Salvia Plath
@manicophelia.bsky.social
Community college librarian, leftist. Virginia. They/she
"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
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If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a "problem essay" comes down the pike. It's one small way of protecting each other.
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a "problem essay" comes down the pike. It's one small way of protecting each other.
saving wiener pics in my
December 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
saving wiener pics in my
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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I keep thinking about this essay. I have been teaching freshmen writing for six years now, so I’ve seen a lot of crappy essays. This one easily fits “if you can’t cite your evidence properly you don’t have an argument,” &, depending on the prompt, probably also fits the “doesn’t respond to prompt.”
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I keep thinking about this essay. I have been teaching freshmen writing for six years now, so I’ve seen a lot of crappy essays. This one easily fits “if you can’t cite your evidence properly you don’t have an argument,” &, depending on the prompt, probably also fits the “doesn’t respond to prompt.”
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I've had 8 kids (ages 2-11) staying at my house this week. And even with 7 other grownups to help, I can count on one hand the number of news articles I've had time to read in full.
Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
November 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I've had 8 kids (ages 2-11) staying at my house this week. And even with 7 other grownups to help, I can count on one hand the number of news articles I've had time to read in full.
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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
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In the military the onus is on the person disobeying the order to demonstrate that it was unlawful. This will usually be adjudicated at their non-judicial punishment or court martial. The GI Rights Hotline can help: 1-877-447-4487
November 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
In the military the onus is on the person disobeying the order to demonstrate that it was unlawful. This will usually be adjudicated at their non-judicial punishment or court martial. The GI Rights Hotline can help: 1-877-447-4487
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last year i had to fight a disease that required 4 holes to be drilled in my bones, 4 rounds of chemo, and 3 different hospitalizations
and the part that hurt the most was fighting to keep my job!
and the part that hurt the most was fighting to keep my job!
Workers should be able to receive treatment for cancer or a chronic illness without the threat of losing their health insurance or their job. That's one reason @columbuslibrary.bsky.social workers are coming together to form their union!
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
last year i had to fight a disease that required 4 holes to be drilled in my bones, 4 rounds of chemo, and 3 different hospitalizations
and the part that hurt the most was fighting to keep my job!
and the part that hurt the most was fighting to keep my job!
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I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
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Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Libraries, Archives, and Collective Grief
"This volume explores the ways in which grief permeates collections, objects and stories within library settings. Topics range from ecological grief and archival silences to digitization, marginalia and memorialization."
www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...
"This volume explores the ways in which grief permeates collections, objects and stories within library settings. Topics range from ecological grief and archival silences to digitization, marginalia and memorialization."
www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Libraries, Archives, and Collective Grief
"This volume explores the ways in which grief permeates collections, objects and stories within library settings. Topics range from ecological grief and archival silences to digitization, marginalia and memorialization."
www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...
"This volume explores the ways in which grief permeates collections, objects and stories within library settings. Topics range from ecological grief and archival silences to digitization, marginalia and memorialization."
www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...
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Quick cartoon. I was hoping to stay unplugged this week but I saw some news and had to take a break to draw this out. I think we all needed to see it realized.
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Quick cartoon. I was hoping to stay unplugged this week but I saw some news and had to take a break to draw this out. I think we all needed to see it realized.
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In recent weeks, at least 23 infants in the U.S. have been infected with botulism in an outbreak linked to ByHeart powdered infant formula
Experts Explain How Botulism Toxin Can End Up in Baby Formula
In recent weeks, at least 23 infants in the U.S. have been infected with botulism in an outbreak linked to ByHeart powdered infant formula
www.scientificamerican.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
In recent weeks, at least 23 infants in the U.S. have been infected with botulism in an outbreak linked to ByHeart powdered infant formula
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Here is what Project 2025 proposed for where components of the Department of Education should go. The Trump administration has followed this document pretty closely so far.
November 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Here is what Project 2025 proposed for where components of the Department of Education should go. The Trump administration has followed this document pretty closely so far.
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Time to post the Tony Hoagland November poem again
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Time to post the Tony Hoagland November poem again
I can't make myself read more than Michael's excerpts, but it's wild to imagine RFK's voice saying these wannabe YA romantasy lines.
"I would take a bullet for you." -Edward Cullen gasping through a throat full of glass
"I would take a bullet for you." -Edward Cullen gasping through a throat full of glass
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I can't make myself read more than Michael's excerpts, but it's wild to imagine RFK's voice saying these wannabe YA romantasy lines.
"I would take a bullet for you." -Edward Cullen gasping through a throat full of glass
"I would take a bullet for you." -Edward Cullen gasping through a throat full of glass
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please be for real right now.
November 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
please be for real right now.
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The only point that Woody Johnson ever has is "Don't you know who I am? I'm rich because my dad made a bunch of money and left it to me, and I will not be questioned by the likes of the troglodytes we use as our proles for hire." defector.com/woody-johnso...
Woody Johnson Is Sick Of Everyone Knowing What A Lousy Workplace He Oversees | Defector
“The New York Jets” is hardly the phrase you begin a story with if you want to inspire a reader to embrace the day with any sense of purpose, let alone joy, so you might be fooled into considering…
defector.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The only point that Woody Johnson ever has is "Don't you know who I am? I'm rich because my dad made a bunch of money and left it to me, and I will not be questioned by the likes of the troglodytes we use as our proles for hire." defector.com/woody-johnso...
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Nothing radicalized me like hearing a high level UC academic personnel administrator say repeatedly “academic freedom isn’t a good fit” for UC librarians, and their arguments revealed they had no idea what librarians do or why academic freedom is needed outside a classroom.
November 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Nothing radicalized me like hearing a high level UC academic personnel administrator say repeatedly “academic freedom isn’t a good fit” for UC librarians, and their arguments revealed they had no idea what librarians do or why academic freedom is needed outside a classroom.
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Is the University the work we engage in learning and research or of it the management of assets and debt?
With many universities, those who hold power are so removed from the actual work of research and learning, and so their decisions tend to protect capital.
With many universities, those who hold power are so removed from the actual work of research and learning, and so their decisions tend to protect capital.
One of the most important lessons you have to learn about what a university "is" is a very vulgar marxist distinction between its *managers* (directly or indirectly appointed by capital and/or state government) and its *labor,* who come to the university out of love and idealism.
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Is the University the work we engage in learning and research or of it the management of assets and debt?
With many universities, those who hold power are so removed from the actual work of research and learning, and so their decisions tend to protect capital.
With many universities, those who hold power are so removed from the actual work of research and learning, and so their decisions tend to protect capital.
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Look here, says History PhD Kevin Roberts who leads the Heritage Foundation, if we start telling kids that James Madison owned slaves then the next thing you know they’ll start criticizing Nick Fuentes for being pro-Hitler and then the youths will be totally lost to the totalitarian world of woke.
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Look here, says History PhD Kevin Roberts who leads the Heritage Foundation, if we start telling kids that James Madison owned slaves then the next thing you know they’ll start criticizing Nick Fuentes for being pro-Hitler and then the youths will be totally lost to the totalitarian world of woke.
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Can anyone confirm Heritage’s strange claim that Montpelier has no exhibits on James Madison? And also, the Constitution protected the institution of slavery in several ways, an institution that made Madison’s entire economic existence possible. Madison owned ~100 people and freed none of them.
November 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Can anyone confirm Heritage’s strange claim that Montpelier has no exhibits on James Madison? And also, the Constitution protected the institution of slavery in several ways, an institution that made Madison’s entire economic existence possible. Madison owned ~100 people and freed none of them.