Reposted by Schuyler LaparleMark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 14/05/2026Destined to be a classic 1196
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 05/05/2026The Metaphor Society is BACK! This post is all about the metaphors that shape our workplace. We question whether things like "balance" and "boundaries" help or hinder transformative change. ✊ Always free, always human-made, always turning toward justice. #metaphor #labor #solidaritythe-metaphor-society.ghost.ioBalance, boundaries, and burnout: workplace metaphors in the time of alienationThe current threats to jobs and livelihoods posed by AI, whether real or imagined (my bet is on real), expose deeper issues with our relationship to work and the role it plays in our lives. When posit... 042
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Translation of this technocratic brainwash: since we've already killed public education, we're going to use the scraps that are left to make your kids real tasty for the lions. Anyone going to public school at this point has basically no hope for a meaningful future anyway. So 🤷 🍽️ 030
Reposted by Schuyler Laparlelibrarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space” 2630228
Reposted by Schuyler LaparleAnthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Fascinating new initiative. Anyone can participate! globalconstitution.orgglobalconstitution.orgGlobal Constitution 042
Reposted by Schuyler LaparleShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Finally read this 😳 A co founded 3 yrs ago by three 19-year-olds, now billionaires, entraps once gainfully employed professionals to atomize, instrumentalize, rubric-ize + obviate their expertise — "explain humor using clear, logical language, incldg refs to... slang, trends + social norms" 😫 43818
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Added to "AI Haters". I feel seen and honored. #StopAI 130
Reposted by Schuyler LaparleAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 12/03/2026every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat 16858236
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Feeling hopeless? This is worth a listen. (And if you're *not* feeling hopeless, where have you even been?) Worker-ownership is the future (if we humans are going to have a future at all). So proud and excited for this movement to be gaining momentum in #Cascadia rss.com/podcasts/new...rss.comBuilding Wealth for Working People | Podcast Episode on RSS.comJoin Roger and Tom as they explore the benefits of Worker-Owned Businesses and how this concept fits into the New Story Spokane Pattern Map to strengthen Local Economies through the promotion of Local... 000
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I just read the phrase "progressive billionaire" in @theguardian.com and laughed out loud. "Liberal" I'd accept with a smirk. But hoarding money and assets while the rest of the world burns is just not compatible with progressive values. Like, at all. Smdh 030
Reposted by Schuyler LaparleKatja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Need some food for thought today? youtu.be/eKlEeKC8qLk?... Martin Hilpert has you covered. 👇 #BLinguistik #linguisticsyoutu.beIs Academia broken?YouTube video by Martin Hilpert 1124
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Starting from next year, my current department will have a mandatory "Writing with AI" course for first year students. And in a way, I'd like to thank them. Because if I still had any whispers of regret about leaving academia, this silenced them for good. Byeeeee 010
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I've never been so amused and horrified simultaneously. Recommend reading with a cat on one's lap for emotional resilience. #CliFi 020
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 20/02/2026A kind quiet stranger on the train gave me this tiny duck. Shortly after, I snagged the last ticket on the last Eurostar to the Netherlands that wasn't cancelled for the day. Free upgrade to first class no less. So, I believe I've finally met my fairy godmother. And this duck is my glass slipper. 061
Reposted by Schuyler LaparleGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 11/02/2026The meaning of words is to be decided not by their use, usefulness, or history, but by their commercial benefit to the most powerful lobby groups. I have a recipe for almond milk in a cookbook from 1226. It has been used as a term in English for hundreds of years. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comOatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UKSupreme court makes ruling after Swedish firm’s long-running battle with trade association Dairy UK 23385136
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 09/02/2026If you think about a PhD not as a step in a career, but as your last real chance to get paid (a teensy tiny bit) to think and be creative and do something that actually interests you, getting a PhD still makes sense. Admittedly, in a very very sad way. 131
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 01/02/2026How are we still doing the "no first person" thing in academic (humanities/social science) writing? The researcher exists. Their interpretation is a part of the research, and their experience as an individual contributes to that. Own up, be honest. Grumble positivist delusions grumble grumble 082
Reposted by Schuyler LaparleSidra Collaborative @sidracollaborative.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Should you use AI for that? Our new post is about how and when to use AI in arts and culture work (and why the answer is almost always no). It comes complete with an AI decision tree for cultural workers to help you make hard choices! sidracollaborative.com/2026/01/29/i... 11311
Reposted by Schuyler LaparleAlan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Hard to find a more fitting metaphor for the state of the USA than the federal government murdering a VA ICU nurse on the street 0112
Reposted by Schuyler LaparleHarsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 23/01/2026This is why organizing that reaches for relationality is central, not secondary - it breaks the capitalist idea of us as atomized, individual consumers and compels us to act in solidarity with others. And, perhaps more than anything, it's a politics more rooted in cultivating belonging than ideology 329276
Reposted by Schuyler LaparleMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life. 25151013104
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 17/01/2026As academic publishing seems more and more pointless, at least poetry still feels alive and meaningful (perhaps to the detriment of any chance I have left at an academic career. Ah well) Excited to contribute to this eco-poetry project 🌿🌳🌞 natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/the-live-oak...natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.orgThe Live Oak's Defiance - The Nature of Our TimesLanguage does two things too well — it categorizes and organizes. I walk out and say, this is a tree. That is the sky. A rock, a dog, a child. And in adhering this string of symbols to a thi... 041
Reposted by Schuyler LaparleGabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 08/01/2026The government is shooting unarmed civilians in the streets. We’re gonna hear from the NRA any minute now, right? 79216
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 08/01/2026If you're in need of something nice, just something easy and good, a kind of spiritual hug, an existential cup of tea, I recommend Becky Chambers' Monk & Robot. Ideally read with a cat on your lap, in a comfy chair, with a real physical cup of tea within reach. 010
Reposted by Schuyler LaparleOutside My Window @outsidemywindow.bsky.social · 08/01/2026New year, new windows! outsidemywindow.org/everyone-eve... Today though, Lexy's window reimagining feels especially important. Undocumented immigrants are our neighbors, friends, lovers, and helpers. The domestic terrorists are the ones shooting us in the head in broad daylight on the street. 011
Reposted by Schuyler LaparleCadernos de Linguística @cadlin.bsky.social · 07/12/2025How do classic stories teach us to read certain bodies in limited ways? Drawing on Paulo Freire, this new article examines how narrative traditions keep reinforcing narrow interpretive paths. Read it here: doi.org/10.25189/267... 022
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Yesterday we sent physical copies to our wonderful zine contributors - artists, activists, and academics across 3 continents and 7 countries! It feels very special for this little mycelium network, grown from a random idea with a couple of friends into a small conference last year, to reach so far. 050
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Feels pretty incredible to have our #ClimateHope zine finally out existing in the world. Here's to hope, not as a passive state, but as a call to collective action! 🌳🌻✊❤️🌻🌳 151
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 16/11/2025I was a mature and independent 15 yo. So when I started hanging out with men in their 30s, family and friends thought "weird, but that must be what she wants". I don't blame my family and friends. I blame people like Megyn Kelly who perpetuate discourses that excuse men groping their way to power. 020
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Lesson from my marketing students (I don't teach marketing. They are my students nonetheless): apparently a TikTok influencer asking their viewer to subscribe is now called a "call to action"? First I was confused. Now I'm thinking it's one of the most cynical phrasal borrowings I've encountered. 110
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 10/11/2025If you earned 2 million dollars PER HOUR, working 40 hours a week, for 85 years, and didn't spend a single penny, you'd still not be as rich as El*n M*sk is right now. Not even close. And now he's calling his critics "terrorists" for saying that maybe he doesn't need more money. 010
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 08/11/2025The cognitive dissonance between believing that grading is a tool of oppression which should be thrown out with the bath water and absolutely refusing to consider re-grading an assignment because can't you just respect me dammit, I have other things I need to be doing. 000
Reposted by Schuyler Laparleinthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 05/11/2025the race to declare that this is not a game changing victory is in full force. the biggest trolls, shit stirrers, naysayers, and oppositionally defiant idiots will be out in force today trying to get you to temper your joy. fuck them. hold on to your hope 415629
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Exactly zero of the fifty university students in my class today knew who Kurt Vonnegut was. That's wild right? ... Right? 170
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 28/10/2025It seems that I've been ghosted by the unicorn. 🦄👻 🥀 200
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 26/10/2025I take movies too seriously, is the first thing to know. Despite this, I don't remember anyone's name, that's the second. Then another 5: - Le Bête (2023) - Three Colors: Red (1994) - Mirror (1975) - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - House (1977) 110
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 22/10/2025I take an abolitionist stance toward LLMs. And I do not use the word lightly. In academic circles, there is often an a priori rejection of "absolutist" arguments as illegitimate, "unscientific" or "counterproductive". Sometimes abolition *is* the correct stance. That shouldn't be controversial. 121
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Can someone please call linguists to the stand for this kind of thing? Language changes. "Burger" now means a roundish savory patty eaten between buns. It's called semantic widening. It literally happens all the time.theguardian.com‘Veggie burgers’ could be off EU menu as MEPs back renaming plant-based foodsProponents say move would strengthen position of farmers in supply chain but critics dismiss it as ‘hotdog populism’ 030
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Saying "not that!" is not enough. You also have to say, "so what about this instead?" That is prefiguration: moving past the condemnation and critique of current systems to imagine an alternative and *act as if* it is a reality. Sell enough tickets to your show, and it becomes our reality.theguardian.comBlue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here’s how | Thomas GeogheganStates opposed to Trump can create a compact – a new prototype for American government – even if it’s perceived as political theater 200
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 03/10/2025I had a first round interview with a unicorn-level exceptional job today... Please pray to all your goddesses and gods for me 🙏 040
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 28/09/2025You should go see One Battle After Another. 020
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 28/09/2025As a scholar of communication and cognition, I will say that this is in fact a very very stupid thing to do, unless your goal is to shut down any chance of persuasion and re-education. And if that is your goal, what exactly is your end game? Irreconcilable hatred? That won't save us. 011
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 23/09/2025We need this kind of campaigning in the US. And that's only going to be possible if we finally give up on our two-party system. It's holding us hostage as entrenched powers drag our country rightward into hate. 132
Reposted by Schuyler LaparleGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 22/09/2025I have this lovely poem pinned to the noticeboard on the corridor outside my office. 071
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Blue-tinted headlights don't just mess with night vision, they are down right dangerous for folks with photosensitivity (and, as a consequence, everyone else around them). I'm lucky that my epilepsy is very well-controlled with medicine. But even with that, these lights can trigger migraines. 020
Reposted by Schuyler LaparleDavid Adger @davidadger.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Spot on: "Adopting nativist discourse and policies does not win back far-right voters. It leads to losses for centrist and leftwing parties. Moreover, it raises the salience of the topic and the expectations of the government, which will always fall short" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAfter the far-right mass rally in London, Britain must learn lessons from abroad – and fast | Cas MuddeThis is no time for complacent exceptionalism. The UK is part of the fourth phase of the far right in the postwar era, and its politicians must respond, says political scientist Cas Mudde 0137
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 16/09/2025So I recognize that, in the grand scheme of things, this is a deeply unimpressive thing. But... I finally learned how to use a sewing machine, and made this over-engineered drawstring bag as my first project. Making things is fun, especially when you get to do it in a super supportive makerspace 😌 4350
Reposted by Schuyler LaparleLife in Common @arthursmid.bsky.social · 14/09/2025"I want a battle plan. Yet if Overshoot lacks such a plan, it nonetheless fully describes the theater of war. "... one of the most important books about climate change in the canon." In advance of Andreas Malm and Wim Carton’s forthcoming book, Genevieve Guenther revisits their first volume:lareviewofbooks.orgThe Point, However, Is to Change It | Los Angeles Review of BooksIn advance of Andreas Malm and Wim Carton’s forthcoming book “The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late,” Genevieve Guenther revisits the authors’ 2024 title “Overshoot: How the World Surrend... 032