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Jim Kosmicki

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English instructor at Central Community College in Nebraska

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Matthew Dow Smith is young and prolific working with multiple publishers

10.10.2025 01:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Some = the gdmn trolls themselves alone in their sewers because the non-trolls ignore them or fled

07.10.2025 17:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do they even understand that they are showing pictures of people dressed like THEIR enforcers? Every accusation is a confession remains in place

07.10.2025 12:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is a common set of feelings among my fellow community college writing instructors

06.10.2025 01:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's MTM the production company, not the actress specifically

05.10.2025 23:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Most MTM shows had solid writing - a few clunkers but they clearly valued writers

05.10.2025 23:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not for nothing, they also produced entertaining educational films that promoted scientific thinking

04.10.2025 19:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This gives me much hope for the future of Psychology.
Over my career, I've seen many tech fads come and go (or often not go), each displacing the basic effort of theoretical clarity by something that works off laziness.
Here, the latest fad is being shown for what it is very early in its lifetime.

04.10.2025 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

On a recent day of driving several hours my wife and I listened to the top singles of 1981 and immediately noticed how much sax there was

04.10.2025 00:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In Nebraska, all utilities are public owned and operated, some better than others, but there are publicly elected boards that run them.

02.10.2025 12:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If holding your arms at a 90 degree angle is seen as a swastika, i can't help you. And bicyclists and some motorists have been sending Nazi signals for a long time

01.10.2025 21:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have always respected Hama's skills even if I didn't really read Joe

01.10.2025 01:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This speaks highly of a degree from Wharton in terms of math, huh?

30.09.2025 22:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The people creating the Joe comic understood the military so much better than Stinky Pete

30.09.2025 18:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just read that it is 20% of their stations, not all - so who knows the truth?

23.09.2025 20:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

18.09.2025 14:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8337    ๐Ÿ” 2680    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 61    ๐Ÿ“Œ 75

Divorces, custody battles. (thread ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿฝ)

Also, feeling weird about publishing this myself ten days ago:

18.09.2025 17:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also I noticed the point about not assigning essays, please keep doing it bsky.app/profile/oliv...

17.09.2025 09:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This or vol 1 was in our college library in the early 80's - it was odd to see Sire in that context

17.09.2025 00:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Pam Bondi deleted a government study showing that right-wingers commit more terrorism. The right cannot think coherently so instead of making their own studies, they censor legitimate ones.

But don't worry Pam, I saved it for you web.archive.org/web/20250911...

16.09.2025 19:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4728    ๐Ÿ” 2075    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 116    ๐Ÿ“Œ 96

me to my students: LLMs are like your worst ex. They will LIE to you with the most serene, most confident face

one of my students, quietly: I hate that guy so much

16.09.2025 17:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 754    ๐Ÿ” 173    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

And Blue Rodeo

14.09.2025 01:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So Liberty University has to hire liberal professors?

13.09.2025 17:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Most everything by Bryan Fuller - wonderfalls, dead like me, pushing daisies. By the grace of somebody he got a few more seasons of Hannibal but it was still unfinished.

13.09.2025 01:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I also read and enjoyed it. To give them credit, DC kept trying to sell SF books, they just never hit with readers

09.09.2025 12:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That first one was so good - never saw the 2nd on the stands to buy

08.09.2025 01:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I get the joke but as I recall, he lost a lawsuit in Europe where he claimed offshore windmills ruined the view from one of his golf courses

08.09.2025 01:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The outside cat that lived like a ghost one winter on our house had a litter the next summer - one kitten decided to come live with us, another wants to but won't let us catch her for the neutering, and the others have dispersed. But Nacho, the one who chose us, is a great little fluffy orange boy.

07.09.2025 22:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So do I dare share this with our IT department?

07.09.2025 22:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We have taken in several neighborhood ferals over the decades, some have worked out - some have fled back outside

07.09.2025 22:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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