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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 15h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 13h

Oh Cubs. :(

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d

My unsolicited advice for you today: Don't follow accounts that post rage bait from tiktok or Facebook. There's plenty of verified information to get mad at in this world. 🌠

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 14h

Would you like a little good news? The immigrant childrens detention center I've protested at myriad times (Also at its landlords house) has closed and will now be a project to house the unhoused.

As much as I'd love to take credit, it's apparently because SW Key no longer gets $$ from Trump. 🤷🏻‍♀️😅

Houston Announces New $16 Million Low-Barrier Homeless 'Super Hub'

The City of Houston is spending $16 million to turn a former migrant shelter into a homeless “super hub”—a facility officials say will streamline access to services, but critics warn will damage the c...

texasscorecard.com

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 13h

Amazing news!

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 15h

Hey, sci-fi and fantasy folks, if you happen to know folks who are involved with various estates in the field, do tip them a hat about the Anthropic settlement. Agencies do not get $ out of the deal and may not remember to talk to estate clients. My agent was worrying about estates not being alerted

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 14h

Come on, Cubs!

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Becca Gomez Farrell @becca.gomezfarrell.com · 20h

Who can tell me what these beauties are? 🌱🪻

Flower stalks covered in white hair with tiny pink blossoms

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

would watch

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

To make up for how Power Rangers is an old Japanese show they filmed additional scenes with Americans for we should do the opposite and make the casts of Law & Order SVU and Grey’s Anatomy stop a couple times an episode to fight people in werewolf costumes

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MedievalWomenSpeak @medievalwomenspeak.bsky.social · 2d

I have discovered that women are more than capable of undertaking any task which requires physical strength or of learning any discipline which requires discernment and intelligence. Books which say otherwise were definitely not written by women.

- Christine de Pizan, b. 1365

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

heartbreaking

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 1d

To the tune of Eleanor Rigby:

Massive iguana
Makinge a fuss on the beach
At great scale
But then caughte --
Who woulde have thoughte?
www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2...

‘He’s a big boy:’ Massive iguana arrested in Daytona Beach, video shows

A large iguana was thrown in the back of a patrol car in a strange encounter with Daytona Beach officers, according to the police department.

www.clickorlando.com

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful spider and photos!

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

Possibly by the Monty Python Spanish Inquisitors, bearing pillows.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2d

a very under-the-radar thing happening in Mississippi this fall:

Bolts @boltsmag.org · 2d

A federal appeals court ruled that Mississippi had to redraw its legislative maps. As a result, 14 districts affected by the new boundaries are hosting special elections this November. Democrats may flip several.

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts

Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read More

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yeah

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

I just can't deal with an hour of that, so I'm leaving the webinar.

Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

So the next question is: "a study showed that content warnings do more harm than good. what do you think?" To which I answer: has the questioner ever felt any empathy, ever, for a student? Ever?? Fucking hell. I won't name the questioner, but my opinion of them just plummeted.

Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

And as always, I'm reminded about how musicology follows innovations in other fields by about 20 years....

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

So the next question is: "a study showed that content warnings do more harm than good. what do you think?" To which I answer: has the questioner ever felt any empathy, ever, for a student? Ever?? Fucking hell. I won't name the questioner, but my opinion of them just plummeted.

Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

And as always, I'm reminded about how musicology follows innovations in other fields by about 20 years....

Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

Kristen Turner talking about trauma-informed pedagogy and how we really, really need it.

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

And as always, I'm reminded about how musicology follows innovations in other fields by about 20 years....

Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

Kristen Turner talking about trauma-informed pedagogy and how we really, really need it.

Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

Horace Maxile asks whether we can expect the classroom to be what we want it to be, a safe place for learning. Can we trust our spaces?

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

Kristen Turner talking about trauma-informed pedagogy and how we really, really need it.

Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

Horace Maxile asks whether we can expect the classroom to be what we want it to be, a safe place for learning. Can we trust our spaces?

Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

Kendall Winter on fire with great teaching practices and ideas

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

Horace Maxile asks whether we can expect the classroom to be what we want it to be, a safe place for learning. Can we trust our spaces?

Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

Kendall Winter on fire with great teaching practices and ideas

Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

Now follows open panelist discussion, which I will not be able to keep up with.

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

Kendall Winter on fire with great teaching practices and ideas

Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

Now follows open panelist discussion, which I will not be able to keep up with.

Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

(I always tell my students to follow Natalie Goldberg's guideline to "go for the jugular," write about/address what is scary, what is hard, what demands serious thought.)

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

Now follows open panelist discussion, which I will not be able to keep up with.

Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

(I always tell my students to follow Natalie Goldberg's guideline to "go for the jugular," write about/address what is scary, what is hard, what demands serious thought.)

Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

KW: "help students see difficulty as a signpost, not a stop sign."

Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

(I always tell my students to follow Natalie Goldberg's guideline to "go for the jugular," write about/address what is scary, what is hard, what demands serious thought.)

Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

KW: "help students see difficulty as a signpost, not a stop sign."

Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1d

KW: acknowledge that lived experiences from fac, staff, & students, can help or harm conversations and fac needs to be able to understand that their lives can be radically different from those of their students'.