I’ve locked interactions on this post because the OP is fiction.
But I want to retain the thread, & here’s why.
I do not dare screenshot the equally-awful emails & other exchanges that I received as a junior faculty member, either directed to me or one of my students.
So this stands in for that.
No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.
Letzter Versuch. Ich habe mich zu erhängen gesucht: Der Strick ist abgerissen. Ich bin in’s Wasser gesprungen: Sie erwischten mich bei den Füßen. 255 Ich habe die Adern geöffnet mir: Man hat mich noch gerettet. Ich sprang auch einmal zum Fenster hinaus: Weich hat der Sand mich gebettet. Den Teufel! ich habe nun alles versucht, 260 Woran man sonst kann verderben – Nun werd’ ich wieder zu leben versuchen: vielleicht kann ich dann sterben.
Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live.
Links Ada Christen, 1868. Rechts Dorothy Parker, 1926. Zwei Frauen, ein Gedanke 💡
has anyone written about the process of conversational repair in analog games? specifically thinking about stuff like:
- "i move my meeple 5 spaces" "i think it's 6 spaces"
- "oh, last turn i should've given you an extra 3 tokens. do you want them now?"
- "it's too late now, but for next time..."
Announcing: Mandrake!
You play the last of the Mandrakes, a sorcerous line of gardeners.
Horticulture is a cursed practice... except to you. Your family line is steeped in the green and growing arts, so you’re able to grow such marvels as: runner beans! Cherry trees! The humble turnip! 🌳
What can we learn about chronic illness from game mechanics? A spoony's view of Citizen sleeper on @languageatplay.de
languageatplay.de/2025/05/28/c...
dragon lady next to me at the second life rave was too close and her wings kept clipping through my player model. I didn't mind but she apologied each and every time it happened. chat was filled with hundreds of variations of "oop sowwie >_<!! xoxo" and "uaah! not again! orz" by the end of the night
Wrote something about being working class in games, inspired by the Digital Trends article and most importantly, the responses to it I've seen
malindy.medium.com/gaming-isnt-...
Können wir bitte einfach jede Diskussion über "historical accuracy" in Videospielen durch Furzgeräusche ersetzen
Man sollte niemandem trauen, der Antifaschismus als Schimpfwort benutzt.
Charles Darwin from @lettersofnote: I loathe, I abhor the sea and all ships which sail on it. --Charles Darwin to his sister, 4 Aug 1836 I hate a barnacle as no man ever did before -- Charles Darwin to William Fox 24 Oct 1852 I am very tired, very stomachy and hate nearly the whole world. -- Charles Darwin to Thomas Haxley 10 September 1860 I am poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything -- Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell 1 Oct 1861 I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees. -- Charles Darwin to John Lubbock 3 Sept 1862
Legendary hater Charles Darwin
Posters. Stickers. Flyers. “Handbills” although lol nobody says handbills except in academic text. Marking the public space as the home of the public and not the property of the guys who bought up the buildings
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.
I am thrilled to present Amberspire, a science-fantasy dice city builder. In the glow of a gas giant, roll dice to build a city in harmony with an alien ecology atop the ruins of an abandoned moon.
Wishlist here! store.steampowered.com/app/3350750/...
public trash can with signage: Empfehlen sie mich weiter!
bottle of sriracha mayo with label: I'm so vegan
can of orange juice: recyclez-moi
socks with label: "wash me without your black soks otherwise you'll be messing up my colour palette! (...) let the socks do the talkin'"
🎉 Accepted for publication:
"Voices in the Linguistic Landscape: Anthropomorphization of artifacts and the pronominal construction of speakerhood"
Co-authored by @janapithan.bsky.social and myself, to appear in Linguistic Landscape. Everything you ever wanted to know about talking objects!
Screenshot of Ruth Parry saying, "Thanks to Elizabeth Stokoe's nudge, I’ve got an amount on there. I’m a lefty GC feminist, person who knows women only spaces are important in some but not all contexts, as well as a conversation analyst. I can and will support people with similar views connect in this emerging platform."
A large part of why I've stopped actively working in conversation analysis / #EMCA is because we have senior colleagues like Ruth Parry, Celia Kitzinger, and Sue Wilkinson who openly and proudly embrace being TERFs on social media, and colleagues who see this seem to treat it like business as usual.
I made a castle generator. Refresh the page for a new castle
🔗 - end.city
Ryland collection because I love him (and also Poe the bookstore cat) #art
Heroic Fantasy greift die latent vorhandene Bereitschaft des Lesers auf, die als unbefriedigend empfundene eigene Situation zu ändern, verhindert jedoch die Einsicht, daß gesellschaftliche Verhältnisse die eigene Situation bestimmen und daß diese Verhältnisse durch solidarisches Handeln mit anderen veränderbar sind. Statt dessen werden Ersatzhandlungen angeboten. Propagierte Ideologien sind dabei: magisch-mythisches Weltverständnis (Mystifikation intellektuell erfaßbarer Zusammenhänge); Recht des Stärkeren als Prinzip gesellschaftlichen Zusammenlebens; Verherrlichung von Gewalt, insbesondere von Totschlag; Unterdrückung der Frau; Betonung der rassischen Überlegenheit des nordischen Menschentypus; Fatalismus gegenüber hierarchischen Strukturen und ihren Folgen, etwa Kriegen; Führerprinzip nach dem Motto: Der größte Schläger und Schlächter soll unser Schicksal bestimmen; imperialistische Politik als Machtprinzip; Intellektuellenfeindlichkeit. Eine Frage war eingangs noch offen: Was glorifiziert die Heroic Fantasy? Es gibt nur ein einziges Wort, das die vorstehenden ideologischen Einzelaussagen hinlänglich unter einen Hut bringt: Faschismus.
Gerade in der Vorbereitung zu meinem Seminar über Ausschnitte aus einem Artikel von Hans Joachim Alpers, einem der DSA-Erfinder aus dem Jahr 1976 gestolpert.
Dass Alpers immer lieber SF statt Fantasy mochte, auch bei DSA war mir bekannt, aber nicht warum:
Today, the U.S. Copyright Office announced that it would not support the needs of libraries and archives to increase access to video game history, leaving over 87% of classic games legally inaccessible through any practical means. While we are disappointed, the fight is not over. See our full statement here.
gamehistory.org/dmca-2024-st...
*kriecht unterm Stein hervor* Huch, äh, hallo! Dann muss ich das wohl schnellstens ändern und beitreten :D
Ich flehe die Welt an, bitte endlich zu begreifen, dass ChatGPT keine Datenbank und nicht einmal eine Suchmaschine ist und es wirklich komplett selbstverständlich ist, dass das Ding "Informationen" erfindet, die einfach nicht stimmen und nur dazu dienen, Inhalt nachzuahmen.
Painting of an astronaut floating above a surface of water. The astronaut is surrounded by different kinds of whales that are some how floating in zero gravity. The illustration is painted in watercolour, a blueish grey and a rusty orange.
I was drawing live today at a short panel about whales and what role they (and their language) play in the first contact concept in space. I guess space whales are a thing! So here's my go! I used a super granulating watercolour that seperates into two tones when drowned - loved the experience!
Text of the website publishers weekly: “Ruta Rimas at Putnam has bought, in a six-figure auction, Fear of Falling, a co-created YA graphic novel with text by Suzanne Samin (l.) and art by Amalas Rosa. The book follows two former best friends from the Bronx: Aran, a Syrian American teen grappling with his mother's death, and Tao, a college basketball star with ADHD. When Tao moves back home after getting injured, both must confront the love they thought they'd left behind. Publication is slated for summer 2026; Jennifer Azantian at Azantian Literary Agency did the deal for North American rights.”
A mock cover with Aran and Tao sitting on a roof top, we only see their feet dangling over the wall. In big letters on the house wall we see the title FEAR OF FALLING and “a graphic novel by Suzanne Samin & Amalas Rosa” in small letters underneath
IT’S HAPPENING!
Aran and Tao are coming to a bookstore near you in 2026 🎉
@suziesamin.bsky.social and I are so happy the boys have found a home with Putnam Books and Ruta Rimas, thanks to our agent @jenazantian.bsky.social
We can’t wait to share more with you!
(This is a mock cover!)
Two young people in a kind of embrace. The shorter one, with short dark blue-green hair, a sad look on their face, puts their head on the shoulder of the taller man, their hand loosely grasping his t-shirt. The taller man is also short-haired, blond and has a serious look on his face. One of his hands rests on the head of his partner, the other on his arm. Both are wearing light blue-grey t-shirts. Behind them, and encircling them with their big tails, are two giant fish skeletons. The background is a dark blue-green, almost black, with some lighter water structures in the top part. The painting is done digitally with some brush strokes with visible texture.
"We're doomed. - I know."
Illustration of my OCs Ortwin & Mil! This picture means a lot to me and I hope you like it, too 🌿
Ever wondered how to ask inclusive, clear and accurate gender questions in survey research? But not had any data support your best guesses?
Very excited to announce we have a new paper out in Linguistics Vanguard investigating exactly that! (Out now! Open Access!)
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
I want more people to consider what art means to them without the pressure to impress. How does your hand like to mark a curve? Where does it apply pressure and where does it release? What sorts of shapes are you drawn to? Do you hold your breath when you draw a delicate straight line?
Die Unwilligkeit, die zwei Zentimeter hinter die transparente rechte Politisierung dieser Sprachkritik zu schauen, spricht von der gleichen politischen Unschuld, die jetzt im Entsetzen über die Teilnahme Schröders an dem Massendeportationstreffen zum Ausdruck kommt.
