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toddo

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Aging GenX gay/queer. Grew up rural; have lived in SF since '00. Love books & reading, all music, natural world. Preference for left policies/values, but suspicious of performative politics & politics-as-identity. Believer in democracy. Post-denominational, non-theist Jew. American Studies professor at a state undergrad-focused uni. Teach broadly in critical humanities. Research using Pragmatist social scientific & critical humanist methods: sexuality, religion, theory.

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toddo, to random
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One thing: I really wish the MSM would stop saying "hush money to a porn star" and "cover up an affair". He was convicted of ELECTIONS FRAUD. This matters. Having sex (barely consensual if it all) with a porn actor is NOT illegal, nor is lying about it to your wife. Spending campaign money to influence an election by manipulation of information and the media: Illegal. This is about elections and core democratic principles.

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Alt text: homo walking home from errands joining the iconic San Francisco scenery.

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Alt text: Homo with new hairs riding a bus.

toddo, to random
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<social scientist rant> For the love of god, stop saying “correlation is not causation” as if it’s a grand revelatory statement that invalidates everything. Of course correlation isn’t causation. It’s CORRELATION. Correlation is its own thing; it can manifest in a full range between strong and weak; and opens up key questions about why two (or more) things are correlated. If things are correlated that means they are hooked together in some way for some reason statistically. And that matters in its own way. If X and Y are correlated, but X doesn’t cause Y, who cares? They’re CORRELATED. So the next question is Why? How? Causation is not the only thing that matters. </social scientist rant>

toddo, to random
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Also: Bay Area denizens, are you having massive allergies today? I've been having itchy and runny eyes, throat, and nose and constant sneezing. 🤧

toddo, to random
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Excellent. As these events unfurl, I’m proud to be in some small way associated with these university faculty.

https://history.ucla.edu/2024/05/01/statement-of-members-of-the-ucla-department-of-history-faculty-in-response-to-the-attack-on-the-encampment-on-30-april-2024/

toddo, to random
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This is what I mean with English phrasal verbs no longer kicking the particle. It bends my brain. “…turn your PS5 off”… for the love of god.

👴🏻

toddo, to random
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An iOS widget just gave me this memory. Made me miss home.

toddo, to random
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Trans and Enby friends: Do you have recommendations for good resources that YOU approve of personally (i.e., that you think do a good job from your perspective as a queer person) online that I can give to my faculty for teaching their students about WHY we should use people's chosen pronouns? I have a little spiel I do with my students in class that seems to work well, but I have faculty who want more in depth resources to use as needed. For context, in two classes this semester, it has become a disruptive issue with a few students outright refusing to use people's pronouns, and so I'm scrambling to give support to the faculty leading those classrooms and to the queer students trying to survive that situation. Thanks!

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Some relatives are going to Branson, MO.
I looked up Branson, MO.
I’m never going to Branson, MO.

toddo,
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@beatnikprof Yeah don’t visit. Just watch the episode of We’re Here, where they go to Branson. It’s a rough watch.

toddo, to workersrights
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I did the morning shift in the pickets lines. There were way more people than I expected in the rain. The strikers had presence at every single entrance to campus. I was in a pretty large group across from one of the parking garages. The press started showing up (both local and National) around noon. And there were way more strikers showing up as I left. #CFA #strike #FuckNeoliberalEducation

toddo, to csu
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Strike-wear. On my way to Caltrain for an 11-2 picket shift at SJSU. #solidarity #CFA #CaliforniaFacultyAssociation #FuckNeoliberalRobberBarons #CSU #Strike

nathanlovestrees, to tea
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This week is off to a rocky start.

#Yancha #RockTea #GongFuCha #Tea @tea

toddo,
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@nathanlovestrees @tea 🫂

toddo, to random
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Here’s a pretty good lefty take on the CFA (CSU) Strike that begins in a few hours.

https://jacobin.com/2024/01/california-state-university-faculty-strike

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California Faculty Association (for CSU faculty, librarians, counselors, and coaches) beings its work stoppage (a.k.a., strike) at Midnight tonight. I just received instructions for Department Chairs from the union, all of which was stuff I knew already, but it was nice they are reaching out. Because of the exceptionally hostile and threatening stance of the CSU (not to mention the gaslighting and union-busting), the union is being particularly clear and insistent that we log out of Google completely on all devices and log out of Canvas completely on all devices to ensure that no "activity" can be tracked. The email I just received contained this final warning:

THIS IS A LEGALLY SANCTIONED JOB ACTION. YOU ARE LEGALLY PROTECTED FROM FIRING AND RETALIATION IF YOU PARTICIPATE IN A FULL WORK STOPPAGE. IF YOU DO NOT ENGAGE IN A FULL WORK STOPPAGE, CFA CANNOT PROTECT YOU FROM RETALIATION.

toddo, to random
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I'm teaching a first-year/sophomore level intro to pop culture class this semester. I've never taught the topic as a survey and below a senior level, so I'm kind of floundering for readings and structure of the class. I'm hoping someone out there maybe teaches a similar class and has an idea for a long, scaffolded assignment that might build up over the semester? I'm already going to have them do weekly "Commonplace Books" which I'll guide with prompts; that will be an "additive" grade for a big chunk. I'm considering some way to do something exam-like, but I'd also like to have a cool semester-project (I do something like this in my American Stories class, which is why I'm thinking about it this way). Any ideas? I'm also super into sharing, so if there's something I do that I can share/help I'd be more than happy to reciprocate :)

mikec415, to random
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#sfba avoid going downtown tomorrow. They’re having the anti-abortion march.

toddo,
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@Defiance there’s usually a large anti-trans and anti-gay contingent as well. I think there’s a counter protest planned but I haven’t heard anything for a week or so, so not sure?

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    toddo,
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    @seachanger @Zeb_Larson oh thanks. Didn’t know they’d produced a new album!

    beatnikprof, to academia
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    Oh look, my favorite:
    An email from a student who can’t be at the first class because reasons blah blah blah can I tell him everything he’ll be missing blah blah blah will I accept late work?
    #academia #academicchatter #academicmastodon

    Jack Nicholson in The Shining wiping dishes off of a sideboard.

    toddo,
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    @beatnikprof @VCP @carrideen After having a very frustrating discussion with an Education colleague who was insisting that (her version of) Universal design would solve all our pedagogy problems, it occurred to me that she was basically telling me that, for reasons, I must not require reading (even though critical deep reading is one of the primarily SKILLS of a humanities degree), I must never require oral argumentation (even though effective oral dialogue and argumentation is a primary skill of a humanities degree), and I must never require writing (even though that is a third key skill of a humanities BA). Also something something about exams, because requiring students to actually know shit apparently is no longer part of education. I asked her if she ever told math professors they must no longer give tests, assignments, or group projects? Does she tell science profs that students mustn’t be required to do lab work? I seriously cannot anymore.

    toddo,
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    @VCP @carrideen @beatnikprof Omigod and the suggestion to have students make podcasts which are inevitably HORRIBLE.

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    🧵 A lot of people have been mystified by the sudden and incredible attacks Claudine Gay faced which led to her downfall.

    As a former right-wing media entrepreneur who was part of the anti-Dan Rather blogger corps, there are a few things I think you should know.

    This thread is a summary of the latest episode of my co-hosted podcast "So This Just Happened." You can get the full episode here: https://plus.flux.community/p/the-attacks-on-claudine-gay-werent

    video/mp4

    toddo,
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    @mattsheffield @tylerzonia

    https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133

    beatnikprof, to random
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    So it now seems it takes me 3 hours to transition from getting out of bed to fully awake. And that’s with coffee.

    toddo,
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    @beatnikprof same! I used to wake up in the wee hours and bound out of bed. My sleep patterns have changed dramatically the last few years.

    toddo, to random
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    Good kitteh.

    nathanlovestrees, to random
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    I am plural

    toddo,
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    @nathanlovestrees have you been ready William James this morning? 😀

    toddo, to random
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    Sorry to ask the same question for the third time over the past year, but:

    What are the Fediverse options for blogging platforms?

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