Oh good, the people who stole $12,000 from the Johnsonians have run out of money and are now just charging directly to the account. I had hoped that the fact that we know it was deposited into a business account at Bank of America would mean that their account would be frozen by now, and the money seized, but instead Chase is sending every affidavit I complete back to me in the mail, now with demands to mail it back and forth to the payee, etc. They won't help me w/o a check stub (don't have).
So if I want to stop losing thousands of dollars I have to go into a Chase and have the account frozen and renumbered, while nothing at all continues to happen to the person who stole this money.
One of my repeated nightmares is that I am somewhere in public with our cat Camilla in my arms, no bag or carrier, and I have to try to get her home on trains, planes, etc. while she squirms and tries to get away. (She's terrified around strangers.) Today, @mxtiffanyleigh had the Camilla-in-arms dream! So now we have proof that nightmares are contagious.
Last night my old bandmate visited from California so I got to introduce him to my less-shy cat Dolores, who was nearby, a bit wary. I was explaining why she's such a compelling personality and mentioned her bizarre reaction to Jimmie Rodgers. I put my phone between us on the couch and played "Blue Yodel no.9." Like clockwork, Dolores leaps up on the couch and aggressively rubs on my phone until the end of the song. We have no idea why. Her heart races with excitement. https://youtu.be/9BFbY9Vw8DM
@Adam_Cadmon1 I am a devoted follower of the annual Jimi Halloween mundane costume contest in Japan. Previous years have included such favorites as "guy who got curry udon all over his shirt during lunch break" and "woman who only meant to buy a few things so she didn't get a shopping cart." https://www.spoon-tamago.com/jimi-mundane-halloween-2023/
@aral I had never heard this particular flavor of Islamophobia until I visited a Turkish friend in Iceland. Not a day went by without some Icelander lecturing me about the dangers of being seen in public with a Muslim. It would immediately become this "fundamental differences" talk that was supposed to make me afraid of discrimination by association. I couldn't help but realize how many places in Europe I'd felt welcome in because I was white and alone or with white-passing friends.
@aral All that is to say, I support you. There is nothing wrong with your post. The Fediblock hashtag is becoming unreliable for admins and that is going to be a massive problem for everyone here.
@aral I am having a really hard time with all the Fediblock posts that amount to "This server allows rhetoric that I personally find slightly exaggerated, so no one on anyone's server should ever have access to anyone on theirs ever again." Block everyone for any reason! Defederate according to your own server's rules, all you want! But demanding a unified defederation by everyone on a hashtag most of us trust to keep pedophiles/genociders/scammers from getting to our people...?
Twelve years ago, I started using the phrase "recursive remediation" to refer to the bizarre effect that hypertrophied assessment has on pedagogy.
It begins by saying "Our students will never [X]; they can't even [Y]!" where X is some mature intellectual task and Y is e.g., spelling their own name, writing a complete sentence, reading a news article.
"They'll never understand Moby-Dick; they can't even read the syllabus!" "They'll never write a legal brief; they can't write an email!" 1/7
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