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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 3h

The thought popped in my head and now I can't unhear it: 🎶 Learning styles have been debunked, EIEIO 🎶

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16h

If you’re like “ouch, your off-hand cursive is better than my dominant-hand cursive”and you wish that weren’t true: you can just start grinding your handwriting skill, at any age. No one can stop you (A bad pen that’s painful to use might stop you. Look for wider barrels and smooth flowing tips)

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h

Hey academics: 'By consuming AI products (which is optional, nobody – nobody – is forcing you to do it as an intellectually–independent academic, which you are, aren’t you), you are fueling these crises and are therefore actively sabotaging and annihilating the hard efforts and work of many of […]

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Today I got yet another email inviting me to a "conversation" about AI that supposedly welcomes all perspectives but frames the conversation in an AI-favorable way, and I have HAD it with this nonsense AI is not value neutral. Asking what the ethical concerns are and alongside asking how AI can […]

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Ornate scalloped arches, inspired by mediaeval Georgian church architecture and Islamic-influenced stone carving. One of my favourite parts of this old miner's sanatorium in Tskaltubo, Georgia. #Architecture #Abandoned #Ruins #Photography #Explore #Travel

Looking out from an arched walkway to an arcade with more columns and ornate arches

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Back in the 1980s Tudor Griffiths taught Computer Science in the local school. Two maxims he repeated almost every class have stuck with me for decades. "A computer is exactly as smart as the person telling it what to do" and "A computer can and will make mistakes, and it'll do it a million […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I didn't expect my 5th grade students to be very interested in the collection of "mathematical patterns in nature" photos I have. They will design a pattern for the end papers of the book they are binding. The book is about how information is stored and includes and explanation of how it was […]

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Keen Grasp @keengrasp.layer8.space.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Hey, do you have an MLS degree? Do you like large bodies of fresh water e.g. Lake Huron? Want to come be my boss and help fight ignorance / provide services and access and culture in rural Michigan? Probably an extreme #getfedihired long-shot but I figure it doesn't hurt to try […]

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Gurre Vildskägg @gurre.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Perfectly normal Swedish names translated to English: Bear Leafbranch Wulf Flowertwig Stone Mapleroot No, not etymologies that take some knowledge to understand. Plain as day meanings. And you can add Thor- as a prefix to all three first names and it'll look completely normal that way too […]

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

There is an aspect to teaching that I think of as "pastoral care," and I wish I had some kind of training to handle the emotional burdens my students sometimes hand me I am honored to be trusted with their worries and troubles, and in our conversations, my feelings are not the point. But their […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@ehproque This has been applied enough that I suspect that for most people, their last bad experience with bureaucracy is more likely to be one with a corporate bureaucracy. * The insurance company denying the claim * The online payment service charging unexpected fees * The large online […]

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

NY has a program for free community college and it's expanding to include folks who already have a college degree and want Associates in something else. That's fine, though my community college is a little bit concerned about where to put all the new students: instructors don't magically appear […]

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I'm having my students make chemistry zines for their final projects this semester. Because it amused me, I gave them the zine project guidelines *as a hand-drawn zine*

A little stapleless folded zine booklet titled "We're making chemistry zines" with a sketch of a zine with a molecule on it. The lettering is a little bit crooked and off-center. This zine proclaims itself handmade by Dr. Haas, and in the photo it's held in Dr. Haas's hand

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Dale Harvey @dale.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Stairs in the Art Gallery of Toronto

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Meadhbh Dhommnail @meadhbh.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

As it's Banned Books Week, I have put an incomplete list of banned books that folks might want to support on Bookshop.org (bookshop.org/lists/banned-books-wee… Note: Affiliate Link). If anyone has a favorite banned book to add, let me know. Buying through […]

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

My younger kid is usually interested in doing their own thing in their own space, so it feels like a gift when they climb into my lap

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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 05/10/2026

Banking Responsibilities Health & Safety Responsibilities Food Safety Responsibilities Climate Change Responsibilities Water Quality Responsibilities Fire Safety Responsibilities

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

This question (about English words with "rld" that don't include "world" in them) reminds me of a puzzle about finding an English word with 5 consonants in a row fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/prof…

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I've volunteered to run a #VisibleMending workshop at church in a couple weeks, with a particular focus on #darning socks. Even if no one ends up picking this up as a hobby, I should at least get a few more repaired socks out of this. 😆

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Reminds me of the old Yankee Stadium. Sitting up in "row x" (any row X crew still around?) you felt like you could lean forward and fall out of your seat and onto the field. This looks about the same. I kind of love it.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

It took me to much to old of an age to realize that sometimes I'd procrastinate on starting something because I wanted to limit the amount of time I'd sing into it. Especially for tasks that I could do "well" in about one hour, but might be able to do "slightly more well" in five hours. At […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

A cat can never make a management decision because a cat can never be held accountable. (too cute)

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Spouse has been making ice cream for a few months now, and their newest flavor is zucchini bread. That's a flavor that would not have occurred to me. I was skeptical of the appeal even though I like zucchini bread It's delicious! I think it's this recipe (but with a dab of yeast instead of the […]

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I went to put some stuff in our dilapidated garage today and discovered that it has reached new levels of ramshackle. It has had a leaky roof since we moved in, but now it has a hole in the roof big enough to see the sky 😬

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Mu @mu.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

Hey Covid cautious peeps, New Zealand is updating it's building code ventilation standards and when I asked them what papers they were checking, they said "We're doing a bit, but if you've got anything else, we'll take a look". Does anyone know of good academic papers on the topic? I have a few […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

[Top tip for injured hairy men] If your plaster/bandaid is the sort that's more clothy/fabricy than plasticky/rubbery then rubbing/isopropyl alcohol will wick right through the fabric to the adhesive underneath and dissolve it damn near instantly. Put a dab on your fingers and rub the cloth and […]

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Baloo Uriza @baloouriza.social.tulsa.ok.us.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

#KansasCity folks be like "oh we can't have a good light rail system, we're not *that* big!" and then they just forget about the past. #Transportation #Interurban #LightRail #Kansas #Missouri

A 1924 map of interurban (light rail, but for both freight and passengers) service around Kansas City. There's 8 lines and easily well over 100 stations stretching from St. Joseph, MO to Olathe, KS, and Fort Leavenworth, KS to the start of the Oregon Trail in Independence, MO, and from Excelsior Springs, MO to Lawrence, KS.

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I tried to wind down this evening by watching GBBO week 2 and met with mixed success because what on *earth* do British people think "American cookies" are?? Crisp on the outside and chewy on the inside and also frosted/decorated? That does not describe any American cookie I am familiar with

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I had a meeting today that taught me that the SpaceX launch site in Louisiana is an even worse idea than I could have even imagined. You know what causes really intensely powerful vibrations in the ground? Rocket launches. And do you know what really powerful vibrations in the ground cause in […]

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I am having some complicated and upset feels about the ICE raids. It's always upsetting regardless of where it's happening, but there isn't much I can do from here to help in other cities and states. When they're snatching people in my city, though, that's a different level of upset. Will they […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Planning out my teaching schedule for 2 years in the future and thinking fondly of the not-very-distant-past when Chegg was the biggest problem I had to deal with to make sure students were actually trying to learn my course material. Fuck LLMs.

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I have it on good authority that ICE is raiding #Utica today Stay safe and keep your neighbors safe, folks

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026

Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie:
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.

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Pottery by Osa @potterybyosa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I just sent this pot to a collector in Brooklyn. I'm so grateful. The form of the vessel is inspired by Gwari water pots made by Ladi Kwali (Nigeria's most renowned potter) and other women potters of that region whose names we do not know. The surface design […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A stately voluminous vessel with a tall, ringed neck. The exterior is intricately carved with geometric patterns and an abstracted roselle calyx design. It is painted in deep iron red tones with accents of light blue and olive green. The interior is glazed glossy aqua. The background is plain, dark brown.

A stately voluminous vessel with a tall, ringed neck laying on its side at a diagonal with the opening toward the front right. The exterior is intricately carved with geometric patterns. It is painted in deep iron red tones with accents of light blue and olive green. The interior is glazed glossy aqua. The background is plain, dark brown.

A stately voluminous vessel with a tall, ringed neck laying on its side at a diagonal with the bottom visible at the left of the frame. The exterior is intricately carved with geometric patterns and an abstracted roselle calyx design. It is painted in deep iron red tones with accents of light blue and olive green. The foot of the vase is also carved with a geometric pattern. The background is plain, dark brown.

A closeup of my hands holding the vessel shown in the other photos with the roselle side facing the camera. I'm standing outside in my backyard and greenery can be seen in the background. I'm wearing a beige t-shirt with the words "Acoma Pueblo Sky City" partially visible with a black geometric pottery motif above it.

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

In conversation with some college students before class this morning, I mentioned the year I started teaching (as a grad TA) and one of them replied, surprised, "I was 3." So I'm feeling somewhere between "experienced" and "old" tonight (Though my students usually think I'm at least a decade […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Today is Truth & Reconciliation Day. I am grateful to live on Treaty 4, the land of the nêhiyawak, Anihšināpēk, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda, and the homeland of the Métis/Michif. To share my land with local Indigenous people in the original spirit of this […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A sunrise view of a mowed meadow area, surrounded by trees just starting to turn yellow for fall. The sky is full of clouds turning pink with sunrise.

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Apparently for most of the last 4 decades my heart has had occasional flutters that are "not normal" so now I have to wear a heart monitor to help the doctors figure out what kind of not normal it is. (Except, for me, it has been MY normal and just part of how my body works…) So I have a puck […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@evacide/1173503736136… Trying to seperate people into the groups "deserves to be exploited by big tech" and "does not deserve to be exploited by big tech" will not in fact prevent anyone in the latter group from being exploited by big tech

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

my friends wanted to pass on the reminder this Spooky Season that black food dye (often made from activated charcoal, which is used for treating poisonings) can cause your medications to be ineffective

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Tab C @drtcombs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

we happily add lanes to roads in anticipation of future drivers, but when there are more people walking, bicycling, and scootering than fit into the leftover space available to them today, we do PSAs and shame campaigns

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

A reminder to vote for candidates on the Working Families (WFP) party line rather than Democratic party line in NYC/NYS. The votes count the same for the candidate, but voting on the WFP line allows WFP to continue running candidates and shows support for actual progressives instead of the […]

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Dreamory @dreamory.fnordon.de.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles schön und gut, aber kennen Sie schon die Teenage Mango Ninja Turtles?

4 Mangos liegen auf einem Schreibtisch. Jede Mango ist mit Wackelaugen ausgestattet und trägt eine Augenmaske in den Farben blau, rot, orange oder lila, den Farben der Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Die Masken sind gehäkelt.

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