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Wes Flinn (but spooky)

@wesflinn.bsky.social

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Composer. Music theorist. Lowbrassman. Director of the School of Music at Louisiana Tech. In an alternate universe, the second-most popular optometrist in Bedford, Indiana. Son of Pinhook, citizen of the world. Views my own.

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 13m

Sir, it’s how Rocky Rockefeller brought down Bob Moses.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 6d

i have very little patience for people negatively polarizing against somebody good because you found somebody you like even better. we have multiple strong candidates in the Maine primary. whoever wins will be a good nominee.

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 14h

You are doing no such thing.

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 14h

Of course, the greatest commercial actor in human history…

Hey Vern! It’s Jim Varney, knowwhutImean?

Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 14h

Mister, we could use a man like Gene Rayburn again.

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 16h

You have your 40, I have mine.

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 19h

It was on the other night. Couldn’t turn away. So ridiculously fresh and relevant.

“You’ll have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company!”

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 19h

I will be spending some time with Slonimsky’s Thesaurus these next few weeks.

Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 23h

Says the guy who is loaded to the gunwales with ketamine.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑 @theresamuir.bsky.social · 1d

Better Italians than Columbus Day

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 1d

It looks like a bunch of the stuff I’ve seen. There’s a style to the art that makes me think so.

*sigh* I hate that this is where we are now.

Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 1d

The cartoon looks like it’s AI-slop.

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 1d

However accurate this may be, I hate the use of AI to create it.

Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 1d

Yup. You’re not going to win them over, and you’re going to alienate everyone else in the process. But when your actual audience is a wealthy owner, you don’t care.

Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 1d

Too many male Professional Revolutionaries (TM) think there aren’t enough women In The Movement, but that’s only because they want to bed them. Older women aren’t perceived as bed-able, so they don’t count.

Actually, this is true about most things.

Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 1d

I went over to the QT and the responses are full of "where are the YOUNG WOMEN THEN" and my sisters in Diane Keaton Christ, can we not fight each other over whose job it is to fix what men destroyed?

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please send memes @surrealmeme.bsky.social · 1d

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, they’ve always been a little sus, going all in on Frey, but this is clearly “the only people who haven’t caught on to the fact that we’re not that good anymore are the rubes in Payneville and Hancock and Park Rapids and Albert Lea, so we gotta appeal to them.”

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, as always, for listening.

Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 1d

It’s an ongoing struggle, but a necessary one.

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 1d

At the same time, we gotta be honest about how it works and what it can show, and maybe rethink our reward/rehabilitate structures.

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 1d

I firmly believe in the need for assessment. My fear is that these new fly-by-night political “accreditors” that are springing up because certain governors are eyeing the MAGA vote in 2028 (joke’s on them; he’s running again and we all know it) will destroy it.

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 1d

No one wants to say “you know, we had a bad year, and our program is a little worse this year.” So we massage. We look for evidence that mitigates and recenter our reports around that. That’s a rational, human thing to do when you’re told Continuous Improvement is the Way.

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 1d

The danger is always that the measurement becomes the measure. It is possible - not necessarily likely, but possible - to show that a *program* is improving without the *students* actually doing so. Think Hollywood accounting (“I can prove Titanic *lost* money!”) but for an accrediting agency.

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 1d

“Outcomes assessment exists for students, not the other way around.”

I have done a *lot* of assessment work over the years. I believe in its worth to a campus. My fear is that too many accreditors/administrators have forgotten this idea, or sacrificed it on the altar of “continuous improvement.”

Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 1d

"If a student transfers in three quarters of their degree credits from other places, whose outcomes are being assessed?" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Swirl and Assessment

Balancing residency requirements with outcomes assessment.

www.insidehighered.com

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