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I have never in 3 decades in higher education worked for an organization who did an evaluation of their software needs before purchasing extremely expensive software that the sales team promised would fix all their problems. We're on six supplemental systems at this point doing the things it can't.

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🚨🚨EXTREMELY IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS. WORLD’s TALLEST DOG MEETS WORLD’S SMALLEST DOG 🚨🚨

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

Good morning! 🌱

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

Always telling people to compromise by giving up what's right; never telling people to compromise by giving up what's wrong

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

happy 2nd anniversary to the most important piece of bluesky lore

submitted 8 days ago • 220 comments

how cow, they actually built #Durer's monument to murdered peasants! Wonder if @periodeye.bsky.social knows about this.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

It struck a chord because it's true. As I write in More Than Words, the chief benefit of LLMs to writing (and teaching writing) is it forces us to examine what we value in writing. We should be building statues of the students who remain proud to be themselves & encourage others to join them.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

submitted 50 days ago • 1133 comments

I cannot stress enough that it is possible to govern well, and to do so in a manner that is broadly accretive.

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

I spoke to another person this week—also a US-born citizen—who showed me the DHS email she received informing her that she had to leave the country. Incompetent, evil or both?

submitted 23 days ago • 119 comments

I've been busy working on the side, but have thoroughly neglected this account woops! I'm far more active on my Instagram Study of a withered torch ginger inflorescence. Even in this worn state, it doesn't fail to keep me captivated #botanicalart #botany #SciArt🐡

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

True fact. I was fully vaxed as a kid in the 70s. Recent test showed I was no longer immune. Fixed that last week.

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BREAKING — The family abducted by ICE is returning home, per email from Sackets Harbor Superintendent:

submitted 28 days ago • 185 comments

hi, cis folks! the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11. it'd strip care from DACA recipients, too. context & guidance in the thread. do it while you’re still fired up from/about protests. only 4.5 days left!

submitted 29 days ago • 18 comments

So many things none of us will perceive will come out of today's gatherings. That's the point. People find each other, they take some strength and remember they aren't actually isolated and alone. This is fortification for what's to come.

submitted 30 days ago • 82 comments

A major paper @nature.com this week found a significant decline in dementia after an outdated Shingles vaccine. I've reviewed the study and many other relevant ones here erictopol.substack.com/p/the-shingl...

submitted 30 days ago • 35 comments

I mean, this is just Quality Work

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Man, the big huge protests in places like Boston, DC, NY, Chicago, and Minneapolis are awe-inspiring. But my heart is gonna explode looking at these crowds of people out in tiny Maine towns and super red Alabama towns. Places where 15% of the population is on the street corner with more coming!

submitted 30 days ago • 25 comments

One of my favorite weird signs at the rally

submitted 30 days ago • 44 comments

Hmm. Seems a few people showed up to the Hands Off protest in DC And yes, some of the signs? Epic.

submitted 30 days ago • 11 comments

I like paying taxes. Genuinely. Not grudgingly. I can’t pave a road, I can’t build and staff a hospital. $200 in my pocket won’t pay for my kid’s daycare but if we all pool our money it might. I really wish someone on the left would be brave enough to be like, “Taxes are good, actually.”

submitted 30 days ago • 67 comments

Hello! The US housing market has gotten very expensive, but I still dream of one day owning a home in a walkable neighborhood. In that spirit, I'm offering my consulting services. If you support the Trump tariffs, I can help you find US suppliers. Let me show you some examples. 🧵

submitted 30 days ago • 100 comments

Please blur faces and use alt text! Signal has a built-in face blurring tool.

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

My about-to-retire father only watches fox news. He has voluntarily mentioned he's scared about social security and his retirement funds tanking. I think the news of what's going on has finally tipped into the fringes. I gave him his reps' numbers to call 🤞🤞

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

It's Autism Acceptance Month. If you are not already accepted by an autistic person you have 27 days left.

submitted 32 days ago • 39 comments

📣 now out in paperback 📚 Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Personal and Political Value of the Miniature, co-edited by yours truly and the amazing Beth Fowkes Tobin from @cambridgeup.bsky.social

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.

submitted 33 days ago • 58 comments

“A positive test for COVID-19 was associated with increased rates of diagnosis of various infections in the 12 months following an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 33 days ago • 21 comments

so my favorite dive bar in WI passed up showing tonight’s Bucks game so they could show live poll results. when the election was called for Crawford, the whole bar started chanting, “Fuck El*n”. the bartender pulled out the good stuff and handed out free shots to us all—an absolutely electric nite

submitted 33 days ago • 643 comments

This is not an April fools joke. Have any of you who have gotten your federal student loans cancelled in the last few years recently been notified by your servicer that your loans have been reinstated? If so, DM us, we want to look into this further.

submitted 34 days ago • 10 comments

Hello folks! It’s #TransDayOfVisiblity, and some of my dearest people are trans. I want to help. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ I have a tee- a rainbow of amazing succulent plants 🌱 🌵 🪴 in their natural colors! 💯% of profits on this go to the Stonewall Community Foundation in NY. #LGBTQ+ www.bonfire.com/succulent-je...

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

I'm a trans woman in my mid-70s. I transitioned in my late 20s. Still here and still trans. #TransDayOfVisibility

submitted 35 days ago • 25 comments

“A Texas children's hospital is now treating children for vitamin A toxicity after RFK Jr. touted the vitamin as a measles treatment.” www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

submitted 36 days ago • 156 comments

I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes

submitted 37 days ago • 852 comments

what would mister rogers do? get enraged seriously. his word choice. he gave us permission, said it's healthy:

submitted 369 days ago • 13 comments

Remember the 90s when everybody only hurt sometimes.

submitted 39 days ago • 150 comments

If you wonder what AI will do for email communication consider what robocalling has done for voice calls. I have barely answered the phone in years.

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

“We preface everything with an admission that our opponents are right and somehow we’re losing the messaging war. We don’t understand why this isn’t working.”

submitted 39 days ago • 54 comments