vera khovanskaya
@saysvera.bsky.social
Posting through the contradictions, now on this website
Try to explain pro wrestling’s staged class drama and underlying political economy in an age appropriate manner or let my kid enjoy “Foreign Object” by the Mountain Goats without the lecture…
November 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Try to explain pro wrestling’s staged class drama and underlying political economy in an age appropriate manner or let my kid enjoy “Foreign Object” by the Mountain Goats without the lecture…
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Struck this morning by how the win wasn’t from the UC system itself pushing back—it was its worker power through *unions* and aligned groups like @aaup.org defending UC interests, even though admin itself wasn’t.
There’s some kind of lesson here
There’s some kind of lesson here
One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics
The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Struck this morning by how the win wasn’t from the UC system itself pushing back—it was its worker power through *unions* and aligned groups like @aaup.org defending UC interests, even though admin itself wasn’t.
There’s some kind of lesson here
There’s some kind of lesson here
I bought a salad spinner to wring out my hand wash only clothes before drying them flat (essentially to replace the ‘blot water out by wrapping in a towel’ step which I always found sort of unpleasant)
November 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I bought a salad spinner to wring out my hand wash only clothes before drying them flat (essentially to replace the ‘blot water out by wrapping in a towel’ step which I always found sort of unpleasant)
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An Air Canada flight right now
November 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
An Air Canada flight right now
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It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school
Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today.
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
October 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school
Stranger Things season 1 is, in retrospect, incredibly Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH coded
October 20, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Stranger Things season 1 is, in retrospect, incredibly Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH coded
Mid thirties posting for a second I’m so sorry, I’m sorry, I am sooooo sorryyyy but hear me out: compression socks
October 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Mid thirties posting for a second I’m so sorry, I’m sorry, I am sooooo sorryyyy but hear me out: compression socks
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The other day I used a cast iron pan and remembered that my mom bought it for me the summer before college, and I calculated that this was approximately half my life ago
October 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The other day I used a cast iron pan and remembered that my mom bought it for me the summer before college, and I calculated that this was approximately half my life ago
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W E L C O M E
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O C T O B E R
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September 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
W E L C O M E
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Lindgren’s Emil stories are way funnier than Pippi and Karlsson-on-the-roof, in my humble opinion
September 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Lindgren’s Emil stories are way funnier than Pippi and Karlsson-on-the-roof, in my humble opinion
Going to the store to buy and then promptly eat a pomelo with my child. Truly one of life’s great joys
September 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Going to the store to buy and then promptly eat a pomelo with my child. Truly one of life’s great joys
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while i was making this i was giggling thinking "this is gonna do numbers, in the class i teach where i have a captive audience that has to be nice to me"
September 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
while i was making this i was giggling thinking "this is gonna do numbers, in the class i teach where i have a captive audience that has to be nice to me"
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struck by this giant ad... era of the dark burger... pestilent burger
March 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
struck by this giant ad... era of the dark burger... pestilent burger
Smoothie that generally averaged out to green for breakfast to blended green pea soup for lunch pipeline, what can I say, girls love green glops
August 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Smoothie that generally averaged out to green for breakfast to blended green pea soup for lunch pipeline, what can I say, girls love green glops
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I also think we need to keep hammering home that you don’t go to college to “debate.” You go to learn, which is not the same thing.
I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
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August 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I also think we need to keep hammering home that you don’t go to college to “debate.” You go to learn, which is not the same thing.
Index of parental responsibilization in capitalist societies taken from average reported age that child stops believing in Santa, tooth fairy etc in a given year
August 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Index of parental responsibilization in capitalist societies taken from average reported age that child stops believing in Santa, tooth fairy etc in a given year
You’ll be never guess why this one big multipack of scissors that I ordered for classroom use was cheaper than all the others but also still had good reviews
August 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
You’ll be never guess why this one big multipack of scissors that I ordered for classroom use was cheaper than all the others but also still had good reviews
Wait this is wild because “America by Design” is the title of a reasonably popular book by David Noble, where he argues that American technological design was shaped to serve corporate control, profit, and capitalist power, rather than the broader public good…
the thing about pointing out that americabydesign.gov is silly or not competent is that america by design is, itself, a kind of parody of usds/18f/civic tech (what naomi klein calls pipikism).
part of the point of americabydesign is to make the idea of sincere and careful public work ridiculous
part of the point of americabydesign is to make the idea of sincere and careful public work ridiculous
August 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Wait this is wild because “America by Design” is the title of a reasonably popular book by David Noble, where he argues that American technological design was shaped to serve corporate control, profit, and capitalist power, rather than the broader public good…
I don’t know where I would have learned this growing up (I had short hair, my mom had short hair, did not do dance classes or whatever) but I’m still pretty upset that it took me this long to understand how to use this kind of hairpin:
August 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I don’t know where I would have learned this growing up (I had short hair, my mom had short hair, did not do dance classes or whatever) but I’m still pretty upset that it took me this long to understand how to use this kind of hairpin:
A kid at school announced that he got a new monster truck and that it was “a megalodon monster truck” and i absentmindedly asked if that was a kind of superhero, wholly unaware of the fact that I was about to trigger a long, long discussion about how actually no, it’s an extinct giant shark
August 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
A kid at school announced that he got a new monster truck and that it was “a megalodon monster truck” and i absentmindedly asked if that was a kind of superhero, wholly unaware of the fact that I was about to trigger a long, long discussion about how actually no, it’s an extinct giant shark
The wing feather pattern on this pigeon is quite fetching
August 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
The wing feather pattern on this pigeon is quite fetching
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they’re saying feet are the hands of the legs
August 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
they’re saying feet are the hands of the legs
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“Community colleges, along with regional public universities, are the workhorses of higher education in the United States, which has roughly 4,000 degree-granting schools. Some nine million students are enrolled at community colleges, accounting for 43 percent of America’s undergraduates.”
The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think It Is
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August 25, 2025 at 11:46 AM
“Community colleges, along with regional public universities, are the workhorses of higher education in the United States, which has roughly 4,000 degree-granting schools. Some nine million students are enrolled at community colleges, accounting for 43 percent of America’s undergraduates.”
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Source? The stars, big dawg
August 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Source? The stars, big dawg