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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 22m

per saltum ordination just makes sense imho

Rev. Bosco Peters @liturgy.bsky.social · 26m

There are priests who have never been deacons. The nesting-clergy-doll theory faces another challenge. Read more: liturgy.co.nz/priests-who-...

Priests who are NOT Deacons - Liturgy

There are priests who have never been deacons. The nesting-clergy-doll theory faces another challenge.

liturgy.co.nz

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 49m

but they can if they just microwave a kraft single still in the wrapper

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 1h

no one else has provel cheese either ian

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 4h

okay but ladybugs are definitely either roman or anglo-catholic

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 5h

or is he speaking to the public and trying to blame *protestors* for the government being shut down? in which case everyone should want a king in order to get a paycheck? it is just such a bizarre line if you examine it for even one second.

ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 5h

it does not make one iota of sense. if no kings equals no paychecks wouldn't we *want* kings?

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 1d

Actions speak louder than words

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 5h

yes surely no human has ever displayed a facial expression that did not match precisely what they were feeling inside

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 6h

"The administration’s decision to remove almost all personnel for the special education office is not just a betrayal of students with disabilities. It also is the final nail in the coffin for Republican support of the idea that people with disabilities can and should access public education."

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 7h

My latest for @msnbc.com: The Trump administration's gutting the special education personnel not only betrays people with disabilities; it rolls back the work of four Republican presidents who passed bills for special education (Nixon, Ford, and the Bushes)
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Trump's mass firings strike a hammer blow against Americans with disabilities

The GOP once supported special education programs. Recent dismissals at the Education Department put an end to that support.

www.msnbc.com

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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 8h

There are some professions- eg teaching (and my own- religious leadership) where use of AI should be enough to get you struck off

Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 11h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · 6d

Free Halloween Zine : Disability perspectives on horror movies : files.libcom.org/files/2025-0...

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 21h

can confirm

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 21h

this fool said peinciples

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 22h

reinventing the seal of the confessional from first peinciples

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 1d

haha, i almost went with "...i'm autistic and have no idea how to properly calibrate the correct amount of seeming interest in what you're saying"

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re a parent of a child with a disability, you’re worried about how your family will be impacted by SpecEd Department of Education layoffs and you want to talk to a journalist about it, please DM, email (sluterman at 19thnews dot org) or Signal (slooterman.18).

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Cynethryth @cynethryth.com · 1d

Large Language Models do not have access to the meaning of language. They simply have access to the *form* of language (convincingly grammatically correct). This means that no matter how many times it "gets things right" you must treat *every* response as meaningless until validated.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 2d

i do it so that even if it is a short flight people know that i am accustomed to overnight transatlantics

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 3d

"we rewrote the creed"

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 3d

here is a fun perfume fact even though i am not allie: the word comes from the latin per + fumum, meaning "through smoke" because incense was the original perfume

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 3d

If you think its a coincidence that they are pushing BS autism causes while the DeptEd empties its special education division and ICE had an autistic child in dention without any of their family knowing, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

This is a purposeful attack on our most vulnerable.

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 3d

with parry mechanics

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d

It's utterly devastating to see decades of progress for the disability community being wiped out in just a few months.

There was of course much work to be done, but now that effort will have to be devoted to clawing back the gains now being ripped away.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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