The world was better because of the work of Alice Wong. We have lost one of the greatest advocates of our time. 💔

Deaf standard time is so embedded in #Deaf culture that the Summer Deaflymics being held in November feels like a cultural statement. Good luck to Deaflymic athletes this week!!

Starbucks workers are ON STRIKE! Now is the time to tell everyone in your life to STOP BUYING Starbucks. www.nocontractnocoffee.org?utm_source=s...

Announcer: this is heat 6 of 7 Hundreds of swimmers: 6-7!!! 🤣 This trend is so stupid, but it's absolutely hilarious and brings people together at the same time.

Anyone else only see about 5 people consistently on this app? I have basically lost all my academic and/or feaf network online except like 6 people.

I've started playing piano- something I've wanted to do since a child, but never could do. I'm still a beginner, and still playing beginner versions. That said, I have found such joy in the Mary Poppins simplified score. The music is timeless and the songs are just enjoyable to learn.

For All Saints Day, I pulled out the last family video of my dad from 1999. My girls never saw/heard him before. My husband never knew dad pre-cancer and only knew him about 1 year. I had forgotten so much of Dad and that was something my heart needed.

Cowards hired me on equity standards and initiatives. I was proud to work for a district that had equity at the center of their messaging. Cowards changed their name to fit the dictator agenda and I guarantee they will change to meet the agenda of few. #myIPS www.chalkbeat.org/indiana/2025...

I hate being bad at my job because of circumstances beyond my own control. You can't be successful if you're set up for failure. #StoryOfMyLife

Accepting that there is no meaning to my work is the hardest thing I will ever do, if I can ever just come to terms that none of this matters.

Why does every mixed box of snacks (chips, cookies, etc) have one flavor that no one likes?!

I have had 6 people send me the advertisement for the job I left in Illinois with a message "please come back." I didn't leave on my own terms. I was pushed out, banished to asynchronous online teaching outside of my skill. Left shattered with no help putting what was left of me back together. 💔😭

Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed. THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!

Whoever sold the frog costume is the real winner.

Every person I know has an "escape" or "handle" the emergency situation that is both rational and irrational. Most of these plans are life-saving-- how to escape a car in water, fight an intruder, save a pet from an alligator, etc. I know what song I will use for karaoke if ever dragged on stage.

With the Trump Administration infiltrating BlueSky, the MAGA edgelords are sure to come next. BlueSky has long abided by a general and very effective rule. BLOCK. MOVE ON. DO NOT ENGAGE. Don't dunk. Don't quote. Don't respond. STARVE THEM OF ATTENTION.

#Linguistics at the University of Georgia is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in #phonetics and #phonology. Spread the word and let me know if you have questions! linguistlist.org/issues/36/31...

I am really struggling with my loss of career. I feel so completely under-employed and so completely useless for anything more. #CareerLoss #AcademicsSay #ALTAcademic #FeelingUseless

I went back to teaching public schools to work with #Deaf and Hard of Hearing Kids where I can actually make a difference. Turns out my entire job now is writing IEPs and managing paperwork. I have to cancel time with kids to do paperwork. Week 9: I don't want to be a #TeacherOfTheDeaf anymore.

I'm exhausted. Working two jobs to make up for the one that nearly caused me to lose myself. I thought my education would save me from 14 hour work days in dead end jobs. I was wrong. My education solidified my place in dead end jobs.

Things that jolt my brain in Indiana: 1. Smokers on school campuses 2. Vapers in school campuses 3. The sheer number of 'Indian' heads as mascots 4. How bad Dhh services are compared to other places (that said Center on Deafness is awesome) 5. Not knowing any of the swim officials yet.

The irony of the amount of rage I have completing these mandated #CrisisPreventionInstituteTM modules is not lost on me.

It really sucks to have a birthday party for both your kids and no one shows.

Driving around Indianapolis every day is making this place grow on me. I'll never be at home in IN, but I'm feeling like I belong in Indy. #ItinerantTeacher #DeafEd

The more I see professionals out of certificate programs for deaf Ed, the more concerned I am for our kids.

Americans are more worried a kid will be gay than dead from another shooter. We shouldn't be crying for dead children at the hands of another shooter again. And again. And again.

Searching for the Indianapolis #Union and #Labor events for #LaborDay2025... Find out they held their event this weekend instead of next weekend. Missed it completely :( It's like going back to school in July. The state has schedules that makes no sense.

This is terrible! I hope to still communicate with you all here. If not, I’m on LinkedIn and FB. linkedin.com/in/joshua-ey... www.facebook.com/share/191b2M...

I got hit in the head by a kid with a book titled "Love One Another" and needed stitches this week. It's a reminder of just how sheltered I was from a lot of the hardest parts of teaching in academia. That said, the scar on my head damaged me less than the scars on my spirit via HigerEd. #Trauma

I'm pretty sure that the plague is going around the first grade classroom that I co-teach in... And I'm pretty sure a respirator wouldn't prevent me from getting it. 😭

Do not write IEPs for the services that you can fit in your schedule or the providers that are available. Write the IEP for the services that are needed because the only way to get more providers or justify a need to train more providers is to have shortages in meeting plan delivery.

The answer to this is a strike. If they don't strike, they've handed their collective bargaining rights to him. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-f...

So much I could have done in the last 10 years had I been met with doors instead of walls.

Bestie: ooo. You started church hunting. I hope it's a place with good potluck and zero bitches. Me: that's the best blessing ever.

The most painful thing for me to watch is a kid denied a chance to thrive because their parent is a lawn mower.

Well, duh. That’s why you should listen to deaf people. They know what they’re talking about. Hearies shouldn’t assume they have all the answers.

My #FlyDelta flight has an info screen that says Indianapolis is self-declared as America's most walkable city. I would love to know if these people have ever gone to another city. There is no walk-ability in the places I'm living and where there is a walking area, there is nothing to walk to. 🤷

If I could spend every single day of the rest of my life at Deaf camp, I would. I am on the highest of highs from working with the greatest staff and the coolest kids.

One of the modern Dante's Inferno levels of hell punishments customized to Middle Grades Teachers would include the damnation of sitting with only teachers who love to pretend play scenarios during PD.

School starts Wednesday. My older kid said, "we don't get 104 days of summer vacation." 🤬 #PhineasAndFerb

Why must #PowerSchool continually use "SPED"? As a field, we know that disabled people prefer not to use the umbrella term "SPED" because it gets used to lower their value or dehumanize.

The amount of times I have heard "we can't find qualified interpreters, so we just assign language facilitators so they don't need an interpreter license" makes me want to scream. Language deprivation is neglect.

School starting in July instead of August or September has completely taken everything from me. #IndianaSucks

In the current state of the US, I really could use Mr Rogers returning just one more time to say "It'll be ok. Good prevails." I'm pretty sure he's the only one who could fully convince me.

A year ago I was so excited for new starts. This year is another series of new starts and they all feel like they are shredding what was left of my broken heart.

On boarding and Professional Development have two different goals and two different types of training needed.

It's July 15th. First day for teachers. 🙄

Friend: are you excited for the school the year? Me: Do you want the truth or a lie? 2024-2025 took my heart and soul. I have no hope for 2025-2026. I am just working to keep a roof over our heads.

The school year starts in 2 days. I can't handle this.

This is odd and just another reminder that we’re living inside a propaganda machine. Fox News reporters rode along with the ICE-led convoy, entering and exiting vehicles with federal agents, attempting to capture footage that would paint the raids, and Trump’s agenda, in a positive light.