Yesterday three NYU colleagues were arrested supporting and observing a student protest. One of those colleagues is now being told that she may not be able to return to faculty housing.

Other colleagues have been declared personas non grata, and cannot come on campus for any reason, including teaching their classes.

This is anticipatory obedience and it is going to get worse.

@historianess I don't want to heart this 💔

@lavaeolus but please do, just so it reaches more eyeballs.

dinnae fash--we are organizing! :)

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@lavaeolus not panicking yet, but...it's not good.

When I lectured my Berlin students this semester on the fall of the Weimar Republic, the parallels were undeniable...

@historianess I've got this image posted on/at the door of my office :)
It's mainly for others, but also for me
@historianess You boosting this makes me hurry to figure out the correct preposition on/at... :D
@lavaeolus meh same difference! also I fuck up German prepositions (and related cases) on the regular)

@historianess But I've also got a background in linguistics and consider stuff like that fascinating! :D

It should be "on", right?
"to refer to a position on any surface" https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/at-on-and-in-place

At, on and in (place)

@lavaeolus I actually think a lot of it is based on dialect. For example, in TX people almost always say "Where [are] you at?" As opposed to "Where are you?" Prepositions very fungible.
@historianess So, I would like some NFPs?
@historianess Non-Fungible-Prepositions (as in NFTs *brrr*🥶)
@lavaeolus ah hahahahah I don't know if there is such a thing! All prepositions fungible and subject to colloquial use!
@historianess Can't I get a receipt in some wildly destructiv and inefficient distributed ledger?
With a 'smart' contract: "This preposition can only be used by me."
#TeamSaveAs

@historianess @lavaeolus

Go directly north from TX, past the 49th parallel, and you'll hear "Can I come with?"

Before you say 'you' is implied (true), there are also other potential answers. Some of which are pretty funny.