Chelsea D Chamberlain

A black steam engine with passenger cars sits at the station. A group of people walk along side it as they disembark

we did a fun train excursion today! my favorite part was the shared exasperation of all us moms of toddler boys chasing them every which way and praying for survival.

Good Birkin good Chat-gpt give beautiful Chat-gpt deserve AI

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

Historians of Bluesky: For a course on "Columbus in History and Myth" I'd like to read more on modern American appropriations/celebrations of 1492. In particular the 1892 anniversary and commemorative public statues in late 19th-early 20th c. Primary or secondary references very welcome. Thanks.

I play a different one each day for World History but my favorite selection is that on the last day of that class I play "It's the End of the World as We Know It" lol

looking at how full my calendar gets over the next two weeks and feeling that end of summer grief.

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

The Treachery of Images painting by René Magritte

Okay, I've deleted my earlier post. Apparently, this is *not* a pipe. But the fact that I thought it was says a lot about society.

our 18-month old thinks what we've been hearing all summer is the "music truck" and I will rue the day he learns it has ice cream.

it's within the last year I wanna say. No theory of causation here though lol

this killed me lol

The government is tyrant-maxing. It’s giving despot

a close up of a person 's arm with a stethoscope in their hand . Alt: a close up of Arnold's arm and face as he puts on camo warpaint

When I see that “faculty and student AI use” is on the agenda for our first faculty meeting tomorrow.

the multitudes he contained

it's a two strikes you're out (for 24 hours) situation, and I'm parenting solo for a week so I need all of you to send good vibes to my toddler's digestive tract please and thank you

the rush of terror at every daycare app notification that follows one saying the toddler had diarrhea.

Why I'm Saying No to Generative AI There is no value-add to using generative AI for historical work

🗃️ From the ever thoughtful and smart historian @cjdenial.bsky.social

theimportantwork.substack.com/p/why-im-say...

talk to your wife! why are you married if you cannot talk to your wife! and you know what; sometimes you can’t think of a joke and all you can say is “i’m going to be 15 minutes late, sorry” and that communication is a part of marriage!

Writing in a jokey tone to your wife is in fact one of the main benefits of having a wife. Once again, why are you outsourcing the fun part of existence to the machine.

ugh @ryanlcooper.com is off on a reporting trip which means I have to do the dishes for a whole week. it’ll be the most dishes I’ve done probably since we met lol

A bumper sticker on an Equinox. A cartoon moth man next to the words “Mothman ate my entire ass at a Denny’s! It was a grand slam breakfast!”

this bumper sticker on my block is a bit crass for my tastes but seems very much Bluesky’s taste.

just saw a 1-star google maps review of a community college that said "i only go to this joke of a college because it's cheap and the professors are good." what ... what else do you want out of a college my guy

I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.

in an upper-level undergrad course (History of Disability), I do track-changes comments with one round of required revisions. I had a student say no one had done that for anything she'd ever written. It felt really special!

if I ever get quoted about this stuff I would like to be identified not as a skeptic but as a hater

This is not the most damning thing in the review, but I think is the most profound. Those involved in what is essentially cultural criticism are uninterested in the scale and impact of the things they critique. For those who care about governing and institutions, the differences are glaring.

The Great Simplification, for my fellow "Canticle for Leibowitz" heads.

it looks like the toddler has hand foot and mouth AGAIN! twice in one summer is absurd.