Dear #NoKings and #language friends:
Do you have photos of #multilingual protest signs (at least partially in a language other than English) from any U.S.-based No Kings rally yesterday? I’m doing a small project and would be grateful for any examples 🙏🏻
#AcademicSky #LinguisticLandscape
A cardboard protest sign being held by a person whose face is covered by the sign. The sign says “No a La Guerra” (“No War” in Spanish)
No a La Guerra - No War
No a La Migra - No ICE
No a Los Reyes - No Kings
Vocabulario esencial de este día de protesta
Essential vocabulary from this day of protest
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#SanJosé, CA #NoKings in #English and en #español March 28 de marzo
A photo of a red Bike Friday folding bike parked on the bike/walking path on the Dumbarton Bridge on a sunny day. The bike is flying two black-background flags off its back side, with “No Kings in America” messages
A photo of two black-background flags with “No Kings in America” messages, flying in the wind with the San Francisco Bay in the background
A screenshot from Strava showing user Dave’s “South Bay Kings half century ride around the San Jose area on March 22
It’s not just next Saturday. The No Kings ride has been going on every day for 250 years. I was proud to add my half century to the millions earlier today.
Photo at Dumbarton Bridge between East Palo Alto and Newark 🚫👑🚲 #NoKings
a close-up photo of a water faucet/filling station at a cafe in San Jose, California. The angle is from the top so as to show a small label stuck to the top of the faucet, which reads in capital letters, “NOT A DRAIN”
Be a fountain for others, and not a drain.
#LifeAspirations at the local #CoffeeShop #closeup #photo
A square image of Vladimir Putin winking with a Russian flag pattern in the background and the words “Thank you for your payment” in Russian and English
put one of these right next to your Trump sticker ✌🏻
A photo of a building with reflective surface and blue sky
hard to tell what’s real anymore
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#building #reflection #photo under a #bluesky in #sanjose
A photo of the sun and buildings reflected in the windows of a tall glass-window building in downtown San Jose
sunrise in San Jose
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#dtsj #downtown #reflection #photo
A photo of an office building with reflective square windows reflecting the sky, with a row of trees blooming purple in springtime at its base. In the foreground there is a parking lot with about 15 parked cars visible in frame
How do you know you’ve been in the Silicon Valley for a while?
You look at this parking lot in front of a gleaming multistory office building and say, “Oh, look, the trees are blooming!”
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#SanJose #building #sky #reflection #photo
Some of us just like to go to Costco to feel welcome. And if we come home with $260 worth of ‘necessities’ well so be it
According to Hegseth himself, war is hell, so just make it Dep’t and Secretary of Hell
An illustration of a comic style dumpster character in white lines on the side of a teal-colored dumpster. Words in capital letters spell out: “DUMP HIM <3”
A photo of a teal-colored dumpster sitting in the side of a small residential street in San Jose, California
Advice for the nation, on the side of my neighborhood dumpster
And not a bad message for marking International Women’s Day as well 🚮
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#DumpHisAss a #dumpster #photo for the #dumpsterfire we live in
Just ask Tom Homan how it’s done
A poster for the "Where I am from: Finding the poetry in your story and our city" SJSU Writing Center/Translate San Jose event Wednesday, March 4. The small text reads, "Join us for a virtual interactive poetry writing workshop celebrating the cultures and experiences that shape San José!" The event is on Zoom from 2pm to 3:15pm on March 4, and there is a QR code to scan to RSVP. The code leads to this website: https://events.sjsu.edu/event/where-i-am-from-spring-2026
Welcome students, teachers, colleagues & friends to this fun, free, online poetry-writing event on Weds. 3/4! The workshop will feature an exploration of identity, language, and place. More details & RSVP: events.sjsu.edu/event/where-...
Supported by the #SJSU H&A #AEPG program #TranslateSanJose
I hear that. I struggle on hills (how far forward can I lean on this thing without collapsing?), and especially uneven and slanted road surfaces, of which there are a lot of those where I live. I have jumped off several times, thankfully landing on my feet but it’s been close
Nice! Yes, great fun and workout both. What flaws are you thinking of?
I'm excited for this opportunity to hear from SJSU faculty and TESOL students about their experiments using #linguisticlandscape in their teaching design, Wednesday Feb. 25 at #SJSU and online. Zoom registration is open to all who are interested...please join! #academicsky
A composite image with Donald Trump giving the State of the Union address, or something like it, on Tuesday, February 25, 2026, with JD Vance sitting behind him on his right side, and Mike Johnson sitting behind him on his left side
🤖 🪐 👽 🛸 🚀 🌏
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Mystery Science Theater 2026
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🤖 🪐 👽 🛸 🚀 🌏
A photo of the beach at dusk in Pismo Beach, California
land | sea | sky | universe
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just another #beach #photo at #dusk
It “taps into the deepest human fear: what if this is all there is? Without aliens and without God, we’re just us: a bunch of intelligent yet stupid humans crammed onto a spherical rock in an inconsequential speck of infinite space. That can’t be it. We must be special.”
- Ella Morton, TNR
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The I WANT TO BELIEVE poster from the X-Files series
The X-Files “I want to believe” says a lot about the delusional realities we face in America. The fervor over QAnon conspiracies and casual acceptance of Epstein. The disinterest in Biden’s long-term policy gains in favor of Trump’s performative outrage. The belief in aliens over climate change.
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A photo of a red folding bicycle with a “We the People - NO KINGS IN AMERICA” flag flying on back. The bike is in the foreground, and parked on the relatively empty Paseo de San Antonio in downtown San Jose, with San Jose State University in the background, on a sunny morning
It’s Saturday in America, which means it’s a great day for a No Kings ride 🚫👑🇺🇸🚲
Fueling up at the local coffee shop #dtsj #SanJose #NoKings #NoKingsinAmerica #bikesky
It comes with two Neighborhood Knights to stand guard while those inside attend to their royal business
A photo of a “throne” free public bathroom at the Sunnyvale Caltrain station in downtown Sunnyvale, California
The American Golden Age has finally arrived at the Sunnyvale Caltrain station, too. Take a seat, you kings and queens.
But #srsly 🚫👑🇺🇸 #nokings #please #free #bathroom #photo
Thinking about the next #mla? @modernlanguage.bsky.social
Send us your abstract! #mla27 #mla2027
We welcome innovative, critical, and interdisciplinary perspectives on language, society, & pedagogy.
LSL – Language and Society is now accepting abstracts for MLA 2026 (guaranteed sessions)
A photo of Randy Fine in the Florida House of Representatives casting votes inappropriately for himself and for his absent colleagues one day in 2024
Randy Fine voted illegally more times on this day in 2024 than noncitizens have in decades
A photo of tree branches at dusk, being lit up red by a nearby stoplight
stop and grow
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#photo #streetphoto #treephoto in #red and #blue #SanJose
Cover of the book "Digital Literacy in Public Libraries" by Jenna Kammer and Lauren Hays. Nearby are digital icons like a light bulb, envelope, and a graduation cap alongside a laptop.
The first guidebook of its kind, this all-in-one resource explores the many services and resources provided by public libraries to close the digital divide and create more digitally inclusive communities. Read an excerpt: https://bit.ly/4trQGa9
We exist in the context of all in which we live and those in Minnesota that came before us 🥥🌴💙
#Minneapolis #StPaul #TwinCities #Minnesota
“Trickle-down economics is not a theory. It is theft.”
— @jamestalarico.bsky.social
