I’m so grateful to @dennycarter.bsky.social for this piece because it nails my experience of this past decade with friends and family 😬

The Fascists Are Making You Sound Crazy

You will appear to be a complete lunatic if you explain the political realities of competitive authoritarianism.

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it's pronounced herpès 🙄

No because the Harper's letter was targeting trans people

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 3w ago

Rowling signed the Harper’s Letter, which lamented, “it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought.” Are ANY of her co-signatories — some follow me — going to speak up about her crusade against trans people?

I can't tell if eating loudly & eating while talking on tiktok is supposed to be read as casual/intimate or if it's misophonia engagement bait. both?

getting confirmed in Catholicism is fun because you get a saintsona

leaving PA ✨ gonna miss these little stunners

I think yes to this—and ALSO aesthetic and fascism are inextricably linked. Fascism is arguably even more about aesthetic and spectacle than it is about coherent ideology Which is *not* an argument with this point; “tacky” is indeed missing the larger issue even in terms of engaging with aesthetics

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My problem with the White House thunderdome isn’t that it’s “vulgar,” or “tacky,” qualities I often enjoy & terms which are often crudely classist when used pejoratively. My problem, as always, is the fascism. Don’t get distracted by taste, which is deeply subjective; it’s the fascism.

I was asked about my thoughts on some stuff related to feminism and "The Trans Question™" today by a few folks, and I think Sara Ahmed's "An Affinity of Hammers" gets at it—especially in that it responds to a "we're being silenced" anti-trans higher ed letter. read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-...

Always pointing out that Elon Musk has deliberately murdered hundreds of thousands of people mostly in the global south and it is estimated that he will have murdered 14 million people via DOGE alone in the next 5 years.

Dmitry Grozoubinski@explaintrade.com · 2mo ago

It's just remarkable that if you're white, male, and conservative you are allowed to call for political violence that would get anyone who doesn't tick all those boxes absolutely pilloried. The group with the fewest legitimate grievances in society provided the widest grace to rage. Wild.

I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.

Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS. These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st). Forced medical detransition. This country is a danger to trans children & young people.

sorry to self promo but this is my overall argument in my 2025 paper "Referentialism and Discursive Parallels between US 'Alt-Right' and 'Gender-Critical' Conspiracism" escholarship.org/uc/item/5d38...

Cllr Dr Alex Powell@apowelllaw.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It bears repeating, the "Gender critical" and "Mens Rights Activist" positions are two sides of the same coin. Their advocates share the same essentialised (and therefore violent) conceptions of biological determinism.

Feel as though people will truly never understand his death. He was killed for being an Indigenous Queer Man with a Transgender Partner. Every single one of those signifiers on axis/intersections/marginalizations is extremely important, but it is in tandem all at once not just because he “Gay”.

Discordia Comic Shop@discordiacomicshop.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We lost Jonathan Joss exactly One Year ago today. A neighbor burned his house, killed his dogs and shot him in the street for being Gay. Never forget Jonathan Joss. #KingOfTheHill #JohnRedcorn

It bears repeating, the "Gender critical" and "Mens Rights Activist" positions are two sides of the same coin. Their advocates share the same essentialised (and therefore violent) conceptions of biological determinism.

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Metaphors of resistance in the counter-discourse of Spanish, English and Dutch cycling activists

Russian Journal of Linguistics Vol 29, No 1 (2025): Ecolinguistics: Consolidating a research paradigm

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I want a Zutara shipper for president

this is a great video, and I have to laud FD Signifier for being one of the only notable online leftists talking about why it's bad when leftists (and it's white leftists specifically) normalize /pol/ and Nazi slang. youtu.be/m8bE13OJ_es?...

Why I left the (White) Left

YouTube video by Signified B Sides

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new article out in Current Anthropology today on raciolinguistic ideologies of listening (+ labor) in mental healthcare AI! feat. dream team commentary pieces by Josh Babcock, Michael Berman, Jay Ke-Schutte, @nickseaver.website, Summerson Carr, and Rihan Yeh www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

ah, pride month. friendly reminder to mute all lgbtq topics on social media if you don't want to see a thousand 20 year olds arguing over the same three "discourse" topics for 30 days gay

This is the way. We do not need to accept the right’s bad-faith and blatantly dishonest caricature of higher education. Colleges and universities regularly platform views across the political spectrum, perhaps more than any other American institution.

Thomas Zimmer@thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Viewpoint diversity” is a trap For @table.media, I wrote about the Yale report on “Trust in Higher Education” – and why we will not be able to defend academic freedom by accepting the terms set by a rightwing campaign intended to impose reactionary rule. Some thoughts, since it is in German:

The whole argument for “viewpoint diversity” as an academic virtue fundamentally (mis)construes academia as an instrument of brainwashing rather than a site of learning and knowledge-production.

nowadays everyone regardless of politics yearns to be able to defer to The Unifying Theory for everything, like oh my god bruh shut up

amidst tough times, good news: I will be joining the faculty of CU Boulder Linguistics in the fall as a teaching professor! I am effervescent to be teaching in my home state, with a department I adore 🥰

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people." Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 11mo ago

Some say canceling is an act of redress. Others blame it on a mob. “People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”

i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues. For example: Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $ Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $ Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy

i made a helpful reference

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 11mo ago

if they say something and you say that's not true, your response is still shaped like their frame Your frame has to *contain and explain* their frame, not just contradict it. You have to eat their frame. Like Kirby

just wanna say that I have articles out about both cuck porn and sissification 😌 thank you to my friends who have tagged me on this article

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 3mo ago

“Pornography is the unseen dark matter molding and shaping how the online right speaks and thinks about politics, on anything from immigration to transgender people to higher education.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interrac...

The most important article you'll read today, this week, this month, and possibly this year www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interrac...

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 3mo ago

“Pornography is the unseen dark matter molding and shaping how the online right speaks and thinks about politics, on anything from immigration to transgender people to higher education.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interrac...

I just want the right to embrace their kinks and stop making it my problem (I think this author is absolutely correct.)

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 3mo ago

“Pornography is the unseen dark matter molding and shaping how the online right speaks and thinks about politics, on anything from immigration to transgender people to higher education.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interrac...

even if one doesn't like psychoanalysis, everyone should read both volumes of Theweleit's Male Fantasies

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