#SFSU

[mrpaperbaghead]

[bebe-7]

17th Annual Edward Said Mural Celebration

(Gardens of Unification) 🇵🇸 ❤️‍🔥

San Francisco State

November 7th, 2024

I really love my friends. I love everyone in this photo so much. Every generation of organizers of the last standing GUPS chapter in the US...I love you with all of my heart. I am so grateful to have ever shared a dance floor with ya'll !!!!

[collegemascothell]

Tree miscarriage

[fogcam-moments]

The encampment is over as the students and staff succeeded in getting SFSU to divest from companies working with Israel on FogCam!. Solidarity to the students and staff.

[emcant]

I must go, my people need me

[onusisa]

[atcentral]

Summer 2024 courses now available in Canvas

Faculty can now access Summer 2024 courses by selecting the Courses button in the purple global navigation bar in Canvas, then selecting All Courses.

Support

If you have questions, please contact Academic Technology at at@sfsu.edu or 415-405-5555.

[sbstokes]

Whistling while he hums

there’s a blank day

just outside my

single-pane window

seems like every day off

is only half a day

gray and/or raining

at least

I inhale and exhale

at ease

my wife

right here

giving me

everything

it’s a good life

when we both

manage to find

a miraculous way

to relax

[mrpaperbaghead]

[allthegeopolitics]

California's San Francisco State University has begun the process of divesting from four weapons manufacturers currently involved in Israel's war on Gaza, in a move activists are describing as a "major victory" for Palestinian rights advocacy in the United States. The announcement by Students for Gaza SFSU comes at a crucial time for the student movement for Palestine, as several universities across the country look to punish and deter students from restarting pro-Palestinian advocacy on campuses, and social media companies like Meta look to censor pro-Palestine activism by student groups on their platforms.

Continue Reading.

[timslaughlin]

Tim's home in San Francisco

Based on his address, seen here:

Neighborhood:

20th Street is located in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. It is "serenely nestled in the middle of the Mission District". It is on the eastern side of San Francisco.

During the 1960s, Potrero Hill became a hub for many artists and members of the LGBT community. It was desirable for its location and affordable rent at the time. It was a thirteen minute bike ride from 20th Street to Castro-Mission Health Center.

Also, just some fun information: 20th Street is also a six minute car ride to San Francisco General Hospital. By foot, it's eighteen minutes. By bike, it's five minutes. I'll bet Jerome let Hawk borrow a bike so he could get there as fast as possible.

Congressional Districts:

From February 18, 1964 to January 3, 1975, his congressional district was the 5th district.

Then, due to redistricting in 1975, from January 3, 1975 to January 3, 1993, his congressional district was the 6th district.

During the 60s, 70s, and early 80s, his congressmen were brothers Phillip and John Burton. From 1983 and onward, his congresswoman was Barbara Boxer. All three of them were democrats.

State Senatorial Districts:

From January 2, 1967 to November 30, 1976, his senatorial district was the 9th district.

Due to redistricting in 1976, from December 6, 1976 to November 30, 1984, his senatorial district was the 5th district.

Due to redistricting again in 1984, from December 3, 1984 to November 30, 1996, his senatorial district was the 3rd district. His state senator was Milton Marks, who served as both a republican and democrat.

[madelynpryor]

chat what do you do when you randomly change your mind on where you wanna go to college and what you want to major in on a random wednesday after being certain you wanted to do something else for like 2 years

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[atcentral]

Reintroducing Learning Glass

Learning Glass is a video recording studio experience, allowing instructors to record a video with drawn visuals, similar to presenting with a whiteboard but without having your back to the camera. Some examples of content to be presented in this way would be complex math formulas, diagrams, or flow charts. Academic Technology is reintroducing this service to all faculty on campus as a new and exciting way to present instructional content.

For more information, or to book a Learning Glass session, instructors can visit https://at.sfsu.edu/learning-glass.

[infiniteglitterfall]

friggin faux-Palestinian history, istg

I'm in the middle of writing a post about the difficulties of pinning down details and dates in Palestinian history. This one is just me stopping to vent for a sec.

I came across the Wikipedia page for GUPS, the General Union of Palestinian Students. This is an organization with groups at colleges all over the world. Ish. It's shrunk over the decades.

The page made a bold claim: that GUPS was officially founded in Cairo in 1959, but had really started in the 1920s.

I called bullshit. The only source cited was a dead link to the 2010 version of the SFSU GUPS page, which said the same thing -- no context, no source, and especially, no explanation of how Palestinian student organizing could have started before there were colleges or universities in Palestine.

There were two. They were tiny. And they both taught in Hebrew.

Certainly, there could have been Arab Palestinian students there, who learned Hebrew there, or already knew it.

But were there so many that they started a student group that apparently lasted 35+ years before getting a name??

I could not find one other source for this.

So I deleted it and called bullshit.

Within a day, someone who wasn't even logged in reverted my edit. They told me that I hadn't proven that it was wrong, I'd just said it was illogical.

I started looking up sources and putting together a more detailed edit. In the meantime, I started a topic on the totally empty talk page, politely calling bullshit.

I said that I hadn't been able to find any sources in English OR Arabic that confirmed this claim, and that I thought it was an error made on a dead page.

The same person, now logged in, replied:

"you still haven't refuted the claim. the claim is still on their web page."

BRUH.

IT'S AN ARCHIVE OF A DEAD PAGE. BY DEFINITION, IT DOESN'T CHANGE.

This is exactly how it feels to research any of this stuff.

Every single time, it turns out that people's unsourced online bullshit is absolutely wrong.

Every single time, people just respond by insisting on believing whatever claim some rando made on the internet.

The problem is not that Palestinian history doesn't exist, hasn't been written down, or hasn't been researched. Of fucking course it has!!

(I have literally seen people claiming the contrary in the most wild-ass fucking ways. Supposedly-pro-Palestinian people, acting like Palestinians are wooby powerless fuzzy babbies whose books were all stolen by the cruel Jews 80 years ago, who had no way to replace that historic knowledge, and who have just been standing around ever since. It is the most Western Paternalism shit ever, and it absolutely drives me up the wall.)

The problem is that this is a topic that a lot of people are passionate about. And unfortunately, a whole lot of people are unwilling to back down on literally anything that "feels" pro-Palestinian to them, whether it's true or not.

It's purely going on Vibes, but the Vibes themselves are based on how something compares to the Vibes they get from social media and stuff.

And those vibes are so extreme and vehement that any kind of pushback sounds like You Love Genocide And Kill Babies For Fun.

It's just a fucking vicious spiral.

It's like playing tennis against the tennis-ball-throwing machine. It's not a real game. Nobody is engaging with you. It's just the same shit over and over.

(I was trying to type "shot." But apparently I swear so much that instead of autocorrecting me to "ducking hell," my phone now INSISTS I meant to cuss.)

I ended up getting Google to give me the Arabic for GUPS, and then digging for sources about its actual origin.

It turns out Yasser Arafat formed the Palestinian Students League in Cairo in 1949, and that became GUPS in 1956. This is entirely fucking unsurprising in any way if you know anything at all about actual Palestinian history. Of fucking course he did. This also explains why the first search result I found about GUPS was from the PLO. Of fucking course it was.