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Donna Shelton

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Emerita professor of Spanish, now adjunct, history buff, sci-fi fan, climate change worrier, & mother of basset hounds out working in the garden or reading. Born at 315 ppm. She/her.

Donna Shelton's avatar Donna Shelton @donnashelton.bsky.social
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Was just in a conversation about this very thing.

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Thanks for the link. This is amazing. I grew up in Overland Park.

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Matt Gabriele's avatar Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com
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This is correct and too many of the very serious people agreeing with it are still fucking doing it

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Donna Shelton's avatar Donna Shelton @donnashelton.bsky.social
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I need something distracting to read. Like a horror novel.

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Donna Shelton's avatar Donna Shelton @donnashelton.bsky.social
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Nice, but this fall is a little too late. We need them a few weeks before school starts again.

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Donna Shelton's avatar Donna Shelton @donnashelton.bsky.social
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This is real? No wonder I had to buy a size extra large sun hat.

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Donna Shelton's avatar Donna Shelton @donnashelton.bsky.social
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I guess some of you never worked in food service.

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K.B. Spangler's avatar K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com
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Seriously, check if your antidepressants put you at risk for lower heat tolerance. It's possible you're not (just) aging, you're dealing with symptoms of a routine medication.

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Here’s the article. Project 2025 advocates privatizing NOAA so that right wing plutocrats can do to climate change what Trump tried to do to Covid. If you don’t measure it, then it doesn’t exist! www.thenation.com/article/envi...

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Colin Purrington 's avatar Colin Purrington @colinpurrington.bsky.social
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Flow chart for deciding whether to buy that adorable insect hotel that is impossibly cheap.

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Donna Shelton's avatar Donna Shelton @donnashelton.bsky.social
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This summer's online class is one of the most frustrating teaching experiences I've ever had.

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Lissa Harris's avatar Lissa Harris @lissaharris.bsky.social
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I keep saying “resource extraction zone” - one time I wrote a thing for enviro lit mag Reckoning about it, why being poor makes us valuable, and why the volunteer fire department is on the front lines of climate response

love and thanks to editor and friend @byzantienne.bsky.social

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She could have been the Gov who fixed NYC traffic, made the streets safer, revitalized it with robust transit, including more transit to pump suburbanites into the city.

But she chose to end her reelection chances instead.

nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/06/07/g...

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Donna Shelton's avatar Donna Shelton @donnashelton.bsky.social
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We have a new friend here at my house. His name is Chuck. Nice guy. Chuck repairs our Whirlpool refrigerator, but he's been to our house eight times in the last six months, so he's our buddy now. Might invite him to Thanksgiving. He can bring a new fan unit as his contribution.

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Lissa Harris's avatar Lissa Harris @lissaharris.bsky.social
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hoping Eileen is right Liz Krueger is big mad, she has a lot of power, and she’s a smart reasonable level-headed pol, such as you might expect of the chair of the state senate finance committee this move of Hochul’s seems appallingly not thought through, and has the ants’ nest all stirred up

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Gabe Ortíz's avatar Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social
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The base, including Latino voters, “needs something that really gets them excited in order to go to the polls … This occurred in 2012 when, in the middle of his re-election campaign, Barack Obama issued the executive order that created #DACA …”

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Donna Shelton's avatar Donna Shelton @donnashelton.bsky.social
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Are we supposed to believe that Trump sat through the several hours of training required to get a carry license in NY?

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Finished the overhyped volcano novel. Almost threw my Kindle device across the room toward the end. Glad that's over.

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Jeremy Wallace's avatar Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social
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The kind of political genius that would stop congestion pricing would also probably invite Netanyahu to speak in DC.

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Unofficial Guardian (World) Bot's avatar Unofficial Guardian (World) Bot @guardian-world-rss.bsky.social
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Biden’s immigration order: a re-election bid that will cause ‘suffering and death’

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Donna Shelton's avatar Donna Shelton @donnashelton.bsky.social
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I started the much-hyped novel that came out this week, thinking it would be a fun break from other things I've been reading. I'm now halfway through it. Meh. And also Ugh. I think I wasted the cost of the Kindle version.

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EL País Unofficial's avatar EL País Unofficial @elpais.skyfleet.blue
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Latin American left celebrates Sheinbaum’s victory in Mexico’s presidential election

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Joshua J. Friedman's avatar Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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No shade to anyone who's posted or reposted this, because IMO this article is begging be misinterpreted, but no, Trump didn't do anything wrong by not walking directly to the probation office after the verdict. Judge Merchan told his attorneys that the clerk would get in touch about scheduling.

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@heatmap.news this would be a great story to explore in more detail. Because I think the statements in NY make no sense, especially after VT just enacted the law (and shared none of those concerns).

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Stacey's avatar Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social
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I expect more from an administration that purports to respect expertise. Instead, it's driving out experts.

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Donna Shelton's avatar Donna Shelton @donnashelton.bsky.social
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This week I"ve dealt with 3 different "helpdesks" in an attempt to solve 2 problems affecting my online course, and all I've learned is that they don't read my emails and they'll go to great lengths to hide things they've done/not done that contributed to the problem.

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Donna Shelton's avatar Donna Shelton @donnashelton.bsky.social
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Going to revise the climate change in Latin America assignment I use in my class, and this and the drought and extreme heat in Mexico will be part of it.

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ 's avatar Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social
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Every day a little closer to When the Earth Was Green coming out. My biggest hope for the book is that it makes readers think about relationships between species, the ecosystems we are and are part of

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Donna Shelton's avatar Donna Shelton @donnashelton.bsky.social
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Her hair seems quite long here, and lighter in color.

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Ketan Joshi's avatar Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co
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The pattern here is so obvious - Enact an intentional, targeted attack against civilians, including children - Apologise profusely, frame it as a regrettable mistake, and 'investigate' - That buys enough time to commit the next murders The World Kitchen attack was blatantly the same thing

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Donna Shelton's avatar Donna Shelton @donnashelton.bsky.social
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Three years ago I planted five blue flag iris rhizomes in the wet part of our backyard. They've begun to spread, and this year there are quite a few flowers.

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Donna Shelton's avatar Donna Shelton @donnashelton.bsky.social
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To protect my sanity, I've decided to treat it as a game. My role in this game is to devise instructions to make it as difficult as possible for students to benefit from using ChatGPT. But, I'm retired from full-time teaching, and in the courses I teach as an adjunct this is relatively easy to do.

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Donna Shelton's avatar Donna Shelton @donnashelton.bsky.social
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I've started rereading the Mars trilogy for about the fifth time.

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Donna Shelton's avatar Donna Shelton @donnashelton.bsky.social
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The long-range forecast suggests I could plant yellow squash and zucchini a couple weeks early. Why not. I have plenty of seed.

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I just finished this novel. It is amazing. I love every page of it.

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Eric Williams's avatar Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social
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I know there's a lot going on and all, but it's kind of wild that there's been nothing on the news about the vast swaths of Mexico experiencing rolling black outs due to extreme heat in early May

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Colson Whitehead's avatar Colson Whitehead @colson.bsky.social
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I sent this message to the UMass administration yesterday: "I was looking forward to speaking next week at UMass Amherst. I visited two years ago and everyone was awesome. My nephew graduated from there and got a great education. But calling the cops on peaceful protesters is a shameful act...” 1/2

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Donna Shelton's avatar Donna Shelton @donnashelton.bsky.social
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I have about a week's break before I have to prep for the summer session, so I'm going to devote myself to this magnificent novel for the next several days: Nicolás Medina Mora's América del Norte.

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Donna Shelton's avatar Donna Shelton @donnashelton.bsky.social
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Desperately seeking small tasks to do around the house to avoid grading. I will regret this tomorrow.

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