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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

“Continue his work”?!? When did Kirk ever say literally *anything* in “good faith”?? This garbage should be immediately disqualifying to anyone supporting Newsom for a Dem primary. Just crazy talk.

Post by Gov. Gavin Newsom says “The best way to honor Charlie’s memory is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse. In a democracy, ideas are tested through words and good-faith debate — never through violence.
Post timestamped 9/10/25 at 6:05 PM

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Dahlias from my garden in Illinois a couple of years ago. Time to re-learn gardening in the Southeast.

Several blooms from a dahlia called “apricot lemonade,” I think. It has a neon yellow center and the petals become more pink the farther away from the center they are.

Don’t remember the name of this dahlia, but I think it’s a cactus type. It’s a vivid magenta bloom. My hand is holding the flower towards the camera.

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

There were a lot of WTF moments in this NYT photo essay, but the one that is going to bother me (like, forever ever) is the woman who said she’d “gladly” give up any abortion rights she & her daughter have if it kept her son from going to war. “GLADLY.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A black & white photo taken from above. A group of women, all appear to be white, are sitting around a dining room table in someone’s home, with papers all around them. Many of them are on their phones. According to the article, they are in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and were calling voters to encourage them to vote for Trump.

The text under the photo has a pull quote from one of the women: “The women voting solely on abortion make me crazy,” Ziemba said. “I’d gladly give up my abortion rights and my daughter’s for my son not to have to go to war. We’ll have peace with Trump.”

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Also I don’t know how I should feel about gaining all these new followers from just having a dog & being on a list of people with dogs (eeek! @estherlindstrom.bsky.social) but the dog is cool with it, at least.

Tan colored medium sized dog lying on a grey couch, looking at the camera. Same dog as previous photo.

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Miley kindly requests that you add us. 😂

A tan dog with white paws, lying on a grey couch.

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Everything is bad except for dogs. And Midwestern sunsets.

A dog in the front passenger seat of a car with her head sticking out of the window. In the background it’s sunset behind a piece of flat grassy land.

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

Miss Miley here has her own lovely ears, but it’s been a joy to include Sammie’s ears in my days, too. 😍

Miley (a tan/white German shepherd mix) in repose on our couch. Her GSD-style ears are one of her cutest features.

Miley sitting and “smiling” in our backyard, ears all funky and fabulous.

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

FUCKIN HELL WHAT THE FUCK THAT’S NOT WHAT THE FUCK THIS IS ABOUT 🤦🏻‍♀️😡

Screenshot from live blog by NY Times reporters during Biden’s interview on July 5, 2024. This post is by Shane Goldmacher: “How will Biden feel if Trump wins? Biden indicated that ‘as long as I gave it my all,’ he would be OK. ‘That’s what this is about,’ Biden said.”

A photo of Trump giving a speech wearing a MAGA hat is beneath Goldmacher’s post.

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

Definitely don’t google “nuptial flights termites”

Screenshot from Wikipedia page on nuptial flights, text follows: Within a few days after they have emerged (enclosed) from the pupa case, males are “quickly converted into single-purpose sexual missiles.” Young queens and males stay in their parent colony until conditions are right for the nuptial flight. The flight requires clear weather since rain is disruptive for flying insects.

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 11/05/2024

Your last saved selfie is you on the outside and your last saved meme is you on the inside.

Selfie. White woman with gray/dark brown hair (texture undefined, some combination of wavy-curly-unruly), glasses with clear frames, wearing a black top.

Meme about the English language being made up of many other languages. Depicts Noah on the Ark, pointing at a photoshopped animal labeled as “English” with parts of lots of different animals. The normal animals are labeled as Norse, German, Latin, French, and Greek. Noah gestures at English and looks angrily at the other animals, saying “What the hell is this?”

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

6/? Anyway, Byron died 200 years ago (tragically, dramatically, i.e. capital-R Romantically) yesterday. That’s the reason for this little thread. Was Byron a jerk? Almost definitely. Was Byron an entitled, privileged f*ckboi? Probably. On the other hand, no Byron, no Ada Lovelace, so there’s that.

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

4/? And then there’s Don Juan, arguably the grown-up version (still ironic) of Childe Harold, commenting on life with trite “deep thoughts” that appear insightful. Byron’s actual life may not be a common experience, but we all certainly know a basic bitch (Don Juan) when we hear one. Brilliant.

Excerpt from Byron’s poem “Don Juan”:
“Well well, the world must turn upon its axis,
And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails,
And live and die, make love and pay our taxes,
And as the veering wind shifts, shift our sails;
The king commands us, and the doctor quacks us,
The priest instructs, and so our life exhales,
A little breath, love, wine, ambition, fame,
Fighting, devotion, dust — perhaps a name.”

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

3/? Also worth noting that Byron (via Childe Harold) thought that the Parthenon Marbles (aka Elgin Marbles) ought to be returned to Greece by the British Museum, over 200 years ago.

Excerpt from Byron’s poem “Child Harold’s Pilgrimage.”
“Dull is the eye that will not weep to see
Thy walls defaced, thy mouldering shrines removed
By British hands, which it had best behoved
To guard those relics ne’er to be restored—
Cursed be the hour when from their isle they roved,
And once again thy hapless bosom gored,
And snatched thy shrinking gods to Northern climes abhorred!”

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

My specialty area (or, as a very good friend calls it, “nerd niche”) is cognitive load and literacy development. So why *shouldn’t* I get to hold a plushie brain in my “official” head shot?? (In this case, “official” means I took it myself 😂)

Selfie, in which I’m wearing dark round eyeglasses, a black top and black blazer and holding a stuffed toy shaped and colored like a human brain. The brain, of course, has little beady eyes attached to it. I’m standing in my office, with lots of memorabilia and photos on the wall behind me.

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

drop something green from your gallery

A dill plant, bright green with tiny yellow flower buds.

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

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Logos: Council for Exceptional Children, Innovations in Special Education Technology. QR Code links to application.
Text: 2024-2025 ISET Doctoral Student Fellowship. Are you interested in assistive technology, accessibility, equity, AI, or other topics in educational technology? Conducting research in educational technology and students with disabilities? Searching for additional networking opportunities? Looking for ways to get more involved with CEC? Then check out the ISET Doctoral Student Fellowship! Applications are now open for current doctoral students in special education!

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Recite 80% of a movie and you get 500k. What movie are you picking?

Black & white still photo from the Beatles’ first movie, “A Hard Day’s Night.” In the photo, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and the actor Wilfred Brimley (playing Paul’s fictional grandfather) are sitting together in a rail car.

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

Missed you so very much today, Pops. 💔 🎄

An empty Christmas stocking, at least 30 years old, with an American flag pattern, hanging on a white fireplace mantle.

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

🏀 Duke, UNC, *and* Virginia all as 7-seeds?? And Clemson a 3-seed?!? That’s madness, I tells ya! (Irresponsibly premature and meaningless madness, but madness nonetheless.) #ACC #MBB #CBB #NCAAM

Screenshot of a tweet from Fox College Hoops, showing a very early predicted NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket.

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

EVANSTOOOOOOON! (Niche version of the Santos meme for my fellow fans of college basketball chaos)

Former congressman George Santos, surrounded by reporters with mics and cameras. He appears to be angrily yelling.

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Using only a restaurant, tell us where you went to college. (Note: the parking deck in the background was not there when I was an undergrad)

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