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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 20h

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22h

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 1d

Things that are different about working at a Catholic university: saying "it's on the second floor, over by Jesus, where the copier used to be" rather than methodically working out that the thing you're describing is against the east wall.

Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 1d

Or Zotero imported the whole .ris file not once but 2667 times for no reason.

Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 1d

I had 66 .ris files for individual article citations. Looked up online how to concatenate them into a single file. Followed the directions.

Somehow, each article got added to Zotero 2667 times.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 1d

Is it just grasshopper brownies? Dark chocolate for darkness, bright green for bioluminescent fungus?

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 1d

It's the day before book club so I'm trying to figure out what baked good reminds me of alien cave diving

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 1d

Thrice Game #834 → 13 points!
🎲: 2️⃣3️⃣2️⃣3️⃣3️⃣
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Thrice

Daily trivia game from Geeks Who Drink

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 1d

Well, the good news is, filling my kitchen with smoke from careless (but not actually dangerous) cooking is not the WORST way I could have found out that I need to replace my smoke detector batteries.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 2d

Five times the writers of the safety protocols narrowly averted a dangerous situation (and one time it went pear-shaped anyway)

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 2d

Relatedly:

medium.com/@emilymenonb...

Talking about a ‘schism’ is ahistorical

In two recent conversations with very thoughtful journalists, I was asked about the apparent ‘schism’ between those making a lot of noise…

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 2d

We move ever closer to my dream of a Brewers - Blue Jays world series

Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 2d

4-1 Jays!

a blue toronto blue jays flag is flying in the wind

Alt: a blue toronto blue jays flag is flying in the wind

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 3d

I actually really like strength training when I can make time/energy to do it, but trying to eat enough protein when I don't eat meat is... ugh.
Eggs are fine. Legumes are fine. Everything else, I can't really summon any enthusiasm for.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 4d

Know Your Enemy is often news-focused but I love their episodes on mid-century conservatism. Meal of Thorns for science fiction/fantasy book talk - I think you would like it!

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 4d

Not news focused: A History of Rock Music in 500 songs, Horror Vanguard (horror movies from a left perspective), RTFM (TTRPGs that aren't D&D). Ordinary Unhappiness (psychoanalysis and cultural critique) has occasional news-focused episodes.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 5d

It's 2025 and there are still people doing "male," "female," "transgender," and "nonbinary" as their "gender identity" survey options 🙃

Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 5d

Not a John Green megafan or anything (although I've read and liked a plurality of his books), but have been sufficiently aware of YA books, YouTube, and tuberculosis to know more about him than the average bear.
(I don't know much about the average bear, admittedly.)

Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 5d

Now that I can no longer spoil yesterday's Thrice thrice.geekswhodrink.com, allow me to register my annoyance that I did not get three points on the John Green question because I missed the announcement that he was Episcopalian. If I missed a John Green question, it's an overly obscure question.

Thrice

Daily trivia game from Geeks Who Drink

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 5d

MOOMIN MOVIE INCOMING this is not a drill!!!!

reactormag.com/rebecca-suga...

A Moomin Movie Is Coming From Steven Universe’s Rebecca Sugar - Reactor

In a just world there would be more Moomin movies than Marvel movies.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 5d

This sounds delightful, but alas, I only do soil science fantasy.
(Genuinely tempted to gain some actual soil science knowledge so I can write something to submit.)

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 7d

Climbing is hard when you're heavy.

Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 7d

Daydreaming about doing the Door County Century (or the 50-mile option! Or the 30-mile option!) next year while I can still only go 2 miles at a stretch is... well, at least it's motivational.

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 8d

“good news, we’ve created the playroom that tells kids whatever they want to hear and makes them not care about their parents from the seminal Ray Bradbury short story, Don’t Create the Playroom That Tells Kids Whatever They Want to Hear and Makes Them Not Care About Their Parents”

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 9d

Some parents are letting their kids talk to ChatGPT in the guise of characters. Some are using it to tell bedtime stories or create coloring books.

"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity

www.theguardian.com

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 9d

You love to see it (spilling a full can of coconut milk on the kitchen floor just for the thrill of it)

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