🧵 Support links 🇯🇲 #Melissa

Gusts over 200+ mph. How do you even begin to prepare for that? 🙏🏽

"The NOAA aircraft left the storm early after experiencing severe turbulence in the southwestern eyewall." These men and women are not being paid due to the US government shutdown. Not to mention that according to AOML's director emeritus Robert Atlas, they are down 40-50% staff. #Melissa

Venice Bakery is remembering those that have died in ICE custody this year by adding them to their community altar for Dia de Los Muertos. By @eltragon.bsky.social

Oof. This is a massive storm. It’s far enough from us in FL but I have this muscle memory of dreading going to sleep and waking up to the next forecast. Safety & support to all impacted.

"Since our #Independence, Caribbean states have consistently refrained from permitting the hosting of military assets, which have the potential to lure the region into conflicts which are not of our own making." Full text of the former #CARICOM heads of government👇

The National Hurricane Center now forecasts Melissa to reach Category 5 strength before striking Jamaica head on late Monday or early Tuesday. An exceedingly dire, catastrophic forecast unfolding as Melissa crawls and rapidly intensifies on the doorstep of Jamaica.

Forecasts for #Melissa do not look good for our Caribbean friends in Jamaica and parts of Hispaniola. Let's hope the intensification cycle is at the lower end of what's possible.

Having contractors work on my porch and am close to asking for their Latin Jazz playlist (!) Always a roll of the dice with contractors’ soundtracks but theirs is top notch.

You learn something every semester. This term I learned I should specify for my 20th c class that Richard Wright on the assignment list refers to the author of Native Son and not the Pink Floyd co-founder. Noted.

Venice used to have a second church on Piazza San Marco: S. Geminiano designed by Sansovino you can see in this Canaletto painting. It was kind of a big deal; shows up in a ton of artwork. It was destroyed by Napoleon — to build a ballroom. Napoleon occupied Venice 1806-1814, eight years.

“Because a humanities degree is not tailored to a specific employment pathway, it enables graduates to excel in a wide range of careers. In a job market that is rapidly evolving, some business leaders argue that everyone would benefit from the breadth of a humanities education” bit.ly/47CZdy0

Bees going wild on my young Key Lime tree this morning

I hope the ghost of Dolley Madison is cooking up something big.

That feeling when Canvas/Instructure is “experiencing degraded service” (in this case due to AWS-East outage) and you start receiving panicked messages from students to “fix the assignment.” The power that is misattributed to profs/teachers is really something at times.

Orlando’s National Coming Out Day Parade. Busy day downtown with NoKings in a.m. at City Hall & blocks around Lake Eola set up for market, performances, with parade at 4. On this float, our Congressman @maxwellfrost.bsky.social on drums (facing other direction). Parade route more than 1.5 hrs long!

Advice from my dentist: “maybe you should try wearing your night guard during the day since you are clenching your teeth so much.” Apparently my bite is “intense.” Talk about signs of stress, then again, *looks around* Going to start winter break early this year & invite our times to do the same.

This is good reporting on the disaster in Alaska if you're looking for a reliable summary. This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...

Long live the Post Office.

Absolutely fascinated by these photographs of polar bears in an abandoned Russian research station, by AP photographer Vadim Makhorov: apnews.com/photo-galler...

The problem with writing is that it has to be done inside during nice weather

Winter Park / Orlando I am coming for you! Join me and civil rights icon Desmond Meade for a talk about my new book 'Just Freedom' on October 17th at Writer's Block.

Please allow this GenX girl her fantasy of flying to Milan when the school year ends to see @toriamos.bsky.social tour of new pro-democracy album

Op-ed: The tragedy of #Florida's famous Lake Okeechobee being listed as the most polluted lake in the USA cannot be ignored.. www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinio...

The truly perfect business model doesn’t exi-

The whole gathering of military leaders reminds me a bit too much of being in a hall of faculty members at some required meeting listening to slide shows on "active learning" where no active learning is taking place... although in this case I guess that is a preferred scenario.

Was just mentioning to @stacyparkerlemelle.bsky.social this is what we need to see this Fall. When below average is a relief.

This week. We made it? Spoke at local teaching conference today on embodied writing - went really well! And couldn’t help notice AI wasn’t mentioned once in Qs & comments. Also won via raffle a book of poems I’d been interested in, so a good day. Shout out to everyone making our broken world work.

Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him.

Logging on to this now... already zonked from the work week and perhaps hoping against hope for inspiration but topic/line-up looks good and we need to be having these conversations: www.chronicle.com/events/virtu...

Now this is a political platform. The FIFA grift is shameless so I don't expect them to listen, but maybe it nudges the conversation? "Game Over Greed" a good slogan for many uses.

An actual goal from fluid play. Nice connect from Zendejas. #USMNT

Heavy work/grading day so didn't tune in for Italy's World Cup qualifier. 4-5?! That's not a game for the work week. Even Gattuso looked stunned at the end despite the last minute victory.

College email includes warning of an alligator sighting in the lake across from my dept. building… one more hazard to navigate this week. cc: @stacyparkerlemelle.bsky.social

1st half: #USMNT OK (until goal 2) yet clear there is no cohesion; lines/partnerships not used to playing with each other. Korea pressing well, so any flow towards their box interrupted at the 18. Also I know the negatives, yet do appreciate when "away" fans seem to be enjoying the night #USAvKOR

This is a very cool lady and I want to be like her when I grow up. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I listened to a podcast recently about religious orders taking the hard decision to “move to completion,” as in close a particular convent and redirect any new novices to join other orders. I admired the wisdom & courage of their conversations - and I wish the same for these AI ventures.

My parents are in town. We went out for Italian Ice this evening. My mother ordered (and ate) a pumpkin spice Italian ice. My Italian-American father, always up for desserts, didn’t even want to “share.” These times we are in.

Was thinking I needed to make something special for myself now that both colleges I work for are back in session…

It was really noticeable to me when I moved here how many public reminders of welcoming/safe spaces were visible, including a paved roundabout at the hospital that received many of the wounded from the shooting. To treat this as a pol statement only instead an act of public grief is heartless indeed

Shared intentions from our NWSA session today. Wishing us all a good teaching year: ~It's about them (our students). ~Our teaching is our resistance. ~Minimize parts of the job that drain us. Bring joy back. ~Relax more. Classroom time can be community time. ~I want to remember our human inheritance

Tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon - 3:30 Eastern. 📚Registration link in thread.

In yet another episode of 21st century extreme rapid intensification, Major Hurricane #Erin has reached Category 4 intensity overnight. Maximum sustained winds are now 130 mph (215 km/hr), where as yesterday at this time they stood at 70 mph. Thankfully Erin's core is missing land.

November, 2019. Unity for Puerto Rico March.

I’m cohosting this virtual meet-up with NWSA. Join fellow members & the Feminist Pedagogy Special Interest Group. Have a question about trying something new? Curious to talk through a teaching strategy? Or interested in grounding with affirming colleagues? Feel free to bring your favorite beverage!

Fun example of how tech “helps” us… I’m teaching a course at a new satellite campus in 2 weeks. Trying to get passcard access to my classroom, faculty lounge & copy room. So far we have 6 people on an email chain. All good people & a sparkly new campus - watch me skulk by doors to get in week 1

NEW: The NWS has received permission to hire up to 450 meteorologists/hydrologists/radar technicians after DOGE-related cuts. Agency also given a public safety exemption from federal hiring freeze after losing more than 550 people in those cuts. (1/2)

Well it's official: we just got word that @nehgov.bsky.social will not be supporting further seasons of our #WiseWomen series. Disappointing and painful, especially in the wake of the abrupt termination of our previous grant and the clawing back of $38,000 in funding. But here's how you can help: