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Written by Alias Messier on 2025-01-17 at 00:56

Today is Ursula’s fourth gotcha day & I am still totally obsessed & overflowing with wonder at my first dog. #DogsOfMastodon

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Written by Alias Messier on 2025-01-10 at 15:03

And good morning to YOU, random SF fault.

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Written by Alias Messier on 2024-12-18 at 01:56

Grainy but unmistakeable, with fog and moonlight behind it. #sfhellscape #wildlife https://sfba.social/@ampersand/113666636811861807

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Written by Alias Messier on 2024-12-17 at 06:00

Sitting in the middle of SF listening to a great horned owl hold a hootenanny from the roof of the building opposite me… #wildlife

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Written by Alias Messier on 2024-11-07 at 06:36

“This is not your fault.” The subject line of this email made me think it was a forward from some large list. Turns out it was just for me, a retired colleague who remembered that I made a room of despairing folks say this to each other more than a decade ago.

“National disaster. But thanks to you, I know how to cope.”

People are energized when you tell them what you’ve learned from them. It is a powerful form of care. Pass it on.

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Written by Alias Messier on 2024-11-06 at 14:59

More like this please. https://mspsocial.net/@bright_helpings/113435299378706993

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Written by Alias Messier on 2024-11-03 at 02:07

Waving hello to @SutroTower who was looking rather grand this afternoon.

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Written by Alias Messier on 2024-10-17 at 02:26

San Francisco. Where the wealthy venture capitalists attack the even wealthier capitalists for inheriting their capital. What are we even doing here? #SanFranciscoHellscape #VotePeskin #WeNeedAaron

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Written by Alias Messier on 2024-10-09 at 00:57

“Asking for a friend” —

I ask students to not just do peer review on drafts, but to reach out into their networks and get feedback from somewhere else. It’s a great assignment for a number of reasons, usually very constructive. But this was a first: student reports they called a coworker and said it was written by “someone else in class” and they were supposed to give feedback, on the assumption the coworker wouldn’t be honest with them, just nice…!?

[#]AmTeaching

@edutooters

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Written by Alias Messier on 2024-10-01 at 15:52

My partner & I have been living inside _Menewood_for some time now, snatching out-loud reading time when we can. Such a rich and transporting adventure! But the heft of the book is shifting, and we’ve begun to decry its imminent end.

I read electronically most of the time these days, but there’s nothing quite like feeling your way through the progress of a book by the balance of its weight in your hands.

@bookstodon https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Nicolaz/113232761488014992

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Written by Alias Messier on 2024-09-20 at 22:36

!!!! https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/113172264159416149

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Written by Alias Messier on 2024-09-03 at 03:30

Experimenting with “wetted,” “soaked,” or #fermented apples this harvest (pick your term based on Google’s translations of the relevant Ukrainian wiki page). Excited to see where this goes. Anybody here had them before? #apples

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Written by Alias Messier on 2024-08-24 at 18:51

I thought briefly about Raskin as I built my 20 #20books20days list, remembering that I was obsessed with several of her books as an early reader, but the details remained fuzzy. This lovely take on her work brought it all back— definitely a huge impact on young me, definitely time to revisit these. Anyone else a fan? https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-westing-game-may-be-a-murder-mystery-but-it-s-also-a-ghost-story?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

@bookstodon

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