sgcxb
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she/her; recovering grad student; crepuscular, bi, and tired. I drew my avatar; it is a bat.
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Mailing you a Christmas card that is almost exactly like the one you sent me except my smiling face is photoshopped onto all of your children
December 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Mailing you a Christmas card that is almost exactly like the one you sent me except my smiling face is photoshopped onto all of your children
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John Oliver has said this explicitly FYI
That without local news he couldn't do his show (and to his credit, he's pretty good about crediting his news sources)
That without local news he couldn't do his show (and to his credit, he's pretty good about crediting his news sources)
When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
John Oliver has said this explicitly FYI
That without local news he couldn't do his show (and to his credit, he's pretty good about crediting his news sources)
That without local news he couldn't do his show (and to his credit, he's pretty good about crediting his news sources)
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When the polite, cultured Dr. Pepper consumes a special draught, he turns into the brutish, monstrous Mr. Pibb.
December 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
When the polite, cultured Dr. Pepper consumes a special draught, he turns into the brutish, monstrous Mr. Pibb.
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i had to drop what i was doing to make this
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
i had to drop what i was doing to make this
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Out on the road today
I saw a bear claw sitting on an overpass
Put that food inside my head
Said don't look back, you can never look back
I saw a bear claw sitting on an overpass
Put that food inside my head
Said don't look back, you can never look back
Abandoned apple fritter or bear claw clinging to existence on the NE 21st Ave I-84 overpass for any who wish to partake. Took a bite. Delicious.
December 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Out on the road today
I saw a bear claw sitting on an overpass
Put that food inside my head
Said don't look back, you can never look back
I saw a bear claw sitting on an overpass
Put that food inside my head
Said don't look back, you can never look back
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Letterpress eye candy, weird image edition: preoccupied businessman (going to mask the text in thought bubbles & substitute my own); giving a pig a bath; no idea how I use this steer, but mortised (cutout/frame) blocks are cool; best bacon for the enthusiastic superlative collection
December 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Letterpress eye candy, weird image edition: preoccupied businessman (going to mask the text in thought bubbles & substitute my own); giving a pig a bath; no idea how I use this steer, but mortised (cutout/frame) blocks are cool; best bacon for the enthusiastic superlative collection
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Going to be watching Hogfather (2005) later, so it feels like a good time to share this perfectly captured moment from the story.
GNU Sir Terry.
(🧑🎨: Adi-Fitri, Adidraws)
GNU Sir Terry.
(🧑🎨: Adi-Fitri, Adidraws)
December 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Going to be watching Hogfather (2005) later, so it feels like a good time to share this perfectly captured moment from the story.
GNU Sir Terry.
(🧑🎨: Adi-Fitri, Adidraws)
GNU Sir Terry.
(🧑🎨: Adi-Fitri, Adidraws)
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“It's an invisible need... an invisible center... helping invisible people. Meanwhile, I'm haunted by the invisible impact of the insatiable greed”
@ricksteves.bsky.social I love you
@ricksteves.bsky.social I love you
December 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“It's an invisible need... an invisible center... helping invisible people. Meanwhile, I'm haunted by the invisible impact of the insatiable greed”
@ricksteves.bsky.social I love you
@ricksteves.bsky.social I love you
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NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
Church organ tuning records mirror our warming climate
The records appear to reflect climate change, as well as the increased heating of churches in winter
www.thereengineer.pro
December 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
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a guy on the train has the facebook ray-bans and I want to take a picture of them but it feels too rude, and that really makes you think!
December 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
a guy on the train has the facebook ray-bans and I want to take a picture of them but it feels too rude, and that really makes you think!
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On this winter solstice, I want to offer you a little light in the darkness.
I've been working on new pieces in my Lighting the Dark series, and I'm happy to share them and a few thoughts on this series with you today:
tishamark.com/2025/12/21/n...
#art #painting #SciArt #ArtAdventCalendar #bsnm
I've been working on new pieces in my Lighting the Dark series, and I'm happy to share them and a few thoughts on this series with you today:
tishamark.com/2025/12/21/n...
#art #painting #SciArt #ArtAdventCalendar #bsnm
December 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
On this winter solstice, I want to offer you a little light in the darkness.
I've been working on new pieces in my Lighting the Dark series, and I'm happy to share them and a few thoughts on this series with you today:
tishamark.com/2025/12/21/n...
#art #painting #SciArt #ArtAdventCalendar #bsnm
I've been working on new pieces in my Lighting the Dark series, and I'm happy to share them and a few thoughts on this series with you today:
tishamark.com/2025/12/21/n...
#art #painting #SciArt #ArtAdventCalendar #bsnm
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I'm incredibly grateful to have gotten to work with wonderful students and other colleagues this year, here's a quick thread of the research outputs we published, with post-level summaries of the results. 🔌💡
December 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I'm incredibly grateful to have gotten to work with wonderful students and other colleagues this year, here's a quick thread of the research outputs we published, with post-level summaries of the results. 🔌💡
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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How do historians process that kind of material? Well, I read it all. I learned how to recognize the handwriting of every family member (40 cousins in one generation) and other correspondents. I learned how to skim. And then I transcribed 2000+ letters that I needed more time to analyze.
December 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
How do historians process that kind of material? Well, I read it all. I learned how to recognize the handwriting of every family member (40 cousins in one generation) and other correspondents. I learned how to skim. And then I transcribed 2000+ letters that I needed more time to analyze.
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Governor Lisa Cook wrote a @nytimes.com op-ed sometime ago about how Racism is just bad economic policy and it still holds.
Yet Black economists, who can really carry this conversation forward, are just not platformed. Like at all.
Yet Black economists, who can really carry this conversation forward, are just not platformed. Like at all.
Racism Impoverishes the Whole Economy (Published 2020)
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Governor Lisa Cook wrote a @nytimes.com op-ed sometime ago about how Racism is just bad economic policy and it still holds.
Yet Black economists, who can really carry this conversation forward, are just not platformed. Like at all.
Yet Black economists, who can really carry this conversation forward, are just not platformed. Like at all.
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the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024
December 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024
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This is giving unmistakable "argument in the car on the way home" vibes and Sam is going to lose so, so badly.
Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?
December 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This is giving unmistakable "argument in the car on the way home" vibes and Sam is going to lose so, so badly.
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As told by the late dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille.
December 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
As told by the late dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille.
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The great old comedy writer Larry Gelbart said that your style is formed by what you can’t do. I wish more people understood that. That and the Martha Graham quote about keeping the channel open.
December 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The great old comedy writer Larry Gelbart said that your style is formed by what you can’t do. I wish more people understood that. That and the Martha Graham quote about keeping the channel open.
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Part of the issue here is faculty develop their own courses - it takes a lot of time and effort to do so - but if the university owns the syllabi they could fire me but keep all of that work and have someone else to teach the course *I* built.
Replacing TT with adjuncts the obvious application.
Replacing TT with adjuncts the obvious application.
December 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Part of the issue here is faculty develop their own courses - it takes a lot of time and effort to do so - but if the university owns the syllabi they could fire me but keep all of that work and have someone else to teach the course *I* built.
Replacing TT with adjuncts the obvious application.
Replacing TT with adjuncts the obvious application.
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Big exposé on (lack of) instructional spending at UC-Merced, by their intrepid and fearless chapter of the @uc-faculty.bsky.social.
“UC Merced has actively divested from instruction, showing a pattern of deprivation of the instructional budget relative to ourselves and other campuses.”
“UC Merced has actively divested from instruction, showing a pattern of deprivation of the instructional budget relative to ourselves and other campuses.”
Memo on University Spending on Instruction – UC Merced Faculty Association
ucmfa.org
December 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Big exposé on (lack of) instructional spending at UC-Merced, by their intrepid and fearless chapter of the @uc-faculty.bsky.social.
“UC Merced has actively divested from instruction, showing a pattern of deprivation of the instructional budget relative to ourselves and other campuses.”
“UC Merced has actively divested from instruction, showing a pattern of deprivation of the instructional budget relative to ourselves and other campuses.”