My teaching partner found a Bigfoot Sightings dataset which he's using for the statistics class. I'm so envious.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Just a periodic reminder that when Hilary Clinton was running in 2008, she campaigned on rolling back presidential authority.

Does anyone really have this kind of passion for whether Pluto is a planet or not? Do not fuck with dinosaurs.

Exactly one year ago today:

I'm getting over a cold, so while my teaching partner teaches his part of the course, I'm sitting in the back of the room spinning. And am ear wormed by old SCA drinking songs. Woe!

If you're heard the grousing about how white girls aren't having babies that they're forced to give up so that other white folks can adopt them, this would be no surprise. They want teenage girls to have kids, but also to suffer and be stigmatized.

To the @strictscrutiny.bsky.social crowd: Who would have standing to sue Hegseth for religious discrimination? I can't imagine his anti-Catholic bias is likely to find many friends in the current court...

They shouldnt teach history at all until 12th grade, because the fairy tale nationalist version kids get before that colonizes most of their brains forever. Forget deprogramming college freshmen, people go to their graves believing that. Just move language classes earlier and history ones later.

Come on, @nytpitchbot.bsky.social can't top this, can they?

I'd be pretty delighted if one of the outcomes of this SAVE act nonsense is that women became a lot less willing to change their names when they marry. This was a terrible idea in the first place.

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

I was thinking about Palantir co-founder's Karp rant about how AI will take power away from people with humanities degrees, particularly democratic women. I don't know if he believe this, or this is purely opportunistic raving on his part. But- newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

People are commenting about how this is about "powerful" men, but in a society that listens to men over women and girls, that treats the former as competent and credible, the latter as not, every man is empowered to abuse, and it happens at all levels and in all sectors of society.

Do you think if we sent Trump to Iran we could walk away from this poorly planned and stupid war?

This is your periodic reminder that the antihistamine Zyrtec is highly drying. While it is generally very effective, this can keep your sinuses from draining and prevent sinus infections from clearing.

This is torture.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

I am not surprised. But still shocked and deeply grieved. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

"Powershell is the Esperanto of command environments...!" I love my students so much. This is the same student who came up with the idea of embracing dynamic pricing, and using it to implement Marxism. Seriously, people worry about *me* radicalizing *them*?

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Are we calling it the Trump recession yet?

Republicans’ commitment to the 2nd Amendment is like Trump’s commitment to his wives.

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Who does avatar head shots on commission these days?

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Along the line of Kavanaugh stops, I'm thinking I'm going to call it Roberts immunity.

I wrote this poem as an homage to Baldwin and to hear it being sung across the world or read in protests has been my own guiding light of hope.

@megelison.bsky.social they’re playing your music:

im so sorry.. that anchor is fighting for his liiiifeeeee

I'm thinking that the entire DHS needs to be abolished. Inter-agency communication is important. But it's never been a good solution for that, and it had fascist overtones from the beginning.

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“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

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In February, DOGE - under Elon Musk’s direction - gutted the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, notably including their autonomous vehicle safety unit, which was investigating Tesla.

Okay, my sister celebrates Christmas despite not being Christian, her partner being Jewish, and me having done my best to bring her up pagan. What movies are holiday appropriate but neither saccharine nor overdone, nor too grim for me to get others onboard?

So... what is the enshittification of LLMs?

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I stan for phthalo green.

Y'know, if someone was taking a class on evolution, or geology, or most any other science, and the student ignored the actual assignment to rant on about their religious beliefs, it wouldn't even be a question, would it? I could see an argument for giving her 1-3 points, but I'm good with the zero.

I may even have find a good local source for bulk beeswax votives. (I had a great on in NC, but I like to work with local beekeepers.)

This is the most cheerful picture!

This is a little hard to see, because it was refreshed recently, but my starter has come into its own. Propagation mats for the win! (Yesterday evening got away from met, so I refreshed it around lunch time, and will be using it soon.)

Seriously, though, propagation mats are a lot more useful than people give them credit for. I put them under my basil for the cooler part of the year, and under anything that would prefer warmer feet. They also help keep my greenhouse window a bit warmer. Sourdough is just the latest.

I am reviving a badly neglected sourdough starter. This isn't really the season for it - cold weather does not a happy culture make. After a couple of days of very slow going, I decided to pop it onto my propagation mat. This is clearly helping, and I'm hoping it might be ready this evening.

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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad