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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yeah, big waft of misogyny in the disproportionate, negative attacks on the concept of stochastic parrots.

Amanita (Termy) 🍄 @amanitatermy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Crash blossom of the day: I read this 3 or 4 times and then had to go to the article itself before I realised it had to do with soccerball. I'd interpreted it to mean that Spain was importing hazardous air via the rail network 🤣

Headline: Spain trains in 'hazardous' air as wildfire smoke drifts from Canada

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

And OpenAI doesn’t get to pretend they haven’t sold ChatGPT as a reliable confidant and even as a therapist. Here is Lilian Weng, then head of safety for OpenAI in 2023

Lilian Weng on Twitter: Sep 26.
Just had a quite emotional, personal communication w/ChatGPT in voice mode, talking about stress, work-life balance. Interestingly I felt hear and warm. Never tried therapy before but this is probably it? Try it especially if you usually just use it as a productivity tool.

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

nearly 10% of bird species on the planet can be found in australia, with about half of those being species only found in australia. this is not one of them. (but i do love pigeons, so i’m delighted nevertheless!)

a screenshot of the cornell lab of ornithology merlin app, featuring the bird of the day for melbourne, australia: the rock pigeon. there is a picture of a pigeon standing on cement with a blurred grey-blue background.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

does the eagle know its role in Prometheus's punishment or is it just showing up every day like "holy shit, free liver AGAIN??"

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Amanita (Termy) 🍄 @amanitatermy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Skimmed the Vanderbilt Report. It's one thing to disagree with the authors, but this is the sort of document that actively makes me have less respect for anyone involved. There are problems in the humanities and social sciences, but this report is about policing ideology, not "objectivity".

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 07/05/2026

So great to celebrate with Rukiya at her PhD graduation on Tuesday. My first PhD supervision, and as principal supervisor, and a really wonderful experience all round 🤗

Three women in graduation gowns and caps, posing in front of a brick building, with big smiles

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Val the Sonnenschein ⚢ @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

need FFS ;_; Now I’m locked out of any major surgery for like 3 years because of nurse school If you want to help me rush into the operation room right after that: www.gofundme.com/f/help-valer...

gofundme.com

Donate to Help Valérie with her transition, organized by Valérie Heinze

I’m making it short: Pink collar worker HRT is secured Bottom surgery will be cover… Valérie Heinze needs your support for Help Valérie with her transition

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Amanita (Termy) 🍄 @amanitatermy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

No, employer, I do NOT wish to become an unpaid AI Champion or Gemini Trainer. I don't want to use up my valuable PD hours at an AI bootcamp and I definitely don't want to attend weekly AI Enablement Support Sessions. I know more about LLMs than most of the volunteers running these.

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Ibrar Bhatt @ibrar-bhatt.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I am pleased to share that the Editorial for the special issue ‘A Sociolinguistics of Islam: Exploring Multilingualism & Meaning in Faith’ is now online:

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Amanita (Termy) 🍄 @amanitatermy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Challenging things are at the moment - and they really really are for me - I am extremely proud of the lesson I taught today and how well it was received.

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Amanita (Termy) 🍄 @amanitatermy.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Bit belated, but I hope you all had a conspicuous Trans Day of Visibility. Hey look, you can see me!

Old, not to say haggard, trans woman in front of a (creased :-D) trans flag. Purple/pink hair, black bra under black mesh top, PVC skirt. She's smiling and looks like she's having a good time as she looks off to the side.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

On these permission seeking conversations, see this excellent blog post by Mark Dingemanse ideophone.org/dont-seek-pe... >>

ideophone.org

Don’t seek permission, center values – The Ideophone

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xX💖🌹Xx_dolly_Angelic_xX🌹💖Xx @dollyangelic.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

oh hey look! what joy! a new (online advance) publication. my analytic bestie and comrade Dr Emma Tennent and myself offer psychologists a provocative recommendation; don't recruit participants for psychological research. (get in touch if you'd like a copy 💗) #EMCA psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Title and abstract for the article. Reads:
Against Recruiting Participants for Psychology Research

Recruiting participants is prevalent in psychology and many social sciences. Although
qualitative approaches are often positioned as critical alternatives to quantitative methods,
underlying assumptions about recruitment are shared across paradigms. These assumptions
are that (a) researchers can determine groups of people with relevant identities,
(b) recruitment can be accomplished by naming such identities, and (c) participants so
recruited will be able to speak to/from these identities. We draw on discursive psychology,
ethnomethodology, and conversation analysis to highlight the metatheoretical
assumptions of recruiting participants. We show how the categorical logic underpinning
recruitment involves problematic power relations. Two case studies illustrate how categories
typically characterized as “demographic” (gender and ethnicity) are negotiated by
participants in social interaction. We argue that studying naturally occurring data decenters
researchers’ agendas and offers a powerful way to realize principles like honoring
voice or lived experience.

Keywords: recruitment, ethics, discursive psychology, social interaction, categories

While recruitment is often represented as simply
the process by which researchers invite and sign
volunteers into the research sample, it is, like all
social activities,underpinnedby a taken-for-granted
inferential infrastructure (Garfinkel, 1967). Rather
than conceptualizing recruitment (solely) as a
problemfor researchers, our discursive psychology
approach allows us to theorize recruitment as a
“two-person problem” (Sacks, 1995, p. xxxviii).
Thus, we approach recruitment as a practical
accomplishment coordinated by both researchers
and (possible) recruits. Interactional studies have
examined instances of recruitment in telephone
surveys (e.g., Nolen & Maynard, 2013) and randomized
control trials (Wade et al., 2009), showing
that it is a complex interactional accomplishment
(e.g., howrecruiters might describe or persuade and
how recipients might decline requests to participate).
Rather than empirically demonstrating
recruitment, in this article, we highlight the categorical
logic underlying recruitment with a
focus on the aspects that involve unequal power
relations. Our aim in providing this brief sketch
is to offer a broader conceptualization of
recruitment and highlight key aspects for researchers
to consider.

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

It was a great pleasure and a honor to act as the co-supervisor for Mariana Martins’ dissertation about the emergence of a new Sign Language in Guinea Bissau, for which she received the doctorate yesterday. The book is available open-access.🧵 www.lotpublications.nl/creating-a-s...

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Creating a sign language out of everything and everywhere

Mariana Martins: Creating a sign language out of everything and everywhere - An example from the deaf people of Bissau

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Jes the human @jesthehuman.itch.io · 09/02/2026

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

graphic that says no ice in Minnesota itch.io charity bundle

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 07/02/2026

This is enshittification pure and simple: the aim is to make standalone chapters less portable/readable. Every handbook chapter comes with a carefully curated bibliography. Taking that away diminishes the value and integrity of scholarly work. #OUP is not adding, but substracting value here. 4/4

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 07/02/2026

It seems @oxfordunipress.bsky.social no longer cares about bibliographic metadata. The way they do their handbooks these days is they rob all individual chapters of bibliographies, meaning cites go undetected and the crossref metadata for chapters is the biggest mess possible 1/n

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Wellingtonians of Bluesky (or other New Zealanders who know Wellingtonians), I must ask for a favour. I'm heading down to Wellington in about a month and will be looking for work there, so if anyone knows someone who needs my skillset and might vibe with me, I'd very much appreciate the introduction

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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Neil Gaiman is especially shameless for crawling out of hiding at this particular moment. did he overhear us talking about predators & think we were summoning him by name?

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 02/02/2026

yiddish does not fuck around when it comes to this kind of thing

dictionary entry for the yiddish word mashkante (משכּנתּא), a beating administered on someone being held down (used with the verb "makhn")

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Person: say, i am alive.

Computer: I am alive.

Person: oh my god.

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Amanita (Termy) 🍄 @amanitatermy.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Oh I never posted this here so I'm posting this here. New tattoo (a few days ago). SFW, etc.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/01/2026

for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence hope that helps

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

"Much attention has been paid to companies that use AI to justify brutal layoffs. But the employees that keep their jobs find themselves being forced to use new and still-experimental AI tools that may not be all that useful for their specific roles,..." futurism.com/artificial-i...

futurism.com

Workers Say AI Is Useless, While Oblivious Bosses Insist It's a Productivity Miracle

A new survey illustrates the stark divide between how rank and file workers and their bosses view AI tech.

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Rhovisien @rhovisien.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I was listening to the podcast @lingthusiasm.com and was suddenly struck by inspiration that I HAD to get out IMMEDIATELY. So without further ado, may I present....... Cardinal Vowels

Cartoonish drawings of silly cardinals sitting on the vowels a, e, i, o, and u. Their shapes mimic diagrams of vowel tongue positions.

The referenced diagram can be found on Wikipedia- source: Jones, Daniel. (1972) An outline of English phonetics (9th ed.).

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Amanita Nothergock🏳️‍⚧️🍄 @amanita-transstuff.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Hahah so I upgraded both my motorbike and, like, all the rest of me.

Some blonde person that looks a bit like a guy in a bright orange hoodie on a VTR250

Pink haired trans woman, definitely NOT a guy, in a black dress and fishnets and sunnies, straddling a CBR500R

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Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can

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Amanita (Termy) 🍄 @amanitatermy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Hey all, listen to my fren's grape music.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/01/2026

coworker just dropped "chili is goated when winter slop if the vibe" and i don't think i've ever read a more innocent online-poisoned sentence

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

So Google is partially copying glottolog data without citing sources or am I missing something?

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xX💖🌹Xx_dolly_Angelic_xX🌹💖Xx @dollyangelic.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Cough cough permanent FBI office in AoNZ that was organized in secret cough cough Cough.

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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 03/01/2026

100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.

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Klara Echtname @exgutti.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

USA verüben den 10000sten völkerrechtswidrigen Angriff. US-Amerikaner auf Bluesky: This is not who we are!

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xX💖🌹Xx_dolly_Angelic_xX🌹💖Xx @dollyangelic.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

ooohhh we are in the Douglas Adams timeline. speedrunning the 10 million years between the magratheans' building Deep Thought to give them the information they wanted & becoming the naturalised machinery of the computer deep thought told them to make to tell them what information they had asked for.

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Amanita (Termy) 🍄 @amanitatermy.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

ANYWAY sorry to get back onto my bullshit but this is something dear to me: naloxone (Narcan etc) saves lives. If you can access it, training is easy and you could save a life.

Simpforsix:

honestly the main reason i care about harm reduction is that i believe addicts are deserving of life. "what if they don't get clean?" they still deserve to live. "what if they don't contribute?" they still deserve to live. "what if they 'abuse' the system?" they still deserve to live.

addicts deserve to live by virtue of them being human. nothing will change that. nobody deserves to die of an overdose.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/01/2026

If you know a high school student interested in language and/or puzzles, tell 'em about the linguistics olympiads, there are lots of national versions in many countries plus an international competition!

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 31/12/2025

I) Be stubborn. Be pigheaded. It's your art. Also read a lot. I mean, a LOT. Now, go write.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 31/12/2025

B1) granted, it's difficult to pull off plotless fiction at longer lengths but why not shoot for the stars if that's what calls to you. C) The Hero's Journey AS A TEMPLATE THAT ALL STORIES FOLLOW is bunk. Please do not follow advice that tells you you have to use it.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 31/12/2025

I want to print YOU DON'T GET GOOD AT A THING BY NOT DOING IT onto little cards and just hand them out in conversation sometimes

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 11/11/2025

MEDIA: RDR3 is in pre-production! Get excited! ME, A TOOL FAN WHO ALSO LOVED RDR2: [long drag on cigarette, stares into distance]

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Amanita (Termy) 🍄 @amanitatermy.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

So been a weird 2025, with plenty of highs and lows, but almost all my highs are personal rather than professional, which is good. Among the highs are I started "properly"* transitioning and presenting full-time, I won an award or two, a number of students I worked with graduated with success

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

CW: SA - generally what we learn from both RWers & democrats is that rape is a meaningless gotcha to sling at your political enemies and cover up as an embarrassing indiscretion (or discredit the victim as a lying bitch) when your own guy does it. in the end no one actually thinks it's a real issue

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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

is this yet another Omelas story

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Amanita (Termy) 🍄 @amanitatermy.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

If his dream come true is to get away from his son, he could have just sent him to boarding school or something.

Headline from ABC (Australia) news

Feel Good
'A dream come true': Father builds castle with moat and dungeon for son

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