Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Really? That's so cool. I have probably done more writing than indexing, thoigh. 120
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Is 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? 000
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This 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?) 110
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Charlie Kirk. Christian? Nationalist? Christian Nationalist? conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/c...conradbrunstrom.wordpress.comCharlie 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… 020
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Whereas 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. 130
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Rather than having to squeeze himself into a n absurdly small space in something like this: 010
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026It 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. 110
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Thank you for this information. Now I remember seeing plaster casts in other museums as nd art schools. 000
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Perhaps these statues could be repatriated to the countries from which they were looted. 100
Reposted by Kevin Joel Berland just sayin ❌👑 @justsayin18.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Hunger strike at New Jersey ICE facility enters ninth day as protesters face off with Trump supporterstheguardian.comHunger strike at New Jersey ICE facility enters ninth day as protesters face off with Trump supportersA Newark detention center has been at the forefront of anti-ICE protests – and now counterprotests 03418
Reposted by Kevin Joel Berland Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Multiple 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. 14547270
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 31/05/2026By outside she must mean anything not Essex county because all of Jersey is represented there. 070
Reposted by Kevin Joel Berland Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 30/05/2026It'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. 162
Reposted by Kevin Joel Berland Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Meanwhile, 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. 219456
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Red and pink flowers for April: Japanese Quince. 192
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Okay. We have received another signal of spring. 010
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press: www.cambridge.org/core/element... 020
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026A better link: www.cambridge.org/core/element...cambridge.orgLexicography and the LawCambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Lexicography and the Law 000
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Forthcoming: scholar.google.com/scholar_url?... 120
Reposted by Kevin Joel Berland Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Dispatch 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. 031
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 24/02/2026The faded red water tank out past the roofs of houses. The winter.sky. 010
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Snow on the basement stairs 2:00 pm. Still snowing 010
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Nor'easter blizzard at noon, still snowing. 020
Reposted by Kevin Joel Berland Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 03/12/2025Reminder: It's never too late to start wearing a mask again 301467512
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Very pretty Moon. I, for one, care about the moon 24/7/365. 000
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Well, 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. 130
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 13/10/2025chuffed.org/project/1247...chuffed.orgLeonard Peltier Medical Care FundraiserOn 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 ... 010
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Uncle Isidore shares the warmth of his chair with Shayna Punim. Summer's just about finished. 040
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 17/09/2025immigration 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... 121
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 17/09/2025the 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 120
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 17/09/2025government 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 110
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Under 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 121
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Isidor is probably dreaming of a future without eyedrops. 060
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 06/09/2025That's #PandemicMagicalThinking you've described so well as the "whole 'It's over'" &c. 020
Reposted by Kevin Joel Berland Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/09/2025Gotta say seeing governors competing to one up each other to see who can make vaccines most accessible is a refreshing change. 444465671
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 03/09/2025My 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. 0121
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 03/09/2025I already miss you. But really, do take care of yourself. 010
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Note whose hands he shook, and note how he walked right past Justice Kagan without even looking her way. A boor as well as crook. 000
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Better than any number of minutes after session begins, as, to my chagrin, I know experientially. 010
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 30/08/2025We too have a pumpernickel pancake with eyes. 110
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Is 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? 030