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Finch in Albu-turkey 🦃
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Not all who wander are lost, but I definitely am.
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I post about my dog Higgins a lot.
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NM Sen Ben Ray Luján (his DC voicemail is almost always full):
(202) 224-6621
(505) 337-7023
(575) 288-4644
(505) 398-9465

NM Sen Martin Heinrich
(202) 224-5521
(505) 346-6601

NM Rep Melanie Stansbury
(202) 225-6316
(505) 346-6781
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Reminder: you don't have to engage with AI as an instructor. You can talk about AI--even build AI literacy, if you want to call it that--and still not engage directly with a brutal, unethical, ecologically disastrous bundle of technologies. Regardless of institutional pressure, you can refuse.
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Well fed prairie dogs at the Valles Caldera.

Gunnison's prairie dogs are abundant in the Valles Caldera. They have a complex social structure, with a sophisticated alarm call system, and live in interconnected burrows that have separate areas for sleeping, eating, and waste.

#wildlife #NewMexico
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Going to see a live orchestra for the first time tonight. Mostly excited for the merch stand, hoping to snag a tuxedo and maybe a harp.
November 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Also, if you haven't yet, there's still time:
I actually remembered to set things out for my baking today that need to be at room temperature please clap
November 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
You can still cancel!
It’s not too late to cancel your holiday travel plans. If your family is mean to you, cancel. If the weather is too dangerous, cancel. If you don’t want to catch a virus, cancel. You can just stay home. I love you. ❤️
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Kind of hate to be behind the trend.
JUST IN: A Peruvian court sentenced former President Martin Vizcarra to 14 years in prison after finding him guilty of taking bribes years before he took office, adding to a list of former leaders jailed for corruption reut.rs/4p6OqCH
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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If this is your first Thanksgiving sober, I’m more than willing to talk to you and give you practical tips for survival.

I’m coming up on 10 years sober and 30-ish years of it being my least favorite holiday.

Don’t hesitate to reach out.
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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“that’s not very nice” “well are they doing nice things?” works great here too.
people are angry that chatbots are being thrust on them; that the industry is unregulated; that it’s deskilling young people; is being used as a weapon against labor and popular gAI is built on theft of the work of millions of artists and authors.

You don’t get to demand civility.
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Dad: “What time do you want us to come over tomorrow?”

Me: “I’M WORKING!”
Dad: “I’m glad today is easier than yesterday.“

Me: “LEMME TELL YOU SOMETHING!”
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against the demonic computers
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
“We have a tradition at my house where we go around the table and share something we’re thankful for.” Oh, word? How creative! Surely that’s not every family’s tradition!
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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If you write articles about library collection usage (university or public) and don’t discuss the issue of budgets, you’re doing it wrong.
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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❌ I'm good in bed
✅ I'm good, in bed
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Pulling the most recent police log led me to once again see an incredible holiday decoration picture a cousin in Omaha sent me
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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It's almost like the tobacco companies weren't even invited to give their input! Shockingly anti-business! Who will think of the corporations?!
Damn, it's like the French *actually* want to discourage smoking. This is *by far* the least disgusting image I've seen on a tobacco product. They appear on both large sides and are impossible to peel off. Two small sides have text warnings. I had to cover the other side with black marker.
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Saying this but to a computer
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Today sucks.
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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This year I am Thankful that I still have the good insurance (which is also dogshit)
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
@wokkax3.bsky.social Apropos of what we were talking about earlier:
I went to open a loaf of bread just now (Pepperidge Farm Butter Bread) and the inner wrapper? Did not have overlapping folds you could pick open! It was heat sealed down the sides with no folds! I had to use scissors! Whose idea was that?
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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I think of this every time a big holiday rolls around. I hope many of you do this and report back.
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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My eyes are up here. Now they're down there. Now they're several feet away. Please help me catch my eyes
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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This bullshit is making everything worse and the only thing I’m sure of is that I will continue to spend five figures a year to access four figures of care just in case I need seven figures of care.
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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dems in congress shouldn't stop talking about how noem must resign and face consequences for this atrocity
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
BREAKING:

“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Tuesday of Thanksgiving week is a demonic day lol
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 AM