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Stephen Jones

@stephen-jones.bsky.social

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 Groningen/Oxford. Language & cognition. Singing. Cycling. Eating.

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Small Robots@smolrobots.bsky.social · 2y ago

1802) Transwrongsbot. Listen, validation and love is all very well, but at some point things get bad enough that action is required as a matter of simple survival. It's time to protect trans rights by doing some trans wrongs.

A spherical robot with banded arms and legs. It has one fist cocked and its lunging forward, yelling angrily. It's drawn in full colour, and its body is striped in the blue-pink-white-pink-blue of the trans pride flag.
Dr. Nick Posegay@nposegay.bsky.social · 4d ago

REF's a scam and meritocratic promotion is a lie so you may as well do whatever 'political' thing you're afraid your uni will punish you for.

Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 4d ago

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

Squeezy John@johnspiers.co.uk · 4d ago

Thames Water: there’s a hosepipe ban because our reservoir levels are getting low. Cut to scenes of the road next to Farmoor reservoir where a Thames Water pipe has leaked hundreds of thousands of litres of water on to the road such that it looks like a canal!!

The road from my village to Farmoor reservoir completely flooded by a burst water pipe such that it looks like a canal.
Mattzki@mattzki.bsky.social · last wk.

In memory of Bill Oddie, going to dig out my Goodies books this evening. Re-bought them a few years ago, replacing the ones lost from childhood. Really disappointed the copy of ‘The Goodies Disaster Movie’ was missing the 'Location Map’ pages. Still, here’s the best gag in the book IMO.

Cast List of White Christmas, according the The Goodies Disaster Movie book; White Christmas - Cast List Emma Dreaming Arfur White Chris Muss Jess Like-Dee Juan Swee Hugh Sterno Wendy Treetops-Glissen Anne Chilled-Wren Liz Anne "Two Ears" Laybelle Cindy Snow. Emma Dreaming Arfur White Chris Musswit Avery Crease Miss Carr Dai Wright. Mayor Dazeby Mary Anne Bright. Anna-May Hall-York-Rhys Mrs B. White
Charlotte Weatherill@ckweatherill.bsky.social · last wk.

The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.

Endangered Languages Project@e-l-p.bsky.social · last wk.

If you’ve seen this article, you may be sitting with anger, pain, or just exhaustion at dealing with another helping of colonial nonsense. We feel a responsibility to speak back when these colonizing narratives show up, yet again, in such a prominent venue. endangeredlanguages.com/story/respon...

New Yorker article title "Sometimes It's Okay to Let a Language Die" with "Sometimes It's" crossed out in red ink and "IT'S NOT" written above it. To the right is text "A Response to The New Yorker" and the ELP logo.
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2w ago

The idea that we have a special duty to prevent the death of languages is instantly compelling to anyone who loves languages. But is it true? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · last wk.

The biggest difficulty for trans rights – the general public seems to believe the new guidance makes it possible to exclude eg trans women from women's services in some circumstances. No. This was the previous position. The current guidance requires their exclusion, always, regardless of context.