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Kevin Joel Berland

@starfish1.bsky.social
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Professor emeritus of English and Comp Lit (Penn State), Indexer, reader, writer, ADHD, drawsalot, guitar, mandolin. Disability history, history of versions of Socrates, physiognomy, poetry, Dr. Johnson, Book indexing. ALSOwords, words, words 🇨🇦✡☮📚

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Really? That's so cool. I have probably done more writing than indexing, thoigh.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is this intended to build up general knowledge about neurodiversity? If so, it means once again that people with neurodiverse conditions are actually creating an accommodation for the neurotypicals out there, right?
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is an exceedingly ambiguous message, don't you think? Sure, the bicoloured ribbon is striking, but what does the text even mean? Are people with ADHD supposed to become aware (of what)? Or are neurotypical people supposed to become aware of the existence of ADHD others? in themselves?)
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Two professional woman. One says to the other, "No, Suzy, HR is not your friend."
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Charlie Kirk. Christian? Nationalist? Christian Nationalist? conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/c...
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Charlie Kirk. Christian? Nationalist? Christian Nationalist?
The other night we were watching coverage of the official canonisation of Charlie Kirk, and it struck me that no attempt was made all evening to cite, let alone endorse, Kirk’s actual politic…
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Whereas my ADHD makes me read voraciously. As an undiagnosed ADHD person long ago I can attest that in grade school and high school, reading saved my life.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Rather than having to squeeze himself into a n absurdly small space in something like this:
4-wheel multifunctional catering cart
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It was probably one of these catering trucks which changes the direction of the satire: not just any catering truck could move a being of such bulk and pretentions.
Truck with x-beam hydraulic lift loading  food and drink into a plane
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Thank you for this information. Now I remember seeing plaster casts in other museums as nd art schools.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Perhaps these statues could be repatriated to the countries from which they were looted.
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just sayin ❌👑 @justsayin18.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Hunger strike at New Jersey ICE facility enters ninth day as protesters face off with Trump supporters
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Hunger strike at New Jersey ICE facility enters ninth day as protesters face off with Trump supporters
A Newark detention center has been at the forefront of anti-ICE protests – and now counterprotests
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Multiple protestors very badly injured from rubber bullets at Delaney Hall and tear gas. The medic tent had to be abandoned because state police kept gassing it.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
By outside she must mean anything not Essex county because all of Jersey is represented there.
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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 30/05/2026
It's going to take a concerted effort on everyone's part over the weekend to keep the story on the conditions inside Delaney Hall rather than the clashes going on outside.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Meanwhile, 300 detainees remain on a hunger and labor strike after being beaten bloody and gassed on Thursday by the people Mikie Sherrill is coordinating with.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Red and pink flowers for April: Japanese Quince.
Red and pink flowers for April: Japanese Quince.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Okay. We have received another signal of spring.
A small blue flower rises above green pachysandra.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Okay, Spring.
Four Japanese Quince flower buda, pale red, yellow, and green
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
A better link: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
cambridge.org
Lexicography and the Law
Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Lexicography and the Law
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Forthcoming: scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...
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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Dispatch from Immigration Court Friday: bec ICE bloodied a respondent earlier in the week, everyone in 290 B-way & 26 Fed'l Plaza was tense beyond belief. Several judges had no cases, agents from various agencies swarmed both buildings. No detentions but many requests for immediate pretermission.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The faded red water tank out past the roofs of houses. The winter.sky.
In the foreground, bare trees partly lit, the tops of houses,  a faded red water tower and a darkening evening sky.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Snow on the basement stairs 2:00 pm. Still snowing
Snow on the basement stairs.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Nor'easter blizzard at noon, still snowing.
Back yard covered with snow ❄️
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Winter sky with moon and Plane tree
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 03/12/2025
Reminder: It's never too late to start wearing a mask again
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Very pretty Moon. I, for one, care about the moon 24/7/365.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This why she's named Shayna Punim!
Green-eyed grey-gold-and-white-furred kitten.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Well, if it has to do with water, the antonyms is submerging. Triton emerges from the waves blowing his horn and then he submerges and all is still again. Except the waves. Except the waves.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
chuffed.org/project/1247...
chuffed.org
Leonard Peltier Medical Care Fundraiser
On February 18, 2025, Leonard Peltier—member of the Chippewa and Lakota Nations—was finally released after more than 49 years behind bars, making him the longest-serving Indigenous political prisoner ...
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Well, somebody should!
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Uncle Isidore shares the warmth of his chair with Shayna Punim. Summer's just about finished.
Uncle Isidore shares the warmth of his chair with Shayna Punim. Summer's just about finished. Two cats sharing a cHair..
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
immigration judges are not real judges; rather, they are bureaucrats charged with the current president's spurious agenda of mass deportation. I could go on, but I am unable to keep up the Rant Mode for very long...
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
the eyes of the rest of the world, and yet it is highly unlikely that government officials or contractors would be punished. No need to multiply examples. Moreover, the so-called immigration courts operate outside settled law, proffered mere opinion as legal guidance The so-called
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
government should take measures to expel them? Is a statement by a cabinet secretary that protesting "makes the U.S. look bad" sufficient legal justification for criminalizing groups and deporting protestors? Indeed, there are many U.S. government activities that make this country look bad in
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Under what statute can the immigration system demand full disclosure of participation in lawful assembly and demonstrations? Internal policy of the immigration system is not law. What legislature or committee of elected officials rules over the designation of political groups as so dangerous that
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Isidor is probably dreaming of a future without eyedrops.
Grey and white Tuxedo cat. Sleeping on the chair he and I share. He is probably dreaming of a future where there are no pesky eyedrops. This is Isidore.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
That's #PandemicMagicalThinking you've described so well as the "whole 'It's over'" &c.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/09/2025
Gotta say seeing governors competing to one up each other to see who can make vaccines most accessible is a refreshing change.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Here's my new study partner, SarahTheCat.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
My son once brought home two unvaccinated dogs from his best friend's house. They both had parvo; the little chihuahua died very painfully, but the big fluffy mixed breed puppy somehow survived. It's not only MDs who should take care to do no harm. Everyone should.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I already miss you. But really, do take care of yourself.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Note whose hands he shook, and note how he walked right past Justice Kagan without even looking her way. A boor as well as crook.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Better than any number of minutes after session begins, as, to my chagrin, I know experientially.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
We too have a pumpernickel pancake with eyes.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Not your bandwagon.
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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Is this connected somehow to the phenomenon of people who have done something wrong getting angry at the person they wronged-- for trying to make them feel bad?
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