My bag got pulled for extra screening. The reason? I had a folded up newspaper in it. When the TSA agent pulled it out, she said, “A newspaper‽ Where did you get that? Who has a newspaper in 2026??”
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Andrew Abdalian
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mastodon 4.7.3Linguist in #WorcesterMA.
Employment: Language Learning Specialist at Rosetta Stone on the Endangered Languages team.
Academic research: Tunica #LanguageDocumentation. Working with the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe on Tunica #LanguageRevitalization.
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Today is #ArmenianGenocide Remembrance Day, marking the arrest and deportation of hundreds of Armenian leaders and intellectuals in Constantinople on April 24th, 1915. Most were eventually killed.
Deportations and massacres of Armenians had already begun in other parts of the Ottoman Empire and would continue. One million Armenians were killed, many in concentration camps or on death marches.
I'm a descendent of Genocide survivors. Let their histories not be forgotten.
Gonna start using the #ShareGoodNewsToo hashtag (h/t @adapalmer@wandering.shop) on the rare occasions that I run across some good news to post. Also started following the hashtag. Let’s make this a bigger thing.
Turning farmland into wetland to bring back salmon and reducing flood risk as a byproduct.
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/03/nx-s1-5806062/washington-tribe-restore-wetlands-fish
This magazine cover is so full of falsehoods. World’s greatest game? Yikes. How monopoly is like life? No. Win every time? Stop.
#Monopoly is the worst. A complete corruption of The Landlord’s Game, which was intended to be an illustration of the economic theories of Henry George. Its main point was to show how concentration of land ownership creates societal ills.
Now it’s just an interminable game that leaves everyone miserable.
This is the best reporting that the Times has conducted in a while.
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@jessamyn I’m a huge fan of the interrobang, so much so that I made sure my phone autocorrects any use of ?! into its proper form.
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@overholt@glammr.us @VCP@mastodon.social but…but…but mailing lists still exist!! And are commonly used!
Always annoying when one stands at the wrong bus stop and misses the (free!) bus
@APBBlue@thepit.social it’s like the old saying goes: “if you don’t want your directional states to be confused, don’t make them both rectangular. And give ‘em some character!”
@amyfou@lingo.lol you can have a hearty huzzah!
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@joannaholman do it. It’ll be exhilarating. I’m still riding a high from burning two DVDs. There’s something liberating about using older forms of tech.
@amyfou@lingo.lol This sort of thing should be strictly confined to old-school cartoons. Horrible.
WHAT SEASON IS THIS, @stevegis_ssg@mas.to?? THIS IS NOT UNLOCKING! THIS IS FULLY UNLOCKED, DOOR FLUNG WIDE!
@Jegge@chaos.social where does comic book viewer store its files?
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@AngelicAura @EUCommission but haven’t you heard? Europe is the “AI continent”! 🙄
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116375194345663426
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@jsit they’ve been trying to sell this idea for decades. My first encounter with it:
https://youtu.be/4xmMYeFmc2Q?si=T3_jQPeCClXGNZoS
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@ultranurd wherever two or three signs are gathered together, there is Captain Placard in the midst of them.
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@ultranurd @ultranurd Can't they just donate the IP to Jonathan Frakes or something? I feel like he'd do an OK job with it.
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@antdude@mastodon.social @i0null@infosec.exchange by putting in an earplug, you change your hearing from two channels/ears (stereo) to one channel/ear (mono)
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@mroach I’ve been tempted. I miss the days where I could pick up a print copy of The Onion for free at the train stop near my place.
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@joannaholman Wasn't it also because the step tracker only had a four-digit display, so they advertised that when the tracker looped back to zero, you were done?
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@ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org @tschfflr@fediscience.org “linguistics beyond the ivory tower” is an even less well-known sub-discipline 😂
@VCP@mastodon.social sometimes things stick in my brain for no reason. Every now and again it comes in handy!
@lapcatsoftware@mastodon.social oh for the days of Macworld.
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Per information reported by the Loire-Atlantique SDIS 44 fire and rescue services, the 69-year-old co-founder was one of two victims, alongside the unidentified owner of the Cessna 421 aircraft.
That’s a weird sentence. Why would they identify the passenger but not the operator?