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sociocultural linguist working in trans and queer linguistics and conversation analysis. posts about yiddish, cooking, adhd, cats, professor stuff. (they/זײ) [ˈɹæ.klɔ] מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן
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I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

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MSNBC find another jew besides jonathan greenblatt to represent us challenge

submitted 2 hours ago • 21 comments

IT’S FUCKING CHESS What POSSIBLE advantage, even in the warped mind of a transphobe, could being transgender give you at chess? They’re so nakedly hateful they just can’t stand any trans person winning anything ever. Pathetic.

submitted 5 hours ago • 242 comments

Jeff Bezos single handedly lowered the average quality of goods in basically every sector, drove hundreds, maybe thousands of companies out of business, destroyed one of the US's flagship newspapers and is building a surveillance state. Billionaires. Should. Not. Exist.

submitted 12 hours ago • 36 comments

i’m at the taco bell i’m at the urgent care i’m at the combination taco bell and urgent care

submitted 1 day ago • 182 comments

Fucking hell after four years of learning Yiddish I only just now pieced together that tieflings are called tieflings because “tief” means “deep” and they’re literally just little guys from the lower planes

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

He’s holding a trans flag, which is also a thing that absolutely fucking terrifies the Dem establishment, which has been tripping over themselves to throw trans folks under the bus.

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

[deep breath] The predictive model was EVERYTHING THEY SAID. IN PUBLIC. FOR YEARS. People whose imaginations begin and end with political theory, who see the lives of others as abstractions, had every chance to listen. Instead, you kept talking because it didn’t impact you.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

unsurprisingly, im seeing an uptick in antisemitic rhetoric on the left, a totally predictable reaction to the hideous cowardice of this tactic

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

my wife's dog is calmed by smooth jazz and now every night the house is filled with the dulcet tones of a saxophone and a little tinkling piano

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The unspoken beauty of using they/them pronouns in Yiddish (that is, singular zey/זײ) is that they do not decline in the accusative or dative case, we’re just built different

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It's not lost on me, a Muslim, how many Non-Jews are speaking over actual Jewish people in the U.S. It's incredible.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

Ok that’s it this is a concerted group effort there is no denying it. The Dem establishment got together in a back room and said “how are we gonna stop this man from making change in the party he is too dangerously progressive and popular.” And then they all agreed “use the Jews.”

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

submitted 3 days ago • 433 comments

Should humanity exist? Let’s ask a man who cofounded an online payment-processing platform 27 years ago

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Teaching a summer course and forgot I added a “send me a picture of a possum for extra credit” note to my syllabus until this arrived in my inbox

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

"Soldiers in need of prolonged waivers may be directed to get laser (hair removal) treatments...The Pentagon may cover the laser treatment, but that can cost thousands of dollars per soldier" Looks like government-funded gender affirming care is back on the menu

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I love when a judge gets to like, issue a bitchy tweet as the rest of us wade through fascism

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

this is an embarrassing thing for this guy to say in public but also touches on something that constantly rankles me, which is the vague idea of "feeling unsafe" as a problem that someone else needs to solve for you regardless of whether you are actually unsafe or not

submitted 3 days ago • 121 comments

Well this is a very fine reason to scrub and delete your academic dot edu accounts

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

It’s telling how the Christian right’s role in getting Skrmetti to SCOTUS is being erased—and by those seemingly desperate to blame trans people for asking for “too much.” So I spoke with legal historian @kredburn.bsky.social and ACLU attorney @chasestrangio.bsky.social, who argued the case:

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Well this is a very fine reason to scrub and delete your academic dot edu accounts

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

די קעץ האָבן שטאַרק ליב ״טשורו״ און כ׳האָב געװוּנדערט װי אַזױ זאָגט מען ״טשורו״ אױף ייִדיש און דער מוח האָט נאָר געזאָגט ״קעצשמיר״ 😭

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