extremely cursed

Existing disability services are deeply underfunded, aggressively audited, means-tested constantly, and can be labyrinthine to even access or maintain without assistance. As someone who spent two decades as a cog in that system, concerns about fraud are overblown compared to the real existing need.

Oooh. I want to see mine!

It's not a 100% solved issue, because kids can still be jerks. But the stuff that gets called bullying at my school is name calling and not sitting next to someone at lunch.

for generations scholars have debated which gender goes to college to get more knowledge, and which goes to Jupiter to get more stupider. in this essay i will...

End of semester/2025 vibes.

Want to know some concrete ways to support neurodivergent students in your classroom? These 5 practices can help decrease their stress and increase the likelihood of positive outcomes. 🌟 #EduSky

I do winter activities. If I can do it in January I can do it in December.

It’s a Mechanical Turk. It’s always a Mechanical Turk. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechani...

"But Mrs. Liang. Isn't AI the root of all evil?" 🤫

Hearing reports that some of you have not been informed that we are casting the net far and wide to determine the science fiction and fantasy favorites of the year. Here's me amending that:

Oh, and while I’m here showing off my deep wounds due to institutional failure: difficulty reading is a sign of both executive dysfunction and emotional dysregulation AND it is a symptom of long COVID, so every incredulous thread about the Youths not wanting to read makes me want to scream.

I have not stepped foot in a Target all year. The only money I’ve spent was from gift cards that I got from students and I didn’t spend it on myself. If only we could show the same discipline about Chikfila.

This week is going to be banana pants. I'm starting off today with some routine assignments just to ease us back. I have some craft projects scheduled for later, after we've reestablished routines.

Predicability, flexibility, connection and empowerment help to reestablish safety. Days after break: reset routines/norms, provide choices for engagement, reestablish feeling of "I see you & care about you," and encourage students to self-assess needs/set goals for the weeks ahead.

Today is the anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Not only did the law literally open doors to countless students with disabilities (myself included), it also had the unintended consequence of creating the moral panic around an autism "epidemic." 🧵 1/

Sick burn

Oh noooooo

I’m starting to believe if you’re an educator and you voted for this administration, it’s time to see your way out of the classroom.

And I swear, once again, this is not dunking on kids. We are seeing this at all levels--even grad students. AI + social media has had a profound impact on how we think and process our world, and we can't stop to reflect on it, because billionaires keep hurling addictive tech at us.

sometimes i think the correct answer is to just go hard in the other direction

These are rookie numbers.

52%? Good lord.

Hey @profanity.accountant. How much have I shamed my family this year?

Seen on Reddit: "42 is just old people 6 7" And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.

Abraham Lincoln, 1855. www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

Fantastic essay.

This tracks. I follow several things on FB purely because they are the best sources of local news. Local city pages, etc.

how is babby formed

This fight over “should authors get paid for their work” debate boils down to this: many, MANY people do not see art as labor. If art isn’t labor, then you don’t have to change your political views to justify piracy. Easy peasy!

gleefully shouting "no ethical consumption under capitalism" while i ask chatgpt for the closest chik fil a locations

HUGE COMMUNITY SIGNPOSTING LIST SUPPORTING AUTISTIC/ NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE. Neuro-affirming advocates, orgs, charities, social media pages and more.... ! autisticrealms.com/nothing-abou...

If you're mad that it's difficult to have an objective and nuanced conversation about the pros and cons of AI your beef is with the developers and promoters of this tech who deliberately made that impossible because they benefited from the irrational hype!

We live in the dumbest timeline.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Creating Home Alone style booby traps by the front door so that I remember that thing I promised to bring to work tomorrow.

The only proven treatments for ADHD are either uppers or coming up with increasing elaborate ways to trick yourself.

I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world And by design LLMs destroy shared context

Gently pushing back on this. One of the things we learned with search is that people are absolutely need a way to anonymously ask “dumb questions“ and get information without judgement. Autocomplete is full of questions about sexuality, gender and health topics. But AI is the worst way to do this.

As an author, I don't make a whole lot of money, but at the same time I need to read a lot of books to stay aware of trends and support my fellow authors. Obviously if I spend all my profits on other people's books, I'm not coming out ahead! So: ways to read lots of indie books for cheap.

This is not Chinese thanksgiving. Chinese Thanksgiving is when you are all stuffed full of turkey, potato salad and pie and your MIL makes you all eat an entire cantaloupe.

Myin laws learned how to celebrate thanksgiving from a black woman that worked in their restaurant. So Mac and cheese and potato salad are both required dishes for them. Plus, they do a smoked turkey. It’s honestly great.

An interesting take away is that the only subg population rising in FCS is special needs. This is a group that is very expensive to serve and most private/ charter schools are not equipped to deal with. I work at a private special needs school and our tuition is very high.

We moved my disabled brother in with us a few years ago. Now we host all holidays so he doesn’t have to travel. I enjoy hosting and he doesn’t have to deal with the discomfort of being in places that aren’t set up for his needs.

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In case you aren’t angry enough, ICE kidnapped an autistic teenager who had been reported missing by his mother. They held him for 48 days, including during emergency surgery for which his mother was barely allowed to visit during.

Hasbro recalled the Easy Bake Oven when kids got their fingers stuck in the oven doors. What are we doing?

Sandy Springs PD performs more high speed chases than any other municipality in metro Atlanta. By a significant number. But none of the mayoral or city council candidates I contacted about this responded.

Nothing makes you want to firebomb your insurance company like taking someone shopping for a new wheelchair.