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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 8d

On the eve of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Pierre Poilievre spoke out for the group he says faces the most hate-based violence.

Um, and apparently that group is…Christians? (It isn’t).

I called for backup on this one. Luckily @pampalmater.com answered:

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 8d

"Everyone should be able to express themselves in the way they want to!"

And also to not be subjected to state sponsored kidnapping of children, but ok.

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Breen Ouellette (he/him) @breeno.bsky.social · 8d

Orange Shirt Day is a time to reflect on Canada's continuing violence against Indigenous children.

It is a time to remember that Canada still takes Indigenous children from their families.

It is time to demand that these crimes stop. Not 150 years from now. Not a decade from now. NOW.

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 8d

My kids are now in grades 5 and 9, and past the age when one might suggest that only these stories are "age appropriate", fwiw.

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 8d

While I welcome increasing conversations on residential schools in Canada, after several years of noticing how the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation is engaged with at my kids' schools, it feels like the orange shirt story has become a sanitization of genocide.

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 8d

"How the Word is Passed" is my favourite non-fiction book of all time, both because of its information and because of its prose. An adaptation for young readers is amazing to hear about.

Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you CBS Mornings for having me. Excited to have this book out in the world today.

Clint Smith on adapting "How the Word Is Passed" for young readers

YouTube video by CBS Mornings

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 9d

This....requires a very strange definition of "civilized society".

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9d

Matt Walsh advocates for mass murdering people with schizophrenia by convicting them of who knows what and then killing them.

This is political violence btw.

Alt text: Screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog). He writes: "My solution to violent criminal sociopath lunatics is to convict them in a court of law and then kill them. This solution would have saved Iryna’s life. It would save hundreds of lives every year. You can just kill the worst and most dangerous people. This solution has been deployed to great effect by almost every civilized society on Earth for thousands of years."

Below his post is a reply from notsoErudite (@notsoErudite) dated Sep 28: "The right has 0 solution to this btw. Paranoid schizophrenic violent outbursts require an integrated care system to ensure he has access to and is taking his medication. Any they just defunded school lunches. They won't …"

The timestamp shows 6:15 PM · Sep 29, 2025, with 141.3K views.

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 9d

I have been a little bit under a rock and missed this *horrifying* action at U Alberta. The speed with which these kinds of attacks on freedom of expression are picking up in Canada is incredible - like movement that has finally hit the top of a hill and is racing down now.

Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 9d

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression

I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...

cfe.torontomu.ca

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 11d

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects

So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?

And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 26d

Oh god, the resurrection of “Je suis Charlie” 🤢

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 27d

I wrote a previous reply because I misread this as saying I was underestimating; the "we" here is probably true. Whatever semblance of a formal political left still exists is not actually in opposition to this.

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 27d

We are less than 24 hours after Kirk's death, and I've seen multiple people fired for saying anything negative about him, mainstream news outlets comparing him to Malcolm X, and a dominant discourse that treats him as a visionary leader. This is fucking *bananas*.

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 27d

As someone living outside but within spitting distance of the US, the feeling of dread at how the apparatus of maximum violence will respond to political violence against it is both intense and familiar.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 27d

Wild how political alliance with Zionism sweeps all sorts of wild statements about Jews under the table

Kirk said that Jewish people control “not just the colleges; it’s the nonprofits, it’s the movies, it’s Hollywood, it’s all of it.” Kirk also said ”the number one funding mechanism of radical, open border, neoliberal, quasi-Marxist policies, cultural institutions, and nonprofits" is “Jewish donors.” Claims that wealthy Jewish people and donors control major institutions and Hollywood are common antisemitic tropes. [Salem Media Group, The Charlie Kirk Show, 10/26/23; The Washington Post, 10/17/22; The Times of Israel, 11/17/22]

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 28d

Politicizing tragedy is always out of bounds and a horrific desecration of the victim if it’s in service of trying to prevent future tragedy by taking obvious and proved remedies.

But it’s perfectly fine if it’s in service of demonizing an out-group for retaliation with literally zero .

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 28d

Fox News' Jason Chaffetz: "I don’t think it was a coincidence that the shot rang out when you have a question about transgender mass shootings. Hopefully I am wrong. I will probably get criticized for jumping to conclusions... I don’t think that is a coincidence but we will see."

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · Sep 8

Oh hey, Happy Star Trek Day.

I wrote a thing.

Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · Sep 4

I have been slightly AWOL on here, but I am popping in to share a new article that I wrote which has just been published in the Journal of Linguistic Anthroplogy (open access!).

It is about Star Trek, the Universal Translator, and utopias.

anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper uses Star Trek's “Universal Translator” (UT) as a point of departure for considering the imagined future of mediated linguistic interactions and of contact across difference. Although such...

anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · Sep 4

This paper started years ago because I have never been able to stop thinking about the weird ideological implications of a universal translator as presented on Star Trek, and took a lot of work to wrangle into something worth saying about embodiment, mediation, and translation

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · Sep 4

I have been slightly AWOL on here, but I am popping in to share a new article that I wrote which has just been published in the Journal of Linguistic Anthroplogy (open access!).

It is about Star Trek, the Universal Translator, and utopias.

anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper uses Star Trek's “Universal Translator” (UT) as a point of departure for considering the imagined future of mediated linguistic interactions and of contact across difference. Although such...

anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Crunk @crunk1977.bsky.social · Jul 3

Joining ICE to fulfill his lifelong dream of killing some brown people. Pretty fucked up.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jul 3

So, who wants to join ICE?

"All his life he had hoped to fight wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. He’d joined the army hoping to fulfill this desire. But our foreign wars had wound down by the time of his enlistment, and he never got a chance to fight abroad."

www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

One of the ICE applicants I spoke with seemed to have an insatiable desire for conflict in line with this hypothesis. All his life, he said, he had hoped to fight wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. He’d joined the army hoping to fulfill this desire. But our foreign wars had wound down by the time of his enlistment, and he never got a chance to fight abroad.

He said his wife had almost been assaulted in Texas, and when she’d called the police they arrested a man who turned out to be an “illegal alien” and who was promptly deported. He said he’d seen videos of a member of the Taliban getting into an argument at a fast-food restaurant in California (I couldn’t find any evidence of this—not even as a conspiracy), and that he wanted to join ICE to protect his family.

“I learned all these skills in the army—smash and grabs, site exploitation—and never got to use them,” he said. “So I’m here to kind of do what I learned to do over there, but this time here, defending my country.”

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jul 1

"Don't wash your Holocaust trauma with Palestinian blood"

Amen.

"Don't wash your Holocaust trauma with Palestinian blood"

📍From Berlin, Germany

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · Jul 1

Here's a conversation he had about "bro" that I'm embarrassed to realize is much older than I thought: sfkiesling.com/dude-of-the-...

Bro — Scott F. Kiesling

Matthew J.X. Maladay is a journalist who writes excellent language pieces for Slate magazine . (My favorite is the one on Pennsylvania , of course!) He recently contacted me about the term bro . ...

sfkiesling.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · Jun 22

The heatwaves next week are literally going to kill people even if the grids don’t go down; meanwhile, tech billionaires are trying to convince us that using the fake answer machines will solve all our problems.

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · Jun 21

the accuracy (via @midheavens.bsky.social)

@laurenkayes.bsky.social
It's so cool that cities are like "pweeease only turn your AC on if you're actively dying and don't go below 79
while the Al nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
Jun 22, 2024

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · Jun 21

Having stood in a lineup starting at 4:00 a.m. to get a family doctor, I can confirm this game would sell out in <30 seconds.

The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · Jun 21

Blue Jays announce giveaway where first 15,000 fans get a family doctor

TORONTO – In an effort to sell tickets to baseball games, Blue Jays team president Mark Shapiro has announced a new giveaway where the first 15,000 fans who enter the Rogers Centre during an upcoming game will be given their very own family doctor.

thebeaverton.com

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · Jun 19

Relatedly in "very specific book details that make me nope out", I have never forgiven Ali Hazelwood for writing a novel in which a tenured Harvard professor accused of sexual harassment was immediately fired and academically disgraced.

I like fantasies too, but that one hit too hard.

a nguyễn @scientifical.bsky.social · Jun 19

unfortunately having once been a grad student if the main character of a book is a grad student with endless energy, time, and resources I'm immediately like "that's literally not how this works"

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