"if you know what I mean": innuendo
"iff you know what I mean": dogwhistle

why does every Aldi commercial look like someone being inducted into a cult

People who suddenly feel like their transphobic “jokes” and “fairness in sports” takes are a bad look while the government forcibly detransitions people don’t get to say “oh that’s not what I meant!” You did mean it! People told you what it meant and you did it anyways!

no, my attacks on trans people and doubling down is somehow very different from THEIR attacks on trans people (and subsequent support for me, because I said what they wanted to hear)

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Seeing people talk about “TACO” while Israel shells the capital of Lebanon, and the American President threatens genocide is pretty appalling

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

Metaphor with Professor Veronika Koller Podcast Episode · Doing Critical Discourse Analysis · 1 April · 40min

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Watching elite mainstream publications raise clavicular’s profile through exoticized coverage is like watching Richard Spencer and the alt right all over again

you're right. I don't want to deny that there's any connection or shame people who came into transness from crossdressing. I just get mad when (mostly liberal, cis, het) people think it's some kind of gotcha or hypocrisy :/

I cannot stress enough that we as a nation are not in the right headspace to handle April Fool's Day this year

imb4 "homophobes are gay/transphobes are trans": crossdressing kinks ≠ being trans or trans friendly. crossdressing/drag is not inherently subversive or even queer. we are doing a disservice when we conflate cishet crossdressing fetishes with transness for a cheap dunk.

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

Screenshot of a Facebook post from “The Language Nerds” stating that no English word ends with the letter “v” and challenging readers to prove it wrong. In the comments, one person suggests “Molotov,” another responds that it is not an English word, and a third argues that it is, comparing it to words borrowed from Norman French.

This exchange shows dominant conceptualizations of how language works. Calling Molotov not really English reflects linguistic purism tied to the family tree model linguistics helped build alongside race science. Maybe we need better metaphors that capture how messy and connected language actually is

Don't miss @uonenglish.bsky.social @uoncral.bsky.social graduate Daniel Edmondson's keynote at this year's annual @lgas-baal.bsky.social event!

it's not surprising for a transphobe to also be a biphobe. both experiences of self represent a kind of internal and external mutability that fundamentally offends the conservative mind. but still je ris

it's really funny to me that Lewis felt the need to lash out at bisexuals, just because

He's got end-stage STEM brain, unfortunately. Thinks because he's a scientist he can master any discipline, especially ones beloved by those thickos and slackers in the humanities departments. The result is some of the dumbest pseudotheology you will ever read outside of a Dan Brown novel.

Netanyahu, son join Europe far-right at CPAC Hungary to rally against migrants Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán, Facing His Toughest Re-election Bid Since 2010, Called the Illiberal Right-wing Movement 'The Greatest Political Realignment in 100 Years of the West, the U.S. a...

If we see 1900's nationalist antisemitism not just as hatred of Jews qua Jews, but an ideology where Jews stand for cosmopolitan threats to the hard borders of the nation-state, we see why the Israeli right had to reinvent political antisemitism from first principles. www.haaretz.com/world-news/e...

honestly? if it weren't a crass justification to be anti-immigration and anti-Islam, it would be almost refreshing to see one of the nu atheists acknowledge that western atheism never challenged or shook off their latent Christian frameworks

new ablaut dropped: chad, chud, chode

Later on the thread: framing a politician who ran on affordable childcare and housing as “Third World Resentment” is absurd, and could only work when “Third Worldism,” like “woke” becomes a semantically bleached racial dogwhistle.

This is actually not about academic freedom at all, it is not about not being able “to put forward controversial or provocative claims without fear of losing their employment” It’s about taking serious quality of research, ethics and human rights when giving people a position at a university.

It's even easier. Cofnas & all other scientific racists fail to meet basic academic standards. They don't read or engage with evidence & their interpretation of data is demonstrably specious. Instead of doing good scholarly work, they hide behind "controversy". He has no business at a university.

Very Good Makeup

Love how bluesky is debating whether Kent's resignation is antisemitic or not and meanwhile the nazis are like "HELL YEAH!!! FELLOW GOYIM WAKE UP! STOP THE JEW WAR!!!!"

Why, after years of scrutiny, isn’t there any evidence that large numbers of children were given irreversible treatments without assessment?

“The journals are corrupt! And the doctors are corrupt! And the debate was suppressed! And the data is coming out any time now!” Like listen to yourselves

I don’t choose that word lightly. The idea that an entire field of medicine, as well as numerous academic journals, systematically suppressed evidence that gender-affirming care doesn’t work is a conspiracy theory.

Meanwhile, none of these people can provide a shred of evidence for their core claim

The Academic Justification for Male Supremacy From Noam Chomsky to Larry Summers, elite intellectuals shared more than they want to admit with Jeffrey Epstein

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in anthro, the (US) conservative perspective gives us "phrenology is good" and "the concept of gender makes it impossible to estimate the sex of skeletons"...riveting stuff