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@maureenkosse.bsky.social
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PhD in linguistics from the University of Colorado Boulder. Research: far right and "alt right" discourse, semiotics, syntax. she.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The "all anti-Zionism is always and forever antisemitism" people and the "all antisemitism becomes fine if we just say it's anti-Zionism, even if we're ranting about the Talmud" people reinforce one another, even if both sides utterly fail to see it.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 30/09/2026
Observing public arguments between conservatives having an election panic and liberals trying to decide whether or not burying minorities is good has convinced me that "leftist infighting" is a complete meme and we actually agree with each other way more than other political tendencies tbh
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
what kind of qualia is it when you set your alarm to 6:27 instead of 6:30 because it's conceptually so jarring that it makes your back seize up
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
listening to metal is like playing russian roulette and half the chambers have right wing crybabies inside
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
thinking about how strongly I identified with John Goodman as a child and how long it took me to realize I was a little gay
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
you say you're a cunning linguist but you've never done a linguolabial trill??
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Cat T @cattownsend.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One important point here is demonstrating how Cofnas equivocates between a weak & strong claims about racial differences - a hallmark of pseudoscience.
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
is Monsters Inc an allegory for deradicalization
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
campus preachers are the original ragebaiters
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Disappointing but not surprising. Sanders often thinks he is smarter than everyone else. You don’t normalize the far right!
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Bernie Sanders to Join Forces With Steve Bannon at ‘Pro-Human’ Conference
Strange times make for strange bedfellows.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I was raised as a conservative, by conservatives. Right wing politics are nothing but a rhetorical game. Played to its end, that game leads to the destruction of organized human life on earth.
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
spray-load alternation? without asking first?? 😳
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
filler-gap? I hardly know 'er gap
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This sign is a great example for helping to explain why chatbots present such a potent illusion. A probably not short thread 🧵>>
Photo of a sign with a doorbell attached. The printed sign reads:

CURRENT GUGGENHEIM ACCES BY HUSKY CARD ONLY
[Logos for Amazon, FedEx, UPS]
DELIVERIES/VISITORS
PLEASE RING THIS DOORBELL

Delivery hours M-F 9:00am-(obscured)
University of Washington

Taped next to the doorbell is a hand written note that reads:
yes! it rang! Pelase wait 30 seconds before pressing again.
thanks!
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
seeing Ryan Reynolds triggers the same rage response for me as misophonia
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 06/08/2026
I’m so grateful to @dennycarter.bsky.social for this piece because it nails my experience of this past decade with friends and family 😬
badfaithtimes.com
The Fascists Are Making You Sound Crazy
You will appear to be a complete lunatic if you explain the political realities of competitive authoritarianism.
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
it's pronounced herpès 🙄
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 01/08/2026
No because the Harper's letter was targeting trans people
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I can't tell if eating loudly & eating while talking on tiktok is supposed to be read as casual/intimate or if it's misophonia engagement bait. both?
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
getting confirmed in Catholicism is fun because you get a saintsona
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
leaving PA ✨ gonna miss these little stunners
Clumps of ducklings sleep together with two adult mallards in the background
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I think yes to this—and ALSO aesthetic and fascism are inextricably linked. Fascism is arguably even more about aesthetic and spectacle than it is about coherent ideology Which is *not* an argument with this point; “tacky” is indeed missing the larger issue even in terms of engaging with aesthetics
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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I was asked about my thoughts on some stuff related to feminism and "The Trans Question™" today by a few folks, and I think Sara Ahmed's "An Affinity of Hammers" gets at it—especially in that it responds to a "we're being silenced" anti-trans higher ed letter. read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-...
A rebuttal is a form of evidence that is presented to contradict or nullify
other evidence that has been presented by an adverse party. A rebuttal is a form of
evidence that is directed against evidence that has already been presented. What if
you are required to provide evidence of your own existence? When an existence is
understood as needing evidence, then a rebuttal is directed not only against
evidence but against an existence. An existence can be nullified by the requirement that an existence be evidenced. The very requirement to testify to your
existence can end up being the very point of your existence.It is in this context that we need to think about invitations addressed to
trans activists to have a dialogue with trans-exclusionary feminists. Invitations
can function as part of a rebuttal system. A dialogue is not possible when some
people exercise arguments as weapons by treating others as evidence to be
rebutted. When you are asked to provide evidence for your existence, or when you
are treated as evidence, your existence is negated. Transphobia and antitrans
statements should not be treated as just another viewpoint that we should be free
to express at the happy table of diversity. There cannot be a dialogue when some at
the table are in effect (or intent on) arguing for the elimination of others at the
table. When you have “dialogue or debate” with those who wish to eliminate you
from the conversation (because they do not recognize what is necessary for your
survival, or because they don’t even think your existence is possible), then
“dialogue and debate” becomes a technique of elimination. A refusal to have some
dialogues and some debates is thus a key tactic for survival.
The very expectation that a conversation with trans-exclusionary radical
feminists is possible is evidence of what people have not yet come into contact
with. It is an expectation that derives from privilege, of not having been worn
down by the relentless questioning of your being. Even that hopeful liberal
question, “can’t we just have a conversation?” can become another kind of
hammering. It makes those who refuse to participate in a conversation into the
problem, the cause of a division: so those “trans activists” who are making
demands, who are not listening, not engaging, who are using “transphobia” to
block feminist critique become those who are getting in the way of the liberal
promise of reconciliation, the promise that we can move forward by getting along.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Always pointing out that Elon Musk has deliberately murdered hundreds of thousands of people mostly in the global south and it is estimated that he will have murdered 14 million people via DOGE alone in the next 5 years.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
sorry to self promo but this is my overall argument in my 2025 paper "Referentialism and Discursive Parallels between US 'Alt-Right' and 'Gender-Critical' Conspiracism" escholarship.org/uc/item/5d38...
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Veerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Feel as though people will truly never understand his death. He was killed for being an Indigenous Queer Man with a Transgender Partner. Every single one of those signifiers on axis/intersections/marginalizations is extremely important, but it is in tandem all at once not just because he “Gay”.
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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It bears repeating, the "Gender critical" and "Mens Rights Activist" positions are two sides of the same coin. Their advocates share the same essentialised (and therefore violent) conceptions of biological determinism.
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Lorena Pérez Hernández @lorenaph.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/...
journals.rudn.ru
Metaphors of resistance in the counter-discourse of Spanish, English and Dutch cycling activists
Russian Journal of Linguistics Vol 29, No 1 (2025): Ecolinguistics: Consolidating a research paradigm
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I want a Zutara shipper for president
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
this is a great video, and I have to laud FD Signifier for being one of the only notable online leftists talking about why it's bad when leftists (and it's white leftists specifically) normalize /pol/ and Nazi slang. youtu.be/m8bE13OJ_es?...
youtu.be
Why I left the (White) Left
YouTube video by Signified B Sides
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beth semel @bethmsemel.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
new article out in Current Anthropology today on raciolinguistic ideologies of listening (+ labor) in mental healthcare AI! feat. dream team commentary pieces by Josh Babcock, Michael Berman, Jay Ke-Schutte, @nickseaver.website, Summerson Carr, and Rihan Yeh www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
journals.uchicago.edu
The Talking Lure Raciolinguistic Ideologies of Reception and the Listening Subjects of American Vocal Biomarker AI: Raciolinguistic Ideologies of Reception and the Listening Subjects of American Vocal...
In the United States, vocal biomarker AI is on the rise. The discourses encircling this interdisciplinary subfield propose that AI can identify discrete biological indicators of mental disability supp...
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
ah, pride month. friendly reminder to mute all lgbtq topics on social media if you don't want to see a thousand 20 year olds arguing over the same three "discourse" topics for 30 days gay
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This is the way. We do not need to accept the right’s bad-faith and blatantly dishonest caricature of higher education. Colleges and universities regularly platform views across the political spectrum, perhaps more than any other American institution.
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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The whole argument for “viewpoint diversity” as an academic virtue fundamentally (mis)construes academia as an instrument of brainwashing rather than a site of learning and knowledge-production.
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 29/05/2026
nowadays everyone regardless of politics yearns to be able to defer to The Unifying Theory for everything, like oh my god bruh shut up
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
amidst tough times, good news: I will be joining the faculty of CU Boulder Linguistics in the fall as a teaching professor! I am effervescent to be teaching in my home state, with a department I adore 🥰
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people." Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 25/09/2025
i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues. For example: Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $ Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $ Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy
Top is an empty rectangle with a jagged line in the middle. 
The left side is labeled "Frame" "F is happening!" 
The right side is labeled "Negation" "F is not true!"
Below is a large image of Kirby, a round pink blob with eyes with a small version of the Frame F shape flying into his mouth. To the right is a large pink rectangle labeled "Kirby" "K is happening, that's why they're saying F"
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 24/09/2025
i made a helpful reference
top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". 

top left:
WRONG
-negating their frame reinforces it
-starts with what it isn't instead of what it is
- your argument is shaped like their argument

bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS

bottom left: 
RIGHT
- you eat their frame
-starts with what's actually happening
-contains and explains what they're doing
-your argument is shaped like kirby
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
just wanna say that I have articles out about both cuck porn and sissification 😌 thank you to my friends who have tagged me on this article
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The most important article you'll read today, this week, this month, and possibly this year www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interrac...
Shooter's Manifesto

"[The] high fertility replacers will destroy us

"Everyday the White population becomes fewer in number"

"Mix the colors together and you destroy them all

"We are doomed by low birth rates and high rates of immigration"

Porn Captions

"This is real gene replacement happening ... your weak white DNA ends with you forever"

"The US will become 'minority white' in 2045 ... Number of White People in the U.S. Shrinks"

"The evolution of white males" (post depicts a family tree becoming less white over

generations)

"Whites already lost"
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Dr Erika’s (Too) Online, PhD @erikas.online · 24/05/2026
I just want the right to embrace their kinks and stop making it my problem (I think this author is absolutely correct.)
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
even if one doesn't like psychoanalysis, everyone should read both volumes of Theweleit's Male Fantasies
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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
While otter parents Sebastian and Pintar tried to enjoy a peaceful hammock lounge behind the scenes, baby Bao came with maximum playful chaos. 📹: Animal care staff Katie
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/05/2026
Ads have supported our collective sense making for centuries, from newspapers to TV to the web, and now ads are destroying that sense making by atomizing our knowledge so we are isolated in custom information bubbles. I haven’t yet seen something that can replace ads at scale. It’s really worrying.
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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
overheard someone saying they wanted to make their bar "more inclusive"...inclusive for smokers
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