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Kilu von Prince
@kilinguistics.bsky.social
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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · Oct 23
In my new paper, I take stock of cross-linguistically common functions and expressions of counterfactuality.

You can download it here, or contact me.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Counterfactuality and Mood | Annual Reviews
This review article presents the current state of research on counterfactual expressions and contexts. It focuses on the relationship between formal semantic and typological approaches. This leads to ...
www.annualreviews.org
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sjjphd.bsky.social
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
kilinguistics.bsky.social
“Edge offered intellectually insecure reactionaries a pass. Without even opening a book, they could dismiss all of feminism, postcolonial theory and queer studies. They could […] devote their brains instead to the race science and rape apologetics that now pass for scholarship on edgelord podcasts.”
February 15, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
A benefit of free buses I hadn’t heard enough about until this piece from @galvinalmanza.bsky.social
It is. Far beyond just saving riders money, free buses deliver a cascade of benefits, from easing traffic to promoting public safety. Just look at Boston; Chapel Hill, N.C.; Richmond, Va.; Kansas City, Mo.; and even New York itself, all of which have tried it to excellent effect. And it doesn't have to be costly - in fact, it can come out just about even. As a lawyer, I feel most strongly about the least-discussed benefit: Eliminating bus fares can clear junk cases out of our court system, lowering the crushing caseloads that prevent our judges, prosecutors and public defenders from focusing their attention where it's most needed.
February 14, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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sven-giegold.de
Über 120.000 sagen: Rettet die Energiewende!
Stoppt Katherina Reiches "Netzpaket"!

Auch ein gemeinsamer Appell aus Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft fordert einen Richtungswechsel der Bundesregierung für statt gegen die Erneuerbaren Energien in Bürgerhand.

Bitte verbreitet die Appelle!
Ein Bild des bündnisgrünen Aufrufs "Rettet die Erneuerbaren Energien", den schon 122.000+ Bürger*innen unterzeichnet haben. Hier: https://dabeisein.gruene.de/forms/katherina-reiche-zerstort-die-energiewende-und-macht-uns-abhangig-rette-die-erneuerbaren-energien-mit-uns
February 15, 2026 at 8:09 AM
kilinguistics.bsky.social
Reading "The Language of Food" and learned about the concept of "negative differentiation", the phenomenon that we use more specific expressions for negative experiences compared to positive ones (introduced through a study of reviews about beers).
February 15, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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andreageier.bsky.social
Academics, ich pitche euch ne Idee für 1 Veranstaltung, die ihr an euren Hochschulen planen könntet:

Am 19. Mai ist Diversity Tag und am 23. Mai ist Tag des Grundgesetzes. 1 perfekte Woche, um zum Austausch über Gefährdungen der Wissenschaftsfreiheit & Strategien gegen Angriffe einzuladen!
February 15, 2026 at 8:28 AM
kilinguistics.bsky.social
Die AfD bedroht unsere Demokratie. Ihr könnt den Appell unterzeichnen und auf #Prüf Demos gehen oder in eurer Stadt selber eine organisieren
NRW Appell: AfD-Verbot jetzt
Mit großer Sorge sehen wir, dass kein Parteiverbotsverfahren gegen die AfD initiiert wird, obwohl der Verfassungsschutz die AfD als gesichert rechtsextremistisch eingestuft hat.* Wir müssen die Grundw...
weact.campact.de
February 14, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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theautisticcoach.bsky.social
Pathology language focuses on what others can observe.

The Neurodiversity Paradigm insists that internal experience matters.

If a system defines autism entirely by how inconvenient we are, that system isn’t neutral.

Rather, it’s telling everyone what it’s REALLY about.
February 13, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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themassspy.bsky.social
If only there was an intellectual discipline that could explain why the white men who run universities are so eager to shut down gender studies.
jessicacalarco.com Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2d
Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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encephalophatass.bsky.social
No amount of neurodiversity awareness training will ever make up for the fact that the average person takes it personally when you want to have lunch alone.
February 12, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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skreee.bsky.social
Beim Feminismus sollte es nicht um die Gleichberechtigung von Frauen und Männern gehen, sondern um die Gleichberechtigung *aller* Menschen.
February 13, 2026 at 11:23 AM
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markhisted.org
In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
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kilinguistics.bsky.social
Since I'm about to co-teach a class on Raizal (San Andrés islander creole), I made a map to visualize possible African origins of individual Raizal lexemes compiled in Bartens 2003.
Map of Africa with dots indicating individual languages that might have provided lexical material to the Raizal language. Light-colored dots indicate higher numbers of possible word matches, with Twi and Ewe having the highest number of possible matches.
February 12, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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gaius.bsky.social
Kind of amazing how the right was able to successfully sell so many centrists on a left wing “war on science” because we said phrenology is fake and trans people are real while they continue to deny evolution and climate change
February 12, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
I don't want self-driving cars. I want cars with speed governors and doors that won't open when cyclists are approaching.
February 12, 2026 at 3:33 PM
kilinguistics.bsky.social
Since I'm about to co-teach a class on Raizal (San Andrés islander creole), I made a map to visualize possible African origins of individual Raizal lexemes compiled in Bartens 2003.
Map of Africa with dots indicating individual languages that might have provided lexical material to the Raizal language. Light-colored dots indicate higher numbers of possible word matches, with Twi and Ewe having the highest number of possible matches.
February 12, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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helenasteinhaus.bsky.social
Sicherheitsbeamte mit kugelsicherer Weste, Handschellen und Pfefferspray klingeln in Nordhausen morgens bei jungen Bürgergeldbeziehenden, um sie zum 1-€-Job zu fahren. Der SPD-Landrat diffamiert sie öffentlich als "Generation von Faulenzern." Oh Wunder, ich bin dagegen.
www.zeit.de/2026/07/buer...
Bürgergeld in Thüringen: Braucht es eine Arbeitspflicht?
Matthias Jendricke schickt bei jungen, arbeitsunwilligen Bürgergeldempfängern das Ordnungsamt vorbei. Die Aktivistin Helena Steinhaus sagt: Das macht alles nur schlimmer.
www.zeit.de
February 12, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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averyedison.com
sigh
Post from Avery Edison: I wrote "I am alive" on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
February 11, 2026 at 2:28 PM
kilinguistics.bsky.social
Geld sparen durch digitale Unabhängigkeit. Wann geht es in Deutschland endlich los?

Aus der taz vom 10.2.2026
Steuergeld für Microsoft
von Svenja Bergt
online unter:
www.taz.de/!6152601
Digitale Abhängigkeit von den USA: Bund zahlt mehr für Microsoft-Lizenzen
Die Bundesverwaltung setzt stark auf Produkte des US-Techkonzerns. Frankreich hingegen macht sich unabhängig – und spart dabei sogar Steuergeld.
www.taz.de
February 9, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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nick-pettigrew.bsky.social
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
dancow.bsky.social Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 7d
VC, founder, dumbass
@Nick_Davidov Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops" Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything. It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure. She didn't have Time Machine. Disc recovery tools can't see anything. I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days). I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack. Nick Davidov • @Nick_Davidov VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵)

Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM.
Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.
The first attempt to reconstruct Tyrannosaurus rex, in the 1905 paper in which Osborn named it and a panel mount of the skeleton (middle), from the 1916 paper in which Osborn described and named it.
February 2, 2026 at 2:22 PM
kilinguistics.bsky.social
Christians re-interpreting the structure as involving a causative conversion here.
tamslick.bsky.social Tamara Keel @tamslick.bsky.social · 6d
I’m beginning to think these weirdos aren’t parsing “suffer the children” correctly.
February 9, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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nelsonlflores.bsky.social
Since presumably the people complaining don’t know Spanish their assumption seems to be that the very presence of Spanish is a political message. This is a great example of a raciolinguistic ideology.
February 9, 2026 at 5:04 AM
kilinguistics.bsky.social
Heute tatsächlich geschrieben "bitte lesen Sie meine Email noch mal aufmerksam".
Ende des Semesters und die Geduld auf Grundeis.
February 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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ingridrobeyns.bsky.social
The Epstein files: a gold mine for sociologists uncovering the structures of the global elites, especially those not caring about what is moral or legal, and what is not.
www.justice.gov/epstein
 
www.justice.gov
February 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM