Third night in a row not sleeping due to russia attacking my city, Kyiv, with drones. Not a huge amount, 20 something each night, but each night you have to gamble with your life by simply going to bed in your own home.

Just a few minutes ago an explosion rocked through my neighborhood, and my dog started panicking. He's used to us hiding in the underground parking lot during air raids, so he was very surprised to see us not getting ready to leave. We can't really explain to a dog that it's -15°C outside and that if we went to the shelter every night, we would never get any sleep. So we had to calm him down with soothing pets instead

mutuals this winter we are all doing this

Love that Murderbot sees itself as the absolute worst most dangerous thing in any room at any given time

Except ☝️when a combat SecUnit or combat bot shows up

Then it's a very sudden turn to "I am a mid sized herding breed and that is a fucking wolf. All my sheep and myself are going to die"

"Friends outside of Minnesota please read. I'm sharing a post written by a personal friend and medical doctor:
Friends outside MN, you need to know what is happening here. Everyone knows that ICE shot and killed a woman here on Wednesday. But that’s not the only thing that’s going on:

• ICE agents are cruising areas with immigrant-owned businesses, and kidnapping patrons and employees alike. Yesterday they abducted two US citizen employees at a suburban Target, one who was begging them to allow him to go get his passport to show them.
• ICE is going door to door in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods, asking residents where their immigrant neighbors live. Read that again. If it sounds like something out of your high school history textbook, that’s because it is.
• ICE is targeting schools and school buses. They pepper sprayed teenagers and abducted two school staff members at the high school up the street from me on Wednesday. Police are literally escorting school buses to ensure children can get to school and home safely. The Minneapolis Public Schools have moved to virtual learning for the next 4 weeks because it’s unsafe for children or teachers to physically come to school.
• They are targeting hospitals and clinics. Patients are scared and are cancelling their appointments or just not showing up. Kids are missing their checkups and vaccines, folks aren’t getting their cancer care, etc.
• They are smashing windows in cars and homes.
• ICE is increasingly picking up Native Americans—again, targeting folks based on skin color alone.
• They are arresting and beating legal observers. A friend of a friend had her arm broken yesterday. Folks are showing up at local hospitals, brought in in ICE custody, with severe injuries that are absolutely inconsistent with mechanism of injury reported by ICE. (Think: patient appears to have been beaten unconscious, while ICE agent says he slipped and fell.)
  I can’t emphasize enough that these ICE agents do not have warrants. There are 2,000+ agents here and they are simply hunting for anyone that’s not white. It doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or a green card holder, they will kidnap you first and ask questions later.
  
  But the community is fighting back.
• Protests are happening every day.
• Community groups have been leading know-your-rights sessions for months, often to packed venues.
• Whistles are being distributed by the thousands, carried on keychains and worn on coat zippers, always at the ready to be blown in warning if ICE is spotted.
• Drivers are following ICE vehicles, blaring their horns in warning.
• Businesses are locking their doors even while open to keep employees and customers safe. As I type this, I’m standing guard at the locked door of our neighborhood burrito joint while I wait for my takeout order, so the employees can focus on their jobs. The place is packed with neighbors supporting this small business.
• Anti-ICE signs are posted everywhere. The community is making it crystal clear that ICE is not welcome here.
• Parents and neighbors are standing guard outside schools, organizing carpools, and escorting kids to and from school on foot.
• Parents of kids in Spanish-immersion daycare (there are a LOT of these daycares here!) are keeping their kids home so the teachers don’t have to take the risk of coming to work.
• Churches and community groups are holding fundraisers to buy and deliver groceries to families who don’t feel safe leaving home.
• Mutual aid money is going out to folks who can’t make rent because they can’t work or because a breadwinner was abducted, or who need a warm place to stay after their home’s windows were smashed.
  
  THAT is what is happening here. This fight is ongoing and it’s horrifying to watch. But we are not backing down. To my friends in other cities and states, don’t think for a minute that this won’t happen in your town. It will. Be ready. Learn from us, as we have learned from Portland and Chicago and New York. Fight back. Don’t let us get to the last line of Martin Niemoller’s poem.”
  
  -Grant Boulanger

there was a bit of a tone in a line in the gq article that bugged me a little bit merely because it compounds onto the increasing narrative that i've seen a minor amount of heated rivalry fans espouse, where they talk generally about how there's no way the sex scenes are 100% choreographed, they feel so real or things with a similar sentiment.

this on its own isn't a big deal but the "at the risk of ruining the fantasy" quote and it being insinuated that the interviewer maybe was implying or inquiring about the "realness" of their sex scenes wouldn't be a huge deal, but seeing this alongside the increasing dismissal by wealthy actors and actresses of the importance of intimacy coordinators e.g. mikey madison (anora), julia roberts (after the hunt), jennifer lawrence (die my love), gwenyth paltrow and timothee chalamet (marty supreme) is so fundamentally problematic.

i don't know when it became normal to almost brag about not "needing an intimacy coordinators" because wealthy actors started believing that by having one it was almost a diss to their acting abilities, to their and their costars "chemistry" but i hope more than anything, that normal people, young royals, heated rivalry, bridgerton, all of these shows keep on highlighting what sensuality and beauty can be achieved when intimacy coordinators are brought in. while it's great and important that actors and actresses bond and can form life-long connections, sets are a PROFESSIONAL WORKPLACE. it would be a work place VIOLATION for people to just be fucking out of passion. it's fucking weird to assume that some decisions in sex scenes are "real" and it's weirder to be like "oh it's hotter cuz its real". it is a TESTAMENT to the work of the cast and the crew, it is more impressive to achieve the technical feat of following a choreographed sex scene and that should be far more talked about rather than speculation on how 2 costars MUST BE TOGETHER because of how they must have improvised a hand grab or a longer kiss. make no mistake, agreeing prior to the coordination of the intimacy coordinator what people are comfortable with, allows space for "improvised" movements, etc. but this is all part of the work!! the importance of this is espoused later in this article but also has been repeated by jonathan bailey, aimee and connor swindell on the set of sex education (who were at the time a real couple) and so many more.

not only does this trend feel like a massive spit in the face to the #MeToo movement for enshrining intimacy coordinators as a necessity on sets but it also dilutes the necessity of them for actors and extras WHO ARE NOT WEALTHY HOLLYWOOD ELITES. if something happens on set that julia roberts, for example, thinks "hey that's a violation of my autonomy and i was uncomfortable" you have in possession a fat bank account, a fleet of lawyers to helm an attack and protection that poor, broke extras and other actors do not have!!

the line being touted that intimacy coordinators are "optional" and that "we didn't need one" is incredibly dangerous. they are mandatory and it is not just for actors but also for the crew!

THE BEST SEX SCENES YOU'VE SEEN ALL HAVE INTIMACY COORDINATORS!!!!!

this article does a great job on expanding: https://hungermag.com/editorial/what-do-intimacy-coordinators-do-anyway

and the intimacy coordinator behind young royals, one of my favourite and i would say leading the forefront of how intimacy coordinators TRANSFORM for the better sex scenes did an incredible interview talking about it all!!

Want to teach yourself linguistics on youtube? Looking for online courses about linguistics? Want to supplement the linguistics resources available for your linguistics class? Here’s an extensive list for you to pick from, with a few notes on style and content. 

General linguistics youtube channels: 

• NativLang (animated)
  
• Xidnaf (animated)
• The Ling Space (person talking with a bit of animation, see also their summary post)
• David J. Peterson’s conlanging youtube channel (person talking)
  
• Arika Okrent (whiteboard videos)

Groups of videos or short series on specific topics: 

• Crash Course Linguistics
  
• Tom Scott’s Language Files (person talking with graphic effects)
• Artifexian’s conlanging videos
  
• North Caroline Language and Life project
  
• Common sounds in Australian Indigenous languages
• Verner’s Law and how the Germanic languages developed from Proto-Indo-European (person talking plus animation)
• How to apply for a Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) grant
  
• Videos illustrating Gricean Maxims  
• Cuando Muere una Lengua / When a tongue dies - Videos in Mexican Indigenous languages from the project 68 voces (68 voices)
  
• Christmas-themed stories told in ASL by an adorable child (ASL Nook)
• Dr Word Person (videos about phonetics and ancient languages)
• LangFocus (videos about specific languages or comparing two related languages)

Individual interesting videos: 

• Do Sign Languages Have Accents? 
• Sign Language Isn’t Universal
• A cute video about doing linguistic studies with children (and a puppet) from the University of Connecticut
  
• Structural Ambiguity (LingVids) and an example from Animaniacs
• How English Sounds to Non-English Speakers  
• Prisencolinensinainciusol (fake English song)
• Is Cereal Soup? and Zipf’s Law from Vsauce 
  
• The Dangerous Ambiguity of Prepositions
  
• Can You Speak Emoji? PBS Idea Channel
• World-record fast talkers (and how that works in the brain)
• Crash Course Psychology: Language
• How much information? (Veritasium)

Cross-sections of the head or vocal tract while speaking: 

• Music video (Better Man Than He)
  
• ArticulatoryIPA: many individual short videos of specific sounds showing them produced in the vocal tract 
• eNunciate: ultrasound videos of the inside of the mouth superimposed on the side of a speaker’s face 
• X-ray gif and animated gif
• Beatboxer in MRI machine (plus IPA)
• Two videos of the inside of the vocal tract (note: kinda gross)

Structured series or online course, introduction to linguistics: 

• Introduction to Linguistics (TrevTutor - whiteboard, Khan Academy style)
  
• Another intro linguistics series (DS Bigham, person talking)
• The Virtual Linguistics Campus at Marburg University (person talking)
• “Miracles of Human Language” (on Coursera from Leiden University)
• Isabel Cooke McKay (intro linguistics type topics from her online course)
  

Structured series or online courses on a specific topic (might be useful to follow some of the intro material first): 

• Phonology (TrevTutor)
  
• Mathematical linguistics (TrevTutor)
• Syntax (TrevTutor)
• A syntax series following the chapter structure of a free online syntax textbook (University of Edinburgh)
  
• Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change (on EdX from Georgetown University, in ASL with English subtitles and voiceover)
  
• Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages (on EdX from the University of Adelaide)
  

Long videos (documentaries or lectures): 

• The Linguistic Society of America’s youtube channel has both public lectures from prominent linguists (tend to assume some background knowledge of linguistics) and some recordings of professional development webinars, such as how to write an abstract
  
• The Five Minute Linguist talks: 2017 and 2018 (one long video of many short, engaging talks about linguistics)
• Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain
  
• MIT OpenCourseware: Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation lectures
• Introduction to Optimality Theory in Phonology (UC Berkeley)
  
• Rising voices/Hótȟaŋiŋpi, a documentary about revitalizing the Lakota language, in full on youtube (it’s just under an hour long)
  
• A classic documentary on Canadian English
• The Adventure of English (BBC documentary series)
• StreamGram (linguistics talks and lectures, especially at the advanced/conference level).

A few linguistically-relevant TED and TEDx talks (NOT a complete list): 

• Endangered languages: why it matters (Mandana Seyfeddinipur)
• Deaf children need sign language (Drisana Levitzke-Gray)
• Robots talking with Robots - How Lingodroids invent their own language (Janet Wiles)
  
• Four reasons to learn a new language (John McWhorter)
• Several short language-related videos from TED-Ed
• American and British Politeness (Lynne Murphy)
  
• Hacking Language Learning (Conor Quinn)
• The linguistic genius of babies (Patricia Kuhl)
  
• What makes a word “real”? (Anne Curzan)
• Redefining the dictionary (Erin McKean)

See also my linguistics videos tag for an automatically-updated list of linguistics videos, often from sporadically-updated or smaller channels. 

For more documentaries and longer videos about linguistics, most of which aren’t online, see A very long list of linguistics movies, documentaries, and TV show episodes. 

For more resources to learn linguistics, including linguistics podcasts, blogs, books, and other advice, check out How to teach yourself linguistics online for free. 

Know of something that isn’t on one of these lists and should be? Feel free to let me know!

Looking for podcasts about language and linguistics? Here’s a comprehensive list with descriptions! I’ve also mentioned if shows have transcripts. If there are any I missed, let me know!

Linguistics

Lingthusiasm A podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne (that’s me!). Main episodes every third Thursday of every month, with a second bonus episode on Patreon. (Transcripts for main episodes)

Talk the Talk Every week Daniel, Ben, and Kylie cover the news in linguistics and tackle a particular topic.

The Vocal Fries Every episode Carrie Gillon & Megan Figueroa tackle linguistic discrimination in relation to a particular group. (Transcripts for some episodes)

Language

The Allusionist Stories about language and the people who use it, from Helen Zaltzman (Transcripts for all episodes) (my review)

Grammar Girl Episodes are rarely longer than 15 minutes, but they’re full of tips about English grammar and style for professional writing, and more! (Transcripts for all episodes).

The World in Words From PRI, The World in Words has been delivering wonderful interview-drive stories about language and life since 2008.

Conlangery Particularly for those with an interest in constructed languages, they also have episodes that focus on specific natural languages, or linguistic phenomena. 

Subtext a podcast about the linguistics of online dating.

Canguro English a podcast about language for people learning languages.

English

History of English Meticulously researched, professionally produced and engaging content on the history of English. I have already reviewed it three times (episodes 1-4, episodes 5-79, bonus episodes).

Lexicon Valley Hosted by John McWhorter, with a focus on English.

That’s What They Say Every week linguist Anne Curzan joins Rebecca Kruth on Michigan public radio for a five minute piece on a quirk of English language.

A Way With Words A talk-back format show on the history of English words, cryptic crosswords and slang.

Dictionaries

Word For Word From Macquarie dictionary, with a focus on Australian English.

Fiat Lex A podcast about making dictionaries from Kory Stamper & Steve Kleinedler.

Words/etymology

Words for Granted In each episode Ray Belli explores the history of a common English word in around fifteen minutes.

Very Bad Words A podcast about swearing and our cultural relationship to it.

Lexitecture Ryan, a Canadian,  and Amy, a Scot share their chosen word each episode.

Animology Vegan blogger Colleen Patrick Goudreau uses her love of animals as a starting point for exploring animal-related etymologies.

Translation

Speaking of Translation A monthly podcast from Eve Bodeux & Corinne McKay.

LangFM Stories of people from the world of language, including interpreters, translators, dialect coaches and many more.

Troublesome Terps The podcast about the things that keep interpreters up at night.

Back catalogues and Odds & Ends

There are also a number of podcasts that have only a few episodes, are no longer being made, or are very academic in their focus:

• Language Creation Society Podcast (8 episodes, 2009-2011)
• Given Names (four part radio series from 2015, all about names. My review)
• Speculative Grammarian Podcast (from the magazine of the same name, about 50 episodes from Dec 2009-Jan 2017)
  
• Linguistics Podcast (on YouTube, around 20 episodes in 2013 introducing basic linguistic concepts)
  
• Evolving English: Linguistics at the Library (8 episodes 2018), from the British Library.
  
• How Brands are Build (season 1 of this show focuses on brand naming)
  
• The Endless Knot is not strictly a language podcast, but they often include word histories, fans of the Lingthusiasm colour episode may find their colour series particularly interesting
• Word of Mouth (BBC 4, also available as a podcast)
• LingLab (very occasionally updated podcast from graduate students in the Sociolinguistics program at NC State University)
  
• Silly Linguistics (ad hoc episode posting, but episode 7 is an interview with Kevin Stroud for History of English fans)
• WACC Podcast (guest lectures at Warwick Applied Linguistics)
  
• Sage Language and Linguistics
• Let’s Talk Talk
  
• Queer Linguistics has a couple of episodes, with a bit of classroom vibe

This is a completely revised listing from June 2018. The March 2017 list kept growing (yay!) so I’ve now completely restructured it based on themes. I’m always excited to be able to add more podcasts to the list, so if you know of any linguistics/language podcasts not here, please let me know! (I usually wait until a show has at least 3 episodes before I add it to the list)

Park scene in Częstochowa, Poland

Polish vintage postcard

"You're a terrible person for not believing hard enough in leftist pipe dreams" well maybe you're a terrible person for believing in leftist pipe dreams over tangible harm reduction, ever think of that

The snow outside - Kaoru Yamada 

Japanese , b. 1975 -

Maria Skłodowska-Curie's notebooks are crazy once you think about it. They're so radioactive they have to be sealed in a lead box. Imagine a world where atomic theory is forgotten and a dude just goes "yea there's a book that details the secrets of the universe, the machinations of the creation of existence down to its barest essentials, but if you get close to it you fucking die. The more you read it the more your body slowly disassembles into mush." like wat excuse me

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