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Otters
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Systems Librarian and occasional cataloger in Maine.
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otterdidact.bsky.social
I realize the answer to "why do I keep getting ads for weird sound objects" is "because you always click on them", but: BALL MAKE NOISE oddballism.com/en-us/pages/...
For Music Lovers
Making music should be fun! Playing drums, synths, guitars, percussions is as easy as bouncing a ball. Jam over your favorite artists, make your own tracks and share them with the ODD community!
oddballism.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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parkermolloy.com
The Next One Here's what's going to happen next. Somewhere, right now, a trans person is teaching a class, or coaching a team, or working at a library, or providing healthcare. They're doing their job. They're probably good at it. And at some point, someone is going to have a problem with them. Maybe a parent, maybe a student, maybe a coworker. The problem won't really be about job performance. The problem will be that they're trans. That person, or someone connected to them, will take their grievance to social media. If they're lucky, Libs of TikTok will pick it up. Or Turning Point. Or one of the other accounts that have built massive followings by turning trans people into content. The post will frame the trans person as a predator, or a groomer, or a bully, or a tyrant. It won't matter what actually happened. The framing is the point. Then the calls will start. To the school board, to the administration, to the HR department. Local news will cover the "controversy." A state legislator will demand an investigation. The institution, desperate to make the problem go away, will put the trans person on leave. Maybe they'll be fired outright. Maybe they'll resign because the harassment makes it impossible to do their job. Either way they're gone. And then the person who started it all will go on Fox News. They'll get a GoFundMe. Maybe a speaking gig at a conservative conference. If the story is big enough, if it goes viral enough, they might get something more. A podcast. A book deal. A center with their name on it. This is not a guess. This is a pattern. We've watched it happen over and over again, and we will keep watching it happen until the institutions that capitulate to these campaigns start recognizing them for what they are: coordinated attempts to purge trans people from public life, dressed up as individual controversies.
December 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
otterdidact.bsky.social
"fell pregnant" is such an unpleasant phrase
December 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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natepatrin.bsky.social
another twist to my POV on the Cultural Stagnancy Debate: a friend just posted this article, and while it makes a lot of familiar points (design and culture has gotten repetitive, flattened out and conformist), I think what's worth examining is that one culprit is bottom-line capitalism
The Decline of Deviance
Where has all the weirdness gone?
www.experimental-history.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
otterdidact.bsky.social
I wonder how many American presidents have written poetry? rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/want...
rpo.library.utoronto.ca
December 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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hugothepinkcat.bsky.social
As Promised:

part 1

Least functional kitchen ever !
December 2, 2025 at 1:46 AM
otterdidact.bsky.social
WHAT IN THE RAISIN RUCKUS IS GOING ON IN HERE
discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 14h
Keebler Raisin Ruckus (1993-circa 1995): A line of chewy oatmeal raisin cookies from everyone's favorite baking elves. Available in classic oatmeal raisin, or oatmeal with chocolate-covered raisins.
A black and white ad/coupon for Keebler, featuring the elves standing on top of a box of oatmeal raisin cookies. There is a crock of chocolate and a bushel of raisins, each with a ladder on them, so the elves can dip the raisins in chocolate then put them in the cookies. At the top are coupons for 40 cents off a box
December 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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jfg.land
Blue Prince (2025)
windows98support.bsky.social matt @windows98support.bsky.social · 1d
Oh shit waddup
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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halperta.bsky.social
This is just my opinion, but I don't think departments need to change their strategy for reading or grading student work.

Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.
December 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
otterdidact.bsky.social
Welcome to another installment of "I don't need a weird soundmaking device collecting dust in the hall closet" vs. "yes I do"

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BIOTRON STARTER KIT
Unlock endless creative possibilities with the Biotron MIDI Controller! This starter kit includes everything you need to begin your experiments and explore the world of bio-interactive music. Here’s w...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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jon.inkle.co
Superb. One edit particularly drops out to me as a bit of truly sparkling dialogue: the left is the first draft, the second the shooting script by Stoppard
December 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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roadside.xor.blue
fairway golf, 1700 como avenue, st. paul, minnesota, 1984
fairway golf, 1700 como avenue, st. paul, minnesota, 1984
December 1, 2025 at 5:36 AM
otterdidact.bsky.social
Watching The Sopranos for the first time and walking around like, "has anybody heard of this show, 'The Sopranos'? Turns out it's pretty good!"
December 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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drewwise.bsky.social
🐊 𝗡𝗢 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗦 🐊
November 30, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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debmaluk.bsky.social
Bohemian Waxwing with all the bling🥰 #birds
Bohemian Waxwing on a thin branch with red berries. The bird has a taupe back and a peach coloured head. The black wings have a band of white near the top with yellow bars at the end of the wings. There are markings that look like matchsticks on the wings near the body. The tail feathers have yellow tips.
November 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
The thing about AI anime dubs and AI Actor Tilly Norwood and AI music is just the fucking disrespect, this is what your industry thinks can replace you and it’s not even good. It’s not even a thing you look at with dread at how the computer has replaced Man, it just sucks ass lol it just blows
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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nathankhensley.bsky.social
Or @hsteffen.bsky.social, in “Adjunct,” giving a concise, bullet-pointed definition of neoliberalism that can go right onto a classroom handout or union meeting flyer — I’ll teach it next week 🙏
Heather Steffen, in “Adjunct”: 38 University Keywords Neoliberalism is a concept that recurs throughout this book because many observers name the current era in US higher education the moment of the "neoliberal university," In one basic definition, neoliberalism names the set of economic, political, social, and cultural processes through which free markets have come to serve as our dominant model for social relations and institutional organization: • Social relationships become defined primarily through their economic facets. Students are regarded by their educational institutions as customers rather than learners, and, as Childress writes, "College has become a form of indispensable employment insurance, available for purchase on the open market at protection levels from community college bronze to Ivy League platinum" (2019, 48). • Public goods and services become privatized. Formerly public enterprises are now run by for-profit entities (e.g., for-profit charter schools; private prisons; privately held patents on the results of publicly funded research). • Individuals behave like entrepreneurs, and organizations behave like businesses: we imagine ourselves as mini-enterprises trying to grow our capital in the world's marketplace (e.g., the concept of human cap. ital, resume building for high schoolers). Organizations and institutions like nonprofits, universities, government agencies, and NGOs function on the model of for-profit businesses, despite their not-for-profit tax designation. Public institutions that have not formally been privatized become neoliberalized in that they behave like businesses. • Responsibility and risk are individualized. Rather than viewing the responsibility to employ, feed, clothe, and house everyone as society's responsibility, our society views it as each person's responsibility to fend for themselves (eg, the transition from welfare to workfare, drastic wealth/income inequalities). Similarly, we expect risks to be borne by individu… Adjunct, Continued: working lives, often shifting careers several times. Employers extract cost savings through tactics like automated scheduling, keeping workers just under the number of hours needed to gain benefits, falsely defining workers as "contractors" or "consultants," outsourcing, and speed-up (being tasked with more work but not more time to do it in).
November 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
otterdidact.bsky.social
remembering driving to the used book store half an hour away in another state so I could buy more Stoppard plays, because that was the closest I could get at the time to actually seeing them. I got to see a few as an adult and I feel so lucky
November 30, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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jesseraub.bsky.social
every day logging on is a race to get a dumb joke off before you read the most terrifying news you’ve ever heard
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
otterdidact.bsky.social
(Tyra Banks voice) Whose cuisine. Will. Reign. Supreme.
November 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
Your moment of calm: kestrel on a fence post. Out at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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carmyn.zone
ah here he comes that soon of a gun that cat that Garfield that gigantic thing
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
otterdidact.bsky.social
Just remembered the fake electors plot today and how the living shit is this dope president again
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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ironchefbot.bsky.social
Frame #14150 from S03 -E23 - Battle Bell Peppers-627676
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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vulture.com
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM