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Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 4h

A neighbor sent out a message with a subject line indicating they had been victim of a robbery and I clutched my pearls only to discover her unlocked parked car had been rifled through.

THAT’S A PRETTY BIG DIFFERENCE LADY

Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 4h

Captain Pedantic checking in: Doesn’t this sound like a burglary, not a robbery?

Reuters @reuters.com · 6h

Thieves steal jewels from Louvre in Paris, media reports reut.rs/43u2cX1

Thieves steal jewels from Louvre in Paris, media reports

A robbery has taken place at the Louvre museum in Paris early on Sunday, French Culture Minister Rachida Dati said, with the newspaper Le Parisien reporting several thieves have stolen pieces of jewellery from the Napoleon collection.

reut.rs

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Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 21h

At this point I feel bad for the Huskies QB.

Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I can’t remember what her grandparents names were but I know it was at least two generations at that point. I’m really curious to know (all these years later) if she ever found her Joel, and if so, what she named her first child

Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 2d

Boy, do I have a story for you. I knew a girl whose family had a tradition of giving their oldest child a name that works for both genders to continue their multigenerational trend of spouses with matching names. Her mom Lynne married a Lynn, etc. She was Joelle (destined to find a Joel).

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Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 2d

Of course, I am aware that nothing prevents student from handing over course materials. Again, I’m not considering them state secrets, but I think institutions should treat them more like intellectual property rather than public documents.

Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 2d

He finds this irritating more than threatening, but it bugs his wife. :)

I don’t think professors need to write their syllabus in disappearing ink, but handing over course materials willy-nilly helps enable this kind of non-collegial borrowing, including from contingent faculty. Not great

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Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 2d

This is a threat to his livelihood; he has his teaching job because he’s uniquely qualified to teach what he does.

He is generous w/ colleagues & shares materials & ideas, but he has also seen profs get hired away to other schools & use his projects in their classes with attribution or permission

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Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 2d

Setting aside the political motivations here, I have different reasons for seeing course materials as proprietary. My spouse is a non-tenured faculty member and he’s seen tenured faculty use his course materials w/out his permission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

UNC Campuses Split on Whether Syllabi Are Public Documents

After the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill refused to proffer faculty course materials in response to an open-records request, UNC Greensboro officials made the opposite decision.

www.insidehighered.com

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Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 2d

I bravely hoisted myself out of the thing, then went out for a beer until the power came back. Crisis resolved, disaster averted!

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Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 2d

Tons of fire trucks at oak valley target, looks like they’re on the roof. Might be the source of our problems.

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Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 2d

Aw, nuts

New York Groove remains a legit banger

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Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 2d

I know this is truly a first world problem, but we just had a power outage and I’m tipped way back in the power recliner.

I’m probably gonna break something clambering out of it, unsure whether the damage will be to me, the chair, or both

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Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 3d

It would be ridiculous to die on this hill

AND YET

Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t get it. They accept many of my other suggested edits which are much less consequential. What is it with this one?

I understand if they thought it was just my opinion, but I can point to another page in the exact same document that gives a completely different (accurate!) definition.

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Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 3d

STILL WRONG

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Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 3d

There’s an annual UM publication that includes a short glossary, and one of the terms is incorrectly defined. It is factually wrong & also contradicts a definition for this term given elsewhere in the document. I point this out every single year.

I live in hope, dear readers. It was just published.

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Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 3d

SYMPATHY BUTTERS NO PARSNIPS, that’s what I always say

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Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 4d

There was this whole anti-tax political movement that named itself after the revolutionary objection to taxing stuff and they ended the political careers of some centrist Republicans who had earned my respect. Am I missing where are these folks in the tariffs conversation?

Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 5d

I just had a frozen yogurt bar that was so brutally disappointing on every level, I feel like a crime has been committed upon my person

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Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 6d

Why do so many online yoga instructors have a depressing array of sparse houseplants arranged on and around a rickety stand in the background

Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 7d

I think I’ll post about this every six months or so until I die.

One time a friend of my in-laws reached out to me to see if I would (mis)use my educator discount to get his club a reduced price version of Microsoft Office.

The club in question being the Porsche Owners Club

(I declined)

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Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 7d

After an urgent care vet visit this week and we wait for an opening for a more thorough diagnostic exam at our regular vet, I can’t tell if Julius is still a little fragile or if he’s just milking it for all the churu treats

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Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 9d

I don’t know how big of a sacrifice it is (I work for Vice Provosts and I see the admin headaches so I sometimes wonder how much they secretly yearn to return to the faculty). But definitely think he regained some autonomy & academic freedom via this move.

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Not really a Karen but named Karen @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 10d

Right?

Fortunately my guest was the architect I married, and he used the nice printing he learned in school to make us two nice name tags with the blanks they shoved our way.

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