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Bridget Stirling@bridgetstirling.bsky.social |
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University of Alberta PhD candidate exploring the politics of childhood and education and the temporality of childhood. Lover of travel, books, cats, music, coffee, and plants. Keeper of too many shoes. She/her.
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Bridget Stirling
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At least the Australians have democracy sausages. We get to shuffle around a school gym and then go home to watch the CBC coverage and try not to fall asleep. Our biggest tradition is watching the election be largely decided by the time the polls close in BC.
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Ian Boudreau
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Attaboy
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer
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jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava
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Schroedingercat
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Omg Elton John puppet man is sending me
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Bridget Stirling
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I fail to see a problem here.
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Bridget Stirling
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I nominate RexLibris to anchor all future election night broadcasts for Canada.
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journeyman folklorist
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Like if you have achieved hot dog nirvana. Repost if you are still on the noble hot dog eightfold path
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Bridget Stirling
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Same.
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Bridget Stirling
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Yes, I know this is snarking at dude who doesn't really merit spending time on, but I'm just so damn exhausted by people who dismiss folks out there actually doing the work because they mistake online posturing for actual political action.
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Bridget Stirling
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"You all are just too fragile to deal with slurs but I'm tough enough to do what's necessary! But not radical action!" Wow dude very tough, that puts the disabled folks I see out there putting their bodies on the line in front of fascists to shame. You really showed us what courage means.
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Bridget Stirling
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Of course the guy who goes all out defending his choice to use slurs against the baddies if he feels like it also says he won't take any radical action. So basically, calling names and voting are enough to stop fascism? Good lord, save us from the online "resistance."
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Bridget Stirling
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Definitely feels like a better fit than Alchemist, even if I am very not religious.
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Bridget Stirling
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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social reroll
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Bridget Stirling
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If you can't see why calling someone the r-slur as an insult is equivalent to calling someone a faggot as an insult, that says a whole lot about what you think about disabled people's value as humans.
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Bridget Stirling
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Thinking it's okay to use ableist slurs and not racist or homophobic ones very clearly illustrates that you think being disabled is demeaning and disabled people are worthy of your contempt. Otherwise why would you use a word for intellectual disability as an insult?
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Bridget Stirling
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As I keep trying to explain to people: you don't have to have kids to care about kids. Children are people and you should care about their lives.
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Bridget Stirling
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See also: why you should actually do the research and vote for school board. The people who end up on boards have immense power over the lives of children. The far right knows that education can reshape a whole society. You should see that too!
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Akshat Rathi
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"British Experience" is written on the side of a damaged vessel in Barbados, which was affected by unprecedented Category 5 hurricane Beryl.
In a way, we are all living this British experience that began with the industrial age. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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Meredith Rose
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Apparently the government of the Yucatán recently erected a Poseidon statue on one of their major beaches. It’s a very heavily Mayan area, where people still pray to Chaac, the god of rainfall. They’re now being slammed with 3 hurricanes and significant flooding, leading to memes like this
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Bridget Stirling
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Nobody saw this coming.
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Bridget Stirling
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They have 145 followers. Don't give them the attention they're seeking.
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Bridget Stirling
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Friends, that person posting saying they don't know what all the watermelons are about is very obviously disingenuous and knows exactly what they're doing. Don't waste your energy and push their anti-Palestinian garbage into other people's feeds by replying. Blockity block block.
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Bridget Stirling
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This was seriously one of the joys of going to visit family in BC as a kid. That and getting chowder and jello on the ferry to Gibsons.
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Scott Ma
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this cup should give any proper philosopher of history, or any historian really, aneurisms. where can i buy one
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Leigh Ann Craig
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Profs feeling threatened by cancel culture from student: have you ever given students meaningful grace in dealing with /their/ mistakes? Or acknowledged harm they are pointing out to you, and sought grace yourself (rather than reiterating your noble intent)?
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Bridget Stirling
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That said, I actually play an alchemist in my D&D group, mostly blowing things up.
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Bridget Stirling
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I feel like I don't use nearly enough substances for my label to fit.
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Bridget Stirling
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One of the weirdest bits of online call-out culture.
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Gerry Doyle
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the internet
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Ken Klippenstein
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motion to replace the saying "I've got a bridge to sell you" with "Gaza aid pier"
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Bridget Stirling
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Everytime Bluesky has a major drama, I discover people whose politics I may somewhat agree with but who get a preemptive block for being complete dickheads.
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Bridget Stirling
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To some extent, though, for some journalists, the way things float to the surface on Twitter (rather than having to choose to seek it out) is one of the benefits.
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Bridget Stirling
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At least, not unless you set up a specific feed, but it's still not as easy to catch hold of local stories, which are the bread and butter of most journalists.
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Bridget Stirling
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It's been open to all for a while and it's still not a big destination for them. Twitter is still actively used to get media attention, and it will continue to be that way until enough newsmakers leave. But also, you can't follow local figures and have them push into your feed the same way here.
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Bridget Stirling
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It still doesn't function quite like the Twitter one though. You can use the discover tab but it still doesn't push particular things into your feed, nor is there a very obvious thing tracking "trending." Certainly there are other factors, too.
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Bridget Stirling
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What a sweet face! Love a gentle giant. Howl came to me because a friend's student was living in a situation where she couldn't keep him. Yes, he's named for the film, but my friends and I decided he's actually the Moving Castle. I love him to bits.
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Bridget Stirling
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I suspect that the non-algorithmic nature that many of us like is part of why it isn't appealing to some journalists. Stories don't push themselves onto your feed the way they do on Twitter. Also, of course, despite how horrid it is, a lot of the big stuff still happens over there, not here.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
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Okayyyyyy you asked for lots of hard to draw stuff and I made a lot of nightmare fuel from those requests. In the end, we have 3 deep sea creatures that would prefer that we collectively do NOT destroy their homes via deep sea mining. Try recycling maybe, they say.
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Dave Levitan
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"It looked like a toaster for a divorced giant."
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Bridget Stirling
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Also, the Costco thing strikes me as extremely likely, actually. "Unplanned" meetings don't have to be reported under the Lobbying Act, and some people have very predictable patterns. If you know someone does their shopping every Saturday morning, it's not hard to linger for that "chance" encounter.
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Bridget Stirling
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I can't say that I'm terribly shocked by any of this, but it's surprising that one of them said it out loud.
The denials are also pretty dubious.
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Bridget Stirling
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Anyhow, all that to say that often a TA does spot it (even when overworked and underpaid) but there's not much they can actually do about it, and the authors would likely know that, which makes this even worse.
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Bridget Stirling
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I've also run across assignments that were highly suspect, but other than flagging them for the principal instructor for that course (a sessional, so also underpaid), there wasn't much I could do since anything beyond that was out of my hands.
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Bridget Stirling
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There's also the reality that flagging an assignment as potential AI can be a huge headache and it's extremely difficult to prove. The average TA simply doesn't have the paid time to investigate or to spend on the formal process, and there's little likelihood of any meaningful outcome.
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Tom Flood
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The Bridge. Content done with The Biking Lawyer.
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Natalie Metzger
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bestest borb
#MakeATerribleComicDay2024 🪶
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petit burgo
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My tv remote is doing a software update. We have strayed so far from God’s light
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Bridget Stirling
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I've been able to determine how long it is until game time by the increasing frequency of honking vehicles throughout the day. Yes, it started this morning.
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Peter
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if we had caught wind of Saddam’s Republican Guard doing shit like this even once it would have been paraded across the evening news repeatedly as proof of the regime’s brutality and a justification for war
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Ian Boudreau
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Pleased to formally announce that our research team has constructed an extreme edge-case hypothetical in which your post from yesterday is not entirely correct
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