Dave

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🕘: Applied linguistics, language education & linguistic landscape 🕔: photography, bicycling, coffee, LEGO, trains 🕛: opposing authoritarianism and technoligarchy

A photo of a sticker of a “Free DC” sticker on the back of a street sign in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC. The sticker shows the head of Marco Rubio on the body of a spotted lanternfly, an invasive species of insect, with the name “FREE DC” at the bottom of the sticker in large red capital letters
Donald Trump stands at the right side of a photo with Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca and other victorious Rebel heroes at the end of Star Wars Episode VI: A New Beginning
A photo of the central sign hanging from the gate to San Francisco’s Chinatown at Bush and Grant that reads, 天下為公 Mandarin transliteration: Tian Xia Wei Gong Cantonese transliteration: Tin Haa Wai Gung English translation: All the world belongs to the people
A screenshot of the House Republicans account @HouseGOP posting on X in mid-July, 2026. The post reads, “WE WILL STOP COMMUNISM [US flag emoji]”
A photo of a middle aged white dude wearing a blue baseball cap and standing in a park facing the bright sun. He is wearing a Team Canada football/soccer jersey and a Team Mexico scarf, one end of which he’s displaying with his right hand.
A sculpture of a white rhino riding a tandem bicycle with the fictional characters Rabbitwoman and Dogman in downtown Toronto, Canada, taken in July 2026. The sculpture is by Gillie and Marc and more info can be found at lovethelast.com
A photo of a bright orange “DETOUR” sign on the fence lining the Great American State Fair in Washington, DC, the day after the fair closed. The fence is covered in a fabric with a U.S. flag-colored pattern and the detour sign slightly overlaps a circular logo saying “Freedom 250”.
A photo of yellow caulking oozing out from a corner of the model arch that Trump had made for the so-called Great American State Fair in early July
A picture of red clouds in the sky at sunset, above a park in San José, California, on Monday, July 13, 2026
A photo of the remnants of Donald Trump’s mock-up triumphal arch at the Great American State Fair the day after closing. The plaster and plywood exterior have been removed, leaving just the metal frame and gold-colored eagles and angel on top
A photoshopped image of a scene of the very sparsely populated Great American State Fair with the iconic image of Donald Trump yelling at Barron Trump in a red shirt and shorts pushing the lawnmower superimposed on the grass.
A photo of star United States Men’s National Team defender Alex Freeman smiling with his arms crossed, in a red-and-white striped jersey
text reading "the reflecting pool is brat" set against a green background in the style of the Charli XCX album "brat"
A chart from FIFA.com showing the 2026 World Cup match schedule, with match dates as columns and host cities in rows. Matches hosted in Mexico and Canada are boxed-in with green semi-transparent boxes, and matches hosted in the United States are boxed-in with red semi-transparent boxes
A screenshot of the Linguistic Landscape 17 workshop website with a basic overview of the conference: https://www.linguisticlandscape17.com/
Professor and organizer of the 17th Linguistic Landscape Workshop Máiréad Moriarty speaks to a roomful of delegates, at the University of Limerick, Ireland on 6 June 2026
A left/right juxtaposition of James Talarico smiling on the left, and Emmet the unlikely hero from LEGO movies, smiling on the right
A photo of the departures hallway at SJC, Norman Mineta San Jose International airport in San José, CA. The photo features five flags hanging above the hallway—USA flag, California state flag, San Jose city flag, the rainbow Pride flag, and the transgender pride flag
A capsule with a hologram of President Cynthia Teniente-Matson greets graduates and faculty at the 2026 Spring commencement ceremonies at San José State University
A flyer for a Korean 1A course in Fall 2026 at San José State University
A photo of a bus stop advertisement from the AI company Artisan with a young beautiful AI agent photo and words screaming “STOP HIRING HUMANS - The era of AI employees is here”
a photo of cherry blossoms blooming on a tree branch against a cloudy background
A photo of a man in sunglasses and a hat holding a “Remove Trump” sign in front of the San Jose City Hall, Tuesday, April 7, 2026
A screen shot of an AP News article “Robot umpires are coming to MLB. Here’s how they work”
A photo of a banner hanging on a chain link fence in Lahaina, Maui. The banner reads, “Mahalo Nui Loa (Thank you very much) to all First Responders For All You Do”. Photo April 1, 2026
The remnants of burnt-out historical buildings on Lahaina’s Front Street stand behind protective fences, April 1, 2026
A photo of a vacant lot with an empty sign frame where a business used to stand in Lahaina, Maui
A sign on the fence at the entrance to the Lahaina Memorial reads, “Lahaina Memorial is a place of honor, hope, respect, reverence. Divisiveness and politics have no place here. This is a place to walk humbly, to grieve, to seek peace, to love, and to reflect on all that we have LOST”
A photo of the Old Lahaina Courthouse as it stands damaged by the wildfire of August 8, 2023. Photo from April 1, 2026
A photo of the reddish sunset and clouds over the ocean, with 3 palm trees in the foreground, looking west from a hotel in western Maui
a photo of the beach in Ka’anapali, Maui, on a capricious day with both sun and rain falling in the same scene
A photo of a church sign mounted on a chain link fence. The sign has a cross on the left and the words on the right: He Is Risen WE ARE CLOSED Happy Easter!
a photo of a tattered U.S. flag in the wind, with the strips all ripped apart and tangled in each other and around the flagpole. The flag is mounted to the corner of a grey shipping container
A cardboard protest sign being held by a person whose face is covered by the sign. The sign says “No a La Guerra” (“No War” in Spanish)
A photo of a red Bike Friday folding bike parked on the bike/walking path on the Dumbarton Bridge on a sunny day. The bike is flying two black-background flags off its back side, with “No Kings in America” messages
a close-up photo of a water faucet/filling station at a cafe in San Jose, California. The angle is from the top so as to show a small label stuck to the top of the faucet, which reads in capital letters, “NOT A DRAIN”
A square image of Vladimir Putin winking with a Russian flag pattern in the background and the words “Thank you for your payment” in Russian and English
A photo of a building with reflective surface and blue sky
A photo of the sun and buildings reflected in the windows of a tall glass-window building in downtown San Jose
A photo of an office building with reflective square windows reflecting the sky, with a row of trees blooming purple in springtime at its base. In the foreground there is a parking lot with about 15 parked cars visible in frame
An illustration of a comic style dumpster character in white lines on the side of a teal-colored dumpster. Words in capital letters spell out: “DUMP HIM <3”
A composite image with Donald Trump giving the State of the Union address, or something like it, on Tuesday, February 25, 2026, with JD Vance sitting behind him on his right side, and Mike Johnson sitting behind him on his left side
A photo of the beach at dusk in Pismo Beach, California
The I WANT TO BELIEVE poster from the X-Files series
A photo of a red folding bicycle with a “We the People - NO KINGS IN AMERICA” flag flying on back. The bike is in the foreground, and parked on the relatively empty Paseo de San Antonio in downtown San Jose, with San Jose State University in the background, on a sunny morning
A photo of a “throne” free public bathroom at the Sunnyvale Caltrain station in downtown Sunnyvale, California
A photo of Randy Fine in the Florida House of Representatives casting votes inappropriately for himself and for his absent colleagues one day in 2024
A photo of tree branches at dusk, being lit up red by a nearby stoplight
A photo collage showing US Attorney General Pam Bondi on the left and Denise Gough playing Dedra Meero from Andor on the right
An image with two news headlines put side by side: The Forbes article "What Did Bad Bunny Say At The Super Bowl Halftime Show? Every Word He Spoke In English And Spanish" on the left, and the Atlantic article "The Risk of Speaking Spanish in Public" on the right
A photo of the post author on the right, standing with Senator Richard Blumenthal, at the 2018 IRIS Run for Refugees race in New Haven, Connecticut
A screen capture of Bad Bunny wearing sunglasses and talking to the crowd in the opening monologue of a Saturday Night Live episode in late 2025 when he challenged people to learn Spanish before the Super Bowl, so they could understand his halftime perfomance
A photo of a single children’s size croc (shoe) sitting on the tanbark of a playground in San Jose, California
A photo of a sunset reflected in the glass windows of an office building in San Jose, California. Photo taken January 19, 2026.
A photo of golden light filtering through a tangle of reeds above the shore of Takataki Lake in central Chiba Prefecture, Japan
A view looking north from Okinawa’s Kakazu Takadai Park (嘉数高台公園), a place where thousands of Japanese and American soldiers died in April 1945
A photo of the sign explaining the “wall of bullet holes” (弾痕の塀) at Okinawa’s Kakazu Takadai Park (嘉数高台公園), commemorating the battles in World War II between Japanese and American forces
A cat you don’t wanna mess around with
A cat you don’t wanna mess with
A photo of a blank guidance display in a park In Takarazuka city, Japan. The surface is white with random cracked pattern across its entirety