Heather Shipman, hermit

@rockpickerupper

Infinite question generator: specializing in library e-resources, raising kids, sf/f, managing anxiety/depression. She/her/hers; opinions my own, OBV

Upstate NY
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Joined November 2013
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    26 Aug 2016

    We are experiencing technical difficulties. Please stand by while I console myself with cookies.

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  2. 7 hours ago

    There *are* some really nice ones out there! But... not a bazillion. Definitely not a bazillion. So mostly, I'm just feeling less bad about my attempts, and further reminded of the confidence of mediocre men.

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  3. 7 hours ago

    So, we bought Gloomhaven, and hubs is teaching me to paint the miniatures. I'm not all that good at it, so I'm looking up how other people do it. Thinking, I'm gonna find a bazillion beautiful examples to learn from, and ideas, and stuff, right. Right?

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  4. Aug 27

    i can't design realistic elementary school conditions that fall anywhere lower than "DANGEROUSLY HIGH RISK" under any risk budget at all cool, cool, i'm not worried

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  5. Aug 23

    My brain *did* break somewhere along the way; it used to work better than this. But we don't have good systems for broken brains, either. Not to "fix" them, not to adapt to them, and certainly not to recognize when they're changing.

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  6. Aug 23

    And it really doesn't help if the thing you use to grok and solve your problems - your brain - is the thing that is broken. (NOTE: the quoted thread is not about broken brains. It's about broken systems that fail to support diverse brains. I have a different issue.)

    And that's b/c of a common problem those of us on run into before we grok our respective d/x: When someone asks us "Why can't you just [x]?" or says "You should be able to [y]," It doesn't occur to us that "I'm physically incapable of doing so" is an answer.
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    22 Jan 2020

    And that's b/c of a common problem those of us on run into before we grok our respective d/x: When someone asks us "Why can't you just [x]?" or says "You should be able to [y]," It doesn't occur to us that "I'm physically incapable of doing so" is an answer.

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  8. Retweeted
    Aug 19

    As a… – remote worker I want to… – give facebook access to four cameras strapped to my head so that… – I can simulate an in-person meeting that could have been an email

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    Aug 19

    "The solution to access problems so often is to clear browser cache and cookies, but doing so is always complicated and hard to find! Browsers should have a big button in the top bar that looks like a toilet that you can click to flush the cookies." -- a colleague from a meeting

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  10. Retweeted
    Aug 18

    It's like, okay yes prepper but what if also watched a lot of Mister Rogers? *Sniffs the air* tornado's coming. *Goes into the garage* Time to be a real good neighbor.

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  11. Aug 17

    pitching full-week f2f school, no remote option, to young kids like "you'll get to see friends again, so that'll be cool, right" while trying not to let the inside screaming make it to the outside

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    Aug 11

    If you’re an educator reading this, your friendly disabled professor of Disability Studies hereby grants you the power to distribute accommodations to any student, for any reason, at any time, regardless of their affiliation with Disability Services, from now until you die.

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  13. Aug 13

    CORNELL: hello, faculty over whom I thought I had control even though I explicitly hired you for being irrepressibly outspoken in your field of expertise, what can i do for you today, and what are those knives for

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  14. Aug 13

    Remote work has been a pretty standard "reasonable accommodation" at Cornell for like a decade. And that was *before* it was deployed university-wide for over a year. Sometimes I wonder if the muckity-mucks realize we have an ILR school full of badass labor experts.

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    Aug 13

    Cornell won't approve disability-related requests to teach online

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  16. Aug 12

    Feeling less and less guilty about bailing the workforce every time Cornell University issues a new statement.

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    Aug 12

    Cornell University boldly telling disabled faculty to go screw themselves.

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  18. Aug 10

    ain't nobody gonna complain if you climb into that dumpster and "rescue" the weeded books, honey

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    Aug 8

    (tw: sexual assault) this is so good. 'You haven’t taught the Iliad since that day, but presumably you will have to again one day, and the thought is terrifying.'

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  20. Aug 5

    ME: I'm taking a year off career for *gestures broadly*. I'm not fully quitting; we'll see how the year goes. I still have choices. (enter DELTA VARIANT, CLIMATE CHANGE on one arm and AMERICAN "SUPPORT" SYSTEMS on the other. They stroll across the stage, laughing uproariously.)

    I wrote about a lot of people in my life — myself included — still feeling very very very tired
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  21. Aug 3

    masks are like underwear for your face nobody wants exposed to your private bits, please keep your breathing apparatus to yourself

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