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The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid

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the alter ego of @laymanslinguist

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The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid @pinkatydid.bsky.social · Mar 23

Hot tip:

There are so many c*bertr*cks in Arizona so I, as is my patriotic duty, always make a cartoonishly visible display of pointing and laughing at them which I did not realize was so much more effective at inducing road rage than every bird I've ever flipped all combined.

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The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid @pinkatydid.bsky.social · 14d

POV you try to take a bubble bath but it immediately starts to thunder outside

My dark brown dog sitting in front of a toilet staring at me

The same dog looking sadly down at the floor but somehow still staring up at me

The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid @pinkatydid.bsky.social · Aug 30

Maybe I can do a paper mache thing with it

The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid @pinkatydid.bsky.social · Aug 30

I like when first dates bring me flowers which leads me to wonder why I always have to scramble to, for instance, knife the top off a plastic water jug in order to keep them alive. This cannot be how other grownups live.

A bunch of pretty flowers in a big plastic jug of water on a table surrounded by books and a lamp

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The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid @pinkatydid.bsky.social · Aug 29

Just two predators ~15 mins after the hatchery guys showed up to restock the lake.

(They did not try to catch a single fish. They just spent 3 hours of enrichment time watching them like an aquarium.)

One brown hound dog and one white hound dog looking intently into the water of a lake while standing on the sandy shore

The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid @pinkatydid.bsky.social · Aug 26

I'm glad I convinced him to get a working alarm lol

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The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid @pinkatydid.bsky.social · Aug 26

They had to call the gas guys but we figured it out and shockingly enough the cause is my landlord being lazy and cheap

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The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid @pinkatydid.bsky.social · Aug 26

The good news: Absolutely nailed my grandma's tomato pie recipe

The bad news: I had to bake so many things that it caused a carbon monoxide detector to go off and the fire department had to come and I've been microdosing brain death since I moved here two years ago

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The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid @pinkatydid.bsky.social · Aug 11

I recently ordered a "personal back massager" 😉😉 if you know what I mean 😉😉😉 but I'm almost 40 and slept on my neck a lil weird last night so now we get to see how much bang I really got for my buck

The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid @pinkatydid.bsky.social · Aug 6

Hiking at the ponderosa pine lakes >>

Sandy beach at a blue lake surrounded by ponderosa pines

Reposted by The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid

The Layman's Linguist @laymanslinguist.bsky.social · Jul 9

Met another self-described "cunning linguist" on bumble but this one might be salvageable

Him: it's actually true though. I treat language like a blade: beautiful, dangerous, and best wielded with intent.
Me: okay that's actually kinda hot

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The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid @pinkatydid.bsky.social · Jul 5

So close, that is a truck

A screenshot of a reply to one of my photos on hinge. The photo is of my truck at a campsite by the lake. The reply says "you look suspiciously innocent...."

The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid @pinkatydid.bsky.social · Jul 5

Haha oh no worries then! I'd never heard of the first quote they mention so that was definitely quite interesting!

The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid @pinkatydid.bsky.social · Jul 5

Sorry, what was I whining about…?

The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid @pinkatydid.bsky.social · Jul 4

As always, my favorite oft-abridged quote on patriotism:

"My country, right or wrong. If right, to be kept right—if wrong, to be set right."

-an immigrant to the US who volunteered to fight for the Union in our Civil War

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The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid @pinkatydid.bsky.social · Jul 4

Welp, time for leftists' annual tradition of reconciling "cookouts with my friends are fun" with "American nationalism is a plague"

Meet back here in 4 months for "bringing families together over a big shared meal is nice" vs "American nationalism has always been a plague" 🦃

JULY 4TH Checklist [picture of a hot dog bun on a late with some veggies]
•Hot dogs
•Beer
•Chips
•The unshakeable feeling ofdread that this country is doomed and there is absolutely nothing we can do to prevent its inevitable collapse
•Ketchup

The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid @pinkatydid.bsky.social · Jul 4

Happy Found-in-a-Box Day to my tiny lil 55lb middle-aged puppy

imjustababy.mp4 smolbean.txt

The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid @pinkatydid.bsky.social · Jun 30

The lady who took the first photo came over to look at the second photo to see if it was better

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The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid @pinkatydid.bsky.social · Jun 30

They literally earned the death penalty with the blur they put on my lip line

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The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid @pinkatydid.bsky.social · Jun 30

These ID photos were taken a few months apart at the same DMV so if you think the person who takes your photo hates you, I just want you to know that they absolutely do. They want you to ugly and they did that on purpose. It's not your fault. You're hot af and they hate you for it.