Ryan Randall
@ryanpatrickrandall.com
A better world is possible, together.
Instructional design, humanities/Cultural Studies, pedagogy, open ed (OER/OA), library work. A human-presenting social media account.
https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/
https://hcommons.social/@ryanrandall
Instructional design, humanities/Cultural Studies, pedagogy, open ed (OER/OA), library work. A human-presenting social media account.
https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/
https://hcommons.social/@ryanrandall
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Ryan Randall
@ryanpatrickrandall.com
· Apr 25
Gentle reminder that there's no such thing as a "TERF".
The term you were looking for is "Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobe".
The term you were looking for is "Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobe".
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The US-centric nature of BlueSky is one of its most frustrating qualities
November 27, 2025 at 6:40 AM
The US-centric nature of BlueSky is one of its most frustrating qualities
Cornbread with chili has been et.
Yep, the vegetarian harvest feast has begun in earnest.
Yep, the vegetarian harvest feast has begun in earnest.
November 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Cornbread with chili has been et.
Yep, the vegetarian harvest feast has begun in earnest.
Yep, the vegetarian harvest feast has begun in earnest.
That fact that Wipeout 2097 is one of the best soundtracks of all time clearly has zilch to do with it coming out while I happened to be an undergrad, or it featuring so many of the bands my friends & I liked, or that we frequently played Wipeout until the wee hours, or
November 27, 2025 at 6:11 AM
That fact that Wipeout 2097 is one of the best soundtracks of all time clearly has zilch to do with it coming out while I happened to be an undergrad, or it featuring so many of the bands my friends & I liked, or that we frequently played Wipeout until the wee hours, or
If you only know Marcia Griffiths from doing the Electric Slide, it's well worth giving her earlier stuff like this a listen as well!
(It's got Sound Dimension, who you could think of as a later iteration of the Skatalites, laying down one of the absolute stone classic rhythms.)
(It's got Sound Dimension, who you could think of as a later iteration of the Skatalites, laying down one of the absolute stone classic rhythms.)
This is totally random, but this song, which I've listened to many, many, many times over the years popped up in the shuffle today, and I think for the first time I noticed the random... um... sounds like grump old man? Saying something? after the "whoo whoo whoos"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMgQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMgQ...
Studio One Rockers - Marcia Griffiths - Feel Like Jumping
YouTube video by Soul Jazz Records
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
If you only know Marcia Griffiths from doing the Electric Slide, it's well worth giving her earlier stuff like this a listen as well!
(It's got Sound Dimension, who you could think of as a later iteration of the Skatalites, laying down one of the absolute stone classic rhythms.)
(It's got Sound Dimension, who you could think of as a later iteration of the Skatalites, laying down one of the absolute stone classic rhythms.)
I’m not sure what this platform can do to make it more enjoyable, but I’m definitely not enjoying having become the Main Character of the Day after a condescending and divisive post obviously self-nominating myself for that role and I'm not sure how to make it stop.
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I’m not sure what this platform can do to make it more enjoyable, but I’m definitely not enjoying having become the Main Character of the Day after a condescending and divisive post obviously self-nominating myself for that role and I'm not sure how to make it stop.
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Give us one reporter with this energy please.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Give us one reporter with this energy please.
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Republicans are trying to sneak a provision into the annual defense spending bill to block states from passing AI regulations — a direct ask from Big Tech lobbyists who only care about their own profits, not your safety.
It’s a ridiculous proposal.
www.theverge.com/policy/82365...
It’s a ridiculous proposal.
www.theverge.com/policy/82365...
Republicans are looking for a way to bring back the AI moratorium
Congress’ last attempt to pause state AI regulations failed.
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Republicans are trying to sneak a provision into the annual defense spending bill to block states from passing AI regulations — a direct ask from Big Tech lobbyists who only care about their own profits, not your safety.
It’s a ridiculous proposal.
www.theverge.com/policy/82365...
It’s a ridiculous proposal.
www.theverge.com/policy/82365...
Is this platform still against conflating wildly different technologies & their potential uses under a single term (largely in order to benefit extractive surveillance capitalism ventures) or has it moved toward acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Is this platform still against conflating wildly different technologies & their potential uses under a single term (largely in order to benefit extractive surveillance capitalism ventures) or has it moved toward acceptance?
Introduced a colleague to Zettlr and he really likes it.
Oddly enough, it's not for citation/notes. He needed something that lets him fix formatting AND join lines with minimal mouse use, which as a Mac person I didn't know how to help him do with default Win software.
Anyways, hurry for Zettlr!
Oddly enough, it's not for citation/notes. He needed something that lets him fix formatting AND join lines with minimal mouse use, which as a Mac person I didn't know how to help him do with default Win software.
Anyways, hurry for Zettlr!
Your One-Stop Publication Workbench - Zettlr
Your One-Stop Publication Workbench. Author Markdown documents with ease. For researchers, journalists, and writers.
www.zettlr.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Introduced a colleague to Zettlr and he really likes it.
Oddly enough, it's not for citation/notes. He needed something that lets him fix formatting AND join lines with minimal mouse use, which as a Mac person I didn't know how to help him do with default Win software.
Anyways, hurry for Zettlr!
Oddly enough, it's not for citation/notes. He needed something that lets him fix formatting AND join lines with minimal mouse use, which as a Mac person I didn't know how to help him do with default Win software.
Anyways, hurry for Zettlr!
Wonderful thing about social media is posters will literally reinvent Joseph Campbell's _The Hero with a Thousand Faces_ all based on their own observations.
People making mental connections & new-to-them realizations is such a rad thing to observe.
People making mental connections & new-to-them realizations is such a rad thing to observe.
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Wonderful thing about social media is posters will literally reinvent Joseph Campbell's _The Hero with a Thousand Faces_ all based on their own observations.
People making mental connections & new-to-them realizations is such a rad thing to observe.
People making mental connections & new-to-them realizations is such a rad thing to observe.
"More people should work toward the flourishing of other people"? Yes! Of course!
"More places should operate like libraries"? Perhaps, with many caveats.
"Librarians should run the world"?‽ Hokay, 1st of all, this labor force has been backsliding in diversity since the 1980s. 2nd, have you (1/∞)
"More places should operate like libraries"? Perhaps, with many caveats.
"Librarians should run the world"?‽ Hokay, 1st of all, this labor force has been backsliding in diversity since the 1980s. 2nd, have you (1/∞)
I cringe every time someone says "librarians should run the world!" like they're a whimsical moral caste of people instead of just people in a regular job, and who may think your cutesy praise is patronizing, actually.
November 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
"More people should work toward the flourishing of other people"? Yes! Of course!
"More places should operate like libraries"? Perhaps, with many caveats.
"Librarians should run the world"?‽ Hokay, 1st of all, this labor force has been backsliding in diversity since the 1980s. 2nd, have you (1/∞)
"More places should operate like libraries"? Perhaps, with many caveats.
"Librarians should run the world"?‽ Hokay, 1st of all, this labor force has been backsliding in diversity since the 1980s. 2nd, have you (1/∞)
Huh—I'd forgotten there's a couple people from Riverside in _Parable of the Sower_.
Hope they don't make me angry.
Hope they don't make me angry.
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Huh—I'd forgotten there's a couple people from Riverside in _Parable of the Sower_.
Hope they don't make me angry.
Hope they don't make me angry.
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My speaker notes & slides from today's panel on 'Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education', co-organised with the Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU). The full recording, slides and resources will be available soon via the CJUU site.
danmcquillan.org/resisting_ge...
danmcquillan.org/resisting_ge...
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
My speaker notes & slides from today's panel on 'Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education', co-organised with the Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU). The full recording, slides and resources will be available soon via the CJUU site.
danmcquillan.org/resisting_ge...
danmcquillan.org/resisting_ge...
"Yeah, it's an older Subaru… oh, that's not going to help much, is it?"
– me, utterly failing to usefully describe my ride at the Co-op (having had to park outside of their designated curbside spots)
– me, utterly failing to usefully describe my ride at the Co-op (having had to park outside of their designated curbside spots)
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM
"Yeah, it's an older Subaru… oh, that's not going to help much, is it?"
– me, utterly failing to usefully describe my ride at the Co-op (having had to park outside of their designated curbside spots)
– me, utterly failing to usefully describe my ride at the Co-op (having had to park outside of their designated curbside spots)
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A ruthless criticism of everything existing does not require a corresponding cynicism, a belief that good things are impossible. Quite the opposite: your normative commitments create a standard against which you judge progress towards your goal. That judgement is unsparing, but it's for a purpose.
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A ruthless criticism of everything existing does not require a corresponding cynicism, a belief that good things are impossible. Quite the opposite: your normative commitments create a standard against which you judge progress towards your goal. That judgement is unsparing, but it's for a purpose.
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The Boy Scouts of America is an interesting lens through which to witness and analyze masculinity in the US. May I recommend Jay Mechling's book On My Honor for those who want to read more. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Boy Scouts of America is an interesting lens through which to witness and analyze masculinity in the US. May I recommend Jay Mechling's book On My Honor for those who want to read more. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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democratic backsliding
bowling alone
lost third spaces
is there a parallel phrase in this tier of sociology-informed widely circulated common parlance for "unraveling social fabric / civic decomposition"?
bowling alone
lost third spaces
is there a parallel phrase in this tier of sociology-informed widely circulated common parlance for "unraveling social fabric / civic decomposition"?
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
democratic backsliding
bowling alone
lost third spaces
is there a parallel phrase in this tier of sociology-informed widely circulated common parlance for "unraveling social fabric / civic decomposition"?
bowling alone
lost third spaces
is there a parallel phrase in this tier of sociology-informed widely circulated common parlance for "unraveling social fabric / civic decomposition"?
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In my defense, answering "they won't let me be" did correctly identify the precipitating event that led to kid asking "Dad, what's the FCC?"
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
In my defense, answering "they won't let me be" did correctly identify the precipitating event that led to kid asking "Dad, what's the FCC?"
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I think there's an interesting study of media to be done looking at who gets labeled an "expert" and who gets labeled a "skeptic". Certainly for coverage of "AI", but I wonder if there are other topics that would make interesting comparisons.
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I think there's an interesting study of media to be done looking at who gets labeled an "expert" and who gets labeled a "skeptic". Certainly for coverage of "AI", but I wonder if there are other topics that would make interesting comparisons.
Drophead for an AI article at the Verge says "Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence".
*This* is how I learn that I've been doing cutting edge research ever since I started being a high school newspaper editor, working in a writing center, or teaching 1st year comp?
*This* is how I learn that I've been doing cutting edge research ever since I started being a high school newspaper editor, working in a writing center, or teaching 1st year comp?
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Drophead for an AI article at the Verge says "Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence".
*This* is how I learn that I've been doing cutting edge research ever since I started being a high school newspaper editor, working in a writing center, or teaching 1st year comp?
*This* is how I learn that I've been doing cutting edge research ever since I started being a high school newspaper editor, working in a writing center, or teaching 1st year comp?
Impressive how intensely that interconnected group of quite obviously "real" users all liked to post a particular photo of famous footballers.
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Impressive how intensely that interconnected group of quite obviously "real" users all liked to post a particular photo of famous footballers.
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this is beautiful xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
this is beautiful xkcd.com/3172/
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
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All that super hyper masculine warrior nonsense is also basically just barbarian shit. The only kind of society where real men aren't producing works of love, gentleness, and beauty is a crusty, musty society of barbarity, disease, and brutism.
I, personally, am a fan of civilization.
I, personally, am a fan of civilization.
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
All that super hyper masculine warrior nonsense is also basically just barbarian shit. The only kind of society where real men aren't producing works of love, gentleness, and beauty is a crusty, musty society of barbarity, disease, and brutism.
I, personally, am a fan of civilization.
I, personally, am a fan of civilization.
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It's National Novel Generation Month. LLMs have drained much of the original creativity and impetus for NaNoGenMo, but I gave it a go this year anyway. I took "No Time to Discourse," my interactive web-based speculative atlas of climate disaster, and turned it into a ~400-page book.
No Time to Discourse (Novel) · Issue #15 · NaNoGenMo/2025
My NaNoGenMo '25 contribution reworks No Time to Discourse, my interactive web-based speculative atlas of climate disaster, transforming it into a stable print book. The online version uses context...
github.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
It's National Novel Generation Month. LLMs have drained much of the original creativity and impetus for NaNoGenMo, but I gave it a go this year anyway. I took "No Time to Discourse," my interactive web-based speculative atlas of climate disaster, and turned it into a ~400-page book.