Proditorious Vermonster
@proditorious.bsky.social
Analyst/Educator/EdD Student trying his best to work through the noise of 1000 leaf blowers
Posting education, highered admin, unhinged data takes, & the joy of being a dad. Coastal Connecticut. Vermont when possible.
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Posting education, highered admin, unhinged data takes, & the joy of being a dad. Coastal Connecticut. Vermont when possible.
#IRWaterCooler
#academicsky
#edusky
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If your underwear gives you a wedgie completely on its own, that means you have agentic underwear.
February 2, 2026 at 9:11 PM
If your underwear gives you a wedgie completely on its own, that means you have agentic underwear.
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I just thought everyone should see this
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I just thought everyone should see this
Ack
I regret to inform you that more than half the entries in this feature on 'the best old music we discovered this year' are from the 2000s.
The best old music we discovered this year
Strange folk, lost pop, disco oddities and, um, Dido – here are the forgotten tracks that became this year’s most replayed revelations
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Ack
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You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
December 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
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Songs don’t save the world.
They save people.
…And people do the rest.
They save people.
…And people do the rest.
December 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Songs don’t save the world.
They save people.
…And people do the rest.
They save people.
…And people do the rest.
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The War on Christmas™️ has been a complete failure this year.
December 25, 2025 at 5:53 AM
The War on Christmas™️ has been a complete failure this year.
Michigander - Not So Merry Christmas (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by MichiganderVEVO
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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do you ever feel very intelligent when you catch song samples on the fly
December 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
do you ever feel very intelligent when you catch song samples on the fly
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
December 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Quick question: is higher education
a) a Rube Goldberg machine for sorting humans into a class structure
b) an upskilling program for future job havers
c) a way to armor a person’s mind & soul for an unpredictable/volatile world
d) a adult daycare that funds research
e) something else?
a) a Rube Goldberg machine for sorting humans into a class structure
b) an upskilling program for future job havers
c) a way to armor a person’s mind & soul for an unpredictable/volatile world
d) a adult daycare that funds research
e) something else?
December 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Quick question: is higher education
a) a Rube Goldberg machine for sorting humans into a class structure
b) an upskilling program for future job havers
c) a way to armor a person’s mind & soul for an unpredictable/volatile world
d) a adult daycare that funds research
e) something else?
a) a Rube Goldberg machine for sorting humans into a class structure
b) an upskilling program for future job havers
c) a way to armor a person’s mind & soul for an unpredictable/volatile world
d) a adult daycare that funds research
e) something else?
At this point the only way to get my inbox down to zero would be to switch jobs.
December 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
At this point the only way to get my inbox down to zero would be to switch jobs.
We are waaaaaaaay overdue for a very frank conversation about what exactly we are supposed to be getting out of listening to Radiohead
December 20, 2025 at 5:44 AM
We are waaaaaaaay overdue for a very frank conversation about what exactly we are supposed to be getting out of listening to Radiohead
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Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
This is such a massive bummer
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This is such a massive bummer
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is there a *mr* information?
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
is there a *mr* information?
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My body is a machine that turns “you saying a sentence with the slightest passing resemblance of a song lyric” into “me interrupting the conversation to sing that line of the song”
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
My body is a machine that turns “you saying a sentence with the slightest passing resemblance of a song lyric” into “me interrupting the conversation to sing that line of the song”
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Also. Here’s a pink snail that dances around your face that you didn’t ask for. We didn’t give you agency over your profile decoration because we think people really don’t like to make choices about how they present them selves to strangers and friends.
Bang up job #discord lol
Bang up job #discord lol
Love Discord being like "bro you didnt complete any quests this year" yeah man I dont know what those are and I'm working really hard not to have to learn
December 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Also. Here’s a pink snail that dances around your face that you didn’t ask for. We didn’t give you agency over your profile decoration because we think people really don’t like to make choices about how they present them selves to strangers and friends.
Bang up job #discord lol
Bang up job #discord lol
They don’t want you to know this, BUT if you don’t like a piece of candy in an assortment you don’t have to eat it.
Lemon Starbursts? - throw em out.
Yellow Sour Patch Kids? - in the bin.
Even your Regular Kids - don’t like one? Drop him off at the bus stop.
Lemon Starbursts? - throw em out.
Yellow Sour Patch Kids? - in the bin.
Even your Regular Kids - don’t like one? Drop him off at the bus stop.
December 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
They don’t want you to know this, BUT if you don’t like a piece of candy in an assortment you don’t have to eat it.
Lemon Starbursts? - throw em out.
Yellow Sour Patch Kids? - in the bin.
Even your Regular Kids - don’t like one? Drop him off at the bus stop.
Lemon Starbursts? - throw em out.
Yellow Sour Patch Kids? - in the bin.
Even your Regular Kids - don’t like one? Drop him off at the bus stop.
Alright. I’m just gonna say it. There’s too many kinds of Doritos.
December 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Alright. I’m just gonna say it. There’s too many kinds of Doritos.
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Ok, with this year being what it has, we all deserved and needed this today. Do yourself a favor and watch it. You deserve it.
David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Ok, with this year being what it has, we all deserved and needed this today. Do yourself a favor and watch it. You deserve it.
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Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
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how to bbq ribs on warp core
November 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
how to bbq ribs on warp core