Can we just skip to the next bit?

Having a very reflexive reaction to Principle A.  Linguistics and terrible things from the id (generative syntax and formal logic).

[grecoromanyaoi]

citationless behavior

[grecoromanyaoi]

sourceless behavior

[drlinguo]

“Reference and the semantics of the iota operator in singular”

[Series: Nerdy Semantics]

[kanuorde]

The fact that most newer devices nowadays display the Modi script makes me really happy!

आजकालची बहुतेक नवीन उपकरणे मोडी लिपी प्रदर्शित करतात याचा मला खूप आनंद होतो!

𑘁𑘕𑘎𑘰𑘩𑘓𑘲 𑘤𑘮𑘳𑘝𑘹𑘎 𑘡𑘪𑘲𑘡 𑘄𑘢𑘎𑘨𑘜𑘹 𑘦𑘻𑘚𑘲 𑘩𑘱𑘢𑘲 𑘢𑘿𑘨𑘟𑘨𑘿𑘫𑘱𑘝 𑘎𑘨𑘝𑘰𑘝 𑘧𑘰𑘓𑘰 𑘦𑘩𑘰 𑘏𑘴𑘢 𑘁𑘡𑘽𑘟 𑘮𑘻𑘝𑘻!

[vishakhas-stuff]

wow i never knew marathi was script diverse...

[kanuorde]

Marathi was also written in Kadamba and Goykanadi in the past, although they were mainly used to write Kannada and Konkani, respectively.

[real-language-facts]

for someone with an Anti-language account you conform to such a specific and recognisable faction of tumblr dialect

well yes i do, i live in tumblr

[ohwhatagloomyshow]

do you remember why you followed prev

yes :)

no :)

Remaining time: 4 days 2 hours

[lost-carcosa]

[thiswilldragon]

We've got a dangerous level of ozone in the air where I am, according to the forecast. We've got wildfires again. Please, please get yourselves an air purifier if you can afford one. Air pollution is so dangerous.

[oilith]

Lith's Guide To Vowels Used To Express Oneself In The Finnish Language (Very Informative And Elegant) ((Based On Personal Experience And Observation))

-ÄääÄäÄÄäÄäääÄäää(h); displeasure, annoyance

-Ööööööööööö(h); confusion, thinking about something

-AaaaAaAAaAAAAA; a realisation, an understanding

-OoOOooOoOOOO; something interesting, attention capturing; may also be used as an understanding

-UuuUuUUUUUU; something is cool, neat, or otherwise exciting

-Eeeeee(h); unsure,"maybe not"

-iiiIIIII(h); getting spooked, something is of disgust or unfavourable

-yH; general noise of displeasure, often used when one does not want to do something

[programmerhumour]

When you’re trying to get git to cooperate

[drlinguo]

… said a generativist in the middle of a construction grammar conference …

[somafalls]

they got trans bitches on here named shit like Die

[couchnapping]

sie haben trans bitches hier, die haben so beschissene Namen wie The

[semicolonsandexcessiveenthusiasm]

[ID: Screenshot of paper title. Bilingualism as a Slice of Swiss Cheese, by E. Bialystok, 2021. Cited by 71. "bilingualism is not a binary category - it is a slice of swiss cheese buried within a package of slices that together impact cognitive function."]

@from-my-linguistics-textbook ?

[a-forest-of-syntax-trees-blog]

If you say “egg” in creaky voice then is it a fried egg?

[aprilcodescrap]

[drlinguo]

you had just started to understand set theory …. and suddenly …

[Series: Nerdy Semantics]

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[crabussy]

thinking about diatoms again

[crabussy]

microscopic living stars made of glass that eat the sun. and they're all around us. in every body of water. glass sun-eating stars.

[crabussy]

I like them a lot. they produce up to half of all earth's oxygen. the air you breathe is thanks to sun-eating stars made of glass. and that's pretty cool.

[crabussy]

and you know. like oblongs and triangles and some other bullshit

[a-glittering-universe]

thank you op, this post gave me such reality whiplash that I had to go read the wikipedia for diatoms and now I have Learned Things :D

[crabussy]

hooray!!! let’s all Learn Things every day [:

[thiswilldragon]

Ooh algae!

[carriesthewind]

This the report that JK Rowing doesn't want you to see. This report scares her so much that she is trying to destroy Amnesty International, a human rights organization, to stop you reading it:

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their fundin

(Amnesty already pulled the report because of JKR's threats. Of course that didn't and won't stop her - capitulating to fascists and bigots is never the answer. Alejandra captured the report and posted it, so you can read what JKR doesn't want you to know.)

[sanguinarysanguinity]

Bluesky thread is a lot of screenshots (which I find impossible to cope with), but if you scroll far enough down, there's a link to the full pdf: