Zandra, probably
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Queer & chronically ill quilter / auntie / backcountry paddler / cat lady / settler in Treaty 1 territory 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 She/her
i’m having a long week. and it’s still wednesday
Essayed in the menchies again. Sub🧵in case you want to teach students *how* to collaborate before you throw them in the group project deep-end instead of assuming they already know. Short version: Let the class define & agree on what a good teammate looks like
To be fair, I did do a bit of “sort it yourselves” while the projects were still underway, but it came with coaching: 1) What’s *your* plan for talking to your wayward peer and seeing if you can wrangle them back onside? 2) What’s your contingency for filling the gaps & getting stuff done?
Peacocks are the closest thing we have to eldritch gods
Peacock Fanning Tail
Alt: Peacock Fanning Tail, which is like a shaky eyeballs demon
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if there's a cat in your house you gotta go bother 'em. hurry
“Assume that is a given fact, okay?” “No.” is an exchange we should all be practicing
I think current genAI is, for the most part, an anti-social attack on culture and society. And I'm gonna need y'all to stop making that position look ridiculous by turning yourselves into an over-correcting anti-social attack on culture & society.
My phone is full, people, and none of you have done anything to demonstrate to me that your proprietary app is worth 500 pictures of my cats.
Or, to put it much more simply (h/t @davidwhodat.bsky.social): “Ally” is a verb.
A PSA to my fellow cis people who are (or want to believe they are) trans allies If you are getting pushback from trans people and your reaction is to be all “no! not me! I’m one of the good ones!” please remember that “being one of the good ones” is something you DO, not something you ARE
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Just a little reminder that sometimes, our minds can make our fears and problems seem much bigger than they really are. 🐾🤍
My god. I couldn't articulate it until this post. LLMs are the final form of expertise denial and devaluation. ChatGPT is the horseman of death - for the planet, for our expertise, for our selves.
Someone who has known me for decades (and is not a lawyer) recently told me his understanding of the birthright citizenship case is better than mine because I read it and many of the underlying historical sources with my own two lying eyes and HE had ChatGPT read it to him and so he's not biased
"I don't understand why you, a historian, don't appreciate the value in repeating the mistakes of the past."
Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
I think it was Cory Doctrow who pointed out that SF is a luddite genre in the original sense of the word: Not fearful of tech as such, but cautious and critical of how it's likely to be used. How many SF novels are there (going back to Frankenstein) where the beautiful creation just goes amok?
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#QuiltSky, look at these stunning Starblankets!
Some of the quilts we’ve done lately 😮💨☺️✨🙂↕️
Canadian? Part of the 2SLGBTQI+ community? Women and Gender Equality Canada needs your input on community needs! Sure, they'll probably ignore it, but this way we can say they fully ignored what we had to say!
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STRENGTH CRUSHES ENEMIES! DO YOU NEED TO CLEAN YOUR GLASSES?
friend got suspended from here, i jokingly asked if it's because they said something mean about a billionaire, and i was right
this is generally part of a broader conservative goal to kill women's sports so girls are more docile and feminine with trans panic the spice on top
Aside from the fucked up morality of it all, is it not TRANSPARENTLY obvious that people who want to train children to submit to invasive bodily testing are people who should never have access to children? This FEELS obvious to me.
Your daily affirmation: Like a bear at a beehive, ignore all the buzzing and stinging around you and focus on your own sweet goals.
We need to return to traditional masculinity, to the time when real men took their kitties for walkies so they could smell smells.
One of my mini quilts got a Judge’s Choice commendation at the Festival of Quilts!!!! Thanks to @gawrjuhs.com for letting me make his designs into quilts, and to @carinacraftblog.bsky.social for the photos.
@zandra-wpg.bsky.social As promised, quilt photos! 😀
Books to keep: 2 LOTR & 3 Hobbit 2 Prydain by Lloyd Alexander 2 Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper 2 of a few by Robin McKinley 3 of the Fionavar Tapestry by @guygavrielkay.bsky.social 2 The Blue Castle by L M Montgomery (to break the epic fantasy pattern) Many many more to give away to my niblings
Name physical media you purchased more than once.