Rachel Happe
@rhappe.bsky.social
I enjoy the absurdity of humanity. Perfect is boring. Things to say about communities, tech, culture, leadership, L&D, and social dynamics.
Writing a book titled Control Is for Amateurs.
Founder of Engaged Organizations. Prior, The Community Roundtable.
Writing a book titled Control Is for Amateurs.
Founder of Engaged Organizations. Prior, The Community Roundtable.
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Rachel Happe
@rhappe.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Here are some great people to follow if you are interested in #FutureOfWork discussions.
Note: includes many perspectives including HR, tech, L&D, media, politics, economics, & other humanities.
go.bsky.app/DD7KR1k
Note: includes many perspectives including HR, tech, L&D, media, politics, economics, & other humanities.
go.bsky.app/DD7KR1k
We seem to have made little headway since I was at Mount Holyoke and shocked at how men dominated discussions when I took a class at Amherst.
Very glad a few women’s colleges persist, although it is a shrinking number. It is a powerful platform for young women.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/29/m...
Very glad a few women’s colleges persist, although it is a shrinking number. It is a powerful platform for young women.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/29/m...
Some women’s colleges are thriving, even as they navigate Trump era - The Boston Globe
The number of women's colleges has decreased, but Massachusetts is home to some of the most successful survivors, which have changed with the times while preserving their ideals of equity and inclusio...
www.bostonglobe.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
We seem to have made little headway since I was at Mount Holyoke and shocked at how men dominated discussions when I took a class at Amherst.
Very glad a few women’s colleges persist, although it is a shrinking number. It is a powerful platform for young women.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/29/m...
Very glad a few women’s colleges persist, although it is a shrinking number. It is a powerful platform for young women.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/29/m...
There is an almost universal fallacy in our orientation of education and work that the primary outcomes are produced artifacts (tests, papers, decisions, solutions, purchases, investments, etc).
It is industrial/mechanistic thinking applied to human/organic systems - and it screws *everything* up.
It is industrial/mechanistic thinking applied to human/organic systems - and it screws *everything* up.
“[Eventually] humanities depts will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.”
really important thread ⬇️
really important thread ⬇️
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
There is an almost universal fallacy in our orientation of education and work that the primary outcomes are produced artifacts (tests, papers, decisions, solutions, purchases, investments, etc).
It is industrial/mechanistic thinking applied to human/organic systems - and it screws *everything* up.
It is industrial/mechanistic thinking applied to human/organic systems - and it screws *everything* up.
The older I get, the more I crave connection to nature - or maybe it’s not age but having the time to notice and enjoy it.
I find it mystical, soothing, and inspiring.
Happy Sunday!
☀️🌾🦌🍁🐦⬛
I find it mystical, soothing, and inspiring.
Happy Sunday!
☀️🌾🦌🍁🐦⬛
November 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The older I get, the more I crave connection to nature - or maybe it’s not age but having the time to notice and enjoy it.
I find it mystical, soothing, and inspiring.
Happy Sunday!
☀️🌾🦌🍁🐦⬛
I find it mystical, soothing, and inspiring.
Happy Sunday!
☀️🌾🦌🍁🐦⬛
This should be an embarrassment and perceived as anti-American.
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This should be an embarrassment and perceived as anti-American.
Thankful today for so many things, mostly people and nature 🍗🥧🍂
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Thankful today for so many things, mostly people and nature 🍗🥧🍂
Reposted by Rachel Happe
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Reposted by Rachel Happe
SEN. KELLY : “They informed me of this in a tweet because this is not about the law. This is about the media cycle, and intimidation… We basically repeated the uniform code of military justice, and they're saying that's in violation of it. It's absurd. Comical.”
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
SEN. KELLY : “They informed me of this in a tweet because this is not about the law. This is about the media cycle, and intimidation… We basically repeated the uniform code of military justice, and they're saying that's in violation of it. It's absurd. Comical.”
The world is 💩 right now, but also still magical.
Thankful for places that cultivate the magic 🍂 🌍 ✨
Thankful for places that cultivate the magic 🍂 🌍 ✨
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The world is 💩 right now, but also still magical.
Thankful for places that cultivate the magic 🍂 🌍 ✨
Thankful for places that cultivate the magic 🍂 🌍 ✨
Reposted by Rachel Happe
Exactly ⬇️ This 💯......
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Exactly ⬇️ This 💯......
Reposted by Rachel Happe
"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
While chaos is being sown her, Trump is doing Putin’s dirty work to abandon Ukraine.
While not as immediate a threat as ICE is, it has enormous and dangerous long-range implications for world stability and democracy.
While not as immediate a threat as ICE is, it has enormous and dangerous long-range implications for world stability and democracy.
Great but grim @hcrichardson.bsky.social explainer on how Putin is screwing Ukraine & destroying world order while the WH is incapacitated. Almost like that was always the plan. Emails, tho. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2...
November 21, 2025
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
While chaos is being sown her, Trump is doing Putin’s dirty work to abandon Ukraine.
While not as immediate a threat as ICE is, it has enormous and dangerous long-range implications for world stability and democracy.
While not as immediate a threat as ICE is, it has enormous and dangerous long-range implications for world stability and democracy.
Catching up on what is going on in Charlotte - and appreciating the awareness and willingness of these kids to act in solidarity ❤️
The result was one of the largest youth-led demonstrations Charlotte has seen, with around 30,000 CMS students taking part through absences, walkouts, or organized rallies.
Over 30,000 Charlotte students absent from school in protest of ICE operation, reports say
Over 30,000 Charlotte students were absent on Monday, according to school officials.
www.wistv.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Catching up on what is going on in Charlotte - and appreciating the awareness and willingness of these kids to act in solidarity ❤️
Look at this - local journalism showing others how it should be done.
Well done Charlotte Observer 👏🏼
Well done Charlotte Observer 👏🏼
November 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Look at this - local journalism showing others how it should be done.
Well done Charlotte Observer 👏🏼
Well done Charlotte Observer 👏🏼
This piece surfaced a tension within the Jewish community that I felt but couldn’t see clearly - that the primary lesson of Holocaust is framed in two different ways:
Is it never again for anyone?
Or is it never again for Jews?
Is it never again for anyone?
Or is it never again for Jews?
This from @attackerman.bsky.social captures so well the bind that liberal zionists have placed themselves in. It is so painful to see so many commit to mislearning our shared history and, in an attempt to avoid responsibility, only take on a larger & larger share of this ongoing atrocity.
Sarah Hurwitz Profanes the Holocaust
Holocaust education has worked too well for the Obama speechwriter, since when she rationalizes Israel's genocide, "I sound obscene." Maybe sit with that, Sarah
www.forever-wars.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This piece surfaced a tension within the Jewish community that I felt but couldn’t see clearly - that the primary lesson of Holocaust is framed in two different ways:
Is it never again for anyone?
Or is it never again for Jews?
Is it never again for anyone?
Or is it never again for Jews?
Brilliant commentary:
Thirty Minutes in the Lion’s Den: The Interview Trump Thought He Controlled
White Rose USA — November
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Thirty Minutes in the Lion’s Den: The Interview Trump Thought He Controlled
White Rose USA — November
www.facebook.com/story.php/?s...
Bruce Fanger
Thirty Minutes in the Lion’s Den: The Interview Trump Thought He Controlled
White Rose USA — November
There’s a strange thing that happens when you watch the full thirty-minute interview instead of....
www.facebook.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Brilliant commentary:
Thirty Minutes in the Lion’s Den: The Interview Trump Thought He Controlled
White Rose USA — November
www.facebook.com/story.php/?s...
Thirty Minutes in the Lion’s Den: The Interview Trump Thought He Controlled
White Rose USA — November
www.facebook.com/story.php/?s...
On my.
Creepy.
Please don’t ever look at me like that.
🫣😱😬
Creepy.
Please don’t ever look at me like that.
🫣😱😬
Don Jr: Did he ever look at you that way?
Eric: Nope. Never. You?
Don Jr: 😥😥😥😥
Eric: Nope. Never. You?
Don Jr: 😥😥😥😥
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
On my.
Creepy.
Please don’t ever look at me like that.
🫣😱😬
Creepy.
Please don’t ever look at me like that.
🫣😱😬
You know how, when enterprise software is deployed, it is started as a pilot on the side and as it gets refined and integrated, the old system gets phased out?
I feel like maybe we should start a pilot for the U.S. federal government 2.0… so we are ready when the crickity one comes crashing down.
I feel like maybe we should start a pilot for the U.S. federal government 2.0… so we are ready when the crickity one comes crashing down.
a group of construction workers climb scaffolding on the side of a building
ALT: a group of construction workers climb scaffolding on the side of a building
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
You know how, when enterprise software is deployed, it is started as a pilot on the side and as it gets refined and integrated, the old system gets phased out?
I feel like maybe we should start a pilot for the U.S. federal government 2.0… so we are ready when the crickity one comes crashing down.
I feel like maybe we should start a pilot for the U.S. federal government 2.0… so we are ready when the crickity one comes crashing down.
Reposted by Rachel Happe
The moment I realized in grad school that there is complete power in asking questions when you don't know what something means. Turns out, it's a baller move.
Normalize admitting you don’t know what some shit means!
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The moment I realized in grad school that there is complete power in asking questions when you don't know what something means. Turns out, it's a baller move.
Why aren’t we impeaching our President?
Or at very least, calling loudly for Congress to start impeachment hearings...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Or at very least, calling loudly for Congress to start impeachment hearings...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 20, 2025
Trump spent this morning calling a group of military veterans in Congress traitors and saying they “should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL.” Their crime, in Trump’s eyes, was their release Tuesday of a v...
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Why aren’t we impeaching our President?
Or at very least, calling loudly for Congress to start impeachment hearings...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Or at very least, calling loudly for Congress to start impeachment hearings...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Um… excuse me?
This is such a crazy - a** story you have to read it.
Aside from being outstandingly offensive and depraved, these are perhaps two of the dimmest bulbs in the country, although I am constantly surprised.
Their communities need to have a think about how they raised these people.
This is such a crazy - a** story you have to read it.
Aside from being outstandingly offensive and depraved, these are perhaps two of the dimmest bulbs in the country, although I am constantly surprised.
Their communities need to have a think about how they raised these people.
Gavin and Tanner, planned and trained for nearly a year, legal documents say, in an elaborate attempt to invade a Haitian island, kill its Black men, enslave its Black women and Black children and fulfill their "rape fantasies."
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
NTX men planned to murder men, enslave women on foreign island: Indictment
Two North Texas men have been indicted for an alleged scheme to sail to a foreign island, murder all the men, and enslave the women and children.
www.fox4news.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Um… excuse me?
This is such a crazy - a** story you have to read it.
Aside from being outstandingly offensive and depraved, these are perhaps two of the dimmest bulbs in the country, although I am constantly surprised.
Their communities need to have a think about how they raised these people.
This is such a crazy - a** story you have to read it.
Aside from being outstandingly offensive and depraved, these are perhaps two of the dimmest bulbs in the country, although I am constantly surprised.
Their communities need to have a think about how they raised these people.
I keep thinking the *process* of researching is as important as what you discover.
It forces you to consider what impacts and relates to what you are looking for and the context of what you find impacts its meaning.
Knowledge is not a box of cereal that you can just grab a handful of. #KM
It forces you to consider what impacts and relates to what you are looking for and the context of what you find impacts its meaning.
Knowledge is not a box of cereal that you can just grab a handful of. #KM
Well slap my ass and call me Suzy
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I keep thinking the *process* of researching is as important as what you discover.
It forces you to consider what impacts and relates to what you are looking for and the context of what you find impacts its meaning.
Knowledge is not a box of cereal that you can just grab a handful of. #KM
It forces you to consider what impacts and relates to what you are looking for and the context of what you find impacts its meaning.
Knowledge is not a box of cereal that you can just grab a handful of. #KM
Thanks to @altnps.bsky.social I went down the rabbit hole of Flock, surveillance of our movements, and AI used shared data.
So many disturbing and concerning issues, although I was happy to see it is not being us by MA state or Boston police.
www.govtech.com/public-safet...
So many disturbing and concerning issues, although I was happy to see it is not being us by MA state or Boston police.
www.govtech.com/public-safet...
If You Drive in Massachusetts, It’s Probably on Camera
In the years since the state installed license-plate reading cameras along the state’s toll roads, some police departments — and private citizens — have been installing similar technology along smalle...
www.govtech.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Thanks to @altnps.bsky.social I went down the rabbit hole of Flock, surveillance of our movements, and AI used shared data.
So many disturbing and concerning issues, although I was happy to see it is not being us by MA state or Boston police.
www.govtech.com/public-safet...
So many disturbing and concerning issues, although I was happy to see it is not being us by MA state or Boston police.
www.govtech.com/public-safet...
Reposted by Rachel Happe
we don't mess with no prison industrial complex 'round here
we here know you ain't the worst thing you ever did
you're gonna be lookin' at five whole steps of fixin' this mess, and we're gonna be here until you do 'em all
... so let's start with fessin' up, eh?
we here know you ain't the worst thing you ever did
you're gonna be lookin' at five whole steps of fixin' this mess, and we're gonna be here until you do 'em all
... so let's start with fessin' up, eh?
this has got to be one of the best things the onion has done in years
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...
theonion.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
we don't mess with no prison industrial complex 'round here
we here know you ain't the worst thing you ever did
you're gonna be lookin' at five whole steps of fixin' this mess, and we're gonna be here until you do 'em all
... so let's start with fessin' up, eh?
we here know you ain't the worst thing you ever did
you're gonna be lookin' at five whole steps of fixin' this mess, and we're gonna be here until you do 'em all
... so let's start with fessin' up, eh?
I am so glad Microsoft Word has integrated AI…
..but I would really appreciate it if they change “Hyperlink” to “Link” because it is no longer obvious to me, and I miss it every time I go to the Insert menu and look for it.
🤦🏻♀️
..but I would really appreciate it if they change “Hyperlink” to “Link” because it is no longer obvious to me, and I miss it every time I go to the Insert menu and look for it.
🤦🏻♀️
a blue screen that says microsoft windows version 1.84 on it
ALT: a blue screen that says microsoft windows version 1.84 on it
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I am so glad Microsoft Word has integrated AI…
..but I would really appreciate it if they change “Hyperlink” to “Link” because it is no longer obvious to me, and I miss it every time I go to the Insert menu and look for it.
🤦🏻♀️
..but I would really appreciate it if they change “Hyperlink” to “Link” because it is no longer obvious to me, and I miss it every time I go to the Insert menu and look for it.
🤦🏻♀️
Guessing I would not agree with Rep. Burchett on a lot of things but grateful for his directness on this topic.
It won’t eliminate corruption but it will start addressing a big piece of it.
It won’t eliminate corruption but it will start addressing a big piece of it.
HOLY SHIT.
Unusual Whales has been mentioned BY NAME in the US Congressional hearing on getting US Congress banned from stock trading.
"Get on that Unusual Whales site...this is pathetic folks, we all know what is going on [on stock trading]"
Said by Rep Tim Burchett!
Unusual Whales has been mentioned BY NAME in the US Congressional hearing on getting US Congress banned from stock trading.
"Get on that Unusual Whales site...this is pathetic folks, we all know what is going on [on stock trading]"
Said by Rep Tim Burchett!
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Guessing I would not agree with Rep. Burchett on a lot of things but grateful for his directness on this topic.
It won’t eliminate corruption but it will start addressing a big piece of it.
It won’t eliminate corruption but it will start addressing a big piece of it.