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Joshua Raclaw

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sociocultural linguist working in trans and queer linguistics and conversation analysis. posts about yiddish, cooking, adhd, cats, professor stuff. (they/זײ) [ˈɹæ.klɔ] מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן

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can’t wait for rubella to complete the trinity

07.03.2026 04:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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$3.7 Billion: Estimated Cost of Epic Fury’s First 100 Hours Operation Epic Fury costs nearly $900 million per day, driven by the large expenditure of munitions. Because most of this is not in the budget, the Pentagon will soon need to ask for more money.

Never forget that the U.S. can always find money for war, but not for education, health care, or to help those in need. This is 100% a choice. And it is 100% the wrong one. www.csis.org/analysis/37-...

07.03.2026 01:36 👍 310 🔁 118 💬 9 📌 3

"disguise" implies he's actively trying to fool someone

06.03.2026 22:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is completely fucking insane and I’m begging our fourth estate to cover this like the story it is: a stark raving lunatic and malignant narcissist surrounded by idiot sycophants is nearing the end of his life and bored as fuck because he’s never faced accountability of any kind in his life

06.03.2026 22:11 👍 109 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 1

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

06.03.2026 20:21 👍 5424 🔁 1334 💬 39 📌 42
Orange cat curled up in a sleep little ball against a pillow on a bed

Orange cat curled up in a sleep little ball against a pillow on a bed

כ׳װיל אַזאַ װײך לעבן, אַ באַקװעם לעבן, אַ הײמיש לעבן

06.03.2026 20:22 👍 24 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.

“Never again” is meaningless if it doesn’t include this. There’s no reason to mince words other than cowardice: these are concentration camps and never again is now.

06.03.2026 19:10 👍 304 🔁 132 💬 3 📌 2

it's so funny that we all decided to call old needles that need disposing "sharps." yes they are. they are sharp

06.03.2026 19:21 👍 432 🔁 28 💬 19 📌 1

We're in court today asking a judge to block a new Kansas law that invalidates the IDs of transgender people and allows anyone to sue a person they suspect of being trans for using public restrooms.

This law has been wreaking havoc on trans people and we're demanding an immediate end to it.

06.03.2026 18:00 👍 805 🔁 193 💬 15 📌 4
Coming Out To My Bubbie
Coming Out To My Bubbie YouTube video by Yiddish Book Center

i have learned SO MUCH about how to say “lesbian” in yiddish over the past day and it is bringing me such joy. it has also led to me rewatching this sweet little gem of a story

06.03.2026 17:25 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

גפּתּ

06.03.2026 17:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

06.03.2026 13:15 👍 7050 🔁 2391 💬 157 📌 52

buy one get one half off

06.03.2026 12:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate.
In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate.
A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership.
"Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."

Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."

what the fuck are we doing

www.wsj.com/business/med...

06.03.2026 06:12 👍 4293 🔁 863 💬 101 📌 228
Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff.

In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast
10:22 AM • Feb 12, 2026


Lizardguy | check pinned p...
@lizardgu....19d
.... what horrible breaches have we already had?
Why the fuck would you come out and say "oh yeah, all our code is shit" like that?

wizard:
I understand you're scared of the future, but hiding under a rock won't help you meet it

Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast 10:22 AM • Feb 12, 2026 Lizardguy | check pinned p... @lizardgu....19d .... what horrible breaches have we already had? Why the fuck would you come out and say "oh yeah, all our code is shit" like that? wizard: I understand you're scared of the future, but hiding under a rock won't help you meet it

oh.

04.03.2026 16:55 👍 112 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 4
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Trans Porn Is Booming. Trans Rights Are Fading We asked trans adult creators about the complicated link between desire and politics, as trans porn is booming while rights fade.

Interesting interview in Playboy with transgender adult content creators. People often point to Pornhub stats showing trans content is more popular than ever as a contradiction, as if political and sexual objectification were ever mutually exclusive

06.03.2026 01:09 👍 1578 🔁 359 💬 27 📌 26

nearish eastern

06.03.2026 04:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
1. Cover letter, including a description of teaching, advising experience, teaching philosophy, and approach to creating a learning environment in which every student is encouraged to ask questions and share ideas.
2. Service statement describing efforts to strengthen academic communities, including the candidate’s department, institution, and/or professional societies
3. Curriculum Vitae
4. Writing sample, such as a journal article or dissertation chapter
5. Teaching portfolio including teaching evaluations, sample syllabi (including two seminars they could teach in the program), sample teaching materials, and a link to a video of an in-person class, if available. Please do not upload the video itself. Please upload these materials as a single PDF to the “Other” section of the Applicant Documents page.
6. Names and contact information of three to five referees, who will be asked by a system-generated email to upload a letter of recommendation once the candidate’s application has been submitted. Three letters of recommendation are required, and the application is considered complete only when at least three letters have been received.

1. Cover letter, including a description of teaching, advising experience, teaching philosophy, and approach to creating a learning environment in which every student is encouraged to ask questions and share ideas. 2. Service statement describing efforts to strengthen academic communities, including the candidate’s department, institution, and/or professional societies 3. Curriculum Vitae 4. Writing sample, such as a journal article or dissertation chapter 5. Teaching portfolio including teaching evaluations, sample syllabi (including two seminars they could teach in the program), sample teaching materials, and a link to a video of an in-person class, if available. Please do not upload the video itself. Please upload these materials as a single PDF to the “Other” section of the Applicant Documents page. 6. Names and contact information of three to five referees, who will be asked by a system-generated email to upload a letter of recommendation once the candidate’s application has been submitted. Three letters of recommendation are required, and the application is considered complete only when at least three letters have been received.

harvard has sixty billion dollars to replace the three yiddish faculty they just got rid of you and they can certainly do better than a single temporary contracted position, let alone one that requires you to send a video recording of your teaching that you host yourself

06.03.2026 04:21 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University invites applications for a lecturer in Yiddish Studies.
https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2026/03/05/lecturer-in-yiddish-studies

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University invites applications for a lecturer in Yiddish Studies. https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2026/03/05/lecturer-in-yiddish-studies

everyone’s favorite near eastern language, yiddish

06.03.2026 04:16 👍 23 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 1

פֿע, איצט דאַרף איך ״טאָן זאַכן״

06.03.2026 04:12 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

this is the clearest black and white picture of how the US is fucked. illegal unprovoked war at the height of financial, healthcare and employment crises by a rogue pedophile president and it has 3/4ths approval from the "opposition" party.

06.03.2026 01:23 👍 3118 🔁 1209 💬 39 📌 7
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

05.03.2026 20:41 👍 2797 🔁 1533 💬 89 📌 384
A group chat. 

JC: Quick, everyone send me Kristi Noem being fired memes

me: Wait

TN: sends a blurry picture of a tiny dog in a pink tutu with what appears to be a handgun with text saying “Enough is enough”

A group chat. JC: Quick, everyone send me Kristi Noem being fired memes me: Wait TN: sends a blurry picture of a tiny dog in a pink tutu with what appears to be a handgun with text saying “Enough is enough”

This is how I found out

05.03.2026 19:37 👍 266 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 0

שׂרה בױלס, אַ װײַב אַ פֿײַנס

05.03.2026 14:51 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
a collage of these three tweets
https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzrkcsk3xc24
https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzsgnvof4c2n
https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzubxv6q722o

a collage of these three tweets https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzrkcsk3xc24 https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzsgnvof4c2n https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzubxv6q722o

i for one am shocked that the "i go in the pool to cool down, why can't my phone?" guy is bad at programming and offloading his job to the anthropic api

05.03.2026 02:17 👍 7698 🔁 2286 💬 177 📌 406

no one storms like Gaston
gender norms like Gaston

05.03.2026 05:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Computer, enhance:

05.03.2026 00:19 👍 322 🔁 43 💬 11 📌 1

הײַנט האָט אײנע פֿון מײַנע סטודענטן מיר געגעבן אַ המן־טאַש װאָס די משפּחה האָט געבאַקט און ס׳איז געװען אַזױ סיז 😭

(די מתּנה ניט די המן־טאַש, כ׳האָב ניט געקענט עסן די המן־טאַש װײַל ס׳איז ניט װעגאַניש און דאָס האַרץ איז מיר אַ ביסל צעריסן צוליב דעם)

05.03.2026 00:37 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Salpicon Cussy (hot) Mixture. of sweetbreads, truffles and mushrooms, bound with concentrated Madeira. See SAUCE.

Salpicon Cussy (hot) Mixture. of sweetbreads, truffles and mushrooms, bound with concentrated Madeira. See SAUCE.

innocently reading the larousse gastronomique for research and im ambushed by this. babes u know u want my salpicon cussy (hot)

04.03.2026 20:16 👍 113 🔁 15 💬 5 📌 1

this should be the end of the Gavin Newsom 2028 discussion. the party has spoken, full stop

04.03.2026 21:00 👍 4036 🔁 834 💬 4 📌 0