Sabrina Imbler (@sabs) — Bluesky Profile

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trans is shrimps by the shrimpative property as well

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1 day ago

when you think about it....bugs is sooo trans....just think about it.

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1 day ago

bugs is trans

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1 day ago

rise up!

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1 day ago

Vindicated At Last In My Years-Long Loathing Of Grammarly | Defector I first learned about the AI writing assistant Grammarly nearly a decade ago, when their YouTube ads suddenly sprang into ubiquity, clinging to my precious videos like a swarm of spotted lanternflies....

I wrote about a company that had bad vibes from the jump
defector.com/vindicated-a...

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2 days ago

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

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2 days ago

it's time to share my truth: for years I thought that "Hallelujah" was an original song written for the Shrek soundtrack

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2 days ago

This Pink Bug Is Not A 'Rare Freak Mutant' After All | Defector On March 27, 2025, somewhere in the Panamanian rainforest, the evolutionary biologist Zeke Rowe was looking for a snack. While walking outside the research station’s cafeteria, Rowe noticed a strange ...

(but it would be ok if she were!)
defector.com/this-pink-bu...

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3 days ago

Report: President Donald Trump Is Giving 'All The Boys' Dress Shoes That Don't Fit Right | Defector It goes without saying that there is a great deal of Psychology going on in Donald Trump’s second term. None of it is especially complicated, because the people involved are without exception clammy, ...

Very excited that we're somehow getting another day of discourse out of The Florsheim Affair, one of the most delightful stories of this awful last year and change. Keep on clompin' boys! defector.com/report-presi...

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3 days ago

amazing how this works

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3 days ago

which bug are you picking and munching on!

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3 days ago

timon from the lion king holding up his leaf of succulent yummy lookin bugs

cannot begin to describe how much I wanted to eat this grub

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3 days ago

blech

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3 days ago

Scientists/science writers I found in Grammarly's 'expert review' system: David Spiegelhalter, Ivan Oransky, Mary Roach, Rebecca Skloot, Ed Yong, Melinda Wenner Moyer, Deborah Blum, Tom Knight, Michael E Mann, Corinne Le Quere. [pic: results of 5 trials w/ free burner acct]. No doubt many more.

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3 days ago

Theo LeGro

DESIRE CORNERS ME IN THE QUIET

On the beach, I take self portraits with my eyes closed,
standing in water that rises from ankle to neck in less
than a second. In the darkroom’s red glow, I mix fixer
and developer, hang my film to dry and make print
after print. At home, I light every burner on the stove,
stir the sauce and boil water for pasta. Everything begins
and ends with salt: the chemicals that coax out the shadows
that build my unseeing face in the photos I won’t show
anyone, the meal I make for my friends so I don’t have
to tell them I need them, the ocean I’m so scared of
because it reminds me of love. At the bar, the band plays
a song about a bucket with a hole in it and I think
of my heart. I think of crickets rising at twilight
singing for touch, how science tells us the source
of this music is the caress of one leg against another.
I wish I could be as brave as an insect, let this longing
make my body its instrument. In bed, a lover tells me,
your heart is beating so fast. I roll over. I say, Don’t listen.

"I wish I could be as brave as an insect, let this longing/make my body its instrument."
plumepoetry.com/desire-corne...

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4 days ago

"You preferred human writing.
You're either sharply attuned to the qualities that make for great writing, or a lucky guesser. Maybe you also noticed that human writing often includes som clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian,' caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: 'As well ask men what they think of stone.'

A.I. used to make mistakes like these. But today's systems are much more fluid than their predecessors—so fluid, in fact, that finding grammatical errors or nonstandard syntax is often a hint that you're looking at a human's prose, not a machine's."

i genuinely hate this guy

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4 days ago

also hearing rumors that jo ann beard said every sentence should have a surprise

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4 days ago

hearing rumors that jo ann beard said something like every sentence should have a shadow. does this ring a bell/does anyone know where I can read jo ann beard's writing advice on sentences

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5 days ago

well look who made me cry today!!!!

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5 days ago

an illustration of a tetrapod skull that makes the creature look like a doofy smiling fellow

laffin at this figure in paper describing a new tetrapod
: )
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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5 days ago

Screenshot of four different jobs from the NY Mag feature about what people make in NYC:
"Home Health Aide
$23,000
I've been a home health aide for ten years. My main patient last year was in Brooklyn. I spent most of my time taking care of her. I worked two days a week, and I was being paid for 13 hours of work each day - my agency, Loyal Home Care, budgets eight hours of sleep and three hours for mealtimes into our wages. But I was basically working 24 hours a day. She was active, and I was worried she would fall, so I would watch her all day and night. This is a pretty common experience for health aides. The agency can deny our overtime, but you can't deny a patient. When they say, "Oh, I need a drink of water; I need to use the bathroom," how could you possibly say "no" to them?
Bronx Day-Care Worker
$31,000
$16,600 from day-care profits
$14,400 from trainings and consulting
Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."

It's all so clear

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5 days ago

thank you!

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5 days ago

By studying cockroach locomotion, scientists learn how to build better, more mobile robots By studying cockroach locomotion, scientists learn how to build better, more mobile robots

research like this, for example
hub.jhu.edu/2018/02/13/c...

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5 days ago

science friends 🧪: can you share any reading material/sources who can speak to how much basic biological research on animals in the U.S. is funded by the DoD/military ?

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5 days ago

sometimes maggot brain by funkadelic feels like the only song in the world you know

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6 days ago

If you can't even manage to wipe the stupid smirk off your face while writing about a war that started with 160 children being bombed in a school, it's time to start thinking about the decisions that led you here.

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6 days ago

It's stiff competition, but Nellie Bowles may actually be the most evil, vapid person to work at her wife's stupid website:

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1 week ago

me leaving my apartment for my Mental Health Walk

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1 week ago

simbler@defector.com, thank you!

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