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She who Must Be Obeyed

@heatherchirdon.bsky.social

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She/her Yinzer, Atheist, Skeptic, Cynic, Proficient in Profanity, Not Known for Good Behavior.

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She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · Sep 16

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Big Brother Is Watching You - Sheldon Allman

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She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 9h

Someone come & collect your pap.
He's had a long day picking fights with strangers on the internet & chose to dive headlong into basic Boomer sexism.
Honestly fellas, why are you *like* this?!

And before you go acting clever, I'm talking ABOUT you, not TO you. So shush! in advance!

freelib.bsky.social @freelib.bsky.social · 11h

Whenever you’re ready dear.

She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 11h

We're

All

Done

Here.

She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 11h

Again & finally:

You started this.
You picked this fight.
You chose the topic, the venue, & the opponent.

He chose to walk away from you, because you are a bully.

He needn't entertain you.
Now, go think about how you may have abused your power elsewhere, but not here.

We're all done here.

She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 12h

Love you back, boo.

Mute till your heart's content.

She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 12h

Which, why?

Don't tug on Superman's cape.
Don't spit into the wind.
Don't pick fights with strangers on the Internet.
And don't mess around with, well, you.

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She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 12h

It's literally why we invite you to literally everything.

Literally.

She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 12h

Oh shit!

I just did!

She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 12h

Actually, tons.

Like, oodles & gobs.

Like you have no idea HOW fun.

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She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 12h

She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 12h

You have the power to walk away.
To stop picking a fight.

You don't know the person with whom *you've chosen* to argue, but I do, and buddy believe me, "coherence" is *not* an issue for him, even if you're currently too flustered to see it.

And that's ok.
We all get a little worked up sometimes.

She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 12h

But HOO-boy does he seem to think he has the power in *this* here relationship!

::arms akimbo; demands apology::

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She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 14h

Love how they hone in on entertainment & convenience apps (Roblox, Snapchat), yet ignore things like Ring cameras & Canvas.

Way to go, yinz!

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 14h

Internet users around the world faced widespread disruption because Amazon’s problem took down dozens of major online services, including social media site Snapchat, the Roblox and Fortnite video games and chat app Signal. https://to.pbs.org/3KSdvSG

What to know about the Amazon Web Services outage

Internet disruptions tied to Amazon's cloud computing service affected people around the world Monday trying to connect to online services used for work, social media and video games.

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junecasagrande.bsky.social @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 15h

A minor point but: How many foreign intelligence agencies are trying to infiltrate contractor and subcontractor firms right now and how easy will it be for them to get past this doesn't-give-af-about-national-security administration?

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She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 15h

We have to use a digital planner here for Christopher's benefit, but I loved when I had mine back in the day.
The tactile sensation.
Write it down.
Tumb the page.
Dog-ear the corner.
It's there forever.

There are books I've read whose passages I remember down to where the words were on the page.

She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 15h

They can have my worksheets when they take them from my cold dead hands.

She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 15h

The best thing I have are my maps.
I printed up maps of the continents; not political maps, no countries, just basic maps.

I have a big ass box of Crayola colored pencils that I use on it.

I have marked the Ottoman & Mongolian Empires, and the travels of Ibn Battuta & Al-Mas'udi in Technicolor.

She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 15h

I'm a history major.
I do use Excel to maintain a spreadsheet of world events kept in chronological order & color-coded by course...
Which I have printed out at the front of my notebook as a handy reference.

She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 15h

I worked in Drs offices for years. Typing for me is a passive exercise.
PT says a thing; I type it into their record; Dr says a thing; I type it into the record.
None of that is supposed to stick.
In fact, it's supposed to *not* stick.

No way I'm gonna retrain my brain at 50-ish.
So, I use paper.

She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 15h

Maybe "smug" isn't the right word. Justified?
Yes, that's it.

When I started classes in '22, I was embarrassed to show up with my notebooks & printouts, but I can't read long form from a screen, & I absolutely cannot take notes that way.

She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 16h

Me, a non-traditional undergrad who saves as .pdf & prints out *every* reading as soon as it's available, feeling smug today before tomorrow's lectures.

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Dr. Nneka D. Dennie @nneka.bsky.social · 19h

part of why i find the idea that certain tech is inevitable (LMS, AI, etc) to be silly is we're not far removed from the before times. we have it in recent and living memory how we function without these things. i graduated from college in 2013. we had reading packets and printed our assignments

Screenshot of Blue Sky conversation with the middle username redacted

Adrienne Massanari: I have so much grading to do, and Canvas is down because of the AWS outage.

Object lesson #1940273 that maybe forcing us all to use crappy LMS tools that are beholden to tech infrastructures controlled by Bezos et al wasn't the best idea. #acasky

Redacted: I noticed you didn't offer an alternative LMS you would rather use. I hate Besos also but unless you have a specific solution you've vetted that can scale like canvas and is impervious to downtime this comment seems like whining.

Dr. Nneka D. Dennie @nneka.bsky.social:

i wonder...how in the world did faculty teach or grade before the invention of the
LMS? i suppose there was simply no teaching or grading before the internet

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She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 16h

So, most of my cohort can't do their work because Canvas is down.

Last night there was also a massive outage on Ring & Nest doorbell cameras.
My brother's neighborhood had their cars broken into. Like, all of em.

Gee whiz, ain't this new, connected, digital world grand?!

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She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 16h

Bouffadem

She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 17h

I would just assume fight you about the difference between JRB & DJT, TBQH.

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She who Must Be Obeyed @heatherchirdon.bsky.social · 17h

Legit, didn't notice.

Picked up the rhythm.
Hoped I was right.
Ran with it.