From 1870 to 1930, the ancient Greeks would tell their stories in English at 1.25x speed - Elon Musk

The comments on this thread *incredible*

No Noise November. everybody shut up

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Y'all, I mixed EmergenC with soda water and nearly blew up my house.

Last night at my bar job: "Lincoln can you make more of the pineapple syrup. We need a lot so use the big immersion blender" Me: "Sure, which one is the big one?" "You'll know..."

"Warzone"

I am so tired of Ed tech companies selling us their latest nonsense. If Ed tech wants to impress me, how about building a copy machine that works

Waterboarding, but it's a slow unending drip of emails.

Job ads should be like internet recipes with a "skip to salary button." "Greetings fellow change maker! Are you ready to leverage your skills and expertise to make impactfu..." *Skip* $7.49/hr Masters degree required *On call, may require some nights weekends and holidays

Whether it's playing Born in the USA at rallies or referencing Apocalypse Now, it never ceases to amaze me how often conservatives stupidly parody themselves with pop culture references.

You know you're of a certain age when the dentist office is playing Nirvana 😭

Student: 6 7! Me: *Gasp* 8 10! Class: ...? Me: slowly leaning in and whispering... 6 7 ate 9

People who run youth sports: Meet at a field! Great! Which fie... A different one every other week. ?...what time? Right at your kid's dinner time! But you have trained coach... Uncles. I'm sorry? Uncles and moms. But they're paid No So why the crazy fees? For the end of season pizza party!

Blood born pathogens...

Tell me there are not enough women working in tech without telling me.... oh... dear god

Every tyrant in history has sought to stifle criticism of himself and his regime. But America was founded on criticism. American democracy was built on dissent. Every institution, group, firm, or individual that surrenders to Trump’s wanton tyranny invites more of it.

YOU DON'T SAY???

They’ve tried to erase us for centuries. Didn’t work then, won’t work now. Black history IS American history.

"The only moments in our lives that count for anything are those when we do the right thing, when we don't have to look down at the table but can raise our heads and look each other in the eye. Nothing else matters." Alexei Navalny

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." Frank Herbert's Dune

Unrelated I'm sure: Oklahoma has one of the highest teacher shortages in the country 🤔

Kinda disappointed in the tipping habits of some of my teacher colleagues. Like y'all... I'm your work friend AND you know this is my second job! Who tips 8 percent anyway? 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️😡

Lots of teachers at my bar this weekend. We even had admin, could have been the best "PD" session ever. 😂

Publisher: let's make a kids paint book! Artist: well there are many kinds acrylic, oil, and the most difficult waterco... P: WATERCOLOR A: ok... Well they need heavy weight paper an... P: COPY PAPER A: ... and good brushes P: PLASTIC STICK, BUNDLED FISHING LINE A: Paint? P: Easter egg dye tablet 🤦🏼‍♂️

Does anyone actually know how to bowl?

This is like when teachers explain the rules of a fire drill. MR. SMITH WHAT IF...

"I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is... hoping that God would witness those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, and those who suffocated our very breaths" - Anas al-Sharif www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

My grad student passed their teacher exams! 🎉🎉🎉

In California, are they all called hellacopters or just the really good ones?

Conflict of interest training in 2025: "A teacher may not accept gifts or payments of more than $50... ...unless it's a custom corning glass plaque with a 24k gold base.

PBS was for everyone

"CNN and Fox News are a disease" variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Is It Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family? Buddy most of the people who do that are moving on to snubbing people who write for this shitty newspaper.

I will demand my children opt out of any class with a teacher who wears clothes of more than one material, eats seafood, or clips their beard as is forbidden in Leviticus.

The box of "spare" strings from the previous teacher 😵‍💫🤬😭😂

Summer dad bod goal: no more shirt stains where my belly sticks out when food falls out of my stupid dad face. #happyfathersday

An educator prep class that teaches how to interpret the previous teacher's completely unhinged method of organizing 😳

I don't want Elmo on our side. I want people like him not to exist in the first place.

Why isn't there a work requirement to be president?

These are your words of the week Memorial Day rococo crypto chicken out scofflaw www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

So we did a thing... www.amherstindy.org/2025/05/23/a...

I'd argue that the fundamental shift in our view of learning in school toward a primarily cognitive framework, as opposed to primarily social/cultural, with cognitive science as the dominant discipline has been a net negative for education and schooling in practice. bsky.app/profile/covi...

Did I make my band students an arrangement of Steve's Lava Chicken? Yes. Yes I did. Doing the Lord's work here in public education. #musiced

Yesterday, Robert Prevost asked everyone to start calling him by a different name. And they did. No outrage or shaming over this request. See how easy it is to honor other people's benign wishes?

So can I get one of those stipends to self deport? 👀 😂

"Stay poor, stay hidden and die silently "

Legitimate criticism of the Israeli government is not antisemitism. Free Palestine.

"We must do what they fear -- tell the truth, spread the truth. This is the most powerful weapon against this regime of liars, thieves and hypocrites. Everyone has this weapon. So make use of it." Alexei Navalny, Patriot: A Memoir