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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 25/08/2026

I took a pic of this mural at a dolly parton themed bar we went to at Cs

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 06/07/2026

gonna get a lot of use out of this note from my doctor

Psychiatric:
Mood and Affect: Mood normal.
Thought Content: Thought content normal.
Judgment: Judgment normal.

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 01/07/2026

I find it very embarrassing for our field that we've been having to repeat this about "AI" and writing instruction since I was one-year old (from an article by Fred Kemp in a 1987 issue of Writing Center Journal)

You may marvel, and many do, that computers can discover and describe in minute detail these characteristics of a student's paper, but I have a different reaction. Taking my cue from Artificial Intelligence research, Iook for truths about human discourse from what the computer can't do. The fact that a computer can perform the above analyses in ready fashion while being completely locked out of the content of a paper suggests that computer editing, while no doubt useful commercially and in discourse analysis, is not very useful pedagogically. Style-checkers promote a band-aid approach to writing instruction and direct time and attention away from the larger issue: the quality of the student's ideas and the relationship between those ideas and the form of expression she employs."

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 12/06/2026

sorry my draft is late my cat does this every time I try to write

a cow patterned cat belly up on a woman's with his head on her arm and his arm on her chest. she's trying to type and he is staring at her

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 12/06/2026

my friend cormac who I hadn't spoken to in years and I are recording the songs we wrote with fin in 2011 and it's legitimately so nice to be able to share this awe at their talent again

a text message that says "I already remembered Fin's guitar parts being not easy but wow"

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 08/06/2026

I moved last weekend and now I only need to walk for 4 minutes to be able to read by the river and I think this is going to change my life

picture of a river with an open book in the foreground

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 18/02/2026

Imagine being a teacher and telling the news you don't want to interact with your students

"I shouldn't have to work directly, one-on-one with a student all the time for them to be successful in their education. And so its great to have an app where students can engage with it on their own"

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 23/01/2026

I can't believe they made star trek woke

Screenshot from Balance of Terror where Kirk is saying "Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the bridge" to some bridge crew member

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 07/12/2025

I appreciate @curiousmagpie.bsky.social for understanding me enough to send me this

Honestly fuck AI for making me have to go on and on defending the dignity of toil like I'm some kind of protestant

Http://visenyaism.tumblr.com

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 26/10/2025

yesterday I listened to some undergraduate writing tutors present some research on AI in the writing center and I was especially struck by this slide:

I just have to hope that our contribution to this discussion will be heard by faculty and understand that we, as students, do not want a university and a world in which AI does everything for us.

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 30/09/2025

no shade to any of the other amazing releases but this is the coolest thing @littlepuss.net has done yet

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 07/09/2025

I'm sorry but if you don't want to develop the criteria by which you're assessing students then you shouldn't be teaching

Julie York, a computer science teacher at South Portland High School, has long incorporated new technology into her teaching, and has found generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini to be "incredibly useful." She has used it to create voiceovers for presentations when she was tired, to help make rubrics and lesson plans and to build a chatbot that can answer questions during class, which she says hells her balance the amount of time she spends with each student.

"I don't think there's any educator who wakes up in the morning, and is like, 'oh my God, I hope I can make a rubric today.' I just don't think you're going to find any,' she said. "And there's no teacher who isn't tired."

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 21/07/2025

@joycelaurie.bsky.social picnic arrived in western ny, we're very excited to read

Copy of Picnic held in front of a black and white cat

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 17/07/2025

Writing program administration distilled into a single phrase

hi Claire,
I don't want to get you assigned to even more meetings, but

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 09/07/2025

I think about this tweet like every day

tweet from @JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek

me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 26/06/2025

screaming at me from the top of the fridge because he wasn't getting enough attention

a black and white cat on top of a refrigerator with his mouth wide open

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 24/06/2025

how do you think this guy is doing lately

screenshot of a dating app conversation:
person 1: what do you study
person 2: international relations
person 1: very fascinating. how are international relations these days
person 2: wym?
person 1: are they good? bad?

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 18/05/2025

Last weekend I briefly mentioned to a newer friend that today is my dead ex's birthday and they made what I think is possibly the funniest calendar reminder ever

Time Sensitive
Tell Claire sorry about her dead ex

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 10/05/2025

truly no one is doing it like Aurora Mattia

But I understand my pussy to be a peacock feather, because it has forgone its prior function in order to obtain a different function, that of artifice: or more precisely, communication. I understand my pussy to be a corpse flower, because it asserts the allure rot: You won't have any children with me, okay? But while the adaptations performed by the peacock and the corpse flower are considered natural, mine is considered artificial--because you have forgotten that we are not so far from birds and flowers. Remember with me.

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 07/05/2025

alt text because I can't believe they just admitted it like that

"I voted for him, and he's the one who's doing this," Minton told Mazzei. "I thought he was going to do good things. He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting."

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 23/03/2025

these have all arrived in just the past two weeks like what a month for trans books

picture of 5 books. top row: worthy of the event by vivan blaxell and realistic fiction by anton solomonik. bottom row: woodworking by emily st. james, stag dance by torrey peters, and unsex me here by aurora mattia

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 20/03/2025

okay not to roast littlepuss's packing jobs further but when my preorder of Girlfriends arrived it had this signature from @emializh.bsky.social (I'm not John)

cover page of girlfriends with Emily's signature with "To John :) love you"

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 18/02/2025

one of them just found this in a student scrapbook from 1926

collection of newspaper clippings about firing of "radical" teachers. Includes headlines such as "Radical Beliefs Charged Against Faculty Members" and "Geneseo Quiet on Dismissal of Professors"

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 05/12/2024

I'm going through every course catalog in our college archive

photo of some old paper course catalogs on a table and a blue shelf with several bound copies of newer course catalogs

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 04/11/2024

that boygenius line about how it feels so good to be known so well

Instagram post from the hard times that says "Catholic Church Unveils Limited Edition Berry Blast Eucharist" with a picture of the body of christ in pink. Follow by a message that says "this would get you back to church so fast"

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 09/08/2024

At my new school the English dept is in an old elementary school building so it has these lockers down the hallways which means when I'm here alone it feels exactly like when I was a high school teacher and was still there long after everyone else left and I can't tell if that's fun or depressing

Empty school hallway with lockers along the walls, a few scattered tables, and a blank pink bulletin board

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 19/06/2024

Best first message I've ever gotten on a dating app tbh

Screenshot of a tinder conversation that says: Claire you clairvoyant beauty

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 04/06/2024

I frequently wish I had more pictures of me and my friends together and then I go to Maine to spend time with my best friends of 20 years before I move out of New England again and this is the only picture I take

Mostly white dog lying on the pavement with belly slightly up to receive pets

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 22/05/2024

I'm going to drink the Chelmsford, Massachusetts soda today

Two-liter bottle of Market Basket's Chelmsford, Massachusetts golden ginger ale

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 01/05/2024

My friend Rose gave me a grain mill and some wheat berries yesterday so I'm entering my home-milled flour era

Package of hard red winter wheat berries

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