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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Excerpt from Player Piano (1952) by Kurt Vonnegut. Feels like this is the Third Industrial Revolution he was writing about.

Text from the book Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Mike D @ Xanadu Roller Rink 5/23/2026

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Why is @ncte.org taking $$ from Google to guide responsible AI use? ➡️ Should Philip Morris guide responsible tobacco use? ➡️ Should Anheuser-Busch guide responsible alcohol use? ➡️ Should Meta guide responsible social media use? This is absurd.

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

It’s the Middle Passage to nowhere.

Diagram of enslaved people crammed together on a ship

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I’m ready. Free America Walkout. ✊

Sign saying All You Fascists Bound To Lose

Sign saying How many books have you read? I’ve read 1984

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Love this image by Jonathan Byxbe of Flight 64 Studio in Portland, OR shared by @theradr.bsky.social

A black line drawing of an anatomically correct human heart. Text in tall serif font is arranged around the heart, stating: “This Machine Kills Fascists.” Background is pale yellow, and there is a maroon border around the edge.

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Beautiful tribute. ❤️ Here are my bonded pair, Ollie (Oliver Twist - gray tabby) and Butterbean (Angel Kitty Buttercup - the most precious ginger). Thank you for opening your heart and home to kitties.

ginger kitty laying on his back for belly rubs cuddled next to next to gray tabby cat

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

A message from my flower garden: Melt ICE. Spring is coming.

purple pansy blooming in a pot with snow

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I definitely need one of these for my kitchen island.

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Today is gonna be Rob Reiner Movie Marathon day.

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

It's impossible to quantify just how much gen AI has destroyed the joy of teaching. I used to love my students' end of semester reflection essays filled with epiphanies and surprise discoveries like, "I never knew writing could be hard but also fun!" Now it's just lots of... this.

screenshot of student writing that is 100% AI generated

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

you will be visited by 3 spirits

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

My new favorite hobby is running emails sent from management through an AI detector and seeing which ones are written by robots. (spoiler alert: 100%) This is in higher education.

sample text of an email run through an AI detector that is 100% AI generated

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

It's management/administration working hand-in-hand with AI companies to push something on us that nobody wants. Ever notice how those emails from mgmt sound suspiciously robotic? They want to normalize this slop.

Thanksgiving email from management to faculty written 100% by AI.

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Amazing history lesson by @rachelbarkow.bsky.social at the Bob Moses Conference about policing, mass incarceration, and the evolution of pre-trial detention in the US. The system is rigged to ensure slavery never ended in this country. www.bobmosesconference.com #BMC25 #BobMosesConference

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

"How do we design space, how do we design systems? The platitudes exist, but the exlusions are still there... Now we have all kinds of educational technologies being incorporated into our schools with the same inequities." Ruja Benjamin "The New Jim Code" #BobMosesConference

park bench with arm rests and the words "coded inequity" above, with woman speaking at a podium on the right

park bench with arm rests painted in rainbow colors with the words obvious vs. insidious above

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

"We must understand that rights, once they have been established, can always be taken away... there's no final victory. Even when you move in the direction of a real democracy, there's always a need to argue for the vision you are moving toward." STEVE HAHN, Professor at NYU #BobMosesConference

man standing at the podium speaking at Bob Moses Conference

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Kash Patel frantically prompting ChatGPT for answers…

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Kitties have the same magic powers.

Gray tabby cat relaxing on the sofa with a treat on the cushion

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vision for the CDC

Will Smith walking with dog on leash in front of destroyed buildings in a post-apocalypse scene from "I Am "Legend"

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Right out of the Nathan Thurm playbook.

Shady lawyer Nathan Thurm played by Martin Short wearing glasses and smoking a cigarette saying “you don’t think I know that? It’s so funny that you don’t think I know that”

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Nothing makes me happier than a weekend that looks like this.

Blackboard gradebook showing no new items to grade.

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Thank you to all on this list and my Senator from CT @chrismurphyct.bsky.social 🙏 Stop the #genocide in #Gaza

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

CT friends: see you at the Capitol!

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

There are two cats. Can you find Ollie?

Photo of an orange tabby sitting on the edge of a coffee table with gray tabby sitting on the floor below

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

This slide in @jsanofranchini.bsky.social keynote at #4C25 is all anyone should need to decide to drop generative AI like a hot potato. Stop making billionaires richer and make that 💩 whither and die.

Chart showing the market share of top companies who have invested in AI technology (eg., Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Tesla, etc)

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Finally had a chance to visit the Smithsonian Museum of African American History before it gets defunded for the DEI. Amazing space that needs to be preserved forever.

Quote by Martin Luther King “we are determined to work and fight until justice rains down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream” on wall with water raining down

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Hartford, CT 3,000 strong in the cold rain!! #HandsOff

State Capitol building with crowds of protesters holding signs

Protest sign with text “Burn Baby Burn Tesla Inferno” and flames underneath

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Around 3,000 people rallied today in the cold rain in Hartford, CT! Hands off!!

Crowd of people holding protest signs outside the Capitol building

Protest sign with words “Burn Baby Burn Tesla Inferno” and flames at the bottom

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Honor the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was murdered #OTD in 1968, by always speaking truth to power. Your silence will not save you.

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

While Connecticut is making progress with legislation like the Pay Equity and Opportunity Act, we still have a long way to go.

Graph showing difference in median pay among Latina, Native American, Black, and White Moms with White Dads.

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Today’s economic boycott was cool and all but remember the Montgomery bus boycott took over a year and people walked miles to get to work and back home every day there was no Lyft or Uber.

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