The Opioid Crisis Never Ended. It Was Inherited by the Children. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Loose Ends in 60 Seconds 🩷

Go buy some books today.

Character AI and an eleven-year-old. A disturbing story (gift link): share.inquirer.com/Z5UOwS

Lotta folks talking resolutions, so a quick reminder to focus on goals you can control. Instead of making it about agents or deals, focus on things like reading more to improve your craft, finding ways to support your peers, drafting something new… You don’t need anyone else, to chase those goals.

Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

About halfway sold out, whew! Giving this a little bump.

The best AI-detection/-avoidance software available is a well-compensated teacher who spends time getting to know their students and their work because they have small classes

I am sooo looking forward to the reading time coming up (after I survive the Is-Santa-Here-Yet week of teaching.) Starting with this one:

If you do live on a farm, the reaction is “[insert your favorite swear word] the cows are out again.” Only sheep have a higher ability to walk through a hole in the fence and then be unable to find their way back. 1/

This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.

Day #10 of 31 Days, 31 Lists: Books to inspire a love of reading? Sure. That's a thing. But a little math along the way couldn't hurt either. #31days31lists #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/12/10/3...

Day 8 of 31 Days, 31 Lists: Wordless Children's Books. A look at books that take a chance and tell their tales with quiet aplomb. #31days31lists #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/12/08/3...

Here it is, my favorite book list of the year!

So ESPN, in the year of our lord 2025, STILL doesn't understand what they have in NCAA women's volleyball and puts the *1st and 2nd rounds of the TOURNAMENT* on its app (while it airs what--4 year old 30 for 30s--on its main networks?)? People should lose their jobs for dumb decision like this.

❌ learn to code ✅ learn to read

Are you ready to celebrate the books you know, and discover the ones you had no idea about? December's gonna be a WHOLE THING!! afuse8production.slj.com/2025/11/30/i...

Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.

🎄 GIVE SIGNED BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS! Order by Dec. 8, and I'll sign and personalize anything you order from the Bookworm in Omaha. Including the Fangirl manga and Marvel collections!🎄https://www.bookwormomaha.com/rainbow-rowell

The two biggest dangers to school library books: puppies and backpack water bottles.

We know that, for a ton of reasons, a lot of folks don't have as much to spend as they'd like this holiday season. Sooooooo, here's a thread of things you can do that will support your local indie bookstore or other business WITHOUT spending any more than you intended...

And don't keep offering, either. "Are you sure?" "It's open bar!" "Just one." "Keep me company." "No one's keeping track." "It's a party!" "The bottle's already open." "My treat!" "Everyone else is..."

The trophies are out! It’s a special night at John Cook Arena as the Huskers are celebrating their 350th consecutive home sellout, a streak which dates back to 2001.

I am a nyc teacher and I am in urgent need of highlighters for my students written short responses in writing. My school is mandating for us to have students color code their work for text based evidence. This is an urgent matter. Please repost. Thanks so much. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

No. 1 Nebraska is playing on the black Taraflex tonight vs. Illinois.

Well I guess this was inevitable. One of my elementary school students turned in a short story that included the phrase “He let go of a breath he didn’t know he was holding.” Bonus points because the breath-holding ‘he’ was a rhino.

I joined @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social 's fundraiser and am offering an advanced query class plus a recording of a Query 101 class to anyone who donates $20 or more. Plus two very rare opportunities for a query critique Please repost. teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/participants...

But no one, and I do mean no one, uses them as much as sixth graders. Standing classroom rule of one ! per document…make it count.

It’s parent-teacher conference time so here’s some free teacher advice. Let your kid be bored. Give them paper books and a cardboard box and some markers and walk away. If they whine, pull a page from Great-Grandma’s book and offer the chance to sweep the kitchen. Fuel creativity!

Me reading aloud: Cows have fur. Student: Cows don’t have fur. They have that other stuff. I ask questions. Leather. Child pictures cows like sofas with udders. Uh, no. Are you sure? I grew up next door to cows. Very sure. Whispers to his neighbor, “I’m gonna ask my mom.”

Did anyone else immediately think of this?

Pls consider ordering a book from your local indie bookshop *NOW* before holiday season to give store time to order title if they don't have it? This helps: (1) support indie bkshops, (2) support human creators, (3) gets you ahead re: busy shopping time. Psst: maybe one of my books? 🙏🏽💛 #KidLit

Returns from a chain bookshop have reduced our sales to a minus figure in the most important sales month of the year. Please support independent bookshops this Christmas.

Look at that new Taraflex court 👀 #Huskers take on Washington at 8pm on @bigtennetwork.bsky.social.

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now. But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library! It's easy! Check your library's website.

And if you order from @bookshop.org today/tomorrow, there is free shipping on all orders! 😍

From the elementary school perspective, parents please help us out, resist the temptation to hand your toddler that iPad…

Clearly the person who thought let’s make scented books a thing has never owned a puppy.

Have a kid who's just not a reader? Have they seen YOU reading lately? If it's not a priority for you, why would they think it should be a priority for them?

It’s the weekend! Time to relax.

Hey middle grade writers/agents/ editors, I know it’s tough out there. I have a student who comes in every morning to ask me if my new shipment of books has arrived yet. Please keep going so I keep having great things to hand to kids!

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Don’t sleep on this method!! It can often feel like forms go into a black hole, but purchase requests do get seen. Librarians get excited when folks make their collection development responsibilities a little easier. 🙏🏾

Hello 👋🏻 🌽 No. 1 Nebraska (8-0) visits 🐦 No. 18 Creighton (5-4) It’s a sellout tonight in the CHI Health Center. Should be a fun one! Keri Leimbach is here, but is not dressed out. TV: FS1

🎉We're baaacckk!!!🎉 RevPit's #10Queries October event opens for submissions October 10! #amwriting #writersky #writersofbluesky

Shout out @jencalonita.bsky.social I’ve bought extra copies of 12 to 22 and it still has the longest hold list. Middle school readers love it!

I don’t mean to be that guy but I actually think if everybody posted less about politics and current events and more about a bird they saw, we would not be in the actual mess we are in

No. 1 Nebraska faces No. 22 Utah at 6pm CT on FS1.