Carol
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I could fill a novel with the "I don't knows." (Noah Reid) she/her
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Just to say, if you know someone parenting a kid alone, especially a small one, see if you can buy a present that the kid can give to their parent. Even take the kid shopping so they can choose. It's not even about the money - the parent might happily pay for someone else to do this kindness.
December 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Just to say, if you know someone parenting a kid alone, especially a small one, see if you can buy a present that the kid can give to their parent. Even take the kid shopping so they can choose. It's not even about the money - the parent might happily pay for someone else to do this kindness.
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An old military maxim often attributed to Napoleon is “an army marches on its stomach” and I feel the same way that a university thinks via its library. The slow and steady financial diminution of research libraries and the librarians who staff them is, to me, a slow-rolling higher Ed catastrophe.
October 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
An old military maxim often attributed to Napoleon is “an army marches on its stomach” and I feel the same way that a university thinks via its library. The slow and steady financial diminution of research libraries and the librarians who staff them is, to me, a slow-rolling higher Ed catastrophe.
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”what’s the male equivalent of a mini skirt?” a mini skirt, obviously. what are you, a coward?
September 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
”what’s the male equivalent of a mini skirt?” a mini skirt, obviously. what are you, a coward?
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Sometimes I think about how much art never gets made because the entire country tied health insurance to having a job but mostly I try not to drive myself crazy.
August 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Sometimes I think about how much art never gets made because the entire country tied health insurance to having a job but mostly I try not to drive myself crazy.
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ADHD feels like riding shotgun and yelling “DON’T DO THAT!!!” while an insolent 11-year-old steers your life straight into a ditch
July 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
ADHD feels like riding shotgun and yelling “DON’T DO THAT!!!” while an insolent 11-year-old steers your life straight into a ditch
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About today's public transit discourse: I believe that riding public transit is a spiritual good for increasing your empathy and practicing minding your own business. It also helps you internalize that most people mind their own business, e.g. no one is looking at you.
June 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
About today's public transit discourse: I believe that riding public transit is a spiritual good for increasing your empathy and practicing minding your own business. It also helps you internalize that most people mind their own business, e.g. no one is looking at you.
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There's something deeply concerning about the loss of a major art and craft store and the liquidation of a sewing pattern company. We are actively watching the ability to make things by hand become harder and harder, more out of reach.
Can you get indie? Sure. But that's a privilege, too.
Can you get indie? Sure. But that's a privilege, too.
In other big crafting news today, the big four sewing pattern companies have been sold to a liquidator, citing tariffs and the closure of Joann as factors, as well as softening in the craft market generally. craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...
Parent Company of the Big 4 Sewing Pattern Brands Sold to a Liquidator - Craft Industry Alliance
The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidator.
craftindustryalliance.org
June 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
There's something deeply concerning about the loss of a major art and craft store and the liquidation of a sewing pattern company. We are actively watching the ability to make things by hand become harder and harder, more out of reach.
Can you get indie? Sure. But that's a privilege, too.
Can you get indie? Sure. But that's a privilege, too.
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[I know no one's here for this rn but can we stop calling two grown men, each of whom is among the most powerful people on earth, "girls"? Alternatively, could we stop positing "girls" as exemplars of the human capacity for pettiness & emotional volatility, LOOK AT THE MEN IN THIS ADMINISTRATION.]
June 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
[I know no one's here for this rn but can we stop calling two grown men, each of whom is among the most powerful people on earth, "girls"? Alternatively, could we stop positing "girls" as exemplars of the human capacity for pettiness & emotional volatility, LOOK AT THE MEN IN THIS ADMINISTRATION.]
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Happy birthday to Canadian actor Noah Reid was born on this day in 1987 in Toronto.
After roles on various Canadian TV shows, he rose to fame as Patrick on Schitt's Creek. He made his Broadway debut in 2023 and released his first album in 2016. He has won a Canadian Screen Award.
After roles on various Canadian TV shows, he rose to fame as Patrick on Schitt's Creek. He made his Broadway debut in 2023 and released his first album in 2016. He has won a Canadian Screen Award.
May 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Happy birthday to Canadian actor Noah Reid was born on this day in 1987 in Toronto.
After roles on various Canadian TV shows, he rose to fame as Patrick on Schitt's Creek. He made his Broadway debut in 2023 and released his first album in 2016. He has won a Canadian Screen Award.
After roles on various Canadian TV shows, he rose to fame as Patrick on Schitt's Creek. He made his Broadway debut in 2023 and released his first album in 2016. He has won a Canadian Screen Award.
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Another day, another barrage of news about how AI developers are getting billions of dollars for vaporware while NSF, NOAA and NASA are defunded.
May 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Another day, another barrage of news about how AI developers are getting billions of dollars for vaporware while NSF, NOAA and NASA are defunded.
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Part of my skepticism towards genAI in academia is personal bitterness about how some are willing to throw an amount of money, energy, and support at the AI hype while treating the humans pushed out of academia (esp. grad students, adjuncts, and postdocs) as an unfortunate inevitability.
May 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Part of my skepticism towards genAI in academia is personal bitterness about how some are willing to throw an amount of money, energy, and support at the AI hype while treating the humans pushed out of academia (esp. grad students, adjuncts, and postdocs) as an unfortunate inevitability.
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NB: Browsing works because actual human librarians take the time to categorize materials so that like things live together on the shelves. It's. not. magic. it. is. professional. labor.
Yesterday I went to the library to borrow a book I've bought but wanted to start reading before it arrives, and wound up checking out two others shelved nearby.
This is why browsing is so much better than algorithms. Browsing lets you survey and spark.
This is why browsing is so much better than algorithms. Browsing lets you survey and spark.
May 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
NB: Browsing works because actual human librarians take the time to categorize materials so that like things live together on the shelves. It's. not. magic. it. is. professional. labor.
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every librarian I know is doing six jobs at once
they should get paid like professional athletes
they should get paid like professional athletes
Everyone wants to talk about how great libraries are but no one wants to talk about compensating and supporting said librarians
April 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
every librarian I know is doing six jobs at once
they should get paid like professional athletes
they should get paid like professional athletes
Trashy, mean-spirited, and unprofessional.
It looks like they've been removing QTs so here's a screenshot. This is trash
April 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Trashy, mean-spirited, and unprofessional.
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Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment?
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
April 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment?
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
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I love this set in my collection showing that magic moment when a cat sees you and decides to come visit. ✨
April 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I love this set in my collection showing that magic moment when a cat sees you and decides to come visit. ✨
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Creative Writing is not an experience of continuous movement forward. It is an experience of being trapped in your head for the rest of your life and this is the best way you figured out how to get it out, and now it's even more agonizing
April 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Creative Writing is not an experience of continuous movement forward. It is an experience of being trapped in your head for the rest of your life and this is the best way you figured out how to get it out, and now it's even more agonizing
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I saw a version of this on here before but it's worth yelling: these institutions that Musk is illegally dismantling– the weather service, health system, climate & energy research, international aid, maybe the US mail(?)– they don't belong to him, they belong to us. We invested in them. They're ours
April 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I saw a version of this on here before but it's worth yelling: these institutions that Musk is illegally dismantling– the weather service, health system, climate & energy research, international aid, maybe the US mail(?)– they don't belong to him, they belong to us. We invested in them. They're ours
Black cats are the sweetest. Here are Tristan and Hamlet, who have brought me nothing but good luck.
March 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Black cats are the sweetest. Here are Tristan and Hamlet, who have brought me nothing but good luck.
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future researchers will remember 2025 as the year when suddenly the data for all kinds of important things stops getting recorded
March 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
future researchers will remember 2025 as the year when suddenly the data for all kinds of important things stops getting recorded
Early Intervention was incredibly important for my micropreemie and our family—just life-changing, irreplaceable, long-lasting effects. I am certain that her whole life will be easier and happier because we received that free, multi-faceted, accessible help her first three years.
Something I haven't seen covered extensively with regards to the Department of Education is the fact that the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) funds early intervention services, along with Medicaid. EI is usually free, or very low cost for families.
Federal Cuts Threaten Babies and Preschoolers with Disabilities from All Angles
Slashing the U.S. Department of Education, Medicaid, and more hurts young children with delays and disabilities.
www.newamerica.org
March 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Early Intervention was incredibly important for my micropreemie and our family—just life-changing, irreplaceable, long-lasting effects. I am certain that her whole life will be easier and happier because we received that free, multi-faceted, accessible help her first three years.
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Very fine and normal to be living in times when the US president is openly agitating for war with Canada. ANY talk of "51st state" means talking about war. Don't sugarcoat or sane-wash it. He's talking about war. With a peaceful neighbour and NATO ally.
March 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Very fine and normal to be living in times when the US president is openly agitating for war with Canada. ANY talk of "51st state" means talking about war. Don't sugarcoat or sane-wash it. He's talking about war. With a peaceful neighbour and NATO ally.
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From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this
March 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this