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@haoloiro.bsky.social

bro thinks hes in semantic error

milly @taeraekiss.bsky.social · Oct 7

Taerae saiu do hotel hoje decidido em barbarizar no look do aeroporto

October 7, 2024 at 4:05 AM

Bruno Cesar Rocha ★ - rochacbruno

@bruno.rocha.social

Finally, a good alternative for Semantic Versioning!

February 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM

Moira Donegan

@moiradonegan.bsky.social

“Is it technically fascism?” “Is it technically rape?” “Is it technically genocide?” Remarkable the smug ease with which so many people have replaced moral inquiries with semantic ones.

March 31, 2024 at 7:22 PM

Ahhhhh

@nerdjpg.com

Everything is semantic and everything hurts

March 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM

Samuel

@samuel.fm

your outie always uses semantic html

February 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM

Jesse Hawken

@jessehawken.bsky.social

It’s actually straightforward anywhere. Anyone insisting different is playing cute little semantic games about it

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jan 24

The straight-arm salute has meant very different things in different places and during different periods of history. But in Germany, the interpretation of the gesture Elon Musk made during President Trump’s inauguration event this week was straightforward. nyti.ms/4h6c5iE

A photo shows Elon Musk speaking at the Inauguration Day event at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. with his right arm straightened and raised in the air. A headline reads: "In Germany, Little Doubt On the Meaning of Elon Musk's Salute." Photo credit: Eric Lee for The New York Times.

January 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝

@sundaedivine.lol

Vance achieved mission accomplished to semantic retreat in 16 minutes.

September 3, 2026 at 6:50 PM

mattie lubchansky

@mattielubchansky.com

semantic drift of "nepo baby" becoming "any rich child" is going to drive me cuckoo bananas crazy. we had the words "rich kid" already

August 13, 2026 at 12:04 PM

Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social

can't say I love the implications of the semantic drift of the word "insurrectionists"

👈🍺 @thisguy.wantsa.beer · Jan 23

*every fucking winter*
yes, grandpa it still gets cold

Donald J. Trump+
@realDonaldTrump
Fende
Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 States. Rarely seen anything like it before. Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain - WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???
1.39k ReTruths
5.08k Likes
1/23/26, 7:19 AM

January 23, 2026 at 9:00 PM

Zach Weinersmith

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social

Why are they called semantic arguments and not "ad homonyms" ?

June 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM

kate wehwalt

@katewagner.wehwalt.net

speedrunning "terrorism" semantic collapse

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · Apr 30

The other lies in this thread aside, the most disturbing thing is the inflation of the term “terrorist.” It’s never been a word with a fixed meaning, but it just means absolutely nothing here. What political project are MS-13/TdA supposed to be advancing?

Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · Apr 30

I've been an immigration reporter for a long time. I've never seen communications from DHS appear quite this unhinged, unprofessional, and just wholly unconcerned with seeming legitimate.

April 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM

Anthony Fu

@antfu.me

Proposing an extended SemVer -

🗿 Epoch Semantic Versioning

to communicate better about versions.

Thinking of adopting this to all my projects, and finally eliminating my lousy habit of forever zero-major practice 😜

What do you think? 👀
antfu.me/posts/epoch-...

Epoch Semantic Versioning

Proposal for an extended Semantic Versioning called Epoch SemVer to provide more granular versioning information to users.

antfu.me

January 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM

agoston nagy

@entangled.tools

semantic noise / debug-view

September 6, 2026 at 5:23 AM

Ted Underwood

@tedunderwood.com

This semantic question is going to get resolved in the way semantic questions deserve to be resolved — arbitrarily, by the actual practice of people who have to use English words to be understood.

They already say "it's still thinking" and "it didn't understand me." They will keep saying that.

September 23, 2026 at 10:44 PM

huaepiphany

@huaepiphany.bsky.social

My concept art for the French edition of Semantic Error, vol. 1

A scene from Semantic Error novel. A guys standing in front of an auditorium and a highly bad created PowerPoint presentation is behind him

A scene from Semantic Error novel. Two guys standing in front of each other while one of them can’t remember the other’s name

A scene from Semantic Error novel. Two guys running from each other

A scene from Semantic Error novel. Two guys sitting in front of each other

January 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM

David J Prokopetz

@prokopetz.bsky.social

Not more queer or less queer, but a secret third thing (provoking pettifogging semantic arguments over the definition of the word "queer").

September 24, 2026 at 2:49 AM

Ur Airtight Boy⁷

@urpboy.bsky.social

Semantic error

August 30, 2024 at 1:24 AM

Andy Craig

@andycraig.bsky.social

lol the nerdy semantic gripe about “co-equal” i love it

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · Sep 27

This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face.

democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Ranking Member Jamie Raskin
Prepared Remarks for the Judicial Conference
September 16, 2025
Thank you, Chief Justice Roberts, for the invitation.
Forgive my directness here but the times are serious, as you know, our time is short. I have just five minutes and don't want to trespass on Senator Cruz's time.
Sometimes these days I feel as if all the foundational principles are being trampled and lost.
Often, I hear my colleagues in the House, and these are fellow Democrats, get up to protest some Executive usurpation of legislative power and they begin their lament with the plaintive cry, "We are a coequal branch of government..."
And I always feel they have lost the argument right there just by repeating that fifth-grade dogma.
First of all, co-equal is not even a word. It's an embarrassing redundancy like "very unique" or
"irregardless.
"

But there's a reason all legislative power is vested in the Congress and there's a reason it's in Article I.
The Founders had a revolution against monarchy and its constant assaults on liberty. In America, the Framers determined, only the representatives of the people would have power to declare wars, pass budgets, impose taxes and tariffs, and so on. Article lis pages and pages of all the powers vested in Congress. Then you get to Article Il, which is tiny.
The key paragraph says a president shall be removed from office upon impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. If we are co-equal, why do we have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and permanently disqualify the president and he doesn't have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and disqualify us?
The core job of the president is plain: "To Take care that the laws are faithfully executed."
That's it. Not abused, not thwarted, not impounded, not redirected, but faithfully executed.
A lot of the cases entering the federal courts are variations on this theme.

Here's the remarkable thing: Americans have brought over 300 cases in federal district courts against the Administration so far for usurping legislative powers, defying federal laws, or violating the rights of the people. This summer, researchers found that plaintiffs were winning an astonishing 77% of the cases in the district courts. Moreover, they found that President Trump was losing about equally before Republican-appointed judges (72%) and Democratic-appointed judges (80%).
The numbers in the federal circuit courts of appeal are similar, with plaintiffs against the Administration winning overwhelmingly and again without a sharp partisan valence to the appeals courts' voting. A good example is the birthright citizenship case where four district court judges, two appointed by Republican presidents and two appointed by Democratic presidents, all struck down the President's purported negation of birthright citizenship. Then, on appeal, three circuit courts again all ruled against the Administration.
But everything is flipped when the cases come to the Supreme Court.

September 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM

Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Since Trump is out here denying he is a rapist, a reminder that a judge said he absolutely was one

Judge in E. Jean Carroll Case: Yes, Donald Trump Is a Rapist

A judge rejected Trump’s semantic attempt to throw out the case.

newrepublic.com

April 27, 2026 at 12:39 AM

words

@words.bsky.social

tfw you unseal a pre-linguistic semantic reservoir

September 13, 2026 at 6:13 PM

Kelsey Atherton

@atherton.bsky.social

Getting into semantic arguments about the federal government sending sick children who are citizens out of the country

April 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM

Meredith Rose

@mrose.ink

Butlerian Jihad: appreciator of deeply weird shit. Enjoys semantic arguments. Frinkiac given human form.

Glenn Hauman @hauman.bsky.social · Aug 20

War of the Rohirrim? War of the Roses? War of the Worlds? War of The Five Kings? Kree-Skrull War? Chocolate War? Pushcart War? Mushroom War? Shadow War? Dominion War? Time War? Clone War?

...and of course, the Butlerian Jihad?

August 20, 2024 at 1:50 AM