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Katherine 🎶📚@katherinemelb.bsky.social |
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B.S. in Music Education from University of North Texas
Denton, TX - ✝️ - urbanist - environmentalist - classical & jazz trombone
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Katherine 🎶📚
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This is the DNC's fault for having sham primaries cycle after cycle after cycle. Democrats are tired of not having any real voice and then being told they have to compromise to stop fascism.
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"Sorry. My name is a lot to remember. This might help." *hands you a concert program*
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Oh my goodness 🤩 What breed is he? I want one!
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Is Boeing going for some kind of hidden achievement for botching every mode of transportation at least once?
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Also, you get what you pay for. The intonation on cheap 8 string guitars is notoriously awful, and the signal from cheap ceramic pickups are harsh and difficult to work with when trying to dial a good tone. They're made with cheap materials and manufacturing methods that will *not* age well.
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This post isn't necessarily directed at broke high school/college kids trying to get their hands on any guitar they can find. This is for people who have the resources and yet have entire collections bloated with "value" gear. Save your money and get a nice instrument from a reputable brand.
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Metal guitarists: Our leaders are corrupt and commit atrocities around the world for power and money! Also metal guitarists: Check out my guitar collection! I have twenty of them. Disregard the fact that they're all made in China, Indonesia, and Vietnam. This new one has fanned frets!
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So much of the music that guitars like this are geared towards have their roots in very anti-establishment scenes. You would think that the community as a whole would see this for what it is and reject it, but apparently our principals are cheap.
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More guitarists need to realize that this sort of value is only made possible through extreme economic exploitation. There's a reason guitars at this price point are exclusively made in countries with weak/unenforced labor laws.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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I just realized that there’s a generation of academics who’ve long had to hear “well, we didn’t have Google!” from older scholars and will now have to hear it from younger ones too.
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Katherine 🎶📚
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You can't downplay the fact that most of the world's population centers will now regularly experience weather conditions that they're simply not equipped for. Navigating this new reality will require collaboration, not mocking from people not currently in emergency situations.
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It's that time of year again when we're reminded that climate breakdown is going to coincide with us telling each other "that's nothing" or "that sounds like a them problem." Maybe we deserve this.
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Does the consulting industry contribute anything of value to society?
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Does anyone actually willingly use DropBox? It seems like something someone would come up with if asked to make a needlessly bad user experience for a mundane task.
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Katherine 🎶📚
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Just become a teacher
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It's actually so absurd I can't help but respect it in a way. Too bad it's so dangerous for everyone in the vicinity.
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I wonder how Bing is doing these days
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I have a worrying feeling that a post I made a couple weeks ago is going to age increasingly well leading up to election day.
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My biggest gripe with FB's algorithm is that it's way too reactive. I'll briefly interact with a short video about something like an alligator handler, then the algorithm will be like "we've got a gator enthusiast over here! We need more gator content! Now now now! Everything is gators from now on!"
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Not sure how effective it would be given it would mostly be excess deaths (i.e. deaths from air pollution), which, as a concept, is easy for someone to dismiss if they simply don't want to believe it.
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this dude hates the third amendment
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Katherine 🎶📚
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I didn't realize I'd actually caught them. Thanks!
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When I try it I mostly get failed catches followed by them immediately fleeing why I try again. I assumed it was patched.
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I started playing Pokémon Go recently. An underrated perk of living in a dense multifamily area is that my bed sits perfectly in between three Pokéstops.
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A lot of white progressives really need to think critically about why their instinctive response to a law that amounts to "don't be an a**hole in public" is "but that's racist".
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Something that drives me crazy is when cities pass laws against loud vehicles, some "progressives" come out of the woodwork to say that these laws are just a means to target poor people/people of color, as if the people living in these neighborhoods should just have to deal with booming bass at 3 AM
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We need communities so that we can have each other's back when someone has enough and throws something at dudes like this
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Recently I was working late hours on a project that involved discarding lots of paper. I would watch the custodial staff come into my office at night and empty the recycling and trash into the same bin. Apparently the entire school district (32,000+ students) does this, and nobody bats an eye.
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I have an important announcement to share: I got to boop a squirrel. That is all.
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I like to remind myself that the length of the lunch break is inversely related to how important the job is.
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This, 100%. Take a look at EduSky at any given moment and it will be mostly AI propagandists, mostly from people who aren't even teachers, yet somehow are given platforms over actual teachers. This happens within districts all the time.
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I'm just getting into the field and I'm already sick of all the consultants and EdTech influencers pushing AI and other gimmicks into our profession. We debase our credibility as experts when we entrust our work to such flawed & experimental tech. Thankfully, my content area mostly gets left alone.
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My education hot take of the week is that teachers should be modeling an adamant rejection of generative AI, not an uncritical adoption and dependence on it. We need to show that thinking and creating for ourselves is not only still possible, but truly liberating in the new digital age. #eduSky
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This is also part of a broader tendency of bureaucracy to overlook/erase caring and nurturing forms of labor, which are overwhelmingly performed by women. Much of society's mistreatment of teachers makes more sense when you keep in mind that teaching children is traditionally viewed as women's work.
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The push for EdTech is predicated on the belief that education can be automated, which implicitly devalues all of the interpersonal work that goes into teaching. Anyone who's actually taught knows that nurturing and fostering relationships is absolutely vital to students' (and teachers') success.
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If you look on EduSky at any given moment, you'll find dozens of posts by education consultants and various other tech influencers pushing op-eds about what AI can do for teachers, or the benefits of "eLearning". All of this is presented as completely value neutral. It isn't.
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This was an interesting read that's only become more relevant since its publication in 2017. The push to implement technology into our instruction is often touted as a virtue in its own right, regardless of whether or not it's necessary or even beneficial to students' learning.
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Microplastics are (finally) gaining mainstream attention, but a lot of the ire is directed at particles like those beads found in acne scrubs or turf fields. The most harmful microplastic particles look like this, can pass through your lung tissue and into your brain, and mostly come from car tires
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- Wider sidewalks with planters - Buildings (residential and commercial) go right up to the street, parking in the back - Parking is accessed at fewer points, connected by separate access roads -Form based code encouraging engaging storefronts instead of stock outlet mall design
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Some solutions I would implement if I could wave a magic wand (the road is owned by TxDOT, so these will likely never happen): - 3 10-ft. car lanes (instead of 7) with lower speed limit and traffic calming - 2 bus-only lanes with frequent service - separate, tree lined bike paths on each side (4/?)
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If there is still a steady volume of cyclists despite all of this, then imagine the utilization of a separated, well maintained bike path along a corridor where these issues were addressed. (3/?)
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- The sidewalk frequently cutting out for wide radius driveways into parking lots - Everything being spread out by excessively large, mostly empty parking lots - The stroad being lined primarily with car oriented or otherwise blighting businesses (title loans, anyone?) - Minimal bike parking (2/?)
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Today I saw 4 cyclists on a 1 mile stretch of University Drive (the premier "stroad" of Denton, Tx), despite: - High heat with minimal shade and lots of paved surfaces nearby. - Cyclists confined to a narrow, bumpy, and twisty sidewalk. - The sidewalk being alongside 7 lanes of 45+ mph traffic (1/?)
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Breaking: In an effort to appeal to independent voters, Joe Biden has reportedly swapped out "the Beast" for something more blue-collar, pictured below:
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Absolutely shameless example of shrinkflation by Vega. Just opened this to find it's only half full. Just sell it in a smaller jar at this point.
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Spotted near my apartment. The term "gentrification" loses all meaning when it's applied to benign things like young adults riding bikes or wearing thrifted hats. Me commuting by bike isn't the reason our rent shot up $150 in a year.
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Katherine 🎶📚
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I'll never understand why people are drawn to regions with hot weather. I get lightheaded and dizzy just going outside and it's only 89°. This is miserable.
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I hate to break it to you, but your McDonalds patties don't come from a picturesque free-range family farm with two cows, five chickens, and a cattle dog named Bear. I highly recommend reading up on a company called Tyson.
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It's ironic that opponents of cultivated meat make arguments that more accurately describe conventional factory farmed meat. Low nutritional value and quality, monoplization, high costs and limited scalability, harmful additives, unnatural processes, etc.
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Katherine 🎶📚
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Concerts last week went great!
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