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Elsebelle @elsebelle.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely agree. Lately I’ve had 1st yr students telling me that the weeks I assign 2 chpts of our textbook are too hard, despite these chpts consisting of 30-40 pgs of text with key points bolded, call out boxes, lots of subheadings, illustrative pictures, etc.

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Elsebelle @elsebelle.bsky.social · 4d

Yes! I took my 9 yr old to see hamlet in the park, which was obviously a little nuts for her age and initially she couldn’t even understand the words they were saying. But then after relaxing into it a bit, it clicked and she could follow, like learning a language

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Elsebelle @elsebelle.bsky.social · 10d

Had the most wonderful day visiting Curve Lake FN with my kid for the Mnoominkewin, learning about wild rice, eating amazing food from Shawn Adler of the Flying Chestnut, getting out on the lake to try harvesting & planting, and hearing sublime talks by @biidaasamose.bsky.social & Winona LaDuke(!!)

Kid throwing mnoomin seeds into the lake from a canoe

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Elsebelle @elsebelle.bsky.social · 10d

Right, but most people (I know from working in this area) think that incarceration & crime rates are related (in either direction), which they aren’t. So responding to lies about high/rising crime with stats about incarceration, & suggesting it’s plummeted, may be confusing if not counterproductive

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Elsebelle @elsebelle.bsky.social · 10d

I’d suggest that ‘mass incarceration is over’ is a big overstatement! Rates for young men have dropped, as your data shows, but the US incarcerates so many more ppl than other countries that even a 50% (as that article predicts could happen *in the future*), US rates would still be an outlier

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spookygorski @cpgorski.bsky.social · 19d

*siiiiiiigggghhhh*

Threads post:

cereal.bowl78 10h
In an alternate timeline, Vice President Walz is reminding us to change our furnace filters

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Elsebelle @elsebelle.bsky.social · 21d

Wait, so he’s saying the core beliefs of the whole structure that is the US military are held up by one thing, which is ‘grooming standards’? Seems a bit cosplay-y, no?

"The Department must remain vigilant in maintaining the grooming standards which underpin the warrior ethos," Hegseth wrote in his memo.

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Elsebelle @elsebelle.bsky.social · 27d

If there’s a hell, then anyone who facilitates the cutting of effing Head Start is going straight there, do not pass Go.

CNN @cnn.com · 27d

A federal judge on blocked Trump administration restrictions on services for immigrants in the country illegally, including the federal preschool program Head Start, health clinics and adult education.

Judge blocks a Trump policy cutting off some social services for immigrants in the US illegally | CNN Politics

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Trump administration restrictions on services for immigrants in the country illegally, including the federal preschool program Head Start, health clinics and adult education.

www.cnn.com

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Elsebelle @elsebelle.bsky.social · 27d

Yet they don’t all move to the US! You’d almost think they’re getting something valuable for those taxes

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Elsebelle @elsebelle.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yep, sure wouldn’t guess from this that most violence and other crime happens in the home, is done by people you know, and is super gendered. For example, husbands assaulting wives during a ‘little fight’

Elsebelle @elsebelle.bsky.social · Sep 8

Every criminologist:

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Aug 31

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

An owl handler I met (although not the one in my anecdote) with his beautiful owl.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · Sep 2

economics not beating the “astrology for men” allegations with quotes like this

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Sep 2

When your “superpower” as a country is self-delusion about upward mobility it enables the status quo. Because nobody is demanding substantive change if the majority believe they’re just temporarily embarrassed millionaires, as the saying goes.

"It sort of saddens me," said Neale Mahoney, a Stanford University economics professor who has studied economic sentiment. "I think one of our superpowers as a country is our relentless optimism...It is the fuel for entrepreneurship and other exceptional achievements."

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Elsebelle @elsebelle.bsky.social · Aug 25

Imagine you’re just a bird teenager trying to live your life, and then a giant monster traps you, makes you wear ugly jewellery, puts your picture on the internet and says your name is ‘yellow rumped,’ and then flattens out your bum! So rude.

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · Aug 24

The scavenger hunt is using NYC mayoral history to paint Mamdani as firmly within the mainstream of that history. On age. On DSA membership. On public transportation policy. It's such a smart way to launch the general election campaign.

Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · Aug 24

OMG the Mamdani campaign is utterly brilliant. Chef's kiss. Art.

Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · Aug 24

We have Clue #3!!

I don't know which NYC Mayor this is, but I'm willing to bet location 3 is the Staten Island Ferry — which is FREE!

#ZcavengerHunt

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Gays Of Bluesky @gaysof.bsky.social · Aug 24

Mamdani's #ZCavengerHunt shows what politics can be when it's rooted in joy and community. We deserve leaders who uplift our neighborhoods, celebrate our culture and invite everyone to play along, rather than stoking fear or division. This is the energy we need.

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Elsebelle @elsebelle.bsky.social · Aug 25

This is a thousand layers of awesome! Engaging and social, cool but joyful, innovative and creative, resisting fear narratives, educational and political but not didactic, accessible for everyone but also geared to gen Zs. Wish we had even a single Ontario politician like this 😍

Rupal K @rupalk.bsky.social · Aug 25

We finished #ZcavengerHunt around 6pm and waited in line for a little over an hour. This was a great way to spend the day. We finished it using public transport. We talked to some fun people in the line. It was nice to visit parts of the city I normally wouldn't go to and learn about past NYC mayors

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Elsebelle @elsebelle.bsky.social · Aug 16

Sharing a wish that my extensive ill-will towards JK Rowling manifests into deep and enduring, but not physically harmful, ills. Fingers crossed.

Elsebelle @elsebelle.bsky.social · Aug 16

Correction: “…Aiden Cinnamon Tea, an inanimate large language model which produces text that invites readers to…”

Aiden cinnamon tea, an artificial intelligence author whose work invites readers to relate to AI as

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Elsebelle @elsebelle.bsky.social · Aug 16

How anyone could write the phrase “decolonially trained AI” with a straight face, much less use it as a defence/justification/excuse for anything, is just amazing. It’s so beyond stupid.

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · Aug 16

Just had a literary festival try to assuage my concerns about their workshop with a “decolonially trained AI” by assuring me the AI isn’t getting paid for their session, as if my concern was grounded in the pay scale for the robots

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Elsebelle @elsebelle.bsky.social · Aug 10

The pastry that N. Americans call a “Danish” is loosely based on something that in Denmark is called ‘wienerbrød’, or ‘Vienna bread’

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · Aug 1

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

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Elsebelle @elsebelle.bsky.social · Jul 28

Exactly. Picture of the priest as confirmation:

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · Jul 24

Doctors Without Borders joins more than 100 organizations to sounding the alarm that lifesaving aid must enter #Gaza.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-as...

Palestine: As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, our colleagues and communities we work with are wasting away | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...

Over 100 humanitarian groups, including MSF, urge governments to act as starvation spreads in Gaza.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Jul 14

*Taps sign*

www.sup.org/books/sociol...

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