I don’t even want to think about how many times I watched this movie as a kid. This is awesome 🤩
One of my favorite bands, Lake Street Dive, just put out a video recreating the final scene of Sister Act and it is a delight: youtu.be/8dGGR4krZck?...
Siobhan
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I don’t even want to think about how many times I watched this movie as a kid. This is awesome 🤩
One of my favorite bands, Lake Street Dive, just put out a video recreating the final scene of Sister Act and it is a delight: youtu.be/8dGGR4krZck?...
We are invasive English Ivy and Japanese Stilt Grass for halloween 👻🌿 We're gonna destroy your native habitats OooOooo
do not funnel your grief over this death into trek and x-men merch, paramount & disney dont need your money. go to plays, give to charities, vote for candidates who will fund public art, and you will make it possible for people like patrick stewart to exist and keep existing. a rising tide lifts all
If you want more Patrick Stewarts, then you publicly fund the arts and learning programs, so that working class kids can find their way into making a career in them.
I present to you the winner of this year's Best Faculty Costume contest:
Like a wound, grief does not heal overnight. As the days pass, let the empty space fill with memories, let the sorrow be replaced with gratitude for the good times, the kind words, and most of all, the part of them that made you who you are.
Kahless tells us that loss is a bitter cup we all must drink from occasionally. The grief of loss is the other side of deep love. Love, no matter the pain later, is never wasted. When the pain of loss visits you, remember the love as well, so those departed will live on forever.
We honor those we have cherished by keeping them in our memories and singing songs of their glory. The pain you feel is not that of a scar, but the loss staking a claim in your heart that ensures you will never forget them.
Just going to do my mandatory post of this video youtu.be/uHMNGMFZQeQ?...
Mythology, Autism, and Star Trek's "Darmok"
YouTube video by Astrid Lundberg
youtu.be
For those who don't know, you can stream Star Trek: The Next Generation on PlutoTV for free pluto.tv/us/shows/sta...
Watch Star Trek: The Next Generation for Free Online | Pluto TV
Picking up decades after Gene Roddenberry's original Star Trek series, The Next Generation follows the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his crew aboard the all-n...
pluto.tv
"People won't listen to you or take you seriously unless you're an old white man. Well, I'm an old white man, and I'm going to use that to help the people who need it."
For all that I made sure I never missed a single episode of TNG growing up, this is the image that stuck the most with me
Absolutely crushing. May you rest among the stars. 🖖
I'm really fucking devastated right now so instead here's the picture Patrick Stewart posted nearly 13 years ago to the day with the caption "happy halloween" of him dressed as a giant lobster in a bathtub.
For those who don't know, you can stream Star Trek: The Next Generation on PlutoTV for free pluto.tv/us/shows/sta...
Watch Star Trek: The Next Generation for Free Online | Pluto TV
Picking up decades after Gene Roddenberry's original Star Trek series, The Next Generation follows the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his crew aboard the all-n...
pluto.tv
Patrick Stewart has died. A magnificent actor, he is best remembered as Star Trek's Captain Picard (at least to Gen X geeks like myself). However, this was the first thing I thought of when I heard of his passing; he did good things off the stage as well. RIP. www.theguardian.com/society/2009...
Patrick Stewart: the legacy of domestic violence
The actor recalls a childhood tainted by his father's cruelty
theguardian.com
Hey did you know virtually all the evidence showing an educational benefit to AI is junk science? hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
39 meta-analyses, 39 positive findings: An audit finds serious flaws in research on AI in education
‘Anybody can sort of say that they have evidence for anything,’ a top scholar says
hechingerreport.org
Some extremely good tips in this thread even if you don’t consider yourself disabled. There is absolutely nothing wrong with making things easier, for anybody. Life is hard.
This post is NOT FOR ABLEDS so keep scrolling or just mind your business: If you have a disability or a mental health issue that keeps you from showering regularly, get an anti-bacterial body wash for when you do. It will get you cleaner and keep you cleaner for longer! Dove makes a good one.
Ah, yes, it is that time to remind folks that NaNoWriMo sold out to predatory vanity press in 2022, and then to AI in 2024, and then collapsed in 2025, and has since risen like a sketchy phoenix looking to steal aspiring authors' work.
So, wait, has NaNoWriMo rebranded as "Novel November", paid for by ProWritingAid, which used to be a spell/grammar checker but now is (you guessed it) an "'AI' grammar checker"--in short, yet another way for a griftslop machine to grab human-written text? Do I have that right?
I attended a lecture on AI refusal in public libraries. Created and led by Hannah Cyrus who is excellent. Clear practical information, deeply informed by practice and research, for real humans. 10/10 ital.corejournals.org/index.php/it...
Refusal as Instruction: Equipping Patrons to Resist AI, Data Brokers, Big Tech, & More | Information Technology and Libraries
ital.corejournals.org
Spiral staircases. Fell down one as a kid (straight down the center, nearly a whole floor), left a lasting impression.
In honor of the season, this is a question I was thinking about when I was partially awake this morning: what is a completely ordinary thing that creeps you out/terrifies you? For me, it is a musical jewelry box. I got them as a kid, of course, because that's what you buy little girls.
It’s been a while since a faculty member invented interlibrary loan but maybe that comes after weeding discourse.