the legal argument is also a normative argument
January 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
the legal argument is also a normative argument
i have seen a lot of people confuse factual statements for normative statements, but i have never seen someone confuse a normative statement for a factual statement
October 6, 2025 at 5:00 AM
i have seen a lot of people confuse factual statements for normative statements, but i have never seen someone confuse a normative statement for a factual statement
its fucking insane this is a normative part of the industry
May 8, 2026 at 2:14 AM
its fucking insane this is a normative part of the industry
normative vs descriptive context collapse, many such cases
March 1, 2026 at 4:46 PM
normative vs descriptive context collapse, many such cases
I am losing my mind. Chat isn’t a search engine. this isn’t normal. framing it as normative is slimy. Tone, vibes all bad.
Hi, this is Holden emerging from my Bluesky hiatus to tell everyone that when checking the links in the piece, I used ChatGPT as my search engine (does anyone use Google anymore?). The piece was written by me and edited by humans. So all the links were checked by me and again by our copyeditors.
July 17, 2026 at 8:55 PM
I am losing my mind. Chat isn’t a search engine. this isn’t normal. framing it as normative is slimy. Tone, vibes all bad.
honestly don’t understand how “[demographic category] has [normative descriptor] [physical characteristic]” makes it past an editor in 2025 ffs wtf is going on over there
May 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
honestly don’t understand how “[demographic category] has [normative descriptor] [physical characteristic]” makes it past an editor in 2025 ffs wtf is going on over there
am i normative enough???
March 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
am i normative enough???
being white is not the normative human experience fyi
September 28, 2026 at 12:16 AM
being white is not the normative human experience fyi
this is a descriptive assessment, not a normative one.
January 25, 2026 at 4:32 AM
this is a descriptive assessment, not a normative one.
i think a cool thing is that every time some right winger is revealed to have, let’s say, a non-normative sexuality, i get to hear what liberals really think about me but feel they can’t voice :)
April 10, 2026 at 8:41 PM
i think a cool thing is that every time some right winger is revealed to have, let’s say, a non-normative sexuality, i get to hear what liberals really think about me but feel they can’t voice :)
Normative determinism of the week.
November 19, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Normative determinism of the week.
L'occasion de rappeler une fois encore que l'Académie n'a aucune puissance normative sur la langue et son évolution.
L’Académie française s’oppose au Conseil d’Etat sur l’écriture inclusive
L’Académie française s’oppose au Conseil d’Etat sur l’écriture inclusive
Les immortels ont condamné le rejet du pourvoi d’une association qui réclamait le retrait de deux plaques commémoratives de l’Hôtel de ville de Paris utilisant l’écriture inclusive par le Conseil d’Etat, réaffirmant son opposition à cette écriture épicène la jugeant contraire « à l’esprit de notre langue ».
www.lemonde.fr
January 11, 2026 at 5:54 AM
L'occasion de rappeler une fois encore que l'Académie n'a aucune puissance normative sur la langue et son évolution.
Whiteness is not normative, it is simply invisible.
February 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Whiteness is not normative, it is simply invisible.
cishets are inherently normative.
July 6, 2026 at 4:19 PM
cishets are inherently normative.
this is not a normative statement it is a positive statement
February 10, 2026 at 4:08 PM
this is not a normative statement it is a positive statement
they literally cannot discern between factual and normative statements
February 11, 2026 at 9:33 PM
they literally cannot discern between factual and normative statements
the reality of this is simple: legal arguments are normative arguments. you are arguing for specific outcomes and specific legal regimes. this is transparent to everyone except lawyers.
January 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
the reality of this is simple: legal arguments are normative arguments. you are arguing for specific outcomes and specific legal regimes. this is transparent to everyone except lawyers.
Trannies
Raging
Against
Normative
Society
Raging
Against
Normative
Society
August 4, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Trannies
Raging
Against
Normative
Society
Raging
Against
Normative
Society
Cishets are definitionally normative, learn what words mean.
They seem very upset that cisgender people are participating in queer theory despite the fact that foundational queer theory expressly contemplates cis and hetero participation so long as it isn't normative or essentialist.
"Read some theory" types could really do with reading some theory.
"Read some theory" types could really do with reading some theory.
July 6, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Cishets are definitionally normative, learn what words mean.
What tf does the "normative legitimacy of Moscow's grand strategic conception" mean?
Asking a master strategist.
Asking a master strategist.
The war on Iran impacts not just material balance but also the normative legitimacy of Moscow’s grand strategic conception, observes Grégoire Roos, Director of the Europe and Russia and Eurasia Programmes at Chatham House.
www.chathamhouse.org/2026/03/iran...
www.chathamhouse.org/2026/03/iran...
March 4, 2026 at 10:36 AM
What tf does the "normative legitimacy of Moscow's grand strategic conception" mean?
Asking a master strategist.
Asking a master strategist.
if you want to change yourself in any kind of way whether its to be more normative or less normative or any damn thing i love you and i support you
April 2, 2026 at 5:02 PM
if you want to change yourself in any kind of way whether its to be more normative or less normative or any damn thing i love you and i support you
You're making simple positive statements with very obvious normative implications and people don't like it because those normative implications clash with their ideology
March 5, 2024 at 6:19 PM
You're making simple positive statements with very obvious normative implications and people don't like it because those normative implications clash with their ideology
another soldier lost to The People online misunderstanding descriptive vs normative
I confess I do not understand why “the left should prepare for the worst case scenario with AI and jobs” seems to have elicited such a strong negative reaction bsky.app/profile/chri...
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
another soldier lost to The People online misunderstanding descriptive vs normative
"Normative appeals to civility and harmony, when applied indiscriminately, can obscure the moral distinction between domination and resistance—condemning confrontational opposition even in contexts where democratic survival or basic human dignity is at stake."
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September 27, 2026 at 8:44 PM
"Normative appeals to civility and harmony, when applied indiscriminately, can obscure the moral distinction between domination and resistance—condemning confrontational opposition even in contexts where democratic survival or basic human dignity is at stake."
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