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Dr. Adrian Kerrison

@adokerrison.bsky.social
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Conversation analyst studying all the different ways crowds of strangers manage to say the same thing, in the same way, at the same time. He/him

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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 3h
@sickoscommittee.org UNH vs. NC A&T, 27-21 with 7 seconds left. Pass incomplete, game over. No wait, 1 second back on the clock. A&T scores with no time left. Game over. No wait, they missed the extra point. Going to overtime. Good grief.
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 5h
Cignetti sending a grad assistant to turn on Guy Gardner's beacon
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Theory can only take you so far"
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He can be an on-field consultant
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Sorry sir, I just talked to my manager and we can't deliver to, quote, 'the crossroads of chill vibes and good hangs'. We at least need a zip code for invoicing" "Try 5138008" "3...8...0..." "But upside down" "What? I'm- sorry sir, my manager is coming back over"
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tech companies trying to hype AI Agents
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Finding out people (understandably) don't know who Craig James is anymore, and I envy them
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"✨: You're totally right, I called a fake punt when you specifically told me to be a good special teams coordinator. That's not just risky, it's unlikely to succeed. If you tell me the down and distance I can get started on a new strategy for you."
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
On his palms
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reporting the flight of that ball like was a UFO, "the hard left turn suggests intelligent control!" But yeah, unfortunately, I am now convinced it was the right call.
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Baron Zemo from Captain America: Civil War responding "did it?" after Agent Ross taunts him about his plan failing.
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's cymbalic
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Disco Stu from The Simpsons in front of a chart of Disco Record sales leading up to its height. He says "if these trends continue...AAY!"
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Found out just in time to be Tricking it to the Treats!
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I knew Leave was a fantasy of revived empire, but I hadn't considered how that also requires England leaving the UK. Keeping control, but no longer having to debase themselves into partnership with their rightful vassals. "You have to be white to be English, otherwise you're British" made it click.
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A meme of Fred from Scooby Doo unmaking a ghost. Fred is labeled as "Researchers Replacing Mechanical Turk" and the ghost is labeled "Synthetic Data generated by AI". Fred pulls the mask off and it's just a guy under the costume, he is lableled as "Low-paid humans who used to be on Mechanical Turk"
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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Behavioural Science in 2026.
The Homer stonecutter meme.

Top image: Remove the stone of "Terrible MTurk data"
Bottom image: Attach the stone of "Terrible synthetic sample data"
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Which is the core competition a lot of established leaders aren't grasping. Feeding into fascist ideology or conspiracies to supposedly placate people won't work because those "concerns" are self-medication against the relentless effort of making sense of others. Being understandable could help!
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Expectations can help make that unavoidable, ever-arriving "next" a less scary problem. Conspiracy and fascism provide a similar (but synthetic) solution: prescribing 1 simple expectation over varied emergent ones. It doesn't matter if fascist policies will "help", the contrived "sense" is the help!
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The successful transparency of, say, Mamdani isn't just in a data sense, but in actions: "here's how the budget works, here's how snow is cleared, here's various little ways that the city around you is brought into being every day". In contrast to both "only I can fix it" and technocratic tinkering.
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Living in ever-increasing obfuscation means we are forced into that relentless sensemaking with antagonistic co-participants who do not want to make sense. That's exhausting! And I think the "help" people are looking for is often aid/comfort in that process. Some sense of cooperation in the effort.
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think about this emphasis of relentlessness from Garfinkel (1996) a lot these days: "every society's...practical achievement, being everywhere, always, only, exactly and entirely members' work, with no time out, and with no possibility of evasion, hiding out, passing, postponement, or buyouts"
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Diversifying their portfolio with "Wankers Bar & Grill"
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Did he get cosmetic surgery to try and look ilke the shitty Rob Liefeld Captain America panel?
An infamous drawing of Captain America by Rob Liefeld where Cap's chest goes out about 2ft past his neck while is arm ends about at a normal human elbow, based on the positioning of the shielf.
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump to nation: "I put on my winter jacket and there was $20 in the pocket"
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"I have a system"
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I did once say I wish Iowa had a coastline so Northern Iowa could fall into the sea, but that was after a very tough playoff loss!
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Jomboy Media (Unofficial) @jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
IOWA WINS IT! NO EXTRA SECOND FOR MICHIGAN
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Michigan Monkeyspaws
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
IOWA!
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But if he ever figures out how to get those passes going forwards? Watch out!
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I assume he goes to a private area and punts it
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Kind of coincidental he went down to stop the clock" Hey Kirk, you could see on the replay that the quarterback got sacked directly onto his ankle. I know Ohio State isn't playing and Arch is on the sideline, but could you still maybe watch the game you're covering?
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's a possibility!
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Man, what is it about Trump and piss tapes?
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is what has always driven me crazy about endless, deferential reporting about The Market. What's the difference between The Market and The Mob? Cops don't rush the floor and kick traders' teeth in when The Market acts up.
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🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
might be a good time to, you know, perhaps actually pay attention to the last 100 odd years of philosophy of language, and the praxeological turn in linguistics? h/t @drkatedevlin.bsky.social
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jack from 30 Rock, in the original scene he goes on a run-on description of Liz and her writing staff: "Your elitist east coast, alternative, intellectual,". Here he is giving the eligibility requirements of Spring Football (as provided by a commenter below): "175 pounds or less OR under 188 pounds and you have > 5% fat percentage and pass a hydration urine test-"In the orignial scene Liz responds, "Jack, just say Jewish, this is taking forever." Here she cuts him off and says "Just say 'No Linemen', this is taking forever"
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My car went rogue on the highway when I bent down in the passenger footwell trying to grab my phone off the floor
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When I read someone's profile and it's rapid-fire double-digit things about them I react like when you go to take a cake out and the whole thing moves. Like, oh no, you're not ready to be out here *at all*.
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I usually say "large-scale social interactions" talking about the crowd stuff, but it was interesting to come upon another situation that proved to be sort of a skeleton version of the same practical challenges of mutual monitoring and sensemaking.
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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@discord.com I see now why age verification started rolling out, fuck this and fuck you for doing this
special reward available for fanduel in discord, because what discord needed was ads for predatory online gambling, fuck discord and everyone that works in their company leadership
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
But the way everyone stood in place and watched scooter-guy until it was clear he wasn't just leaving but was going after the cyclist, resolving the issue. Which then released us from this unspoken communal happening, free to return to our separate sequences of activity. I just think that's so cool.
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The cyclist was already too far away for a shout from us to be likely to get their attention, but thankfully one guy was on an electric scooter and managed to chase down the cyclist and alert them. Crisis averted.
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As a scholar of spread-out social interactions (often among strangers) I had an exciting moment at the supermarket where a cyclist unwittingly lost their satchel and you could see the unspoken calculus between 4 strangers around that area of the carpark as we clearly considered what to do about it.
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The Israeli federation also announced...that its players won’t be swapping jerseys with their counterparts after the upcoming matches. Have they read an Irish newspaper lately? That’s like saying they’re not going to sell the Irish their Ed Sheeran tickets."
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You have friends everywhere
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Dr. Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Google just repeatedly assured me there is a 0% chance of rain today, while it was raining. Everything's going great!
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