Arturo Serrano

What a great essay from @ergative-abs.bsky.social & @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social on the linguistic complexities of THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY. Rise up, language (and anti-language) nerds! www.nerds-feather.com/2026/10/essa...

The way I like to phrase this advice is: PowerPoint is not for karaoke.

Grogu is just Gizmo with mange

Vučić’s defeat could mark a geopolitical turning point for Serbia. It could also inject fresh momentum into EU enlargement across the W. Balkans, where progress has stalled for years. A Serbia firmly anchored in Europe would transform the region’s outlook and significantly weaken Russia’s influence

Wow, I hate it. I absolutely despise the entitled mentality that, "oh, this isn't behind a paywall, so I must just be able to take it and repurpose it without asking." No! No you can't! You need to ask first before lifting 67,000 of my words for your project!

Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

The internet can be pretty gullible about tech products, but congrats to everyone who called exactly what this was going to be used for from the first moment they saw it.

After passively observing the discourse in my feed from the last week or two, I can confidently say I've never been less excited to see a movie than YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING.

China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

Latin sentence of the day: ita fit ut is assentatoribus patefaciat aures suas maxime qui ipse sibi assentetur et se maxime ipse delectet. Thus it happens that the person who most opens his ears to flatterers is the one who flatters and fascinates himself the most. (Cicero, De Amicitia 61)

Fiction sharpens language skills better than nonfiction phys.org/news/2026-09... If you want more of the latest news, research, and interesting articles in language and linguistics, check out my free weekly digest at the link in bio! ⬆️

The research found that while both people and ChatGPT mimic each other, AI does it a lot more, but humans also did it more than expected. If you want more of the latest news, research, and interesting articles in language and linguistics, check out my free weekly digest at the link in bio! ⬆️

It's surreal to learn English coming from Spanish. My instinct when reading is, "No, those vowels can't be just for decoration! They have to be doing some work!"

A new documentary on the archaeology of Great Zimbabwe airs tonight on PBS. I interviewed the lead archaeologist, Shadreck Chirikure, and if you click through, you can watch an exclusive clip showing the team's discovery of Longquan celadon from eastern China. 🧪🏺

Paul duneman: I did the space cocaine and saw myself doing a turbo genocide in the future People on twitter: wow, why would they make this character a white man

Wake up, babe! Oldest dwelling in the Western Hemisphere just dropped. (Also, they had the oldest needles and maybe the oldest domesticated dogs.) 🧪🏺🐾

Scholarly Klaxon: If you haven't heard of universitas Scholarium, be prepared for horror of an initiative that uses the scholarship of dead people to create new academic-slop universitas-scholarium.org/the-project

If everything is gender and everything is tuberculosis does that mean that by the transitive property, tuberculosis is gender?

If there were eusocial spiders, could you call their form of organization arachno-monarchism?

[NEW VIDEO] Ten cases of naturally-formed objects mistaken for human creations. Click here to watch => youtu.be/7DgbfklqL-Q

As I've said before, it's only once I became a professor that I realized the entmoot, a meeting that goes on for three days and three nights, was a professor's joke about faculty meetings.

Alternate history in music is rare, so when I learned the Austrian metal band, Dragony, made a whole alternate history album, I was intrigued. Called "Viribus Unitis" its set during the end of Austria-Hungary and features plenty of #AlternateHistoween fun, including magic, demons and zombies!

Right now would be a great moment for you to sign up for updates. Tomorrow is my biographical subject's deathiversary, and it will feel weird for me to ask then. This is #poetry about #time #trains #trans 🕰️🚂🏳️‍⚧️ 1940 going back to 1890, thereabouts

This is my first award win and I cannot express how happy I am right now! ❤️💚 (I might be wrong but someone said I was the second South American author to ever win the World Fantasy!)

Columbo-level

Fascinating look at the "pansy craze" of the 1930s, and what its disappearance can tell us about contemporary queer culture:

One of the real ironies in this whole thing is, to a large degree the main reason we are even aware of JDA is because F770 kept treating his every shenanigan as news. If he had been ignored ten years ago, he'd be another forgotten drop in the sea of sub-par right-wing SF writers no one cares about.

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Just a few days away! Dozens of books will open for crowdfunding pledges. #BookBazaar26 (You can enter your email to follow the projects that interest you)

Today is a very nerve-wrecking day (and this week has been) for me and many Brazilians. I can't fathom how we can be 50/50 between fascism/loss of sovereignity and democracy. But I'm glad to say that I got an acceptance for a magazine that I really love! ❤️

Cardiologists have agreed the 1st truly global definition of a heart attack. The European Society of Cardiology, American College & Heart Association, & World Heart Federation jointly recognised 3 under-diagnosed heart attack types that disproportionately hit women. buff.ly/bbit71t #ShareGoodNewsToo

Uhhhhhhh they didn’t ask for my advice but if I were making a legally dubious and financially shaky product I would not want to fuck with the Elvis Presley estate

Watching more and more people who allegedly care about art and artists slink into using and sharing Generative AI is just a tad depressing. If you're happy to do that, then you're happy with stealing from the artists whose work was stolen to train those engines. No respect.

@file770.bsky.social, it's absolutely unacceptable to give any space to the suppurant excrescence known as Jon del Arroz. What on Earth were you thinking?

The hottest anyone has ever looked in a movie.

Malaysia has cut its use of ozone-destroying HCFCs by nearly 80% and plans to end all HCFC use by 2030. It phased out CFCs and halons in 2010. A reminder of the wider regional context: China finished phasing HCFCs out of its solvent industry last month. Malay Mail buff.ly/82Krs4P #ShareGoodNewsToo

Independent Book Review has tagged these novels as #horror 🎃

80 billion net loss. 80 BILLION. Tell me again how this is sustainable. Explain again why anyone would invest time and resources in something on the fast track to collapse.

Solar farms in the Gobi are cutting dust storms. A study of 17 farms found the panels slow surface winds by more than 9% and make soil up to 17% less erodible, reducing springtime dust by about 352,000 tonnes a month. RenewEconomy buff.ly/bambHT8 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Ruin a song by adding "In My Pants" to the title: Do You Want to Build a Snowman In My Pants?

Yes, we can have nice things. Thanks to gravitational lensing. nautil.us/nasa-shares-...

wow, no.