is trump's huge and ugly bill signed into law?
NO
can you still call your senator to oppose it?
YES
can you make a list of other people in your life you could invite to call their senators?
ABSOLUTELY
can you speak up for specific impacts to your family and community when you call, and ensure the staffer understands how serious this is?
YES

don't log trumps wins for him, keep fighting!

Okay. I'm a teacher, so let me say this in a way everybody can understand.

If you ask me for $5 and I say no, but you take it out of my purse anyway, that's stealing.

If you ask me for $5 and I'm too drunk to either say yes or no, but you take $5 from my purse anyway, that's stealing.

If I give $5 to your friend, so you decide that gives you the right to take $5 out of my purse, that's stealing.

If I gave $5 to you yesterday, so you decide to take $5 out of my purse today, that's stealing.

If I'm flashing hundred dollar bills on the street, just really flaunting how much money I have, so you decide to take $5 out of my purse, that's stealing.

If I tell you I'll give you $5, but then, while reaching into my purse to get it, I change my mind and say actually no, but you decide to take the $5 anyway, that's stealing.

If you hold a gun to my head and force me to give you $5, even if I physically reach into my purse and hand you the $5 without another word, that's stealing.

If no one has ever given you $5, and you can see I have extra money in my purse, so you take $5, that's stealing.

If we're married, and you ask for $5 and I say no, but you decide to take $5 out of my purse anyway, that's stealing.

If you say "God gave me $5" and then take $5 out of my purse, that's stealing.

If you're my boss, and you tell me you'll fire me if I don't give you $5 right now, that's stealing.

If you want $5, and I reach in my purse and only give you $1, but you reach in while the purse is open and take $5 anyway, that's stealing.

If you pretend to be my friend in the hopes that being my friend will someday lead to me deciding to give you $5, you aren't actually my friend. And if you take the $5 you were expecting to get for pretending to be my friend, that's stealing.

The reason all men can easily understand this, and that there are no "grey areas" in stealing $5, is that men value $5 more than they value a woman's body.

I just found that the latest #linuxMint installer is #accessible with #orca. I was using the #MATE spin. Someone at the Mint team clearly checked this; love to see it. Please don't break it.

less "executive dysfunction", more "proletarian dysfunction", am i right?

gonna tell my niblings "tldr" stands for "top level domain registrar"

introducing my new computer science paper: i come into your home and open all your closets and take pictures. the data has been carefully anonymized.

On behalf of the #CalOER organizing committee, and #LibreTexts, this is a reminder that proposals for the Cal OER conference are due soon! If you're interested in presenting, please fill out the Presentation Proposal Submission Form no later than Monday June 9, 2025 @ 5 pm PST:

https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/383c37ae6be94cf98cd22768c2412e6f.

This event will be held virtually on August 6 – 8, 2025 and is open to everyone. Register now online:

https://www.caloer.org/home.

#OER #OpenEd #FreeTheTextbook #TheFutureIsOpen

{ epic handshake meme }

DNS 🤝 LLM

It's always

If you aren’t using AI, you run a very real risk of falling behind in the race to produce voluminous mediocrity while slowly forgetting how to do your own job.

@handmade_ghost It's a fun little game—and I wish I knew whether it has a name! The other main important rule is "your writing implement must maintain contact with the paper as you write". If this (egregiously under-caffeinated) small description of the "rules" doesn't make sense, I'll share a couple photos if you'd like.

@handmade_ghost My doodles are a toss-up between:

- succulents & cacti with wayward, tragic, and/or compelling backstories
- that "make as many Xes and squares as you like, but don't double-ink a line segment" doodle-ish game

I've been getting roped into more video meetings lately, so I've been doodling, and I've realized that my go-to daydreaming doodle is an endoplasmic reticulum (like those cross-section drawings from childhood biology picture books).

Which brings me to my question: What's your go-to doodle?

@amerpie I've repeatedly learned things from https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/Fork+My+Brain

And get on my lawn!

(This blew up so much, I found the original source to give credit to the artist: https://www.instagram.com/p/DEPvGdmu-pS/?img_index=1)

I'm at the Community College of Philadelphia today for the first time ever (which is honestly embarrassing), the vibes here are very good!

Here for this MOVE symposium btw: https://www.ccp.edu/remembrance-reflection-recommitment

New post up for Monday about a daily writing practice I developed last month. It's modeled on a newbie running program: I added sentences to my daily goal each week until I was doing about a paragraph each day. New post - "Couch to Paragraph Writing Program"

https://walshbr.com/blog/couch-to-paragraph-writing-program/

The U of Regina has opened my virtual talk to the public. Join free this Tuesday for “Open & the Oligarchs: Planting Seeds in a World on Fire.” Info/registration: https://uregina.libcal.com/event/3891413

#OER #HigherEd #fascism #pedagogy

To all #OpenSource and #Linux warriors, to all saying "Ditch windows, install Linux", to everyone and every single person: please, spend several minutes and read this. I want you all to read this so you really understand the problem (if you want to understand, of course). And a huge, huge thanks to Aaron @fireborn for starting this post series. https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-1-built-for-control-but-not-for-people/ #Accessibility

Every 30-year-old I know has the trauma of a 60-year-old coal miner and the coping mechanisms of a raccoon with Wi-Fi.