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Spencer Greenhalgh
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Nerd and Francophile who likes bikes and trains. Anxious but trying spouse and dad. Social media researcher at University of Kentucky. Agnostic elder in Community of Christ with Mormon roots and goals to do better with justice and peacemaking.
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“That kid spends too much time listening to audiobooks and podcasts while already doing other things,” I think to myself as I turn back to the dishes while putting my earbuds in.
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After a few days of griping that the library has once again misplaced one of the books we turned in, I have indeed found the book in kiddo’s room.
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📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️🖤🖤🖤 for After the Downfall, by Harry Turtledove spencergreenhalgh.com
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đź”— linkblog: my thoughts on 'Second Circuit Says Libraries Disincentivize Authors To Write Books By Lending Them For Free' spencergreenhalgh.com
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📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ for Attack Surface, by Cory Doctorow spencergreenhalgh.com
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Spouse bought some “chai spice” nut butter last weekend, and—tragedy of tragedies—I’m the only one in the family who likes it. It is a bit more peppery than I usually like chai stuff, but my increased toast consumption wouldn’t indicate as much.
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đź”— linkblog: my thoughts on 'Elon Musk Deletes Nazi Apologist Tweet After Near-Universal Backlash' spencergreenhalgh.com
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A funeral home across the country has included me on an email to all staff. I have never worked at a funeral home, much less there. What’s more confusing is that a family member in that state recently passed away, and so I keep having to check that that has nothing to do with it.
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đź”— linkblog: my thoughts on 'The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending' spencergreenhalgh.com
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comprendre (enfin) les paroles d'une chanson francophone spencergreenhalgh.com
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đź”— linkblog: my thoughts on 'Beotrump' spencergreenhalgh.com
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đź”— linkblog: my thoughts on 'How a Group of Teenagers Pranked 'One Million Checkboxes' - Slashdot' spencergreenhalgh.com
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a memory of Book of Mormon Christology spencergreenhalgh.com
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generative AI and the Honorable Harvest spencergreenhalgh.com
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🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Zuckerberg’s Spineless Surrender: Rehashing Old News To Enable False GOP Narratives' spencergreenhalgh.com
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@alienlebarge There's an Episode Limit option under Podcast Settings for each subscription. I don't know all the details, but I think it's what you're looking for.

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đź”— linkblog: my thoughts on 'How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr' spencergreenhalgh.com
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đź”— linkblog: my thoughts on 'CAPTCHAs Becoming Useless as AI Gets Smarter, Scientists Warn' spencergreenhalgh.com
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Last Christmas, we got kiddo one of those Wreck this Journal books, which is why there was a block of ice with “figure out a way to freeze this page” peering out from it that was melting in the sink while I was listening to French internet radio and making a batch of muesli this afternoon.
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small victories in home maintenance spencergreenhalgh.com
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đź”— linkblog: my thoughts on 'Ask God (Terms and Conditions Apply)' spencergreenhalgh.com
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Kiddo has been really into Greek mythology lately, and this has culminated in presenting me with “twelve trials” à la Heracles—but that basically get me to clean her room.
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putting family ahead of church spencergreenhalgh.com
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🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'KY prisoners hack state-issued computer tablets to digitally create $1M. How’d they do it?' spencergreenhalgh.com
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🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'KY prisoners hack state-issued computer tablets to digitally create $1M. How’d they do it?' spencergreenhalgh.com
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đź”— linkblog: my thoughts on 'KY inmates and their families spend millions on for-profit computer tablets' spencergreenhalgh.com
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@ChrisJWilson Fingers crossed!

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@alexink La bibliothèque Claire-Martin, non ? My spouse and I came here when visiting Québec several years ago, and it's one of the coolest libraries and coolest churches I've ever been to.

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@KimberlyHirsh I knew I'd find an audience!

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@mrbeefy Just started this yesterday and really excited to finish.

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@ChrisJWilson Embarrassed to admit that I failed to appreciate the depth of that particular joke until you pointed it out just now. :)

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@rossk Oh is this finally coming out? I read the first one years ago, so I definitely need a reread.

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@petebrown Hard agree.

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@splinter You're welcome! Tolstoy's writing on anarchism is through a religious lens—that's a plus for me but may not be for everyone (though his take on religion is to believe in the Sermon on the Mount but not in miracles, so it has potential to frustrate lots of people). I also highly recommend Walkaway if the other two seem up your alley.

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@KimberlyHirsh it's the main reason I drain grease into a can instead of pouring it down the drain (though the plumbing benefits are a perk, too)

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@bobkopp Hear hear!

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@chrisaldrich haha, not quite that far, but I wouldn't be surprised!

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@lukemperez To be fair, it is a hassle for everyone to have to extend school at the end of the year when you miss enough days, so I don't blame them for trying to avoid that. But yes, this feels performative, and I think a day off makes more sense.

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@petebrown I think I would prefer packets to Chromebook work, but yes—either way, it's almost more trouble than it's worth.

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@chrisaldrich Oh no way! The Sevierville Buc-ee's is the exact one that inspired this post, haha.

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@marramgrass I love this book.

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@olisharman I've just started this!

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@chrisaldrich Sorry to have missed this! It's an R package that works as an interface between R Markdown and pandoc; it's great for producing HTML and PDF books.

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@xxxx Congratulations! If you don't mind my asking, which school and which program?

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@ner3y I've tried Streaks (probably technically the best), HabitRPG (fun but sometimes rickety), and Finch (more of a self care app, which I like, but can be repurposed for habit tracking).

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@lukemperez Oh, the movie is fantastic! My complaint is with the video game based on the movie, which totally fails to capture the glory of the original.

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@lukemperez I'm interested in your example because "Irishness" is clearly not a natural distinction either. Even if we can demonstrate that Irish people tend to share certain biological characteristics, what defines Irishness is going to be arbitrary social and cultural identity markers.

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@lukemperez But if the signals for gender inclusivity (in this case, makeup and jewelry) have nothing to do with biology, then the distinctions we're making can't be naturally determined.

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@jordon So happy about this.

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@JohnPhilpin My students tend to link to files stored in the cloud instead of attaching those files to their emails, and it confuses me some. Someone on Mastodon said this might be a function of Microsoft moving folks in that direction.