I‘m in the sandwich generation: I serve as tech support for both my gen-z students and my octogenarian parents (thank you, David, for your service)

Like culture posts on this app simply don’t get the engagement and I think it’s because people feel it’s frivolous and actually it’s the thing we are fighting for, the freedom to make culture and cultural works

I am becoming an angry person. I don’t want to be an angry person, so I am particularly angry at people for making me an angry person

It's exhausting living through an entire verse of "We Didn't Start the Fire" every day.

I am thinking a lot about the idea of the art of the well-crafted question that directs & opens up — both as a teacher and in games — because I spent this last week keenly aware of the magic of that specific mechanic. Aligned w/ TTRPGs as a kind of invested conversation, a way of looking-closely.

We have to survive to meet the day of victory, or else all our people who have died died in vain. OBVIOUSLY MORE COMPLICATED but that's part of it.

I'm not going to quote post because I don't want to dog pile. But when people say, "don't heckle the staff," this isn't 2010. We're not talking about normal people choosing normal govt staffing jobs. This is 2026 where we're kidnapping foreign officials and building concentration camps.

I talked to college students and a big chunk of this conversation centered on how white people are uncomfortable being uncomfortable but I don't know what to tell you. POC live in fucking discomfort and like in my early 30s I made a pledge to spread that discomfort around.

My phone autocomplete offered CREAM after I typed ICE and man, wouldn't it be amazing if that's what I was talking about? 🍦

the thing about running my own work day and business is that i work really weird hours so that i can do art and the other things that i actually want to do i recently told my therapist that i finally found the balance between art, reading and friends and it involves not having a job

Folks, it does not matter how much you teach critical thinking or information literacy, if your students don’t have a solid base of actual knowledge it doesn’t matter at all. A smartphone and internet access is not a substitute for actually knowing things. That was true when Google worked.

And not to be histrionic, but the book that the article is discussing (Picky, by Helen Zoe Veit) is a classic example of survivors bias and will absolutely do damage to folks with ARFID, food aversions, and the neurodivergent.

All this, plus people with food aversions have existed throughout human history and simply died in childhood because of an inability to meet their needs. It still happens.

When a company in an industry built on hype tells you that a use case is a bad idea—and actually dangerous—that means it’s a *catastrophically* bad idea.

guy with a lab coat? No thanks guy with a technicolor dreamcoat? Hell yes

peer reviews? no thanks. how about weird reviews

This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.

I have made peace with the typo in my post. It is not tormenting me with each repost and comment. I am not haunted by it. I can rise above the shame.

A broader takeaway I think is nobody should be allowed to be so rich that being told no, or being held accountable, represents such a moral injury to that person's psyche that they feel like their only recourse is to burn the world down.

Nightmare—this is the inevitable outcome of attacking vaccines and building a system predicated on the denial of preventative care.

Even though I wasn't a fan of how Season 4 began, I ended up enjoying the season way more than I thought. Rob Rausch actually saved the season. #TheTraitorsUS

This is a frame that people really like about a certain kind of conservative woman (always white) - she is nice - she is a problem solver - she has a conscience (but always follows The Rules) - she softens and sells cruelty as safety - she talks "tough" using household language

And yet this violence towards disabled people (especially disabled people of color) is a part of the very foundations of what the US is and always has been. Violence that is only ever exacerbated when it is disabled poc immigrants. Three intertwined axes for hatred and violence.

Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.

Today's reprint is Rebecca Epstein-Levi's piece on how remote learning can be a lifeline for many marginalized folks: "Thinking creatively about remote interaction helps us think about pedagogical models that work across distance—and how those models might work in all educational contexts."

8yo is preparing discussion questions for the first meeting. Question one: “Do you think cholera could spread further and that we could get it?”

The people behind Wakefield are presumably gone. The people behind profound autism discourse are still there.

1) still mad at the lancet 2) they went in on “profound autism” not long ago which ALSO is a MAHA op

When it comes to dating I think you’ve gotta be open to meeting someone anywhere in the world. It’s all about sample size, baby.

Britt is merely a token and a toady. The administration will never give women like her real power, but they want us to think they will, because it makes them seem less dangerous and misogynistic than they actually are. And women like Britt accept this bargain for the perks of proximity to power.

I travelled to a different city, to view a flat, to start a new life. I went to a cafe for a cup of tea and to soak up a new environment. I stuck to my resolution to not have my music on, but listen to the rhythms. I ended up sat next to some academics, talking about funding and epistemology. 🤦‍♀️

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here's my proposed platform for dems in 2026: 1. we do not throw trans people under the bus 2. we do not throw red states under the bus 3. WE DO NOT THROW ANYBODY UNDER THE FUCKIN BUS WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU 4. war crimes tribunals

The way people are like "screens are bad for you" is the way I imagine some folks years ago were like "books are bad for you".

I am now indulging in only joy the rest of the night. I just opened my sticker order from Plan It With Stickers and it's amazing, photos later. Next: Pub Cheeseball! After that, new wax in my Scentsy warmers. Then reading. hahahahahahah

Every relationship needs at least one person who is funny and at least one person who knows what a Roth IRA is.

Putting all of these good pre-John XXIII references in here, just to make it clear this isn't some "woke Vatican II" stuff.

There are a lot of interesting things in here but to see the USCCB come after the most famous/awful decision from the Taney court was a nice moment for me.

been trying to only use one screen at a time to be slightly less _chronically online_ and this is concerningly difficult

this is a thing that i have been working on with some Hennepin County officials, trying to find revenue because if HCMC closes it would be catastrophic for the region i feel strongly that team owners should finance their own stadiums, I have other words for the feds that I shouldn't post online

One way to avoid burning yourself out during times of stress is not repeatedly touching a hot stove when there's absolutely no reason for you to touch it as it is not your job and nothing of value is cooking on the stove

Five members of the US Men’s Gold Medal Hockey team have refused Trump’s White House invitation. Four of them are from Minnesota. This is how you resist. You don’t participate in misogynistic locker room talk. You don’t disparage other members of your sport. You don’t visit fascists.

“I’m not the Vox Phantasma of the mall.” 🛍️🌙

its even more embarrassing when you're actually a college professor

I love when people are like “this isn’t an autism thing, this is just a human trait” as if autistic folks are what? Ferrets?

lol

what even is the fucking point

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