What they say: “Get involved.” What they mean: “Become a pawn in my power plays.”

Simple solstice Sunday stationery #stationery #typewriters

Happy solstice! May those who seek moments of peace and ease on this day of transition find support in their journey. #solstice

Enjoying holiday-themed media with weirdo characters named Todd

Reddit nudge notification: Why don't you crosspost this extremely niche in-joke post to an extremely niche community to reach new audiences? Me: I don't know, Reddit. Why don't I?

Hallmark movies but with a competence focus instead of romance (this would not exclude romantic competency)

Everyone: 'Tis the season! Scrooge:

Back in my day, prompt engineering was when those who designed and maintained our physical infrastructure did so in a timely manner.

If the "Is X a Christmas movie?" debate is played out, we can always turn our attention to debating whether something is a Boxing Day movie.

Telling the kids that Robert Frost’s “The Most of It” was a prescient warning against genAI-induced psychosis.

[US politics, consultant class, Joe Hill homage] Democrat consultants come out every race Try to tell you what’s best for your case But when asked about something to eat They will answer with voices so sweet: You will win if you cope 'Til that glorious race beyond the next Work and vote, live […]

Universities to students: Don’t submit genAI output as your own work. Also universities to students: Use genAI to prewrite, draft, revise, and edit your own work.

Chat, is it a cookbook?

I don’t love the Aristotle-on-cocaine approach to online learning design: classify and categorize all the things! Followed by oddly phrased multiple-choice quizzes that trip up learners on minutiae.

Yes, Reddit. Verily, it is amazing.

The energy I'm taking into the Monday before Thanksgiving

Employers: Up or out. And we aren’t offering any opportunities for up.

Democratic Party dark-money funders stuffing cash hand over fist into moneybags: “The party’s problem is that it’s too woke!” https://mstdn.social/@coloradosun/115572957602611389

SCP-087: infinite stairwell SCP-432: infinite storage cabinet SCP-3008: infinite IKEA SCP-T047: infinite ballroom

inaugural director of Torment Nexus initiatives in the humanities

Cheers to @heynowdana at Colorado Public Radio Indie 102.3 who always finds songs to fit the zeitgeist like this morning's "Death Cult Zombie" from Genesis Owusu.

Given the vigor with which newspaper owners and editors are pursuing a 21st century yellow journalism to prop up the rulers of our age, perhaps they’d like to read this play about a king in yellow.

Having learned of Stephen Weldon’s book at a recent webinar co-hosted by Nonreligion in a Complex Future and the International Society for Historians of Atheism, Secularism, and Humanism, I’ve started reading The Scientific Spirit of American Humanism. It’s an engaging journey through American […]

I didn't get any photos of the pink glow of the aurora last night, but I did manage to capture the brown haze settling over Denver's skyline this morning.

One of the great challenges of pluralism is letting others use their own vocabulary to describe themselves and then engaging those vocabularies rather than suppressing them. The various supremacies that suffuse our cultures—along lines of gender, race, sexuality, religion, class, and […]

“You are this. You are that.” No. We are people trying to work in coalition, each with the agency to describe their own identities and the forbearance to respect differences among them.

This is not a place of deliberation. No dialogue was achieved here.

Discussing why people within your coalition disagree vs. Despairing that people within your coalition disagree

It’s a Democratic National Convention. What’s the worst that could happen? Hubert Humphrey: (gulps nervously) Hugh Howey: “Hold my beer!”

Toxic leadership: When workers provide critical feedback on an initiative and management dismisses it by saying that the workers just don’t like it because it is new.

Have invented time travel but only for telegrams STOP

A dysfunction of democracy: Observed on social media: Someone asks of a local ballot issue: “Why should I vote no?” They also say they’re still doing their research. Coming up with support for a position you’ve already chosen is rationalization, not research.

Instead of a conflict narrative favored by our failing info ecosystem, what if we explored cooperative approaches, such as the religious/secular pluralism that thrived in the Civil Rights Movement or contemporary intersectional approaches like that by the American Humanist Association? […]

Hey #colorado #birders I saw a large bird in a tree that I'm struggling to identify. It was about as big as or slightly smaller than a magpie and solid grey all over, but had orange-ish under wings. I think it had a crest on its head. This was in #broomfieldco #bird #Birds #broomfield […]

When enemies are lawless, among allies there must be accountability.

Neither trick nor treat but some third eldritch thing.

Identi-Kit but for jack-o'-lanterns

Instead of a conflict narrative favored by our failing info ecosystem, what if we explored cooperative approaches, such as the religious/secular pluralism that thrived in the Civil Rights Movement or contemporary intersectional approaches like that by the American Humanist Association? […]

"We thought this terrible thing was a good idea. Mea culpa. Now let's check out this next great thing!"

For whatever reasons, vote by mail was a little slower than previous years. But my ballot has now been counted. #adamscounty #colorado

A second Foundation? In this economy?

#autumn #fall #colorado #october

When my potatoes are not in education, employment, or training.

A brief meditation on productive disagreement: “You just have to agree with me” is not an argument. Whether something is inevitable in the way you say it is inevitable is precisely the question under discussion.

"ability to influence and motivate others" Lack of the wrong kinds of top-down leadership is not the problem in higher ed or other US organizations. https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/2025/10/24/rethinking-leadership-development-higher-ed-opinion

communicate, think, read, generate ♫ One of these things is not like the other. One of these things just doesn't belong. ♫

Mr. Scott: Synthetic text? Lt. Cmdr. Data: Yes, sir. It is a language substitute that inundated 21st century Earth. It simulates the appearance, taste and smell of text, but the meaningful content should be easily dismissed.