Ryan Randall
@ryanpatrickrandall.com
A better world is possible, together.
Instructional design, humanities/Cultural Studies, pedagogy, open ed (OER/OA), library work, accessibility, ADHD.
https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/
https://hcommons.social/@ryanrandall
Instructional design, humanities/Cultural Studies, pedagogy, open ed (OER/OA), library work, accessibility, ADHD.
https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/
https://hcommons.social/@ryanrandall
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Ryan Randall
@ryanpatrickrandall.com
ยท Apr 25
Gentle reminder that there's no such thing as a "TERF".
The term you were looking for is "Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobe".
The term you were looking for is "Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobe".
A strange game.
The only winning move is not to play.
(I wish I hadn't had to play this game so many times myself!)
The only winning move is not to play.
(I wish I hadn't had to play this game so many times myself!)
January 13, 2026 at 6:34 AM
A strange game.
The only winning move is not to play.
(I wish I hadn't had to play this game so many times myself!)
The only winning move is not to play.
(I wish I hadn't had to play this game so many times myself!)
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Ahab: [in Fred Schneider voice] Sing OUT for the WHALE! ๐๐
January 12, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Ahab: [in Fred Schneider voice] Sing OUT for the WHALE! ๐๐
I think you're onto something with the pipe โ humanity / perspective symbolism!
e.g. it seems telling that Melville chose to have a few chapters of conflict btw Ahab & Stubb as intro to these characters, right after emphasizing that Stubb is chill bc he maintains a rack of ready-loaded pipes. ๐ณ
e.g. it seems telling that Melville chose to have a few chapters of conflict btw Ahab & Stubb as intro to these characters, right after emphasizing that Stubb is chill bc he maintains a rack of ready-loaded pipes. ๐ณ
January 10, 2026 at 12:10 AM
I think you're onto something with the pipe โ humanity / perspective symbolism!
e.g. it seems telling that Melville chose to have a few chapters of conflict btw Ahab & Stubb as intro to these characters, right after emphasizing that Stubb is chill bc he maintains a rack of ready-loaded pipes. ๐ณ
e.g. it seems telling that Melville chose to have a few chapters of conflict btw Ahab & Stubb as intro to these characters, right after emphasizing that Stubb is chill bc he maintains a rack of ready-loaded pipes. ๐ณ
I'll see your "guerrilla gardening" and raise you one "propaganda of the seed."
January 9, 2026 at 2:50 PM
I'll see your "guerrilla gardening" and raise you one "propaganda of the seed."
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I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
December 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
Thank you, both from myself and my exam reading lists (which don't include Moby-Dick)!
January 9, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Thank you, both from myself and my exam reading lists (which don't include Moby-Dick)!
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You know, this would even be great as an interlude in our proposed Muppets Moby Dick. Just go off the deep end with this shit. It fits. ๐
A friend once suggested that if there was a prestige TV Moby Dick series, "Cetology" be handled by hiring David Attenborough to recite incorrect whale facts over a bunch of stock footage for an entire episode.
January 9, 2026 at 6:30 AM
You know, this would even be great as an interlude in our proposed Muppets Moby Dick. Just go off the deep end with this shit. It fits. ๐
Now that I've read up to that detail, I can't help but wonder how many disability studies papers / essays / etc have already been written about Ahab. (Gonna keep reading instead of actually looking that up, at least for now!) ๐
Ahab uses the same (but inverted) mechanism as action figures on a stand, and the question whirling through my mind is whether this is something Melville saw somewhere or if he invented it on his own. ๐
January 9, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Now that I've read up to that detail, I can't help but wonder how many disability studies papers / essays / etc have already been written about Ahab. (Gonna keep reading instead of actually looking that up, at least for now!) ๐
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MAHA cranks: we didn't have ADHD and autism and all these other non-neurotypical conditions in the olden days
Herman Melville: here is a new taxonomy for whales that is based on book printing formats. I also have many other whale facts to share! First... ๐
Herman Melville: here is a new taxonomy for whales that is based on book printing formats. I also have many other whale facts to share! First... ๐
January 8, 2026 at 2:52 PM
MAHA cranks: we didn't have ADHD and autism and all these other non-neurotypical conditions in the olden days
Herman Melville: here is a new taxonomy for whales that is based on book printing formats. I also have many other whale facts to share! First... ๐
Herman Melville: here is a new taxonomy for whales that is based on book printing formats. I also have many other whale facts to share! First... ๐
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๐งตIn my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
๐งตIn my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
You, person who follows this here account, are almost certainly not the person(s) who need to take this to heart.
January 8, 2026 at 10:16 PM
You, person who follows this here account, are almost certainly not the person(s) who need to take this to heart.
Fun facts about your pet word association tool:
It knows nothing & cannot* be responsible for the consequences of treating its output as having any meaningful overlap with the material world.
Substituting convenience for understanding or expertise is a Bad Move.
*Until laws change profoundly.
It knows nothing & cannot* be responsible for the consequences of treating its output as having any meaningful overlap with the material world.
Substituting convenience for understanding or expertise is a Bad Move.
*Until laws change profoundly.
January 8, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Fun facts about your pet word association tool:
It knows nothing & cannot* be responsible for the consequences of treating its output as having any meaningful overlap with the material world.
Substituting convenience for understanding or expertise is a Bad Move.
*Until laws change profoundly.
It knows nothing & cannot* be responsible for the consequences of treating its output as having any meaningful overlap with the material world.
Substituting convenience for understanding or expertise is a Bad Move.
*Until laws change profoundly.
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For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Goodโs vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
January 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Goodโs vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
Very much in the spirit of "Let a website be a worry stone", ended up adding a recommended MLA citation to some of my blog posts (conditional inclusion logic being deterministic & โด calming).
Let a website be a worry stone. โย ethanmarcotte.com
One turn deserves another.
ethanmarcotte.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Very much in the spirit of "Let a website be a worry stone", ended up adding a recommended MLA citation to some of my blog posts (conditional inclusion logic being deterministic & โด calming).
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the face she makes as she walks away before giving him a chance to answer is the energy I wish every Democrat would give to Fox News. "got anything to say? no? didn't think so. please choke. bye."
Fox Producer: Jesse Watters would like to invite you on his show
AOC: He has sexualized and harassed me on his show.
FP: Thatโs not true
AOC: He accused me of wanting to sleep with Stephen Miller. So why donโt you tell me what you think is acceptable to tell a woman.
AOC: He has sexualized and harassed me on his show.
FP: Thatโs not true
AOC: He accused me of wanting to sleep with Stephen Miller. So why donโt you tell me what you think is acceptable to tell a woman.
January 8, 2026 at 1:29 AM
the face she makes as she walks away before giving him a chance to answer is the energy I wish every Democrat would give to Fox News. "got anything to say? no? didn't think so. please choke. bye."
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in comparison, in 2020, multiple states gave lighter sentences to motorists who drove into protesters, while charging protesters charged by cars with misdemeanors for "blocking traffic." some police unions backed immunity for people who drove into protesters
Noem: "People need to stop using their vehicles as weapons ... it's clear that it's being coordinated. People are being trained"
January 8, 2026 at 1:12 AM
in comparison, in 2020, multiple states gave lighter sentences to motorists who drove into protesters, while charging protesters charged by cars with misdemeanors for "blocking traffic." some police unions backed immunity for people who drove into protesters
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I refuse to stay silent while Secretary Noem breaks the rule of law and terrorizes our communities. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment against her for violating the public trust, obstructing Congress, and self-dealing. Read my full statement: robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...
Rep. Kelly announces plans to impeach Secretary Kristi Noem
WASHINGTON โ Today, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (IL-02) announced plans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem following the fatal shooting by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.
robinkelly.house.gov
January 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM
I refuse to stay silent while Secretary Noem breaks the rule of law and terrorizes our communities. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment against her for violating the public trust, obstructing Congress, and self-dealing. Read my full statement: robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...
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Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
January 7, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
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this could be the floor
Who will be the first member of Congress to introduce legislation named after Renee Good that abolishes DHS?
January 7, 2026 at 11:11 PM
this could be the floor
If you would get over yourself long enough to pay attention to the answers people have been providing since at least DuBois's _Black Reconstruction in America_ it becomes a lot easier to imagine answers to the first.
January 7, 2026 at 11:00 PM
If you would get over yourself long enough to pay attention to the answers people have been providing since at least DuBois's _Black Reconstruction in America_ it becomes a lot easier to imagine answers to the first.
My sibling in MarioKart, the question is not "what will we do with 20,000+ armed white supremacists if we shut down that agency?"
The question is much closer to "how has America allowed these white supremacists, 165 years after the Civil War supposedly ended, to be an armed agency of the state?"
The question is much closer to "how has America allowed these white supremacists, 165 years after the Civil War supposedly ended, to be an armed agency of the state?"
January 7, 2026 at 10:58 PM
My sibling in MarioKart, the question is not "what will we do with 20,000+ armed white supremacists if we shut down that agency?"
The question is much closer to "how has America allowed these white supremacists, 165 years after the Civil War supposedly ended, to be an armed agency of the state?"
The question is much closer to "how has America allowed these white supremacists, 165 years after the Civil War supposedly ended, to be an armed agency of the state?"
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........ do not give the evil owned theft machine your medical records
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
But itโs โnot intended for diagnosis or treatment.โ
buff.ly
January 7, 2026 at 9:48 PM
........ do not give the evil owned theft machine your medical records
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this is all of law enforcement
i will never forget the time a friend of a friend was charged with felony "assault" because they bled onto the uniform of a cop who smashed their face in with a baton
i will never forget the time a friend of a friend was charged with felony "assault" because they bled onto the uniform of a cop who smashed their face in with a baton
ICE and CBP have a habit of turning themselves into victims in cases where they're the ones wielding violence
January 7, 2026 at 9:07 PM
this is all of law enforcement
i will never forget the time a friend of a friend was charged with felony "assault" because they bled onto the uniform of a cop who smashed their face in with a baton
i will never forget the time a friend of a friend was charged with felony "assault" because they bled onto the uniform of a cop who smashed their face in with a baton
One of the goals is minimizing trauma, not misrepresenting trauma as obligatory.
If you've managed to retain enough humanity that you're against murder (even / especially by the state), you're under zero moral obligation to witness a videotaped murder.
If you've managed to retain enough humanity that you're against murder (even / especially by the state), you're under zero moral obligation to witness a videotaped murder.
January 7, 2026 at 9:22 PM
One of the goals is minimizing trauma, not misrepresenting trauma as obligatory.
If you've managed to retain enough humanity that you're against murder (even / especially by the state), you're under zero moral obligation to witness a videotaped murder.
If you've managed to retain enough humanity that you're against murder (even / especially by the state), you're under zero moral obligation to witness a videotaped murder.