this is just gonna get the students defiantly excited to read Plato secretly on their own, and I think that's hilarious. The original assignment was the Aristophanes section from Symposium, too, which is a queer crowd-pleaser with a long history of being censored

Professor Peterson response to censorship at Texas A&M. (philosopher) king

Free today. We're all getting secondary trauma right now. Here are some tools from journalists and therapists that will help: www.patreon.com/posts/digita...

Good morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

PSA: twitter, X, is doing new terms of service that basically make it so that any comtent you share on there including DMs and photos is theirs and they can use it for "any purpose" including commercial use. So, if you have a page you’ve left up and don’t want them there’s time to act 1/

this'll be really useful because gaming doesn't already have different difficulty settings to choose from, in-game hints, walkthrough guides, walkthrough videos, cheat codes, reddit forums, let's plays, twitch streams, your friend's older brother,

Seriously, Canadians, make some noise on this. Write your MPs. This shouldn't need to be said, but it is *not to our advantage* if the US is allowed to randomly invade sovereign countries, kidnap their leadership, and seize their resources. It's Venezuela today, it could easily be Canada tomorrow.

This is not the first US imperial atrocity for oil —let’s not exceptionalize it— but wow is is it awful. And the violation of Venezuelans domestically in the name of a sovereign borders they actually dgaf about. As Aimee Cesaire put it— the price of imperialism is the empire’s own civilization.

among everything else about this, it is so unhinged to make the robot deliver the HR-speak apology like this

Sam Reich in 2018 doing research into potential names for his new comedy game show: ok well Game Changer only comes up as a recently published gay hockey romance novel - that's probably not going to confound any search results, let's go for it Sam Reich now: dangit

huh so Google is kicking off the new year by pissing off knitters that’s fun

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We're looking for a pinch hitter! Fandoms: ชาย | Shine (TV 2025) Challengers (Movie 2024) [SAFETY] 紫陌红尘 | Kill to Love (TV) Elementary (TV) Killjoys (TV) Bodies Bodies Bodies [SAFETY] Conclave (2024) [SAFETY] I Saw the TV Glow (2024) [SAFETY] Disco Elysium (Video Game) The Exorcist (TV)

we got the Cougar Gold canned cheese for Xmas, just to try it out and see what the hype was about. It's . . . a nice cheddar cheese? Creamier than some cheddars. Perfectly good cheese. Did not blow my mind and I probably don't need to order it again. Curiosity satisfied.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

lots of edtech tools are useful, especially at improving accessibility. it really frustrates me that the dystopia we live in means that we can't use them ethically. I see a lot of profs going "well let's do timed in-class handwritten blue book exams again" and like. no. we gotta get more creative

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

not too late for a flu shot btw, flu historically often peaks in february and by all accounts it is pretty bad this year

another day volunteering at the artificial mouth research lab. everyone keeps asking me

over a period of three years, I slowly bullied my doctor into prescribing me the shingles vaccine (even though I'm ten years away from the age you're supposed to get it). and today I got my first one! another one in 2-6 months. I'll probably feel lousy but I'm so happy. bully your doctor today

educators know both the labor of education (our working conditions) & the labor of learning (the process we work to facilitate) better than any AI booster. We know what is being sold to us & why. We have been on the ed tech merry-go-round before

there's this very odd very genuine film starring Kathy Bates and Rupert Everett called Unconditional Love and it's not necessarily "good" but it is lovely and weird. it's about queer love and fannish love and also Julie Andrews shows up at one point

You know that the Crave social team are Gen Z and not millennials because I had to make these myself. #HeatedRivalry

whenever this goes around I must rec @eruthros.bsky.social 's The Green Knight Taskmaster vid: vimeo.com/673999791?fl...

a beautiful gift for a canadian living in the states 😭

It's Décembre le vingt-quatre And morale needs a jumpstart #taskmaster #GuyMontgomery #FestiveLittleFox youtu.be/epbV8QAB8Ow?...

what are your favourite Christmas episodes of tv shows?

I love that Star Trek has four small mentions of Christmas over like 1000 episodes and films, and one of them is that Kirk feels awkward about dancing too close with one of his officers at the Science Lab Christmas party

Essential thread

It is so funny that the YouTube algorithm just spontaneously created Jigsaw

i got to rant about LLM chatbots in games + my fears about the dead future that tech oligarchs want for all of us, alongside some very clever + thoughtful folks. thanks so much @samuelhorti.bsky.social for giving me the space & time to articulate all of this

You don't have to be a member to tell SFWA how you feel about AI.

If Die Hard is a Christmas movie, then other things that are like Die Hard are also Christmas movies therefore the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Starship Mine is a Christmas movie

If you begin Star Trek: Voyager episode Spirit Folk at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's Eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. Join in a very dumb annual tradition and start 2026 off on the right hoof.

when I haven't made art in a while I feel alienated from myself

at one point the other night, while I was having horrific insomnia, I rolled over and sleepy-alert-exhausted gazed blearily into my computer screen and wrote 200 words on a fanfic I haven't touched in like a year. maybe I'll finish it. It's 90k so far and I'd really like to finish it

got some books from @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social in the mail! I usually shop at my local indie, which is also great, but I try to buy a few things from Room now and then just because I adore them. I'm looking forward to the Rivers Solomon one especially, as I loved An Unkindness of Ghosts

looking for a last minute gift at williams sonoma

The BMA has come out swinging for the rights of all trans people in healthcare settings and beyond - both patients and healthcare providers. Genuinely brilliant news amongst the bad - please read it and share, and remember that we are NOT alone. Not by a long stretch.

I'm gonna be real: many many times when I've watched a sexy TV show and gone "oh wow, this is being surprisingly normal and positive about sex!" I later found out it was a Canadian production. I have *never* thought that about HBO. If I'm uncomfortable and sad, I check to see if it's HBO.

There are spaces open in the Monday and Thursday co-resting groups for the winter season that starts in January. Please join us if you need and want remote-access resting community time. www.co-resting.org #ME/CFS #LongCovid #Rest #Pacing #CommunityCare

This is a petition to help protect trans rights as minority rights, specifically due to things being done by the Alberta and Saskatchewan governments. The Charter exists to protect the rights of Canadians regardless of residence.

had a recent medication change, then made the enormous mistake of having one (1) alcohol drink last night. I was awake all night with anxiety and I am going to be incredibly nauseated all day. oh well at least it's a day where I have to *checks notes* do a whole bunch of grading

me, calling up whoever's writing a Luke Cage comic right now: you know that new sound you been looking for? Well, listen to this:

It's a lovely 6th Day of Christmas at my true love's house, and you are six horrible geese

grading is hard

very sweet commenter on a fanfic of mine: "thank you for writing this all those years ago!" well, it was 2015,

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

Hockey Players Blast ‘Heated Rivalry’ For Unrealistic Depiction Of Anal Sex https://theonion.com/hockey-players-blast-heated-rivalry-for-unrealistic-depiction-of-anal-sex/