well, that should say "retrofitting" but you get my drift. ODS beef brought to you by the survey they've been emailing me thrice a day every day across two email addresses about, which I did NOT respond to charitably

building my courses with universal design and avoiding retroactive accommodations etc etc forever for many reasons but primarily due to my beef with how unhelpful my personal experiences with university disability services have been

Department administrative assistants are the academic equivalent of Atlas holding up the world. Truly where would we be without them. My department's three admin ladies are the glue holding the whole operation together

spent an hour fixing the transcription mistakes in this medieval knitting pattern, can I count this as some sort of scholarship

first goalie to 40 career wins in the league I know that’s right

An open heart locket graphic with a photo of Ann-Renée Desbiens in net on the left side and "ann renée desbiens" on the right side

Ann-Renée Desbiens I am offering you my hand in marriage

this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.

also, the focus on "majors" is a way to cut programs that actually enroll fine, but students pick other things because they are told to by ... their parents media advisors admin college counselors general vibes ... but they still take the classes because they actually want to learn.

not many people know this, but Barilla has a line of 3D printed pasta it sells mostly to the fine dining industry. I don't want the pasta. I want the pasta printer

Teapot featuring a wide angle shot of the Moon's horizon and a small Earth above and to the left. Mug featuring Orion spacecraft with a shining spot on the panels reflecting the sun.

Teapot featuring a wide angle shot of the Moon's horizon and a small Earth above and to the left. Mug featuring Orion spacecraft with a shining spot on the panels reflecting the sun. (Left detail of teapot)

Teapot featuring a wide angle shot of the Moon's horizon and a small Earth above and to the left. Mug featuring Orion spacecraft with a shining spot on the panels reflecting the sun. (Detail of mug)

Teapot featuring a wide angle shot of the Moon's horizon and a small Earth above and to the left. Mug featuring Orion spacecraft with a shining spot on the panels reflecting the sun. (Detail of the Moon)

Artemis II tea set 🌓
#SciArt

I am so tired of this man like he just seems terrible

Industry capture of labor unions, or, Why Fight ‘Em if You Can Get Them to Market Your Products?

<<chef’s kiss>>

An assortment of ceramic sculptures, including frogs, horses, a blue bunny, and frog jewelry.

Cute ceramic frog jewelry including earrings, necklaces and charms.

9 tiny ceramic frog figurines in various colors.

Shop update this Friday! April 17 at 12 pm PT. I’ll be adding these things to my Etsy shop.

I know people bristle at the idea of leftists who police language but a big reason it happens is because, especially as it relates to politicians, the language we choose serves as an entirely accurate predictor of the types of policy decisions we would make & who we would & wouldn’t place value on

using the R slur in the big 26 is absurd behaviour and, like his nazi tattoo, should be immediately disqualifying. get this dude out of here

One side of a knitted pair of socks in progress, showing the first half of the opening lines of Beowulf, starting with a big "HWÆT"

The other side of the Beowulf socks in progress, showing the second half of the opening lines of the poem.

YEAHHHHHH

TEXT: MAMDANI: Concern about quality of life is something that I hear about from a lot of New Yorkers. It’s been defined in the ways that Mel said, as well as in the way of the streets being dirtier. There are fewer trash cans, and the parks are not maintained in the way that they once were. I think one of the foundations of all of these issues is that, under Eric Adams, we have seen the city government retreating further and further from New Yorkers’ lives. We’ve seen that play out in attempted cuts to libraries, to sanitation, to schools—any public good, you name it, he’s tried it. One of my commitments as the next mayor of this city is to fund public goods to ensure that we’re actually putting the money behind these agencies so that they can do their job. When those jobs are done at the fullest of their capacity, each and every New Yorker feels it in the order of their lives.

The Mayor knows that cutting library budgets is detrimental to quality of life. Why then has he proposed a cut in the preliminary budget?
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great news! after getting my death glare about it twice he has started getting up to spit into the trash can. still absolutely nasty but better than spitting on the fucking FLOOR

dude just did it again. like if you need to spit there's a trash can about ten feet away. the bathrooms are just around the corner. what is it with men and spitting their nasty saliva all over the fucking place

just watched a dude straight up spit directly onto the carpeted floor of the library????? what the fuck

lots of people saying these protestors don’t know who controls the Senate without acknowledging that these are New Yorkers protesting New York’s Senate delegation

do we think my advisor will let me get away with titling my subsection "the wife, verifiable truth, and why it sucks for everyone when you make your husband tell you he's a werewolf"

fortuitous werewolf typo (I said they "love in forests" rather than "live in forests")

our classes are offset by 15 minutes and yet multiple times I have had whoever's teaching after me show up literally the minute my class ended to shoo me out of there

Happy Birthday to everyone's fav Seattle Aquarium Manager! 🫡

A jester laughing in a woodcut from 1503. The woodcut features a text: ha ha ha ha.

* ha ha ha ha *

The year is 1503, and this jester is laughing at you from his woodcut, reader!

this would make an excellent coloring book page!

oh that would be SO cool but I don’t think I have enough free space in the pattern to do so 😭

imagine I’m wearing these socks around other medievalists and they notice that they say “scyld scefig” instead of “scyld scefing”…. I would be tarred and feathered in the town square

guy who is irritated because this knitting pattern transcribed several words from the manuscript incorrectly and now I am probably going to have to make my OWN colorwork chart to fix them. I do not think I can let these mistakes go