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Le Caghoul
@lecagle.bsky.social
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Feminist. Rhetoric: science, environment, tech comm, disability. really worried about climate change. she/her. Praxis or GTFO. Yes, it's Cagle. No, please don't call me Lauren. send dog pics (alt text a must) nothing here reps my employer
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Le Caghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · Oct 13
The mountains are underwater and fascism is on the rise, so I recommend going ahead and getting that divorce you've been thinking about.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 1h
When writing alt text for an image of text, it's not enough to just write "screen shot of text from article." Sighted users get to know what is in that screen shot, so why don't blind users deserve the same? The alt text should include all the actual text in the image.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1h
If you haven't already: Start weight training.

You don't have to gym rat out, or even buy equipment. Just put together some body weight exercises and do them regularly.
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essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 7d
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 2h
I 100% get why Link did the mutual aid Fridays.

Like, every time someone replies by telling me the need is met is one less person struggling in the world.
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2h
cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
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Deb @debramayberry.bsky.social · 2h
So I was looking at inflatable squirrel costumes, and look at what the upsell was.
Frequently bought together is the text; picture shows inflatable squirrel + inflatable frog costumes side by side. Tempted.
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 2h
caaaaaaan I interest you in Denmark’s groundbreaking national agriculture, nature, and climate policy, agreed to in 2024, with a Ministry of Green Transition established to implement it?
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Le Caghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 7h
Spotted a @yrfatfriend.bsky.social quote in a presentation about healthcare pedagogy 🙏🏻👏🏻🎉
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 7h
gotta love every single major news outlet, including former employers of mine, declining to say i reported the solar project cancelation first
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Le Caghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 13h
WE LIVE TO SEE IT 😍😍😍
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Wayne Bugg @waynebugg.bsky.social · 18d
Happy birthday! Got mine today Covid on the left and flu on the right.
A Walgreens bandage on my left arm shows where I got the COVID vaccine. A Walgreens bandage on my right arm shows where I got a flu vaccine.
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Le Caghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 13h
HELL yeah we love to see it
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h
this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 17h
“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”
Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money
Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.
www.liberalcurrents.com
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 13h
I try not to be needlessly confrontational or cruel, but if someone tells me they're outsourcing the work of grading student writing to AI, I tell them they should either stop or quit their job because they shouldn't be doing it. It's malpractice and not good for their own long term happiness either
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 13h
Not only will AI grading be the end of teaching because of the labor dynamics Marc covers, but it kicks off a process of what I call "self-alienation" where the teachers gradually remove themselves from the essential human experiences of their own work.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 13h
I've been traveling doing many talks to schools and universities about the teaching writing at this time and I have a few hard lines I draw, AI grading is the biggest one. We just cannot give ourselves over to this. It will be a disaster. It will be the end of teaching.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 13h
Educators should look at AI grading of student writing in the same way collective society looked at the potential for human cloning after the arrival of Dolly the sheep, something that is an affront to our humanity and must be rejected completely. There is no rationale to support this.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 13h
I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The Dangers of using AI to Grade
Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains
substack.com
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13h
When clean energy supply goes down because of the Administration's policies and electricity demand goes up because of AI, it's an electricity crisis in the making. Listen to Chris and I talk about it: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Electricity Crisis with Costa Samaras
Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · 09/23/2025 · 56m
podcasts.apple.com
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 23h
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 23h
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
heatmap.news
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14h
I swear, I feel like I’m living in some surrealist novel, am I going to wake up one day and discover I have turned into a giant insect
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🎃 a frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 14h
Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:

1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and

2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h
And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. by Raymond Carver
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Le Caghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 14h
It blows my mind that not everybody is like this!!!
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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 15h
It only took like 2 unsuccessful attempts at tweaking an image generation prompt for me to say "Fuck it, I'll just learn digital painting."
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Le Caghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 14h
I'm not saying it's a good thing that I'm bad at delegation, but it is extremely relevant here
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Le Caghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 14h
Exactly!!!
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17h
This is like writing about someone hoping to get a Best Actor Oscar despite not appearing in any films
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D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 1d
One of the more bizarre stories I've ever read in the NYT. I don't remotely understand what its thesis is.

And it has a world-historic "to be sure..." graf in the 26th paragraph.
NYT headline Trump Has His Eyes on a Nobel Peace Prize. Will He Get It? President Trump has coveted the prize for years. The winner will be unveiled 48 hours after President Trump announced a breakthrough in the Israel-Hamas war. Ms. Graeger also noted that some of Mr. Trump's foreign policy aims run counter to the prize's criteria - such as peaceful disarmament and international cooperation - given the U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear program, its withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and its cuts to international humanitarian aid programs like U.S.A.I.D. She added that Mr. Trump's domestic policy agenda points to an "infringement of the basic democratic rights."
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Le Caghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 15h
"tasks multiply, each becoming a fractal blossom of subtasks" is the single most accurate description of my mental experience of work I have ever read 🙏🏻
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · May 26
Tasks multiply, each becoming a fractal blossom of subtasks that must be checked for being utter fucking nonsense and then corrected if so.

And it's all random, all black box: impossible to develop a coping strategy and heuristic to deal with. Any given subtask might turn into its own clusterfuck
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