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Educator. Dog mom. Fan of cooking, eating, running, audiobooks, and puzzles of many kinds. Team Grace and Kindness in Higher Ed. (she/her)

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · May 1

I was just talking to someone about this today! Great book.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · Apr 27

Flying again today, so of course I'm reading Dewey:

"The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that our experiences are genuinely or equally educative. Experience and education cannot be directly equated to each other. For some experiences are miseducative."

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that our experiences are genuinely or equally educative. Experience and education cannot be directly equated to each other. For some experiences are miseducative. Any experience is miseducative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience. An experience may be such as to engender callousness, it may produce lack of sensitivity and of responsiveness. Then the possibilities of having richer experience in the future are restricted.

Again, a given experience may increase a person's automatic skill in a particular direction and yet tend to land him in a groove or rut, the effect again is to narrow the field of further experience. An experience may be immediately enjoyable and yet promote the formation of a slack and careless attitude, this attitude then operates to modify the quality of subsequent experiences so as to prevent a person from getting out of them what they have to give.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Apr 23

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

• Al Overview
The idiom "you can't lick a badger twice" means you can't trick or deceive someone a second time after they've been tricked once. It's a warning that if someone has already been deceived, they are unlikely to fall for the same trick again.
Here's a more detailed explanation:
• Licking: "Licking" in this context means to trick or deceive someone.
• Badger: The badger is a wild animal, and the phrase likely originates from the historical sport of badger baiting where dogs were used to harass

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · Mar 12

What are we doing?
Track workouts!
Why are we doing it?
Because it's one thing we can control in their barren hellscape we call reality!

Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · Mar 12

5: "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead.

Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · Mar 12

4: "Anita de Monte Laughs Last" by Xochitl Gonzalez.

Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · Feb 19

3: "All Fours" by Miranda July. As good as everyone says. Gonna have to reread this in like 7 years.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Feb 18

Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle.

One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

They arrived at the United States
border from around the world, hoping
to seek asylum. Instead, they were
detained, shackled and flown by the
U.S.military to a faraway country,
Panama

They were stripped of their passports
and most of their cellphones, they said,
and then locked in a hotel, barred from
seeing lawyers and told they would
soon be sent to a makeshift camp near
the Panamanian jungle.

At the hotel, at least one person tried to
commit suicide, according to several
migrants. Another broke his leg trying
to escape. A third sent a plaintive
missive from a hidden cellphone: "Only
a miracle can save us."

In one window visible from a sidewalk
below the hotel, a woman clawed at a
latchless glass pane in an attempt to
escape. When she noticed journalists
below, she held up a piece of paper that
read "Afghan.

She made hand motions that indicated
an airplane, then her head falling off.
The message seemed to be clear: A
flight home meant death.

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · Jan 18

2: "Oona Out of Order" by Margarita Montimore. An unintentionally apt choice for the new year.

Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · Jan 18

1: "Butter" by Asako Yuzuki. Messy and delicious.

Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · Jan 18

2025 book thread!

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Dec 4

Chase Strangio said we need to intervene in any and all narratives that work to blame or isolate transgender people. 👀 Step up, push back, be loud. Trans people need to know they aren’t alone and that their allies are legion.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · Dec 4

Gilbert cites the study I mentioned in my column re: hegemonic masculinity and it really is a good explanatory lens for *gestures at all of this*. (Also not the same as toxic masculinity.) This column is great and everyone should take a look at the study, too. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · Dec 3

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · Dec 4

Yay! Are you doing the Beyond training program?? I'm a leader for the 9-10min group (aka the best group).

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · Nov 29

Pretty pleased with this Thanksgiving plate.

A vibrant Thanksgiving plate. Clockwise from top: breadstick, sous vide turkey, salad with berries and goat cheese, pumpkin-cranberry bread, mashed potatoes, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mac-n-cheese, cranberry relish, Brussels sprouts.

Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · Nov 20

Every day this week I've felt like it's Friday. We are in week 10 (of 10), so it's the Friday of the fall term. But sadly not actual Friday. Not even tomorrow. What is this.

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · Nov 17

Looking back over an email about teaching from a favorite professor--

Students learn to care about learning by seeing someone caring, someone whom they respect (and respect above all for the courage to care), seeing that someone caring for learning, and caring for them.