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Tom Gibbons

@dthomasg

Erstwhile Dramaturg, Accessibility Dork, OER Advocate, Dog Father, Cat Concierge. My Clifton Strengths are Scorpio with Visual Learner rising. he/him🏳️‍🌈

 Lincoln, NE
Joined June 2008
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This is the core of design: empathy, the ability to think like people who are not yourself, to anticipate the needs of others and to care for them as if they were yours. And to always remember that your good intentions are no substitute for listening.
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#CanvasCornhole ?
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On the plane. Who else is going? #INSTCon23
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Reminds me of a phone call I got doing tech support in 2001: Them: Are you a computer? Me: Well, I’ve been answering your questions as you ask them, so, no. I’m not a computer. I wish I’d had the wit to say, “Where is John Connor?”
Rua M. Williams (@FractalEcho) profile pictureRua M. Williams@FractalEcho19 Jul 2023
This is not an email I ever expected to receive or send.
Image of email reads "The AI design of your email is clever, but significantly lacks warmth. Would it be possible to be contacted by a human being moving forward instead of AI? Many Thanks"

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Image of response reads "It's not AI. I'm just autistic. See you next Friday. Sent from Proton Mail mobile.

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not sure how/when I became iconic in the atheism community but it’s really been a blessing thank god lol.
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Protest from two weeks ago that I let just wear and chip away, and this week’s protest. The purple is Bat Out of Hell by Death Valley Nails. The blue is Sally Hansen Insta-Dri, Up in the Clouds.
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Fingernails in light blue

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Mike Flood, joining the chorus of hypocrisy.
Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) profile pictureSenator Megan Hunt@NebraskaMegan1 Jul 2023
Mike!!!! My God
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This week’s protest is a little more staid than previous weeks.
Left hand with nails painted light blue, right hand nails are pale pink. Trans flag colors, if my fish-belly white hands count as the white part.

ALT Left hand with nails painted light blue, right hand nails are pale pink. Trans flag colors, if my fish-belly white hands count as the white part.

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It’s important to have a friend who will drag you to filth on social media, even when you’re both state senators.
Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) profile pictureSenator Megan Hunt@NebraskaMegan18 May 2023
Live shot of @JohnforNE restoring his damaged moisture barrier #NELeg
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I’m really not shilling the book, which is great. But I didn’t make the rules.
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Shaking off another layer of burnout, it seemed like time to start reading potentially uplifting things again. Sadie concurs. @TheTattooedProf
A copy of Radical Hope, with a bug-eyed seal-mode Sadie behind it, looking directly into the camera.

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Wanna read a ridiculous take on #remoteWork by someone who only seems to be able to interpret “at work” as a reference to geography, and doesn’t seem to understand how to foster culture absent spatial synchrony? forbes.com/sites/georgebradt…
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When you’re getting ready to type “schemas” and autocomplete just drags you to filth. #autocomplete
Screenshot of Gmail interface with the partial sentence “And because I have different mental” and autocomplete is suggesting “health issues” to finish the sentence.

ALT Screenshot of Gmail interface with the partial sentence “And because I have different mental” and autocomplete is suggesting “health issues” to finish the sentence.

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I am Tom, Lord of the Flies, Bringer of a Time Lord. Fear me for I just don’t want you in the world. 😬
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Retweeting to save. This looks like an excellent read. UK-specific, but undoubtedly some parallels to be drawn to US socio-linguistic power structures in education and beyond.
Ian Cushing (@ian_cushing) profile pictureIan Cushing@ian_cushing26 Jan 2023
New research of mine published open access in Race Ethnicity and Education: "Challenging anti-Black linguistic racism in schools amidst the ‘what works’ agenda". It's available 🔓here tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…. A short thread below on the content and implications for policy 👇
Screenshot of the front page of https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13613324.2023.2170435 Challenging anti-Black linguistic racism in schools amidst the ‘what works’ agenda by Ian Cushing

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Creating badges that are meaningful, even to users who are colorblind, isn’t difficult. For this size platform, this is ridiculous. #a11y
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Gurl…
Associate Deans (@ass_deans) profile pictureAssociate Deans@ass_deans14 Dec 2022
It you don’t complete your online trainings, you’re not eligible for the 1.075% merit raise pool!
Heart just came up on my playlist, and maybe it’s the Thanksgiving talking, but…
A canned ham with a wizard’s staff and hat, with the caption “Try to understand, he’s a…”

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When someone tells you “We don’t have the resources to address those problems,” they mean it. But they don’t mean it the way they think they do.
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Savage. It burns!
Nebraska Humane Society (@NEHumaneSociety) profile pictureNebraska Humane Society@NEHumaneSociety20 Oct 2022
naming all of our animals Liz Truss in the hopes that they too will Get Out of Here
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