That Deaf Immigrant, Ph.D
@annalim.bsky.social
Postcolonial FilChi deaf queer femme immigrant linguist. Proponent of deaf liminality. Writing a memoir titled “liminal; liminal; liminal". Investigates cognitive linguistics in heritage Tagalog learning. Likes books, vlogs, oracle cards, animism, & music.
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Lawyers for Mustapha Kharbouch’s legal team slammed people who spread rumors about him being the Brown shooter.
"The past few days have been an unimaginable nightmare. I woke up on Tuesday morning to unfounded, vile, Islamophobic, and anti-Palestinian accusations being directed toward me online.
"The past few days have been an unimaginable nightmare. I woke up on Tuesday morning to unfounded, vile, Islamophobic, and anti-Palestinian accusations being directed toward me online.
December 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Lawyers for Mustapha Kharbouch’s legal team slammed people who spread rumors about him being the Brown shooter.
"The past few days have been an unimaginable nightmare. I woke up on Tuesday morning to unfounded, vile, Islamophobic, and anti-Palestinian accusations being directed toward me online.
"The past few days have been an unimaginable nightmare. I woke up on Tuesday morning to unfounded, vile, Islamophobic, and anti-Palestinian accusations being directed toward me online.
Fun fact some folks may not know about me given the usual topics I've been presenting on the past few years:
I'm a formal linguist by training with great interest in cognitive lx. The first time I did research on Deaf Ed was when I was already in my doctoral program & working on my dissertation.
I'm a formal linguist by training with great interest in cognitive lx. The first time I did research on Deaf Ed was when I was already in my doctoral program & working on my dissertation.
December 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Fun fact some folks may not know about me given the usual topics I've been presenting on the past few years:
I'm a formal linguist by training with great interest in cognitive lx. The first time I did research on Deaf Ed was when I was already in my doctoral program & working on my dissertation.
I'm a formal linguist by training with great interest in cognitive lx. The first time I did research on Deaf Ed was when I was already in my doctoral program & working on my dissertation.
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There are many books about #extinction, but this one is different.
"Ghosts Behind Glass" is a brilliant reflection on the specimens of extinct species that @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social encountered on display in #museums around the world: what are the stories being told, and why are they important?
"Ghosts Behind Glass" is a brilliant reflection on the specimens of extinct species that @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social encountered on display in #museums around the world: what are the stories being told, and why are they important?
December 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
There are many books about #extinction, but this one is different.
"Ghosts Behind Glass" is a brilliant reflection on the specimens of extinct species that @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social encountered on display in #museums around the world: what are the stories being told, and why are they important?
"Ghosts Behind Glass" is a brilliant reflection on the specimens of extinct species that @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social encountered on display in #museums around the world: what are the stories being told, and why are they important?
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The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
December 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
Happy to (accidentally) find out that a course I've been teaching that I thought has become a biannual offering (in the once-every-couple-of-years sense) is being offered again Fall semester next year even though I just taught it this semester.
December 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Happy to (accidentally) find out that a course I've been teaching that I thought has become a biannual offering (in the once-every-couple-of-years sense) is being offered again Fall semester next year even though I just taught it this semester.
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One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
Goddamnit. Found out after a facial yesterday that my eyes are allergic to anything rubbed on eyelids or the area around them so Zyrtec-ing it until kingdom come.
December 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Goddamnit. Found out after a facial yesterday that my eyes are allergic to anything rubbed on eyelids or the area around them so Zyrtec-ing it until kingdom come.
My 5yo says the darnest things--
Me: Hey, ok so I'm flying away again to a conference end of Jan. for about 3-4 days. Be good, ok?
5yo: 😩
Me: But I'll be working so we can kinda earn more $$$, ok?
5yo: Then go away for 5 days!
(1 of 2)
Me: Hey, ok so I'm flying away again to a conference end of Jan. for about 3-4 days. Be good, ok?
5yo: 😩
Me: But I'll be working so we can kinda earn more $$$, ok?
5yo: Then go away for 5 days!
(1 of 2)
December 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
My 5yo says the darnest things--
Me: Hey, ok so I'm flying away again to a conference end of Jan. for about 3-4 days. Be good, ok?
5yo: 😩
Me: But I'll be working so we can kinda earn more $$$, ok?
5yo: Then go away for 5 days!
(1 of 2)
Me: Hey, ok so I'm flying away again to a conference end of Jan. for about 3-4 days. Be good, ok?
5yo: 😩
Me: But I'll be working so we can kinda earn more $$$, ok?
5yo: Then go away for 5 days!
(1 of 2)
Finally finished grading last night.
Now focusing on the chapter I'm writing that's due in three weeks.
Now focusing on the chapter I'm writing that's due in three weeks.
December 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Finally finished grading last night.
Now focusing on the chapter I'm writing that's due in three weeks.
Now focusing on the chapter I'm writing that's due in three weeks.
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Warm oceans seem to be turning even 'weak' cyclones into deadly rainmakers
Even when storms are not especially strong in wind terms, the amount of rain they carry is increasing
For every degree of global warming, atmosphere holds about 7% more moisture.
phys.org/news/2025-12...
Even when storms are not especially strong in wind terms, the amount of rain they carry is increasing
For every degree of global warming, atmosphere holds about 7% more moisture.
phys.org/news/2025-12...
Warm oceans seem to be turning even 'weak' cyclones into deadly rainmakers
The final week of November was devastating for several South Asian countries. Communities in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand were inundated as Cyclones Ditwah and Senyar unleashed days of relentless...
phys.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Warm oceans seem to be turning even 'weak' cyclones into deadly rainmakers
Even when storms are not especially strong in wind terms, the amount of rain they carry is increasing
For every degree of global warming, atmosphere holds about 7% more moisture.
phys.org/news/2025-12...
Even when storms are not especially strong in wind terms, the amount of rain they carry is increasing
For every degree of global warming, atmosphere holds about 7% more moisture.
phys.org/news/2025-12...
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Israel is still throttling the aid supply to Gaza. And Britain is still supplying Israel with arms and maintaining normal diplomatic relations. The genocide continues, as does British complicity. 26 months and counting.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
More than 9,000 children in Gaza hospitalised for acute malnutrition in October, UN says
Aid agencies say Israel is still restricting their aid shipments despite ceasefire announced two months ago
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Israel is still throttling the aid supply to Gaza. And Britain is still supplying Israel with arms and maintaining normal diplomatic relations. The genocide continues, as does British complicity. 26 months and counting.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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Telling disabled people they're being rude for stating facts about the political situation is ableism disguised as respectability politics.
Ive heard it said to me so many times this year that i have to tell you to take a moment to think about why youre being an asshole
Ive heard it said to me so many times this year that i have to tell you to take a moment to think about why youre being an asshole
December 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Telling disabled people they're being rude for stating facts about the political situation is ableism disguised as respectability politics.
Ive heard it said to me so many times this year that i have to tell you to take a moment to think about why youre being an asshole
Ive heard it said to me so many times this year that i have to tell you to take a moment to think about why youre being an asshole
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Israel still won’t let international journalists into Gaza.
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Israel still won’t let international journalists into Gaza.
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Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
Amnesty International has said Israel is “still committing genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire agreed last month.
The fragile, US-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas came into effect on 10 October, after two years of war. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
National Day of Mourning 2025 at Plymouth Rock.
November 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
National Day of Mourning 2025 at Plymouth Rock.
Needing to teach one of our senior cats how to walk down the stairs is not on our moving homes bingo card.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Needing to teach one of our senior cats how to walk down the stairs is not on our moving homes bingo card.
Moving day tomorrow. Wish us luck!
November 15, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Moving day tomorrow. Wish us luck!
If we invest in education the way we (involuntarily) do in “defence,” imagine what an amazing populace we’d have!
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If we invest in education the way we (involuntarily) do in “defence,” imagine what an amazing populace we’d have!
Soon making good my promise to delete my Instagram account and be rid of Meta for good. If you’re following me there and don’t see me anymore after this week, that’s what’s up.
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Soon making good my promise to delete my Instagram account and be rid of Meta for good. If you’re following me there and don’t see me anymore after this week, that’s what’s up.
We’re moving in 5 days to a duplex with easy access to the outside as opposed to our current apartment on the 3rd floor. Hoping I haven’t made the wrong decision and made it easier for 1CE to get me in the new place…
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We’re moving in 5 days to a duplex with easy access to the outside as opposed to our current apartment on the 3rd floor. Hoping I haven’t made the wrong decision and made it easier for 1CE to get me in the new place…
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I will not be watching or reading any "analyses" about the Democratic party in D.C. I know all about them & their complicity. I'm not interested and I choose to reclaim my time and attention.
There're other kinds of politics to engage & most importantly to do (including in our local communities).
There're other kinds of politics to engage & most importantly to do (including in our local communities).
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I will not be watching or reading any "analyses" about the Democratic party in D.C. I know all about them & their complicity. I'm not interested and I choose to reclaim my time and attention.
There're other kinds of politics to engage & most importantly to do (including in our local communities).
There're other kinds of politics to engage & most importantly to do (including in our local communities).
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My two year old has more courage when he dared to follow through with his threat to leave the house naked today if he can’t bring frozen waffles on the car.
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
My two year old has more courage when he dared to follow through with his threat to leave the house naked today if he can’t bring frozen waffles on the car.
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Also, being blamed is temporary if they can deliver something they will be loved for. These fucking cowards apparently have no stomach for uncertainty or their own capacity to get anything done.
Loser behavior through and through.
Loser behavior through and through.
MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Also, being blamed is temporary if they can deliver something they will be loved for. These fucking cowards apparently have no stomach for uncertainty or their own capacity to get anything done.
Loser behavior through and through.
Loser behavior through and through.