eeperry.bsky.social
Professor of Roman art & archeology, fan of ranked choice voting, Quaker, beekeeper, amateur baker, amateur photographer. No interest in supporting cowardice or greed; very interested in bravery and community spirit. No DMs unless I already know you.
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Generative AI is sold to us as a labor-saving device, like a washing machine or a food processor. But for teachers it has been a massive time suck. Student papers were the external evidence of internal thought processes. Now I have to invent new, less effective ways of encouraging students to think.
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Homer wasn't a single individual. The Homeric poems were originally oral and composed "in performance" by many different performers. The versions that have come down to us were just that - versions - that once included many variations - like English ballads.
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If Dems are using "illegal aliens" to expand their voter base, then why did Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis help them out by spending millions of dollars to ship "illegal aliens" to blue cities and states?
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He would fail any biology class taught at any level.
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Wish I could cancel my subscription twice.
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We did the same in Worcester, MA!
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Yeah. I wish he were half as literate as Julius Caesar.
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And this, my friends, is the beauty of ranked choice voting: it encourages coalition-building instead of exacerbating division.
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Look for other out-of-state plates, tinted windows, no bumper stickers or parking stickers, no sign of kids or dogs (car seats or crates, clutter), no dirt, engine running even with nobody in the vehicle.
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Some of us still do, and we practice it under the slightly different name--civil resistance.
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It's about time people started telling these stories. Citizens arrested, people legally here deported, a Senator forced to the floor and handcuffed, a child left on the sidewalk when their parent is taken. Line the stories up, tell them all. This country needs a long, hard look in the mirror.
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I would like to see you present him with evidence-based estimates of how many people will die because of specific decisions he is making. Be restrained in the numbers you use: even conservative estimates are going to look bad. And ask him how he feels about being responsible for that many deaths.
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For help with such situations, call the GI Hotline or Whistleblower Aid.
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The blue dinosaur and the line dancers know how this is done.
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Sure, Lauren. That's why we're seeing grandmothers, 3-year-olds and U.S. Marshalls getting detained.
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Not feeling the failure yet. I love this place.
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The are line dancing in the middle of the protest while shouting Fuck ICE
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Massachusetts stands with you. Be brave, be safe!
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Also relevant: would California national guard troops even have the stomach for firing on other Californians just because Florida Boy told them to?
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Uh huh. But when they were told to triple the number of detainees they left Massachusetts and went to work in Texas. Resistance works.
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Gutting the Department of Education is an emergency?
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Isn't "transporting undocumented workers within the U.S." what Ron DeSantis did when he loaded a plane in Florida with immigrants and sent it to Martha's Vineyard? Has he been charged?
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Huh. Transporting undocumented folks within the country carries a criminal charge? Isn't that what Ron DeSantis did when he loaded a plane full of immigrants and sent it to Martha's Vineyard? Asking for a friend.
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Bear witness, Minneapolis! They hate it when we see what they're doing.
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This calls for a worldwide tour with stops in all authoritarian countries!
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Noice - thank you!
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Ditto
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Love your tagline and your posts. I think the structure of that sentence implies that those ARE legitimate reasons for cutting ties with your parents and the things listed in the second clause, like political differences, are more questionable. (Not sure I agree that they're questionable, though.)
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Does someone want to remind her of what Jesus said about caring for the sick? Matthew 25, if you have her ear.
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Why don't they just call it EugenicsGPT and have done with it?
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I mean, is bullshit the correct term for putting a whole lot of good people out of a job and stealing the personal information of American citizens?
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Another great example of how the etymology of a word is not its meaning.
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Thank you. I'm so tired of hearing people with blue-chip educations tell us how pointless those are. (Though they clearly skipped the ethics classes.)