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Karrie Kaiser Lee

@karrielee.bsky.social
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Lecturer, Professional Writing program, Dept of English, Purdue University.

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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Philosophy prof: "What if Writing Isn't Central to Thinking?" Writing prof (me): that's the wrong question. Writing is central to LEARNING, and offloading the writing process to LLMs is demonstrably hurting the learning process.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For the folks claiming that quilting is apolitical...
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today's quick snap of #floralphotography courtesy of the Purdue groundskeepers.
A photo of several purple pansies, from light, barely purple to a dark violet.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What a time to be alive, amirite?
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#bloomscrolling - I love it!
A close-up of a bright fuchsia flower, the structure of which is made up of many smaller flower-like blooms in circular formation. The center of this flower is a single yellow flower-like bloom.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Back to school! I enjoy seeing the white boards filled with study notes on everything from Spanish to Nursing to Engineering out in the halls of Wilmeth Active Learning Center at #Purdue. #artofstudying
A white board filled with study notes for a Spanish class, including info on formal commands and the future tense.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
As I wrestle with AI creeping into higher ed, this is pretty interesting;
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Ok, I did find one feed, looks like it's raining there
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
All the live feeds at the Kennedy Center have gone dark.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"The demands of one's life and the ways one has been taught to deal with them interfere again and again with writing." Mike Rose, "When a Writer Can't Write" #writingishard #writersblock
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I expect that reading Bluesky will introduce me to depressing news stories, but I did not expect to be told that daylilies are invasive. Truly invasive or is this a snobby gardening trend?
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I can't say enough bad things about the Brightspace learning management system. #Brightspacesucks
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Yesterday a student got my attention by saying "Professor?" and I was disappointed when he didn't ask me for a synonym for pirate treasure. #BeastieBoys
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
In spite of my rage, I'm still just a sage on a stage
Rows of classroom seats facing the front of the room.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I ack in 1995, I wonder if academia embraced the Internet as swiftly and strongly as it has #genai. Were departments of the Internet started back then? Was there a rush to start Internet literacy requirements?
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 17/11/2025
today’s don’t build the torment nexus comes to us from the classic horror story don’t build the evil sentient toy
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 13/11/2025
toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'" futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
A leaf hanging out on campus. #leafytheanswerwewantedwasleafy #autumnleaves #naturephotograhy
A red leaf tinged with yellow lies on gray pavement with angled lines.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.
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Tanner Johnson @tannertrue.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
media.tenor.com
a man is holding a microphone and making a funny face .
ALT: a man is holding a microphone and making a funny face .
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I'm super excited to be returning to my old program, and a tiny bit nervous, tbh. But there's a lot of resources and support. #Purduerhetoricandcomp
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I'll be splitting time between CHI and W Lafayette. It's about a 2 hour drive one way, plus a time zone. (For those of you keeping track, my previous commute wound up being about 1.5 hours one way.)
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I am happy to report I will be teaching at Purdue as a full-time Lecturer for the Professional Writing program starting this fall. That's where I earned my PhD in rhetoric. So, a little like "Welcome Back, Kotter."
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Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 09/08/2025
Reminder that AI harms marginalized communities!
noemamag.com
The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence | NOEMA
Supporting transnational worker organizing should be at the center of the fight for “ethical AI.”
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
This whole thread - yes. I am so concerned about generative AI and am alarmed at how it's being crammed down our digital throats.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
And finishing up this quilt made of fabric from the " Prospect Park" collection by Kitty Yoshida. #quiltsky
Six larger quilt squares with pieced frames - purple, cream, grey, black, and yellow.Close up of quilt borders from left to right - pieced purple leaf, purple and black, and grey leaf prints; cream tonal; hydrangea and leaf print; black with leaf outlines; "cheater quilt" print with squares of various bird silhouettes; another black with leaf outlines.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Finished this Eye-Spy quilt for my nephew recently. #quiltsky
A simple quilt composed of 5" squares 12 by 12, in a wide variety of theme prints, made for a child to play "I Spy" with. Quilt is bound with yellow fabric.
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
We don't need more data centers, this addiction to computer solutionism is psychotic and does not work. It literally makes every problem we face dramatically worse.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Really misread the embroidery pattern's source. It's Needles 'N Hoops! 😳
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I'm pausing this project. I have archival framing tape but no archival cardboard to wrap the embroidery in. Leaving it in the frame, I'll see if the piece needs to be washed. Hope it won't. You can see damage to the fabric from the cellophane tape used in the original framing.
Opened back of vintage piece of framed embroidery. Shows damage from cellophane tape to the fabric and the cardboard backing the embroidery.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The vintage embroidery was custom framed by a company called Madigan. The cross stitch itself appears to be a copyrighted design by Stitches N Loops. The typeface on the framing paper looks almost Art Deco to me, it could be a logo designed in the 30s or 40s & used up into the 50s.
The back of a custom framed piece of vintage embroidery. The paper back of the custom frame has been removed. The paper features a wavy "M" and below this M is 
* A * D * I * G * A * N *
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
My amateur attempt at vintage embroidery preservation. Found this cute piece of vintage cross stitch in a frame that makes my hands feel dirty whenever I handle it.
Vintage cross stitch 8" x 10" in a frame. Embroidered text reads "the early bird gets his own breakfast". Image of a sleeping kitty next to a food bowl labeled "kitty" - a bird, possibly a robin, is perched on the bowl and eating the kibble contained within.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Close-up. Maybe too close! I bought the fabric online and was pleased how well the cream fabric coordinated with the prints. #quiltsky
Close up shot of A quilt made of four-patch and two-patch squares, lattice, and border. Patches are a fuchsia celestial (suns and moons with faces) print, fuchsia cloud print, and gold star print. Lattice and border is cream flecked with gold.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Time to start lesson planning for fall. Here's my most recent quilt top! Pattern is called "Four Square" by Cath Derksema and Kristen Junior from the book "Easy Quilt Projects." Directions called for 4.5" squares, I used 5", because I love the print so much. #quiltsky
A quilt made of four-patch and two-patch squares, lattice, and border. Patches are a fuchsia celestial (suns and moons with faces) print, fuchsia cloud print, and gold star print. Lattice and border is cream flecked with gold.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
*Biden tries to forgive student loans* SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. *Trump revokes part of the constitution* SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
And one more shot of the Kaffe Fassett Collective color wash quilt top. These blocks were just sitting around waiting for me to add to it but I decided not to. I spaced and did not square the 9 patch blocks and it needs a good pressing - too hot to iron tho.
A large portion of a brightly colored mostly floral quilt made of simple square patches.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Thanks for the love on my previous post! Here's a better picture. I assembled this in 9 patch squares on a design wall a few years ago. The intent was to add to it but I realized that was not going to happen. So it's 6 rows of 4, all Kaffe Fassett Collective designs in a colorwash effect. #quiltsky
Brightly colored quilt with floral and geometric prints.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The quilt top barely hit the bed before Bitsy the Gray Cat arrived to "help." Better pictures to follow. quiltsky
A grey cat sits on top of a brightly colored quilt made of florals in vivid yellows and green.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Here's a blast from my quilt past. In grad school, I didn't have any time for quilting. One day, a quilting mag caught my eye and I was back in! I made this throw feeling guilty I wasn't dissertating the whole time. Fabric line is Woodland Delight by Paula Prass. #quiltsky
A quilt made up of solid strips of a brown and white bird print interspersed with pieced rectangles in rows, various prints in orange, white, brown, fuchsia, and pink.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Here's a very busy quilt made at the height of the pandemic. The fabric is all from Kitty Yoshida's "Prospect Park" line. #quiltsky
A quilt in shades of green, blue, and grey, with various leaf and bird motifs.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
When I found out about #bigstitchquilting, I started using it to apply binding to my quilts. My hand stitching will never be perfect, so this is my way of confronting my crippling perfectionism. It's surprisingly sturdy stitching.
Close-up of a quilt binding that has been applied with big stitches.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Had this label custom printed for me, because I have Quilt Gifting Anxiety. I should be able to ship this one this week, if the intended recipient still wants it 😬 #slowquilting
Close up of a floral print quilt backing in black and white, with a label imprinted with the words "Sorry this took so long!" A hand sewing needle and thread indicates the label is being sewn on.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
According to my research, I'm the only one in Chicago enjoying the temps in the 50s and clouds this week. #Chicagoweather
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Gonna start collecting these ChatGPT fails for use in my writing courses #ChatGPTsux
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Finished applying the binding on this quilt last night! Binding was entirely applied by machine; not thrilled with the outcome of that, but #finishedisbetterthanperfect #quilt
Quilt made up of larger squares of fabric in green and gold with whitePhoto showing pieced front of quilt in green and gold with white, as well as the back - a fanciful print featuring a deer with antlers, flowers, and birds in green, gold, and white.
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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Spring 25 grades submitted last night! I taught 2 online sections of Tech Writing at NIU. Great bunch of students. Am rethinking my instructions project because A) students can struggle to come up w/tasks B) Gen AI is creeping in.
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