Erika’s (Too) Online
👩🏻💻 Linguist, anthropologist, writer, re: marriage, kinship, population and the internet
🧲 Accidental Magneto linguistics expert
📍Eternal second city girlie (gender-neutral)
English/日本語/Русский/יידיש 🆗
🏳️🌈 they/she • あの奴 • она • זי
✡️ 🤝 🇵🇸 land back worldwide
- Listening to Chris Brennan's astrology podcast and the number of academics and academic dropouts involved in Serious Astrology seems like it's Not an Accident. (It also explains a lot about astrology texts.)
- The extent to which so much of my worldview has been shaped by 3–5 relatively obscure edited volumes in linguistic anthropology published between 1995–2000 is kind of astonishing #JustAcademicThings
- The wee beastie just apologised to me by saying "sorry James!" so I guess I'm on Team Rocket.
- the wee beastie REQUESTED Sailor Moon today, which means I got to watch something that makes WAY more sense than Pokemon for once 😭
- Things in the past weren't affordable because they were cheaper; things were affordable because we weren't squeezed to the last drop on housing and food.
- You can't up for immigrants while mocking an immigrant for ordinary immigrant stuff, is the thing. You're doing the same thing ICE thugs are doing when they profile anyone with a funny accent. You have to silence and remove the cop in your head.
- Things you can't do with a broken toe: Protest. Especially not out in the cold, when you can't wear real shoes. So pissed at myself.
- No one in this episode of Pokemon properly understands that an omen is a Peircian index of disaster that doesn't need to be supernatural and is a SIGN not a CAUSE
- Deborah Cameron's work on language, gender, and sexuality was formative for me. I even glowingly reviewed her book with Don Kulick in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. I'd like to take it back. Her embrace of gender "critical" essentialism makes me think she misunderstood her own writing.
- Hypothetical fighting-type eeveelution: Bludgeon
- Reposted by Erika’s (Too) OnlineSince I am WAY late to fund me Friday, I'm going to keep this up through the weekend. In honor of Link who remains unjustly banned, I am doing Fund Me Friday. Drop your links in this thread and let’s get some needs met!
- Reposted by Erika’s (Too) OnlineBeing a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.
- Welp I needed to see this today.
- Chat, I'm glad that we're all really fucked up about Catherine O'Hara together.
- Reposted by Erika’s (Too) OnlineMore and more people are saying* that this book explains the origins of what we’re seeing on our streets: *it’s not a bit this time. They’re really saying that!
- What if I don't want my housing prices driven up because that still drives up my expenses and disenfranchises my neighbors and makes life worse?
- Reposted by Erika’s (Too) Onlinereminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”
- Reposted by Erika’s (Too) OnlineBorders also keep you in
- Don't break your toe, it's the most ridiculous and yet incapacitating injury I've ever experienced.
- So I broke my toe, and I went to the doctor, and they gave me a post-op shoe. They gave me ONE that I'm supposed to wear everywhere all the time and just What in the US white person shoes indoor bullshit?
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- The wee beastie picked up my slipper today and yelled "slipper go!" and hurled it like a pokeball. This is what happens when we let vacuum cleaner pokemon stand.
- The wee beastie has busted out "what's that," "who's that," and "how about..." in the last couple of days. We haven't got to "why" yet but I am NERVOUS.
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