Dave
@dmalinowski
🕘: Applied linguistics, language education & linguistic landscape 🕔: photography, bicycling, coffee, LEGO, trains 🕛: opposing authoritarianism and technoligarchy
It’s always the damn corners that are so hard to reach. Maybe some gold caulking could fill them up, too!
Wherever you are, maybe your day or night would be a little better with a nice fiery sunset, too. - San Jose, CA, July 13
Saturday, July 11: Trump’s arch at the American state fair is coming apart today, with the caulking removed and plywood peeled off, leaving just the jungle gym frame and Home Depot Halloween eagles on top
Not only that—now we're starting to see the unredacted photos come out from the Great American State Fair. And, folks, it’s even sadder than we thought… #politics #freedom250 #statefair #somuchwinning
That city sewer slut's the vibe Internationally recognized I set the tone, it's my design And it's stuck in your mind #LincolnMemorial #ReflectingPool #swamp #news #BratSummer was just missing #algae
individual and collective responsibilities to the more-than-human world 💫 Website and program: www.linguisticlandscape17.com #sociolinguistics #linguistics #languagesky #langsky #AcademicSky
Many thanks to Máiréad Moriarty, Helen Kelly-Holmes, and all those who helped make the 17th international #LinguisticLandscape workshop so wonderful! It took place at @unioflimerick.bsky.social from June 4-6 under the theme of “crisis,” and pushed the boundaries of thinking about language and our
Has it ever occurred to anyone that James Talarico might just be the real-world incarnation of Emmet from the LEGO movie? It’s not just his hair.… 1/2
Amazing how these flags can all get along. Happy Pride from SJC airport, San José, California! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
In case seeing the university president in person at yesterday’s SJSU graduation ceremony wasn’t enough, you could also “tap screen,” chat, and take AI-enhanced selfies with her holographic likeness at this Star Trek transporter-style booth outside the auditorium 1/2 #academicsky #AI #illusions
This ad, and thousands of others just like it, is a giant “fuck you” to every human with a real job, and every other human who wants one. Who does ‘Artisan’ think is actually riding the bus? - at Van Ness & Eddy, San Francisco, 4/20/26 #AI #slop #sanfrancisco #streetphoto #ad #photo
San Jose City Hall this afternoon. Wave hi if you’re in the neighborhood and 🖕🏻🍊🤡
With news of the Adios Baseball, See-ya! (ABS) robot ball/strike system, I am officially crossing the line from middle-aged “skeptical pragmatism on all things AI” view to grumpy old man “AI is killing joy, ending culture, and ruining humanity” years. Statler & Waldorf were right: this shit sucks!
My heart aches for the communities who have suffered through this natural disaster. Can you imagine the tragedies *of choice* in Gaza, Iran, Lebanon? 5/5
A memorial on the side of the Lahaina Bypass is a standing reminder of over 100 souls lost. 2/5
This week I was lucky enough to visit Lahaina on the island of Maui, where the damage from the massive wildfire of August 8, 2023 is everywhere. 1/5
feeling the rain fall under the sun and blue sky we know what hope feels like and yet we must endure no one knows how long or which way the clouds will blow so close your eyes for just a moment breathe deep, then start to move again —— #photo and #poem, #sun and #rain in an #ageofopposites
“He Is Risen, WE ARE CLOSED” - America, 2026 —- #photo of #church #sign in #kaanapali #maui but it #couldbeanywhere #linguisticlandscape in #trumpsamerica
Be a fountain for others, and not a drain. #LifeAspirations at the local #CoffeeShop #closeup #photo