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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Got an email from a student asking to rewrite their AI paper. The email was composed by AI, I think, because it was highly respectful and thanked me for catching them.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Gonna try to start using this site more. It's a hellsite, but not as relentlessly depressing. This is what I bring to the table. Does anyone have shoes that match my jacket or want to start a ska band?

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 21/04/2024

Another 88 less obviously used it. Are any other educators dealing with an absolute dumpster fire of semester?

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 21/04/2024

42 of 211 opened the Chicago Style walk-through video I recorded. 32 of 211 did not respond to the prompt at all. Another 57 ignored minimum prompt requirements. 38 didn't submit their midterm at all. 13 submitted papers clearly from another class. 22 obviously used AI.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 21/04/2024

Took an adhd break from grading papers to do a petty check in on recurring themes in student work this semester. 62 of 211 students spelled my name wrong. 194 of 211 students put bibliographic entries in their footnotes despite multiple warnings not to.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

We get paid the same... we both teach the same course. I don't think they even read the papers. One with an A+ was riddled with factual inaccuracies. I'm putting in 60+ hours a week teaching 7 different preps this semester for the exact same pay. Why?

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

I'm about to have a mental breakdown because I just saw another lecturer's feedback to student work on Canvas. Like I put so much work into feedback. Dozens of hours a week. This dude just copied and pasted, "Fantastic work!" A dozen times. 80% of his class got full credit. No annotations.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

I swear to God, if I see Quotidian Disruption misused one more time...

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Me in class making fun of Victorian Era lads for doing bumps of Buffalo Tongue to get boners and everyone laughs. Me making fun of Chiropractors and everyone gets mad.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

How can I expect my students to read history when I can't even get my wife to?!? Does she even love me?

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Just sent a follow on Twitter to DM

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

That would be great! I have a lot of similar materials, but I normally don't teach upper div soc classes so I'm definitely second guessing my content delivery considering how rough this class has been.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Def on my prep list to put together something along those lines in lecture form for next semester. We had an open workshop on it, but only five students, five who already could read and understand the articles attended. Is this a formal lesson or just go through the article during a class?

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

This also might just be venting, I'm also struggling to get them to read prompts. It's been a hell of a semester.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

A majority of the class, most of them soc majors are failing and I have no idea what to do. 4/4

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

I can't turn this into a intro course or a general methods course at this level. I have prepared a bunch or peripheral materials on how to read articles and identify things like research q's, lit review, research methods etc and either its not helping or they aren't making use of the resources. /3

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Two questions about students. Are peer revied articles not being assigned in CC courses or lower div courses? Or are students not engaging effectively with the assigned readings at that level? Main q, what can I do to help facilitate reading comprehension at this level? /2

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

So any CC or JC Sociology or Social Science instructors/professors, I have a question and need some help. I'm teaching an upper division Social Movements class, most of my students are transfer students and soc majors. Not all of them, but a large number are unable to read scholarly lit. /1

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/08/2023

Only in America can a university seek to close deficits by closing revenue generating English and foreign language departments when not even considering for a second whether a money losing football program should be cut. And some people say American exceptionalism is dead. Pshaw.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

For fun AI moments in teaching. I had a student swear they didn't use chatgpt for a paper AFTER I pointed out they left in passage, "My responses are generated based on a mixture of licensed data, data created by human trainers, and publicly available information."

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Dr. Mansa Keita @rasmansa.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

It's maddening watching conservatives (and unfortunately moderates) now just openly defending white nationalists and eugenicists. The Overton window shifted way more aggressively than I could've imagined.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

The fact that the uncritically platform this when he and his project are illiberal by his own admission is astonishing.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 23/07/2023

reskeet with the first album you bought with your own money

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 21/07/2023

Shouldn’t have been surprised that it only took two tweets for a Twitter account to go from “fuck the strike, you guys make thousands of dollars an episode!” to “Civil rights ruined this country” and “Hitler offered a good alternative to communism” but I was

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

Oh no, the discourse has found us!

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 14/07/2023

Keep Santa Cruz weird as praxis.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 14/07/2023

At least we aren't Mastodon nerds

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

I remember making a dumb character in a video game over decade ago with assassin in the name. Game was like nope, that contains profanity. I guess since then, the only two options are overzealous moderation or letting people just pick n-word as their handle. I'm not a tech guy someone help me out.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Literal advocacy for violence. Way to fucking go twitter.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

How's Twitter content moderation going? Not violating ToS you say?

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Is Jonathan Chait on here yet so we can bully him off?

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

I always teach these when covering the legacy of the civil rights era and party flip. Students are always baffled because if course they just learn about Brown v. Board and think the fight was done. Def excited to check out the book!

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

Thry be like, "oh, I'm not like other Gen xers."

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

Reskeet a picture of yourself and your age. I’m 38.

Me, a 38 year old man with a dumb fucking mustache and sunglasses looking wistfully off into the distance to make it look like I don't care about this selfie.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

Lost my mind at the Napoleon trailer when he said his famous catchphrase

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

Do not go gentle into that good night

Refuse to be stored in black plastic sacks and placed in the containers provided

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

James Lindsey blocked me for posting this when he was posting all unhinged about Voltaire and Hegel having beef. Hegel was like

Michael Jordon looking into the camera saying "Fuck them kids."

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

Kid* Jesus should put a lid on to avoid daily guilt trips from someone who still wears velcro strapped shoes.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

Once they learn this weakness, they never forget. My lid is turning seven next week and still feels the need to remind me not only that I need to do it, but also about every time I didn't before pulling out and how dangerous it was.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

In light of weird demonic and satanic panic nonsense coming back unto the national spotlight. Can I recommend everyone read Elizabeth Reis' Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

Contentious weirdos breed discussion and there just aren't as many of them here. I'm going to be wrong a lot just for people to start explaining stuff to me on here.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

This really comes in handy for a guy like me who only knows one Upton Sinclair quote.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

We only give evangelicals their weird premillenial nonsense about Rapture FOMO.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

Capital* Like the satanic panic had a crescendo into the Bush post 9/11 era into Obama being the literal antichrist.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

It seems like popculture and demons in America is dominated by Catholics/exorcisms. Fantastical hocum and not theology for American protestants. Demons are an abstract until politically expedient or they feel they have enough political calital. Then every protestant is Cotton Mather reborn.

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Garrett Riley @dejezeus.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

I mean who am I to say that not giving the toxic positivity app DM's wasn't an absolutely brilliant plan?

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