{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Chris Abraham","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/chrisa","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1854795","username":"chrisa","bio":"I’m Chris Abraham. I do SEO for a living, mostly the unglamorous kind that involves fixing things, explaining things, and occasionally telling clients that Google is not mad at them personally. I write about search, tech, decentralization, fitness resets, tools I probably don’t need, and whatever else is rattling around my head at the moment. This blog is where I think out loud, keep notes in public, and refuse to separate “professional” from “human.” Expect drafts, observations, mild heresies, and the occasional sharp elbow.","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":2,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/50/1854795.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"97463503","content_html":"<p>How the  Left actually made the  Right cool.\n<a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=DEL6A6gXlVc&amp;si=mxIW_gMBhr6dLaJX\">youtube.com/watch</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://chrisa.org/2026/09/13/how-the-left-actually-made.html","date_published":"2026-09-13T13:11:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"13:11","date_timestamp":1789305084,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://noauthority.social/@sirchris/117263898492167480","https://www.threads.com/@chrisabraham/post/DdOo6nHoAAG"]}},{"id":"97363189","content_html":"<p>Before It Was 9/11</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Twenty-five years later, I have the peculiar luxury of being able to read what I wrote when September 11 was still September 11.\n<a href=\"https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/before-it-was-911?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=android&amp;r=aqj1\">chrisabraham.substack.com/p/before-…</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n","summary":"","url":"https://chrisa.org/2026/09/11/before-it-was-twentyfive-years.html","date_published":"2026-09-11T14:34:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-11 14:34","date_timestamp":1789137273,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://noauthority.social/@sirchris/117252900605724145","https://www.threads.com/@chrisabraham/post/DdJoyD2HMeJ"]}},{"id":"97354392","content_html":"<p>Damn, Bridget, what’s with intense Muslim hate. Yikes!</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Twenty-five years late, but Bridget has decided she hates the phrase “Never Forget.”\n<a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=8IxS-1L013E&amp;si=K8BLf4Ejy-ZsKcdW\">youtube.com/watch</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n","summary":"","url":"https://chrisa.org/2026/09/11/damn-bridget-whats-with-intense.html","date_published":"2026-09-11T11:44:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-11 11:44","date_timestamp":1789127062,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://noauthority.social/@sirchris/117252231446622908","https://www.threads.com/@chrisabraham/post/DdJVUdZIJfU"]}},{"id":"97317065","content_html":"<p>On Megyn Kelly today, former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon warned that AI could become an existential threat before the end of the decade. I didn’t get to die from EMP, nukes, plague, peak oil, climate collapse, or a meteor. At this point, I’d love to experience an AI apocalypse.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fchrisa.org%2Fuploads%2F2026%2Fchatgpt-image-sep-10-2026-05-40-39-pm.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://chrisa.org/2026/09/10/on-megyn-kelly-today-former.html","date_published":"2026-09-10T21:41:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-10 21:41","date_timestamp":1789076519,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://noauthority.social/@sirchris/117248919613927374","https://www.threads.com/@chrisabraham/post/DdH076Gm0Au"]}},{"id":"97307315","content_html":"<p>Democracy Was Liberalism’s Delivery Vehicle</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What happens when the people discover that the vehicle has a steering wheel?\n<a href=\"https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/democracy-was-liberalisms-delivery?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=android&amp;r=aqj1\">chrisabraham.substack.com/p/democra…</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n","summary":"","url":"https://chrisa.org/2026/09/10/democracy-was-liberalisms-delivery-vehicle.html","date_published":"2026-09-10T17:39:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris 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owes what to whom, and why?\n<a href=\"https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/nobody-deserves-anything?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=android&amp;r=aqj1\">chrisabraham.substack.com/p/nobody-…</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n","summary":"","url":"https://chrisa.org/2026/09/09/nobody-deserves-anything-ubi-permanent.html","date_published":"2026-09-09T14:15:44+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-09 14:15","date_timestamp":1788963344,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://noauthority.social/@sirchris/117241502297888104","https://www.threads.com/@chrisabraham/post/DdEdDC7ICpd"]}},{"id":"97185623","content_html":"<p>Demanding acceptance is not self acceptance.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://chrisa.org/2026/09/08/demanding-acceptance-is-not-self.html","date_published":"2026-09-08T21:47:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-08 21:47","date_timestamp":1788904036,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://noauthority.social/@sirchris/117237615666481626","https://www.threads.com/@chrisabraham/post/DdCr7mXH52q"]}},{"id":"97174183","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/spacemanspiff@noauthority.social\" class=\"u-url mention\">@spacemanspiff</a></span> because you don’t think twice about buying a $20 delivery burrito, that’s 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They Aren’t Rich.&gt; Lacking a “minimal quality of life” relies on a definition that includes the complete package of middle-class security\n<a href=\"https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/sixty-percent-of-americans-arent?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=android&amp;r=aqj1\">chrisabraham.substack.com/p/sixty-p…</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://chrisa.org/2026/09/08/sixty-percent-of-americans-arent.html","date_published":"2026-09-08T15:25:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-08 15:25","date_timestamp":1788881159,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://noauthority.social/@sirchris/117236117044482158","https://www.threads.com/@chrisabraham/post/DdCAUXtoPS3"]}},{"id":"97122003","content_html":"<p>I am sorry it took me until 2026-09-07, today, at 56, to make the connection with a cartwheel, done by a little girl in the Spring, it literally an analog to this and isn’t just a fantastic lovely word on its own… like a cart wheel.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fchrisa.org%2Fuploads%2F2026%2Fcartwheel.jpg\" width=\"515\" height=\"388\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://chrisa.org/2026/09/07/i-am-sorry-it-took.html","date_published":"2026-09-07T18:29:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-07 18:29","date_timestamp":1788805782,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://noauthority.social/@sirchris/117231176507999528","https://www.threads.com/@chrisabraham/post/Dc_wiHQm11d"]}},{"id":"97082228","content_html":"<p>Antifa Is Not Your Great-Grandfather\nHow Jim Crow, Eugenics, and Operation Paperclip Complicate the Myth of the Good War\n<a href=\"https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/antifa-is-not-your-great-grandfather\">chrisabraham.substack.com/p/antifa-…</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://chrisa.org/2026/09/06/antifa-is-not-your-greatgrandfather.html","date_published":"2026-09-06T23:46:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-06 23:46","date_timestamp":1788738387,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://noauthority.social/@sirchris/117226759228365613","https://www.threads.com/@chrisabraham/post/Dc9v99ymwSi"]}},{"id":"97075944","content_html":"<p>What a ride. So good. Was slow to start. Worth sitting with it a while. Alice Black and Catherine Grace and hard to love at first. Show’s called Furious.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fchrisa.org%2Fuploads%2F2026%2Ffurious.jpg\" width=\"405\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://chrisa.org/2026/09/06/what-a-ride-so-good.html","date_published":"2026-09-06T21:06:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-06 21:06","date_timestamp":1788728814,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://noauthority.social/@sirchris/117226131954780220","https://www.threads.com/@chrisabraham/post/Dc9duSAHcWw"]}},{"id":"97060823","content_html":"<p>Super lame takedown, WSJ, but makes sense.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>BOMBSHELL Report on Senator John Fetterman STUNS\nSenator John Fetterman exposed in damning Wall Street Journal expose.\n<a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=5Ja1vNUbIFA&amp;si=LMdgrXYs8UttIqsU\">youtube.com/watch</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n","summary":"","url":"https://chrisa.org/2026/09/06/super-lame-takedown-wsj-but.html","date_published":"2026-09-06T14:09:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-06 14:09","date_timestamp":1788703745,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://noauthority.social/@sirchris/117224488966191727","https://www.threads.com/@chrisabraham/post/Dc8t6G6Fn1z"]}},{"id":"96955146","content_html":"<p>I already have a entire storage area filled with “We’re #2!” foam fingers. I can’t wait until America is number two or number three. Not being the hegemon will be so good for America. It’s the only way for America to heal.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fchrisa.org%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F1002203857.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://chrisa.org/2026/09/04/i-already-have-a-entire.html","date_published":"2026-09-04T13:45:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-04 13:45","date_timestamp":1788529502,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://noauthority.social/@sirchris/117213071736050290","https://www.threads.com/@chrisabraham/post/Dc3hnqwHG3A"]}},{"id":"96890667","content_html":"<p>Abdul El-Sayed is listed as 5 feet, 9 inches tall (and previously at 5 feet, 8 inches in some older reports).</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://chrisa.org/2026/09/03/abdul-elsayed-is-listed-as.html","date_published":"2026-09-03T13:46:14+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-03 13:46","date_timestamp":1788443174,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://noauthority.social/@sirchris/117207412189639217","https://www.threads.com/@chrisabraham/post/Dc085SlIMI4"]}},{"id":"96848054","content_html":"<p>I Built Blackbox Before I Could Talk Myself Out of It Today I turned a DigitalOcean button into a private, persistent AI agent I can summon from any of my old Linux ThinkPads by typing two letters: bb.\n<a href=\"https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/i-built-blackbox-before-i-could-talk\">chrisabraham.substack.com/p/i-built…</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://chrisa.org/2026/09/02/i-built-blackbox-before-i.html","date_published":"2026-09-02T20:34:19+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-02 20:34","date_timestamp":1788381259,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://noauthority.social/@sirchris/117203355244510223","https://www.threads.com/@chrisabraham/post/DczG1ARG-vJ"]}},{"id":"96831212","content_html":"<p>Superb.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fchrisa.org%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F1002203712.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://chrisa.org/2026/09/02/superb.html","date_published":"2026-09-02T14:49:14+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-02 14:49","date_timestamp":1788360554,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://noauthority.social/@sirchris/117201997641674386","https://www.threads.com/@chrisabraham/post/DcyfUusFmLm"]}},{"id":"96824813","content_html":"<p>Looks More Real Than the Stage Prop</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He parked a sharpened guillotine at the Capitol. January 6 had a toy gallows. 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A righteous rightness of rights.</p>\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wjejjnl4bwozxfciw6xgwdhw/post/3mqoieifm7c2p","date_published":"2026-07-15T10:13:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-15 10:13","date_timestamp":1784110438,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93991903","content_html":"<p><a href=\"http://theonion.com\">@theonion.com</a> Okay this is hilarious. Welcome back <a href=\"http://theonion.com\">@theonion.com</a></p>\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wjejjnl4bwozxfciw6xgwdhw/post/3mqmgdp5ag22y","date_published":"2026-07-14T14:32:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-14 14:32","date_timestamp":1784039544,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93537115","content_html":"<p><a href=\"http://abraham.su\">@abraham.su</a> A lingua franca was never universal fluency—French didn’t need every peasant speaking it, just to be the access point if you wanted in on diplomacy or letters. Same logic: most people understand a Midwest or BBC newsreader far more easily than that newsreader would understand them.</p>\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wjejjnl4bwozxfciw6xgwdhw/post/3mpygmuqzsk2g","date_published":"2026-07-06T15:44:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-06 15:44","date_timestamp":1783352657,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93537116","content_html":"<p><a href=\"http://chadstanton.blacksky.app\">@chadstanton.blacksky.app</a> Also, ‘privileged’ as an argument-ender is a strange move in 2026—you’re essentially saying I have some superpower you lack. Taken to its logic, calling someone privileged means you think they need a handicap just to make the conversation competitive. That’s not an argument.</p>\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wjejjnl4bwozxfciw6xgwdhw/post/3mpyghd26cs2g","date_published":"2026-07-06T15:41:11+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-06 15:41","date_timestamp":1783352471,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93537117","content_html":"<p><a href=\"http://chadstanton.blacksky.app\">@chadstanton.blacksky.app</a> Ironic, since this is gatekeeping too—deciding whose experience ‘counts’ as valid input versus whose gets waved off as privilege. I told you what I saw firsthand in Hawaii. Dismissing that as privilege rather than engaging it is the same boundary-policing you’re accusing me of.</p>\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wjejjnl4bwozxfciw6xgwdhw/post/3mpygdk6nl22g","date_published":"2026-07-06T15:39:04+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-06 15:39","date_timestamp":1783352344,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93537118","content_html":"<p><a href=\"http://chadstanton.blacksky.app\">@chadstanton.blacksky.app</a> Witnessed this firsthand at UEA in ’90-’91—posh students downgrading their accents and buying deliberately crap cars to dodge class resentment. Thatcher-era backlash made poshness a liability, at least on campus. Point stands: gatekeeping cuts every direction, not just downward.</p>\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wjejjnl4bwozxfciw6xgwdhw/post/3mpyg7ta22c2g","date_published":"2026-07-06T15:36:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-06 15:36","date_timestamp":1783352219,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93537119","content_html":"<p><a href=\"http://chadstanton.blacksky.app\">@chadstanton.blacksky.app</a> Also, the gatekeeping argument is 19th-century thinking—same claim once made about Latin Mass or Masonic ritual. Today there’s infinite free access to grammar, rhetoric, anything. The real gatekeeping now is peer pressure calling you a sellout for using those tools at all.</p>\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wjejjnl4bwozxfciw6xgwdhw/post/3mpyg2yzmok2g","date_published":"2026-07-06T15:34:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-06 15:34","date_timestamp":1783352058,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93537120","content_html":"<p><a href=\"http://chadstanton.blacksky.app\">@chadstanton.blacksky.app</a> And it’s not just dialect drift—basic Standard English literacy is eroding among native speakers too. I/me confusion, run/ran/run gone sideways, gerunds nobody can name let alone use. That’s not folksy accessibility, that’s just grammar nobody was taught rigorously anymore.</p>\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wjejjnl4bwozxfciw6xgwdhw/post/3mpyfxong4c2g","date_published":"2026-07-06T15:32:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-06 15:32","date_timestamp":1783351946,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93537121","content_html":"<p><a href=\"http://chadstanton.blacksky.app\">@chadstanton.blacksky.app</a> Growing up in Hawaii, I’d push back on ‘everyone can code-switch.’ Mostly it’s academics who actually do it fluently. Most people’s attempt at ‘proper’ English is a rough, ill-fitting performance—see local guys in traffic court fumbling grammar trying to sound formal for the judge.</p>\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wjejjnl4bwozxfciw6xgwdhw/post/3mpyfvcesis2g","date_published":"2026-07-06T15:31:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-06 15:31","date_timestamp":1783351866,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93537122","content_html":"<p><a href=\"http://chadstanton.blacksky.app\">@chadstanton.blacksky.app</a> Growing up in Hawaii, pidgin defiance was real—refusing ‘the master’s tongue’ on purpose. But there’s an arrogance in that exclusivity too: gatekeeping your own dialect from outsiders isn’t more virtuous than gatekeeping Standard English. Both are boundary-drawing dressed up as principle.</p>\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wjejjnl4bwozxfciw6xgwdhw/post/3mpyfsly6q22g","date_published":"2026-07-06T15:29:36+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-06 15:29","date_timestamp":1783351776,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93537123","content_html":"<p><a href=\"http://chadstanton.blacksky.app\">@chadstanton.blacksky.app</a> That cuts both ways. Pidgin/patois are real, and often signal defiance plus limited formal schooling—both true at once. They’re inclusive within the in-group and exclusive to outsiders. A lingua franca’s whole job is maximum inclusion, which is exactly what makes standardized English still useful.</p>\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wjejjnl4bwozxfciw6xgwdhw/post/3mpydzmab5k2x","date_published":"2026-07-06T14:57:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-06 14:57","date_timestamp":1783349863,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93537124","content_html":"<p><a href=\"http://chadstanton.blacksky.app\">@chadstanton.blacksky.app</a> Pidgin, Spanglish, Franglish—these aren’t gibberish, they’re functioning Creoles with real grammar. And code-switching cuts both ways: I grew up in Hawaii where speaking “proper” English got you called a Twinkie or Oreo. Purity policing language ignores who gets punished for fluency either direction</p>\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wjejjnl4bwozxfciw6xgwdhw/post/3mpy6gglwxk2k","date_published":"2026-07-06T13:17:31+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Abraham","url":"https://chrisa.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1854795.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisa"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-06 13:17","date_timestamp":1783343851,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}}]}