🍄 shroomdrawsandwrites
@shroomdraws.bsky.social
Reader, writer (poetry and prose), teacher-librarian, scribbler, avid rock climber, and lover of the outdoors. On Gadigal land, sovereignty never ceded.
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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"Great technology does more than solve problems. It weaves itself into the world we inhabit."
Sure. But the same is true for the most vile or broken technology.
Sure. But the same is true for the most vile or broken technology.
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
"Great technology does more than solve problems. It weaves itself into the world we inhabit."
Sure. But the same is true for the most vile or broken technology.
Sure. But the same is true for the most vile or broken technology.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Diaries are uniquely suited to preserving our individual lives and imaginations,” Lily Koppel writes in a guest essay. “There’s no way this form of thinking could ever truly be replaced by A.I.”
“Diaries are uniquely suited to preserving our individual lives and imaginations,” Lily Koppel writes in a guest essay. “There’s no way this form of thinking could ever truly be replaced by A.I.”
Opinion | How Diaries Can Help Beat Back Artificial Intelligence
In a world taken over by the digital, hard-copy, handwritten diaries are a way to fight back.
nyti.ms
November 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Diaries are uniquely suited to preserving our individual lives and imaginations,” Lily Koppel writes in a guest essay. “There’s no way this form of thinking could ever truly be replaced by A.I.”
“Diaries are uniquely suited to preserving our individual lives and imaginations,” Lily Koppel writes in a guest essay. “There’s no way this form of thinking could ever truly be replaced by A.I.”
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everyone gets so mad at the mods here for doing basic mod shit. sometimes you gotta make a little murder joke and eat a three day ban for it. that’s life baby, there’s beauty in that.
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
everyone gets so mad at the mods here for doing basic mod shit. sometimes you gotta make a little murder joke and eat a three day ban for it. that’s life baby, there’s beauty in that.
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
Nice little reminder that while I'm enjoying longer days in my hemisphere and looking forward to them lengthening, people on the other side of the world are experiencing the exact opposite.
September 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Nice little reminder that while I'm enjoying longer days in my hemisphere and looking forward to them lengthening, people on the other side of the world are experiencing the exact opposite.
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
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I’m convinced that introverts are more likely to develop smoking habits because we want an excuse to get away from people for ten minutes
August 31, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I’m convinced that introverts are more likely to develop smoking habits because we want an excuse to get away from people for ten minutes
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Me: I want to write something
> doesn’t write something
Me: I want to code something
> doesn’t code something
Me: I want to reply to messages
> doesn’t reply to messages
Me: I want to do something I like
> doesn’t do something I like
Why am I like this
> doesn’t write something
Me: I want to code something
> doesn’t code something
Me: I want to reply to messages
> doesn’t reply to messages
Me: I want to do something I like
> doesn’t do something I like
Why am I like this
August 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Me: I want to write something
> doesn’t write something
Me: I want to code something
> doesn’t code something
Me: I want to reply to messages
> doesn’t reply to messages
Me: I want to do something I like
> doesn’t do something I like
Why am I like this
> doesn’t write something
Me: I want to code something
> doesn’t code something
Me: I want to reply to messages
> doesn’t reply to messages
Me: I want to do something I like
> doesn’t do something I like
Why am I like this
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People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.
August 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.
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imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone
August 6, 2025 at 3:47 AM
imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone
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“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.
July 31, 2025 at 11:22 PM
“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.
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authors that are very good, but it's a slight red flag if they're your favorite:
dfw
cormac mccarthy
nabokov
bret easton ellis
who am i missing
dfw
cormac mccarthy
nabokov
bret easton ellis
who am i missing
June 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
authors that are very good, but it's a slight red flag if they're your favorite:
dfw
cormac mccarthy
nabokov
bret easton ellis
who am i missing
dfw
cormac mccarthy
nabokov
bret easton ellis
who am i missing
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I've just done a roughly one min task that I've been putting off for about two weeks and has been eating away at my sanity, sleep and nerves. I feel completely relieved. If you see this, it's your sign to do that thing you've been putting off.
June 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I've just done a roughly one min task that I've been putting off for about two weeks and has been eating away at my sanity, sleep and nerves. I feel completely relieved. If you see this, it's your sign to do that thing you've been putting off.
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I am posting this once again because it’s the most beautiful infographic ever and it makes me happy
Evolution of the Alphabet from Ancient Scripts to Modern Latin
This infographic from UsefulCharts.com, titled 'Evolution of the Alphabet', illustrates the transformation of letters from their earliest forms to the modern Latin script. The chart is structured in r...
assisted.site
June 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I am posting this once again because it’s the most beautiful infographic ever and it makes me happy
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Just upgraded to a new version of Acrobat, and... look.
I am reading a friend's NOVEL. Something I WANT to read. For ENJOYMENT.
Fuck off into the sun and take your designer with you.
I am reading a friend's NOVEL. Something I WANT to read. For ENJOYMENT.
Fuck off into the sun and take your designer with you.
May 30, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Just upgraded to a new version of Acrobat, and... look.
I am reading a friend's NOVEL. Something I WANT to read. For ENJOYMENT.
Fuck off into the sun and take your designer with you.
I am reading a friend's NOVEL. Something I WANT to read. For ENJOYMENT.
Fuck off into the sun and take your designer with you.
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ACAB includes people who won't lie as a reference for a friend
May 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
ACAB includes people who won't lie as a reference for a friend
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I am writing this with a pencil – it could be an author’s last line of defence against AI | Luke Beesley
I am writing this with a pencil – it could be an author’s last line of defence against AI | Luke Beesley
My habit is quaint, I know, and there are downsides – but for those who value literature, the focus will shift to this: how do we prove we didn’t use AI?
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I am writing this with a pencil – it could be an author’s last line of defence against AI | Luke Beesley
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Just starting Doppelgänger from @naomiaklein.bsky.social and already this gem about why things feel so weird: “It's because our world has changed, but, like a collective case of jet lag, most of us are still attuned to the rhythms and habits of the place left behind.”
May 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Just starting Doppelgänger from @naomiaklein.bsky.social and already this gem about why things feel so weird: “It's because our world has changed, but, like a collective case of jet lag, most of us are still attuned to the rhythms and habits of the place left behind.”
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This day keeps getting better.
May 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This day keeps getting better.
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Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter.
They graded it.
Bwahahaha.
They graded it.
Bwahahaha.
May 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter.
They graded it.
Bwahahaha.
They graded it.
Bwahahaha.
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getting kicked out of the Vatican because I keep blowing my weed smoke out the window and getting everyone all excited
April 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
getting kicked out of the Vatican because I keep blowing my weed smoke out the window and getting everyone all excited
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I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
April 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel
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This, in a sense, is the point of capital. You cannot demand dignity, justice, freedom when you're worried about what you are going to feed your kid. It has always been a manufactured scarcity in the wealthiest country in the world.
Uncle Karl taught us that two centuries ago.
Uncle Karl taught us that two centuries ago.
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
April 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This, in a sense, is the point of capital. You cannot demand dignity, justice, freedom when you're worried about what you are going to feed your kid. It has always been a manufactured scarcity in the wealthiest country in the world.
Uncle Karl taught us that two centuries ago.
Uncle Karl taught us that two centuries ago.
BREAKING: AI generated images add an extra level of cringe to overly simplistic boomer memes, Gen Alpha reportedly having to change apps completely when the cringe becomes overwhelming
March 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
BREAKING: AI generated images add an extra level of cringe to overly simplistic boomer memes, Gen Alpha reportedly having to change apps completely when the cringe becomes overwhelming