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Brandon Edwards
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Linguist & current M.A. student in Japanese literature at CU Boulder. I currently work on Old Japanese and Middle Korean. Also: coffee nerd, environmentalist. (he/him)
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bgedw.bsky.social
One of my favorite professors at UW recently got a spotlight article in NYT! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/p...
Want to Have Better Sex This Year? Here’s How.
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:58 AM
bgedw.bsky.social
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Tell Congress: Save Public Broadcasting
The White House just released a budget proposal that would eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which supports the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). We can’t let this ...
sign.moveon.org
April 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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caitlinmoriah.bsky.social
cannot express how much i hate the word “linguist” being the first word in this post exclusively containing reactionary both sides bullshit. he is not acting in his capacity as a linguist here, nor as a professor. here he is fulfilling his duties as a staff member of a far-right political think tank
Honestly with Bari... @thehonestlypod Follow Linguist @JohnHMcWhorter is now "frightened" by illiberalism on both the left and the right. "Wokeness from the left doesn't have the power that it had five years ago, but it does hold on there... From the right, it's frightening because we have an administration in power run by someone who has no business in the office and has hired a clown car of a cabinet to help him not run the country. The illiberalism from both sides is very frightening to me.”
April 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
The number of good points per minute in this video is extremely high, which is wild because it is 2 hours and 40 minutes long.

youtu.be/teqkK0RLNkI?...
CONSPIRACY | contrapoints
YouTube video by ContraPoints
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March 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
Republicans passed and defended a law making it illegal to provide water to people waiting in line to vote.
tomjoscelyn.bsky.social Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · Mar 28
Elon Musk advertises his blatantly corrupt attempt to buy a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court:
March 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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ucpress.bsky.social
We are so excited to be publishing Ann Carlson, featured in this @nytimes.com article chronicling her experience of harassment because of her environmental work. Stay tuned for more on her book SUNSHINE, SMOG, AND THE SURPRISING STORY OF HOW LOS ANGELES CLEANED UP ITS AIR, coming Spring 2026.
She Inspired Laws to Hold the Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable. Now She’s a Target.
A conservative group is suing for emails of a law professor who helped create legislation to force oil, gas and coal companies to pay for climate damage.
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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samtranum.bsky.social
"Parisians vote in a referendum on Sunday to decide whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised and greened, in a new push by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality."
Paris residents to vote on making 500 more streets pedestrian
Parisians vote in a referendum on Sunday to decide whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised and greened, in a new push by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.
www.reuters.com
March 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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kilinguistics.bsky.social
Yup, got pirated by Meta.
Screen shot of some of my publications in LibGen, including the following four: "A Grammar of Daakaka", "Alienability as control: the case of Daakaka", "Predication and information structure in Mandarin Chinese" and "Dozing eyes and drunken faces"
March 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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acollierastro.bsky.social
So weird I posted this video and I ended it with "Will women even be allowed in space in 2024?" And people got so defensive like I was being crazy. Huh. Wild.

This video references the myth of Artemis but maybe I am Cassandra.

youtu.be/WBlzD6MZ9A0
March 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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markstay.bsky.social
Me and countless other authors today…😂
March 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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theurbanist.org
The Washington House of Representatives has passed legislation setting goals that could more than double service and significantly shrink travel times on Amtrak Cascades. The Washington State Senate still needs to sign off on the legislation.

Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/03/14/s...
An Amtrak Cascades train dwells at King Street Station in Seattle
March 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
bgedw.bsky.social
Thank you Google, that's incredibly insightful
February 23, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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theurbanist.org
This Seattle infill housing project will help prevent over 10 acres of suburban sprawl and tree canopy loss in Puget Sound.
theurbanist.org The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · Feb 16
In Wallingford, a land use application for a 5-story apartment building with 80 homes, retail, and 0 car parking has been approved. services.seattle.gov/Portal/Custo...
Rendering
February 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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coloradosun.com/2025/02/13/d...
Denver, Boulder restaurants could pay tipped workers less when their gratuities exceed minimum wage under proposed law
Restaurant owners say that changing the tip credit will go further to ease inflationary costs and help them survive. About 21,000 tipped workers in Colorado could see a dip in base pay, but tips or th...
coloradosun.com
February 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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bryandaniellowe.bsky.social
Japanese narrative picture scroll depicting a government official who, after wrongly being fired from his job, returns to wreak havoc on those in the capital who wronged him. #medievalsky
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Scroll with Japanese text on left and image of red deity sending down lightning at black robed aristocrats on the right.
February 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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astrokatie.com
It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives
Trump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal experts
The Constitution, federal law and court decisions make it clear: President Donald Trump's order to pause federal funding is against the law, legal experts tell ABC News.
abcnews.go.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:54 AM
bgedw.bsky.social
Speakers of American/Canadian English: www.englishspeechservices.com/survey-north...
Survey of North American English Pronunciation
Survey of North American English Pronunciation
www.englishspeechservices.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
bgedw.bsky.social
Mandela effect moment. I could have sworn Washington was the 43rd state to join the union but apparently it's the 42nd
January 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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npr.org
Costco’s shareholders voted overwhelmingly to reject a proposal from a conservative think tank aimed at getting the company to roll back its diversity hiring practices.
Costco's shareholders overwhelmingly reject anti-DEI proposal
Costco's shareholders voted overwhelmingly to reject a motion that would seek report on the risks of diversity, equity and inclusion in the company's hiring practices.
www.npr.org
January 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
bgedw.bsky.social
If you value Wikipedia as a source of info for general use, or Wiktionary or Wikidata or any other project, make sure you are supporting them when they are under fire from those who benefit from restricting information. @wikimediafoundation.org
January 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
bgedw.bsky.social
Going to the Shōsōin conference "Tangible Knowledge" @princetonccsr.bsky.social in early March. Excited to learn more about the Shōsōin to inform my current work on Nara (and immediately pre-Nara) literary culture in Japan
January 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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librarycolleen.bsky.social
Japan libraries to trial book sales amid decline in bookstores 📚
english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/11...
Japan libraries to trial book sales amid decline in bookstores
Some public libraries in Japan will trial sales of new books from fiscal 2025 to fill the void caused by a nationwide decline in the number of physical bookstores, industry officials say.
english.kyodonews.net
November 24, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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louca-mai.bsky.social
Really interesting article on the slow death of #AcademicTwitter: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
HT @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social who shared on LinkedIn
#AcademicSky @academic-chatter.bsky.social
The Vibes Are Off: Did Elon Musk Push Academics Off Twitter? | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
The Vibes Are Off: Did Elon Musk Push Academics Off Twitter?
www.cambridge.org
October 18, 2024 at 6:56 AM
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danielrisbell.bsky.social
My university (and sister department) is hiring an Assistant Professor in #Korean #Linguistics

www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa...
Assistant Professor (Korean Linguistics)
Title: Assistant Professor (Korean Linguistics)Hiring Unit: College of Arts, Languages & Letters, Department of East Asian Languages & LiteraturesLocation: Manoa CampusDate posted: October 16, 2024Clo...
www.schooljobs.com
October 18, 2024 at 1:30 AM