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Eric Daryl Meyer

@ericdaryl@mas.to
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Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.). 


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Joined November 08, 2022
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A book I wrote::
Inner Animalities: Theology and the End of the Human (2018). https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823280155/inner-animalities/
A website::
https://www.ericdarylmeyer.com

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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · Jul 28, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

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Replying to @inthehands@hachyderm.io
@inthehands@hachyderm.io yes it is! And, imo, the best of it isn’t the smug pot shots.
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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · Jul 21, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

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I wish I had another way to get things done besides stress and anxiety… My go-to source of motivation is urgency and anxiety. It works in the sense that I get shit done. But it makes me miserable at the same time.

It’s like I have an asshole boss inside my head who keeps me going with threats and abuse…

Seems like there’s probably a better way, less likely to lead to burnout.

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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · May 11, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

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Replying to @RussSharek@mastodon.art
@RussSharek@mastodon.art I stole it from some person more clever than me!
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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · May 11, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

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Replying to @jackryder@infosec.exchange
@jackryder@infosec.exchange @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org @Sempf@infosec.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange “signal-shaped noise” is my favorite handle so far.
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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · May 07, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

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My mid-semester anti-AI ranting and raving seems to have worked! I’ve now marked two classes worth of final papers and only had one that smelled like robot feces. 🙂

Still planning to rework my process / policies around writing assignments over the summer.

#teaching #grading

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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · May 06, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

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Life hack:

I’ve got ChatGPT tuned up to my voice and praying for me at a rate of thousands of petitions per second. Gonna have the blessings rolling in no time and sweet heaven when I die. So much praying, so efficient.

And I get to skip all the “thinking of what to say,” and “my knees hurt,” and “patiently listening for spiritual guidance” parts!

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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · May 05, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

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Replying to @belehaa@wandering.shop
@belehaa@wandering.shop …and a big part of the problem (which generates “helpful solutions!™”) are assumptions that vastly overestimate the number of people for whom one teacher can effectively encourage / develop / assess careful, critical thinking.
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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · May 05, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

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Grading final exams. I can reassure those of you who worry about this sort of thing that Gen Z has not abandoned cursive.

…but maybe they should.

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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · May 05, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

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I made saag from scratch this evening. I’m sure that I botched by the standard of anyone’s Indian grandma, but it hit the spot as far as my Barbarian standards are concerned. The chopping is the only step that takes real time… probably make it again soon.

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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · May 04, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

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Grumpy as hell at the moment. And hurt. And lonely. Feel like all the people who are closest to me, the people that I care the most about, are all doing their best to avoid spending time with me as much as possible. And my brain is in a place where I don’t blame them. Plenty of negative self talk to make sense of it all…

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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · Apr 29, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

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Replying to @MedeaVanamonde@beige.party
@MedeaVanamonde@beige.party @farah@beige.party @LRRRonEarth@beige.party “beeeeooooOOOOOOO tsk tsk tsk fwappita fwappita fwappita HONK”
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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · Apr 28, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

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Replying to @LRRRonEarth@beige.party
@LRRRonEarth@beige.party No one is in pain when they are dead. Thano-therapy has a very high success rate. …not very many positive yelp reviews though.
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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · Apr 25, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

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Replying to @Fuzz_Ra@kind.social
@Fuzz_Ra Perfect use of a summer afternoon!
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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · Apr 25, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

mas.to
Replying to @Fuzz_Ra@kind.social
@Fuzz_Ra This feels very much like a toot that was part of a thread and got lost, left out on its own. But on second thought, in this form, the medium and the message are 🤝.
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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · Apr 21, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

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Replying to @nathanlovestrees@disabled.social
@nathanlovestrees …meet strawbarry
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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · Apr 17, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

mas.to
Replying to @mia@cathode.church
@mia@cathode.church We also need to disambiguate these Butlerian Jihads from the 1847 uprising in Victorian England in which dozens of valets, with perfectly synchronized timing, murderously turned upon their employers. They had communicated their disdain through more subtle means for months, but the entitled rich never caught the full meaning of the raised eyebrows and well-timed coughs until it was too late.
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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · Mar 15, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

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Replying to @ericdaryl@mas.to
Having the “did you write this paper? because I don’t think you wrote this paper…” conversation is not fun for anyone.
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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · Mar 15, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

mas.to
Replying to @ericdaryl@mas.to
Yes… in discussing “son of God” as a title in Mark, it does make sense to discuss the introduction, the baptism at the Jordan, and the Centurion’s confession at the crucifixion. But first year students just don’t pick out those three key moments and put them all in one paragraph. …much less three students in one class. Catching the AI writing is not hard kids. Dealing with the aftermath is where the pain hits the ass.
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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · Mar 15, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

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I have a rash of AI written papers in the stack I’m grading. ☹️ The assignment is a historical critical analysis of two ancient texts. Besides the not-an-undergrad writing style, the giveaway on these AI parts relative to the gospel of Mark is that all of these papers use the same three passages as examples in the same order… in ways that UG students just don’t.

[edited a typo]

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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · Mar 13, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

mas.to
Replying to @eedly@mindly.social
@eedly@mindly.social That was kind of him! I’ll bet he was hard to ignore when he was on your chimney vent.
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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · Mar 12, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

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Replying to @mrundkvist@archaeo.social
@mrundkvist@archaeo.social 🤘🏽 🎸
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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · Mar 12, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

mas.to

A small thing making me happy this spring:

The Northern Flickers in my neighborhood (think: woodpecker’s cousin) have figured out that if they rap their bills on the top of the street lamps it makes a great noise that travels far. They seem to be using it as a supplement to their usual calls. So, walking to school I’ll hear four or five Flickers alternating between vocal calls and street lamp percussion. 🥁
#birds #tools #drums

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Eric Daryl Meyer @ericdaryl@mas.to · Feb 17, 2026
Eric Daryl Meyer
@ericdaryl@mas.to

Usually: scrawling on paper, moving minds, picking a mandolin, pushing a paintbrush, or lost in the hills. Compelled to sell my labor, I teach about religion, ecology, and animal-human tangles in central Montana (U.S.).

mas.to
Replying to @phooky@hexa.club
@phooky Student: “Sorry, my paper is a little messy” Me: uh… why is your bag dripping on the floor? Student: welcome to the future, prof. [dumps 40 crabs on my desk]
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