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This event gave me all new things to fret about. Didn't put this in the article but Cash tossed around the possibility that the administration could cancel the election, which is not something that was on my radar. (Googling suggests that's not legal, but that hasn't stopped them before.)

Panel With FBI, CIA Veterans Kicks Off Midterm Election Series - Muhlenberg College

Former CIA officer Steven Cash: “What we’re seeing now in this administration is deeply, deeply concerning. I think … that I may have voted in the last free and fair election that I will ever vote in [in 2024].”

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Former FBI senior executive Lauren Anderson ’79 and former CIA officer Steven Cash spoke and answered audience questions.

Ugh. Wow. That's ... awful.

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Please text me a photo of wherever this lands because it sounds amazing

1. Now I need to see the rest of this ad because WHAT? 2. I like how their "check the facts" sources include Fox News, that bastion of unbiased, fact-based reporting 🙃

I have finally found a use for AI and it is "revise this email so it sounds less bitchy"

Covid always hurts my arm; flu never does!

Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The same child who threw their coleslaw on the floor at dinner last night and has taken to shouting at mom, dad, and sibling multiple times at day has been recognized for stellar behavior at school 🤔 Why can't we have school version of child at home!

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That is maybe the best childhood dream I've ever heard

Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Please dress up your child as Elizabeth Holmes

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Sesame Street "Wet Paint" music video. It *still* weirds me out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xfc...

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Sesame Street: Wet Paint

YouTube video by Sesame Street

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Too many people bowling shot-put-style and doing damage to the walls is my only guess!

Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My kid’s only head injuries have come from running. Or walking. Inside our house where he walks around literally every day. 🙃 all kids should have mandatory helmets until at least age 10

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can someone explain why bowling alleys — and only bowling alleys — put carpet on the walls

Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"processing and identifying patterns in large amounts of data" is the most useful thing I've used it for! I ran an anonymized survey with ~2,000 respondents and some open-ended questions. No idea how I'd have sifted through all that information on my own.

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Got an email from myself this morning with only this photo that I must've sent on New Year's Day, since we always go to the same Chinese place that day (and only that day) Happy October, I guess!

A hand holding a fortune cookie paper that says October is a month for gratitude and appreciation.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wish I could do that job for just one night (because the park stays open way past my bedtime and I couldn't hang for longer than that!)

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is she one of the scary actors? I always thought that would be super fun.

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And the photos/videos never come out particularly good

Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The pedestrian safety work in Allentown lately has been phenomenal. I had no idea how much more likely drivers are to stop for the crosswalks with big wide stripes until they put them in. People yielding to me while running left and right! I wrote the city a thank-you email 😂

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OK, wait, I did not know this was a Nathan Fielder movie. Sign me up.

The people paying for the photography and the ones feeding it into AI are almost certainly not the same people!

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Facebook Pages get charged for link posts

Could also partly be Meta changing algorithms? I saw this yesterday: "The exposure of link posts has been in steady decline, dropping from 9.8% of viewed content including a link in 2022, when Meta first started sharing this insight, to a new low of 1.3% as of this report."

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After Meta One for Business launched its subscription packages, some managers say their accounts are being limited to two link posts per month.

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Institutional marketing offices are in a position right now where they're putting out policies and guidelines but no one else on campus feels beholden to their authority and it is very, very frustrating to the folks tasked with protecting the college's brand and image (ask me how I know!)

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God, do I feel for the marketing team who needs to clean up this mess. A case in which the marketing office set a clear policy to *not* do stuff like this — to not feed students' images into AI *at all* — and partners did it anyway.

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My husband and I have argued at length over whether Fleet Foxes are a winter band or a summer band and now I am forced to confront the viewpoint that they may be a fall band

I have an emotional support Comfy in my office. Highly recommend. thecomfy.com

Charter schools (at least how they're done in PA) are *also* bad for society.

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We're traveling to Austin for the first time starting on Election Day and what do we think that's gonna be like if this all comes true? (I've never been there! Now taking recommendations!)

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Or (god forbid) the giant pasta pot that doesn't quite fit in the sink or the drying rack

Everything he writes could be like 50% shorter

Which part? I know there are bigger fish to fry but the random capitalization drives me absolutely bananas

Yik Yak | Find your herd.

lol it's real yikyak.com And the bane of existence for folks working in student life, due to its history as a platform for cyberbullying

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On Yik Yak, anonymously connect with everyone at your college.

There are many reasons I like to lurk on YikYak, the app where students at my institution can say anything anonymously, and one of them is that that's how I'm aware of a Covid outbreak among the first-years 😷 Will be masking and avoiding crowded spaces accordingly!

Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Relatedly remember when "the president" was emailing everyone offering to sell them power tools? I hope faculty got those emails as well as staff. Very entertaining.

Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This implies that some students fell for this, which is ... bleak

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Truly how is he doing SO MANY AMAZING THINGS

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I used to be on zero boards and organizations and now suddenly my life is an endless parade of them how did this happen

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Julia Stiles and Taylor Hanson?!? I may need to start watching this show!