Celeste
@celestesharpe.bsky.social
snacks, highered, history, labor, meandering, and reading. horribly motion sick. i lay like broccoli.
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This is a good starting point if people are asking for places to donate. It’s by no means comprehensive, though. One notable omission is a small but mighty food distro called CANMN.org
If you’re local, they’re also frequently looking for people to work a shift.
If you’re local, they’re also frequently looking for people to work a shift.
January 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM
This is a good starting point if people are asking for places to donate. It’s by no means comprehensive, though. One notable omission is a small but mighty food distro called CANMN.org
If you’re local, they’re also frequently looking for people to work a shift.
If you’re local, they’re also frequently looking for people to work a shift.
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Mpls Parents are raising funds for families at South HS impacted by ICE raids. Money will go towards food, necessary supplies, and rental assistance. We appreciate your love and solidarity during these difficult times. ❤️ Please share widely with friends and family! gofund.me/e32d501a3
Donate to Support South High School Families, organized by Rachael Staab
South High School parents are holding a special fundraiser specifically to s… Rachael Staab needs your support for Support South High School Families
gofund.me
December 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Mpls Parents are raising funds for families at South HS impacted by ICE raids. Money will go towards food, necessary supplies, and rental assistance. We appreciate your love and solidarity during these difficult times. ❤️ Please share widely with friends and family! gofund.me/e32d501a3
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School has been cancelled tomorrow and Friday across the city of Minneapolis, because our federal government has made it unsafe for children here.
January 8, 2026 at 3:07 AM
School has been cancelled tomorrow and Friday across the city of Minneapolis, because our federal government has made it unsafe for children here.
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”Sidewalks and curb ramps form the foundation of transit use and pedestrian safety. When they are impassable, transit becomes inaccessible in practice, regardless of how well streets or bike lanes are maintained.”
December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
”Sidewalks and curb ramps form the foundation of transit use and pedestrian safety. When they are impassable, transit becomes inaccessible in practice, regardless of how well streets or bike lanes are maintained.”
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"Sidewalks are not a distraction from the city’s mission. They are the ground-level test of whether Minneapolis truly works for everyone...Walking is not optional. It is how people reach buses and trains, cross neighborhoods, access businesses and age in place."
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Opinion | Shoveling sidewalks should be a priority for Minneapolis
If the city wants people to use public transit and age in place, they have to be able to safely get around after it snows, William Hendricks writes.
www.startribune.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"Sidewalks are not a distraction from the city’s mission. They are the ground-level test of whether Minneapolis truly works for everyone...Walking is not optional. It is how people reach buses and trains, cross neighborhoods, access businesses and age in place."
buff.ly/5AIKxb4
buff.ly/5AIKxb4
We're looking for a new colleague! 🗃️
My community college is hiring in multiple disciplines, including history. I'm on the search advisory committee.
Diverse & challenging students? ✅
Fantastic colleagues? ✅
Strong Union? ✅
Major metro? ✅
Healthy & growing college? ✅
minnstate.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Minnes...
Diverse & challenging students? ✅
Fantastic colleagues? ✅
Strong Union? ✅
Major metro? ✅
Healthy & growing college? ✅
minnstate.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Minnes...
Community College Faculty - History Instructor
All Job Postings will close at 12:01 a.m. CT on the specified Closing Date (if designated). Working Title: Community College Faculty - History Instructor Institution: Normandale Community College Clas...
minnstate.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We're looking for a new colleague! 🗃️
Job posting: UFT (our equivalent of TT) history faculty position at Normandale Community College! 🗃️ Please share! I'm chairing the search advisory commmittee
Closes 1/5/26. Application: cover letter, CV, transcripts
minnstate.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Minnes...
Closes 1/5/26. Application: cover letter, CV, transcripts
minnstate.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Minnes...
Community College Faculty - History Instructor
All Job Postings will close at 12:01 a.m. CT on the specified Closing Date (if designated). Working Title: Community College Faculty - History Instructor Institution: Normandale Community College Clas...
minnstate.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Job posting: UFT (our equivalent of TT) history faculty position at Normandale Community College! 🗃️ Please share! I'm chairing the search advisory commmittee
Closes 1/5/26. Application: cover letter, CV, transcripts
minnstate.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Minnes...
Closes 1/5/26. Application: cover letter, CV, transcripts
minnstate.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Minnes...
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Closing out my freelancing work this year with an update: During the summer, I worked with Explore Minnesota on FOUR restaurant lists, highlighting the best African, Asian, South Asian, and Middle Eastern spots worthy of checking out.
Find the lists below 🧵
Find the lists below 🧵
December 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Closing out my freelancing work this year with an update: During the summer, I worked with Explore Minnesota on FOUR restaurant lists, highlighting the best African, Asian, South Asian, and Middle Eastern spots worthy of checking out.
Find the lists below 🧵
Find the lists below 🧵
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I’ve done FORTY now and two doubles for Trans sisters!
you guys are amazing and if you want to keep it going, my venmo is @ziibiing
you guys are amazing and if you want to keep it going, my venmo is @ziibiing
i’ve gotten to give out 17 $50 venmo “buy yourself a bag of grocery” gifts to Indigenous folks who could use it today
$50 can really make someones day
want to help do more?
$50 can really make someones day
want to help do more?
October 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I’ve done FORTY now and two doubles for Trans sisters!
you guys are amazing and if you want to keep it going, my venmo is @ziibiing
you guys are amazing and if you want to keep it going, my venmo is @ziibiing
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It’s here! The call for pitches for our deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters,” supported by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
contingentmagazine.org
October 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It’s here! The call for pitches for our deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters,” supported by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation.
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‘PowerPoint broke me’: The challenges for blind professionals www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202... #a11y
‘PowerPoint broke me’: The challenges for blind professionals
'I don't want to scare a company from ever hiring a blind person again,” said Emeline Lakrout. But she and others want change.
www.japantimes.co.jp
September 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
‘PowerPoint broke me’: The challenges for blind professionals www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202... #a11y
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A list of ways to donate to Sanctuary Supply Depot: linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...
September 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A list of ways to donate to Sanctuary Supply Depot: linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...
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History for the 21st Century publishes excellent case studies for world history classrooms. They are targeted at the college level, but the sources can easily be adapted to the high school level.
🗺️🗃️
www.history21.com
🗺️🗃️
www.history21.com
History for the 21st Century
www.history21.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
History for the 21st Century publishes excellent case studies for world history classrooms. They are targeted at the college level, but the sources can easily be adapted to the high school level.
🗺️🗃️
www.history21.com
🗺️🗃️
www.history21.com
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Does anyone know a community college that offers a digital humanities course? #dh #communitycollege
September 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Does anyone know a community college that offers a digital humanities course? #dh #communitycollege
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Mic drop from @abeba.bsky.social at UNESCO Digital Learning Week
September 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Mic drop from @abeba.bsky.social at UNESCO Digital Learning Week
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This is not dating at all, so it is not common; it is impossible. It is gaming. Which is fine, but nobody wants you to believe they are "dating" Wario just because when they push the buttons, he does stuff, which makes it a RELATIONSHIP.
How common is it to date an AI? The results of a new study might surprise you.
Take this quiz to test your knowledge about AI and dating.
Take this quiz to test your knowledge about AI and dating.
Dating an AI: How Much Is It Really Happening?
New research offers insights into how people feel about romantic relationships with an AI. Take this quiz to test your knowledge.
on.wsj.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This is not dating at all, so it is not common; it is impossible. It is gaming. Which is fine, but nobody wants you to believe they are "dating" Wario just because when they push the buttons, he does stuff, which makes it a RELATIONSHIP.
Bring back Teddy Ruxpin w/cassettes
“Now, kiddie chatbot companies are suggesting that your child can avoid bothering you and passively ogling a screen by chatting with her mechanical helper instead. Which feels a bit like unleashing a mongoose into the playroom to kill all the snakes you put in there.”
They’re Stuffed Animals. They’re Also A.I. Chatbots.
www.nytimes.com
August 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Bring back Teddy Ruxpin w/cassettes
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Evergreen skeet: community college faculty should be in every conversation about teaching history in higher ed. Looking at you @historians.org & your Ai in teaching guidelines. Not just are 40% of students at com colleges, we're increasingly teaching a higher % of all college history courses.
August 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Evergreen skeet: community college faculty should be in every conversation about teaching history in higher ed. Looking at you @historians.org & your Ai in teaching guidelines. Not just are 40% of students at com colleges, we're increasingly teaching a higher % of all college history courses.
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Have a lot of new followers who are unaware of my stickers…
the I Love History is the best sticker for anyone who has actually read history and understands the special flavor of cynicism that comes from focused study of the past…
Order one at: littlebraincomics.etsy.com/listing/1508...
the I Love History is the best sticker for anyone who has actually read history and understands the special flavor of cynicism that comes from focused study of the past…
Order one at: littlebraincomics.etsy.com/listing/1508...
July 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Have a lot of new followers who are unaware of my stickers…
the I Love History is the best sticker for anyone who has actually read history and understands the special flavor of cynicism that comes from focused study of the past…
Order one at: littlebraincomics.etsy.com/listing/1508...
the I Love History is the best sticker for anyone who has actually read history and understands the special flavor of cynicism that comes from focused study of the past…
Order one at: littlebraincomics.etsy.com/listing/1508...
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Terrific 🧵 reiterating critical pts I’ve mentioned on here repeatedly.
Bottom line is that humanities classes have terrific ROI in higher ed, have vocational outcomes AND lifetime earnings at least as good as most STEM subjects.
As Dr. Ginsberg notes, cutting humanities is pure ideology.
Bottom line is that humanities classes have terrific ROI in higher ed, have vocational outcomes AND lifetime earnings at least as good as most STEM subjects.
As Dr. Ginsberg notes, cutting humanities is pure ideology.
This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
Dean at U of Chicago: “She also expressed concerns that the administration might be asking the Arts & Humanities Division to cut back to compensate for other divisions’ financial challenges, asking whether ‘our entire unit [is] being used to float other units facing cuts.”
July 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Terrific 🧵 reiterating critical pts I’ve mentioned on here repeatedly.
Bottom line is that humanities classes have terrific ROI in higher ed, have vocational outcomes AND lifetime earnings at least as good as most STEM subjects.
As Dr. Ginsberg notes, cutting humanities is pure ideology.
Bottom line is that humanities classes have terrific ROI in higher ed, have vocational outcomes AND lifetime earnings at least as good as most STEM subjects.
As Dr. Ginsberg notes, cutting humanities is pure ideology.
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Want 2 free tickets to see contemporary jazz star Keiko Matsui TOMORROW night at the Dakota? Hit repost for a chance to win!
July 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Want 2 free tickets to see contemporary jazz star Keiko Matsui TOMORROW night at the Dakota? Hit repost for a chance to win!
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AI is not a thought partner. Only other humans can have thoughts, share thoughts, learn, or partner.
Good morning!
Good morning!
July 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
AI is not a thought partner. Only other humans can have thoughts, share thoughts, learn, or partner.
Good morning!
Good morning!
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This is where I really, really worry about the impacts of this AFT partnership. AFT is partnering with generalist orgs who have a long history of selling their products as broadly generally reliable, when they're demonstrable not. AFT reproduces that thought process throughout these videos.
July 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This is where I really, really worry about the impacts of this AFT partnership. AFT is partnering with generalist orgs who have a long history of selling their products as broadly generally reliable, when they're demonstrable not. AFT reproduces that thought process throughout these videos.
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I hear you. That said, we need to make clear that one of the possible answers to the question "how can we best use AI" must be "not at all."
We do not have a discursive space that acknowledges "we should not" as an appropriate answer to this question.
We do not have a discursive space that acknowledges "we should not" as an appropriate answer to this question.
I built two webapplets I was struggling to build for years in a weekend with chat and Claude so idk I think people are moralising over whether or not a tool should exist rather than how best to utilise it because its not going back in the box.
July 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I hear you. That said, we need to make clear that one of the possible answers to the question "how can we best use AI" must be "not at all."
We do not have a discursive space that acknowledges "we should not" as an appropriate answer to this question.
We do not have a discursive space that acknowledges "we should not" as an appropriate answer to this question.
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Leaving your AC off is not a moral victory. Keeping yourself cool is not a weakness.
now is not the time to demonstrate your endurance or sticktoitiveness now is the time to get an ac or a fan or get to somewhere that has one 🙏🏻 please stay safe!
June 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Leaving your AC off is not a moral victory. Keeping yourself cool is not a weakness.