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Pete V

@pvermy.bsky.social

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Analyst/Educator/EdD Student trying his best to work through the noise of several leaf blowers Posting education, #highered admin, unhinged data takes, and the joy of being a dad. Coastal Connecticut. #IRWaterCooler #academicsky #edusky

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Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Sep 16

#SQL IS USUALLY FORMATTED IN CAPITAL LETTERS BECAUSE DATABASES ARE HARD OF HEARING

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Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · 1d

Ships in the foreground. Stars overhead. Navigation. The relationship between time, speed, and distance. Plotting a fix by starlight. Spherical Trigonometry.

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Association for Learning Development in Higher Education @aldinhe.bsky.social · 10d

Do you have any handy resources to share with the #LearnHigher community around gamification or AI? There's loads of eager practitioners out there. If you have some great, reusable resources, share them with us! #LTHEChat #LoveLD #HE https://aldinhe.ac.uk/learnhigher

A person's hand holding a mobile phone which shows a screen page called Gamification. There's also a plant, laptop & coffee.

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Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · 26d

Lok GIF

ALT: Lok GIF

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Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Aug 31

That moment when you’re 44 and you remember the point of all that unhealthy striving in your 20s and 30s was so that at some future moment you could reorient your life around partying again.

The time is nigh folks.

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Alexis (Taylor’s version) @lexistwit.bsky.social · Aug 10

Take
me down
to the
parabolic city
where the
section is
conic and
y is ax²+bx+c

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Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Jul 30

My best advice for you is to just get the money and move to another country.

Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Jul 27

I miss Arizona asia plum green tea so much.

Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Jul 18

Same

Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Jul 17

I will not apologize for using minced garlic from a jar.

Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Jul 17

This reminded me of “the good part”

songparts.biz is apparently an actual url and, while not updated, it refreshingly isn’t spam wrapped in ads

Song Parts Dot Biz

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Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Jul 13

This looks like an album cover

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OER Commons @oercommons.bsky.social · Jul 10

New #OER Network Hub! The National Geographic Society has launched a hub on OERCommons.org with resources developed in partnership with National Geographic Explorers. Check out the collections and featured resources here oercommons.org/hubs/nationa...

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Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Jul 9

It’s compostable (except for all the tape)

Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Jul 9

Also go berry picking

Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Jul 9

Don’t sleep on Halibut and/or Sablefish

Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Jul 8

Bluesky labeling its own posts with “potential brand account” is so pure

Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Jul 8

This is a picture of my Mom protecting me from public transit in 1996:

Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Jun 28

Corgis are like The Force; there is a light side, a dark side, and together they bind the universe together.

Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Jun 28

Lanolin gives Corky St. Clair energy

a man is dancing in a living room with the words make gifs at gifsoup.com on the bottom right

ALT: a man is dancing in a living room with the words make gifs at gifsoup.com on the bottom right

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Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Jun 28

I’m no longer an embryo, so I’m sad to have missed my opportunity to have a mesh array implanted in my brain. Yet I see a bright future for my progeny who will undoubtedly benefit from this technology which I assume will be used in measured and appropriate ways for the betterment of humanity.

Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Jun 27

This is WILD! 😲 Brain implantation of soft bioelectronics via embryonic development www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brain implantation of soft bioelectronics via embryonic development - Nature

A soft mesh microelectrode array can seamlessly integrate in developing brains, enabling long-term, stable mapping of how single-neuron activity and population dynamics emerge and evolve during brain ...

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Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Jun 26

Depends on how navigate-y you want to get, but this is my recommendation

Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Jun 24

What if instead of:

Study x 4 years
Work x 40 years
Rest x 12 years (if you’re lucky)

We did 4 sets of:

Study x 1 years
Work x 10 years
Rest x 3 years

Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Jun 24

I would play the shit out of this video game

Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Jun 23

New prototype for a next-gen Tang Tang?…

“We’ve got it in Dubai”

Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · Jun 22

What if we take it and turn it. Let's make signing into things fun again. Every time you sign in we give you another star. You're on your way to being a 4-star salami captain.

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