For all of us who love our national parks and want to save them from destruction or privatization at the hands of Trump, the National Parks Conservation Association @protectparks.bsky.social has posted this online petition that will be forwarded to Congress. Please sign!
so anyway I hope I’m not the only outlier but if I am I hope I ruin all the data
education is, and shoud always be, to help shape young people into curious, accepting, open-minded creative, knowledgeable global citizens. We are killing their passions and making them cogs in a capitalist/technocratic machine and should all be ashamed.”
“Higher education's insistence on being career or worse ‘market’ focused is a huge mistake and is continuing to lead us all down the wrong path. The purpose of education is not, nor should it ever be, for students to focus on how they can make the most money in their adult life. The purpose of
the comments I wrote: “Literacy, critical thinking, practices of research and scholarship, all are being negatively impacted. Al is training students in its own image: to gather together random bits and bobs, accurate or not, and spit them back out, without reflection.”
university sent me a survey about AI and when I tell y’all I gave them *several* pieces of my mind
Find your patch of sun today ✨
oooo ok ok can’t wait! 💜💜
oh! I have actually listened to her album Silence Between Songs quite a bit and I really like it. and yes, she made a music video that’s an homage to Jennifer’s Body so you’re not wrong about the Megan Fox comparison.
So excited my piece of Qimir from the Acolyte was picked for this year’s Celebration art show in Japan! #starwars #theacolyte #mannyjacinto #qimir #thestranger
Hand embroidery of a tiger swimming amongst green weeds represented with French knots
Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery
thanks @beaugbowden.bsky.social!
a Roman Reigns action figure in black tactical vest, black cargo pants, and black boots. he is sitting on a floral pillowcase against a beige tufted headboard
I might be an action figure person now because I love him 😍
I tried but didn’t manage to keep the habit. I need to do better!
I think chapter 2 😭 but I didn’t leave a comment on it so I might as well just start from the beginning again. ok I have it opened in my browser I WILL remember (hopefully)
ash please yell at me to catch up on your fic
Chibi Osha, Qimir and the Skura walking in a line.
Chibi Osha, Qimir and the Skura.
#osha #oshaaniseya #qimir #oshamir #thestranger #theacolyte #skura #starwars #starwarsart
I need to get back on here more because I miss @flythesail.bsky.social 💜
A purple Valentine's Day card. It features Qimir/the Stranger from The Acolyte. The text reads: I want... a Valentine.
A pink Valentine's Day card. It features Osha Aniseya from The Acolyte in her mechanic's outfit. The text reads: I'd fix nothing about you.
A pink Valentine's Day card. It features Jecki from The Acolyte. The text reads: You're my jam.
A purple Valentine's Day card. It features Yord from The Acolyte. The text reads: It's no mind trick. Be mine?
Happy Valentine's Day! 💕
#TheAcolyte #BeMyAcolyte
ren valentines card made by cee (@c0ffeematcha), that has qimir the stranger on it, from the Acolyte. Text reads: "I have no name. But you might call me... Your valentine. To:, From:"
It's not too late!! #BeMyAcolyte
interview extract shared by yourromancedestinee (IG) from author Ali Hazelwood's interview with Pen America Question: What value does romance bring to literature writ large? Answer: I think we should turn this question around: Why should romance, a genre that clearly resonates with millions of readers, have to explicitly fight for its right to exist? I’d love for everyone who wonders whether romance has value to ask themselves: What biases drive this question? Why, out of many types of genre fiction, is it romance that constantly has to justify its existence? What does this say about the way they view the people who read and write romance? Do they see any pattern with the way they view romance now, in 2025, and historical events that took place before any of us were even born?
powerful stuff from our beloved Ali Hazelwood!!! 🥹🫶🏻 #romance
These are research grants awarded through evaluation of their merits by scientific peers, in which the investigators are carrying out important, ground-breaking work. They're being targeted because, as required by NSF guidelines, they include some investment in benefits for the broader community.
This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
turned on The Last Jedi for the first time in so long and god it really is that bitch huh. Rian Johnson I love you dearly
so much of teaching is teaching students that they are worth taking seriously, that they should take themselves seriously, that the world is in their hands, that they are up to its challenges
(this will be my only contribution to the current discourse about ai in the classroom)
an excerpt from an interview with Judith Butler. it begins with their answer to a previous question regarding the role of gender in the US presidential election: A. It’s part of the picture. But the important thing is how we think about the gender division in relation to increasingly virulent forms of racism. Who is to say that gender and race in the person of Harris was not a fundamental issue in a country that is becoming increasingly misogynist and racist. Q. Did it prove once again that the United States is not ready to elect a woman, or was it that particular woman? A. I don’t agree with a lot of what she stands for — fracking, migration, Palestine — and I did not actively support her candidacy. But I did vote for her. We have a pernicious history of misogyny, which is being celebrated in the person of Trump. Guilty of sexual crimes, he has done more than any other American person to demean and degrade women as a class. The people who say, “Oh, I don’t like that part of his behavior, but I’m going to vote for him anyway because of the economy,”
(continuing from previous image) they’re admitting that they are willing to live with that misogyny and look away from his sexual violence. The more people who say that they can “live with” racism and misogyny in a candidate, even if they’re not enthusiastic racists, the more the enthusiastic racists and the fascists become stronger. I see a kind of restoration fantasy at play in many right-wing movements in the U.S. People want to go back to the idea of being a white country or the idea of the patriarchal family, the principle that marriages are for heterosexuals. I call it a nostalgic fury for an impossible past. Those in the grip of that fury are effectively saying: “I don’t like the complexity of this world, and all these people speaking all these languages. I’m fearful that my family will become destroyed by gender ideology.” As a consequence of that, they’re furiously turning against some of the most vulnerable people in this country, stripping of them of rights as they fear that the same will be done to them.
Judith Butler always gets it
english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
"The visceral response from people across this country who feel cheated, ripped off, and threatened by the vile practices of their insurance companies should be a warning to everyone in the health care system," Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told HuffPost in an interview on Tuesday.
That's an unbelievably athletic play by Keanu Benton, who rocks
