The forces of capitalism and deregulation loom large as industrial transport disasters continue to pile up
https://pca.st/episode/5b5...
https://pca.st/episode/5b5...
11:16 AM - Apr 13, 2024
First year college writing like high school English classes are clearly under siege by students using AI - engaging in authentic writing is key to deterrence. https://metawriting.deanna...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
11:40 AM - Apr 13, 2024
I finished listening to Adam Silvera’s INFINITY KINGS, the trilogy finale. I liked it. There was a solid love triangle that felt natural and not “Writing YA… better check this box.”
Next up is Brandon Sanderson’s THE WAY OF KINGS, gods help me. #books
Next up is Brandon Sanderson’s THE WAY OF KINGS, gods help me. #books
12:57 PM - Apr 12, 2024
"The Enemy still lacks one thing to give him strength and knowledge to beat down all resistance, break the last defenses, and cover all the lands in a second darkness. He lacks the One Ring."
It turns out I wanted to listen to THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING after all, and so I shall. #books
It turns out I wanted to listen to THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING after all, and so I shall. #books
11:23 PM - Apr 12, 2024
Today's students were wild due to the wild (rolling tornado watch) weather but poetry helped us settle and focus on our writing. Now that's powerful! https://metawriting.deanna...
02:22 PM - Apr 02, 2024
My praxis focuses on showing my students the way the ways that writers think and act because my focus is helping students develop as writers while also developing tools they need to continue that growth after they leave my classroom. https://metawriting.deanna...
01:24 PM - Apr 03, 2024
Every now and then I like to say, "I know you're listening." to an empty room.
If I'm wrong, no-one will know, but if I'm right I just freaked out some secret organisation!
If I'm wrong, no-one will know, but if I'm right I just freaked out some secret organisation!
01:22 AM - Apr 04, 2024
3 Threaded Spouts
Sir Paul McCartney has weighed in on Beyoncé’s cover of “Blackbird”:
“I spoke to her on FaceTime and she thanked me for writing it and letting her do it. I told her the pleasure was all mine and I thought she had done a killer version of the song.
“I spoke to her on FaceTime and she thanked me for writing it and letting her do it. I told her the pleasure was all mine and I thought she had done a killer version of the song.
03:44 PM - Apr 04, 2024
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Issue #557 Sarah Boone 19th Century Entrepreneur and Inventor
Every weekday in “We Are Speaking,” we publish an audio post about Black History.
Black History IS American History, no matter how hard some people try to erase our history and contributions.
https://smpl.is/8xwa4
Every weekday in “We Are Speaking,” we publish an audio post about Black History.
Black History IS American History, no matter how hard some people try to erase our history and contributions.
https://smpl.is/8xwa4
11:14 AM - Apr 05, 2024
Happy Birthday, Janet Rowley(1925-2013)!
The US geneticist reclassified cancer as a genetic disease by IDing how chromosomal translocation caused leukemia, improving chromosomal ID techniques, & establishing the foundation for connecting translocations with many types of cancer.
#JanetRowley bio:
The US geneticist reclassified cancer as a genetic disease by IDing how chromosomal translocation caused leukemia, improving chromosomal ID techniques, & establishing the foundation for connecting translocations with many types of cancer.
#JanetRowley bio:
08:53 PM - Apr 05, 2024
Finished reading Lan P. Duong's "Nothing Follows: Poems."
https://amzn.to/3vj2WR7
📖🖊️
While some of it didn't connect for me (usually for structural reasons), this was mostly a really good and emotional collection of #poems . #books #reading #poetry
https://amzn.to/3vj2WR7
📖🖊️
While some of it didn't connect for me (usually for structural reasons), this was mostly a really good and emotional collection of #poems . #books #reading #poetry
01:13 AM - Apr 06, 2024
Started reading Sarah Ghazal Ali's "Theophanies: Poems."
https://amzn.to/3INGEtN
📖🖊️
Rather interesting so far, especially the (relatively) longer ones. #books #reading #poems #poetry
https://amzn.to/3INGEtN
📖🖊️
Rather interesting so far, especially the (relatively) longer ones. #books #reading #poems #poetry
01:18 AM - Apr 07, 2024
57 Threaded Spouts
Ben considered what he'd seen: the weird columns, the many black portals, the strange man, the odd looking girl. Wasn't that what he wanted, to explore a new planet? Just the presence of the portals leading to Earth implied that aliens had visited. He stepped back onto the portal. Nothing happened.
07:00 PM - Mar 12, 2024
57 Threaded Spouts
Elsewhere: Ben Clay shook, sucking in deep breaths from his air tank. What was that he saw? He moved away from the portal and the bodies in the sand, and watched. Would that man with the squirmy hair follow him? Would he die from lack of oxygen? Should he save him?
Ben waited, but no one appeared.
Ben waited, but no one appeared.
06:57 PM - Mar 12, 2024
#DailyPictureTheme #speak
Baking is my love language. ❤️
(This was a spice cake with cream cheese frosting, wafer paper sprinkles, gum paste flowers, and wafer paper feathers.) #SpoutibleBakes
Baking is my love language. ❤️
(This was a spice cake with cream cheese frosting, wafer paper sprinkles, gum paste flowers, and wafer paper feathers.) #SpoutibleBakes
05:36 PM - Mar 05, 2024
#DailyPictureTheme
At Costume College 2018 (an annual con for all kinds of costuming), a group of fab costumers made yellow gowns from all periods for the Gala Red Carpet. First up, a gown from the 17th c. and one from the Tudor period. Sorry that I don't have the costumers' names.
At Costume College 2018 (an annual con for all kinds of costuming), a group of fab costumers made yellow gowns from all periods for the Gala Red Carpet. First up, a gown from the 17th c. and one from the Tudor period. Sorry that I don't have the costumers' names.
06:26 PM - Mar 05, 2024
In response to Amy Osterholm.
#DailyPictureTheme
This gorgeous #yellow gown is typical of the 1890s. Look how far behind her the train extends!
This gorgeous #yellow gown is typical of the 1890s. Look how far behind her the train extends!
06:32 PM - Mar 05, 2024
Sometimes you see a work of art that just speaks to you. This painting was exhibited at the flower show I went to last week, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I called a few days later and bought it.
#DailyPictureTheme #Speak
Follow @DailyPictureTheme !
#DailyPictureTheme #Speak
Follow @DailyPictureTheme !
08:13 PM - Mar 05, 2024
I watched Captain America: The First Avenger tonight. Hadn't watched it in quite awhile. It holds up perfectly.
09:35 PM - Mar 05, 2024
57 Threaded Spouts
Marken cursed as he saw the girl run toward the Crypt of Columns. It was a good way to die. Each column bore the etched names of the dead that had ventured through one of the forbidden portals, the ones that had “gone bad." The deadly disks lay scattered around the columns like a grotesque artwork.
11:22 PM - Feb 09, 2024
57 Threaded Spouts
Elsewhere;
Levia gasped at the sudden change to weightlessness, thinking that she'd stumbled into a vacuum. But then she took a breath, and another, and looked around. She saw glowing pastel clouds, slender things flying in the air, drifting spherical shrubs, and translucent blobs of...something?
Levia gasped at the sudden change to weightlessness, thinking that she'd stumbled into a vacuum. But then she took a breath, and another, and looked around. She saw glowing pastel clouds, slender things flying in the air, drifting spherical shrubs, and translucent blobs of...something?
04:04 PM - Feb 16, 2024
57 Threaded Spouts
"You got lucky," Mrel said from the bag. "You could have died, stepping randomly into one of the restricted portals. You're in a living nebula. I recognize it. Hope you have some way to get back to the portal."
Levia twisted around. Behind her, the portal was drifting slowly away. "Crap!" she said.
Levia twisted around. Behind her, the portal was drifting slowly away. "Crap!" she said.
04:34 PM - Feb 16, 2024
57 Threaded Spouts
“Portals in its belly? Who knows where those go?”
“I have a good idea,” Mrel said. “Though it’d take a long time to drift there. And you still have no way to propel yourself.”
“And I’d starve.”
“No. Those blobs you see drifting around are edible, though tasteless. The sky sharks like them."
“I have a good idea,” Mrel said. “Though it’d take a long time to drift there. And you still have no way to propel yourself.”
“And I’d starve.”
“No. Those blobs you see drifting around are edible, though tasteless. The sky sharks like them."
10:55 PM - Feb 23, 2024
57 Threaded Spouts
At that moment, Marken appeared at the mouth of portal at which they’d just arrived, some ten meters away. He’d tucked three rolled-up portals under one arm.
“Risky move, Marken,” said Mrel.
“True. But anyone pursuing us will be reluctant to follow us into a high-risk portal," Marken said.
“Risky move, Marken,” said Mrel.
“True. But anyone pursuing us will be reluctant to follow us into a high-risk portal," Marken said.
10:58 PM - Feb 23, 2024
57 Threaded Spouts
"And I think that one of these portals I’m carrying might have a path to the human planet in it."
“What’s a human?” Levia asked.
“A creature from a proscribed world.” Marken said. “And who are you, anyway? Are you one of the Prosecutor units?"
"Unlikely," Mrel said, "since you're still alive."
“What’s a human?” Levia asked.
“A creature from a proscribed world.” Marken said. “And who are you, anyway? Are you one of the Prosecutor units?"
"Unlikely," Mrel said, "since you're still alive."
11:03 PM - Feb 23, 2024
Hey! The enemy of my enemy is my friend!
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Anton Brakhage @Anton_BrakhageI am genuinely rooting for Nikki Haley. Not to become PotUS, she'd escape being the worst of the last 50 years only because Trump exists. But I want to have an election between two candidates who are at least eligible. And, failing that, I want her to bleed Trump's campaign for as long as possible.01:32 AM - Mar 05, 2024
01:36 AM - Mar 05, 2024
What pisses me off most about this kind of image... is he would never sit in that proximity with blk boys/men that look like these guys. Think of his unapologetic behavior with the central park 5. He does not care for black men. He cares for few actually but will exploit the broken and unwise.
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Yimi_Kyrabo @Yimi_KyraboTalk of Trump moving black voters, men in particular, simply shows his campaign managers know what the politically educated knows. US elections are won at the margins and like GOP voter suppression efforts, hyping blk male support, even via fake AI and lies is all about chasing margins. VOTE, Blue!09:14 PM - Mar 04, 2024
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