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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am teaching 121 this semester x 45 minutes for each oral exam is 5,445 minutes or 90.75 hours or 72.6 classes worth of time.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What level of civilization on the Kardashev scale would “manipulating energy on a universal scale” be?

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Or Tennessee, but their orange is less red isn’t it?

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Same but with spring re: suffering through a Phoenix summer instead of a Canadian winter. Fall is now my favorite season.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Highereedjobs.com is the best bet from my experience. Looks like slim pickings (and you have to filter through ALL the English jobs) but I see a few open positions on there right now (couple of fictions, 1 poetry, 1 nonfiction).

highereedjobs.com

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It would feel like a parody even if it’s not. But that’s our timeline, a deeply serious parody of itself.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

ABBA is a get up and move your body kind of music, that Allman Brothers song is a sink into a deep high armed chair with a glass of cognac kind of music.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hats go back to about 3500 BCE or so. Mostly yes they were worn for protection and not really for fashion for a lot of people (peasants working in fields, travelers for warmth or shade). But not every culture was big into “hats,” (or head coverings).

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Imagine what happened to Hanania when Samus’s zero suit came off in Metroid and it was revealed she was a woman!

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I accidentally bought these and they are as bad as they sound.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Biased research question that will taint data collection. No instructor teaching research methods would let their student get away with that framing.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oh. I do have one to share: the view from Tombstone, AZ:

A desert landscape with desert plants in the foreground, a field, and mountains in the distance.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I think it’s also important we don’t conflate something like text-to-speech or other adaptive programs that might use machine learning with a general purpose LLM.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

They don’t have to be staffed by either of those categories when you’ve got full-time NTT lines sitting there that could be funded.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Emails from the principal, athletics director, clubs, PTO, and then there’s Class Dojo and Infinite campus. And your kid got a point. Find out why! And there’s an info session about a field trip and here are 10,000 requests for supplies and fundraising emails. So basically it’s the same.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yes. Can someone explain Ryder to me? He’s an evil genius, this boy.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

In this one, he is a desperate family man driven to the brink by his job (and a rich asshole):

A movie poster for Summer Rental. Shows John Candy on a beach slightly sunburned and carrying way too much beach gear but smiling anyway.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Not many have, but I think John Quincy Adams did.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Every county in the Southwest should have a ban, especially the lower Colorado River Basin states.

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Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Psst... we're looking for novellas and poetry collections... you should submit yours to us... you even get paid upfront and get royalties... just gonna slip that the link to submit right here: driftwoodpress.submittable.com/submit

driftwoodpress.submittable.com

Driftwood Press Submission Manager

Hello! We're so excited that you're considering sending work to us. Driftwood Press is an independent magazine publisher & press. We publish chapbooks, full-length poetry collections, comics,…

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Man, sometimes you don’t even realize how hot your feet are until you take your socks off.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hey, zombie apocalypse writers/fans. Switzerland has over 330,000 nuclear bunkers, enough for all 9 million residents in case of catastrophic event (like nuclear war).

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This take seems wrong for a lot of reasons. The first: this started happening in the 1980s, at least 15 years before e-commerce took off, I coincidentally right around the time wages started stagnating and the wealth gap really started widening.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It really helped that they had an almost complete SARS/MERS vaccine just lying around waiting for another coronavirus to show up.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

There was one with Vanderbilt’s president too. They both come from the Chicago School of thought about how to run a university (the Freakonomics guy loves the University of Chicago).

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Every time I see a job opening in CA and see the salary range. Open Zillow. Nope!

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

For sure. It’s just a game (and not without flaws). Not a fight, just a sharing of perspectives.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I’m fine with it as a quirk of the game. The unknown of when your team will be out of chances or how long your team has to suffer and hold on before the final whistle blows is both the most infuriating and most beautiful part of playing and watching the sport. youtu.be/cvGfV6qCiOI?...

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Abby Wambach Goal vs. Brazil in the 122' - 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup

YouTube video by TheresBeautyInSoccer

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Yes but the time doesn’t stop when the ball goes out of bounds or when a team scores. It keeps running. Stoppage is for issuing cards, player injuries, players/coaches arguing etc. It’s up to the ref. Now the ref’s watch can be connected to the game clock we see on TV maybe?

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

When he says it’ll make moviemaking easier what he means is it’ll be easier to shove even more needless fake ships in the backgrounds of his shots without paying animators to do it.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Pretty sure it was Dragonlance (bought in a basement bookshop In Harper’s Ferry while being forced to hike the C&O canal against my will) to Pillars of the Earth (my dad was a huge Ken Follett fan) to It (also my dad—huge King fan) for me. The Stand was two years later.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Oh and since you can’t see the price on the tag, it’s $200.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This was in a Scottsdale Goodwill. It’s probably still there since no one is going to be able to just take it home on a whim:

Elaborate French provisional armoire sitting in a Goodwill store amidst a fake house plant, and other cheap furniture.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Live in Phoenix and often our dinners in the summer are often cut watermelon, grapes, pineapple, and chips and salsa

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

You known it’s hot when your biodegradable straws biodegrade by the time you get them from the cart into your car…

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Canada has only made two World Cups and has never made it out of the group stage so I say they acquitted themselves very well this time around, and did it largely with their most dynamic player on the bench (Alphonso Davies).

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I also forgot. If you’re the last defender it’s also a straight red if you foul the player even without violence (it’s called DOGSO—denial of a goal scoring opportunity).

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Dangerous is all it needs to be. Trying to hurt someone on purpose is just extra games.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Why does that arch look like it came from the set of Man in the High Castle?

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

JD Vance already went to war against the Declaration of Independence with his blood and soil speech.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Given its mountainous size, I thought they changed the name to fit.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Go German: Bosch. I have an old GE that still does a good job, for whatever it’s worth. I do have to hit the start button three times to lock in the settings, which is annoying (and the setting buttons are on the top of the door not on the front (also annoying). But otherwise it works.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I’ve watched some of Sailor Moon and I don’t think there is an origin episode. I’m also pretty sure you can just pick it up wherever and watch it at random.

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Kevin Lichty @kclichty.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

A sunflower seed just showed up mysteriously on my leg…

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