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anthologist of Victorian Christmas ghost stories
local historian and gravestone conservationist
H. C. Dodge & shape poem collector
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- Sweet magnetic dashboard Jesus what are you doing professors who do this!? I just returned a round of hard copy graded papers to my students, marked up in my own handwriting. At least they know I read it! Gift link:
- Pre-Chat GPT I had a SUNYA prof tell the class she wouldn't assign papers b/c she "didn't want to police plagiarism," assigning oral presentations instead she'd thereby tacitly licensed to be completely plagiarized. Had a prof who made his 5 TAs write his lectures for him that he gave as his own.
- If your MAGA relatives try to justify the Qatar plane gift by bringing up the Statue of Liberty, remind them Congress voted to approve that gift, and we’d be happy to have Congress vote on the plane, too!
- Issue of public fundraising effort for Statue's pedestal makes it different too, since that didn't get gifted, and it's been a public site ever since. I expert the Grifter-in-Chief could get his devoted to build him new airstrips and airports easily enough, though they'd never be welcome at them..
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- Thinking about seeing at drive in this weekend.
- Absolutely cooked.
- Hoping there's a misperception by the students about the social norms of their peers!
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- Any connection? "it was the Tuareg people who adopted and popularised the [indigo daraas], and are considered the 'blue men of the Sahara' – a name they eventually got because the colour of their clothing rubbed off onto their skin while being under the hot sun."
- TJ Maxx never disappoints
- I'm sure a quality control issue, but onelook.com has some eyebrow-raising definitions for dink, and contradictory ones for dinker.
- Let’s clear something up: SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the LARGEST federal program to fight hunger in the country! It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.
- Republicans have not been Christian in any meaningful way in a very long time.
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- Spin is work, I guess. Grift too!
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- "There was an old man with a beard": Not Ogden Nash'd but Edward Lear'd.
- FedEx donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund. Now, a FedEx board member has been named postmaster general.
- If corporations are people, many of them are people who need to be tried, convicted, and executed.
- because of these chucklefucks it is a miracle that we go a day without a passenger airline crash
- Maybe someone from MTV's Road Rules would've been better for transportation than someone who mostly sat at home and did nothing.
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- Does he understand AI has even gobbled up the books ghostwritten for him? And he's getting no money out of that? (Well... any question beginning with "does he understand" is probably easily answered with no, in all cases.)
- Here’s what happens next. Intel Community will tell Trump it will take, say, six months to disassemble the plane and check it for surveillance devices. Trump will say screw that and just fly in it.
- Or homing devices!
- Relatedly, I've seen *way* too many emails from male students to female professors or deans that show this same lack of respect. Even emails where they're appealing a grade or asking for a favor, they're just addressing a professional with a PhD three decades older than them by their first name.
- Been using email since early 90s & don't use salutations in e-mails at all; relatively rare that I receive e-mails from others beginning w/them - I always found the practice a bit weird. For those who do use them, discriminating on who they use them with on the basis of gender is clearly wrong tho.
- And obviously a dismissal by e-mail is always a trashy thing to do, and the racist and sexist motivations behind the Trumpist firing in this case are despicable.
- could someone check with John Roberts whether accepting a $400 million plane for your personal use is a core executive power that congress may not constitutionally regulate or merely an action for which the president is presumptively immune from any accountability?
- May depend on how much Roberts and friends may want the same for themselves now.
- This tacky piece of shit looks like they found a design team from 1979 and paid them in cocaine.
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- Just cheap crap is what I meant. Yes, by some reports it's polyurethane from alibaba.
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- And yet he'll still want to take more balsa wood ornamental decorations, have them spray painted gold, and stuck on every surface just like with the Oval Office.
- Ya gotta wonder, where on earth would a probation officer in rural Oregon get the idea that casually giving Nazi salutes is just a fun, jokey sort of thing one can do around other people with impunity? [cough] Elon [cough] www.oregonlive.com/pacific-nort...
- Hmm, partisan arbitrators seem like dismayingly common thing. A true arbitrator would not have sided with the heiler.
- The kind of stuff any Dem gov could be doing – why isn't mine? Why isn't yours? And what should we do, once we know the answer?
- Hochul I'd say is disappointing, but as Cuomo's former lieutenant her lack of taking the appropriate radical actions to be taken that the moment calls for isn't really surprising.
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- "Of course I can hold the Constitution over my head," he scoffed, wondering why someone would even ask if he could uphold it.
- If Congress valued the Constitution, it would impeach Trump for bribery. The Constitution bans US officials—explicitly including POTUS—from accepting things of value from foreign govts. Ben Franklin famously gave up a gift from France as ambassador. US institutions now see blatant bribery as ok.
- One would expect the jet to have lots of vulnerabilities security and safety-wise.
- Today I learned that the author of this 1977 op-ed was the most important college mentor for the current head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.
- That is a bonkers take on Roots.
- Governmental agencies adopting the aesthetic of fascist paramilitary groups and organizations sure has been fast.
- Fleshlight-in-a-can just out in the open like that. Bold.
- a democratic mayor was abducted by ICE and chuck schumer is posting with the gusto of a guy who didn’t know guac was extra at chipotle
- My senator, a perpetual disappointment.
- NEW: California has launched ‘Ask CAL FIRE”, an AI-powered chatbot on @calfire.bsky.social’s website offering wildfire resources and emergency information in 70 languages. We’re committed to transforming government to more efficiently and effectively serve people.
- Resign.
- "What did they do?" -- Trump has no idea what he's signing and has to have it explained to him
- For all his blather about auto-pens he might as well be a robotic armature & AI installed in a bloated, waterlogged body the mafia had given cement shoes over thirty years ago following certain casino bankruptcies. 😛
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- My New Order given to him by Marty Davis was the book according to below ABC News item. A modern edition of My New Order reportedly had DJT on the cover, which is something. Hoping we see the end of DOGE & EOs sooner than later! www.theguardian.com/books/2016/o...
- Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.
- "Every book" in principle not in practice WAS sent, but a court case changed things just a couple years ago. But true, even with uneven compliance the LoC wound up being sent a wild variety of publications, not by their choice (though what they chose to actually *keep* had been, to some extent).
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- Interesting, thanks. I wonder why the sharpened top edge. The wood pole is fairly long, similar to a rake.
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- Strange one I've wound up with. Haven't turned anything up with google image search. Not about to ask AI ever!
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- Is he saying a citizens' arrest of himself would be okay by him?
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- DJT led by Putin, though...
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- Whataburger swordfight is crazy. Local news here also odd "Man dressed as clown with a chainsaw arrested."
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- All the hubbub about running zombies in 28 Days Later (2002), and this is what, 1952? (But do they really zoom?)
- Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is equipped with a "remove her clothes" function. This isn't just disgusting. It's streamlining & normalizing sexual harassment. Elon Musk and X must remove the feature immediately.
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- Automatically photoshop out clothing, photoshop in flesh is what I gathered.
- There's a reason the White House didn't reveal the text of the "agreement" when making their big press splash announcing their agreement: It's a cup of tea without the bag. Congrats to the journos who breathlessly reported on a US-UK deal that isn't. You got played (again).
- It's a "deal," not a deal: "This document serves to define the general terms for the EPD that set forth the shared desires of the US and the UK... Both the US and the UK recognize that this document does not constitute a legally binding agreement." ustr.gov/sites/defaul...
- "Let's Make [Up] A Deal!"
- NEW — I’ve obtained audio of new acting FEMA head David Richardson threatening staff in an all hands meeting this morning. As first reported by Reuters, he told those who resisted change in the agency, “Don’t get in my way…I will run right over you.” Listen to the clip here:
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- Admiring a book because of who finds it cringe is... cringe.
- On February 16, 1793, a writer in the Philadelphia General Advertiser called the upcoming celebrations of President Washington’s Birthday in the Capitol, “degrading to the character of a free people." Why should we parrot a “monarchical farce” that harkens back to “the pageantry of royalty?”
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- The highfalutin stuff definitely inappropriate. Never been thrilled by "Mr. President," though, like one's forgotten his name, or referring to them all by the same name - which makes it also kinda universal like "your highness."
- Ooo ooo ooo! This means I have a constant excuse to talk about the origins of cinema: Viewed through a coin-operated peepshow device with communal earbuds.
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- Here near NY's state capitol we don't even have screens that are all that big. We've got a LieMAX.
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View full threadHas anyone in the administration googled whether having a nation's leader sit in one place for hours & hours while a people (many who dislike him) armed with weapons slowly go by him has ever gone bad in a way that might explain why it could be a bad idea & why US Presidents haven't ever done it?
- Or, you know, one was planned in recent memory?
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- I'm sure DOGE will check with ChatGPT if it's safe, and they'll get a totally reliable answer.
- It's getting blu-ray abroad, though? Seems weird on his part.
- “One former aide to Cuomo told me that the two seem to understand each other. ‘When he talks to Trump, he calls him ‘boss,’ the former Cuomo aide said. ‘I’ve never heard him call anyone else ‘boss..I think he and Trump get along very well—he kind of admires him.”
- Why can't they all go fall off an aircraft carrier?
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- Certainly seems odd the Librarian of *Congress* could be controlled by anyone other that Congress. It's not an office called the Librarian of the Executive Branch.
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- Sounds like a sequel act to The Aristocrats - "What do you call it?"
