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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Are you tired of AI slop taking over your feed and invading your personal space? TRY MAKING A ZINE ABOUT LINGUISTICS INSTEAD and winning a prize while you're at it! Prizes include books donated by a ton of fabulous writers (and also me). Deets and list of prizes in thread!

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/10/2026

a sure sign that something is "highly accepted" is if you have to threaten to impose the power of the state against those who don't accept it

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Shit is exhausting, pocket friends, but today Dog Sadie found a secret outdoors-only toy in the hall closet and this is the best day of her life.

A sleeping brown dog with a blue long Nerf toy tucked under her paws like she's a toddler, 10/10

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He was! Equal opportunity mansplaining!

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

On a train heading into NYC, and the guy behind me is telling the stranger next to him anecdotes of how wobbly skyscrapers are. Turns out the stranger is a structural engineer who specializes in skyscrapers. First guy moves seats ASAP. I love this for both of them, just in different ways.

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tired: the information economy Wired: the class action settlement micropayment economy

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes! Making for peeps is a type of communion with them, too! It honors and acknowledges who they are to you and reiterates their worth! ❤️

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This weekend I volunteered at a conference about art where the care and attention paid to human experience, the dignity and joy of making stuff with your own two hands, and conversations with complicated people fed my stony soul. Flee this AI horseshit, make things, and be with people. It's good!

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Going to have to start checking the game calendar so I don't accidentally wear the opposing sides colors, lest I cause my brethren to stumble, go birds.

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Lo, mark ye the changing of seasons (e-commerce edition):

Two marketing email subject lines that arrived, one after another, in my inbox today, September 10, the beginning of Commercial Fall. They read "Flannel Projects Are Back" and "Darkness. On demand. Finally."

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The first tune she'll learn is a little Italian number called "Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate," godspeed!

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Texting with @skleinedler.bsky.social and he responded to me whining about something linguistics adjacent with, "you could kill two wugs with one bowl by..." and this is now my new go-to proverb.

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We already fucked up with Gulf of, y'all--it's on us to save geography. LOOSE TAKES SINK LAKES.

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Pro tip! The less you post about "Lake America," the less written evidence of its use there is, and the less likely any reputable dictionary company will enter it into their dictionaries. ONLY *YOU* CAN PREVENT BAD LEXICOGRAPHY

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I think _a lot_ about the Velvet Revolution and the process of de-Sovietization these days.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm renaming Lake Ontario "The Kennedy Center." Then I'm renaming the (current) Kennedy Center "Trump Lake." Then I'm tearing down Trump Lake and building The Ontario Center for American Lakes. Then I'm flooding it and renaming it Lake White House. Then I'm renaming the movie "The Lake House" "Ontar

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Come for the dictionary nerd talk, stay for the EXPLOSIONS!

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Brace yourself for Hrishi’s puns, a verbs-based murder mystery twist, bisexuals unionising, and Kory Stamper trolling everyone."

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My Miami name translates to "Bitch That Makes Kids Cry."

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Shout out to the little kid who came running up to my table and asked if I was Native Hawaiian, and when I said, "No, I'm Miami," started to cry and wailed, "BUT I WANT TO SAY YOU'RE NATIVE HAWAIIAN! I PRACTICED IT!"

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I spent the weekend at an educational community outreach event my tribe holds every year, acting as a rep for the language council, and this may be the year I finally write a blog post on how to be a good settler-neighbor, language revitalization edition.

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Can confirm "gray" & "grey" are different colors--colorimetrically speaking, anyway. (This is a fact that makes some English speakers madder than a wet hen, and they cluck like I'm the one with the bucket.)

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

To be clear: I'm the one who made this shitty little basket. I'd never call another basketmaker's work shitty! Only my baskets are shitty little baskets (TM). Accept no substitutions!

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

That's the one I made! (It's fine.)

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Por que no los dos? I'm down with a vowel shift for "wove."

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Sometimes the thing you need the most is to make a shitty little basket.

A slat corn basket (which is NOT a 17th-century slang term for a prostitute, but instead it's a basket that is made from wood slats and is shaped like an ear of corn) on a blue table. It's an okay basket.

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

You know, you'd assume someone like Peterson would know that you absolutely should not use a thesaurus when talking about theology. Christians are very particular about their theological language! Even the dumbest festoon knows that!

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

And now we have a Tomato Warning.

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Just misread a weather warning on my phone as "Fish Flood Warning" and, given how the actual weather has been, didn't even blink.

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

@mededitor.bsky.social Also not coined by Doctorow: first used on X in 2013, only popularized by Doctorow. #etynerd

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The cat has exited the bag: I'll be the keynote speaker for @acesediting.bsky.social VCON26 in September! Silly slides, trenchant commentary, and heartfelt encouragement guaranteed. Register today: aceseditors.org/conferences/...

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

(If you are one of the four people who understood that joke, hail and well met, fellow nerd!)

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I do love the idea of a group of anointed language keepers from all the Indo-European languages meeting under cover of darkness at some forsaken crossroads to consult a copy of Pokorny.

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

On the other hand, this would be a great setup for a b plot on Veep.

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Possibly the best way to end the FAQ on your new AI search function.

A note from the new AI search (ughhhhh) FAQ at Merriam-Webster.com:

"The Usual Caveat
Like any chatbot, Merriam-Webster AI may sometimes make mistakes. Please verify all important information using Merrian-Webster.com."

Don't visit merrian-webster.com (with the n) unless you want your computer to become so infected with malware that the only recourse you have is to set it on fire in a containment unit.

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I really love talking words and color with folks, so if your group would like to think deeply about how we define color AND see ridiculous slides, hmu!

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Many thanks to the morning risers of the Colour Society of Australia (!) who attended my zoom talk, asked good questions, and laughed (I presume) at my dumb jokes. 💜

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Bluesky tested, lexicographer approved!

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Had to scroll down to make sure there was no Plague of Locusts Watch.

A bunch of Natural Weather Service alerts for my address: tornado watch, flood watch, air quality alert. I feel like I'm living in Blade Runner 2049.

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This looks either like he's trying to hold in a fart _or_ you just told him that the Constitution wasn't written in 1776 and even 5th graders know that. Or both!

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