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Ash B

@bookofoak.bsky.social
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Soft for Izzy, Astarion, and Tim Drake Fannish, academic, progressive She/they 🏳️‍⚧️ Fortyish Profile pic by Queer Magneto

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Lark 🔞🍉 @sensationseekng.bsky.social · 2h
love edizzy dynamics where ed doesn't want to fuck izzy as much as he wants to crawl inside his skin and nest in the safety of his ribcage 💘
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Rob (the floor one) @floorisbed.bsky.social · 5h
DOCTOR: have you been under any stress recently ME: come on
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 5h
Two cool ladies and a small pal. Photo from my collection, ca. 1930s.
A black and white photo of two “tomboyish” looking women with their arms slung around each other, one of them holding a kitten. They're outside and wearing work clothes.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 4h
i'd like to report a serial killer
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4h
Now that I am a free man, I can finally say this: Texas Senate is Lean D.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 3h
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel is titled “things that are spooky”. We see a book of hexes, a skull, candles, a pentagram in blood, and vampire teeth. Pointing off panel we see a speech bubble that says “I love it”.
The second panel is titled “things that are cute”. We see a strawberry cake, a boba drink, a bunny plushie, and a cute notebook and pen. Again, we see a speech bubble pointing off panel that says “I love it”.
The third panel is titled “things that are spooky AND cute”. We see a row of cute decorative ghosts.
The fourth panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, completely freaking out at this combination.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 6h
It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.
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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 5h
They tried baking you a cake.
Two orange cats rolling in a pile of dropped flour on a wood floor.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 5h
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 5h
Way too many people are responding to this saying that it would involve paying musk money, when the option of seizing all his assets after prosecuting him for fraud and election interference and his many many other alleged and sometimes almost seemingly admitted crimes is like… right there.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 5h
why do you look so sinister with your little toy
orange cat lounging on his scratcher with a small stuffed cat in his paws
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Ash B @bookofoak.bsky.social · 4h
Yes exactly! I just worry that kids who need a lot of support and focused attention from human teachers are going to be increasingly pushed onto using AI, widening inequalities across education as a whole.
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Ash B @bookofoak.bsky.social · 4h
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Ash B @bookofoak.bsky.social · 5h
I’m sincerely not anti-tech; my background and expertise is in assistive tech. But learning is repeated practice with consistent, accurate feedback. With gen AI, you have to know the subject well to be sure of accuracy. It’s an expert tool, not something to promote learning.
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Ash B @bookofoak.bsky.social · 5h
I’m prof who teaches mostly pre-service elementary + special educators. I’ve seen: -have kids use chatbots for research -prompts to use AI for writing + art on school laptops -AI to make songs for young children - AI teaching endorsements - AI making older tools worse
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Ash B @bookofoak.bsky.social · 5h
also I have friends near Salem so I may DM you next time I’m down that way and we could do a meetup or something if you lik
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Ash B @bookofoak.bsky.social · 5h
go Mom Hex go!
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Star Swallow ✨🐦‍⬛♠️ @starswallow.bsky.social · 5h
🏴‍☠️ 🦇 🕯️ 🍆 🥄 🕯️ 🥒 Con at 🕯️ 🎙️ NYCC 2027/8 🕯️ 💀 🕯️ 🩸👬 🧀 🚓
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Ash B @bookofoak.bsky.social · 5h
there’s more AI-critical voices now but I can promise you that there are still plenty of people with lots of power in education who think of gen AI as a great equalizer that all students should be using
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Ash B @bookofoak.bsky.social · 5h
the truth is that most of the people making decisions about AI in education are not carefully looking at studies and thoughtfully thinking about it. they’re going off of how shiny the tech looks and the media framing of it. so media framing that highlights its dangers is v. helpful
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Ash B @bookofoak.bsky.social · 5h
So cute!!!!
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Maja 🧶 @mindofmaja.bsky.social · 5h
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Small crocheted ghost holding a tiny pumpkin. The ghost is white with orange and yellow speckles and has two black eyes.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 5h
shoutout to the guest artists for my new book, including Sarah's Scribbles! Get the book HERE ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 6h
I like imagining the anthropologists of a future civilization being like “These ancient people believed they were descended from giants, and erected these skeletons in ritual honor of their mythic ancestors.”
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 6h
This week I’ve been on the road across eight states, plus DC, and the one thing that unites us all across this vast and fractured nation—red states and blue states, rural areas and big cities—is the 12-foot Home Depot Halloween skeleton.
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Ash B @bookofoak.bsky.social · 5h
funnily enough my lust for long-haired guys at that age led my best friend to question whether I was a lesbian. told her that was ridiculous but i guess she was right lol.
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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 6h
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Magnifying glass over a book
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Ash B @bookofoak.bsky.social · 5h
if you’re not in education, you don’t know how much generative AI has been pushed on teachers and students alike. this is not the most well-designed study by a long shot, but frankly any pushback at all against using AI in PK-12 classrooms is desperately needed.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 16h
Elite impunity is perhaps the single greatest problem in American politics going back to Gerald Ford’s Watergate pardons. These people keep getting away with it. This needs to stop.
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Ash B @bookofoak.bsky.social · 5h
babbby
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Fuck Yeah Izzy Hands (Con O'Neill gives the best hugs! ❤😊) @fuckyeahizzyhands.bsky.social · 13h
Con in Bash Street (2011) :) <3 #ConONeill #BashStreet
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
y'all want a bear cub?
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 6h
Happy (or, not...which is fine given the moment) Caturday! please enjoy a minute and a half of Sanderling TV. 🪶
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18h
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18h
Looks like we have a new version of the 5 W’s
Yeah. Which is why we need to address the five Fs.Who the fuck? What the fuck?
Where the fuck? And why the fuck?
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 18h
interviewer: can you explain this gap on your resume? me: your guess is as good as mine
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 6h
It’s back in the ether, so - NEVER give honey to infants. Honey is awesome. But it can contain dormant spores of the bacteria that causes botulism. In adults with good immune systems, this isn’t really a problem. But babies can get very sick and even die.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 6h
Here is my pitch for anyone who has worries about rail: I think that building out rail is a necessary (but not sufficient) step in transforming American cities from totally car dependent to slightly walkable, in a way that no other form of transit is.
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Ash B @bookofoak.bsky.social · 6h
🚂 🚊 🚆
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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 6h
landscape
painting of a landscape with pine trees
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
also I’m pretty sure Johnson, like me, has run into kevin mccarthy somewhere in the last few months and seen how good and free he looks now
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
there will be pressure on Mike Johnson to try and pull some kind of assholery, but republicans (even the ones in their dgaf eras) apparently having a hard time wrapping their heads around the fact that the current speaker of the house will be just a rep from Louisiana at that point
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Shannon Knight @shannonknight.bsky.social · 17h
McSweeney's landing too many punches
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 6h
whimsy is resistance, go to a renaissance festival
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Tiny Petting Zoo @tinypettingzoo.bsky.social · 6h
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 9h
He's just like me FR
"Bear goes into Aspen farmers market, eats pastries and bread"
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 9h
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good." 

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues  "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
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More silence

"Professor?"
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Ash B @bookofoak.bsky.social · 6h
It’s become normal to see him slumped over in the Oval Office with his eyes closed and his various viziers surrounding him! Trump 1.0 would have fired anyone who released a photo like that.
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 7h
this is like being endorsed by jesus in texas
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Ash B @bookofoak.bsky.social · 6h
Age yourself with your childhood (celebrity I guess) crush
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Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod: Immortal Moment
Alt: Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod: Immortal Moment
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