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carmendarlene

@carmendarlene.bsky.social
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Dogs, bikes, beer, tattoos, and sometimes academic libraries. Silly goose on the loose and proud union member. I put the “assy” in sassy. No TERFS! Always Carry A Book

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 2h
(Sung to the tune of Bjork’s Big Time Sexuality) 🎶🎵“Big time skunk activityyyyyy”🎶🎵
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Haha! Thanks, I needed that laugh. 😆
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I suppose it did last about 15 years? But still! So inconvenient!!
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Went to use my hair dryer this morning and it’s totally borked! It made a clicking noise and then smoke billowed out of the back end. 😱🤬😫
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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
San Diego sheriffs department helicopter announcements are absolutely useless. It used to be that you could text a number if you heard a helicopter announcement nearby and it would text you back the announcement. But this service hasn’t worked properly for over a year now. Just absolute shit.
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Same, Dolly. Same. Sounds like a vacation, TBH.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The NIH proposal to conceal reviewer scores from program officers, investigators, and advisory councils is ill-conceived, introduces disproportionate weight to small percentile differences, diminishes the role of scientific peer review, and should be withdrawn in its entirety. a 🧵
joshuasweitz.substack.com
What is NIH Leadership Trying to Hide from Researchers & the Public?
A NIH proposal to conceal reviewer rankings of investigator-initiated research grants is ripe for misuse & demands a collective response (by October 13).
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Newsom is a really great example of California Democrat Syndrome. Like slow flightless birds on some island, these are the types of instincts you develop when you don't have any predators in your environment.
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
ALL GENDER!
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Watched Backrooms with @fraction.bsky.social this afternoon. It had some solidly scary/creepy scenes, but was desperately in need of more plot development/story. Some of the “tension building” scenes lasted far too long and dragged on laboriously. (He liked it more than I did…)
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!
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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
AI doesn't "bring the archive to life" or to even "show what this looked like in color." The medium is the message, in the sense that there is never life in a photo, there is a material object with artifacts that memorialized technology as much as any moment. It's all more imagination avoidance
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The drains did indeed hold! Which is huge because this place (at the bottom of a grassy hill) flooded twice previously that we know of. I didn’t find out until after we moved in and I was getting insurance set up. The HOA installed better drainage after that, and it is working! Whew!
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It’s going to be a good day for a nap, I think.
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I love the sound of rain at night, but it’s coming down so hard and fast that I am anxious about the drains keeping up.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now. www.instagram.com/reels/DeSCAh...
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I got out for a quick 30 miles before the wind and rain started up. I meandered through Bressi Ranch, my favorite neighborhood for Halloween decor. Unfortunately, several places were taking things down because of the storm. Fingers crossed it all goes back up. 🎃
A house decorated with many jack-o’-lanterns. It also has skeletons playing out the famous bike scene from the movie ET. A house with a Grateful Dead flag hanging from one window. There are 6 skeletons of all different colors in the front yard. A house decorated as a haunted pumpkin patch. It has a sign in front that says “Bressi Pumpkin Patch “A house with a “skeletons at the beach” theme. It’s complete with surf boards and a tiki bar.
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thinking of y’all and hoping it’s not too bad to clean up. Fingers crossed for power!
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
news.berkeley.edu
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I usually keep my work life off this platform, but I’ll make an exception to that to let people know I’m hiring in San Diego. Feel free to share widely.
linkedin.com
Burnham Center for Community Advancement hiring Associate Program Director in San Diego, CA | LinkedIn
Posted 10:35:50 PM. SALARY RANGE: $85-$100kEMPLOYMENT STATUS: FULL-TIMETHE ORGANIZATION:The Burnham Center for…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I hate this and call it out anytime I see it and have any capital to say something. FWIW, I asked a well know librarian that encourages librarians to “resist overwork” to stop making videos like this. She responded that she was in control and it was fine. 🤬 No, it’s not fine.
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Big hugs from me and stinky kisses from Gracie when you get home!
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The neighborhood kiddos often play/romp on the greenbelt behind my house. They also (seemingly) test out their cursing skills. This amuses me to no end! Go get it, Encinitas kids! Get your swear on!
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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Seeing clips of Ossoff and El-Sayed tonight and it looks like it's hater night in America (laudatory).
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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 08/10/2026
Metrolink finally has a budget after 6 months, and it includes 29% weekday, 40% weekend service cuts, with no weekday service to Oceanside. Click the link for more info. Speak out TOMORROW at 10 Metrolink and other meetings later in the month to fight back. calelectricrail.org/metrolink-an...
Scenario 8 service levels. Scenario 8 vs Optimized (new schedules vs 2025) has the following cuts: SBL -36% weekday, -25% weekend, VCL: -36%weekday, 0% weekend, AVL -27% weekday, -67% weekend, Riverside 0% cuts, Orange County -38% weekday, -50% weekend, IEOC -22% weekday 0% weekend, 91/PVL -14% weekday 0% weekend, overall -29% weekday, -40% weekend
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/10/2026
Thread. And yes, if we're going to bat back this nonsense then we have to all have each others' backs and say this is unacceptable.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A real successful 1A day here on campus. Heavy hitters. Big student turnout. Engaged questions. My notes for the academic freedom panel is a sort of Cliff Notes of how I approach this thing. This is it. My whole talk.
Notes app reads: Neoliberalism weaponizes bias to justify austerity. Austerity creates corporate universities. Corporate universities are unhealthy organizations. Unhealthy organizations cannot inculcate or defend academic freedom. Without academic freedom to check administrative power,  corporate universities will translate austerity into financialized predation. Predation undermines public trust in higher education. Death spiral accelerates.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sending y'all so much good luck! May this storm pass with minimal damage.
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Kathy S @kshannon617.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Damn right.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I honestly haven't done it in a bit, but I don't recall them being too sweet.
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you freeze grapes, they act as ice cubes. If you freeze them in vodka, they can be a delicious treat on a hot day.
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Having the North Park Book Fest the same day as Taste of North Park was certainly a choice. I made sure to hiss disapprovingly at all the folks who brought their dogs out on this 100+ degree day. Not a dog bootie in sight. 🤬 It’s too damn hot for doggos out there.
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ah yes, another heat wave. Just in time for the book fair/street festival. ☹️ Tomorrow should be a bit melty in North Park. I’m packing lots of water, sunscreen, and an umbrella.
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yep! When I make my dark chocolate and tart cherry oatmeal cookies, I have to make *at least* 4 dozen! The bulk get gifted around to friends and neighbors, maaaaybe some work people, and they freeze really well for later. They go super fast.
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Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I should not have to dress like a construction worker just to avoid being killed by a driver.
norman rockwell painting of man standing up at town meeting
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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do I know any (pref. Canada-based) researchers working on cognitive atrophy, AI, and (higher) education? Asking for a journalists.
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You got this, Rach! I believe in you!
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's very pretty!
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 01/10/2026
#Recall: Gazelle USA Recalls Urban Arrow Cargo Electric Bikes; The front bolt in the seat post clamping mechanism can break, causing the seat to become loose, posing a fall hazard. Get repair. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2027...
Recalled electric bikes.
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Unbelievably barbaric and horrible.
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I know! I feel the same way. I am going to have to try a few different stores because there aren't a lot of options around here for peperoncinis. 🤢
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I do NOT feel great about this development!
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Uh, so this is probably why I couldn't find them in the store recently. I made Mississippi roast on Monday and ended up using pre-sliced peppers.
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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
WTF? UGH.
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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you work at Cal State + are an AI refuser/angry re the renewal of the OpenAI contract, take the CSU AI Survey! I suspect last yr's data skewed towards enthusiasts/early adopters (certainly on my campus). It's important that the data reflect the full range of attitudes aisurvey.sdsu.edu/live/
aisurvey.sdsu.edu
CSU AI Survey Response Rates
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 30/09/2026
These men want you ignorant and powerless so that you can’t stop them from eliminating most of us when they really get things going.
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