Stentor Danielson
@chefstentor.bsky.social
Cartographer, podcaster, academic studying wildfire, Q method, and fantasy maps. Settler in Jaödeogë’ (Pittsburgh). They/them.
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It's weird seeing this presented as some revolutionary new idea, because I've always used separate blankets when sharing a bed (maybe I have some secret Swedish genetic knowledge?) theconversation.com/will-the-sca...
Will the ‘Scandinavian sleep method’ really help me sleep?
The ‘Scandinavian sleep method’ is having a moment on social media. But what is it? And will it stop you fighting over the doona?
theconversation.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
It's weird seeing this presented as some revolutionary new idea, because I've always used separate blankets when sharing a bed (maybe I have some secret Swedish genetic knowledge?) theconversation.com/will-the-sca...
I have taken
The testosterone
Which was in
The advertisement
And which
You were probably
Saving
For convenient at-home treatment
Forgive me
It was so manly
So virile
And so gender-affirming
The testosterone
Which was in
The advertisement
And which
You were probably
Saving
For convenient at-home treatment
Forgive me
It was so manly
So virile
And so gender-affirming
December 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I have taken
The testosterone
Which was in
The advertisement
And which
You were probably
Saving
For convenient at-home treatment
Forgive me
It was so manly
So virile
And so gender-affirming
The testosterone
Which was in
The advertisement
And which
You were probably
Saving
For convenient at-home treatment
Forgive me
It was so manly
So virile
And so gender-affirming
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"you're a man"
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
December 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"you're a man"
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
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Stay safe out there y'all
December 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Stay safe out there y'all
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Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.
Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
December 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.
Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
This is horrifying, but also "disabled people shouldn't get married" is the explicit policy of the US government. I know people who literally cannot get married because they would lose the meager benefits that keep them alive.
Here's Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”
December 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is horrifying, but also "disabled people shouldn't get married" is the explicit policy of the US government. I know people who literally cannot get married because they would lose the meager benefits that keep them alive.
AI is not our peer, so AI review is not peer review. If for some godforsaken reason the editor of a journal wanted to know what AI would say about a paper, they could do it themself.
Just decline the peer review invitation.
What are you people even doing?
What are you people even doing?
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
www.nature.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
AI is not our peer, so AI review is not peer review. If for some godforsaken reason the editor of a journal wanted to know what AI would say about a paper, they could do it themself.
One of my students wrote a 2000-word paper about how National Parks have affected Indigenous people, but through the whole thing the word "indigenous" was autocorrected (I assume) to "ingenious."
December 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
One of my students wrote a 2000-word paper about how National Parks have affected Indigenous people, but through the whole thing the word "indigenous" was autocorrected (I assume) to "ingenious."
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"tyrannosaurus rex" is kinda one of the craziest called shots of all time if you think about it some dude in 1905 was like 'this was definitely the most badass dinosaur so I will name it as such' and 120 years of research and new discoveries keeps proving him right.
December 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"tyrannosaurus rex" is kinda one of the craziest called shots of all time if you think about it some dude in 1905 was like 'this was definitely the most badass dinosaur so I will name it as such' and 120 years of research and new discoveries keeps proving him right.
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I am 100% opposed to these laws because in all cases they are used to pressure disabled people to die. Because that's cheaper than providing the supports they need to live. It happens in Canada with MAID, it happens in Oregon, it will happen in Illinois.
Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...
Gov. JB Pritzker signs 'right-to-die' legislation for terminally ill people to end their lives in Illinois
The new law, which takes effect next September, opens the door for people 18 or older with a terminal diagnosis to be prescribed a fatal drug.
www.nprillinois.org
December 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I am 100% opposed to these laws because in all cases they are used to pressure disabled people to die. Because that's cheaper than providing the supports they need to live. It happens in Canada with MAID, it happens in Oregon, it will happen in Illinois.
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yeah I'm involved in unethical non monogamy. no no, nobody's cheating on anyone else; me and my polycucle just operate a whaling ship.
December 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
yeah I'm involved in unethical non monogamy. no no, nobody's cheating on anyone else; me and my polycucle just operate a whaling ship.
Just fell down because I tried to put both legs into the same side of my pants, if you're wondering how much brain I have left after this semester.
December 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Just fell down because I tried to put both legs into the same side of my pants, if you're wondering how much brain I have left after this semester.
2023: Experts Divided On Whether Biden Has Authority To Tie Own Shoes
2025: Trump Tweeted That He Has Sold Half Of America's Children To Garzog The Devourer, Here's How To Prepare
2025: Trump Tweeted That He Has Sold Half Of America's Children To Garzog The Devourer, Here's How To Prepare
Feel like I'm going completely insane. Why is everyone treating this like it's a real thing he can do??? The president can't unilaterally write or prohibit state laws!
Trump signs executive order blocking states from enforcing their own regulations around AI | CNN Business
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that blocks states from enforcing their own regulations around artificial intelligence and instead aims to create a “single national framew...
www.cnn.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
2023: Experts Divided On Whether Biden Has Authority To Tie Own Shoes
2025: Trump Tweeted That He Has Sold Half Of America's Children To Garzog The Devourer, Here's How To Prepare
2025: Trump Tweeted That He Has Sold Half Of America's Children To Garzog The Devourer, Here's How To Prepare
Just demonstrating how little they know about the universities they hate so much -- for starters, at most of the public schools in my state the standard teaching load is already 4-4 for both STEM and non-STEM alike.
This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.
Proposed Model Bill Would Change College Tenure, Teaching, & Research
Three conservative groups have proposed model legislation that would dramatically change faculty tenure paths, teaching loads, research activities and hiring authority
www.forbes.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Just demonstrating how little they know about the universities they hate so much -- for starters, at most of the public schools in my state the standard teaching load is already 4-4 for both STEM and non-STEM alike.
It's Rhyming Commercials Season!
December 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
It's Rhyming Commercials Season!
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I’m still owed the settlement money for the book of mine Open AI plagiarized — the book I wrote while raising two babies
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I’m still owed the settlement money for the book of mine Open AI plagiarized — the book I wrote while raising two babies
Do any #academicsky friends have experience with Yuja Panorama? My school is integrating it into our LMS starting this winter, and I am simultaneously very supportive of its purpose (checking course materials for accessibility) and very skeptical of ed tech in general. Any tips/warnings/etc?
December 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Do any #academicsky friends have experience with Yuja Panorama? My school is integrating it into our LMS starting this winter, and I am simultaneously very supportive of its purpose (checking course materials for accessibility) and very skeptical of ed tech in general. Any tips/warnings/etc?
A good step, but it's absurd that they are resisting having ASL interpreters for all public events. Just another example of the MAGA belief that anyone different is lesser and undeserving. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5-C...
Trump White House establishes new channel with ASL interpreters
YouTube video by The Daily Moth
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A good step, but it's absurd that they are resisting having ASL interpreters for all public events. Just another example of the MAGA belief that anyone different is lesser and undeserving. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5-C...
Nobody has seen fit to make any gifs from Cane Toads: An Unnatural History, but they did show a version of this animated map of cane toad spread.
December 8, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Nobody has seen fit to make any gifs from Cane Toads: An Unnatural History, but they did show a version of this animated map of cane toad spread.
Re-upping my public pledge not to vote for this racist piece of shit under any circumstances. If it's Newsom vs Trump in 2028, I'm voting third party. Dems, you have *three whole years* to find a non-fascist candidate, I'm sure in a nation of 300 million people you can find one.
Culturally normal is a dog whistle.
Gavin Newsom Urges Democrats to Be ‘More Culturally Normal’
YouTube video by The New York Times
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Re-upping my public pledge not to vote for this racist piece of shit under any circumstances. If it's Newsom vs Trump in 2028, I'm voting third party. Dems, you have *three whole years* to find a non-fascist candidate, I'm sure in a nation of 300 million people you can find one.
1. Stop letting this administration pretend that they just care about undocumented immigrants when they've made their racism obvious.
2. Stop acting like this administration's gestapo tactics would be somehow justified if they really were only targeting undocumented people.
2. Stop acting like this administration's gestapo tactics would be somehow justified if they really were only targeting undocumented people.
BASH: The vast majority of Somalis in Minnesota are US citizens or legal residents. So why send ICE there?
HOMAN: There's a large illegal Somali community there. There's a large illegal alien community there. If you're a US citizen, you have nothing to fear.
HOMAN: There's a large illegal Somali community there. There's a large illegal alien community there. If you're a US citizen, you have nothing to fear.
December 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
1. Stop letting this administration pretend that they just care about undocumented immigrants when they've made their racism obvious.
2. Stop acting like this administration's gestapo tactics would be somehow justified if they really were only targeting undocumented people.
2. Stop acting like this administration's gestapo tactics would be somehow justified if they really were only targeting undocumented people.
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
Thoroughly endorse Chuck's recommendation to make your stuffing meatless if you're having any vegans or vegetarians at your holiday meals. You shouldn't be cooking it inside the bird anyway, and it tastes just as good made with veggie stock.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Thoroughly endorse Chuck's recommendation to make your stuffing meatless if you're having any vegans or vegetarians at your holiday meals. You shouldn't be cooking it inside the bird anyway, and it tastes just as good made with veggie stock.
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Academic freedom is applicable to anyone with a teaching role. You can’t ask graduate students to teach, advise students, and evaluate student work with granting them academic freedom. The recent debacle at OU and a previous one in the School of Social Work at UT Austin illustrate this.
Pitt’s graduate student union sees bargaining for academic freedom as a “no-brainer.” The university sees it differently: “Graduate students are not faculty members and therefore academic freedom is not applicable.”
Why academic freedom is a heated topic in Pitt grad union negotiations
As the University of Pittsburgh embarks on union negotiations with graduate students, bargaining over the concept of academic freedom has been contentious.
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Academic freedom is applicable to anyone with a teaching role. You can’t ask graduate students to teach, advise students, and evaluate student work with granting them academic freedom. The recent debacle at OU and a previous one in the School of Social Work at UT Austin illustrate this.
Some truly puke-worthy ableism from the fine folks over at Reason. Having a learning disability or mental health condition does not have anything to do with whether you're "smart" or "promising" or whether you deserve to attend an elite university.
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Some truly puke-worthy ableism from the fine folks over at Reason. Having a learning disability or mental health condition does not have anything to do with whether you're "smart" or "promising" or whether you deserve to attend an elite university.