#dystopian but also thank you to those incarcerated people who did this
Kashana@kashana.blacksky.app · 1h agoPossibly the most American news of all time
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All comments and thoughts my own and not the opinion of any other entity. níl aon tóin tinn mar do thóin tinn féin
Kashana@kashana.blacksky.app · 1h ago
Questions I feel like are coming on my sons Common App, based on what he’s gotten so far, about me: What was your second high school boyfriend’s license plate at the time you dated? How many cats have you owned? What did you make on Mme Enos’ final in French III?
23% drop in student visas to US in 2025 57% drop from India alone catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
My ex husband grew up in Canada in a prairie province in a neighborhood largely populated by Scottish and Irish immigrants, and the Band Spirit of the West captured this perfectly with their song Old Sod. They have lots of other great music too. Oh, and you should check out the Dead South
Kate Armstrong@brainchain.ca · 2w agoAlso - please join me if you will in flooding Bluesky with Canadian culture. Music, art, film, TV. Let’s show the vibrancy of this place I’m proud to call home.
Kids In The Hall: But Most of Us Are Dave
ALT: Kids In The Hall: But Most of Us Are Dave
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Kate Armstrong@brainchain.ca · 2w agoAlso - please join me if you will in flooding Bluesky with Canadian culture. Music, art, film, TV. Let’s show the vibrancy of this place I’m proud to call home.
New Substack: : Students should only use AI for things that they already know how to do well. dtwuva.substack.com/p/students-s...
Students should only use AI for things they already know how to do well.
AI guardrails should protect important mental work
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Assigned reading to kids who ask for one
Lauren Kirchner@lkirchner.bsky.social · 2w agoConsumer Reports tested 13 e-scooters to rate and review. But because of the frequency of injuries being reported - including injuries sustained by the CR testers themselves in this process - CR is not recommending ANY. www.consumerreports.org/cars/electri...
Me, following the luncheon for committee chairs for faculty committees after volunteering to serve as chair for a year
Chris Griffin: Oh God What Have I Done!
Alt: Chris Griffin: Oh God What Have I Done!
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But this IS the value of uttering the slang. Not to impress. to be the Destroyer of Worlds. Behold, I wield the cringe like a sword
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 3w ago"Professor Sisyphus learned a slang word. He was excited to impress his students. Then he discovered that as soon as he uttered slang in class—poof! It would instantly cease to be a part of youth culture." buff.ly/CrNdx6C
im at a jr high cross country meet and this is about as Indiana as it gets
Actual sounds from the brain of one of my kids who has adhd if we skip a day of meds: wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee squirrel eeeeeeeee
Introduce yourself as something that almost killed you. Hi, I’m delayed postpartum hemorrhage. Hi, I’m the hawk that tried to fly into your single engine plane propeller during takeoff.
The highest cost of grief is presenteeism because the US approach to bereavement is appalling. Kid or even multiple kids die? Back to work in median of about a week.
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 4w agoWhat’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
Someone check in on Doualy Xaykaothao? Her sign at around the 4 minute mark of the 9am NPR news update had serious 2020 world weary vibes
A prime opportunity was missed here: the brain chip liberated us from two factor authentication
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · last mo."You can’t pay for anything by card anymore. That stopped being a thing in the 2030s. The Data Lord doesn’t take AmEx. It’s half a pint now, or a full pint every two months, and you’re on a monthly plan. Hold your arm out, and I’ll get the tourniquet." buff.ly/mI21wrK
Today I made two ice creams that would make grown men weep: 1) brown butter and brown sugar bourbon roasted peach 2) Corn and white miso with brown butter crumble Peaches from our own tree. corn from the pop up stand at the microbrewery. #hipsterblisspoint
When people ask if I speak Spanish and I say I don’t but I can kind of understand things I need to share this because this is what Sabado Gigante did to me.
Mike Urbancic@urbancic.bsky.social · 2mo agofue un desafío to read this aloud a mi hija y my querida wife
There are two kinds of people 1) oh look they redid little house of the prairie 2) watches the remake of little house with the annotated autobiography on their lap Bonus points to you* if you are #2 but you couldn’t find your readers