In case anyone didn’t believe in the literacy crisis among the kids, my eighth graders loudly complained about being given a six page story and it took many of them about an hour and a half to read it. And then lots of them said they didn’t get very basic things in the story. And I’m so tired.

It’s honestly shocking how often I am just casually reading and then people eating gluten free catches a stray with some snarky comment in the narrative. If I wasn’t already invested, this celiac would dnf because WHY do we need to make fun of what people eat???

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Absolutely head over heels for episode five of Heated Rivalry. I can’t help but react as loudly and as giddily as possible to this show.

Shockingly, this bill would have failed were it not for the 3 Democrat defections.

Cutting nearly 50 kids from the musical, some of them students I absolutely adore as people, makes my heart hurt. I should feel relieved to be done. Instead I’m just thinking of how they are going to feel and hating myself a little.

When I take Enigma to the vet she tells me she hates me. When I take Ro she screams like I’m hurting her. I don’t know which is worse.

I want to stay home so badly bc I was at work until 6:30 for auditions last night… But I keep reminding myself it’s only four more days and I don’t want to write sub plans. But oh my god I don’t want to have to go to work and then rush home to take my cat to the vet. I want to relax!!!

Two and a half hours of middle school musical auditions later, I am collapsed on my couch. And we’ll do it again on Monday.

My freshly arrived boox palma, here to help keep me reading more and on my phone less ✨

My brain rn just constantly like “you should knit a sweater”.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

“[Book banners] do not want safe children -- they want obedient children, and they think they can accomplish that by deciding what books are allowed to be on the shelf.”

I have convinced myself that if I had a boox palma I would read way more than doom scroll bc I could just carry it around everywhere. I’ve also convinced myself that if I got the color one, I’d finally actually catch up on my webtoons. Probably neither of these are true but still.

I hate this. transparent example of how these self-serving comemierdas make a point of appropriating the language around every effort towards strong pluralistic humane societies, not only using it to attack those efforts but diluting it in hopes that it can't be used for its original purpose.

The canned curriculum we are required to implement just emailed me about their new AI tools. I’m serious that in the next couple years, we will be forced to use and teach with AI or they’ll threaten our jobs. They want to be able to replace us. And the kids will be the victims.

Just learned about Félicette the space cat and it’s unironically ruining my night bc not only did she deserve better, she also looks like my first baby. My one named after the stars.

It is completely normal to sulk because an eighth grader told you that another eighth grader said that you do too much. Very normal.

begging with my entire heart for election results across the map which force the Dems to finally begin internalizing the lesson that throwing trans people under the bus is going to fuck them repeatedly

idk why this concept is difficult to grasp for a lot of people and doesn't take priority over wether or not liking wizards makes you a good person. Dont give her money! The money funds evil! its truly that simple

one of the greatest joys in this life is to buy a piece of art from another queer

Arguing with my cat like I know, how dare I care about your health enough to take you to regular vet visits. Do you know how much these vet visits cost me? It would be so much cheaper to not care about your health. But I do. And instead of thanking me, you hiss and growl at me. Because how dare I.

Last week, PEN America released its fourth annual report on the state of book banning and censorship in America, and I learned that Last Night at the Telegraph Club was the fourth most banned book in schools during the 2024-25 school year. How do I feel about it? www.malindalo.com/blog/2025/10...

Made this for a coworker friend’s upcoming baby. Feedback upon receipt: “I love it! I would have loved it even if it wasn’t good, but it’s actually really good.” And “I’m not sure my wife will let the baby have it. It might just be hers. Looks like her cat, you know. Did you somehow see our cat?”

the world is better because it has trans people in it

Apparently the answer to “hey, I’m suffering with what seems like a bunch of new allergies” is not “let’s refer you to the allergy department to get help” but rather “take antihistamines all the time and hope for the best”.

Come to terms with the fact that my grandmother is not calling on my birthday this year. Again.

much as i probably agree w/ what this piece probably says ... as a trans journalist, it just feels like gaslighting at this point, abusive behavior, these sorts of takes coming from the nyt itself — in light of this publication's *active and ongoing and devoted* contribution to the actual problem.

Sometimes you’re like why am I feeling so off today and then you get punched in the gut remembering that your grandfather died exactly a decade ago and then the next day you drove all the way to college and moved into your sophomore apartment and didn’t tell anyone so you never grieved.

Leafeon and Glaceon are a married couple ❤️🏳️‍🌈 (me and my spouse)

One of those days where I have things I could do on my prep, but I’m so tired that none of them are immediate enough to deal with.

Things that will be the death of me: crocheting my mom a set of coasters. I can do a stuffed animal in a couple of hours. Making four coasters? Literally feels like a never ending task.

"In the 1950s, the targets were individual teachers—communists, progressives, liberals—and their left-wing unions. Now the target is the system itself."

exhibit 183193 in "nobody running big corporations has a single fucking clue about selling things" betty crocker shrank their cake boxes instead of raising prices and now a huge % of recipes that use them no longer work. meaning there's no point in buying a mix at all.

before/after they found out the shooter was a white man, raised loving guns his entire life by mormon parents is a tone shift for the ages

Please don’t post AI shit, even if you mean it kindly. I will never be happy to see it.

No grading got done today. Low grade fever most of the day. Means I have two classes to grade tomorrow… Fingers crossed the fever stays away fully.

First cold of the school year but I have grading to do :(

at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.

Genocide. We all need to keep collectively calling it exactly what it is. Especially us cis folks. When they’re done gunning for the most vulnerable groups they’ll just go after the next most vulnerable and won’t stop because they never stop. Thats what hatred is. It’s Genocide, plain and simple.

students today loved my genAI policy (the one that includes the phrase "a fascist environmental catastrophe disguised as a plagiarism machine") and then proceeded to dish disdainfully on their other profs who are pro-AI. HEY PROFS GUESS WHAT? 18 year olds are making fun of you for your AI boosterism

(before i get yelled at) I support Newsom's electoral map plan. But he's also stood in the way of any AI oversight in this state, and that AI is dependent upon an infrastructure of environmental devastation. Hes a complicated figure and I think it's good, actually, to be real about that!

I need someone smarter than me to write about the connection btwn the ongoing Flint water crisis, the pipeline through Standing Rock, and AI data centers that are polluting public water in TN and TX. Obv the systemic racism of it, but also the bipartisan support; lookin at you Big Gretch! Newsom!

Every damn day, I see people who are mad that they decided to write a book and it was too hard so they “brainstormed” and that doesn’t count as AI use I started taking writing seriously in 1999. I got my book offer in 2016. Artists start as kids and draw for decades. There are other pursuits. Go.

“A blanket content-based prohibition on materials, rather than one based on individualized curation, hardly expresses any intentional government message at all. Slapping the label of government speech on book removals only serves to stifle the disfavored viewpoints,” he wrote.