doctor of softboyology
researcher of learning, emotion, and design. personal account.
- Reposted by doctor of softboyologyRight now “CON” sign ins are beating “PRO” sign ins for the Millionaires Tax. Don’t let them win! Sign your name in “PRO” ASAP or by 12:30pm Friday at the latest: app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...
- Wake me up when the Mariners come back
- Reposted by doctor of softboyologyFired after gender identity lesson, professor sues Texas A&M, arguing her free speech rights were violated
- Seattle says, “what winter?”
- I hope that those recently praising the work of ProPublica journalists will remember that management has not agreed to commonsense demands, on e.g. AI use, and that workers may soon strike and are asking for support. www.gofundme.com/f/support-pr...
- What if Tim Robinson played Linda in the motion picture adaptation of Sky Daddy by Kate Folk
- Reposted by doctor of softboyologyI appreciate this and I've begun talking to people about what it means to take Gates grants given that Melinda has taken steps to separate from the foundation (and yes I know they're one of the only funders for ed research)
- My caffeine levels were precisely calibrated and timed to hit peak right as I started class today
- This is my energy irl: - Smooth on the surface - Freaking out internally
- Putting “lunch” on the to do list in the hopes that checking it off will inspire the other items to get moving too
- Hi Learning Sciences folks - Please register to attend this limited-capacity event on the future of AI in LS. It’s for *ISLS members*. We need your thoughtful engagement to guide the future direction of ISLS: mailchi.mp/05ad096f0893... Please share with other ISLS members
- Reposted by doctor of softboyologyGeorgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:
- Reposted by doctor of softboyologyConfronted Congressman Tom Suozzi, one of seven Democrats casting the decisive votes to increase ICE funding by $10,000,000,000.
- Oh look it’s my buddy Ty
- Carlson says, “if it wasn’t for the collective actions over the past three weeks I don’t know if I would’ve been able to stay that long, but I knew that this was a moment and we all have to be brave and we all have to take risks and we’re all gonna be given moments to make that decision.”
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- Reposted by doctor of softboyologyLast week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
- Reposted by doctor of softboyologyPolitical Scientists would call it a "tactical concession" (RRS' Spiral Model). Human rights and democracy campaigners need to make sure it leads to more gains (positive spiral) instead of stalling progress (negative spiral).
- I would sincerely appreciate if students would stop almost running me down in U District crosswalks THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
- When I show up at work with scruffy face it’s not fashion. It’s a sign that energy is being redirected to my ship’s life sustaining systems.
- Reposted by doctor of softboyologysigns left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association
- Starting to think about what I can say in class tomorrow to help us all keep going. It’s almost the midpoint of our quarter and everyone was already exhausted, including me. I’m teaching future educators, and I want to tell them how their care and constructive effort is needed more than ever.
- Fireworks still going off where I am in the Seattle suburbs #seahawks
- I’m “watching” the Seahawks game with my parents because last week was a hard week and we needed to be with people we love
- The fact that they lie about their open street executions *intensifies* my concern for the people who may be being brutalized in facilities that congress cannot even access. We know multiple people have died in custody. We should worry about the epistemic barriers and what we don’t know yet.
- Reposted by doctor of softboyologySince this is a day where people need more cute dog photos, here’s Cinnamon on the couch, wearing a bandanna.
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- LRT: I don’t think Alex Pretti thought he would lose his life today for trying to help up his neighbor who fell on the ice. But hearing him in his own voice talk about the importance of sacrifice to protect the gift of freedom was enough to break me all the way down.
- Reposted by doctor of softboyologyA video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
- Reposted by doctor of softboyologyKare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
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- Every day he wakes up and finds new ways to not stop this so he can stay friends with his “colleagues across the aisle”
- Reposted by doctor of softboyologyAlex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
- Unbearable
- Reposted by doctor of softboyologyI just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
- Reposted by doctor of softboyologyA coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
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- I think it’s really funny that tech companies can’t get enough people to play with their doom machines and I hope that when it all collapses it hurts them enough that they can’t try again for a long time.
- Reposted by doctor of softboyologyICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
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- Is the reason the emails seem to have stopped the outlook outage? Never mind. I don’t want to know.
- Something something the jouissance of enforcing hierarchized suffering
- Re the photos of dear leader: Men should be allowed to wear whatever makeup they want. In this case, the terrible execution belies a desperate and delusional sense of self and reinforces the fact that no one can tell him the simple truth (that it looks like absolute donkey ass).
- Telling my mental health meltdown to wait until Saturday morning because there is a packed agenda
- Reposted by doctor of softboyologyIs it @startribune.com policy to refer to anyone confronting ICE as a protester? This obscures the nature of what people are doing. We're not protesting ICE. We're constitutional observers documenting human rights abuses by agents of the state.
- Reposted by doctor of softboyologySo all colleges and universities will bring back the DEI stuff they cut when obeying in advance right...............................................................................................................................................right?
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- Reposted by doctor of softboyologyAND THAT’S WITH NO MESSAGING CAMPAIGN! And even an OPPOSING message from Dem leadership!
- Reposted by doctor of softboyologyHeads up, Seattle: Aki Kurose Middle School in Hillman City and Cleveland STEM High School in Beacon Hill are sheltering in place after ICE activity was reported in the area.
- 🤲🏼🎁 “In this paper, we respond to an argument that … it is necessarily advantageous for learners and learning scientists to engage with “both sides” of a debate. … repository.isls.org/handle/1/10363
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- I accidentally said “pear croissant” instead of “pear danish” when ordering at the bakery and it sucks that now the bakery staff will be laughing together about how stupid I am until the day I die and will pass on the story of my humiliation for generations
- THE TIMELINE REFUSES TO BE CLEANSED
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- The reason I am personally hesitant to invoke ideas like symbolic violence is because it makes it harder to fully grasp the horrible singularity of actual violence. Like all lenses, it both illuminates and obscures, is what I’m saying. That feels important during times like ours.
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- I’m sorry I keep reposting headlines like this. I do it to help me not feel like I have lost touch with reality. Like, yes, I am not making this up. They are really doing this, despite the fact that no one is doing anything about it.
- Hint: they aren’t going to be pushing for more solar…
- Making new categories of criminality to justify oppression, violence, and extreme hierarchy — a historical template
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- Um another reason why the treasury should not be controlled by the president is that he could use Treasury Direct to punish his enemies too. They called Renee Good a domestic terrorist. You think they won’t take your Treasury Bills?
