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🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any)

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psycholinguist by training, now working in public health. L1: American English (~Philly). any pronouns, they/she if that's too hard. i do not post as my worksona. posts are mine and not my employer's. linktr.ee/colorlessgrey

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Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
RANKED. COMPETITIVE. POOPING.
Royal Highland Show sign that says “Toilets For Competition use only”
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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 23h
Princeton, Plainsboro, South Brunswick peeps - Register your complaints. See here for more of the concerns: princetonnj.gov/m/newsflash/...
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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 23h
sometimes I want to use the phrase 'as an empath' but I don't, because I know how it will make others feel
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🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any) @colorless.green · 02/10/2026
Gavin Newsom is a libertarian who had to put a D next to his name to ascend politically in California
normal rockwell painting meme of the guy standing up and speaking out
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026
back in my day intentionally fabricating data for use in scientific inquiry was sternly frowned upon
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 02/10/2026
early-career academics, if you don't have a website, make yourself one. yes it's annoying but just do it it can be plain text on a white background, or google sites, or even a free Wix one with ads. nobody cares we just need to be able to look you up, quickly, bc there's like 100 other apps here
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you need to send a fundraising email with the header “We know you’re not an ATM” maybe it’s a sign you ought to reign in the grifter consulting firms that are alienating supporters with a constant stream of panhandling spam to raise money that mostly gets poured back into their own coffers?
Dem fundraising email headed “We know you’re not an ATM”
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Hey, voters! Gavin Newsom's got a message for you...
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Dirtbag Left Milk Hotel @stambrah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
POTUS: Donnie new ballroom. Practical Donnie entertainment room TIME: I'd like to talk about the rampant corruption and criminality. POTUS: Good ballroom good Donnie give beautiful Donnie deserve pedophile TIME: We have a limited amount of time. POTUS: jealousy interviewer
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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hill I'm ready to die on: whether for grants or articles, review by AI is not *peer review*. Review based on a 1st scan by AI without actual reading of the grant or manuscript is not peer review either.
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Seriously just enforce normal liability for AI on the owners and so much of this shit goes away AI companies want to be treated like the hired expert when it comes to pocketing any financial flows, but like a cursory Google Search whenever it comes to liability
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Indeed. Useful idiots abound. Vibe coders and the but muh spreadsheets lazy asses are the useful idiots on the Death Star.
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🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any) @colorless.green · 29/09/2026
but how will these men continue to portray themselves as one of the good ones if the other men become decent human beings? men as a whole benefit from keeping bar for men's behavior in hell
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🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any) @colorless.green · 29/09/2026
but how will these men continue to portray themselves as one of the good ones if the other men become decent human beings? men as a whole benefit from keeping bar for men's behavior in hell
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reflecting on how folks used to organizing and volunteer heavy nonprofits/collectives are uniquely positioned to understand Trump. I feel like at least every couple years I find myself in an org managing an "if I don't get what I want, I'll burn it down" situation
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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Squidward window meme. he looks out the window sadly at a happy spongebob and patrick
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
does flavortown have an established faith tradition
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any) @colorless.green · 20/09/2026
i had a dream that i used all my knowledge of linguistics and authority as a psycholinguist to defend the common American pronunciation of Notre Dame and immediately got booed by the entire population of France
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My whole career the Humanities seem to have been curled up in a defensive crouch trying to justify our meaning/existence. At times it has even seemed a productive thought exercise, but I think generally whatever body has demanded the justification is not really open to being persuaded of anything.
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🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any) @colorless.green · 20/09/2026
i'm not disappointed, i'm just mad
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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 18/09/2026
FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
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FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
ICE officers on dating apps should be wary of tradwives, an FBI memo suggested, as well as any woman whose profile would "appeal" to them.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
There's too much talent trapped in poverty and too much mediocrity funded. Just sayin.
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Scout Tafoya @honorszombie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
More adults have made youth sports their entire personality in the last 10 years than any child in history. Why don't you go break up a game of hide and seek while you're at it, you fuckin' losers.
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Jed Kolko @jedkolko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The 2025 American Community Survey should have come out today. But it has been delayed because of unusual political encroachment at Census. ACS drives business and policy decisions, especially in local communities, and is the primary input to Census’s immigration estimates.
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Sylvia @sylvswarren.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Nerd Reich (Gil Duràn) is absolutely grim and fascinating, but it is telling how these ghouls grew up as clever, lonely, autistic, isolated nerds and decided feudal monarchy was the answer. Bitches, I grew up as a lonely, autistic, isolated nerd and decided that everyone deserves a good life
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I don’t think many nondisabled people realize that laws mandating accommodations are purposefully weak. Your employer gets to decide what an “undue burden” is. They hardly ever get called to account anyway, but if they do, they can cry about money or work hours or pretty much anything they like.
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
the tech bros telling you LLMs are conscious don’t think women are people.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Moved files onto the open internet without permission" is also literally just hallucination. We've known since 2022 that these things do shit you ask them not to do, and that this is a fundamental flaw of the architecture that can never be fixed So they're correcting it with marketing instead
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026
Happy Baby Safety Month.
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DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com · 16/09/2026
This week's guest, linguist @emilymbender.bsky.social, talks with @adambecker.bsky.social about the origin of her famous paper on LLM’s, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots” #ai #datmpodcast #future #science #llm #linguist #stochastic #parrots
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Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Universities LOVE spending 4 million dollars for consulting firms whose advice is always “fire people”
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Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Attention philosophers of language who also work in theoretical linguistics: the Philosophy department and the Linguistics department at UC Davis are jointly hiring a TT Assistant Professor. Apply! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07874
recruit.ucdavis.edu
Department of Philosophy/Linguistics - Philosophy of Language/Computational Linguistics
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Brent Baldwin @brentbaldwin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Wesley Bows
Alt: Wesley, disguised as the Dread Pirate Roberts, bows
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Humans are reading your ChatGPT chats. Just like humans are behind your food delivery robots and various other applications of automated technology. Usually underpaid humans in other countries.
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Elliot Murphy @elliot-murphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New work out today! The result of a 15 year project to offer genuine linking hypotheses between linguistics and neuroscience: a revised research program, and its first result - a novel neural binding operation ('Meld') capturing core properties of natural language syntax 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2609.14384
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Formal Properties of Language as Constraints on Neural Dynamics
What must a neural system be capable of to implement language? Current research annotates stimuli with linguistic variables and tests which electrodes, voxels, or language-model layers predict neural ...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
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🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any) @colorless.green · 12/09/2026
it is a massive societal failing that we didn't find a way to rehabilitate men who like to start arguments as a hobby before the social media era
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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
one thing other dems could learn from mamdani is how he mostly ignores the attention seeking evil pieces of shit and doesn’t take their bait and it not only robs the absolute cretins of their only real power but it is also making them even more insane with rage
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 PhD position in human, nonhuman primate, and/or dog cognition! I am thrilled to be reviewing applicants this year for a new PhD student to join the Social & Cognitive Origins Group in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social 1/
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 20/05/2026
the "trans sports just went too far" thing makes me completely crazy because the people whose whole thing is getting mad that trans children partipate in recreational activities are obsessed with kid genitals and have "give every soccer team a larry nassar" as an explicit policy goal
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Again, always: 1. Question what motives they might have to say such a thing 2. Question why, if they truly believe that, they continue to work on the damn thing
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026
so long as governments, policy makers, and regulatory bodies continue to treat tech companies/products and their underlying anti-democratic and fascist ideologies as something separable, things will continue to get worse for fundamental rights and democracy
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