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@outeast.bsky.social
Won't post much as I have no insight or expertise, but sometimes forget that when drunk with the power of a keyboard. Pronouns whatever. Writer, editor etc. of ESL materials in Prague. Interests here: Politics, climate, SFF, linguistics, i dunno
I can't be the first to tag @actualnames.bsky.social in here.
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I can't be the first to tag @actualnames.bsky.social in here.
Happy World Linguistics Day from Prague, Czechia!
Happy World Linguistics Day from Montreal, Canada!
(I wonder how many different places we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!)
(I wonder how many different places we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!)
Happy World Linguistics Day from Melbourne, Australia!
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Happy World Linguistics Day from Prague, Czechia!
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
I think I'm anonymous enough to post this. A contracted writer on the pub I work for sent in a *clearly* AI written article and my bosses were *too embarrassed* to challenge her over it.
Absolutely terrifying perfect about what happened when one editor started digging into a pitch that was too good to be true, and uncovered countless AI-generated fake articles in international outlets under the same byline
A plea to all outlets - start training people to spot this stuff
A plea to all outlets - start training people to spot this stuff
November 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I think I'm anonymous enough to post this. A contracted writer on the pub I work for sent in a *clearly* AI written article and my bosses were *too embarrassed* to challenge her over it.
Loving A Market of Dreams & Destiny by @trip.bsky.social. I discovered it via a recommendation by Tom Pollock, whose work I adore but who seems to have all but disappeared after several splendid books - this recommendation being the only news I could find. Much love to you Tom if you're out there.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Loving A Market of Dreams & Destiny by @trip.bsky.social. I discovered it via a recommendation by Tom Pollock, whose work I adore but who seems to have all but disappeared after several splendid books - this recommendation being the only news I could find. Much love to you Tom if you're out there.
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Thanks for ordering again, truly -- writing this book was so hard and took so much longer than I even could have anticipated, and I'm so glad you're still here 🩷
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Thanks for ordering again, truly -- writing this book was so hard and took so much longer than I even could have anticipated, and I'm so glad you're still here 🩷
Oh I just found out the sequel to HENCH is actually-and-for-real happening! I had this on Audible pre-order for aaaaages but gave up. Just happily re-pre-ordered. If you haven't read Hench, I *highly* recommend it - it's tremendous fun.
Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Oh I just found out the sequel to HENCH is actually-and-for-real happening! I had this on Audible pre-order for aaaaages but gave up. Just happily re-pre-ordered. If you haven't read Hench, I *highly* recommend it - it's tremendous fun.
Good morning first snow of the year!
November 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Good morning first snow of the year!
The Christmas movie argument starts earlier every year
15 years of having to watch ppl argue about whether Die Hard is the best Christmas movie when Home Alone is right there
November 24, 2025 at 7:15 AM
The Christmas movie argument starts earlier every year
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The Belfast walls prove more enduring than the Berlin Wall bit.ly/4p8ykYY more than a quarter of a century after the Good Friday agreement Belfast is still a (physically) divided city
97 ‘peace walls’ still divide Belfast. Will they ever come down?
Twenty-seven years on from the Good Friday agreement, miles of ‘peace walls’ still separate Protestants and Catholics in Belfast. Some people want them built higher
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Belfast walls prove more enduring than the Berlin Wall bit.ly/4p8ykYY more than a quarter of a century after the Good Friday agreement Belfast is still a (physically) divided city
Google this not the other thing
I would like all of you, each and every one, to go google “Miss Universe National Costume Competition 2025 Norway” right now
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Google this not the other thing
'Good presentation, though it was a little bit distracting the way you kept silently mouthing "Monday Friday"'
this inspired by a friend in a highly corporate line of work who was having kittens at having to address a large group of important people and just told me that my suggestion of adding "motherfucker" under his breath at the end of every sentence worked wonders.
Of course it did. It never fails.
Of course it did. It never fails.
the key to overcoming imposter syndrome lies not in understanding that you're better than this but in accepting that everyone else is worse than this
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
'Good presentation, though it was a little bit distracting the way you kept silently mouthing "Monday Friday"'
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When I arrive at the party
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
When I arrive at the party
Well this is one way to guarantee engagement
Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Well this is one way to guarantee engagement
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I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
Signed Away | Sara Nović
The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
thebaffler.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
Day of Struggle for Freedom and Democracy.
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Day of Struggle for Freedom and Democracy.
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Some of you want life to go back to how it was in 2016. That's your version of The Good Time (tm), because it was before ICE raids, and DOGE, and before science funding cuts.
But that's not what I want.
I want to go forward to The Good Times(tm), where Black folk don't get treated like this either
But that's not what I want.
I want to go forward to The Good Times(tm), where Black folk don't get treated like this either
November 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Some of you want life to go back to how it was in 2016. That's your version of The Good Time (tm), because it was before ICE raids, and DOGE, and before science funding cuts.
But that's not what I want.
I want to go forward to The Good Times(tm), where Black folk don't get treated like this either
But that's not what I want.
I want to go forward to The Good Times(tm), where Black folk don't get treated like this either
Splendid stuff! Read the alt text for sheep* delight.
*Genuinely made a typo that corrected to "sheep" not "sheer" here and, well, some things are clearly Meant To Be
*Genuinely made a typo that corrected to "sheep" not "sheer" here and, well, some things are clearly Meant To Be
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Splendid stuff! Read the alt text for sheep* delight.
*Genuinely made a typo that corrected to "sheep" not "sheer" here and, well, some things are clearly Meant To Be
*Genuinely made a typo that corrected to "sheep" not "sheer" here and, well, some things are clearly Meant To Be
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The thing I despise is inhumanity. It’s not really a political position, it’s an existential one. But if your political party manoeuvres itself into a place where it practises and promotes inhumanity, I will despise you.
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The thing I despise is inhumanity. It’s not really a political position, it’s an existential one. But if your political party manoeuvres itself into a place where it practises and promotes inhumanity, I will despise you.
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The Prescott memo contained no research questions or objectives, method, sample, time frame or, crucially, analytical framework for examining output.
BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands
The Prescott memo contained no research questions or objectives, method, sample, time frame or, crucially, analytical framework for examining output.
tcnv.link
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The Prescott memo contained no research questions or objectives, method, sample, time frame or, crucially, analytical framework for examining output.
Cat
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November 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Cat
The evidence against him is concrete - and growing #ObligatoryJoke
Mike Graham sacked from TalkTV after ‘failure’ to assist inquiry into racist post
Mike Graham sacked from TalkTV after ‘failure’ to assist inquiry into racist post
Broadcaster suspended presenter last month over Facebook post he said happened after account was hacked
The presenter Mike Graham has been dismissed from Rupert Murdoch’s digital channel TalkTV, after the company said he had failed to cooperate with an investigation into a racist post that appeared on one of his social media accounts.
Graham, 65, was suspended by the broadcaster, owned by Murdoch’s News UK, after concerns were raised about the message, which was posted on his Facebook account last month. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The evidence against him is concrete - and growing #ObligatoryJoke
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The Dems I voted for are literally voting to confirm Trump’s fascists. So this argument doesn’t hold water anymore.
Staying at home is a vote for the fascists…
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
The Dems I voted for are literally voting to confirm Trump’s fascists. So this argument doesn’t hold water anymore.
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Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
Inelegant variation
Spoiler: It’s turkeys.
Sainsbury's has been hit by a supply issue with its Christmas turkeys this year, with the supermarket unable to offer a popular item to shoppers this festive season
November 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Inelegant variation