It's important to have fun with your student check-ins.

This is also why we train. It's not all about hardcore swole lifestyles, broccoli heads, and 4500 kcals, it's about building and maintaining physical confidence and mobility.

me: can you make the bluesky app work OpenAI’s coding agent: Sasquatch, Godzilla, King Kong, Loch Ness, a goblin, a ghoul, a zombie with no conscience

Cis friends, two important things you can do for trans people right now: 1. Loudly tell both the State and your neighbors that gender-affirming care is necessary and lifesaving (for trans adults AND youth) 2. Help us access that care At the moment, my friend Dawn could really use your help 🖤

I’m sorry I can’t stop talking about this but how can one not know that cheating on someone who watches Shonen anime all day is setting yourself up for Time Skip levels of Yep This Beef Is Still Going On

To you--personality-wise--is it more important/telling to know someone's - favorite dinosaur? - favorite sea creature? - favorite cryptid? Or is this a Sun, Moon, Ascendant situation? Reskeet, explain, and provide examples. Thanks!

The dentist Amazon on Themyscira wields the Lasso of Tooth

This month, I read Andrew Joseph White's YOU WEREN'T MEANT TO BE HUMAN. This blog feels like a key to that novel, how societal conditions affect individual lives and the need for collective reform. Also of note: this blog and its entry on the saola show how they both fail to thrive in captivity

"They’re the only extant primates with a purely carnivorous diet. They can climb trees and vines within hours of being born. Their potential for suicide is such a small piece of their lives. Just because it’s an extreme behaviour doesn’t mean it’s the only one that matters."

One of my freshmen just told me they're tryna find a secondhand Mindless Self Indulgence album. The audible shock I let out. I was listening to them when I was in high school, downloading mp3s off Audiogalaxy

Letterboxd needs to add a little marijuana leaf button you can add to indicate the lens your review should be seen through

should i buzz him in?

I'm still eternally thinking about this

I know it'll never happen because this isn't what the industry wants, but every student tool that offers AI assistance should immediately put a watermark that shows that AI was used. I'm so tired of being like, "Is this eloquent phrasing or plagiarism?"

I come to you today, a humble comic writer, beseeching the fine folks of Bluesky to nominate MR. MUFFINS for a Ringo Award. ringoawards.com

You should write your book now so you can write it without having to write it for the rest of your life after that

The AP lit teacher next door to me is doing a song analysis task with her students where they choose a track and analyze its messages, figurative language, etc. Tell me why I hear "Never Gonna Give You Up" blasting from her room

Really loving the art here, and I can think of few other comics that center Blackness and the Elderly

(reading horoscope that tells me something I don't want to acknowledge) good thing these aren't real and I can ignore that

Hello. I just found out that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”, and now I need you lot to know that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”. youtu.be/voqCQSDAcn8

My freshmen will ask me, "Did you put in the lesson that we're supposed to finish the book?" And it's like, 1. I just gave you that book yesterday 2. You can literally just pull up the agenda and find out 3. No, that would be ridiculous and you wouldn't do it anyway 4. Do you think I am a monster?

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.) This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

I am in many ways an advocate of Mundane Afrofuturism rhizome.org/editorial/20...

I’m reading War and Peace, and you know, probably a lot more people would read it if they knew just how extremely cunty the dialogue is

A student describing me: "He's like that mentor guy from Star Wars"

What... what is the thing with the wings in the sky there

all of the artemis II crew are public school kids. isn't it incredible what you can do with a well-funded, free education system that offers equitable opportunities to all kids, regardless of their socioeconomic background?

REAL - dashare.zone ADMIN

It is good and ok to watch a movie 30 minutes at a time like a TV show after you put your kid to bed

Me: "What are y'all's good things today?" L: "I get to have a sleepover with my best friend!" Me: "Exciting! What are you going to sleep?" L: "...what?" Me: "What." Every teacher has a ridiculous bit that they do. One of mine is using nonsensical phrasings like sleep as transitive verb.

if i ever edit you and get on you about how your sentences are too long and have too many clauses i want to let you know i am motherfucking hypocrite

They put a warning label on rap albums.

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children. Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future. If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it. So must you.

When I have to do actual work is the time my most beautiful haunting personal essays that have nothing to do with anything right now come to me in full

Sneezed in class and none of my students said, "bless you." Immediately thought, "what? No bless-yous for Giacomo?"

i say this often and i believe it. it got kind of uncool, during the obama era i think, to be anti-war because war itself is barbaric, unjust, and outright evil. but it is, and you can oppose war on those grounds alone.

today sure feels like one of the all time ‘so i still just gotta go and do my little job during all this?!’ moments

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Saw They Will Kill You last night with my buddy, and it was a good time. Great set pieces, fun combat, and some excellent needle drops. Saw a headline about being a flop, but the reviews look pretty good and it was enjoyable

Huge if true

Stoked to learn that both Becky Chambers and Martha Wells are dropping new books this year, and the Wells one is Murderbot #8 in May(!)

Shit is pretty bleak right now. We need a new kind of cheese

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Placeholder assets in a game should look obnoxiously temporary, so obvious that no one would mistake it for the final asset. In past games we've used the doge dog (rip) as an icon, hot pink versions of characters, our CEO's head, etc. If you use a temp asset that seems passable, it may stay there.

Two teenage lovebirds sat in my study hall and quietly assembled a Lego flower model together. The kids are alright

I didn’t know this but current and past members of the Blue Man Group always refer to one another forever as Blue Men. “There’s a Blue Man in Ottawa,” etc. No one is a former Blue Man. They live in an endless Blue present