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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 14h

I opened an article on Acrobat and when Acrobat AI assistant prompted to summarize it, I accidentally clicked "view summary" instead of closing the box and it was wild. It kept saying "Colombian Exchange" when the article very clearly said "Columbian Exchange." LOL. So smart.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm working on my Spring US #FoodHistory syllabus and (re)reading "The Price of Bread: The New York City Flour Riot and the Paradox of Capitalist Food Systems" from 2014. The riot happened in 1837, but the rioters' cries for "bread, meat, rent, fuel! — their prices must come down!" seem evergreen.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I collect vintage sewing pattern magazines and the Germans did it very well. And still do, but that's neither here nor there. I have one from the early 1920s (antique instead of vintage, I suppose), and it's entirely in Fraktur. Definitely an experience. Should be noted, I don't know German at all.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's my favorite bean to make Cuban black beans!

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Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I really wish more people realize the conservative crackdown taking place at public universities affects way, way more people than the overstated and overdramatized issues at the Ivies.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My son is in college now but I was in college and then grad school pretty much his entire life until 2022. I could only really work when he was in daycare, and later in school. Never on weekends and rarely at night. It was hard, but in many ways it forced me to have an OK work-life balance.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Every time I open a sewing pattern in PDF format Acrobat says "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary using AI Assistant." It's literally lines and curves; virtually no text. There is nothing to summarize. This shit is out of control.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Being raped should not be a price women have to pay for partying. Drinking and doing drugs does not automatically mean you consent to sex of any sort, or anything else, for that matter.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All updated and ready to go. Just in time to start working on the new prep I have for the spring semester.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Brocade frays like the dickens. Do you have a serger?

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was doing what I thought were the finishing touches on my Fall B classes when I remembered that between the Spring and the Fall I had to switch to the new edition of the textbook for one prep so now I have to change the slides and test banks. Thankfully the book's organization stayed the same.

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Critical Role: Laura Bailey Sighs

ALT: Critical Role: Laura Bailey Sighs

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s about the Moda Blockheads.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Four weeks into the academic year and the ID situation remains the same.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The quilting community is once again in turmoil over lack of diversity. And the president of the company in question claiming that he just didn't know ... in 2026. The MALE president of a company that is in a female-dominated industry in terms of consumers and producers.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This was such a fun movie despite the very serious historical event! And I'd be lying if I said that having Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson in the same movie wasn't a feast for the eyes too.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If the highest authorities in our universities are using AI to do their work how can we, as faculty, even attempt to get students to grasp that using AI to do their work is not acceptable and is cheating, not to mention it's stopping them from developing many important skills? It's a losing battle.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"NYC might have Mamdani but the fooderati are being bamboozled." Great piece by @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social www.aliciakennedy.news/p/is-food-fl...

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Is Food Flopping?

Or has it never really peaked?

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I made a couple of small 100% rye sourdough loaves (tourte de seigle) yesterday. They are curing and will slice them tomorrow. Can’t wait to dig in. The rye is NY-grown, and stone ground less than 1 mile from my apartment in Brooklyn.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is my first market season (ends on November 22nd), and my goal as I expand is to transition entirely to local flour, not just for the specialty ones. Anyway, just a bit of self-promotion because why the heck not. (I also have a full time job as a college professor, which I'm also good at!)

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My bread is great, if I may toot my own horn, and I'm usually sold out by 12:30pm. I use locally grown and milled flour for my specialty flours (rye, spelt, emmer, einkorn, cornmeal, etc), which taste great and helps the money stay in the local economy as much as possible. www.lineabakery.net

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Línea Bakery

“All baked items were so delicious […]. This was the second time I ordered items from Linea Bakery and both times the foods were fresh and delicious.”

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sad to see Tartine on this list. You know who's not PE backed? Me! Línea Bakery, my microbakery, my passion project, my second job, has been built with my own blood, sweat, and tears. I'm at the Battery Park City farmers market almost every Sunday 9am-2pm. If you're in New York, come buy some bread!

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Watching Ed Sheeran's career unravel in real time was not on my radar.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One moment you're young and carefree, backpacking alone across Egypt, no cell phones, no tech, and the next you're in your kitchen at 10pm measuring the pH of your sourdough starters with lab-grade equipment.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Doing battle with Canvas today, setting up my Fall B classes, which I'm redesigning a bit. Why does it always take ten times as long as you think it will?

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Earlier this year a cookie shop called Cookies n' Cream opened near me in Brooklyn. We thought they had one other location based on their marketing of this new one, but it turns out they are a franchise with several locations. The cookies are decent; I wonder how long it will be before PE sweeps in.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You can buy a $480 box to keep your $60 rye loaf. This whole thing has to be some kind of social experiment or maybe performance art.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What I think this is is a marketing ploy. They are getting all this chatter about the ridiculousness of the price for the loaf, which will drum up business and will get people to come in and buy one slice of bread with toppings, their real sellable product.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I read about this yesterday as I got home from picking up 25 lbs of freshly milled Hudson Valley rye from NYC's only stone mill, which is a five minute drive from me in Brooklyn. I know how much the very best rye flour you can buy locally costs. I know the labor involved. This loaf is not worth $60.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

After seeing this yesterday, I will never again agonize over whether I'm charging too much for my products. Maybe I'll even increase my prices a dollar or two per loaf for the next market season.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Having a gleeful potato in the thumbnail for a podcast about the Great Famine is unhinged.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I did shape these using a different method (rope).

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Today’s round of bagels. Same batch, just longer cold proofing. About 38 hours vs yesterday’s 14 or so.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I made some very good bagels for my family today. #yeastmasters

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

But I went to the movies pretty much every weekend in the late 90s (LOL). $5 for the ticket, maybe $8 tops for popcorn and a drink, and we'd just show up at the theater just before showtime, no problem. Even in the mid-2000s, movie theaters weren't this much of a racket. Now I sound like a Boomer.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Is this why people are no longer going to the movies? I've been once in the last 11 years (last year), and it was because I got a free ticket and food because it was a promo for a big movie. The last time before that was Inside Out with my child and I don't remember paying anywhere near this

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I was looking to go see Coyote vs. ACME this weekend and I'm horrified at the cost of going to the movies. $70 for three people to just get butts on seats. Nevermind concessions. Plus, everything has to be booked ahead and has assigned seating, all of which really kills any sort of spontaneity.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You know what damages trust between faculty and students? Students cheating by submitting AI work.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don't want anyone to complain ever again about the price of my baked goods.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's probably for the best, to be honest.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

And faculty do a better job at sticking to the syllabus than some administrations do at sticking to faculty contracts 😉

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"Postpartum" has entered the colloquial lexicon and it drives me crazy because people keep misusing it. "She had postpartum" (often used derogatorily). Yes, everyone who delivers a baby has a postpartum period! It literally means after birth. What you mean is postpartum depression. Just say that!

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Power Rangers Dino Fury: It's Rant O'Clock!

ALT: Power Rangers Dino Fury: It's Rant O'Clock!

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