#referents
saving for referents
October 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
he looks like shit, but arguably worse, he looks like nothing. his clothes say nothing, speak to nothing, referents upon referents, because he has no style, has no conception of style, of who he is and how he presents himself
October 3, 2026 at 8:27 AM
signs... that point to referents... what could it mean...
February 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Just a general FYI: I get that the CIA and FBI did some shady and crappy things in the 50s-80s. But if you are using those examples as referents for their (legal) powers *now,* you are showing your ignorance of some major constraints that were placed on them by Congress*
August 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Adding Branagh’s Conspiracy (a great movie) to my long list of Andor referents
April 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
one of the most fun thing to do in any kind of relationship is build a lexicon of shared referents and creat a pidgin language of the heart
February 2, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Communiqué de la @VigieLaicite.
Colloque des référents laïcité de la région Île-de-France : la Vigie de la Laïcité alerte sur le risque de dérive idéologique👉
November 23, 2024 at 9:18 AM
It's not age, it's transness. Schoenbaum made a trans movie that gave cis people emotions they couldn't quite understand and tried to process through cis referents that didn't quite fit. She disguised it well enough that it intrigued rather than disgusted them, which is an achievement.
May 1, 2026 at 5:26 AM
The amount of IT folks joining Bluesky following @kelseyhightower.com is crazy. Happy to see so much important referents here!
October 22, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Sometimes I think about this post and it makes me laugh and laugh and laugh
August 8, 2026 at 6:14 AM
Et bonjour à tous les référents transition écologique intégristes des grandes banques
May 14, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Ah, 2025, when the words "the president has destroyed the East Wing of the White House" is a meaningful sentence with clear referents and not, like, something scribbled in a bad novel.
October 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
is there a good referents for Cherris relaxed outfit??? if you have it pls D:
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Molt important en aquests temps saber quins referents estan al cantó bo. No podia esperar menys
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
September 25, 2026 at 6:30 AM
thanks this referents would have been so useful for me 2 hours ago >w<
October 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
La Greta i la Pelicot. Màxim respecte. #referents
October 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Recordeu; davant les adversitats de LA CALOR
Cal ser valents

#Referents
August 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This is also part of an ongoing and—I believe—quite deliberate strategy of uprooting and unmooring *language* from its normative semantic referents. Words are turned into tokens in the language game that is public discourse, and playing and winning that game authorizes policy.
SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada.

Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
Trump to declare fentanyl “Weapon of Mass Destruction," per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
www.thehandbasket.co
March 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
When I talk about social media discourse absolutely air-frying peoples' understanding of politics, this is what I mean. Real politics, real terms with real referents, become these floating signifiers that just nebulously mean "bad thing I don't like."
dogs in large cities are essentially settler colonial is an incredible series of words
April 21, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Reading lately about the hyperfeminization of female animal characters excused as sexual dimorphism and I would like to thank Tigress and Dory for existing and not follow that tiring decision.
They were the few female referents I had.
April 16, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Yeah... In-N-Out has bible verse referents on the underside of the cups.

Flip side, they believe the bible commands them to pay a living wage.

Still doesn't fix the fries.
July 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Amongst themselves, referees always refer to players as referents.
February 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Who up confronting the world of references with no referents
April 30, 2024 at 3:37 PM
theory exists, like any scripture, for some people as a text to be interpreted, argued, discussed, analyzed, and for others as a series of glib referents to claim moral superiority.
January 27, 2026 at 7:32 PM
windows 98 in 2006? what set of referents are we even operating with here
January 28, 2026 at 7:44 AM