Michael Chesnut

1. Starting my actual goodbye to Twitter thread here with a super fun image from @AirCanada, good job team over there with some fun multilingualism, and hi to @Lg_on_the_Move with this, which is also an example of corporate banal multilingualism. Oh well.

For whoever is left over here in this bizzaro X space, a last note that the water is warmer and friendlier under blue skies . . .

@samkimreports Seen plaques around Seoul in subway stations noting a particular bathroom received an award in so-and-so year. Interesting to see. Would, no joke at all, love to read all about this award process and ceremony, and whatever social organizations are involved in clean bathrooms.

Yesterday in Seoul there was an award ceremony for the most beautiful bathroom of South Korea

@SwiftOnSecurity This remains one of the careful and ethically run accounts on this site, and I wish more political leaders, journalists, and scholars would follow your lead in terms of sharing information, engaging with others, and constructing an online presence. Kudos to you.

Was about to post an insightful QT with a commonly-known quote. However, when I tried to source it, I found stuff with videos, but they are wildly divergent from anything said. This is twice recently I've found putative sources that do NOT contain it. Be really careful. Validate.

@USJ_online @RedenRecio @Matina_Kapsali @TimoKoren @brian_hracs @carmenppulgar @ClementineCttn @jmichaelbatty @JustinDelloye @pumain1 @somwrita_sarkar @RutaUba @MuktaNaik @amaseme_net @Drruthypotts @JohnSturzaker Thanks for the reply! Will follow you over here and check you out on YouTube in the future! Always appreciate journals, and the folks behind them, that are active on social media!

@MichaelChesnut2 @RedenRecio @Matina_Kapsali @TimoKoren @brian_hracs @carmenppulgar @ClementineCttn @jmichaelbatty @JustinDelloye @pumain1 @somwrita_sarkar @RutaUba @MuktaNaik @amaseme_net @Drruthypotts @JohnSturzaker Hi @MichaelChesnut2, Urban Studies is not on Bluesky - only X and YouTube for now!

The September 2024 issue (Volume 61, Issue 12) of #UrbanStudies is out now journals.sagepub.com/toc/usja/61/12

@USJ_online @RedenRecio @Matina_Kapsali @TimoKoren @brian_hracs @carmenppulgar @ClementineCttn @jmichaelbatty @JustinDelloye @pumain1 @somwrita_sarkar @RutaUba @MuktaNaik @amaseme_net @Drruthypotts @JohnSturzaker Love this journal, so thanks for posting about your latest issue, urban studies always gets me thinking about #LinguisticLandscape issues among many others, but are you also on Bluesky? I'm trying to follow more journals over there rather than here, so am curious!

Our September issue features papers by @RedenRecio @Matina_Kapsali @TimoKoren @brian_hracs @carmenppulgar @Clementinecttn @jmichaelbatty @JustinDelloye @pumain1 @somwrita_sarkar @RutaUba @MuktaNaik @amaseme_net @Drruthypotts @JohnSturzaker and many more journals.sagepub.com/toc/usja/61/12

Well, donno what this says about anything, but these are some of the better adds I'm getting on awful Twitter these days, but @aselsan, just fyi, I am less likely to purchase an electronic warfare asset from you knowing you advertise here.

@Smart_Translate Thank you very much for listening and yes, multilingual signs about paying in a otherwise monolingual context are very interesting as well! Probably worth writing about! Very interesting that particular directive is given priority!

@MichaelChesnut2 Just listened to this episode, and couldn't help but think of several places I've travelled to where, at tourist attractions, all the explanatory signs are in the local language *apart* from one sign at the entrance asking you to pay 😅

1. Starting my actual goodbye to Twitter thread here with a super fun image from @AirCanada, good job team over there with some fun multilingualism, and hi to @Lg_on_the_Move with this, which is also an example of corporate banal multilingualism. Oh well.

@qntm Congratulations! I'm still in awe of your story 'Lena' and am looking forward to reading more of your work in the future in whatever formats it appears in!

Important information regarding the future of There Is No Antimemetics Division! qntm.org/publ

Jumping back over here to point out interesting language and education conversations are happening over at the better place. Would be happy to see more #LinguisticLandscape posts over there!

Following #Aila2024 both here and over on Bluesky, seems like conference activity here is a bit more lively, but maybe things will pick up more on the sky side soon. Regardless, thanks to all for tweeting and sleeting! #AILA2024

Amd nothing like four high-quality adds in a row to add to your X experience

Are things getting weird on this site? Like we're in the 70s weird? Odd adverts still work, of course... Bkuesky is out there, just saying.

Good post on leaving X, and all that Twitter once afforded and no longer does nearlylegal.co.uk/2024/08/its-no…

@WinnipegNews Thanks for the response and, of course, you best know how to use your limited resources, but I hope to see you more on BlueSky in the future as I'm not so happy using X these days. Regardless, kudos to the whole team at the Winnipeg Free Press for all that you do!

@MichaelChesnut2 Hi Michael. We create accounts on most major social networks to prevent impersonation, but we don't have the resources to post on them all.

Happily now a subscriber to the Winnipeg Free Press, @WinnipegNews, for news on housing issues and sports in Winnipeg, but WFP social team, are you also on BlueSky? Saw one account from you there, but it didn't seem active.

@EngLangBlog yup

Wow, Twitter really is just hot garbage now. Still very skeptical Bluesky will ever become anything like what Twitter was, but Twitter now is just vile spite, interspersed with some remaining neat stories and news, but man, otherwise just rage inducement and cruelty

So, I have 3,050 followers on Twitter, and 76 people saw this tweet. I imagine there is just a huge amount of old academic accounts just abandoned by users and sitting around idle. Really, just not a particularly useful social network anymore for so many

I am a bit curious what shapes the process of leaving Twitter, trying Bluesky or Threads or Mastodon or something else, and then going back to Twitter, so hopefully some social media scholars are looking at this process and related issues, but yeah, I don't like Twitter now

@DoubleEmMartin Thank you for writing this.

very grateful for the trust folks gave me, to tell this story: about Austin Lathlin-Bercier, the first Manitoban known to be killed in combat in Ukraine, the brothers who loved him, and a mother’s beautiful faith in her son. winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2…