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Researcher researching research (and software engineering). Observing observability. Co-imagining more expansive futures. More at threlk.net (🚧 under construction 🚧)
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Happy Resistance Day.
We exist. We resist. We revitalize and tell the old stories.
Nonhelema & the Moravian Lenapes spent too long being erased and forgotten.
It's a good day to be Indigenous
so glad I shared this story w/ @margaret.bsky.social and that she told it to @jamieloftus.bsky.social
We exist. We resist. We revitalize and tell the old stories.
Nonhelema & the Moravian Lenapes spent too long being erased and forgotten.
It's a good day to be Indigenous
so glad I shared this story w/ @margaret.bsky.social and that she told it to @jamieloftus.bsky.social
New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
Margaret continues her talk with Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle.
@margaret.bsky.social @jamieloftus.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
Margaret continues her talk with Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle.
@margaret.bsky.social @jamieloftus.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Happy Resistance Day.
We exist. We resist. We revitalize and tell the old stories.
Nonhelema & the Moravian Lenapes spent too long being erased and forgotten.
It's a good day to be Indigenous
so glad I shared this story w/ @margaret.bsky.social and that she told it to @jamieloftus.bsky.social
We exist. We resist. We revitalize and tell the old stories.
Nonhelema & the Moravian Lenapes spent too long being erased and forgotten.
It's a good day to be Indigenous
so glad I shared this story w/ @margaret.bsky.social and that she told it to @jamieloftus.bsky.social
of all the spices in my house I somehow don’t have ground cinnamon or ground cloves right now so we’re going with traditional methods
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
of all the spices in my house I somehow don’t have ground cinnamon or ground cloves right now so we’re going with traditional methods
this chart makes me feel so much older than I actually am, one of the few places I’m strongly with the at large 55+ crowd lol
That's because they have no idea what's coming. They've never lived through a recession as an adult.
November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
this chart makes me feel so much older than I actually am, one of the few places I’m strongly with the at large 55+ crowd lol
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The squirrels have been trying and failing for decades to attain superpowers the high voltage way.
November 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The squirrels have been trying and failing for decades to attain superpowers the high voltage way.
increments the “personal experiences with squirrel-induced power outages” counter up by one
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
increments the “personal experiences with squirrel-induced power outages” counter up by one
shitposting aside this is essentially how I ended up in, and tend to approach, research
not now, I’m locked in a staring match with the abyss
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
shitposting aside this is essentially how I ended up in, and tend to approach, research
not now, I’m locked in a staring match with the abyss
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
not now, I’m locked in a staring match with the abyss
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This is true though! People learn writing informally from their mentors. Or, if a program is really on it, there might be a scientific writing class with someone who everyone thinks is a pretty good writer - but that doesn't mean they know about how to *teach* writing.
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is true though! People learn writing informally from their mentors. Or, if a program is really on it, there might be a scientific writing class with someone who everyone thinks is a pretty good writer - but that doesn't mean they know about how to *teach* writing.
always bring your own dry erase markers! and sticky notes! only those expensive name brand “super sticky” ones will actually do the job
Lots of schools now teach writing (VERY GOOD). However, I don't know about you, but the most useful pedagogical training *I* ever got before being unleashed on a higher ed classroom was, "the dry erase markers will always fail you, so bring your own" (side note: this is in fact very good advice)
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
always bring your own dry erase markers! and sticky notes! only those expensive name brand “super sticky” ones will actually do the job
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Some speaker joy as we look back at 2025 and plan for public speaking in 2026!
My inbox is now open for '26 events that need empathy + evidence + psychology for technologists 👀
My inbox is now open for '26 events that need empathy + evidence + psychology for technologists 👀
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Some speaker joy as we look back at 2025 and plan for public speaking in 2026!
My inbox is now open for '26 events that need empathy + evidence + psychology for technologists 👀
My inbox is now open for '26 events that need empathy + evidence + psychology for technologists 👀
vehicle heights are out of control and a huge part of many problems in the world today, including complaints about overly bright headlights, but…
my spicier “it’s not really the headlights” take is I think a lot of people are simply driving around with uncorrected astigmatism lol
my spicier “it’s not really the headlights” take is I think a lot of people are simply driving around with uncorrected astigmatism lol
Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
vehicle heights are out of control and a huge part of many problems in the world today, including complaints about overly bright headlights, but…
my spicier “it’s not really the headlights” take is I think a lot of people are simply driving around with uncorrected astigmatism lol
my spicier “it’s not really the headlights” take is I think a lot of people are simply driving around with uncorrected astigmatism lol
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Would this be the same boomers who spent the last two years calling Gen Z college students "Hamas" for protesting a genocide and telling them they deserved to get their heads cracked by cops?
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Would this be the same boomers who spent the last two years calling Gen Z college students "Hamas" for protesting a genocide and telling them they deserved to get their heads cracked by cops?
update: we may have finally stopped the leak
turns out my upstairs neighbor had 1) a poorly installed shower head that 2) was cracked and intermittently gushed water from the edge and 3) an enormous chunk of missing caulk right were the sometimes-waterfall deposited gallons of water
turns out my upstairs neighbor had 1) a poorly installed shower head that 2) was cracked and intermittently gushed water from the edge and 3) an enormous chunk of missing caulk right were the sometimes-waterfall deposited gallons of water
anyway, last week we thought we’d finally figured it out (something simple the first plumbers should have checked)
plot twist: somehow the water in my en suite bath is actually coming from the upstairs neighbors’ _hall_ bath
yes: same floor plan
no: hall and en suite baths don’t share a stack
plot twist: somehow the water in my en suite bath is actually coming from the upstairs neighbors’ _hall_ bath
yes: same floor plan
no: hall and en suite baths don’t share a stack
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
update: we may have finally stopped the leak
turns out my upstairs neighbor had 1) a poorly installed shower head that 2) was cracked and intermittently gushed water from the edge and 3) an enormous chunk of missing caulk right were the sometimes-waterfall deposited gallons of water
turns out my upstairs neighbor had 1) a poorly installed shower head that 2) was cracked and intermittently gushed water from the edge and 3) an enormous chunk of missing caulk right were the sometimes-waterfall deposited gallons of water
watching how normal people use email (a perk of being on my HOA’s board) is truly an ethnography into the deranged.
subject lines like “board meeting” where the second reply is about the budget which was already discussed elsewhere under subject line “late fees”, pure chaos in the to and cc lines
subject lines like “board meeting” where the second reply is about the budget which was already discussed elsewhere under subject line “late fees”, pure chaos in the to and cc lines
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
watching how normal people use email (a perk of being on my HOA’s board) is truly an ethnography into the deranged.
subject lines like “board meeting” where the second reply is about the budget which was already discussed elsewhere under subject line “late fees”, pure chaos in the to and cc lines
subject lines like “board meeting” where the second reply is about the budget which was already discussed elsewhere under subject line “late fees”, pure chaos in the to and cc lines
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THIS
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
THIS
using chatgpt to file taxes returns that some groyper will paste into grok to audit
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
using chatgpt to file taxes returns that some groyper will paste into grok to audit
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whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight
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as a white liberal with Southern roots, quite frankly, I think other white liberals from the South need to get the fuck over their oddly defensive attitude about what should be pretty blindingly obvious.
November 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
as a white liberal with Southern roots, quite frankly, I think other white liberals from the South need to get the fuck over their oddly defensive attitude about what should be pretty blindingly obvious.
for the amount of complaining gamers™ tend to do, it’s kinda shocking how bad we allow discord and steam to be
November 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
for the amount of complaining gamers™ tend to do, it’s kinda shocking how bad we allow discord and steam to be
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November 16, 2025 at 3:40 AM
you really can’t get your head around how the right talks about almost anything without understanding how they view children
there is very little conservative thought that isn’t tied up in seeing people as objects and seeing top-down “power over” as the only path to even a smidge of agency
there is very little conservative thought that isn’t tied up in seeing people as objects and seeing top-down “power over” as the only path to even a smidge of agency
November 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
you really can’t get your head around how the right talks about almost anything without understanding how they view children
there is very little conservative thought that isn’t tied up in seeing people as objects and seeing top-down “power over” as the only path to even a smidge of agency
there is very little conservative thought that isn’t tied up in seeing people as objects and seeing top-down “power over” as the only path to even a smidge of agency
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i am bringing back frog wizard friday
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
i am bringing back frog wizard friday
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
holy shit it’s back
November 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
holy shit it’s back
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i wonder about the limits of this approach. if it was the 1940s, would it be justifiable to ban me for saying "kill hitler"? in the 2000s, for "kill osama bin laden"? in the last two years, for "kill hamas"? is wishing ill on others, even mass murderers, always beyond the pale of acceptability?
Reminder: Don't suggest killing people in your posts.
It's not hard.
It's not hard.
patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
November 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
i wonder about the limits of this approach. if it was the 1940s, would it be justifiable to ban me for saying "kill hitler"? in the 2000s, for "kill osama bin laden"? in the last two years, for "kill hamas"? is wishing ill on others, even mass murderers, always beyond the pale of acceptability?