Carrie Muir
@cmuirmath.bsky.social
Community college math professor in the PNW (USA). Misses the early bird app, glad to find old friends (and new ones) here. Neurodivergent, queer, spoonie. Nerd, geek, fandoms random. Probably caffeinating. Pronouns in bio: she/her or they/them
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Lots of people telling me they love Dad jokes, but jokes about graph paper are where they draw the line.
Why shouldn't you trust someone you see drawing on graph paper?
They're definitely plotting something.
They're definitely plotting something.
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Lots of people telling me they love Dad jokes, but jokes about graph paper are where they draw the line.
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It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
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Some fall color still beautifully hanging on. I love the eldritch looking roots of that one tree!
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November 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Some fall color still beautifully hanging on. I love the eldritch looking roots of that one tree!
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The Trump administration is burning down our country’s most important health agencies from the inside and pushing out anyone who dares to pull the fire alarm.
Standing up for science is not a fireable offense. I won’t let this get swept under the rug.
Standing up for science is not a fireable offense. I won’t let this get swept under the rug.
Senator Murray Slams Outrageous Political Retaliation at NIH, Demands Answers from Trump Administration - Senator Patty Murray
Vice Chair Murray in June to NIH Director Bhattacharya: “You just received a letter signed by hundreds of your own staff who believe this administration’s actions risk breaking NIH and the lifesaving ...
www.murray.senate.gov
November 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The Trump administration is burning down our country’s most important health agencies from the inside and pushing out anyone who dares to pull the fire alarm.
Standing up for science is not a fireable offense. I won’t let this get swept under the rug.
Standing up for science is not a fireable offense. I won’t let this get swept under the rug.
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Get back to nature.
Wander into the old forest, let your antlers and talons grow ragged, leave your human form behind, and become the malevolent monstrosity you were always meant to be.
Wander into the old forest, let your antlers and talons grow ragged, leave your human form behind, and become the malevolent monstrosity you were always meant to be.
November 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Get back to nature.
Wander into the old forest, let your antlers and talons grow ragged, leave your human form behind, and become the malevolent monstrosity you were always meant to be.
Wander into the old forest, let your antlers and talons grow ragged, leave your human form behind, and become the malevolent monstrosity you were always meant to be.
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I'm too tired to throw my two cents into the punctuation discourse today, but I will say that the Purdue OWL is a wonderful resource for learning more about various reasons behind particular approaches. For example: owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_...
More Quotation Mark Rules -
Purdue OWL® - Purdue University
A rundown of the general rules of when and where to use quotation marks.
owl.purdue.edu
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I'm too tired to throw my two cents into the punctuation discourse today, but I will say that the Purdue OWL is a wonderful resource for learning more about various reasons behind particular approaches. For example: owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_...
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There's also racial dynamics that's often ignored. It's white figureheads that are often the loudest about remote learning being bad, meanwhile Indigenous and Black kids lost caregivers from Covid at higher rates. And the horrors they faced are almost never mentioned in opinion pieces.
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
There's also racial dynamics that's often ignored. It's white figureheads that are often the loudest about remote learning being bad, meanwhile Indigenous and Black kids lost caregivers from Covid at higher rates. And the horrors they faced are almost never mentioned in opinion pieces.
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WeRateDogs turns 10 years old today! A very silly idea to numerically objectify dogs has become one of the kindest and most powerful online communities ever. Thank you for joining us over the last decade. I never knew what this could be until you all showed me. Here's to many more good dogs ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
WeRateDogs turns 10 years old today! A very silly idea to numerically objectify dogs has become one of the kindest and most powerful online communities ever. Thank you for joining us over the last decade. I never knew what this could be until you all showed me. Here's to many more good dogs ❤️
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I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
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Your daily horoscope:
Today you will feel like a porcupine - a strange little creature whose whole body can be a weapon if unwanted folks get too close.
Today you will feel like a porcupine - a strange little creature whose whole body can be a weapon if unwanted folks get too close.
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Your daily horoscope:
Today you will feel like a porcupine - a strange little creature whose whole body can be a weapon if unwanted folks get too close.
Today you will feel like a porcupine - a strange little creature whose whole body can be a weapon if unwanted folks get too close.
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“Leslie Lee rightly criticized the inconsistency of people who mourned Lynch’s passing while, in their own lives, failed to take simple protective steps — like wearing a respirator — that could have helped keep people like Lynch stay safe and alive.” Powerful writing about our friend.
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“Leslie Lee rightly criticized the inconsistency of people who mourned Lynch’s passing while, in their own lives, failed to take simple protective steps — like wearing a respirator — that could have helped keep people like Lynch stay safe and alive.” Powerful writing about our friend.
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"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." – Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)
#quote #mathematics #maths #math
#quote #mathematics #maths #math
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." – Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)
#quote #mathematics #maths #math
#quote #mathematics #maths #math
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Someone did this to me last year: “Why didn’t you post anything about *this* news story, huh?!”
I looked at the date and realized, well, that was the day we buried my mom, so I guess I was a little preoccupied?
Sorry for letting you down. I’ll try to Do Better.
I looked at the date and realized, well, that was the day we buried my mom, so I guess I was a little preoccupied?
Sorry for letting you down. I’ll try to Do Better.
I got an actual "Your silence on this subject is deafening" message this AM, so, super-quick: Nobody here owes anyone commentary about anything. This is a public park. It's full of interesting people. We hang out here, make friends, and chat, and then we leave to do whatever it is we do. That's it!
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Someone did this to me last year: “Why didn’t you post anything about *this* news story, huh?!”
I looked at the date and realized, well, that was the day we buried my mom, so I guess I was a little preoccupied?
Sorry for letting you down. I’ll try to Do Better.
I looked at the date and realized, well, that was the day we buried my mom, so I guess I was a little preoccupied?
Sorry for letting you down. I’ll try to Do Better.
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Respect Alice Wong’s call here:
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life.
"When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving."
www.teenvogue.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Respect Alice Wong’s call here:
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
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I’m still alive and when you don’t mask you are saying the same thing to me she described: that the terrible thing that happened to me couldn’t possibly happen to you because you’re superior. Or that my ability to exist in public is a burden & I am expendable. There’s no other honest interpretation.
November 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I’m still alive and when you don’t mask you are saying the same thing to me she described: that the terrible thing that happened to me couldn’t possibly happen to you because you’re superior. Or that my ability to exist in public is a burden & I am expendable. There’s no other honest interpretation.
All. Of. This. 🧵
🧵 Let’s stick to facts:
COVID still kills.
The pandemic still exists.
People stopped testing — the virus didn’t.
COVID still kills.
The pandemic still exists.
People stopped testing — the virus didn’t.
November 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
All. Of. This. 🧵
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Every summer since 1983, workers at Crater Lake National Park have gathered data about the lake’s famous clarity. The biologist Scott Girdner has led much of this work. When he retires, a hiring freeze will leave his position unfilled indefinitely. www.quantamagazine.org/mixing-is-th...
November 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Every summer since 1983, workers at Crater Lake National Park have gathered data about the lake’s famous clarity. The biologist Scott Girdner has led much of this work. When he retires, a hiring freeze will leave his position unfilled indefinitely. www.quantamagazine.org/mixing-is-th...
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Diva. 💅 Postcard from my collection, mailed 1916.
November 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Diva. 💅 Postcard from my collection, mailed 1916.
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So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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Nearly 300 Western Washington University staff, students and community members signed an open letter criticizing the administration's “extreme” budgetary decisions, particularly in student affairs.
Open letter to WWU administration criticizes layoffs in student affairs | Cascadia Daily News
Letter signed by nearly 300 staff, students, faculty, community members
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November 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Nearly 300 Western Washington University staff, students and community members signed an open letter criticizing the administration's “extreme” budgetary decisions, particularly in student affairs.