welp, time for leftists' annual tradition of reconciling "cookouts with my friends are fun" with "American nationalism is a plague"
Meet back here in 4 months for "bringing families together over a big shared meal is nice" vs "American nationalism has always been a plague" 🦃
Meet back here in 4 months for "bringing families together over a big shared meal is nice" vs "American nationalism has always been a plague" 🦃
Happy Found-in-a-Box Day to my tiny lil 55lb middle-aged puppy
imjustababy.mp4 smolbean.txt
imjustababy.mp4 smolbean.txt
July 4, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Happy Found-in-a-Box Day to my tiny lil 55lb middle-aged puppy
imjustababy.mp4 smolbean.txt
imjustababy.mp4 smolbean.txt
These ID photos were taken a few months apart at the same DMV so if you think the person who takes your photo hates you, I just want you to know that they absolutely do. They want you to ugly and they did that on purpose. It's not your fault. You're hot af and they hate you for it.
June 30, 2025 at 7:10 AM
These ID photos were taken a few months apart at the same DMV so if you think the person who takes your photo hates you, I just want you to know that they absolutely do. They want you to ugly and they did that on purpose. It's not your fault. You're hot af and they hate you for it.
Back from my camping trip and looking gorg
June 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Back from my camping trip and looking gorg
What am I supposed to do with this? I am genuinely asking how to have a conversation with the men on these apps. It's like pulling teeth.
June 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
What am I supposed to do with this? I am genuinely asking how to have a conversation with the men on these apps. It's like pulling teeth.
Society longs for The Giver
June 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Society longs for The Giver
I fucking love baseball
June 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I fucking love baseball
This was the team that won the World Series when I was a senior in high school 💀
June 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This was the team that won the World Series when I was a senior in high school 💀
Okay so apparently my skin care routine is working like a fkn champ
June 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Okay so apparently my skin care routine is working like a fkn champ
Yeah no my bad, I don't understand how EVERY electoral map that came up on Google was wrong...?
June 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Yeah no my bad, I don't understand how EVERY electoral map that came up on Google was wrong...?
Hey my bad, I was looking at electoral maps that are apparently *all* wrong...? I definitely always thought of Culpeper as the edge of Nova.
June 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Hey my bad, I was looking at electoral maps that are apparently *all* wrong...? I definitely always thought of Culpeper as the edge of Nova.
DC is consistently one of the most left-wing US cities so here's hoping they make the city regret closing that park. Hell, they put "taxation without representation" on their license plates as basically a neverending citywide protest so I KNOW they know how to be petty and inconvenient. C'mon DC!
June 3, 2025 at 6:05 AM
DC is consistently one of the most left-wing US cities so here's hoping they make the city regret closing that park. Hell, they put "taxation without representation" on their license plates as basically a neverending citywide protest so I KNOW they know how to be petty and inconvenient. C'mon DC!
One day all these highly esteemed institutions will bury these spineless statements explicitly forsaking their established principles like allowing free expression and peaceful protest for their students in favor of suppressing their students' objection to genocide.
I mean what a way to open:
I mean what a way to open:
June 3, 2025 at 5:19 AM
One day all these highly esteemed institutions will bury these spineless statements explicitly forsaking their established principles like allowing free expression and peaceful protest for their students in favor of suppressing their students' objection to genocide.
I mean what a way to open:
I mean what a way to open:
It's Schrödinger's average American:
•They didn't vote to deport moms
•They did vote for Trump because he ran on the policies they actually support
•They didn't vote to deport moms
•They did vote for Trump because he ran on the policies they actually support
June 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It's Schrödinger's average American:
•They didn't vote to deport moms
•They did vote for Trump because he ran on the policies they actually support
•They didn't vote to deport moms
•They did vote for Trump because he ran on the policies they actually support
Man what a cliffhanger! I bet Trump won because the Democrats ran such a radically leftist campaign! Or whatever!
June 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Man what a cliffhanger! I bet Trump won because the Democrats ran such a radically leftist campaign! Or whatever!