As we watch an ascendant fascist theocracy queer people might be tempted by the urge to sanitize how we present ourselves and I'm here to tell you the actual best strategy is to be as mindblowingly gay as you possibly can

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the girls are hanggggingggg lmao GOOD

ONE OF THE DEFINITIONS OF 'LITERALLY' IS "IN EFFECT, VIRTUALLY—USED IN AN EXAGGERATED WAY TO EMPHASIZE A STATEMENT OR DESCRIPTION." SOME PEOPLE GET MAD IF YOU USE IT THIS WAY BECAUSE IT ISN'T THE WORD'S PRIMARY MEANING, BUT THIS SENSE OF 'LITERALLY' HAS BEEN USED FOR 250 YEARS SO

Yup Sally-Ann Hart for Hastings & Rye

The Met Police Metropolitan Police are preventing us from protesting again by blocking PregnantThenScrewed #MarchOfTheMummies due to take place on 29 Oct in London. 6000 attendees were to march on Parliament to demand Gov action on childcare, flex working & parental leave.

I am asking all of my followers to RT this thread so as many people as possible know the truth about the Royal Mail Group strikes and how our members are facing a vicious attack #StandByYourPost

Mind-blowing fact no.1: some people pronounce 'brood' and 'brewed' differently. Mind-blowing fact no.2: some people pronounce 'brood' and 'brewed' the same. Let us know how you blow minds at speakforyersel.ac.uk

Greetin intae ma gansey sleeve here ☹️. Jumper in to speakforyersel.ac.uk to tell us which woolly garment you wear.

Get involved!

Sue the absolute crap out of them, 37billion is a nice round number

"Accents shift and change, and the only thing we should lose is the hierarchy in which we place them. They weave a tapestry across the country that tells a story of who has come and gone before us, and we’re all the richer for it." A great piece below by @Kirsty_Maj0r:

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Almost embarrassed by the excitement levels caused by BBC Radio 6 Music using #accents for the #peoplesplaylist this week - based on the Accent Bias in Britain here at Linguistics@QMUL project - nearly dropped my [kɔʷnflaɪks]

#peoplesplaylist

gonna tell my students this was judith butler

Beatutiful! 🤩🤩 great article out on Phonetic Drift

Woohoo - love this piece! And that Alex Scott MBE gets a mention 🥳🤩🥳🤩