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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 08/10/2026

The top 10% of Americans own 90% of the stock market. That’s why mortgage rates and healthcare will always reveal more about American life than the stock market can.

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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 · 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 · 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 · 26/08/2026

They love punching down on "colleagues" in the liberal arts school. I love the phrase "be curious, not judgmental" because academia is so full of judgmental bullies.

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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

Sounds like a thunderstorm there, so yeah

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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 · 08/03/2026

After seeing 12-packs of this priced at $13.99 earlier today at the grocery store - I'll have to pass.

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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Letter writer who describes himself as "Libertarian I guess" because he's a centrist is hilarious

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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I am seeing job ads for professors to work in AI departments and programs. They are currently adding "AI Literacy" requirements and I have never seen curriculum change happen so fast. This feels unprecedented.

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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...

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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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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!

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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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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

(For everyone under the age of 80, that was a TV show where a HS teacher returned to his old HS to teach. Hilarity ensued)

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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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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

Yes! All 5" squares in different prints.

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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

The 1980s seemed to be a time when fashion from other periods came back, makes sense typefaces designed then might harken back to earlier decades.

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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Love this, thank you! Typefaces are fascinating to me!

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Karrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Before opening the frame, I guestimated this came from the 1980s. Just a hunch. On to see if I can find the pattern!

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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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