Andrea McCrary (she/her)
@amccrary.bsky.social
NC writing prof, LGBTQ ally, Appalachian, parent, writer, creator. I speak only for myself--mostly rhetoric, justice, politics, power, intersectional feminism, teaching.
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I had higher hopes for this summer.
July 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I had higher hopes for this summer.
Wishing that the immediate experience of a heat wave would help folks connect the dots, but I know the AI hype is too distracting for many people.
What is the argument that this isn’t driving up energy use again? Enough to power a million homes. Millions of gallons of water used per year. All for one company, Anthropic. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/t...
At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
www.nytimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Wishing that the immediate experience of a heat wave would help folks connect the dots, but I know the AI hype is too distracting for many people.
The inability to connect dots will be our undoing.
But sure, ask ChatGPT to summarize that 2-sentence email into 1 sentence for you.
The largest U.S. grid covering providing nearly 70 million Americans electricity just issued an emergency warning about blackouts ahead of tomorrow's heat.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
June 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The inability to connect dots will be our undoing.
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This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
June 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
The pain and suffering that will result from this ruling is hard to imagine. Wondering when we'll hit bottom.
Today's Supreme Court ruling comes as anti-trans hatred has become inescapable for many families, even in liberal states.
These families say they are in survival mode, trying to find ways to protect their children from attacks on all sides.
These families say they are in survival mode, trying to find ways to protect their children from attacks on all sides.
"We're going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe"
How families are fighting to survive Trump's war on transgender kids
www.motherjones.com
June 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The pain and suffering that will result from this ruling is hard to imagine. Wondering when we'll hit bottom.
Watching higher ed willingly contribute to the death of expertise is sad and infuriating. Imagine spending two decades requiring assessment of every program and office only to embrace new AI toys that are only supported by hype--where's the data about achieving learning outcomes with these products?
I am baffled by some of the unevidenced leaps higher ed institutions are making toward AI. CalState and Ohio St. are acting nuts, IMO. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Higher Ed Should Be Very Cautious About AI “Partnerships”
I don’t know what Cal State and Ohio State are thinking. Maybe that’s the problem—not enough thinking.
www.insidehighered.com
June 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Watching higher ed willingly contribute to the death of expertise is sad and infuriating. Imagine spending two decades requiring assessment of every program and office only to embrace new AI toys that are only supported by hype--where's the data about achieving learning outcomes with these products?
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Friends. Followers. People of Bluesky.
Please check your knowledge of Black and Native history before declaring the US has never
Please check your knowledge of Black and Native history before declaring the US has never
June 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Friends. Followers. People of Bluesky.
Please check your knowledge of Black and Native history before declaring the US has never
Please check your knowledge of Black and Native history before declaring the US has never
And just like that, the whole world respects a person's chosen name. Interesting.
May 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
And just like that, the whole world respects a person's chosen name. Interesting.
I mean, the threats of missing out. It's the panic about MOOCs all over again.
The hysteria when you say, “nah I’m good” on all the chat bots is how you know they’re in the grips of roulette fever. You know the guy at a casino, shaking at 2 am, telling you how dumb you are not to get in on this?
The chatbot people are so upset. What are you going to do? Come to my home and force me to use ChatGPT?
May 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I mean, the threats of missing out. It's the panic about MOOCs all over again.
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Small hopeful step.
Remember the 6 men who forcibly removed Dr. Teresa Borrenphol from the Coeur d'Alene town hall? They’ve been arrested and charged! www.kivitv.com/news/six-men...
April 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Small hopeful step.
So much trauma in this country.
April 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
So much trauma in this country.
I received 73 emails (so far) today on my work account. Some were easy deletes, many were not. I haven't dealt with all of them, but I also taught 2 classes, had meetings with 7 students, graded 29 quizzes and read 2 rough drafts. No wonder when I tried to write, I struggled.
Unsustainable.
Unsustainable.
April 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I received 73 emails (so far) today on my work account. Some were easy deletes, many were not. I haven't dealt with all of them, but I also taught 2 classes, had meetings with 7 students, graded 29 quizzes and read 2 rough drafts. No wonder when I tried to write, I struggled.
Unsustainable.
Unsustainable.
Collectivity will be part of our survival, if we can envision it.
I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten.
senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...
senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...
April 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Collectivity will be part of our survival, if we can envision it.
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MOTHER JONES: You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... @motherjones.com #photojournalism #journalism #photography #handsoff2025
You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.
People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—but what they fear he will do next.
www.motherjones.com
April 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
MOTHER JONES: You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... @motherjones.com #photojournalism #journalism #photography #handsoff2025
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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
March 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
Boss move. Put it on the record. And yes, absurd that this still happens.
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Absurd we still need to go through this
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March 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Boss move. Put it on the record. And yes, absurd that this still happens.
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HAPPENING NOW: A giant LGBTQ Pride flag has been unfurled on the south lawn of the Utah State Capitol in protest of the flag bill banning “non-sanctioned flags from classrooms and government buildings.” #utpol
March 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
HAPPENING NOW: A giant LGBTQ Pride flag has been unfurled on the south lawn of the Utah State Capitol in protest of the flag bill banning “non-sanctioned flags from classrooms and government buildings.” #utpol
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What is wrong with Senate Democrats? There is a five-alarm Article I constitutional crisis. No votes. No attending joint session Trump speeches. No normal operations at all until all the illegal stealing of Congress’ authority stops. Why is this so hard?
The Senate HELP cmte just voted 13-9 to advance Trump's labor sec. nominee, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, w/help from Dems (Hickenlooper, Hassan, Kaine)
The International Franchise Association, National Restaurant Association & National Retail Federation, recently threw her their support
The International Franchise Association, National Restaurant Association & National Retail Federation, recently threw her their support
February 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
What is wrong with Senate Democrats? There is a five-alarm Article I constitutional crisis. No votes. No attending joint session Trump speeches. No normal operations at all until all the illegal stealing of Congress’ authority stops. Why is this so hard?
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
January 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
This work starts now.
Midterms are up next. Local judges are often elected. Push back at them, congressional reps at the state and federal level. Your Governor, your mayor, literally every layer of government should be reminded that state's rights include the right to reject bigotry. Don't despair quietly. Push back
January 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This work starts now.
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Truly, primary every single Democrat who supports the MAGA agenda. Incomprehensible. Also ask them why they hate dogs.
I want statements from all of them.
Democratic Senators who backed Noem:
Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania
Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia
Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey
Senator Gary Peters of Michigan
Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan
Democratic Senators who backed Noem:
Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania
Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia
Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey
Senator Gary Peters of Michigan
Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan
January 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Truly, primary every single Democrat who supports the MAGA agenda. Incomprehensible. Also ask them why they hate dogs.
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TV audience for Trump’s 2nd inauguration is smallest since 2013
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Live updates: Trump seeks to reshape American institutions with a barrage of executive orders
Follow live updates on Donald Trump's first full day back at the White House, as his executive orders are attempting to rescind the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship and firing presid...
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January 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM
TV audience for Trump’s 2nd inauguration is smallest since 2013
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