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roachj.bsky.social
🎓 Linguist, MLIS, MBA. Lectures on ethical AI implementation at universities sometimes. 🏫 Perception, symbolic systems & preservation. See also: Semiotics, cog. linguistics, & info ethics. 💌 Always down to connect with other researchers & weirdos.
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OMG YES… say that‼️ @tarasetmayer.bsky.social nails it. Honestly, we’ve been waiting for politicians to catch up to where the people are—and it’s getting damn late!

submitted 3 hours ago • 199 comments

Subscribe to this blocklist to block a curated list of MAGA channels. They have freedom of speech, yes, but you are also free to avoid engaging or giving them any of the attention they desperately want.

submitted 52 minutes ago • 0 comments

Would any of the prospective PhD students in the US mind sharing (vaguely) what their plans are? Are you applying as normal to US universities? Are you looking into other countries? Holding off? I'm genuinely uncertain what to do. #phd

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Mark Carney announces that kids can visit museums for free - an idea from the UK where almost all of our museums are free all year round

submitted 7 hours ago • 169 comments

If you do not want a certain high-profile person that just joined BlueSky to be here, just block them. Don't engage. Shun. This is 1000% narrative bait. "See? The left doesn't want free speech!" I can see the tweets now.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Is there anyone at the DNC who is even *aware* of what it feels like to get seven text messages begging for money every single day with the most brazenly out of touch electioneering at the same time we watch them do absolutely nothing with it?

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

30 years ago you could go to a website called pizza dot net and order the best pizza in cyberspace. today pizza is banned. #90skidsrememberpizza

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Data visualization is storytelling with numbers and visuals. Here, the KFF Health Tracking Poll positioned Republicans as separate from MAGA, when GOP leadership often caters to both groups in tandem. I'm not a fan of this trend, considering they have benefitted from and enabled MAGA.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Hey neighbour, I have a right to defend myself, and I suspect you might one day try to throw a brick through my window, despite lacking any evidence, so I'm burning your house down as a precaution, but please be reassured that I'm the most moral arsonist in the world.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

linguistics is a thing - everyone always asks me what it is

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An active duty service member has been sent to a mental health facility against his will after speaking out about ICE’s legal and humanitarian abuses. TikTokers took action, including writing @governor.ca.gov /

submitted 1 day ago • 277 comments

America, we gotta national strike and walk out. It will get worse until we hurt profits.

submitted 1 day ago • 320 comments

most of the democrats and centrists really are just gonna let this happen until they’re in being led single-file into personalized doom aren’t they? I can’t wait until they’re primaried into oblivion

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kinda feels a tiny bit like the lander/mamdani cross-support is aggravating to news/cuomo types because it shows that acrimony isn't a necessary part of elections and brinksmanship is avoidable

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

ICE just abducted a leading contender for the New York City mayorship for asking to see a warrant. I need everyone to understand that they are not a law enforcement agency — they are Donald Trump’s secret police.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

For those outside NYC, Brad Lander isn’t just a mayor candidate, he’s also the NYC Comptroller—the chief financial officer and auditor of the biggest city in the country.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

So many politicians and voters are chasing uniformity believing it leads to peace. What they're really chasing after is alignment. Uniformity flattens people, but alignment lifts people--everyone. And the only way you get alignment is empathy, listening, and compassion towards one another.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Most of mainstream media works like uninformed, selfish influencers with corporate sponsors. So I’m always confused when I see leftists still even engaging with them. If it’s privately owned by a billionaire, the info is curated by stakeholders. Not the public need.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

And the new Meidas Touch ad. #USDemocracy

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Well, it finally happened. My son picked up an album from the used records store that I simply cannot tolerate and I told him he had to turn it off, or turn it down so low I can't hear it. It's not metal, it's not rap, it's not industrial or dubstep. It's "The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles Hits."

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments