Kelsey Breseman 🍎 // mastodon: @[email protected]

Call for papers on civic science! sciencepolicyjournal.org/jspgcivicscien…

@shreyasunshine6 @OlinCollege Here are some of the original ideas! Had to scope down since it was just a co-curricular... but if you want to try and teach it with me as a learning lab, lmk! docs.google.com/document/d/1Vz…

Was an absolute delight to teach co-curricular Practical Civics at my alma mater @OlinCollege this semester. So proud of my students for thinking about power, activism, and theories of change while working directly with local orgs on housing, abortion, and river conservation. ✊

Join me at @GETDWeb Camp this summer! youtube.com/watch?v=zx7Ddu…

(we'll see)

This is going well, @Instacart

Not really one to recommend products but I feel the people need to know you can get a massage-chair like effect without actually getting a whole massage chair and it's really effective: amazon.com/Zyllion-Back-N…

@edsaperia Strategy. Spoons is the perfect example: you get so wrapped up in the fast-paced activity that you forget to focus on the goal of the game, creating a tension that makes a game that should be terribly dull endlessly fun.

If you made a game that required a mix of reaction-speed and strategic decisionmaking, would you rather the high level meta was focused on speed or on strategy?

"The fire hoses were only one kind of pressure knocking people down. The marches were only one of the ways that people stood up." Imani Perry, South to America

Again for ppl in the back: "If Controlled Digital Lending sought to provide an alternative pathway for the possession and use of digital books, it did so only after a new, highly constrained marketplace arose that disadvantages the mission of #libraries." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

@thebmbennett oof that's a deep cut

going to implement the “my year of rest and relaxation” method to speed run through this last year of my twenties so i can finally safely be in my thirties

Help! Im going to talk on a panel about the Twitter API paywall. My plan is to frame it as an obstacle for social movements, of course pointing to Mastodon at the end, but any other data justice-oriented points I can make?

NEPOTISM IN THE EXECUTIVE OFFFCE: Not only is Harrell paying his bestie $280k to tank popular transit infrastructure, his executive office has been using sweeps to line the pockets of a city employee. Is anyone else concerned by this??? publicola.com/2023/04/03/com…

At the same time, actually handling the thing is disconcerting. You can’t place a single tile without thinking about it. You feel like a Borges protagonist exploring some cursed map, dropped at random on a vast alien planet. Your mind can’t grip it. Eldritch geometry.