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Kristen

@kgregz.bsky.social
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Writing lecturer, literature PhD, mom to two small boys, a smidge burnt out from parenting and working in the humanities during *all of this.*

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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Okay, well, Phillies need to bring the exact same energy into tomorrow, and the Diamondbacks need to bring entirely different energy. We'll try this again then.
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's very rude to me, a delusional Diamondbacks fan, that the Phillies game is delayed.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lars Nootbaar homers on the first pitch of the game in San Diego. Snakes alive.
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Obviously, I was influenced by reading the NY Times list first, which criminally underrated both Hacks & Station 11, but when I tried to think about shows that were left off, Broadchurch is what immediately came to mind.
My list of top shows: 30 Rock, The Americans, Hacks, The Pitt, The Leftovers, Broadchurch, Station Eleven, The Great British Bake Off, Fleabag, Mare of Easttown.
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Class DoJo is a plague on our household. Kick these AI bros out of education.
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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Waldschmidt wheeee!
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Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Ryan Waldschmidt walk-off dinger wins it for the D-backs
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I love baseball. Go Snakes!
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We're bringing some whimsy to the course AI statement this year.
A list in the style of the 10 things I hate about you movie poster (lime green and hot pink with doodles in the margins) reads, "10 things I hate about AI: I hate the way it harms our brains and the way it dehumanizes. I hate the way it hallucinates. I hate it when it homogenizes. I hate its water usage and the constant boosterism. I hate the way it shortcuts learning and when it's used for plagiarism. I hate the way it has normalized imprudence. But mostly I hate the way it sows distrust between teachers and their students." A reading list featuring "Your Brain on ChatGPT," "Why Using AI to Write to Friends and Family is Dehumanizing," "AI Slop is Destroying the Internet," "AI is Homogenizing our Thoughts," "Data Centers Consume Massive Amounts of Water-Companies Rarely Tell the Public Exactly How Much," "The Tech Fantasy that Powers AI is Running on Fumes," "Why Even Basic AI Use is So Bad for Students," "I set a trap to Catch my Students Cheating with AI," "'Cognitive Surrender' Leads AI Users to Abandon Logical Thinking, Research Shows," and "Another AI Side Effect: Erosion of Student-Teacher Trust." At the bottom is a picture of Kat and Patrick paddle boating in the film 10 Things I Hate About You with the caption "Our class getting left behind by AI this semester."
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I online adjunct for a certain for-profit university. I hate everything they stand for, but the academic job market is so precarious, I've always kept it in case my lectureship is non-renewed. Well, I'll have to get over that anxiety, because they just implemented automated AI grading w/ no opt-out.
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I decided to start actually watching baseball after last year's world series, and it took one season to move me from "baseball is so boring; who why would anyone watch it?" to "baseball is the perfect sport." #GoDBacks 🐍
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Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Highway robbery from Corbin Carroll to steal a home run from Tommy Edman
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Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Wow. Ryan Waldschmidt walks it off with a two-run homer against Edwin Díaz. Dodgers have lost seven in a row.
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Okay writing faculty, what are we doing to go more analog and human in the classroom while also keeping our classes accessible? After two years of teaching online sections during this AI hellscape, I'm back in the classroom this year and looking to try some new (& old) things #academicsky #edusky
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
What kind of awesome sorcery is going on at Fairlife, and why have no other protein shake companies discovered their secret yet?
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It's that time of year again in Arizona: teachers are going back to work! My sister teaches first grade in a title one school, and she and her kiddos would greatly appreciate any help with supplies: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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Check out my list on Amazon
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My water bottle is getting a new look. 🔥
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 11/07/2026
It’s such a bummer. Online/asynchronous/virtual teaching can be incredibly valuable and with a little extra structure can be an amazing and scalable resource but now AI has rendered the whole enterprise impossible.
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
That Buffy one, though!
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm finally reading The Locked Tomb series years too late, and now I have no one to talk about it with. 😭
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I actually won two Goodreads giveaways recently! I just got this one, thought, huh, ok, I forgot I entered this one. Then I read the back cover and got the ick 😬.
Book cover for Human Raised by Dana Suskind. The title is illustrated as an embroidered patch with AI in "raised" in silver while the rest of the stitching is green. The back cover includes praise by Adam Grant, Eve Rodsky, Jonathan Haidt, Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO), and Angela Duckworth.
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The people yearn for AI hate. You love to see it.
A screen grab of a Threads post from a right-wing influencer complaining about the new Toy Story movie for robbing her son of his male heroes (Woody and Buzz). The post has 711 likes and 2.3k replies. My reply saying "So triggered by a female lead, a mama bear turns to ChatGPT to articulate her deep thoughts. You hate to see it." has 4.1k likes.
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Why, in the Year of Our Lord 2026, do we not have sour Nerds Gummy Clusters yet?
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Hell yeah
A graph showing that I am 81% woke, 62% neoluddite, 52% doomer, and 80% Davos. My closest match is Zohran Mamdani.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 23/06/2026
I get folks not involved in education might not realize how severe the current situation is but... The speed and magnitude of how capitalism driven AI has infiltrated education is horrifying.
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
It's homophobic for the Diamondbacks to do this on Pride Night. 🍅🍅🍅
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 04/06/2026
What a staggering loss. RIP Marjane Satrapi.
nytimes.com
Marjane Satrapi, Author of ‘Persepolis,’ Dies at 56
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Don't mind me; just sobbing so badly to my favorite comedy's finale I can't finish my drink. 💅
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Feeling very Catholic (I'm not) buying the entire Gideon the Ninth series and The Empire of AI from my local bookstore while wearing my Pope Leo shirt. 😂
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/05/2026
The comparison I heard was data centers using the same amount of water as golf courses, and for that I was all, my brother in Christ, let me tell you what I think we should do with golf courses
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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
If this was, in fact, an active shooter situation, treating it like a minor inconvenience so you can go back to your fancy dinner is the most end-stage American capitalism display I could possibly imagine
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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
My painting SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Setting my "days without Trump doing some Nicolae Carpathia from Left Behind shit" counter to zero.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
today sure feels like one of the all time ‘so i still just gotta go and do my little job during all this?!’ moments
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Gonna share these clips of NASA scientists saying some iteration of "these are the types of annotations/observations/insights only humans can offer" over and over and over again with my little AI-enabled plagiarizers. I'm loving it.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 04/04/2026
Atheists are mad about this and they’re absolutely right but please just let me say as a Christian I am not wild about the Center for Racialized Kidnapping profaning the iconography of my religion either. The Piss Christ or that David Wojnarowicz video are thoughtful provocations, this is just shit
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Luke 23:46
On this solemn day, we reflect on the ultimate sacrifice our Savior made for all humanity.
Trust in God's plan.
[picture of Jesus on the cross]
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FATHER INTO THY
HANDS I COMMEND MY SPIRIT
Luke 23:46
Post your reply
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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
i know writers who use AI and they're not writers
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/03/2026
if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
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Canvas Unrolls AI Teaching Agent
The new AI agent aims to save faculty time on “low-value tasks,” but stops short of fully automating grading. But some experts worry that the rise of agentic AI could lead to a dead classroom, where c...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The overwhelming majority of American public school teachers (71%) hold at least one side job, according to a new survey released today. www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/b...
cnn.com
America’s teachers are working two jobs and barely getting by | CNN Business
Ashley loves her day job teaching math, reading and science to fifth-graders in Washington. But like many other teachers, Ashley relies on a side hustle or two to get by.
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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Screenshot of Mastodon user @scott@carfree.city writing:

"As an ethical AI user, I begin each session by asking the chatbot to give a stolen data acknowledgement. It is an important first step toward justice."
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This is so bleak.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 21/02/2026
I love the hater pope
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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.
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Alysa Liu wins the Olympic gold medal for the United States
YouTube video by Olympics
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Kristen @kgregz.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Alysa Liu for president. That free skate healed something in me, and I believe she could heal a nation.
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