Reposted by BradenLingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com · 09/10/2026Announcing the Linguistic Zine Challenge! Make or share a linguistics zine and tell us about it by the end of November, and you could win prizes! (oooh, prizes~~) Thread, or here's a link for the blog fans: lingthusiasm.com/post/8299478... 56836
Reposted by BradenSteve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!forbes.comKnobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of ManyAuto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back. 21592681702
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Thank you for having @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @dairinstitute.bsky.social back on, and for allotting a longer segment to talk through the issues! Ai companies need to be regulated for the harm they're causing NOW, not for imaginary future sci-fi harm 0175
Reposted by BradenDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 01/10/2026AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.democracynow.orgThe Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit GebruWe speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind... 19712307
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Please invite again @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @dairinstitute.bsky.social or have @alexhanna.bsky.social or @emilymbender.bsky.social on the show. 0170
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Long-time fan of the show, but I really think DemocracyNow needs to reevaluate their use of anthropomorphizing language when talking about ai. & I'm glad today Amy finally asked one of these Doomers HOW ai will supposedly end humanity, but there wasn't enough follow-up unpacking his vague response. 1202
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Further in the article it says that this applies to nearly a THIRD of people detained by ICE! 000
Reposted by BradenAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an... 18845982953
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hi Lauren, could I be added to the lingusitics feed? Thanks! 100
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026No idea if this is logically sound, but given Puss's French accent, could she be interpreting an unaspirated p as ʔ, thus p > ʔ > h? Then again, I am not a phonetician and this might be nonsense! 110
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Starting the day off well (crying to Bad Bunny's LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii) 010
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I'm so tired of not knowing what my gut will or won't tolerate. It seems like there's no rhyme or reason to when the symptoms surface 000
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026wic̣aŋḣpi waḣca (obe núŋpa), c̣aŋzi, napoṡtaŋ zizi* kʼa, waḣcazibdu Asters (two kinds), smooth sumac, (cut-leaf?) coneflower, some kind of goldenrod *made this name up based on the name for prairie conflower 011
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This performance never fails to give me goosebumps and misty eyes. Orville Peck is truly a singular talentyoutu.beOrville Peck - Let Me Drown (Live In Nashville)YouTube video by OrvillePeckVEVO 000
Reposted by Bradenkobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026JOHNNY YOU GET THAT TONGUE UNBUNCHED AND RETROFLECT IT HARD CUZ RHOTICS LOOSE IN GEORGIA AND THE DEVIL SEEKS AN "R" 3136
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Successfully navigated an awkward social interaction, please clap 000
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young. I remember as a little kid being transfixed by the illustrations and fascinated by the story's moral. Truly foundational for me. 000
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I'm realizing that a beautiful thing that comes from the collective grief of a beloved public figure is a reminder that people as whole do indeed recognize goodness, and that we value when someone seeks to make the world a better place. Rest in peace, Dolly 💔 000
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 24/08/2026"Internet neologist" feels so close! but kinda implies you're doing the coining of new words rather than studying it... 010
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Forgive me cuz I'm not familiar with your whole catalog, but have you ever collabbed with @ologies.bsky.social ? 111
Reposted by Bradenmark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026iambic tetrameter ass stick 291859351
Reposted by BradenUSER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 10/08/2026sorry my mom says you’re too dumb to hang out with 2141711120
Reposted by BradenNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b 7678522570
Reposted by BradenBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions 50105802735
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I'm blaming the Spanish language as writ large for tricking me into swapping v & b in my Latin root lexicon 010
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 17/07/2026But then when I looked it up and realized it came from the same root as 'labor', my next question why the British (in my head it's a British term) would call bathrooms 'places of labor'. Like, a whole population in agreement that that was a room of strife 110
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 17/07/2026😂 I had already hypothesized that 'laboraory' had maybe originated from the sense of a place where you have to wash all the experimental tools & supplies (STEM majors know lol) 110
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Today I, supposedly a linguist, realized that "laboratory" and "lavatory" were not the same word 130
Reposted by BradenJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026okay fine i'll read the thing based on the first skim i did i'm not holding my breath, but since we're cited repeatedly i'll engage in good faith. 12517144
Reposted by BradenThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us. 155188784434
Reposted by Bradenyaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 25/06/2026the bread is $13.50 and all the circuses are subscription based 4042401539
Reposted by Bradenregular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 08/05/2026watched this on repeat losing my shit for two nights now 14180972671
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I did pause the episode to post this because who else is going to care but the little people in my phone 000
Braden @niyate.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Me having the cot–caught merger, I don't think I've ever encountered such a clear illustration of the split vowels as hearing someone on the Traitors say she's "on Ron" as [ɔn ɹɑn] 110
Reposted by BradenHeather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool 502243375589
Reposted by BradenSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 16/06/2026White House accidentally spilling gender on everything like Mr Bean 06611
Reposted by BradenBraden @niyate.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Nah bro, I'm fine, I just got caught in the listened-to-a-song-that-brought-tears-to-my-eyes-then-got-even-more-teary-eyed-thinking-about-humans-creating-beautiful-things-out-of-pain-so-we-feel-less-alone spiral again, ya know? 031