I think people forgetting that Glee was a satire was the first harbinger of the death of media literacy
Bran[don] Papineau
@branpap.bsky.social
Linguist. Science is a public good! Just wanna make the world a better place. 🧑🏼🏫: www.branpap.com
Colleagues, academics, friends! I need your help! I'm giving a lecture this week on data vizualization and I'm looking for particularly heinous viz examples -- can be from academic work, print media, etc., and the more diverse the subject matter the better -- so if you've got something, share it! ❤️
Last 18 months of a PhD is arguably the worst time to give up caffeine in case you were wondering
Never in a million years could you have convinced 12 year old Catholic me that one day the president would be calling the Pope and the Church too radically left wing
Sorry but the KATSEYE girlies whispering “the only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing” after the line “I kinda know nothing just like Socrates” in their new single is peak camp I don’t care that it’s 2:11 of brain rot beats and lyrics
I haven’t opened this app in months but just have to say the new Slayyyter album is such a fucking bop and has become my dissertation writing soundtrack
Sometimes I text myself plots I make just to look at them on my phone. I love making plots.
Should I apply for this and absolutely fuck up the training
Kate Knibbs@knibbs.bsky.social · 8mo agoX is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
“Skipping our lessons to teach adults one” hell yeah kids
Bran[don] Papineau@branpap.bsky.social · 8mo agoThere are hundreds of school kids and teenagers at the busiest intersection in Palo Alto today with signs and music and cheers protesting the current situation in Minnesota and more broadly. While there’s much to comment on, perhaps most striking is the number of American flags
There are hundreds of school kids and teenagers at the busiest intersection in Palo Alto today with signs and music and cheers protesting the current situation in Minnesota and more broadly. While there’s much to comment on, perhaps most striking is the number of American flags
Just so I’m clear on our current foreign policy… we’re threatening Norway with invasion of Greenland (which he keeps calling Iceland), a Danish constituency, because the opposition of the now-deposed Venezuelan leader won the Nobel Peace Prize over Trump, who calls Azerbaijan “Aberbaiban”?
You're telling me a woman was forced to give up her trophy to a biological male
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo agoMaría Corina Machado on her meeting with Trump: “I presented the president of the United States with the Nobel Peace Prize”
Policing language is as much a part of an authoritarian movement as policing bodies. Never let someone take your words away from you.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo agoWELKER: Do you bear any responsibility to bring down the temperature? FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.
Where are my anthropology of food friends and their analyses of “ending the war on protein” as a right-wing dog whistle for the “assault” on traditional masculinity….
Oh my god I’m 27 when did a bar on NYE become “too loud”
UGH I’m gonna have to talk about “transgender for everyone” in my dissertation aren’t I?
So far my experience actually writing up my dissertation has been a lot of finding creative ways to say “I got distracted by this curious thing in the data and decided to follow that lead”
I sure picked a good year to finally buy Chiefs gear after years of my family haranguing me about it 🙄
160 years ago today, the 13th Amendment was ratified to end slavery, with one major exception: punishment for a crime. The legacy of slavery lives on as people behind bars are still coerced into working for mere pennies or nothing at all. It's long overdue to abolish slavery in all its forms.
I really was so convinced JADE was singing “I’m a little depressed, and you’re a little bit tall” on This Is What We Dance For and I was like girl I’ve been there
The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
language change is so powerful- I cannot believe I just heard my 80-something year old grandfather use "hashtag" in a context where I was 1000% expecting him to say "pound sign" or similar (i.e. not a context in which it was being used as an actual tag of any kind)
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 🧵
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
Hate hate hate that I have to update old lecture slide's from "the Trump Administration" to "the first Trump Administration" and that's how referring expressions are making me sad today
Genuinely surprised by how much I’m enjoying the new Katy single - Thank God we are leaving the 143 era behind! 🎶
Google what’s a good job for someone who just really likes getting to talk to strangers
California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50. California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections. Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.