@terriphelan.bsky.social
Analytical Linguist/Conversational AI Analyst, Cal alum, photographer, public school supporter, adoptee rights, genealogy, pro-compassion. Blocking followers I don’t know.
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How cartographers literally put fake towns on the map: “Paper towns are like background extras in movies—if you notice they’re there, they’re not doing their job properly.”
Did You Know Mapmakers Used to Make Up Fake Towns in Order to Catch Plagiarists?
Mapmaking, if you do it properly, is a time-consuming and money-consuming business. You have to do field surveys and travel to multiple locations, some of which can’t be accessed in a vehicle. You …
buff.ly
November 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
How cartographers literally put fake towns on the map: “Paper towns are like background extras in movies—if you notice they’re there, they’re not doing their job properly.”
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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When I first taught Nicolas Carr's "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" 17 years ago I was fairly confident it could, but it didn't have to and therefore wouldn't. I'm much less confident in where our digital tools are taking us now. open.substack.com/pub/bibliora...
Are Platforms Making Us Evil?
Working my way through Nicolas Carr via the lens of teaching.
open.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
When I first taught Nicolas Carr's "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" 17 years ago I was fairly confident it could, but it didn't have to and therefore wouldn't. I'm much less confident in where our digital tools are taking us now. open.substack.com/pub/bibliora...
A worthwhile read.
"It’s statements like these from Mr. Colbert that have rankled many rightwing fundamentalists over the years because they can’t simply claim he’s being inaccurate or even particularly judgy."
The Inconvenient Faith of Stephen Colbert
The core of why Trump World hates him.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
July 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A worthwhile read.
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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
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Here is a nice mushroom
January 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Here is a nice mushroom
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Happy to share this unprompted maker of my day.
@molliekatzen.bsky.social
Many things change.
This does not.
If you don’t know, this is THE best lasagna recipe you’ll ever need…
😎❤️
Many things change.
This does not.
If you don’t know, this is THE best lasagna recipe you’ll ever need…
😎❤️
January 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Happy to share this unprompted maker of my day.