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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · May 8

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Sarah Fama @alreadyfamas.bsky.social · Apr 25

Happy Friday to those who celebrate

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Kári Tulinius @kattullus.bsky.social · Mar 26

Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer

Screenshot of a single question and answer from interview in the Times Literary Supplement with Ursula K. Le Guin. Here is the quote:

If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be?

In The Dispossessed, I would mention the communal pickle barrels at street corners in the big towns, restocked by whoever in the community has made or kept more pickles than they need. I knew about the free pickles all along, but never could fit them into the book.

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The Onion @theonion.com · Mar 26

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

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Sarah Fama @alreadyfamas.bsky.social · Mar 26

Generative AI is Colin Robinson

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The Onion @theonion.com · Mar 25

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Mar 24

SawStart xkcd.com/3067

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Sarah Fama @alreadyfamas.bsky.social · Mar 24

I hope that did not come off as sarcastic! I am very excited about more Game Changer!

a man wearing a name tag that says brennan on it

ALT: a man wearing a name tag that says brennan on it

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Sarah Fama @alreadyfamas.bsky.social · Mar 24

a man with a microphone on his neck is standing in front of a red sign that says reaction .

Alt: a man (Brennan Lee Mulligan) at a Game Changer game show podium says “reaction!”

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Mar 23

Via mail carrier Bob Frantz

Cartoon depicts a postal worker holding an envelope. Text reads “the post office is a service not a business (just like the police and fire departments!) When they say it needs to turn a profit…Tell them to go fuck themselves”

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Sarah Fama @alreadyfamas.bsky.social · Mar 23

My husband was looking for a new book to read, and it turns out he had never read ANY Austen. Not even in high school! Wild. He’s starting this morning with Pride and Prejudice.

Sarah Fama @alreadyfamas.bsky.social · Mar 23

There’s a timeline in which women get the right to bodily autonomy AND witchy forest huts that walk around on giant chicken legs. I want that one. This one is bad.

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · Mar 22

today is the day

Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · Mar 21

GOOD NEWS, everyone: tomorrow we're going to get a few seconds of perfect day, assuming this bold prediction from 2019 can be believed!!

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Dinosaur Comics!

looking forward to it, everyone arrange your lives such that they all tend towards maximum perfection on this date and I will see you there!!

qwantz.com

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Sarah Fama @alreadyfamas.bsky.social · Mar 22

I would like to put in a support request with my own subconscious: could I please get more dreams where I work at @dropout.tv (but for some reason I still teach college English?), and fewer dreams in which I am trying to prep for an impending nuclear strike? Thanks, good talk

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ML Brennan @brennanml.bsky.social · Mar 21

Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.

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The Onion @theonion.com · Mar 21

Literary Study Finds All Modern Narratives Derived From Classic ‘Alien Vs. Predator’ Conflict
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Sarah Fama @alreadyfamas.bsky.social · Mar 20

I can only hope that this is the most depressing thing I read all day

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Mar 20

A child died of measles. Then her parents appeared in an anti-vax video conducted by staffers from the group once led by RFK Jr.

A child died of measles. Then her parents appeared in an anti-vax video.

Staffers from the group that RFK Jr. led conducted the interview—and a fundraiser for unproven treatments.

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Sarah Fama @alreadyfamas.bsky.social · Mar 20

Any sufficiently advanced technology becomes indistinguishable from magic.
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy becomes indistinguishable from hell.

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Sarah Fama @alreadyfamas.bsky.social · Mar 20

I find it unlikely that faculty tenure software exists which in ten years could save the amount of man-hours that will be spent in a) the Academic Senate receiving & debating this proposal, b) the task force itself, and c) various & sundry department meetings arguing about it. 2/2

Sarah Fama @alreadyfamas.bsky.social · Mar 20

Apparently a VP of Instruction within my community college district has proposed — “to enhance efficiency” — that the Academic Senate create a “short term district-wide task group/committee” to evaluate faculty tenure process software. 1/2

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Sarah Fama @alreadyfamas.bsky.social · Mar 19

What a fun time to be teaching information literacy

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · Mar 17

"The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human. It is happening to me, personally."

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Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing (Gift Article)

The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.

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Sarah Fama @alreadyfamas.bsky.social · Mar 18

Am I weird for updating my emergency kit every year, or just a dedicated Californian? And at what point does “prepared” tick over to “prepper”?

Sarah Fama @alreadyfamas.bsky.social · Mar 17

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, and may St. Patrick turn the hearts of your enemies. And if he does not turn their hearts, may he give them severe testicular torsion, so you will know them by their pained expressions. ☘️

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · Mar 15

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money.

He was not dead.

I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle

“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.

www.seattletimes.com

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