Ryan Randall
@ryanpatrickrandall.com
A better world is possible, together.
Instructional design, humanities/Cultural Studies, pedagogy, open ed (OER/OA), library work, accessibility, ADHD.
https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/
https://hcommons.social/@ryanrandall
Instructional design, humanities/Cultural Studies, pedagogy, open ed (OER/OA), library work, accessibility, ADHD.
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".
Ruin two bands by combining them:
Toni! Toné! Tony Iommi!
Toni! Toné! Tony Iommi!
Ruin two bands by combining them:
Belle & Sebastian Bach
Belle & Sebastian Bach
Ruin two bands by combining them
Barry White Stripes
Barry White Stripes
December 30, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Ruin two bands by combining them:
Toni! Toné! Tony Iommi!
Toni! Toné! Tony Iommi!
Ruin two bands by combining them:
Belle & Sebastian Bach
Belle & Sebastian Bach
Ruin two bands by combining them
Barry White Stripes
Barry White Stripes
Ruin two bands by combining them
Nickelbackstreet Boys
Nickelbackstreet Boys
December 30, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Ruin two bands by combining them:
Belle & Sebastian Bach
Belle & Sebastian Bach
Monday of the Betwixtmas Holidaze is as good a time as any to start up a "newsletter" category of one's blog, right?
Right?
Right?
Semi-schematic Newsletter, Unlocked
Introducing my Semi-schematic newsletter / post category.
www.ryanpatrickrandall.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Monday of the Betwixtmas Holidaze is as good a time as any to start up a "newsletter" category of one's blog, right?
Right?
Right?
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An article from this for the #DHmakes crowd
“In learning how to unpick or tighten their stitches, or if needed, start over again by cutting the thread and re-stitching from the beginning, they [students] learn productive, iterative failure.”
“In learning how to unpick or tighten their stitches, or if needed, start over again by cutting the thread and re-stitching from the beginning, they [students] learn productive, iterative failure.”
December 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
An article from this for the #DHmakes crowd
“In learning how to unpick or tighten their stitches, or if needed, start over again by cutting the thread and re-stitching from the beginning, they [students] learn productive, iterative failure.”
“In learning how to unpick or tighten their stitches, or if needed, start over again by cutting the thread and re-stitching from the beginning, they [students] learn productive, iterative failure.”
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The whitewashing of white supremacists by the NYT extends beyond the politics desk: Brigitte Bardot, a star-& virulent racist-dies:
NYT vs Le Monde.
Headline “renounced stardom” vs “sympathy for far right”
Subhed: “devote her life to animal welfare” vs “ Convicted 5 x for racist remarks”
1/
NYT vs Le Monde.
Headline “renounced stardom” vs “sympathy for far right”
Subhed: “devote her life to animal welfare” vs “ Convicted 5 x for racist remarks”
1/
December 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The whitewashing of white supremacists by the NYT extends beyond the politics desk: Brigitte Bardot, a star-& virulent racist-dies:
NYT vs Le Monde.
Headline “renounced stardom” vs “sympathy for far right”
Subhed: “devote her life to animal welfare” vs “ Convicted 5 x for racist remarks”
1/
NYT vs Le Monde.
Headline “renounced stardom” vs “sympathy for far right”
Subhed: “devote her life to animal welfare” vs “ Convicted 5 x for racist remarks”
1/
Our world will be vastly better when we raise boys who know that men do indeed take "no" for an answer.
December 29, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Our world will be vastly better when we raise boys who know that men do indeed take "no" for an answer.
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Anyone with power/money/influence serious about women's safety needs to campaign/legislate against nudify apps, deepfakes, and slop avatars. Toxic masculinity and online radicalization have been fuelling misogyny for years. Now they have more tools. Fight these instead of monstrifying trans people.
"And I never say no"
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 29, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Anyone with power/money/influence serious about women's safety needs to campaign/legislate against nudify apps, deepfakes, and slop avatars. Toxic masculinity and online radicalization have been fuelling misogyny for years. Now they have more tools. Fight these instead of monstrifying trans people.
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Here's the write-up from the December 11th 2025 @libraryfutures.bsky.social panel "Information Literacy in the Age of GenAI" with Dr. Andrea Baer, Dr. @copystar.bsky.social, and myself:
www.libraryfutures.net/post/machine...
www.libraryfutures.net/post/machine...
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Information Professionals
Research and advocacy for the future of libraries.
www.libraryfutures.net
December 29, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Here's the write-up from the December 11th 2025 @libraryfutures.bsky.social panel "Information Literacy in the Age of GenAI" with Dr. Andrea Baer, Dr. @copystar.bsky.social, and myself:
www.libraryfutures.net/post/machine...
www.libraryfutures.net/post/machine...
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Weird how “American nationalists” get mad at immigrants dying to work hard and be American, but not at the super rich guys who are in Epstein’s little black book and would throw away their loyalty to this country to avoid taxes
December 29, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Weird how “American nationalists” get mad at immigrants dying to work hard and be American, but not at the super rich guys who are in Epstein’s little black book and would throw away their loyalty to this country to avoid taxes
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We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.
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Awaiting the answers …
Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
December 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Awaiting the answers …
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Fellow Southern Californians. Be aware - Santa Anas are going to kick up.
KTLA link for those who don't have LAT:
KTLA link for those who don't have LAT:
December 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Fellow Southern Californians. Be aware - Santa Anas are going to kick up.
KTLA link for those who don't have LAT:
KTLA link for those who don't have LAT:
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Of interest to many of us in higher ed too, not least because we who are members of @aaup.org are also affiliated with AFT
At DAIR, we have heard MANY AFT members who are very pissed about this. Several large locals have passed state resolutions against the national AI center. There are several open letters, including this one: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open Letter to Randi Weingarten, AFT, and UFT
Dear Randi Weingarten, the American Federation of Teachers, and the United Federation of Teachers
With this letter, the undersigned teachers and AFT members are demanding our educational resources be ...
docs.google.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Of interest to many of us in higher ed too, not least because we who are members of @aaup.org are also affiliated with AFT
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Battle of Seattle was in 1999, Iraq war protests were massive after that, occupy and blm after that. there are so many through lines. these are the currents that carried sanders, that elected the squad and now zohran. keep going.
I’ve said it and I believe it is true
There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed
There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed
December 28, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Battle of Seattle was in 1999, Iraq war protests were massive after that, occupy and blm after that. there are so many through lines. these are the currents that carried sanders, that elected the squad and now zohran. keep going.
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Mamdani announced in late October 2024 to little fanfare and in Jan 2025 he was polling in single digits. People should please be serious.
December 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Mamdani announced in late October 2024 to little fanfare and in Jan 2025 he was polling in single digits. People should please be serious.
Quadrant graph of holiday movies based on scales of:
- how many extras they care to / can afford include
- how convincingly they try to make Ontario or BC look like the US Midwest or Intermountain West
- how many extras they care to / can afford include
- how convincingly they try to make Ontario or BC look like the US Midwest or Intermountain West
December 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Quadrant graph of holiday movies based on scales of:
- how many extras they care to / can afford include
- how convincingly they try to make Ontario or BC look like the US Midwest or Intermountain West
- how many extras they care to / can afford include
- how convincingly they try to make Ontario or BC look like the US Midwest or Intermountain West
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one thing that sunk only more fully in, being sick with covid again, is how people position those of us who never stopped masking as having some weird individual vibes-based fear, when the reality is the end of what *community-level* covid prevention
and care infrastructure there was is why we mask
and care infrastructure there was is why we mask
December 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
one thing that sunk only more fully in, being sick with covid again, is how people position those of us who never stopped masking as having some weird individual vibes-based fear, when the reality is the end of what *community-level* covid prevention
and care infrastructure there was is why we mask
and care infrastructure there was is why we mask
> The one thing that I hold on to through this whole crisis is that an engaged student will learn.
December 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
> The one thing that I hold on to through this whole crisis is that an engaged student will learn.
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Guys who claim to be "free speech absolutists" suing for defamation. Keeps happening.
Read the complaint. It's ridiculously weak. Doesn't even attempt to show actual malice. Repeatedly cites opinion statements as if they're factual.
Censorial bullshit from Taibbi.
Read the complaint. It's ridiculously weak. Doesn't even attempt to show actual malice. Repeatedly cites opinion statements as if they're factual.
Censorial bullshit from Taibbi.
December 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Guys who claim to be "free speech absolutists" suing for defamation. Keeps happening.
Read the complaint. It's ridiculously weak. Doesn't even attempt to show actual malice. Repeatedly cites opinion statements as if they're factual.
Censorial bullshit from Taibbi.
Read the complaint. It's ridiculously weak. Doesn't even attempt to show actual malice. Repeatedly cites opinion statements as if they're factual.
Censorial bullshit from Taibbi.
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Join us for a FREE screening of FOOD DELIVERY at @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social on Sunday, Jan. 11 from 2-5 p.m.
Please register so we can get a proper head count! sfpl.org/events/2026/...
Please register so we can get a proper head count! sfpl.org/events/2026/...
December 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Join us for a FREE screening of FOOD DELIVERY at @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social on Sunday, Jan. 11 from 2-5 p.m.
Please register so we can get a proper head count! sfpl.org/events/2026/...
Please register so we can get a proper head count! sfpl.org/events/2026/...
I know people have taken to badmouthing AI-generated prose as "slop"—but is there also a possibility we could badmouth it as "4chanum ipsum"?
December 27, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I know people have taken to badmouthing AI-generated prose as "slop"—but is there also a possibility we could badmouth it as "4chanum ipsum"?
Pretty sure I've landed on "Buttoned Up" for a Professional Newsletter-ish category of blog posts on my site.
Even figured out how to give this category of posts their own RSS feed!
(So please let me know if this name is the Worst! Name! Ever! now, before I start using it in practice.)
Even figured out how to give this category of posts their own RSS feed!
(So please let me know if this name is the Worst! Name! Ever! now, before I start using it in practice.)
December 27, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Pretty sure I've landed on "Buttoned Up" for a Professional Newsletter-ish category of blog posts on my site.
Even figured out how to give this category of posts their own RSS feed!
(So please let me know if this name is the Worst! Name! Ever! now, before I start using it in practice.)
Even figured out how to give this category of posts their own RSS feed!
(So please let me know if this name is the Worst! Name! Ever! now, before I start using it in practice.)
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(Signal boosting over here from Mastodon)
New Sam Popowich next fall coming on AI!
litwinbooks.com/books/8587/
New Sam Popowich next fall coming on AI!
litwinbooks.com/books/8587/
Knowledge Capital - Litwin Books & Library Juice Press
“Artificial Intelligence” as it exists today is a cultural text, as well as a set of technologies. As a text, it is not only available for accepting or resisting, but … Read more Knowledge Capital
litwinbooks.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
(Signal boosting over here from Mastodon)
New Sam Popowich next fall coming on AI!
litwinbooks.com/books/8587/
New Sam Popowich next fall coming on AI!
litwinbooks.com/books/8587/
Definitely recommend the Anti-Planner, whether you're neurospicy or just enjoy novelty!
(Having the activities as PDFs also helped me personally stress less about whether I'd want to draw in my paper copy, btw!)
(Having the activities as PDFs also helped me personally stress less about whether I'd want to draw in my paper copy, btw!)
Make 2026 the year you stop shaming yourself for struggling to get stuff done.
Try something designed for inconsistent brains that need novelty (not repetitive pages)! ✏️
anti-planner.com
Try something designed for inconsistent brains that need novelty (not repetitive pages)! ✏️
anti-planner.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Definitely recommend the Anti-Planner, whether you're neurospicy or just enjoy novelty!
(Having the activities as PDFs also helped me personally stress less about whether I'd want to draw in my paper copy, btw!)
(Having the activities as PDFs also helped me personally stress less about whether I'd want to draw in my paper copy, btw!)