DanC
Ex-English teacher, writer & editor, anti-fascist, linguist, LUFC-enjoyer & 6Music dad.
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Lexis podcast: tinyurl.com/mr4atnkh
Pronouns: He/him
Proper nouns: Eldritch, Marx, Bielsa
- I wonder what it was about this piece for @bylinetimes.bsky.social that caused so many MAGA middle managers on LinkedIn (!) to lose their minds. Won't somebody think of the poor ICE agents?! bylinetimes.com/2026/01/29/w...
- Truly some headscratchingly bonkers responses over there, and plenty of kickback accusing me of weaponizing words myself. I'm happy to acknowledge in the article and elsewhere that we all encode our biases through language, but there's got to be some kind of shared reality we can agree on, surely?
- I'm starting to wonder if they're doing this on LinkedIn because they haven't got libs to troll on X anymore?
- This popped up on my Kobo this morning so I must have pre-ordered it. Looking forward to reading it now as it's even more pertinent than ever.
- Missed the end of the Chelsea vs West Ham game but you've got to feel sorry for those 'ammers 😂😂
- Srebrenica was an early parting of the ways, his antifa views solidified that and now the Epstein stuff is the final nail in the coffin. Fuck Noam Chomsky.
- Apparently went on to become the father of a future POTUS.
- Oh man, so many to choose from.
