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Lee Murray @leemurray.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

is it suspicious because nothing gets past it

Screenshot of a small part of a pathology testing form. The question "Appearance of Cervix" has two checkboxes next to it. One checkbox says "Benign" and the other says "Suspicious". The words "appearance of cervix" and "suspicious" are highlighted in yellow.

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Lee Murray @leemurray.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I like structural ambiguity more than most people

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Lee Murray @leemurray.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I had forgotten what it was like to ask MS Word to do something perfectly reasonable and have it jump up and run away with its pants on its head. Bah.

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Lee Murray @leemurray.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Research assistant takes a lunch break.

A black and white cat sits with his back to the camera, staring intently at a TV playing a video of mice running around.

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Lee Murray @leemurray.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

undercaffeinated thought of the day: a tiny part of me wants a double mastectomy so that when people ask me what happened, I can look back deadpan and say "the front fell off"

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I need to know everything about job #6 right now

A National wildlife federation job post advertises a position opening for “beaver conflict resolution technician”

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❄︎ ☃︎ @moxiest.art · 27/01/2026

pouring one out for all those still experiencing Frenchness

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 23/11/2025

Your instincts are perfect, kiddo. We just accidentally messed up the whole orthography because we invented the printing press in the middle of a giant sound change.

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Lee Murray @leemurray.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

This paragraph just gets better with every line

Black text on a white background reads: “Somewhere on the journey, the message that carrots are good for your eyes became disfigured into improving eyesight,” Stolarczyk said. His digital museum, full of surprising and obscure facts about carrots, investigates how the idea became so dominant, tracing its roots to propaganda shared by the British government during World War II.

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Lee Murray @leemurray.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

syntax tree of the week: two trees for the price of one #linguistics #syntaxtreeoftheweek

Woman slams selfish paragliders who 'made her think Hamas were invading Doncaster'.
A woman panicked her village near Doncaster was under attack when she spotted a number of paragliders flying over her home and thought they were from Hamas

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Dave Sayers @davesayers.eurosky.social · 09/10/2025

Halloween is on the way! Do you like the International Phonetic Alphabet but wish it was... spooOOOoookier? I present... The INTERRED⚰️national FANG🧛etic AlphaBEAST 👹 r.jyu.fi/IPAspooky Free to use/adapt! (@creativecommons.bsky.social) Repost or I will send zombies to eat your braaaaains. 🧟‍‍ 🧠🍽️

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International Phonetic Alphabet, spooooky edition!

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Lee Murray @leemurray.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I hereby name this symbol "the schwat". I will be taking no questions. #linguistics #phonetics #threads #schwa #schwat

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Lee Murray @leemurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

After [mumble] years of teaching linguistics, writing "ɐpdɔg" in the corner of the board has finally paid off

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Lee Murray @leemurray.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I have been informed that I and my lap are expected in the loungeroom, post-haste

Photo is an extreme close-up of a tuxedo cat who has his face inches away from the camera. He is so close to the camera that only one eye, one ear, and his nose are in frame. Behind the cat is a computer screen with multiple windows/programs open.

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

14 years ago in med school we got this unforgettable lesson in the dangers of using both English and Swedish in the same PowerPoint presentation

Thank you for your attention

SLUT ("the end" in Swedish)

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Lee Murray @leemurray.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

This tissue box contains one _____.

A Kleenex tissue box photographed from above, opened by tearing away the perforated section of the box top. The cut-out section is shaped like the body of a wug. Two wug legs have been drawn on the box, at the bottom of the cut-out section.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 08/04/2025

"One thing that we've found out in our impact surveys is that sometimes people find our enthusiasm for science/linguistics overwhelming and too much to handle at the time, which we'd never have known without surveys" (eep!) -Charlotte Vaughn @charlottevaughn.bsky.social #LingComm25

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LingComm @lingcomm.org · 08/04/2025

Laura Wagner, on measuring impact in lingcomm: “Not that any of us would ever have wrong ideas… but itš useful to have data to back up that we’re doing things the right way.” #LingComm25

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Lee Murray @leemurray.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This book was not at all what the title led me to expect. 0/5 stars.

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