Ryan Randall
@ryanpatrickrandall.com
A better world is possible, together.
Instructional design, humanities/Cultural Studies, pedagogy, open ed (OER/OA), library work. A human-presenting social media account.
https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/
https://hcommons.social/@ryanrandall
Instructional design, humanities/Cultural Studies, pedagogy, open ed (OER/OA), library work. A human-presenting social media account.
https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/
https://hcommons.social/@ryanrandall
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Ryan Randall
@ryanpatrickrandall.com
· Apr 25
Gentle reminder that there's no such thing as a "TERF".
The term you were looking for is "Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobe".
The term you were looking for is "Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobe".
Tired: gen "AI" is just Clippy 2.0
Wired: gen "AI" output is slop
Inspired: addressing every gen "AI" chatbot as Sloppy
Wired: gen "AI" output is slop
Inspired: addressing every gen "AI" chatbot as Sloppy
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Tired: gen "AI" is just Clippy 2.0
Wired: gen "AI" output is slop
Inspired: addressing every gen "AI" chatbot as Sloppy
Wired: gen "AI" output is slop
Inspired: addressing every gen "AI" chatbot as Sloppy
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I can't remember the precise wording but someone on here said that the Republican threat to expose Bill Clinton too isn't so much a threat as it is a "buy one, get one free" promotion.
"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
November 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I can't remember the precise wording but someone on here said that the Republican threat to expose Bill Clinton too isn't so much a threat as it is a "buy one, get one free" promotion.
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Our final speaker in the Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series this fall is Dr. Cynthia Bennett, Google Research
"Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of AI, Disability, and Accessibility" on November 19, 2025 @ 6:30 pm
Don't miss it! Register today: tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
"Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of AI, Disability, and Accessibility" on November 19, 2025 @ 6:30 pm
Don't miss it! Register today: tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Our final speaker in the Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series this fall is Dr. Cynthia Bennett, Google Research
"Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of AI, Disability, and Accessibility" on November 19, 2025 @ 6:30 pm
Don't miss it! Register today: tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
"Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of AI, Disability, and Accessibility" on November 19, 2025 @ 6:30 pm
Don't miss it! Register today: tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
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school choice vouchers are just rebranded segregation
public school funds shouldn’t go to private schools
public school funds shouldn’t go to private schools
A ProPublica analysis revealed a stark pattern across the Deep South, where about 200 majority-Black public school districts educate 1.3 million students.
Alongside those districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students.
(Published Dec. 2024)
Alongside those districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students.
(Published Dec. 2024)
The Story of One Mississippi County Shows How Private Schools Are Exacerbating Segregation
A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across states in the Deep South: Alongside majority-Black public school districts, a separate web of private academies are filled almost entirely with w...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 AM
school choice vouchers are just rebranded segregation
public school funds shouldn’t go to private schools
public school funds shouldn’t go to private schools
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Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is
NYT: but her emails
NYT: but her emails
Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is
NYT: but her emails
NYT: but her emails
This aurora is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!
Nothing brilliant is contained here.
This message is a warning about vision.
Nothing brilliant is contained here.
This message is a warning about vision.
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
This aurora is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!
Nothing brilliant is contained here.
This message is a warning about vision.
Nothing brilliant is contained here.
This message is a warning about vision.
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Oh you rich conspiring pedophiles & all your smug weaselly defenders, please lecture me again about how my trans kid is a threat to American family values
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Oh you rich conspiring pedophiles & all your smug weaselly defenders, please lecture me again about how my trans kid is a threat to American family values
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One day to go! Get your nominations in!
📢 It's #OpenEd election time! Got ideas, enthusiasm, community spirit? Self-nominate for the Advisory Board!
🧁 Noms close 14 Nov
🧁 Term = 2 yrs
🧁 Time = 6-10 hrs/mo
🧁 You should nominate
ALSO
💡 Register to vote!
Deets: tinyurl.com/yckbv3u9
#OpenEducation #OpenEd25 #EduSky @openedconf.bsky.social
🧁 Noms close 14 Nov
🧁 Term = 2 yrs
🧁 Time = 6-10 hrs/mo
🧁 You should nominate
ALSO
💡 Register to vote!
Deets: tinyurl.com/yckbv3u9
#OpenEducation #OpenEd25 #EduSky @openedconf.bsky.social
Board Election — Open Education Conference
The Open Education Conference is seeking six new Directors. Interested community members should self-nominate by November 6th at 11:59pm PST.
tinyurl.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
One day to go! Get your nominations in!
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i have a blog post for this, with a list of image sites you can use! livelaugh.blog/posts/non-ai...
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
i have a blog post for this, with a list of image sites you can use! livelaugh.blog/posts/non-ai...
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“The Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.”
Check our article instead, which uses conversations not individually chosen for public sharing, actually describes our methods and data, and finds quite different distributions for how people use ChatGPT and personal info disclosed in their chats.
Check our article instead, which uses conversations not individually chosen for public sharing, actually describes our methods and data, and finds quite different distributions for how people use ChatGPT and personal info disclosed in their chats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“The Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.”
Check our article instead, which uses conversations not individually chosen for public sharing, actually describes our methods and data, and finds quite different distributions for how people use ChatGPT and personal info disclosed in their chats.
Check our article instead, which uses conversations not individually chosen for public sharing, actually describes our methods and data, and finds quite different distributions for how people use ChatGPT and personal info disclosed in their chats.
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Omg so beautiful you guys
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Omg so beautiful you guys
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Alt text for the image
Also, is it happening here? check Aurorawatch.ca and you can watch the webcam if you can't see it yourself.
Also, is it happening here? check Aurorawatch.ca and you can watch the webcam if you can't see it yourself.
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Alt text for the image
Also, is it happening here? check Aurorawatch.ca and you can watch the webcam if you can't see it yourself.
Also, is it happening here? check Aurorawatch.ca and you can watch the webcam if you can't see it yourself.
99 Balloons About 48 Women
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
99 Balloons About 48 Women
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Bluesky rn
a cartoon character is sitting in a chair and making a funny face .
Alt: Chalmers is skeptical that an Aurora Borealis is happening in Skinner’s kitchen
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Bluesky rn
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SCHUMER: Well, I—for one—am touched by this act of generosity. Perhaps one day, all of humanity will know the saying “Be welcoming of Greeks bearing gifts.”
Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
“In the wake of votes by a handful of key Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to pass a GOP-led continuing resolution funding f...
buff.ly
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
SCHUMER: Well, I—for one—am touched by this act of generosity. Perhaps one day, all of humanity will know the saying “Be welcoming of Greeks bearing gifts.”
Look, @aj-boston.bsky.social , you keep deleting some of your best material OR you can set a nerd like me up to say "more the ORCID man, amiright?" as if you hadn't already masterfully planned that elaboration of your joke.
(Or y'know, you can do what you what, I guess?)
(Or y'know, you can do what you what, I guess?)
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Look, @aj-boston.bsky.social , you keep deleting some of your best material OR you can set a nerd like me up to say "more the ORCID man, amiright?" as if you hadn't already masterfully planned that elaboration of your joke.
(Or y'know, you can do what you what, I guess?)
(Or y'know, you can do what you what, I guess?)
My spouse, who'd somehow never even heard of "{ that guy's } Picture Pages" before meeting me, now routinely sings words with that cadence & melody.
Inexplicably, this feels like having successfully shared some of the Deep Knowledge?
Inexplicably, this feels like having successfully shared some of the Deep Knowledge?
November 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
My spouse, who'd somehow never even heard of "{ that guy's } Picture Pages" before meeting me, now routinely sings words with that cadence & melody.
Inexplicably, this feels like having successfully shared some of the Deep Knowledge?
Inexplicably, this feels like having successfully shared some of the Deep Knowledge?
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Some libraries are open and we get pushback for ‘not supporting veterans.’ Reminder that 20% of homeless males are veterans, 32% are in suburbs. Idaho is 50th in US for broadband. Closing a building that provides services doesn’t honor veterans, it harms them. Being open is honoring this day.
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Some libraries are open and we get pushback for ‘not supporting veterans.’ Reminder that 20% of homeless males are veterans, 32% are in suburbs. Idaho is 50th in US for broadband. Closing a building that provides services doesn’t honor veterans, it harms them. Being open is honoring this day.
On the one hand, there's a Big Meeting about stuff possibly adjacent to / impacting my team's work that I'm having to advocate for being able to attend from the other side of the state.
On the other hand, there's a very interesting libraryland panel with people I very much respect.
Which will win?
On the other hand, there's a very interesting libraryland panel with people I very much respect.
Which will win?
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
On the one hand, there's a Big Meeting about stuff possibly adjacent to / impacting my team's work that I'm having to advocate for being able to attend from the other side of the state.
On the other hand, there's a very interesting libraryland panel with people I very much respect.
Which will win?
On the other hand, there's a very interesting libraryland panel with people I very much respect.
Which will win?
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Join Library Trends for a webinar with authors from our two-part series “Generative AI and Libraries: Applications and Ethics.” Authors will share highlights of their work discussing how librarians are grappling with the effects of genAI on the field. Register at go.illinois.edu/GenAIandLibr...
October 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Join Library Trends for a webinar with authors from our two-part series “Generative AI and Libraries: Applications and Ethics.” Authors will share highlights of their work discussing how librarians are grappling with the effects of genAI on the field. Register at go.illinois.edu/GenAIandLibr...
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Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
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Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
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if "ah, well, nevertheless" were a political party
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 AM
if "ah, well, nevertheless" were a political party