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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 13d

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

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anarchycox.bsky.social @anarchycox.bsky.social · Sep 16

I teach this movie this semester in Intro to Pop Culture.

Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · Sep 15

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

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anarchycox.bsky.social @anarchycox.bsky.social · Aug 17

Yes please.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · Aug 17

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

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anarchycox.bsky.social @anarchycox.bsky.social · Aug 10

In truly knowing your audience our DM had a puzzle room for us today. For the group of college faculty, college librarian, and museum education director, he made a puzzle where we had to sort books into their proper locations. To say we were all in, is an understatement.

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anarchycox.bsky.social @anarchycox.bsky.social · Jul 31

And that is every single regular colour of dmc floss prepped and hung in my craft closet. #dmcfloss #needlework #embroidery

A needlework display area with fabric, needles, and every colour of dmc hung on floss drops.

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · Jul 31

Evaluation is important and we have good ways of evaluating instructors (observations, audits, mentoring). But the evidence is clear that asking students to Yelp review their instructors the week before exams yields no valuable information on teaching or learning--just customer satisfaction.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · Jul 30

Paperback books are like velveteen rabbits — ours to be loved and squeezed and read and stuffed into shoulder bags and left in the sun and read and read again until there's nothing left but memories from something real

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anarchycox.bsky.social @anarchycox.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thousands of french knots later, the piece is done. #embroidery #dungeonmeshi #deliciousindungeon

An embroidery of a Marcille panel from delicious in dungeon. She is in black stitch outline surrounded by a couple hundred flowers and a couple thousand french knots.

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anarchycox.bsky.social @anarchycox.bsky.social · Jul 17

He's just a little guy. #crossstitch
#Pokemon #pikachu

A small cross stitch shaped like a postage stamp of the shocked pikachu meme.

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anarchycox.bsky.social @anarchycox.bsky.social · Jul 14

The 11 year old got his first master grade kit.

Tween boy in mha merch receiving his first master grade gunpla kit.

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anarchycox.bsky.social @anarchycox.bsky.social · Jul 12

Next pay insta buy!

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Robin Mar-Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️ @electricland.bsky.social · Jul 6

Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD.

Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Jul 6

Kill the fascist within you.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · Jul 3

I think this is the lesson. Take what you need from the material. Just don't give them money. THEY WILL BE FINE. THEY HAVE SO MUCH MONEY. In one case, enough money to do villain selfies on a yacht, drinking and smoking a cigar, telling the poors to suck it.

Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · Jul 3

in the past (before their many harmful actions fully came to light) if you found comfort in work of NG or JKR, I don't judge that. Now, if you watch their shows, buy their work, buy merch, put a single additional dollar in their pocket or add to their power or influence in any way, that I do judge.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Jul 2

romance heroines love to see their love interest for the first time and be like "never before had I seen such a cruel, uncaring countenance" girl you are going to be gasping for it in 250 pages. as soon as he processes his trauma from the Crimean War its over for you

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Endless Mike @squirrelsquirrel.bsky.social · Jun 27

"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it"

My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · Jun 18

Today's complaint about the AI in education discourse: Too much of it is framed around a future that is going to happen to us, as opposed to seeing the future as something we may have some agency to shape. I reject the deterministic view of AI, particularly genAI. It's a tool, not our master.

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Signing Mass Effect @ Essen! @ithayla.bsky.social · May 19

not everyone is lucky enough to have a single image that sums up their entire approach to ethics but I'm glad bill watterson gave me one

camerontalley.bsky.social @camerontalley.bsky.social · May 18

I think about this comic all the time.

A panel from a Calvin and Hobbes comic. Calvin's mom, eating dinner, says "Life could be worse, Calvin." Calvin, clearly upset, his mouth huge says "Life could be a lot BETTER too!"

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anarchycox.bsky.social @anarchycox.bsky.social · Jun 15

When you are headed to the anime symphony...four blocks from game 5 of the Stanley Cup

Mom and son in anime clothes going to the symphony playing anime music.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · Jun 14

University is not a business, education is not a product.

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anarchycox.bsky.social @anarchycox.bsky.social · May 27

My 45 year old husband had a stroke on Sunday. Our only expense is parking. I will happily pay taxes.

lacey, infested with bears @byelacey.bsky.social · May 27

the average canadian can also go to the hospital without starting a gofundme campaign

The typical Canadian pays 70 percent more income tax than the typical American

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Cam Regier @camregier.bsky.social · May 24

This is so well done.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · May 25

hey a small request:

don't use fucking LLMs or generative "A.i." for anything. they destroy your brain. they're wide open to manipulation by right wing billionaires. they're full of lies. they're based on theft.

just say no.

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Mike Laidlaw @mikelaidlaw.bsky.social · May 23

…I do not expect something like Canada Post to “turn a profit.” I don’t expect my road repairs to make back the money spent on them. I don’t need my healthcare to be “in the green.” I want responsible spending and a vast social safety net that allows for a dignified life for all Canadians.

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