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Seán Bartz @excitedstate.bsky.social · 1h

The creeping menace is spreading. They are coming for our vowels.

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Seán Bartz @excitedstate.bsky.social · 1h

Me and my childhood friend Shaan may have to fight you, sorry to say

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Seán Bartz @excitedstate.bsky.social · 1h

Does Sean rhyme with John?

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Seán Bartz @excitedstate.bsky.social · 2h

They call it map porn on reddit, but you gotta know where to look if you want the truly sick shit

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Seán Bartz @excitedstate.bsky.social · 2h

This is pretty consistent with the Atlas of North American English. Less detail in the East, more (necessarily) detail in the West aschmann.net/AmEng/#Small...

The Atlas of North American English, with a truly insane level of detail

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3h

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Seán Bartz @excitedstate.bsky.social · 2h

In fact, the original map looks like a smoothed out version of the Atlas of North American English

The Atlas of North American English map https://aschmann.net/AmEng/

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Seán Bartz @excitedstate.bsky.social · 2h

Northern Cities Vowel Shift, baby! aka the places where people say Rochester the way people from Rochester say Rochester

Linguistic map of the Inland North dialect. Areas that are within brown, blue, and red have all features of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift. Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Michigan's lower peninsula, Chicago, Milwaukee

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Seán Bartz @excitedstate.bsky.social · 3h

They are quite similar

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 4h

pausing the new Jay Electronica every couple of lines to say “ha ha, that’s crazy man”

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Seán Bartz @excitedstate.bsky.social · 4h

Internet meme culture and anti-humor have reached their apotheosis, where memes no longer have context, a referent, or meaning. Words and sounds emerge from a primordial soup of symbols to briefly ensnare the brains of every gen alpha child before disappearing into the ether

Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 5h

I LIVED IT

my kids wont stop saying 6 -7

Despite my best efforts, they have fallen to internet brainrot

Seán Bartz @excitedstate.bsky.social · 5h

Reptar on ICE

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Seán Bartz @excitedstate.bsky.social · 5h

*Jewel voice*
These are the times that try-ee-ay men's souls

Seán Bartz @excitedstate.bsky.social · 15h

Preseason overtime should be sudden death

Tony East @tonyreast.bsky.social · 15h

T-Wolves off at the buzzer and this game is going to overtime.

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Seán Bartz @excitedstate.bsky.social · 15h

Roy Hibbert gave me his tickets to that game via Twitter. One of the highlights of that app for me

Seán Bartz @excitedstate.bsky.social · 15h

Would not be the first time Pacers played an OT preseason game in Minnesota. I was there in 2010 for one

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Seán Bartz @excitedstate.bsky.social · 16h

In a bit of foreshadowing, Kamikaze did not live long

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Seán Bartz @excitedstate.bsky.social · 16h

Helen Keller visited imperial Japan and brought home an Akita named Kamikaze-Go

Helen Keller had a Japanese Akita dog named Kamikaze-go; She was the first to bring an Akita dog to the United States | The Vintage News

Helen Keller is one of the most memorable women in history. Her life story became an inspiration to many people, showing that it doesn't matter if

www.thevintagenews.com

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Seán Bartz @excitedstate.bsky.social · 16h

Nightmare blunt rotation

Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 17h

I mean, everyone On Here knows this, but Marx being a huge fan of Lincoln (and going from liking Johnson to hating him) blew my mind when I first read about it.

But my favorite is that in 1913 Freud, Hitler, Trotsky, Stalin, and Franz Joseph all lived a couple of miles from each other in Vienna.