utarzan
@utarzan.bsky.social
Currently unemployed linguist (psycholinguistics, interested in readers’ morphosyntactic processing) who loves dancing, paper crafts, vegan food, and trying/failing to learn languages. Still covid-cautious & masking.
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Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
August 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
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The proposed cuts to Medicaid are an excellent reason to start wearing a mask again.
Covid is a mass disabling event. Don’t count on the system being there to support you when you’re chronically ill.
Mask up to protect...
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists #fascism"/hashtag/fascism" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascism
👉 Vote 'em Out!
Covid is a mass disabling event. Don’t count on the system being there to support you when you’re chronically ill.
Mask up to protect...
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists #fascism"/hashtag/fascism" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascism
👉 Vote 'em Out!
July 1, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The proposed cuts to Medicaid are an excellent reason to start wearing a mask again.
Covid is a mass disabling event. Don’t count on the system being there to support you when you’re chronically ill.
Mask up to protect...
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists #fascism"/hashtag/fascism" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascism
👉 Vote 'em Out!
Covid is a mass disabling event. Don’t count on the system being there to support you when you’re chronically ill.
Mask up to protect...
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists #fascism"/hashtag/fascism" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascism
👉 Vote 'em Out!
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She is an American citizen, the daughter of a U.S. Navy service member from Illinois, who was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War.
This is fascism, plain and simple.
This is fascism, plain and simple.
Veteran's daughter living in US 48 years locked up by ICE
Certain legal provisions allow for extending citizenship to family members of individuals who have served in the U.S. military.
www.newsweek.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
She is an American citizen, the daughter of a U.S. Navy service member from Illinois, who was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War.
This is fascism, plain and simple.
This is fascism, plain and simple.
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Beyond parody.
May 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Beyond parody.
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Mask 😷 the working class because we have no national health care, c19 never went away, and they won't tell us what's coming next.
Unmask 👀 the Proud Boys bc we need to know who they are so we can ostracize them like you're supposed to with Nzi fucks.
Unmask 👀 the Proud Boys bc we need to know who they are so we can ostracize them like you're supposed to with Nzi fucks.
May 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Mask 😷 the working class because we have no national health care, c19 never went away, and they won't tell us what's coming next.
Unmask 👀 the Proud Boys bc we need to know who they are so we can ostracize them like you're supposed to with Nzi fucks.
Unmask 👀 the Proud Boys bc we need to know who they are so we can ostracize them like you're supposed to with Nzi fucks.
Haj Ross was a troubadour, an artist, and one of the world’s most brilliant linguists.
He always had a joke ready to tell, and he always had a photocopied poem in his backpack to hand to everyone he ran into.
Wishing you peaceful travels to the Islands of the Blessed, my friend.
He always had a joke ready to tell, and he always had a photocopied poem in his backpack to hand to everyone he ran into.
Wishing you peaceful travels to the Islands of the Blessed, my friend.
May 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Haj Ross was a troubadour, an artist, and one of the world’s most brilliant linguists.
He always had a joke ready to tell, and he always had a photocopied poem in his backpack to hand to everyone he ran into.
Wishing you peaceful travels to the Islands of the Blessed, my friend.
He always had a joke ready to tell, and he always had a photocopied poem in his backpack to hand to everyone he ran into.
Wishing you peaceful travels to the Islands of the Blessed, my friend.
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Uhhhh....get off Twitter/X. Seriously. Stop making up excuses.
the state of Twitter: you can reply to any image of a woman with a request to Grok to undress her to her underwear and it will comply and post the reply in thread: www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...
Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X
Elon Musk’s AI bot is undressing women on X.
www.404media.co
May 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Uhhhh....get off Twitter/X. Seriously. Stop making up excuses.
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I practice five languages on Duolingo, but I won't be renewing my family subscription. I don't want to hang on as another service becomes enshittified.
bsky.app/profile/alex...
bsky.app/profile/alex...
Enshittification at Duolingo: Despite explosive growth in paid subscriptions CEO Luis von Anh announced "the company will start to phase out contractors for work that can be handled by AI".
The cracks are already showing. I won't be renewing my family subscription.
...
The cracks are already showing. I won't be renewing my family subscription.
...
Duolingo CEO says company will replace contractors with AI
Luis von Ahn said this was to overcome human limitations in creating the “massive amount of content.”
www.morningbrew.com
May 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I practice five languages on Duolingo, but I won't be renewing my family subscription. I don't want to hang on as another service becomes enshittified.
bsky.app/profile/alex...
bsky.app/profile/alex...
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It doesn't matter what the rest of the sentence says, the opening 10 words in themselves are the scandal:
"President Trump on Thursday directed the Justice Department to investigate ... "
"President Trump on Thursday directed the Justice Department to investigate ... "
April 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
It doesn't matter what the rest of the sentence says, the opening 10 words in themselves are the scandal:
"President Trump on Thursday directed the Justice Department to investigate ... "
"President Trump on Thursday directed the Justice Department to investigate ... "
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Do better, Starbucks.
🧵Confirmation via a friend: Starbucks will forbid employees from masking without a medical note.
Giant US-based MAGAcorp known for union-busting, actively preventing workers from protecting themselves and the public from known workplace health hazards?
Starbucks wants you infected.
👉 #Sickbucks 👈
Giant US-based MAGAcorp known for union-busting, actively preventing workers from protecting themselves and the public from known workplace health hazards?
Starbucks wants you infected.
👉 #Sickbucks 👈
April 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Do better, Starbucks.
A gold mine for those doing corpus linguistics:
So— did some spring cleaning and listed all my #corpus collection apps on this one page:
corpustools.prendrelangue.fr
#linguistics
corpustools.prendrelangue.fr
#linguistics
April 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A gold mine for those doing corpus linguistics:
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I keep saying, “What a ridiculous time to be alive.”
I feel confident in predicting history will judge this decade or so as the absolutely stupidest time in American history.
Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.
Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.
March 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I keep saying, “What a ridiculous time to be alive.”
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"He was mistakenly accused of Tren de Aragua affiliation based on … a hand gesture that U.S. authorities called a gang sign. … [It] is a popular sign language rendering of 'I Love You.'"
This would not be the first time ignorance, racism, & paranoia have combined to put d/Deaf POC at risk.
This would not be the first time ignorance, racism, & paranoia have combined to put d/Deaf POC at risk.
They were called gang members and deported. Families say their only crime was having tattoos. - Los Angeles Times
“The hand gesture is a popular sign language rendering of "I Love You," the lawyer added.”
“The hand gesture is a popular sign language rendering of "I Love You," the lawyer added.”
March 24, 2025 at 4:15 AM
"He was mistakenly accused of Tren de Aragua affiliation based on … a hand gesture that U.S. authorities called a gang sign. … [It] is a popular sign language rendering of 'I Love You.'"
This would not be the first time ignorance, racism, & paranoia have combined to put d/Deaf POC at risk.
This would not be the first time ignorance, racism, & paranoia have combined to put d/Deaf POC at risk.
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RFK Jr and Brooke Rollins want to let bird flu run through flocks to identify the birds that are immune so that we can breed them.
The problem is that production birds are hybrids, and we don’t breed them. You’d think at least one of these two assholes would know that.
The problem is that production birds are hybrids, and we don’t breed them. You’d think at least one of these two assholes would know that.
March 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
RFK Jr and Brooke Rollins want to let bird flu run through flocks to identify the birds that are immune so that we can breed them.
The problem is that production birds are hybrids, and we don’t breed them. You’d think at least one of these two assholes would know that.
The problem is that production birds are hybrids, and we don’t breed them. You’d think at least one of these two assholes would know that.
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We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at.
A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth.
HAIRCUTS.
This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.
A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth.
HAIRCUTS.
This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.
GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors - LGBTQ Nation
The bill would allow anyone to sue someone who affirms a young person's transition, and it specifically mentions hairstyles.
www.lgbtqnation.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at.
A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth.
HAIRCUTS.
This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.
A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth.
HAIRCUTS.
This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.
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The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
benefit.me
March 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
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History is a really good teacher.
If we pay attention to her, she reminds us that populations don't become monstrous overnight, that nations don't abandon humanity in a single moment.
Collective sickness usually follows a pattern and we’re seeing it now.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fascism-is...
If we pay attention to her, she reminds us that populations don't become monstrous overnight, that nations don't abandon humanity in a single moment.
Collective sickness usually follows a pattern and we’re seeing it now.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fascism-is...
Fascism Isn't Coming To America, It's Here. Do Americans Have the Strength to Drive it Out?
Fascism isn’t coming to America, it’s already here.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
History is a really good teacher.
If we pay attention to her, she reminds us that populations don't become monstrous overnight, that nations don't abandon humanity in a single moment.
Collective sickness usually follows a pattern and we’re seeing it now.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fascism-is...
If we pay attention to her, she reminds us that populations don't become monstrous overnight, that nations don't abandon humanity in a single moment.
Collective sickness usually follows a pattern and we’re seeing it now.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fascism-is...
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This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
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This is what many cities in the U.S. looked like before the EPA.
Why the heck would anyone celebrate deregulating it?
Why the heck would anyone celebrate deregulating it?
March 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This is what many cities in the U.S. looked like before the EPA.
Why the heck would anyone celebrate deregulating it?
Why the heck would anyone celebrate deregulating it?
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The staff of the Department of Education are being told to clear out their offices by 6:00 PM.
The dumbest people alive are cheering for this.
🤦♀️
The dumbest people alive are cheering for this.
🤦♀️
March 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The staff of the Department of Education are being told to clear out their offices by 6:00 PM.
The dumbest people alive are cheering for this.
🤦♀️
The dumbest people alive are cheering for this.
🤦♀️
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I would rather Canada rightfully bring down the United States then watch Trump do it for greed
March 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I would rather Canada rightfully bring down the United States then watch Trump do it for greed