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Allie (they/them)

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Birder. Avid podcast listener. Fan of #StarTrek old and new 🖖🏼 Queer, non-binary 🌈 #MobilityAid user. #MECFS #Fibromyalgia Profile pic: short-haired blonde white non-binary person with glasses half-smiles at the camera. Banner: brown doggo w white face

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Allie (they/them) @llie.bsky.social · 9d

Oedipal Arrangements: now offering early Mother's Day specials!

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Allie (they/them) @llie.bsky.social · Sep 9

Happy Star Trek Day, nerds! Live long and prosper 🖖🏻

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Allie (they/them) @llie.bsky.social · Jul 1

Nicole Holliday, a linguist, talking about dialectical diversity, and why BASL is particularly suited to the film, over ASL.
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Sinners is coming out on HBO Max is both its original and a Black ASL version and I couldn’t be more excited! #linguistics check the comments for some of my favorite BASL creators on here!

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Allie (they/them) @llie.bsky.social · Jul 1

just wanted to add that ASL is also based on several Indigenous sign languages, as well as French Sign Language. see: nativesovereignty.com/how-native-a...

How Native American Sign Languages Shaped Modern ASL and Bridged Cultures Across Centuries - Native Americans for Sovereignty and Preservation

Share this with your network: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn More The integral relationship between Plains Native Americans and American Sign Language (ASL) is a fascinating aspect of pre-contact history t...

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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · Jun 30

‘Sinners’ on Max Will Include a Black American Sign Language Version

Max will debut Sinners in the U.S. on Friday July 4, when viewers will be able to watch it two ways: by 1) streaming the exact theatrically-released version, and 2) choosing Sinners in Black American Sign Language (BASL). It’s the first time a streaming service has interpreted a film into BASL, Warner Bros. says.

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Allie (they/them) @llie.bsky.social · Jun 30

and BASL (Black American Sign Language) is also different from ASL!

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Allie (they/them) @llie.bsky.social · Jun 30

English and ASL are different languages, so whereas closed captions translate it into English, an ASL interpreter allows Deaf and HoH people to access the media in ASL, which may be their first or more natural-feeling language. (I am hearing, but this is my understanding. I welcome feedback.)

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · May 28

The literary giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (and one of my favorite authors) has passed. 😔

Wizard of the Crow is a masterpiece. He has many greats.

I'm glad I got to meet him a few times (I always encouraged him to write a science fiction novel...he said he'd consider it).

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Mx. Coreo Jones @coreopsismajor.bsky.social · Apr 23

Please share this widely. All milk testing in USA is NOT being stopped. You should still complain about these cuts. But it is not an end to milk testing.

Sarah Oelker (buxuyaojieguo) @buxuyaojieguo.bsky.social · Apr 23

Good morning, time for a milk safety thread!

The USA is NOT ceasing all milk testing. Many of you have seen www.reuters.com/business/hea... which reads "US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts"

These cuts SUCK, but all milk testing is NOT ceasing. Thread on milk testing:

US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts

The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.

www.reuters.com

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Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.social · Apr 21

she’s such a nice girl… she’d give you the strap right off her on

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Allie (they/them) @llie.bsky.social · Apr 18

😂😂😂 oh yes

Allie (they/them) @llie.bsky.social · Apr 18

My partner, freshly back from getting me a bottle of water in the kitchen: "There is no room temperature water; there is only Zuul." @finstergrrrl.bsky.social

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · Mar 29

You probably have to view full-screen to see what is happening here-- baby great horned owl is watching his upstairs neighbor, the starling, who is watching the baby owl. Just incredible to witness! 🪶

Mom and baby great horned owls are in their nest in the crook of a saguaro cactus. Above them, a starling looks down at them from its hole in the cactus.

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · Mar 29

The monopoly GET OUT OF JAIL FREE card, but edited to read GET OUT OF GENDER FREE

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · Mar 29

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects

So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?

And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?