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jtillman.bsky.social
he/him 🏳️‍🌈 IBS linguist, editor Jewish and Quaker upbringing. from outside of North Philadelphia. studying EdM at Teachers College, Columbia University BA NYU, MA HKU. foreign languages. sings in piano bars and plays video games.
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LOL the cops showed up late to the Stonewall protest and then decided to put up barricades around us long after it got crowded.

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Feeling well rested

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*bad at french*: meet me on the corner of, uh, 80th street

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attracting a young and desirable mate to my kingdom by demonstrating my vast riches

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Movie night at my dad’s. My daughter needs to write about some musicals for her theater class, so we are going with Fiddler tonight.

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In a peaceful but tense meeting of its central committee, the leadership of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party has backed a motion to dissolve, with a final decision to be made sometime in the future by its 400 members www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

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'Lead and 'read' rhyme. Unless you're saying 'lead' and 'read.' But also 'lead' and 'read' rhyme.

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Ok I'm gonna go to Hamburg and also pop into Hanover while I'm there. These are 2 cities I've wanted to visit in Germany, so I'm pumped.

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Kamala Harris went to see "Gypsy" on Broadway and receives a standing ovation. (Feb 16, 2025)

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The Justice League Unlimited episode "The Ties That Bind" debuted on this day (Feb. 12) in 2005. Mr. Miracle, Big Barda, and The Flash team-up and head to Apokolips to rescue Oberon from the clutches of the evil Granny Goodness in this fun second season episode! #JLUnlimited #JusticeLeague

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DOGE By The Numbers theonion.com/doge-by...

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Totally off the topic of the pending apocalypse... I realize two important traits about myself: 1. I'm a perfectionist when it comes to certain things. 2. I spend WAY TOO MUCH time giggling at my jokes.

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This is SO important. We have to make arguments clear and concise for the public. Save the caveats and asterisks for the colloquium. And yes, your colleagues might call you unserious and be mean to you about it; remember no one is listening to them.

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look at his face. he doesn't even know he's already an internet microcelebrity

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Cemetery walks are the most relaxing. Today’s shots.

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“Here come old flat-top, he come groovin' up slowly He got ju-ju eyeball, he one holy roller He got hair down to his knee Got to be a joker, he just do what he please…” Come Together - The Beatles

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'Cattails' ~ Wooden spoon carved in Conkerberry wood. An incredibly fine-grained and colorful, Australian wood gifted me by the spoon carver extraordinaire, Jeff Fraser. #spoon #spoontaneous #art #craft #design #woodworking #carving #woodenspoon #scultpture #cattails #orange #wood 🥄

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looking at collars and losing my mind at this cat model's face

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The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds. 🧵 1/

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Video recording of me co-commentating with @attackingtucans.bsky.social, is live :) Please enjoy the nostalgia if you ever played Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df5f...

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new blog post: do people use third person pronouns within earshot of the referent? YES, all the time, and if you've never noticed this happening, you've got to increase your linguistic awareness

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IT’S RACIST INSANITY.

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It's only 6:30 and I've already got to use the word "jettison" in a translation. Today is going to be a good day.

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"You are filled with wonder and awe." 👁👄👁

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There's been a lot of work on "culture" in NLP, but not much agreement on what it is. A position paper by me, @dbamman.bsky.social, and @ibleaman.bsky.social on cultural NLP: what we want, what we have, and how sociocultural linguistics can clarify things. Website: naitian.org/culture-not-... 1/n

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He's fallen asleep like this ... Help?! What do I do now?!!!

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Post a female character you love

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Why you wake me from my nap?

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Once again, maybe the presidents of major R1 research universities think existential threats to their business models & institutions might be worth loudly & collectively speaking out against in front of microphones 🤷‍♂️ bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Video: Adam Lambert Performs 'I Don't Care Much' From CABARET on THE VIEW

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Recorded some super interesting data talking about gender in the Talmud, an historical Hebrew legal commentary on the Torah. Androgeny!

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Realizing you get a newspaper subscription with your tuition.

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Just cuz everyone KNOWS there is a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, that doesn’t make the pot of gold real. Just cuz everyone KNOWS “standard language” promises a pot of gold too, that doesn’t make standard language real. Leprechauns, unicorns, and standard language don’t exist.

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We're all in so much danger.

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The heroes of Stonewall included trans people. Orwellian authoritarian attempts to rewrite history are just that.

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Happy #Caturday Prompt : "She's a Killer Queen" no cats mentioned !

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If I had a dead lover whom I wished to treat with respect but also ensure that a ninja clan could not resurrect them as a dark messiah, I would simply think about every vampire or zombie story I’d ever read, or take the briefest look into Buddhist burial customs, and then BURN THE DAMN BODY.

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Good morning unsubtle authoritarianism. Good morning loss of all credibility.

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Yes.

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He’s trying to make me look #Caturday

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Mr. Rime 🧊✨ Day 9 of #pokecember ❄️ #pokemon #art #mrrime

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The short-eared owl is a skilled predator, keeping ecosystems in balance by controlling rodent populations. 📸 sriram.udhayab #Bird #Owl

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Bitter and salty

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Duo was fatally hit by a Tesla Cybertruck, the language-learning company announced this week. The snarky owl has been the face of Duolingo for over a decade. Why his sudden demise, and what's next?

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Adirondack Mountains peace of mind. No better place for your morning cup of coffee. Have a nice Valentines' weekend! #photography #landscape #adirondackmountains

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You can’t spell Stonewall without the T

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'Sleeping Mud Maid', living sculpture, in summer and in winter, by UK artist Sue Hill (and Pete Hill) at The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall, UK #womensart

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