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Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Grand Traverse @uutraversecity.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

UUCGT proudly affirms and celebrates LGBTQ+ people. For over 40 years, we’ve been committed to inclusion, justice, and love—without exception. 🏳️‍🌈 #UUCGT #LGBTQInclusion #UnitarianUniversalism #LoveIsLove #belovedcommunity

photos of the UUCGT building showing rainbow flags and affirming language. The words say "We are on the forefront of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer inclusion for more than 40 years, we are people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

When I was a young gay man I sat with my elders who recalled the early days of the Gay Liberation Front, the Gay News blasphemy trial and cruising on the Heath. These bold men and women refused to remain in the closet, despite widespread hostility against LGBTQ people. #LGBTHistoryMonth 🧵 1/8

Julian Hows making a stand for equality by wearing a skirt as part of his London Transport uniform.

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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Portrait of Gimiwan, or Rain, an Ojibwe man, as painted at a treaty he was signing at Duluth in 1827.

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Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Show me what democracy looks like!

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The beautiful order of the Gəʕəz syllabary, with 7 orders (ä, u, i, a, e, ə/∅, o)

Chart showing the Ethiopian syllabary in seven columns

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I was going to post about this earlier — in the 1950s, “integration” was the same scapegoat for *everything* that DEI has become today. The same scapegoating was deployed even earlier for abolition, and then later for multiculturalism. Different codewords, same racism.

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School for Advanced Research @sarsf.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Wild poppies, the first blooms after wildfires, inspired Leah Mata Fragua's installation for Fire Kinship - a planned exhibit at UCLA’s Fowler Museum. Using natural dyes and soundscapes, it reflects fire's cycles and ties to Indigenous knowledge. Read more: sarweb.org/blog-wild-po...

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Thomas Wier @trwier.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This particular root is reconstructible at least to Georgian-Zan *ğu(d)-, as it is found in Megrelian and Laz: Megrelian ღუდა ğuda warm, heated Laz ღუმი ğumi dust, sand Laz ღუმიარი ğumiari smoke As with many expressive roots, the specific semantics of each word varies greatly.

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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

#OTD 103 years ago, Ilse Lehiste (1922-2010) was born 🎂 She was an expert on acoustic phonetics, phonology, and prosody who focused in particular on Estonian. As the third woman in history, she served as the president of the LSA in 1980. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

#OTD 164 years ago, Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1861-1936) was born 🤩 Historical-comparative linguist, member of the Neogrammarian school, and an expert on the history of Romance languages. He was the nephew of the Swiss novelist Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-1898). #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This week my employer of 17 years English Heritage announced 200 jobs lost, and my Alma mater Cardiff Uni announced 400 jobs lost. The planning system that protects our heritage and provides thousands of archaeology jobs is at risk, and Higher Education is in free fall more generally #ThisIsFine

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources. On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names. dan rigiššu “loud is his bark” munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe” mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”

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Michael Cysouw @cysouw.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Adolph Diesterweg (1790-1866), educator and father of publisher Moritz Diesterweg, in 1830 wrote *Praktischer Lehrgang* for German teachers. AFAIK it contains the first clause-internal graphical analysis. The use of braces is actually well thought-out. #linguistics cysouw.github.io/graphicalgra...

Clauss-internal structure by Diesterweg (1830) of the sentence: "Ein unter den schwierigen Umständen standhaft gebliebener Vater von sechs unmündigen, in weiter Entfernung lebenden Kindern, hat sich auch in diesem theuern Jahre durch rastlose Thätigkeit bei Tag und Nacht vor Tausenden seiner Mitbürger rühmlich ausgezeichnet."

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Ghosts in ancient Mesopotamia causes all kinds of medical issues. Vertigo, depression, and more. This therapy to treat someone seized by a ghost prescribed fumigation with pig, wolf, dog, fox, and gazelle poop, and other stuff that smelled awful. Seems a good way to get rid of a ghost was to stink

Fragment of a cuneiform tablet with about 15 lines of mostly preserved text divided into 7 clearly marked sections. The colour of the clay is reddish

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Andrew Garrett @andrewgarrett.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Another site showed me this from 4 years ago, a most memorable (and for me impactful) day at the University of California. I later gave away the K, but I like the picture, showing me and the elided K overshadowed by a very much non-elided H (for Hearst).

Two photos at the University of California, Berkeley (headed "Your memories from Facebook"), one of a worker removing the letters from the unnamed Kroeber Hall, one of me holding the K in front of a banner, featuring a large H, advertising the Hearst Museum of Anthropology.

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

There’s a lot going on, but this is not only very petty, it’s also extremely racist. The indigenous people of Alaska wanted to have Denali recognized by its real name. And a Day One priority for this administration is to make sure they know they’re not considered stakeholders, rather subjects.

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Starkey Comics @starkeycomics.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Tetracerus quadricornis, the four horned antelope, also called the chausingha, has four names, all of which mean "four-horns" on a different language. All four of those names are built from words that trace back to the Proto-Indo-European words for "four" and "horn". #etymology #linguistics

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Aaron Broadwell @abroadwell.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Latest update for my Timucua dictionary, now available at www.webonary.org/timucua/

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Mike Dangeli @mikedangeli.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Skull Digital art My village is Gingolix “place of skulls” I absolutely love skulls. This and a few variations of this skull are for an upcoming drum commission for one of my favourite West coast singers/performers!

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Daniel Yacob @ethiopic.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

መልካም ገና! For all those celebrating Orthodox Christmas. I'm rather taken by this Ge'ez "Vector" typeface by Abel Daniel (BelaFonts/BelaGraph).

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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Fieldwork tip: if, in the course of a long elicitation session, your consultant translates "black pepper" as "may it get into your eyes", it may be time for a break. (from Barth's 1850 vocabulary of Emghedesie. My reconstruction: nda a-hur ni-n moo-yo if 3SG-enter 2SG-GEN eye-PL)

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 21/01/2025

loving 'the Ghost of Intentionality'! one thing your admirable definition glosses over is the role of RLHF, the human judgment-derived output sculpter that makes ChatGPT's stream of regurgitated text appear so friendly, helpful and docile

"shoggoth with smiley face" meme https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shoggoth-with-smiley-face-artificial-intelligence

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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

#OTD 99 years ago, Luise Hercus (1926-2018) was born 🥳 She had first studied Middle Indo-Aryan languages, but later turned her attention to fieldwork and documentation of several Australian indigenous languages, such as Paakantyi, Wirangu, and Diyari. #WomenInLiguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Homosexuality was only partially decriminalised in England and Wales in 1967. It’s estimated that 15,000 men were arrested for being gay after the Sexual Offences Act 1967 passed, a greater number than when homosexuality had been entirely illegal.

A ribbon bound copy of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act.

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Michael Lugo @miclugo.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

German was employed by the Baker Chocolate Company, named for one of its founders, James Baker. Baker’s Chocolate is one of the ingredients in this cake.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 17/01/2025

"this extremely senior person was both terribly personally unpleasant to all their colleagues and also a complete idiot" raises some uncomfortable questions, doesn't it

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 15/01/2025

Maybe I was raised weird, but I'm of the opinion that people who do nothing wrong and definitely didn't sexually abuse anyone don't need to keep NDAs ready and waiting for people to sign in exchange for stacks of money.

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Steve K 🎃 @skleinedler.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

𝖥𝗈𝗅𝗄𝗌 𝗇𝖺𝗆𝖾𝖽 𝖠𝗅 𝗆𝗎𝗌𝗍 𝗋𝖾𝖺𝗅𝗅𝗒 𝗁𝖺𝗍𝖾 𝗌𝖺𝗇𝗌 𝗌𝖾𝗋𝗂𝖿 𝖿𝗈𝗇𝗍𝗌

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Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

My favourite was having dinner with a bunch of Oxford ornithologists. "Braveheart was RUINED for me about halfway through. Everyone knows black-headed gulls didn't nest inland in Scotland until the 1950s"

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Coptic sentence of the day: Ⲉⲣϣⲁⲛⲡⲣⲏ ϩⲱⲧⲡ︦ ⲛ︦ⲧⲉⲧⲉⲩϣⲏ ϣⲱⲡⲉ ⲛ︦ⲧⲉⲩⲑⲗⲓⲯⲓⲥ ⲧⲁϩⲱⲧⲛ︦ ⲉⲕⲛⲁϩⲉ ⲉⲡⲣⲏ ⲧⲱⲛ ⲛϥ︦ⲛⲁϩⲙⲕ︦ ϩⲛ︦ⲛⲉⲕⲑⲗⲓⲯⲓⲥ. [to a man who worships the sun] "If the sun sets, and night falls (lit. happens), and adversity befalls you, where will you find the sun to save you from your troubles?"

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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Dane-zaa artist Brian Jungen’s “The way of the world is to bloom and flower…” featuring a 250 year-old French colonial table from Louisiana embedded with traditional hardwood arrows fitted with real feathers.

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Andrew Garrett @andrewgarrett.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Hey, my book got its first Amazon review! mitpress.mit.edu/.../the-unna...

Amazon book review:

"Fascinating read with creative meticulous research

An excellent deeply researched account of Kroeber’s collaborative work with Native people and also a searing indictment of UC Berkeley’s hypocrisy. Garrett takes seriously that the building’s name caused pain to Native people because of Anthropology’s bad history in relation to settler colonialism. But he shows UC Berkeley administrators took the opportunity to displace attention to their ongoing complicity in settler colonialism and their ongoing lionization of big campus donors like the Hearsts and Strauss and who did far worse things Berkeley does not deplore. They made Kroeber a convenient scapegoat given his anti-racist work and work on behalf of Native land claims in courts—he was certainly better than they are and better than the rich donors are who they continue to celebrate like there’s no problem there. This book is also a great read and I enjoyed it a lot."

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I've been reading Ann Cutler's "Native Listening" to remind myself what she has to say about rhythm in recognising spoken words. Here's a rare moment where a book about psycholinguistics makes you laugh (p.130 if you want to look it up).

Photo of a page of text. "A well formed limerick consists of five lines with three stress beats in the first, second and fifth lines, and two in the third and fourth (see example 4.1, which is not well formed at all, but horribly violates one oe of the above rules)."
A limerick's rhythm is best
with the strongest of syllables stressed.
if you let the stress fall
on a weak syllable
All your readers will rightly protest.

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Optimist: the cup is ½ full Pessimist: the cup is ½ empty Linguistic anthropologist: the cup is a ritualized speech event that draws on the metaphor HOPE IS NOURISHMENT Cultural anthropologist: the cup is a tool for enforcing compliance with hegemony Archaeologist: the cup is not as old as you think

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The Spanish word 'nada' (nothing) stems from a Latin word meaning "born". 'No veo nada' (I don't see anything) comes from 'nōn videō rem nātam', literally "I don't see a born thing". Here are the origins of 'niente', 'rien', 'ninguno' and many more Romance words for "nothing" and "no one": 1/

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Coptic sentence of the day: Ⲁⲩⲱ ⲙⲛ︦ⲛ︦ⲥⲁⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲥⲛⲁⲩ ⲁϥⲛ︦ⲕⲟⲧⲕ︦ ⲛ︦ϭⲓⲡⲣⲱⲙⲉ ⲛ︦ⲥⲱⲧⲡ︦ ⲙⲁⲧⲑⲁⲓⲟⲥ ⲁϥⲉⲓ ⲛ︦ϫⲡ︦ⲙⲛ︦ⲧⲟⲩⲉ ⲁϥϫⲓ ⲛ︦ⲃⲉⲕⲉ ⲙ︦ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲧⲏⲣϥ︦. "And after two months, he—that excellent man, Matthew—went to sleep (=died); he came in the 11th hour [and] received a whole day's wage." (a metaphor for late-in-life conversion)

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I’m 57 years old. I’ve been living with HIV for almost half my life. HIV treatment means I’m undetectable, which means I can’t pass it on during sex - the risk is zero. #MakeStigmaHistory

Me this morning.
I’m wearing a vest, having just worked out. My shoulders look quite muscular.
I’m smiling with a closed mouth so you’ll have to rake my word that I have good teeth.

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Arnold Thomas Fanning @arnoldtfanning.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

"Our Evenings," by Alan Hollinghurst. #newyearbookbabies

Photo of the book Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst depicting a man smoking in bed.

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Michael Cysouw @cysouw.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Anshelm Fredrik Wilhelm Lindwall (1859-1931), a teacher in Stockholm, wrote *Några ord om satsanalys* in 1903. He proposed to teach syntax 'with the help of the blackboard', using graphics for single-clause (left) and multi-clause sentences (right) #linguistics cysouw.github.io/graphicalgra...

Graphical display of a single-clause sentence from Lindwall (1903)

Graphical display of the structure of a multi-clause sentence from Lindwall (1903)

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 10/01/2025

“I grew up in linguistics in the sixties! Do you know what syntacticians are like???” Walt Wolfram going full gloves off to explain the kindness of sociolinguists generally and Bill Labov specifically. 😆😆😆 #lsa2025

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I hardly dare to believe it but it seems that over 20 curse tablets in Gaulish have been discovered in Orléans: france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/centre-val-d... Happy days! 🫣🤩😍 The one in the photo is the one known since 2023, which, I surmise, we will now have to call Orléans 1.

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Des tablettes de malédiction mises au jour sur un chantier avec des textes d'un intérêt scientifique majeur rédigés en langue gauloise

Alors que les fouilles archéologiques sur le chantier de l’ancien hôpital Porte Madeleine à Orléans prennent fin, les scientifiques s’attellent à présent à décrypter les 21 tablettes de malédiction ex...

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Coptic sentence of the day: Ⲁϫⲓⲥ ⲧⲙⲉ ⲙ︦ⲡⲣ︦ⲕⲁⲁⲩ ⲉⲡⲱϩ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ ⲛ︦ⲟⲩⲥⲛⲟϥ ⲛ︦ⲁⲧⲛⲟⲃⲉ ⲉⲡϫⲓⲛϫⲏ ⲛ︦ⲧⲉⲕⲁⲫⲟⲣⲙⲏ. "Tell the truth—don't let innocent blood be shed in vain on your account!" (ordering a corpse to momentarily come back to life, with the help of the Archangel Michael, and reveal who killed it.)

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Michael Cysouw @cysouw.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Adolf Stöhr (1855–1921) was professor for philosophy in Vienna, who wrote a curious book called *Algebra der Grammatik* (1898), which was assessed as “rather fantastic” by Jespersen (1937: 83). Stöhr uses hierarchically ordered brackets for linguistic structure. 🐦🐦 cysouw.github.io/graphicalgra...

Algebraic structure for linguistic expressions from Adolf Stöhr in his book *Algebra der Grammatik*

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I spoke with a couple of Canadian friends and asked them what they thought about Trump's call to annexe their country, they replied: "Il peut aller se faire enculer et sa mère." So that would be a no.

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Yesterday I posted about the Romance words for "to want". Spanish and Portuguese use 'querer' instead of a descendant of Latin *volēre. What would *volēre have become if it had undergone the sound changes that occurred in these two languages? Listen to its hypothetical modern outcomes:

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