My English majors surprised me today with their excitement for html. Apparently they’ve been experimenting with it in fan fiction settings. Makes me feel a little more hopeful about my fear that we will slide into tech automation bc it’s “easy.”
So true, sadly. It’s a very difficult time to do the work of education.
I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
@archive.org
I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.
blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...
PM folks: Do I know any librarians at New York Public Library? Please DM me. I've got a question!
SCOOP: McGill University's on-campus doctors are now refusing to prescribe hormones to trans youth and adults under age 19... if they're U.S. citizens.
They claim liability issues, but this isn't the first time U.S. EOs have interfered with Canadian doctors.
My report: celeste.lgbt/en/2026/04/d...
Wait. What is this mysterious position? You mean they are helpful and not yelling at you because you didn’t use the correct approved colors?
A Great Pyrenees smells the fence to see if a coyote has made its way in.
Exciting Sunday… walked the fence line checking for incursions with my trusty lgd buddy Kleo. She is more interested in me than the sheep, but she hates coyotes with all the passion of the burning sun.
Actually, I’ve explained this MANY TIMES
This generation of Black ppl vote MORE than any generation since we got the right to vote
But after the 1st Black was elected, WHITE PPL began turning out in historic numbers to vote for Trump. As this graph CLEARLY shows…
The “crisis” is white people.
Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!
Finished patching the fence to make sure coyotes can’t eat our lambs. There were two coyote slides (apparently a term) that included fur caught on the barbed wire. They are now impassable. Let’s hope it works!
Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...
He was a legend. I’ve never seen a dog so dedicated to his flock. We actually bought him from someone on Craig’s list . He was living with goats, and they were selling out. We hit the jackpot. An amazing boy.
Lots of big dogs ! Maybe?
Kleo is our sole guardian now. We sadly lost woofie in the fall. A guardian to the end- he wouldn’t leave his spot in front of the sheep pen. We miss him a lot.
Very true! Our great our has run down coyotes. Our rescue dog would definitely be in danger. I’ve seen the mix of dogs that they use in British Columbia to deal with bears. Very large!!
The great thing about livestock guard dogs is that they are bred to work as a symbiotic network. You don’t need to kill predators. You need to keep them from sheep. When we visited sheep camps in Romania we saw a very ancient shepherding that works in the us as well.
Well… husband was putting the sheep in when the dog alerted to a coyote or several… I took the lg dog and walked the fence line. There was at least 1 that was right on the other side of the fence, but it disappeared when we arrived. Makes working with faculty seem like nothing!
Some evenings downtown Baltimore is just impossibly beautiful and peaceful.
My city! I do love downtown at the harbor.
This is a big one. Stellar reporting from Sarah Fitzpatrick. To call it a must-read is an understatement: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.
The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.
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Just in case you don’t believe me. This is a thing I’m always upset about when it comes to public scholarship, which is a topic I care so deeply about. www.patreon.com/posts/900009...
I suspect once you have the ground rules down things will settle down. I’m so sorry that you were injured, but I really get not giving up on a dog. Best of luck.
Lamb claiming on top of ewe who is laying down. Poor mom has a look of patience.
This lamb has decided there is nothing better than surfing her mom’s back.
I’m so sorry about this. We have a dog who has similar issues and worked with a dog behaviorist. It was super helpful as were drugs, but there is also a number of things that we have to do to assume safety. We also are committed to her and not interested in the out her down talk.
Jakobína the dog standing outside Hlöllabátar subs
Jakobína licking her lips outside Hlöllabátar subs
Uggi is not the only Hlöllabátar-loving dog. Our neighbour Jakobína stole out of her home yesterday and was found here:
I’d make a classic Pennsylvania Dutch apple pie….
Students in the Texas Tech system (64k, give or take) are now PROHIBITED from researching or writing anything "centered on" sexual orientation or gender identity as part of an undergrad honors or graduate thesis. Not faculty, mind you. Students.
In a blatant 1st Amendment violation, students in the Texas Tech University system are completely banned from researching or writing anything related to sexual orientation or gender identity as part of their thesis.
This morning as I was drinking my coffee/answering emails a coyote showed up in our pasture. Not good given our 16 lambs that would be yummy coyote snacks. I put our livestock guard dog in the pasture and found the place where the coyote found its way in. Lots of fence work to do this weekend.
