Bumblebee on anise hyssop in my garden.
Overly caffeinated prof in SW Ontario. Liberal socialist and limitarianist. He/him. 🏳️🌈
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Bumblebee on anise hyssop in my garden.
Start teaching again on Wednesday. Sending good vibes to everyone.
"Everything else is word games." No, everything else is the science you didn't learn after you heard the ridiculously simplified and incorrect version.
That's lovely, but remind him that we're trying to put Elon in space before cats.
15 years ago today I took an incredibly on-the-nose photo
Stock room sounds like less a job and more like a place he did some light criming as a cop.
In a few weeks he'll legalize "The Most Dangerous Game."
It’s really hard to do insightful satire of right-wing weirdos because almost any ridiculous stance you can come up with, they’ll just express freely without a shred of irony.
For a while when I was young, prejudice became "pre judas"
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Pretty flower in the garden I didn't plant. Think this is a common evening-primrose (Oenothera biennis).
Probably a fun backstory to this post, like "customer legitimately alleged fraud" or "I don't like electric cars because they require fewer visits to my overpriced service garage."
When I saw this story, I thought, Trump ban sand.
For my Canadian friends, I've bought my seeds from West Coast Seeds, both online from the company and at various garden centres/greenhouses in the spring. The past few years I've grown Velvet Queen, which is also my current profile pic.
If you have space and live in the right place, I highly recommend growing sunflowers. The bees love them and when they go to seed, they attract goldfinches. A great pick me up for the soul.
Always so nice when a Bombus poses.
As I read, I keep thinking that the book is a kind of skeleton key to understanding 20th century American culture and social structure to today. Hucksters? Fraud? Get rich quick schemes? Shallow religious and philosophical thinking? All there in the history of MLMs.
I am several chapters into @bridgetgillard.bsky.social's gripping "Little Bosses Everywhere," a history and critique of multilevel marketing. Bought after hearing her on an excellent @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social episode.
Guessing that the legal system and AI bros will argue us poors have no right to control over our own likenesses after death. But they'll simultaneously affirm a nearly unlimited right to pass on wealth to your kids, to their kids, and so on to infinity.
*Youth pastor voice* You know who else was believed to be dead for a few days…
Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...
What's the opposite of being fruitarian? Tallowist?
"Now, most well-adjusted adults would probably look at this and say, 'This is all totally ridiculous,' but the United States is not made up of well-adjusted adults... [T]his entire 'controversy' tells us a lot about the mentality of the American right and the state of the national culture."
Taylor Swift isn't MAGA. My dumb take presupposes, what if she was?
Trump voters don't see this as acceptable because if their liberal/left kid stays in their life, they get to keep berating them.
I hate the suspicion that the very existence of ChatGPT has injected into my relationship with my students. Plagiarism has always been a problem, but I didn't wonder if EVERY paper was plagiarized. It was more of a desperation move, or (less often) the sign of a very cynical student. Not baseline.
Occasionally, I'd run into cases where plagiarism seemed to be a skill issue (some proper, some improper citation) that you could deal with through a combination of education and maybe penalties. Even if you catch it, "Don't use AI" is just screaming into a void.
"Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it."
"I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice..."
Adding just six hours of media literacy training to an American Government course significantly improved students’ ability to identify credible sources and boosted their confidence in evaluating where information comes from. theconversation.com/college-stud...
AI slop?
These look like gorgeous theatres. Will have to visit when, ahem, current madness ends. Husbear loves theatre architecture and signs.
Yes. JFC I got really concerned seeing that. I have limited experience with guns but "point at only what you intend to shoot" was my first and often repeated lesson.
I have found a lot of use for Melinda Cooper’s concept of the anti-social state: a government that exists only to extract wealth and inflict violence, and dismantles all its pro-social and life-enabling functions. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Double Butlerian Jihad.* 1st: Against the machines (Dune) 2nd: Against the transphobes (Judith Butler)
According to my college AI policy, I might consider prompting Copilot for suggestions on how to decolonize my courses. 🫤
I'm calling it the mail loneliness epidemic
I'd like to see the Venn Diagram of "I'd drink this" and "I avoid soy protein because it's ultraprocessed."
Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social
I'm pleased that you're pleased. I'm a few chapters into The Intermediaries, and I'm riveted.
Confusing "Midnight Train to Georgia" with "Midnight Train to Germany" feels like an ominous reflection of our current moment
Ton of anti-wind people back home. Funny how many people start to care about the birds when you build turbines.
We can only have one dessert. What should it be? - Cake. Yeah! People love cake. But we can only have one flavor. - Gotta a popular one. So Earl Grey of course. Of course.
Is one of the causes going to be "insufficient beef tallow intake"?
This is highly disrespectful to the people who apparently lost their ersatz father when the logo changed.
just need everyone to know that @jklabs.net made a website where you can make your very own "this is not a _____" graphic playing with it is honestly VERY fun thisisnot.tinyserver.club
Copy of Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class incoming as 12th birthday present?
Not super germane to Jamelle's opinion here, but in 15 years of teaching as a college professor (and years as a teaching assistant during my MA and incomplete PhD), I have had only *two* students whose handwriting I couldn't read.
Definitely need to learn financial literacy if their parents are spending 65K on this.
Don’t know who made this but thank you
True. One of those "face for radio" and "voice for print" types here.
Looking forward to hearing about your respective favourite seed oils. Or does Aubrey come out as a tallow truther?!
Going to watch a whole lot of losers fail the "be normal about this" test with them, sadly.
New from me in @jssreligion.bsky.social: Evangelicals justify economic inequality more than the overall population. So what are preachers saying about Bible passages that might cut against inequality? They just insist those passages don't really say inequality is bad. doi.org/10.1111/jssr...
Thanks for the reminder! *Moves "Learn to make a proper brisket" further up to do list.*
Home canner here and seeing those jars of beef fat, I'm thinking, someone is 100% getting botulism from that.
Sequence from 0:27 to 0:40 - Silent film version of me pleading "PLEASE DO THE READINGS"
The doll/puppet comment is sending me. No awareness that the therapist's humanity matters, and that the toy doesn't matter the way they think it does.
Unclear if living, dying, dead, or Weekend at Bernies Trump would be the worst.
Wellness is just Spirit Halloween eugenics
Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
Still think about this story often: www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Books From Authors Who Are Active on Bluesky $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
Could a social media addicted God make a social media site so stupid that even God wouldn't post on it?
yeah popcorn cart i feel that
The more you (don't) know!
Laughing is, but the word "guffaw" probably isn't.
Careful Margaret! I'm pretty sure "centrist," "tone policing," and "purity test" are terms on the banned list.
Who's your new cohost then? I assume if you did a TCW episode and you're posting about it, Peter's the one who died of a brain aneurysm.
I keep saying this but it remains true: Dems have not learned the central lesson of Reconstruction, that multiracial democracy cannot survive when those working to overthrow the rule of law & fair elections are allowed to operate with impunity.
This kind of information has never been easier to check, and there's never been less interest (from the people making the claims) to confirm that they're true or widespread.
Still too risky - TCW could still happen. Must go back further, to prevent the invention of writing.
Jesus, the opening line of the review is a kill shot: "How would you tackle a book whose opening sentence packs such a wordy wallop that you wonder whether the text was ever seen by an editor?"
Ah yes, Zohran Mamdani: a candidate famously not focused on affordability issues
Sure sounds like a wind up for an abhorrent, false equivalence. "Oh so you'd complement Trump for a landslide, but you won't throw trans people under the bus, to win the next election?"
When Cuban's post, instantly thought of the dumb as fuck "AI is woke if it won't say slurs to prevent nuclear war" discourse.
They say 'the machines of the future' will be as smart as people... OK, but WHICH people? Because it kinda matters quite a bit.
Time flies. A few years ago, Zohran running would have been a critical race theory.
Careful, isn't "actual evidence" one of the phrases on the list?
If it contributed to the demographic transition, they probably hate it.
I was going to say solipsistic nihilism, but we can both be right.
"We should focus on growing the pie instead!" "Will poor people get more pie?" "Hahahaha fuck no."
Did you use the word oligarchy again Joel? Or maybe food insecurity?
I've now finished @emilystjams.bsky.social's Woodworking, and my earlier assessment was vindicated. I also appreciated this in her afterword:
![What has been most disappointing about this setback [against trans rights] has not been the Isaiah Roses [a Republican politician in Emily's book] of the world--I grew up around men like him, and I know what to expect from them. No, it has been the many, many well-meaning, left-of-center people and publications who see the global right tearing trans lives apart and don't leap to defend our right to live as ourselves. Instead, too many of these folks see the frothing rage being kicked up against trans people and assume that cruelty must have a valid point buried somewhere inside of it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fjfdqmfxlzgj2a6fu2wu5eqp/bafkreih4s23jxrri6n4iicvoxuwphub5jevkkdodu4qhqnemi75gczlyay@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Three question marks is always the right reaction to Thomas Chatterton Williams, one ? for each memoir he's written.
Is it time for politicians to consider the process of becoming an all powerful, undead, immortal lich? Why some experts say yes.
Referring to a mediocre breakfast restaurant as your culture and heritage is one of the whitest things I've ever read.
As someone with a sweet tooth (sour variation), this looks delightful.
I sound insane when I say this but I truly believe a big part of the Trump admin’s approach to energy policy is driven by gender anxiety. They think coal and oil are manly and renewables are effeminate.
Trying to escape spam: another day in the life of technofutilism.
How AI boosters think of AI vs. AI reality.
Watching a video on my phone about how much better it was when people didn't watch videos on their phones.
if you need me i'll be posting from here now
"Giving people money helped less than I thought it would." True. You got 4 million and came up with this dreck.
Evaluate honestly the number of Dem candidates, at any level in any state, who are using terms like "birthing person" or "heteronormative" to the number using phrases like "bipartisan solutions" or "reaching across the aisle" and tell me which language is tin-eared and alienating to normal people.
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
If Brooks bothered to understand Christian nationalists’ political project, he would know this is exactly what they want
