Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

If you divide your students into groups of 5, 5, 5, and 4, inevitably two students from the 4 group will drop the class.

I am reminded of this line (maybe from one of the Bulwer-Lytton contests?):

"Oh shit, it's the end of the world," he said, missing his last chance to prove that he knew the difference between scatology and eschatology.
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RT @manylittlewords
The fact that some people can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bugs me in ways I can't put into words
https://twitter.com/manylittlewords/status/1334523208255614976

I'm seeing ads for an @hbomax series about Heaven's Gate, as if the news isn't already full of apocalypses and people dying because of detached-from-reality cults.

RT @StephenPunwasi
Everyone: @AOC is selling a "tax the rich" sweatshirt for $58! That's way too expensive.

Me, a former mass market apparel designer: Made in America. Union printed. Sounds about right. That's what it costs to pay everyone a decent wage along the way.

#TaxTheRich

RT @tsr
Odds are you’ll never encounter a black hole, but it never hurts to be prepared. A new book offers a “survival guide” to black holes as a means to help people understand these enigmatic objects. https://buff.ly/3mBAyzX

RT @misterbrilliant
I begin each morning by looking at Twitter on my phone, then on my laptop, then on larger and larger screens throughout the day, like a sunflower blooming.

What is a "guest"? Well, in the beforetimes...
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RT @qikipedia
Word of the Day: SCURRYFUNGE - to panic clean just before a guest arrives.
https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1334437218979606529

RT @RBReich
The richest 1% own half of the stock market.

The bottom 50% own 0.7% of it.

This is why the corporate class is willing to let you die for the Dow.

I had to hang up @htdrake's @plumdeluxe tea advent calendar, which involved suspending a dowel. Thanks to the @PortlandBEM NET knot tying class, I knew to use a clove hitch. #skillz

Man, @TheElliotPage did this, too? That guy is like the new @DrBrianMay. #Juno
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RT @marsrader
Lightning in Jupiter's cloud tops, based on imagery from Juno. (📷 NASA/JPL)
https://twitter.com/marsrader/status/1333685530782031873

Just had an eye-opening teaching experience.

Don't show them code and explain it to them. Show them code and make them explain it to you.

RT @z3r0trust
Using list, map, lambda, & filter on a single line of code...

The serving size on a kosher dill pickle spear is 2/3 of a spear (seriously?), but it's 0 calories so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This seems tangentially related to @liz_stanhope's work.
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RT @dusttodigital
Japanese artist Kenichi Kanazawa manipulating sand on a steel tabletop.
https://twitter.com/dusttodigital/status/1334143622283980802

RT @AJMooreHealth
A friend’s grandma got covid (she’s recovered)

How did she get covid? She’s been sneaking off to karaoke bars that are covertly operating illegally, w/o covid precautions.

Illegal. Underground. Grandma. Karaoke Bars.

Am I disappointed? Amazed? Losing my mind? All of the above.

RT @qikipedia
In 1842, Joseph Geefs made a sculpture of Lucifer (left) for St. Paul’s Cathedral in Liège. It was removed because it was ‘too sublime’ and people thought it would distract girls from the sermons. It was replaced by the sculpture on the right. (📷: Georges Jansoone / Luc Viatour)

Pitch: a furry samurai game called Bright Eyed & Bushido.

RT @Abebab
imagine if the AI researchers throwing "state-of-art" tools to detect, analyses, and "solve" crime worked on white collar crime https://twitter.com/Abebab/status/1333497599928782848

RT @canadianprguy
I have worked in PR for many years: Have written many media releases. Have issued many media releases.

This is one of the best media releases ever.

RT @tsukkiskys
i’m pleased to introduce y’all to my newest obsession
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accidental renaissance photos: a thread