Joe Comer
@jomercoe.bsky.social
slowly migrating from the bad website //
research about language, mobility, bodies, materiality, belonging, queerness, and lately, passports //
sometimes sassy, profane, and opinionated on the internet 💅🏻 // www.josephcomer.net
research about language, mobility, bodies, materiality, belonging, queerness, and lately, passports //
sometimes sassy, profane, and opinionated on the internet 💅🏻 // www.josephcomer.net
You don't exactly have to be a sociolinguist (or a historian, or a scholar of migration...) to be pretty disgusted by Kier Starmer's rhetoric around language and immigration in the UK...
You just kind of have to realise that learning languages is not, like, instant ... or easy ... or cheap ...
You just kind of have to realise that learning languages is not, like, instant ... or easy ... or cheap ...
May 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
You don't exactly have to be a sociolinguist (or a historian, or a scholar of migration...) to be pretty disgusted by Kier Starmer's rhetoric around language and immigration in the UK...
You just kind of have to realise that learning languages is not, like, instant ... or easy ... or cheap ...
You just kind of have to realise that learning languages is not, like, instant ... or easy ... or cheap ...
Teaching young people about the wonder of language and sociocultural analysis has been, without question, the greatest honour of my professional life, and it's something I value beyond measure ... AND YET
May 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Teaching young people about the wonder of language and sociocultural analysis has been, without question, the greatest honour of my professional life, and it's something I value beyond measure ... AND YET
Do I know anyone going to the SLA meeting in Chicago at the end of this month, who is still looking for accommodation?
Reach out if you'd be interested in sharing an AirBnB!
Reach out if you'd be interested in sharing an AirBnB!
May 1, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Do I know anyone going to the SLA meeting in Chicago at the end of this month, who is still looking for accommodation?
Reach out if you'd be interested in sharing an AirBnB!
Reach out if you'd be interested in sharing an AirBnB!
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“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”
“Can ChatGPT experience joy or suffering? Does Gemini deserve human rights?” our tech columnist asks. “Many A.I. experts I know would say no, not yet, not even close. But I was intrigued.”
Should We Start Taking the Welfare of A.I. Seriously?
As artificial intelligence systems become smarter, one A.I. company is trying to figure out what to do if they become conscious.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”
A while back I was really privileged to review the *excellent* Language and Neoliberal Governmentality by Luisa Martín Rojo and Alfonso Del Percio, for Language in Society:
doi.org/10.1017/s004...
doi.org/10.1017/s004...
Luisa Martín Rojo & Alfonso Del Percio (eds.), Language and neoliberal governmentality. New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 242. Pb. £38.99. | Language in Society | Cambridge Core
Luisa Martín Rojo & Alfonso Del Percio (eds.), Language and neoliberal governmentality. New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 242. Pb. £38.99. - Volume 54 Issue 1
doi.org
March 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A while back I was really privileged to review the *excellent* Language and Neoliberal Governmentality by Luisa Martín Rojo and Alfonso Del Percio, for Language in Society:
doi.org/10.1017/s004...
doi.org/10.1017/s004...
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having their executive order to combat antisemitism be order number "14188" is the kind of thing they do to make us look crazy for pointing it out.
March 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
having their executive order to combat antisemitism be order number "14188" is the kind of thing they do to make us look crazy for pointing it out.
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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
February 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
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Remember, especially today, this hand on your shoulder could be your own:
February 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Remember, especially today, this hand on your shoulder could be your own:
[extremely Rafiki voice] it is time!
February 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
[extremely Rafiki voice] it is time!
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The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.
February 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.
Some extremely niche information about me is that when I was a child and obsessed with the encyclopaedia (and especially geography) I used to think the historic "Orange Free State" in what is now South Africa was ... a place where oranges weren't allowed
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Some extremely niche information about me is that when I was a child and obsessed with the encyclopaedia (and especially geography) I used to think the historic "Orange Free State" in what is now South Africa was ... a place where oranges weren't allowed
The sound of that Sharpie, I swear to god
January 31, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The sound of that Sharpie, I swear to god
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i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
Why does this all have to be so fucking stupid ... ya know?
January 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Why does this all have to be so fucking stupid ... ya know?
Not to make light of anything very troubling about its production, but I feel like all I really need to know about It Ends With Us ... is that its two male leads' characters are named "Atlas" and "Ryle"
January 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Not to make light of anything very troubling about its production, but I feel like all I really need to know about It Ends With Us ... is that its two male leads' characters are named "Atlas" and "Ryle"
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lol u think im being a nazi!!! when in fact i was playing a prank to make u mad! my beliefs are isomorphic with those of the historical nazi party but nevertheless i tricked you in some way i cant quite articulate
January 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
lol u think im being a nazi!!! when in fact i was playing a prank to make u mad! my beliefs are isomorphic with those of the historical nazi party but nevertheless i tricked you in some way i cant quite articulate
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I often come back to Jane Hill’s excellent book “The Everyday Language of White Racism” and her point that “folk” ideologies of racism emphasize a nebulous, unknowable, and always somehow not racist underlying essence of actions. Here we are again.
don’t shoot me but my contentious view is that it probably wasn’t a Nazi salute - despite obvious similarities - and we shouldn’t claim to *know* that it was one
January 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I often come back to Jane Hill’s excellent book “The Everyday Language of White Racism” and her point that “folk” ideologies of racism emphasize a nebulous, unknowable, and always somehow not racist underlying essence of actions. Here we are again.
I hadn't paid any attention to Emilia Pérez yet, but now that I've read a bit of a synopsis and understand who's making it, it seems ... awful???
Like, maybe it would have been entertaining and "groundbreaking" [sic] in the 90's, but who is clamouring for a movie about a trans druglord/murderer?
Like, maybe it would have been entertaining and "groundbreaking" [sic] in the 90's, but who is clamouring for a movie about a trans druglord/murderer?
January 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I hadn't paid any attention to Emilia Pérez yet, but now that I've read a bit of a synopsis and understand who's making it, it seems ... awful???
Like, maybe it would have been entertaining and "groundbreaking" [sic] in the 90's, but who is clamouring for a movie about a trans druglord/murderer?
Like, maybe it would have been entertaining and "groundbreaking" [sic] in the 90's, but who is clamouring for a movie about a trans druglord/murderer?
I'm not sure I've ever enjoyed a novel with a title structure 'The ______ of _______' ... it's so common and yet there's something about it which just feels ... so pompous?
I'm sure I'm forgetting several masterpieces here so pls ignore me, this has been totally-invalid-literary-opinion corner
I'm sure I'm forgetting several masterpieces here so pls ignore me, this has been totally-invalid-literary-opinion corner
January 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I'm not sure I've ever enjoyed a novel with a title structure 'The ______ of _______' ... it's so common and yet there's something about it which just feels ... so pompous?
I'm sure I'm forgetting several masterpieces here so pls ignore me, this has been totally-invalid-literary-opinion corner
I'm sure I'm forgetting several masterpieces here so pls ignore me, this has been totally-invalid-literary-opinion corner
What 👏🏻 are 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 @'s 👏🏻 for 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 supporters 👏🏻 of 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 new 👏🏻 Danish 👏🏻 coat 👏🏻 of 👏🏻 arms 👏🏻
January 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
What 👏🏻 are 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 @'s 👏🏻 for 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 supporters 👏🏻 of 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 new 👏🏻 Danish 👏🏻 coat 👏🏻 of 👏🏻 arms 👏🏻
Hiiiiie everyone! Since 99% of the people I follow/am followed here in this new place are sociolinguists or sociolinguistics-adjacent, it seems appropriate to put out a little call for resources which might help me design a syllabus for a course called LANGUAGE AND BODY!
January 3, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Hiiiiie everyone! Since 99% of the people I follow/am followed here in this new place are sociolinguists or sociolinguistics-adjacent, it seems appropriate to put out a little call for resources which might help me design a syllabus for a course called LANGUAGE AND BODY!