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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Nah, I'm gonna stick with the imperial unit instead of metric.

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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 13/10/2026

Kyiv night 👇 Worked until 10:00pm Explosions before air raid alert at 10:08pm Missiles Bathroom shelter at 10:10pm All clear at 1am ~ checking damage in Kyiv, trying to sleep ~ New alert at 3:49am All clear 4:10am Alert at 4:30am All clear at 5:19am Now: too anxious to sleep Repeat. Every day.

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Probably because self-obsessed whiners like to expand into new markets.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

"this thing slightly rustles my jimmies, i'm going to do something else" is a lost art form

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Holly Rowe doesn’t need to talk to Sark tonight. #Texas #OU

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Isn’t the job of a journalist to pronounce words correctly? What prevents her from doing so? #Isaias

Post on X by news personality Dana Perino, who wrote: “I think we can do better when naming hurricanes. Hurricane Isaias (ees-ah-EE-ahs) - I’m fully expecting to pronounce this incorrectly all day.”

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What message are journalists sending to their Hispanic audiences if they can’t be bothered to say “Isaias” properly? It’s really not that hard. Is that how we’re trained—to epically mispronounce a name like Stacey King saying Giannis “Adadarumbo” and calling it good? youtu.be/P7mo6FuoVms?...

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Stacey King tries to say "Giannis Antetokounmpo"

YouTube video by dominic

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Kicked it right. Herbstreit almost burned that kid with his advice. 😑 #CollegeGameday #Knoxville

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've made referrals based on more than detection tools, but mostly my efforts involve expressing to students what a dire situation they could find themselves in professionally if they can't demonstrate that they're more skilled, creative, authentic, and original than an LLM.

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Imagine that you're Holly Rowe, and you've beaten the odds to make it to the top of sports media, and you've beaten cancer along the way, only for a privileged 22-year-old to say on national TV that a video of you being slapped is funny. UT has a major culture problem. #ArchManning #Longhorns #AWSM

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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the thread line from the Wired article this morning abut the burnerverse harassment campaigns to this moment with Arch Manning laughing at an AI assault video is a pretty direct and short one

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Weird and egocentric behavior by Steve Sarkisian, when the focus should be on a historic win and the players. He should send Holly Rowe something very nice and publicly apologize, and then stop being weird. Signed, a UT grad.

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why does this sound like a protection racket? #AI #OpenAI www.politico.com./news/2026/09...

This is an excerpt from an article in Politico on September 10, 2026, which reads: "OpenAI has met with representatives of multiple top power companies to discuss methods of securing the electrical grid, the artificial intelligence firm told POLITICO — conversations that occurred amid a continuing series of revelations about its own products’ role in a sprawling cyberattack.

"CEO Sam Altman has also offered one possible solution to the cybersecurity risks: OpenAI’s own cyber services."

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We're also approaching the 25th anniversary of the September 24, 2001, F3 tornado that devastated the University of Maryland campus, killed 2 sisters, and injured 55. mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.ph...

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IEM :: TOR from NWS LWX

TOR issued by NWS LWX at 24 Sep 2001 21:31 UTC

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Regime change! OK, no regime change. Unconditional surrender! OK, no surrender. Nuclear deal! OK, no nuclear deal. But we control Hormuz! OK, we don’t control Hormuz. But we’re squeezing them economically into concessions! OK, no concessions. But maybe a future president can get something, IDK.

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The convective outlook for this season is basically a MDT risk for a Day 3 outlook.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If I were Jolene, I would "listen for later statements and possible warnings" about Tropical Storm Dolly. Would be a mistake to lose situational awareness about that one. #WxSky

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you lose, you’re going to have to put cover sheets on all your TPS reports and buy 40 subscriptions of Vibe.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Quite weird to hear BBC News describe Jason Arday as “the black professor accused of plagiarism”. Is every story about a white professor going to include the relevant adjective?

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Can barely get them to read a syllabus but we're skilled at convincing them to agree to this.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The teachers who can barely afford to buy school supplies for their students are performing free medical procedures on them.

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It really should worry us that an American city has been without power for two weeks after a thunderstorm. It wasn't a typical thunderstorm but what are we doing as a country if this is what a segment of the population can expect for emergency response? #Gary #Indiana

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's interesting to watch Enes Kanter Freedom—a man who presents himself as a refugee from an authoritarian regime in Türkiye—so readily demonstrate his support for the diminution of individual freedom in the United States through clownish stunts. He is not to be mistaken for a serious person. #WNBA

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“If there is one thing all religious liberty scholars and advocates across the ideological spectrum have agreed on, it is that the Free Exercise Clause forbids government discrimination because of religion,” Steven T. Collis, a University of Texas at Austin law professor, said. wapo.st/3UIOdel

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott takes aim at Muslim washing stations in airports

Legal experts dispute Abbott’s claims that the ritual washing stations are discriminatory, with some saying his attack fits a pattern of anti-Muslim actions and rhetoric.

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

KLWX (the Doppler radar located near Dulles Airport, west of DC) is down while there’s an active tornado warning south of Washington as of 9:10 p.m. Eastern (9/16/26). #DMV #WxSky

RadarScope screencapture as of 9:10 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, August 16, 2026, showing that the Doppler radar at Dulles Airport west of Washington is inoperative during an active tornado warning south of DC.

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 11/08/2026

New Chicago achievement unlocked: Tornado siren and the L. Listen to the sound change as the siren spins

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

They would be in a supermax prison.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 31/07/2026

Any of my friends who have witnessed my mental state as I have gone through edit after edit of this book can attest that every individual letter and punctuation mark has been ripped painfully out of my very own soul 😣

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Game misconduct plus a hearing with the league

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

If the children of families considered to be socially elite are pushed and fostered to become “something more,” then why would we not similarly support other children—unless the intention is to perpetuate a social hierarchy, control “who’s in” and “who’s out,” and then exploit those who are out?

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

If they regularly start putting kids who attend Dalton or Ursuline of Dallas or Metairie Park Country Day School on these kinds of pathways, then I’ll reconsider my view, but I don’t see that regularly occurring. #education

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is nothing wrong with being a plumber, but to predetermine a narrow range of acceptable occupations for other people’s children—especially when you’re not imposing similar expectations on your own children or grandchildren—is wildly patronizing at best.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

There were a couple typos that I'm having corrected—no, I don't know what an "ISB" is either (versus an "IFB")—but otherwise, I'm happy to have this out in the world.

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Weathercasting is criminally understudied by journalism researchers, so I decided to fix that. Here's my first-published piece on the subject—on factors that influence the job satisfaction of TV weathercasters & why it matters in 2026. Happy to answer questions; feel free to DM me. #WxSky #weather

journals.sagepub.com

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Would add J. William Fulbright to the many good suggestions.

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Do not make me laugh like this again.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

DC is closed go home

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I believe she said “Funk 49.” Evidently a fan of the James Gang.

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

No, I just listened this time. Something similar happened in an Uber in Oklahoma some months ago, and the driver reacted to the mildest pushback as if I were ordering a porterhouse in a vegan restaurant. It reminded me that not every interaction is an opportunity for productive dialogue.

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

For additional receipts, look up the status of bills introduced in Congress and in several states over the last 2-ish years to ban cloud seeding, and “chemtrails,” and geoengineering. And look how far along some of that legislation has advanced, based on false pretenses. 10/10 #WxSky #climate

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I’m looking at you @pewresearch.org, @gallup.com, and @today.yougov.com. It would be helpful to have polling to determine the extent to which people believe in weather manipulation theories, how they obtain these beliefs, and the extent to which these beliefs motivate voting decisions. /9

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

And if you’re a journalist, you have the opportunity to investigate a potentially serious threat to the integrity of U.S. democracy, to the extent that these conspiracy theories influence public opinion and voting behavior, and thus how elected officials behave. 8/

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