Rue Burch (rue-burch.bsky.social)

@_Mahlo1508 @madaomoshiroi @grok 岁月静好 - "relaxed and peaceful" (supposedly)

@madaomoshiroi Hi @grok, what does the inscription written on the back glass say?

すごい‥ 普通に街にこんな達人おるよね

@amazingmap Why would Puerto Rico be included as part of the US in 1866?

The United States once proposed annexing Canada in 1866, and this shows how the map could have changed if it succeeded

@IcoochiUchiha @CryptoEggmen @mrjeffu "Wouldn't apply to politics"... That IS politics. I constantly see politicians in every country that I pay attention to regularly avoid speaking up on the "damned if you do damned if you don't" issues. Not unique, not new, not surprising.

@CryptoEggmen @mrjeffu So it’s common for politicians to not answer questions or give no detail on very very very serious matters when being publicly funded, and making decisions for the nation? The people of Japan are fine with that? I could be wrong but seems like that wouldn’t apply to politics.

Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi was asked why her government has condemned Iran's attacks on neighboring countries, but has not called for Trump to stop attacking Iran. Her answer: "I am going to meet President Trump. That's all."

@MizumotoAtsushi I lived in 豊前の国 for 5 years and still do my "里帰り" there. It's still the version of Japanese I'm most comfortable with despite now having lived in 関西 and 中部 for longer.

初めて知った！

@bassic_unit @vintagemapstore Constantine, the emperor of Rome, converted to Christianity. The old name of Istanbul was Constantinople, the center of the Easter Roman Empire/Byzantine Empire, which was also the center of what became the Eastern Orthodox church. There are still many Christians there.

@vintagemapstore TURKEY WAS ONCE CHRISTIAN?!?

Religions in Europe and surrounding region for 700, 1100 and 1700

@Ed_of_O @keysmashbandit Clark, like folks like Tomasello and Hutchins have always been adjacent to CA in their work, and I haven't had the chance to read this, so can't really say much about it. But Schegloff did a paper in 2010 that's relevant...

@keysmashbandit Interesting. I'm not too sure how solid this claim of them not overlapping much pragmatically is, and #conversationanalysis Twitter has moved to BlueSky. Maybe @RueBurch checks back sometimes. But it's very plausible.

Uh and um are distinct and consistently defined words in English. "Uh" means "I am taking a short pause in my speech," whereas "um" means "I am taking a longer pause in my speech during which you are potentially free to interject." Speakers use them like any other English word

@MizumotoAtsushi Please tell me you got him to sing some punk

そしてw

getting tired of winning yet? npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-…

@Daractenus One of my students analyzed his interview of Robby Starbuck for her senior thesis, which was the first time I'd heard of him. He strikes me as the type of journalist we should all appreciate - absolutely ripped up Starbuck's "argument" with just a couple simple questions.

Give this man a follow. He's more than earned it. x.com/NiallStanage?s…

It took a European journalist to finally ask this neo-nazi monster the kind of questions American journalists have failed to ask her on a daily basis for almost a year now.

good time to remember these words

@MizumotoAtsushi 私もっと近く住んでたら絶対参加したい。何年振りジャムセッション出来てない。:-(

ベースを始めて7日目の娘氏とスタジオ。ドラム久しぶりすぎて足が動かない。ギター募集していますw

@GevScale @big_eye123 @mrjeffu English is treated as a lingua franca, as the default language that anyone who is not Japanese would likely recognize. I'm not endorsing that or saying it's wise, but much of the English used in Japan is for that purpose. Similar in Korea and China.

@RueBurch @big_eye123 @mrjeffu Why though? The majority of the people they interact with are Japanese citizens not English speakers, and it’s not like they can’t be easily identified as police by the uniform

English text on screen states that this isn't a foreign person, wonders how Japanese will blame it on foreigners. A Japanese account, seemingly unable to read or not trusting the English description, shares the video with an anti-foreigner description. x.com/Coco2Poppin/st…

@GevScale @big_eye123 @mrjeffu A quick internet search will show that it's reasonably common. I see police here regularly, and yes, they have "Police" written in English on their uniforms.

@big_eye123 @mrjeffu Why would Japanese police need the English word for police printed on their uniform?

@MizumotoAtsushi Looks interesting. I wasn't aware Mika was working on this kind of thing. Thanks for sharing!

Asynchronous multiple interpretation (AMI): Expanding temporal dimensions in qualitative data analysis - Takaaki Hiratsuka, Mika Ishino, Nicholas Marx, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

@page_hongseok @MizumotoAtsushi I've always loved this cover

@toddinjapan I've always loved his work - one of the few people (besides Steven Levinson and Carsten Roever) who has been able to straddle the epistemologies between the fields of pragmatics and CA.

The level of detail is just beginning! Amazing 👏

@apperceptions @alz_zyd_ Someone with updated pedagogical training through an EDD degree would most likely be trained in project-based and task-based methods. In other words, they would be teaching math in those ways or ways that foster that kind of learning.

@alz_zyd_ Neither. I'd rather they learned it from real world applications and so best would be a cook, auto repair mechanic, audio/video tech, etc. PhD's should not be teaching, period.

Would you rather have your kid learn math from someone with a math PhD, or someone with a PhD in math education

fwiw, i'm not based in Korea and am interested in why it thinks i am. just like everything on this platform, best to take this kind of info with a grain of salt.

@HokkaidoOlaf @mrjeffu How so? Are they responsible for the policies and the spat that the two govts are having? Should they put their lives and livelihoods, and those of their loved ones, on the line for an answer that isn't going to solve one fucking problem?

@mrjeffu But it is right to ask the questions anyway.

An NTV journalist asked Chinese tourists in Japan to comment on Xi Jinping not wanting them to visit Japan. The Japanese journalist, who should have already expected they wouldn't be able to answer such a question, didn't get any answers. x.com/Zq3nhl467327/s…