Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@ninamarkl.bsky.social
perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power and bikes & cats | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | based in the uk |views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
as a general rule you don’t want a subhead like this on your wiki
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
as a general rule you don’t want a subhead like this on your wiki
back on my agentive ai/customer service beat and it's as depressing as you would expect
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
back on my agentive ai/customer service beat and it's as depressing as you would expect
me: okay, nina, let's focus on the teaching prep, that's at least a distraction from the bin fire that is UK HE
the textbook* i'm using to prep the lecture:
*Meyerhoff & Strycharz (2013) in the Wiley Handbook of Language Variation and Change
the textbook* i'm using to prep the lecture:
*Meyerhoff & Strycharz (2013) in the Wiley Handbook of Language Variation and Change
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
me: okay, nina, let's focus on the teaching prep, that's at least a distraction from the bin fire that is UK HE
the textbook* i'm using to prep the lecture:
*Meyerhoff & Strycharz (2013) in the Wiley Handbook of Language Variation and Change
the textbook* i'm using to prep the lecture:
*Meyerhoff & Strycharz (2013) in the Wiley Handbook of Language Variation and Change
unsurprisingly, this is not an accurate representation of what the text says (it says that, as with "language" and "dialect", "speech community" is difficult to define, and defining it is, in itself, an act that distorts the thing we're studying) but you know that would be too nuanced
November 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
unsurprisingly, this is not an accurate representation of what the text says (it says that, as with "language" and "dialect", "speech community" is difficult to define, and defining it is, in itself, an act that distorts the thing we're studying) but you know that would be too nuanced
this says nothing
November 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
this says nothing
preparing a sociolinguistics lecture on social networks (based on a colleagues' outline for a similar class) and revisting some classic graphs:
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
preparing a sociolinguistics lecture on social networks (based on a colleagues' outline for a similar class) and revisting some classic graphs:
yeah marketing being interesting etc aside, this is not learning:
October 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
yeah marketing being interesting etc aside, this is not learning:
how is this different from, like, looking at your own search history?
October 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
how is this different from, like, looking at your own search history?
weizenbaum and dreyfus spinning in their graves
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
weizenbaum and dreyfus spinning in their graves
what's a "deep browse"?
October 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
what's a "deep browse"?
speaking as a (not really) dispassionate observer for a second, one of the things that's fascinating about LLM marketing is that they keep selling it as "let us help you make sense of this *already extremely structured* data":
October 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
speaking as a (not really) dispassionate observer for a second, one of the things that's fascinating about LLM marketing is that they keep selling it as "let us help you make sense of this *already extremely structured* data":
this feeder has almost no reviews but it does have the best marketing graphic (look at the poor squirrel!)
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM
this feeder has almost no reviews but it does have the best marketing graphic (look at the poor squirrel!)
ad as i opened youtube just now, presented without comment
October 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
ad as i opened youtube just now, presented without comment
shoutout to elsivier to sensing when i’ve had a really long and exhausting day
October 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
shoutout to elsivier to sensing when i’ve had a really long and exhausting day
the number one skill a phd teaches you is resourcefulness
October 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
the number one skill a phd teaches you is resourcefulness
Percio, A. D.. 2025. “ Technofuturist Registers for AI and the Future of Work.” Journal of Sociolinguistics. doi.org/10.1111/josl...
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October 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Percio, A. D.. 2025. “ Technofuturist Registers for AI and the Future of Work.” Journal of Sociolinguistics. doi.org/10.1111/josl...
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this might come as a shock to elsevier, but the reason i am downloading the pdf of a paper is because i can and like to read
October 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
this might come as a shock to elsevier, but the reason i am downloading the pdf of a paper is because i can and like to read
how not to ship paint
October 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
how not to ship paint
shoutout to Unorthodox Roasters for making amazing coffee and making me laugh when I opened today’s monthly subscription
October 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
shoutout to Unorthodox Roasters for making amazing coffee and making me laugh when I opened today’s monthly subscription
like this patently exists, it’s a ‘right to work’ or a ‘right to rent’ check as every single person not born in this country (and probably many non-white people born in this country) can attest
September 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
like this patently exists, it’s a ‘right to work’ or a ‘right to rent’ check as every single person not born in this country (and probably many non-white people born in this country) can attest