That’s brilliant. 🤩

Agreed but you really need a cat as well

I completely agree with you. Isn’t it wonderful 💕

Plus a good heating system and several cats 🐈‍⬛ 🐈🥰

Well life is interesting. Today was first day on ADHD meds. Very interesting. This may be fun 😂

“Five arrested in Louvre jewel heist” is Enid Blyton’s best yet

WTAF. How f dare they? Appalling

Macrame Christmas gnome decorations with woolly bobble hats and beards or hair braids. Various colours including green and red, gold ribbons, and white snowy beards.

I have been making macrame Christmas gnomes, and today I held my first gnome making workshop! It went so well. My students are the best. Aren’t they fab 😊💕

Oh good grief. He is a fine one to be calling others poisoners. He is an expert poisoner of people’s minds and his poison gets spread far and wide. Unreal.

Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism: 1). They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement bc they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled thru terror 2). If they can’t terrorize you 24/7 in your mind, they have already lost the war 3). The single best way you can resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you constantly. Protect your mental health to ensure you are not constantly in a terrorized state 4). Keep connecting to who you are at your core. Your values, preferences, ethics, and beliefs. Build up capacity to resist 5). Remember they are like abusive parents: they only see us extensions of them. They have no clue how powerful joy and community and self-expression can be. We can use this to our advantage — we can be the strong-willed child they never saw coming. Spending time connecting to your true self is not selfish in these times — it’s intricately connected to a resistance movement that is tied to honoring our bodies, our communities, and to the land. We have to build capacity to resist by being exactly who we are!

DLMayfield:

"Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism:

They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement because they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled through terror.

The best way to resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you."

Wow. A faultless list 💕

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What is so deeply upsetting is how society seems to be on a nonstop nosedive with literally no ending in sight. How can we be so destructive of everything our parents and grandparents fought so hard for? It’s heartbreaking. We need people who have studied Humanities. We need positive energy.

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Holy f. How on earth is any student going to learn and improve from this?

With a cat 🐈‍⬛

Congratulations 😊

For #TolkienTrewsday and pirates I can offer only Hildefons Took, who went off on a journey and never returned, but (I like to imagine) he took little brother, Isengar, with him. Isengar, 'tis said, went to sea in his youth. Together, for a time, they became the dread pirate hobbits.

The Lord of the Rings. It changed my life as a 12 year old book devourer and has been a mainstay ever since. Utterly brilliant book

Maybe they will replace him by someone who actually allows the guests to respond to a question- especially when the guests are women

Here is my main opinion on AI, in every capacity: What is the point of technology? Is it to make our lives better and easier, or is it to make a very small percentage of people richer? The latter is what AI is doing. The people actually doing the coding are making themselves redundant.

With a cat, preferably black

I love that place. It’s fabulous

AI Policy 🤖 Generative AI is any artificial intelligence software, such as ChatGPT, that is used to generate ideas and content that are not one’s own. Beyond alarming environmental impacts, these programs operate by stealing the art and writing of others, and are on that basis unethical. Such programs prevent, and discourage, the development of human beings both into free and critical thinkers and into proficient and creative writers and communicators. Therefore, the use of these programs to assist in any way with any assignments in this course constitutes a violation of academic integrity and is therefore strictly forbidden. First offense = zero for the assignment Second offense = failure for the course If you are ever tempted to use AI because you ran out of time and energy to finish an assignment on time, just email me for an extension!

AI policy I'm putting in my Fall syllabi. Feel free to adopt & adapt it.

Oh my goodness. One of the highlights of my childhood 🥰

Who knew????

In the UK people can wave a swastika and throw Nazi salutes at far-right rallies but a pensioner holding a “Palestine Action” sign is where the law draws the line

"The Met said the total of 474 was the most arrests it had made related to a single operation in at least the past decade.

It had drawn officers from other forces to help form a “significant policing presence”. It was anticipated the event would result in large numbers of people being detained."

Sir Christopher Lee 😊Both of them utterly epic 💕

If true, this is appalling