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Weaverbird

@weaverbird.bsky.social
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Fiber artist, day-dreamer. Interests (partial list): nature, art, photography, music, books. Mostly I lurk.

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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
That's beautiful! And *very* cool. 😍
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 07/07/2024
So handsome!
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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
Administrative agencies: very dangerous, must be line edited by Matthew Kaczmaryk President: operates behind a curtain, no peeking
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 29/06/2024
God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."
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To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Board
Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
In preparation for the Biden and Trump presidential debate today.
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
Same!
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
the planet is on fire and people can’t afford air conditioning, surely this is the time to come up with a technology nobody asked for and nobody wants then dedicate all the electricity to maintaining it
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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 23/06/2024
It is my personal opinion that menopausal hot flashes are the last of one's fucks burning up.
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Pawluh @pawluh.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
I put tennis balls out on the patio to see if the baby raccoons would play with them and...
Two baby raccoons with their paws on a yellow tennis ball mid play. The mama raccoon is behind them.
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David Marshall @illdave.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
I can't remember a tech campaign this relentless.
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 16/06/2024
Adorable borb!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2024
one of my deep seated beliefs is that elephants are one of the other high level intelligences on this planet and that if there is a judgment day humanity will be held to account for our crimes against them www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
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Elephants call each other by name, study finds
Researchers used artificial intelligence algorithm to analyse calls by two herds of African savanna elephants in Kenya
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 05/06/2024
OW! You poor thing!
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 05/06/2024
So cute!
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
Don't worry kids, it's just an awkward coincidence that major news outlets like @washingtonpost.com and @thedailybeast.bsky.social are replacing their top editors with right-wing propagandists before the most fraught election in American history.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
This is why book bans are on such a steep incline. The far right extremists who organize them are capitalizing on easily inflamed bigotries to defund institutions of public learning bc it's the most effective and cheapest way to cling to their power.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
Just fold the studio into Disney and kill it already. Make Toy Story sequels till the sun fucking burns out. Love how this shift conveniently happened when more woman/POC were really pushing to direct their own stories. Defining their experiences as not "universal" is saying the quiet part aloud.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
TRUMP: If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone. Yes. If you commit 34 felonies by filing false business records to cover up election interference, you too can be convicted by a jury of your peers via the due process of our criminal justice system.
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Bob Morris @bobmorris.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
“ Interviewers: I beg you. Stop asking Republicans if they think the trial was “rigged.” Ask them if they believe that candidates should be allowed to make illegal hush money payments to further their campaign. Ask them, specifically, which evidence they think the jury got wrong.”
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
found it!
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
Richard Linklater's romantic thriller Hit Man is minor Linklater but major fun, w/ movie-star-in-the-making Glen Powell as a philosophy prof who moonlights as a fake contract killer (based on a real guy!). See it in theaters to show Netflix that, yes, we still like movies. slate.com/culture/2024...
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Finally, an Honest-to-Goodness Great New Rom-Com
Hit Man is actually funny, actually sexy, and announces the arrival of a major new movie star.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
I hope people understand that what we are seeing is the systematic destruction of the civil war amendments by the Supreme Court, which are what made America and actual democracy and upon which all minority rights in the United States rely
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/05/2024
GOP campaigns staffed with young operatives who are into Nazi stuff is bad actually. Very charitable explanation of "just trolling" is still quite bad. Do you know what they called people who weren't into Hitler's worst ideas but backed him because they liked how it bothered people they hate? Nazis.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 20/05/2024
Now I’m no tech visionary, but if I asked a very famous actress to provide the voice for my product and she turned me down, I would not simply use her voice anyway (Statement from Scarlett Johansson on OpenAI’s “Sky”)
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 18/05/2024
Who won? 😍
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 16/05/2024
yep
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
He seems... nice. 🤢
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
Ok, just *reading* this got my heart rate up. I can't even imagine how scary it was to be in that situation. Holy crap.
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 12/05/2024
SO very much same!
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
Happy Birthday!
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
Such perfect timing!
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
Great photo. He's a real chonk - so cute.
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NPR @npr.org · 05/05/2024
English actor Bernard Hill, best known for roles in Titanic and The Lord of the Rings, died on Sunday. He was 79.
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Bernard Hill, who starred in 'Titanic' and 'The Lord of the Rings,' dies at 79
The English actor played Captain Edward John Smith in the 1997 film Titanic as well as King Théoden of Rohan in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 05/05/2024
Ferthu Théoden hal!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
The people who complain about class warfare won the war - the richest 400 Americans now pay the same effective tax rate as the poorest half of America. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 04/05/2024
#DYK  it's rumored that the character design for Yoda was inspired by tarsiers?   The resemblance is uncanny! ‌ Happy  #StarWarsDay, and May the 4th (of nature) be with you. 🌍🧪
Picture of a furry, sleepy tarsier clinging to a tree with text saying: Saturday, it is. Awaken the force will...but later"
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 28/04/2024
Happy Birthday!
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 27/04/2024
Nor I
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
denver students chanting “i don’t see a riot here. why are you in riot gear?” at the cops assembled
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
That's a beauty!
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
My condolences.
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
Happy Birthday!
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Laura L @lalalowe.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
Happy 460th birthday to William Shakespeare! #literature #shakespeare
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
They've done it! Voyager 1 is talking to NASA again. After 5 months of absolutely heroic efforts from the JPL team, they isolated a single faulty memory chip in one of the onboard computers. The coding workaround sounds both cunning and devious, and it's worked. 🥳🧪🔭 ℹ️: blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/
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Voyager
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
Now that Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley are calling for the National Guard to be deployed to Columbia, it's worth remembering what happened when the National Guard was deployed to Kent State and Jackson State some 54 years ago. New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS: open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...
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Bloodlust
This afternoon, Senator Tom Cotton — whom you might remember from his previous principled stances like “drivers should simply assault left-wing protesters,” “the military should simply attack left-win...
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 21/04/2024
I sure did. And here’s what I said.
Remarks delivered at April 18 2024 student-faculty-staff press conference at Columbia University, outside the President’s House, in the wake of riot police removing peaceful protestors from campus.*

My name is Joseph Howley and I'm an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics. I'm here as a member of several faculty groups: Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, the AAUP, and a group of more than 20 Jewish faculty members who two weeks ago sent a letter to Minouche Shafik ahead of the Congressional hearing expression our grave concerns.

I'm here today to stand with our students.  I have previously risen on occasions like this to speak as a Jewish member faculty because it seemed important to me that Jewish professors be here to say certain things. But I’m here today simply a professor, as a member of this community, as someone who walks their kids to school every day across this campus, as someone who of playing the identity politics games, of being divided from the restYesterday our university leaders went in front of Congress and in the face of absurd and hateful interrogation from white nationalist lawmakers, conceded a series of laughable and dangerous propositions about the nature of language and politics and our university. Worse, they endangered the professional reputations and safety of faculty members by discussing discipline and hiring and firing on live television and seeming to bargain away the careers of my colleagues in the face of political pressure.

And today, still clinging, after six months, and an actual chemical attack on protestors on our campus, still clinging to the idea that rhetoric and words are a form of threat and unsafety on this campus, in the name of public safety, they have endangered every single member of this campus community and our students in particular by bringing the police onto campus.

I wish the last few months had left me with greater confidence that the University’s response today was about how students weMajor decisions at this institution are being guided by people who are more concerned with PR and appeasing Republican House members and special interest groups than with the values of a liberal education and a just society.  This is what happens when faculty are not in the room. This is what happens when expensive lawyers who don’t know our institution or values are brought in to enforce our rules and discipline our students and advise our leaders.  We get cops dragging students off campus  when we have done find without them for more than fifty years.  I need to stress as a member of this faculty what a violation it is of historic norms on this campus to see riot cops breaking up peaceful protests. It will be an historic stain on our reputation and is already a deep wound in our community.

Today more than a hundred of our brave students risked arrest and violence at the hands of police standing up for something they believe in. I can’t help but contrast their courage and principlesColumbia can either be a world-class place of research and learning, or we can be an institution that resorts to law-and-order responses to protest even when there’s no threat to safety or operations, but we can’t be both.

We can either be a top tier university  that supports the safety and well being of all community members or we can be an institution that allows nationalist politics to dictate speech codes and use of force against our students. But we can’t be both.

Tonight hundreds of faculty are going to bed wondering, what now? what’s next? what can we do? I don’t have any good answers, but I know one thing: we all need to stand with our students. We need to ask, how did this happen? How did our leaders get such bad advice and make such terrible mistakes? In the absence of real leadership we the faculty all need to pull together and create space to ask these questions, to heal and repair our community, and reclaim this proud institution. And that begins with getting nationalis
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 20/04/2024
Same - I store my yeast in the freezer and it works just fine for years and years.
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Weaverbird @weaverbird.bsky.social · 20/04/2024
Hope you feel better soon. You'll be missed, and welcomed back - when you're up to it - with rejoicing. 🤗
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