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Funny, his number has been “88” for quite some time now. Never meet your heroes.

Chocolate rationing is literally the foodstuff used in Orwell’s “1984” to illustrate dystopian experience.

I’m going to actually try this

Going to actually try this

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

I speak the password primeval .... I give the sign of democracy;

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

Closing #GOP midterms message: 1. All brown people are bad. 2. All white people are good. 3. Raping kids is fine & then that child can’t run for office later. 4. Billionaires need more $. 5. Gas & grocery prices are fine. 6. Trans kids impact your life deeply. 7. Putin is amazeballs. #Vote

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

That’s not what begs the question means

Anything by my high school English teacher, Mark Halliday. Here’s one, “A Kind of Reply”— www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Behold, a success in the attempt.

This is education. And they want me to stop this so some $18Bn private equity group can constantly “test” my students all year long.

By golly it’s a trolley

Watching my sons, both college age now, back home and joyfully playing Switch 2 Basketball on the console I’d bought.

Something I wish more people would realize.

I read Watership Down when I was a very young hyperlexic child. Would sport this as a tattoo.

All admin should be on the teaching schedule as co-teaching a class and therefore at least on the hook for policies in their school, even if they generally do not show up to teach the class.

This is as Nancy as any original Nancy comic I’ve ever read. The timing, the humor…

So much of the policy talk around #education has so deeply absorbed the 1982 Reagan “A Nation at Risk” EdReform agenda — 44 years in, that agenda has only worsened things. Which was the point, I think.

Sad thing is, the libraries don’t exist any more, so they are also now a fairy tale in many school districts.

Huh. Going back years by any chance?

I’m overdue for my yearly listen to Trout Mask Replica

So…Yale should be limited to 35% white, given New Haven’s demographics: Race and Ethnicity • Hispanic or Latino: 31.0% • White (Non-Hispanic): 29.0% – 35.1% • Black or African American: 29.5% • Asian: 5.3% • Two or More Races / Other: ~10% Is that what we are saying?

Good morning. Good stuff in Benjamin’s share here but it misses the elephant in the room - corporate capture - and generally seems to imagine that this is all just politics, rhetoric, region, and discourse.

fabulous rumors naturally grow out of the very body of all surprising terrible events,—as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi

Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.

new york forever. FUCK ICE.

I often include this image after my rants on the educator group text I’m in.

Thank you for this reporting, the first place I’ve seen Alpha’s homeschooling kitchen-table-school roots discussed. I’m a public ed supporter, but I see the diversity and variety offered by homeschooling as a good thing. A vision of billion students plugged into Alpha’s AI is certainly not that.

now you know

Ironically, as a public school teacher, I am expected to be entirely responsible for the behavior conduct of my class, its engagement, and learning outcomes. A mask requires more focus from students, and I cannot afford to expect that from them, and would get no support for it from admin.

Iran's LIVE 24/7 Trump is in JAIL Billboard in Tehran.

Not every disability is visible. Every person deserves to be heard, respected, and included. 💙 During Invisible Disabilities Awareness Week, consider this: a UK Parliament research briefing estimates that 70–80% of disabilities are invisible (Kelly amp; Mutebi, 2023).

As usual, there's an XKCD for exactly this... xkcd.com/221/

the story goes like this

Invader Dim

Nice internet ya got there, pal. Shame if anything happened to it.

The Eddie Murphy “The Nutty Professor”

Slop for my faily

What a time to be an educator

local AI guy who could "finally focus on the higher level ideas" now asking AI to come up with some ideas

Ali G still got it. Master of the House.