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Erika Hall

@erikahall.bsky.social

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I try to be helpful. Bike-riding dog butler and mold connoisseur. Use your employer's money to buy Just Enough Research: www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-research. Enjoy clickens.chicken.pics when you need a break. San Francisco. She/They/Friend/Sir

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 21h

This week, we're doing a workshop about talking in front of people. It's a small group. Very effective.

If you have professional development budget, direct it here and skip a few annoying meetings.

(The terrifying illustration was created by a human artist.)

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Presenting Work with Confidence!

It doesn't matter how good your work is, if you can’t present it it's going in the trash. Come learn how to present with confidence.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 9h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 10h

The wildest thing about the rainbow is that it got brighter and brighter, and then just blinked off like someone flipped a switch.

A rainbow over trees in San Francisco with some puffy clouds

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 10h

Double rainbow!

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 10h

Well it was beautiful on my way home…and then I got a flat.

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 12h

email is going great

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 19h

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 14h

Columbian Exchange Day is a great idea because it proves how much and how recently most national-cultural identities were constructed out of diverse global components.

If you can't imagine Italian, German, Korean, Indian, or any other national food without new world plants, what are they, really?

Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 14h

Perhaps instead of Columbus Day we can celebrate Columbian Exchange Day where we celebrate the food pairings that had never been possible before, peppers and onions, chocolate and coffee, basil and tomatoes.

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 20h

A great moment from Oliver:

“While I would love to keep splitting hairs on whether a country’s starving kids is better or worse if those kids are already sick, let’s just table that discussion for when I see you in hell.”

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 15h

I thought oh maybe it’s not going to rain after all. MISTAKE.

Did my best to make the same face as my very extremely put out copilot.

A salty chug wearing pink doggles in a backpack attached to a white person in sunglasses bike helmet and high viz on a cloudy day

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 17h

You can have these sent directly to other people too. It's basically a greeting card. Same price.

A real conversation starter with anyone you're going to be seeing at Thanksgiving!

Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 20h

Good morning. I am shipping zines today. Get your order in. It’s a delight to read. There’s cartoons! www.mulebooks.com/store/dont-b...

Don't Build the Torment Nexus! zine — MULE BOOKS

It’s a wee 3×5 zine with an essay inside and some fun collages. You want it. You want more than one.

www.mulebooks.com

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 19h

Please give him something to do today.

Thank you.

Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 20h

Good morning. I am shipping zines today. Get your order in. It’s a delight to read. There’s cartoons! www.mulebooks.com/store/dont-b...

Don't Build the Torment Nexus! zine — MULE BOOKS

It’s a wee 3×5 zine with an essay inside and some fun collages. You want it. You want more than one.

www.mulebooks.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 21h

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah "prompting" is not "querying". It's having enough domain knowledge to both give instructions to a probabilistic system and also evaluate the quality of the output, which is a hard concept to get across.

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The New York Groove @nygroove.nyc · 22h

On today's dubious holiday, reread our report from the anti-Columbus protest this summer:

Chanting ‘Danny DeVito,’ Italians for Zohran tell protesters to get over Columbus already
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Chanting ‘Danny DeVito,’ Italians for Zohran tell protesters to get over Columbus already

Mamdani fans propose some other Italians to venerate instead of Columbus

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 21h

Presenting Work with Confidence!

It doesn't matter how good your work is, if you can’t present it it's going in the trash. Come learn how to present with confidence.

www.eventbrite.com

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 22h

Here’s a radically different way to view the legacy of Columbus.🧵

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 22h

Here’s a talk I gave years ago explaining how Columbus was basically the original trans-Atlantic drug trafficker. You will be never think about the colonization of this hemisphere in the same way again. The “drug” economy powered hemispheric growth (and enslavement) for centuries. Watch:

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 22h

“Hurtful to who? Dictators?”

Yeah no hurtful to the average person who now has that bumping around in their head with the hundreds of fatphobic elements we steep in thanks to our shitty culture. Whether or not you are (currently!) fat, that degrades your thinking.

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 22h

Sigh it’s time for our weekly remonstrance:

FATNESS ISN’T IMMORAL YOU FUCKING FUCKS

ICE, Trump, et al are not evil because they’re fat. They’re evil because they hurt people.

All you’re doing is reinforcing hurtful stereotypes and I do unfollow and block when I see it.

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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 22h

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

Today and every day, I am proud to be Indigenous. We are resilient, we are still here, and we will always be here in Mni Sota Makoce.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 3d

Must-read piece in @theguardian.com (h/t @dpcarrington.bsky.social). In #ScienceUnderSiege, we describe how petrostates Saudi Arabia & Russia leveraged Musk's buyout of twitter so they could weaponize it for climate denial propaganda & attacks on renewables.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

www.theguardian.com

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 1d

Whoops. Left out the alt text for the above.

Alt: A glossy black chug with a chest too robust to fit in his orange harness standing proudly on top of a stump in a forest.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 1d

As a matter of fact, Rupert did spend his younger years in forests demanding passers-by either answer a riddle or hand over their snacks.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 1d

Today in descended from wolves

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 8d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 1d

"The answer to the Great Question..."
"Yes!"
"Of how to follow up with someone you met in a bar..."
"Yes!"
"Is 'U Up?'" said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

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