Reposted by Jon BakosDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph 31222489
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Name your favorite Disney princess (wrong answers only) 110
Reposted by Jon BakosDuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 29/05/2026Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3) 316148675239
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I'm sad to report that *both* Indomitable Spirit and Titanica have pulled out of performing at the Freedom 250 concert 000
Reposted by Jon BakosAlisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price. 13992022995
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Slop is the 2025 Word of the Year! #woty2025media.tenor.coma man sitting on a stack of pepsi boxesALT: a man sitting on a stack of pepsi boxes 0126
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Chopped is Most Likely to Succeed Word of the Year! #woty25 062
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Has a Word of the Year ever existed where we weren't insanely strapped for time? #woty25 040
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Icy conditions is the Political Word of the Year! #woty25 052
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/20266-7 is the Informal Word of the Year! #woty25media.tenor.coma group of people are gathered in a room with the number 67 above themALT: a group of people are gathered in a room with the number 67 above them 063
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Reheated nachos is the Most Creative Word of the Year! #woty25 021
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Presented quite possibly the first plot of Foghorn Leghorn's vowel system today at #nwav53 1363
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 12/01/2025media.tenor.coma little girl in a blue shirt is standing in front of a shelf full of tiaras .ALT: a little girl in a blue shirt is standing in front of a shelf full of tiaras . 070
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Final #LSA2025 meal: cheese boat at Saami Somi. Delicious 0100
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025"Given these options we've decided to just let Michigan remain champions and call a mulligan on this year. We're sorry, we're sorry, we'll do better next time" - Charlie Baker, NCAA President 010
Reposted by Jon Bakosdr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 11/01/2025let's all celebrate by playing rawdog simulator www.rawdogsimulator.comrawdogsimulator.comRawdog SimulatorBuckle up. Lock in. Endure the flight. Put your mind to the test with Rawdog Flight Simulator 2212
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Rawdog is the American Dialect Society's 2024 Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025 082
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Brat has won Most Fun While it Lasted Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025 082
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Unserious has won Most Likely to Succeed Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025 052
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Lock in has won Most Useful Word of the Year! #woty #lsa2025 It ate 052
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Brainrot has won Digital Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025 021
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Luigi has won Political Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025 0142
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Rawdog has won Informal Word of the Year! #woty #lsa2025 2532
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025'the X I Xed' is Most Creative Word of the Year! #woty #lsa2025 (Ex: the gasp I gusped) 083
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Update from your #LSA2025 food correspondent: Catfish from Beck's at Reading Terminal Market was unremarkable Not here for authenticity debates, but cheese steak from Gus's was darn tasty and they were still open near closing time 140
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2025The image from @mixedlinguist.bsky.social's excellent #LSA2025 talk 0506
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2025@jofrhwld.bsky.social recommended cannolis from Termini Bros and they are fantastic #LSA2025 080
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 09/01/2025A quick stop in NYC before #LSA2025 means another stop on the SocLing pilgrimage. AITA if I ask where men's shoes are 180
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 06/01/2025It should be criminal to have this many great panels and events going on *at the same time* #LSA2025 1140
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Pet peeve in video games: "Oh, the dreaded plague-blight! A single touch and you'll be CORRUPTED FOREVER" Meanwhile I'm slogging through the Plague Pits and getting mauled by Blight Bears with no protection or ill effects 031
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 02/01/2025There's some Talking About Football Show on in the waiting room I'm in and apparently yelling like Gilbert Gotrfried is hyper-masculine coded now? 010
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 18/12/2024The first linguistics conference talk I ever gave was a joint talk with Dennis Preston at NWAV in 2008. We were the third in the panel, and during the first two talks I was calming down about the whole idea. Then, as ours was getting started, Bill Labov walked in! 170
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 21/11/2024That weird feeling when the software you've been fighting with for months just quietly works exactly like it's supposed to 050
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 20/11/2024A quickly-failed sitcom about a 50's-esque family living in modern 1991 030
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 12/02/2024You have to admit, this would be a much more interesting game if the Lions were playing 😴😴😴 040
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 28/01/2024The Baltimore Ravens seem to be fighting a vicious battle against the Baltimore Ravens 082
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 21/01/2024The last time the Lions won two playoff games was in 1957. Wait, I'm sorry, a couple minutes ago 010
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 09/01/2024I'm so used to Michael Macfadyen being Tom on Succession that his normal voice sounds like he's putting on this really fakey British accent 120
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 06/01/2024At Emily Bender's plenary: Meaning isn't in the form - which means that Chat-GPT, which only sees form, is never going to 'do' meaning - it's not going to 'understand/learn' anything #LSA2024 083
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 06/01/2024This marks two years in a row of difficult-for-mainstream publications WOTY winners! I suggest we make up 'perfuckening' for 2024 #woty2023 #lsa2024 1356
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 06/01/2024Enshittification is the Word of the Year! #woty2023 #lsa2024 211227
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 06/01/2024(derogatory) wins Most Useful/Most Likely to Succeed Word of the Year! #woty2023 #lsa2024 0204
Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 06/01/2024Enshittification is the Digital Word of the Year! #woty2023 #lsa2024 18829