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pinkatydid.bsky.social
the alter ego of @laymanslinguist
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Patches of snow on a mountain marsh

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I have a crush on this cute chubby middle-aged dork on TikTok and he followed me back even though he doesn't follow many people and I make like 3 videos a year. We're married, yes?

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A pair made in hell

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🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

submitted 9 days ago • 1521 comments

For all you linguists and scicommers: there's less than a week before the registration for #LingComm25 closes! Check out the programme here: lingcomm.org/lingcomm25/s... Registration is via the same website (and it's really not much!). #LingSky #LangSky 🐦🐦

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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_... Crassus, the guy from whose name crass comes from, ran a private fire department and booming real estate business. His men would set your home on fire, then offer you decreasing offers to buy it and put it out as it burned to the ground. Don't sell, it's ashes.

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"Don't be self-conscious, no one is paying that much attention to what strangers around them are doing!" I am. I turned off my headphones for your entire conversation. It was the best part of my day. I hope your rash clears up soon, Judy.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Nope just you bb!

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Also: None of them care. They'll be dead after getting everything they wanted in life, and we'll be dead after giving them everything we had. I couldn't give a shit that a blurb in a textbook might—MIGHT—one day recognize one or two of em as the Big Bads, and I promise the bad guys care even less.

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I joked during the first episode that the gun we hear is gonna be wielded by a monkey but I have become increasingly convinced of my Monkey Gun Hypothesis. And then I noticed this foreshadowing of Monkey Gun. I'm locked in, it's Monkey Gun time.

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Famously, the way to beat fascist bullies is to flop onto your back and say “my vital organs are exposed, take what you want.” Certainly they will stop at the first vital organ.

submitted 10 days ago • 128 comments

Post a ship that's not Star Wars or Star Trek Yes this counts. She's very tiny. It's a ship to her.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I want all my 🐦 friends back but I'm now realizing that I only actually associate like 6 of you with your real names so I'm already in quite a pickle here

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Well I live an hour from #Sedona. I wonder how much its extremely liberal residents would appreciate knowing they're host to a pro-crypto Super PAC fundraiser headlined by a ranking subcommittee member on overseeing crypto, who Sedona JUST helped elect into office for promising to stop exactly this.

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Hot tip: There are so many c*bertr*cks in Arizona so I, as is my patriotic duty, always make a cartoonishly visible display of pointing and laughing at them which I did not realize was so much more effective at inducing road rage than every bird I've ever flipped all combined.

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I'm so proud 🥹

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Pop Quiz: Can you identify these household names of rock'n'roll from their musical origin stories?

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