Theric Jepson

I started here, travelling from thread to thread---no end of retweetable observations. But it seems cleaner just to share where I started and let you explore on your own. Have fun!

A tough thing in explaining to people why having children is enjoyable is that all the bad stuff is very easy to explain (lost sleep, lost time, more sickness, less sex, etc. etc.) whereas most of the really good stuff whispers.

I am 100% in favor of people who don't want kids not having kids, but watching your kids play on the beach on a day where all your responsibilities are asleep is a peak human experience of a type you will struggle to get elsewhere.

"Children are a product and we produce the best ones."

Is there a way to get this update sans the ai features?

I would expect nothing less from turkeys.

Something I wish more people would realize.

I haven't watched a full MLB game since the A's left Oakland. What a game to come back for!

Or another line: “Give a city a generation in chains, they'd complain about cold wrists if you unshackled them.” The book is filled with lines like that.

Yes. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

Listen. You stay the HELL AWAY from my car.

Worthy cause. I gave a measely four pounds but then I am poor(ish) and live 6000 miles away.

Hmm. Probably one of these two:

This is a nice metaphor for many slices of discourse.

This is a pretty solid mix. Ten books I've read before (including some I dearly love), some books I've long meant to read, some I'm vaguely aware of, and some I've never even heard of.

Most curriculum experts I've met were in the classroom just long enough to claim they had teaching experience. Four or five (or two) years teaching ten or twenty years ago shouldn't be so impressive to people.

Great news from my last trip to Costco. It's back.

Found my Halloween costume

shoutout to Michaela Godding for turning HAD rejections into a HAD pub! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/pla...

"A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut" is quite the title.

Careful what you ask for: www.smbc-comics.com

Not until 1934 will beautiful box sets start appearing.....

Still respects the movement without choosing a new participant to place above the others.

Which should I watch this afternoon?

Don't care what nonsense the new season of Sold a Story is peddling, but it's been great at getting smart teacher people reposted into my feed. I don't talk a lot about teaching here but I'm a twenty-year veteran of the classroom and baby I have opinions.

Listen to the kids:

Support your local library. Don't let them be tricked into scamming you.

@whaleroadreview.bsky.social Did you know your site's down?

Inside the humanities we’re slowly losing our minds as we shout this til we’re hoarse—of course education in the name of ROI is an ideological project! Of course, treating knowledge as a content strategy results in bullshit! Still bracing to read this eloquent call to close the business schools

Started a VC fund that pays gifted, motivated young people to drop out of kindergarten and start a business. I’m proud to announce that Really BIG Fire Truck That Flies And It Has A Dinosaur is coming out of stealth mode (it also has a stealth mode).

I'm here to testify that you can write something, let it sit for a bit, come back and read it again and have a new idea without the LLM backboard firing it back at you like hitting a tennis ball against the garage. I try not to gainsay the process others use, but this is what is being described.

found this writer online, got my library to order her book, now i get to read it. it really is that easy to support writers and costs nothing

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." S Scott F

To be honest, the only Narnia movie are want are The Silver Chair and The Horse and His Boy.

Aint no drama like Pigorn drama

"Because there are no monocultures there are no subculures because there's nothing to rebel against." ---- Ric Beato

Rhiannon Giddens has a new album out, incidentally.

Digger's gonna be gone before I can get to a theater, isn't it?