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Nick Fleisher

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Linguist at UW-Milwaukee. Syntax & semantics, higher ed, Wisconsin politics &c.

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · Nov 4

Grammar/syntax/semantics
Wisconsin politics
Academic freedom and shared governance
Philadelphia and Philadelphia sports
Modular synthesizers
Open source software
Stockholm, Sweden
All things Donald Fagen

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · Nov 4

okay, time for a prompt post to distract us all from the horrors. quote this post with your areas of expertise, interest, hyperfixation and/or obsession and invite your audience to ask you questions about them.

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 1h

Rosie O'Donnell

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1h

The question is who winning the peace prize would piss Trump off the most?

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 1h

Somehow that got me thinking about 89, and now I am thinking: who is the player who is most hated but would have been most loved by Philly fans if he had ever played there, and I think the answer is Chris Chelios by a mile

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 1h

Somewhat more niche but Ryan Howard taking a called third strike to end the 2010 season also left a mark

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 1h

Never

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 1h

I mean '93 was pretty bad

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 1h

This is why we watch sports: because you never know when you're going to witness the worst thing you've ever seen on a field of play

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 2h

Ending your team's season on a little league-level brain fart is about as brutal as it gets in baseball

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 2h

At least now I can unproblematically root for the Brewers to go all the way

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 2h

Ending your team's season on a little league-level brain fart is about as brutal as it gets in baseball

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 2h

Everybody in the stadium knew Kerkering should go to first, including him as he threw it

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Highest called strike I've seen in my life

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 2h

Unintimidated by Scott Walker, Marc Thiessen: 9781101636213 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

“Today, we can sound like conservatives and act like conservatives—and still win elections. Those who say we can’t don’t see what I see in Wisconsin and what my...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 3h

Checking in with Scott Walker's ghostwriter

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 3h

A columnist still at WaPo.

Headline: "Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize."

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Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social · 8h

An actual opposition party would run this on a loop in every conceivable space.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 9h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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jUNKIEd in MKE @junkiedinmke.bsky.social · 11h

Just rode the new N. Lake Dr. protected bike lane for the first time. Very nice. Really like the concrete dividers. #Milwaukee #bicycles #SafeStreets 🚲

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 8h

There should be a government mandated warning label that is just the truth table for conjunction

Americans can’t stop betting parlays. Sportbooks are cashing in.

As betting booms, parlays are accounting for an increasing share of the money wagered on sports, according to a Washington Post analysis of state data.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 9h

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9h

The administration dedicated to fighting antisemitism, folks 🤦‍♂️

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 9h

For additional context, this interview is from May 2023, in the middle of a writers' strike where AI was one of the key sticking points

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 23h

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h

You must defer to the president’s determination that there is an armed rebellion in Chicago, argues the govt’s lawyer.

That’s the Trump admin’s stance on everything. When the law doesn’t allow it, lie about the facts until it’s something that would be legal, then insist others live inside the lie.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 11h

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 9h

The more people understand that Stephen Miller is running the White House, the more daylight there is between what's going on and Trump himself. And that creates openings for criticism from Republicans.

Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 10h

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 12h

I think the nearest equivalent in English for the original example would just be "Your name?", consistent with the idea that there's a kind of implicit matrix "I asked..." (and in this case in English we get concealed question syntax)

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 12h

This album is what 10th grade sounds like

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 13h

Awesome! Thanks for sharing

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 14h

If Trump doesn't get the Nobel Peace Prize tomorrow he will be back to saying Israel should do whatever the hell it wants within days, if not hours

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 3d

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Letter Regarding Compact

MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors October 6, 2025 Statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” MIT has been invited by the federal governmen...

docs.google.com

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