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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't been to NYC since before the pandemic but I would make IMMEDIATE plans to walk the length of Manhattan and sample all the new goat meat stands.

Stacey Gotsulias 🦃 🍁 @stacegotsbaseball.com · 1d

This guy

An X post from John Rocker:

Taxis will be replaced by camels.
Women will be forced to cover themselves head to toe.
NYPD will be replaced with religious police.
All hot dog stands will be replaced with goat meat stands.
THIS IS WHAT YOU VOTED FOR.

Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · 1d

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · 1d

That's a picture from Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, in which Rachel Weisz did not appear.

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · 1d

Kind of awkward for Exclaim! to publish this story under a picture of Brendan Fraser co-starring with Maria Bello in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor because Rachel Weisz chose not to return for that one.

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · 13d

Nothing more thrilling than watching an elite, top-level administrator put it all on the line for a shot at immortality.

a woman is holding a cane in a library and saying i think i went too far with this one .

ALT: a woman is holding a cane in a library and saying i think i went too far with this one .

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · 14d

When he has time, he will also holler football smack talk at me across the street (we support rival teams). Again, being subjected to this verbal abuse is a highlight of my morning. The whole staff culture with the bus + crosswalk crew is pretty in-your-face, and the kids are safe as hell.

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · 14d

One of the highlights of my day is that the crossing guard who manages the intersection right by my kid's school is EXTREMELY aggressive and will curse out (w/o actually using curse words) any driver who strays one inch outside the rules. By week three, drop off is incredibly orderly.

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · 17d

And yes I know that James I was king when the Mayflower actually set sail, but (a) not better and (b) fleeing to the new world was just the culmination of the puritan separatist movement that had been gathering steam for a while

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · 17d

As a Mayflower descendent, I love explaining to people how my ancestors effectively got themselves kicked out of England by the government of Elizabeth I for being too intense about the protestant reformation and making the whole anti-Catholic vibe too weird for, again, Elizabeth I.

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · 17d

two men in suits and ties are sitting next to each other on a stage talking about the declaration of independence .

Alt: Nick Cage on SNL Weekend Update, riffing on his character from the National Treasure movies by saying "We're gonna have a three way with the Declaration of Independence."

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · 27d

a man in a suit and tie stands in a crowd

ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands in a crowd

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · 27d

As a learning scientist, we're also pretty shaky on how humans learn.

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · Oct 1

Hard agree, though I want to carve out an exception for "Trump is visibly senile and being weekend-at-Bernie's-ed around by his inner circle" since his basic physical and mental fitness are actually pertinent.

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · Sep 22

Posting this at the moment of planetary equinox. We will now enter the darkness together. Here's looking forward to the next six months.

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · Sep 20

Store brand coffee beans now cost as much per pound as mildly snobby locally roasted beans that I only bought on sale did last year.

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · Sep 20

From interactions with faculty in my university's engineering school and others in the wider online learning space, every undergraduate CS/CE program I'm familiar with still has solidly over 2/3 male enrollment every year.

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · Sep 19

The crossing guard at my daughter's school is a huge fan of the Bills and of James Cook specifically, and one of the highlights of my week this time of year is him yelling his thoughts about the game across the road to me while he directs traffic during morning drop off.

Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · Sep 18

This is also mine. I have exactly one retail app, for Dominos (don't judge me) and I want every other transaction to be as anonymous as a GOP politician soliciting gay hookups in an airport lounge bathroom. More anonymous, actually.

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · Sep 18

And that suggests that all those conservatives who are still filled with adolescent rage at being contradicted by a queer vegan that one time in 2011 are just... not able to change. There's no working through it because the only thing that can content them is for Those People to be silenced.

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · Sep 18

But what DOES scare me is that if I was just somehow naturally capable of listening and changing my perspective even as an idiot teenager, that suggests it's more an innate personality trait than something that is taught.

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · Sep 18

Even there I'm privileged! I'm huge and hairy and look like I ate a Proud Boy to gain his warrior power. Never would have crossed my mind that an argument would escalate in a way that would make me personally unsafe. I could have gone nuclear with no concern for the fallout, but didn't.

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · Sep 18

And somehow my dumb 18-year-old ass was able to do that! Sometimes it was a little bit embarrassing to be called out, definitely, and not everyone doing it was right or arguing in good faith. But it turns out when I stopped talking I actually fucking learned!

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · Sep 18

Like, I grew up about as privileged as it's possible to be (white, male, straight, cis, upper class), got to college, and was told in no uncertain terms that at certain times/during certain conversations it was my role to shut the fuck up and listen.

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · Sep 18

SO MANY conservative Millennials seem to have taken the experience of being told to shut the fuck up on Tumblr or to check their privilege in a freshman college seminar and turned that brief moment of anger and embarrassment into their entire personality 15-20 years later.

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Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD @sturdyknight.bsky.social · Sep 17

Kimmel: The kid who grew up in gun-worshiping far right MAGA culture and then shot a guy is an obvious product of gun-worshiping far right MAGA culture.

Trump Admin: Oh yeah, well WE'RE FUCKING MATT DAMON!!!

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