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valerie@vfo.bsky.social · 4d ago

I need to purchase a super up-to-date and ON POINT media literacy textbook, but they are all very, very expensive, so I can only get one. I don’t suppose any of you have one in particular you’d recommend?

Do I know anyone who could help me troubleshoot an H5P/Canvas integration issue? @vfo.bsky.social this feels like something you might have experience with?

just officially put in my application for the neuroscience master's degree at my school. i feel fairly confident i will get rejected, but if not, imma bout to be even MORE annoying about brain science.

Kristin (our dear shinyinfo) just said that straight woman have cocksoplasmosis and I can’t stop laughing

I need to purchase a super up-to-date and ON POINT media literacy textbook, but they are all very, very expensive, so I can only get one. I don’t suppose any of you have one in particular you’d recommend?

Fuck I just realized the TMS is helping with the anticipatory anhedonia but not the consummatory anhedonia, which the ketamine helps with. Which means I can’t just drop the ketamine because the TMS is “working”.

Kate Berlant: Exhausted and Overwhelmed

Alt: Kate Berlant: Exhausted and Overwhelmed

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Watching people try to assign normal motives and rules to anyone in Trump II reminds me of that John Carpenter quote from I think THE THING DVD, about bad casting. “You can’t beat or fix bad casting. You can only get *through* it.” (from memory, sorry)

THE LOOK 💯💯💯

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d ago

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

I need to purchase a super up-to-date and ON POINT media literacy textbook, but they are all very, very expensive, so I can only get one. I don’t suppose any of you have one in particular you’d recommend?

Oh these HOA bitches do not understand who they’re fucking with yes I know I threatened to lawyer up and withhold my dues but instead I created a Nextdoor group for the complex that I’m about to flyer the whole subdevelopment about hope you’re happy your life is about to get SO MUCH MORE ANNOYING

The Missouri Attorney General is threatening librarians with arrest over an LGBTQ+ story hour for kids, suggesting that a picture book about gay dinosaur dads is "pornography." The Secretary of State says he'll pull funding if the event happens, citing the state's new age verification law.

can anyone recommend any good memoirs or other non-fiction books about AuDHD? FOR NO REASON

Don’t you wish your girlfriend was hot liiiiiike me

My perimenopause persona is ✨cheerfully infuriated✨

If I, a person obsessed with the intersection of sociology and neuroscience, who is deeply concerned about the effect modern life and the structure of American culture is having on our brains and our mental health, read this article, will it negatively affect MY mental health?

#affirmations

We want reliable and affordable TRAINS!

still a pistachio@streetlightlily.horntforgood.com · 6mo ago

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

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New-Cleckit Dominie@ncdominie.bsky.social · last wk.

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

Is there a market for a trained therapist who will go on any vacation/trip you want with you? Because I may have just invented my calling.

TEA ON A TRAIN BITCHZ

Jessica Williams in Shrinking is my favorite all time thing ever

Ugh you all made me get Apple tv again and now I am watching all the things!!!!

it amuses me greatly that there's conference room full of tenured teaching faculty and the security guard is walking around shouting about how everyone needs to pack up because we're "closing the liberry"

Most of us freelancers, no matter how famous or successful you think we are, are just a stroke or two of bad luck away from financial disaster. If you have a few bucks, consider throwing them Richard's way.

Richard Kadrey@richardkadrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is painful and embarrassing, but I don’t have any choice right now www.gofundme.com/f/help-richa...

i just revisited my article about generative AI and libraries from May 2023 and i figured i'd be cringing the whole time reading it, but honestly, i stand by everything i wrote here: www.choice360.org/libtech-insi...

"Do We Need Librarians Now that We Have ChatGPT?" - Choice 360

When discussions around ChatGPT began some months ago, librarians immediately started the conversation about its implications for education. Now, several debacles and many dire warnings later, we’re a...

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oh good my library just purchased this book. i wonder if we own in covid's wake as well? i mean this is staten island after all. misinfo is a religion here.

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: @wendyorent.bsky.social wrote a beautiful review of David Zweig’s new book on COVID school closures, “An Abundance of Caution” for @accountabilityji.bsky.social. Orent absolutely takes an ice pick to it. If you read anything today, read this. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/insights/an-...

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Western University@westernu.ca · 2w ago

"Our love letter to the future." #WesternU researcher B. M. Watson's ( @brimwats.com ) personal experiences helped shape their work in building on and improving cataloguing – a system that is largely unseen but touches everyone. @westernufims.bsky.social

Skunks are known to be sassy with their little stompies but ever seen a skunk get sassy when Not being held? GOSH ^///////^

Last year’s drink of the summer was Nixie Watermelon Mint, and it is absolutely still in the rotation

valerie@vfo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Polar’s Boston Iced Tea Party is my drink of the summer