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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

@warnock.senate.gov: "As a man of faith, here's something that I have noticed about evil... Evil always gets a little bit too impressed with itself. It's filled up with hubris. Evil always goes too far, and because it goes too far, it contains within itself the seed of its own destruction."

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 2d

Turns out that when Americans said "If it weren't for us you'd be speaking German now..." their objection was to learning a second language, not fascism.

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Kevin Lossner @kslossner.bsky.social · 2d

Housing terror?

Kevin Lossner @kslossner.bsky.social · 3d

That's the right approach. I would shut all the MAGAts up in re-education camps.

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Kevin Lossner @kslossner.bsky.social · 5d

Be that nobody.

Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 5d

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Kevin Lossner @kslossner.bsky.social · 5d

Miller should be tried and hanged for treason.

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Kevin Lossner @kslossner.bsky.social · 6d

I look forward to the trial and conviction of Nazi Barbie.

Kevin Lossner @kslossner.bsky.social · 6d

I prefer to refer to these fascists as " gallows bait".

Kevin Lossner @kslossner.bsky.social · 6d

Looking for a good travel model, as my regular unit is quite bulky for backpacking. But at least resupply and replacement is no issue in Portugal. The public service contractor responds in hours, even delivered once at a restaurant.

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 8d

Confs: 3rd International Conference on the Asturian Language

Call for papers for the “3rd International Conference on the Asturian Language: Distinctiveness, Identity, and Officiality” We invite 20-minute (plus 10-minute discussion) presentation proposals on the following general and/or specific topics: General Topics: - Study of the distinctive properties of the Asturian language in phonology and phonetics, morphology, lexis, syntax, semantics, pragmatics. Linguistics and history. - Typological and comparative studies on the Asturian language and

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Kevin Lossner @kslossner.bsky.social · 10d

Langston Hughes is one of those poets left out of my American literature courses, but one I turn to when I need the sense of things.

A beautiful reading of one of his best works.

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"Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes, performed by Aldo Billingslea

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 11d

I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers:

NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.

and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.

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Surviving Texas @itscindyrae.bsky.social · 11d

(AP) - An experimental medication made from marijuana successfully reduced back pain in a new study, offering further support for the drug's potential in treating one of the most common forms of chronic pain.

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Kevin Lossner @kslossner.bsky.social · 10d

Sounds like a better approach than most of what I have seen in translation studies curricula.

Tony Rosado, CI @rpstranslations.bsky.social · 11d

slcl.illinois.edu/news/2025-09...

Translation and interpreting studies professor designs new course focused on translation and culture | School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics | Illinois

A professor in the Program in Translation & Interpreting Studies (TIS) has developed a new course that aims to help students critically engage with translation across various media and contexts.

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Kevin Lossner @kslossner.bsky.social · 10d

Of course, those idiots claimed a form I obtained myself was "unacceptable", though the German and US criminal histories they demanded were obtained by me personally and accepted without any issues. Truly a circus, and I am glad that tent has burned to the ground.

Kevin Lossner @kslossner.bsky.social · 10d

Their "experts" in the UK claimed to have a local attorney in Portugal who needed complicated permissions to get my criminal history from Portuguese authorities; after multiple failures with their bizarre form (reasons for rejection unclear), I got it myself at the local courthouse for a €5 fee.

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Kevin Lossner @kslossner.bsky.social · 10d

For several weeks, they demanded that I produce a "certificate" showing that I was authorized to work in Portugal. While I think there may be such a thing for EU citizens, I am a US citizen whose work permission is stated explicitly on my Portuguese permanent residence card.

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Kevin Lossner @kslossner.bsky.social · 10d

My experiences in just over six months with that company makes me wonder what such organizations contribute to Portugal. Onboarding was a nightmare that lasted weeks, largely it seemed because the UK company tasked with security and employment law vetting knew nothing of local law and procedure.

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Kevin Lossner @kslossner.bsky.social · 10d

Good grief. Three weeks ago I finished a contract with an Indian affiliate company in Portugal, and they still haven't managed to pick up the work equipment which has been ready to go all this time. When they finally did try to schedule, they did so at a time I was unavailable, at the wrong address.

A poster with three monkeys and the words "Not my circus, not my monkeys"

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Kevin Lossner @kslossner.bsky.social · 11d

Hated the movie when it was released....

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The Beatles - Yellow Submarine 1968 Bluray 1080p

YouTube video by Cristhofer_YT95CQ Stems

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Kevin Lossner @kslossner.bsky.social · 12d

William Spivey does it again, shining his light in a dark place of US history.

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The Killing Houses: Not Even Taught in the State Where it Happened

The Most Brutal Massacre in American History?

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 12d

More Gun Violence.

More Gun Violence

Michigan, this time.

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Kevin Lossner @kslossner.bsky.social · 12d

As we change, the books we know are rewritten in a sense, as we read them again through different lenses. That aspect of literature is, for me personally, as worthy of exploration as any of technique, narrative, etc.

Kevin Lossner @kslossner.bsky.social · 12d

And back then, the infrequent female-centered narratives were often confusing. When Ursula LeGuin published her fourth Earthsea book, I was shaken by the perspective shift. Re-reading it last year, it was hard to understand why it was so troubling years ago.

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