Having a dog is fun because you can sing songs to them about how gross they smell and they just love the attention

Today in 1977 began the 504 sit-ins by disabled people. The protest was the longest occupation of a federal building and a reminder that our human rights and access protections were not gifts from the ableds, but fought for by us, and in this instance with a big assist from the Black Panther party.

Wildly upsetting to me as a BPS teacher that I learned about this from fucking REDDIT.

When my MLLs ask me what the names of Holy Week days are in English:

I told myself "AI Is going to be a bubble and the people who relied on it will be weaker for it. Like young people raised on ipads who don't know what disc drives are. Even if AI disrupts jobs now, my ability to think will make me wanted later." Pretty sure my prediction is going to hold up.

When someone says you'll get left behind if you don't embrace AI, they are probably saying if you don't use AI, I'll get left behind.

🚨New working paper alert! 🚨 The US spends huge $ on special education services for students with disabilities. Is that spending effective? Today we released a working paper suggesting it is. "Special Education Substantially Improves Learning: Evidence from Three States" Let me explain...

Millennials are about to spend the rest of their lives hearing about how their parents AND children had to walk five miles uphill to school every day

We all know this is fascism.

Schools are NOT identical to what they were like 100 years. There are many areas of stability, and also areas of change.

ok here are more magical kid lit books off the top of my head that you can share w/ the kids in your lives instead of the one that supports a human trashbag who uses that support as proof her hatred is valid (again, a push for the ENTIRE Rick Riordan Presents line: books.disney.com/character-se...)

"The real solution to uncompetitive elections in Massachusetts is ranked-choice voting, in which people can vote for multiple candidates in order of preference, and voters don’t have to guess which of their favored candidates is actually viable." #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/23/o...

I've been asked recently for something on Why Ed Markey / Why Not Seth Moulton, so I decided to do a stock-taking of Seth Moulton's record. jonathancohn.medium.com/ma-elects-fi...

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Stunned by all the “ICE isn’t gonna do anything more than what TSA already does” rhetoric. Untrained white supremacists who’ve been told by bosses they’re not subject to laws will have POC and women lined up in front of them to grope and abuse and they don’t even have to chase them.

"This is the most essential technology ever created in all of human history. Don’t mercilessly ridicule it just because it steals the joy out of your hobbies and creates sexually explicit images of women without their consent. Seriously, please stop! It really hurts my feelings."

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

Guess I’ll actually be answering the alumni fundraising calls this year, so that I can (politely) inform the student callers that @bostonu.bsky.social isn’t getting a dime from me.

Having something called a “Free Expression Board” sounds like dystopian fiction, @bostonu.bsky.social

Agreed. (SED ‘14.)

the only thing i did successfully today was exist

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

"At 8th grade, where the impact of schools over time on a student’s learning is clearer, five of the top 10 states in 8th-grade reading on NAEP in 2024 appear on both the unadjusted and demographically adjusted state rankings: Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. "

That's why I'm so against ChatGPT. I'm against letting a machine do your homework for you. I think you should cling to Doing Your Homework Yourself like it's the last opportunity you have to liberate yourself from mental enslavement. Because it basically is. Anyway shout out to Kai Cenat.

Mine too!

they call it “horseshoe theory” because you are likely to believe it if you have been kicked in the noggin by a Horse

Whichever kid wished for snow all winter can stop now.

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social heroes @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and Ed Underhill, we have some slides that can be shared by anyone about this, with particular reps to target. Let's kill this bill in committee.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Random little things I learned from the internet.😊 The word bookkeeper has 3 consecutive double letters. Month, orange, silver and purple - nothing rhymes. Facetious has all the vowels in order. You can now return to your regularly scheduled scrolling.

Coining "Pulling a men's hockey" as a term for earning a lot of good will and just instantaneously scorching it

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

there are too many discourses right now put some back

I'm going to need people to update how they shit-talk people who want stuff done. "Oh, they're mad that they're only getting 30% of what they want" really rings different when the 70% of shit we're not getting is "someone to shut down the concentration camps."

Before we went into pandemic-induced remote learning, I was not permitted to reserve school computer carts for my students b/c technology was “for general education students, not ESL.” It was about restricting access until suddenly it was about buying into what non-educators were pushing.

Still thinking about whether I can organize a partnership between staff at my school and our neighbors. Wouldn’t it be great if we (/our cars) were your space saver?

I just got an email from the National Peace Corps Association (RPCV organization) that Peace Corps is launching an AI initiative, and I think I will launch myself into the sun.

I can't vote any harder Liz. I picked you in the 2020 primary. I'm on your side. But I kinda can't do anything and I'm hoping you guys can

THE SUN

Where does a shark have to go these days to get some goddamn peace and quiet

Voting “aye” on this one.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

I do not understand why deciding if you would vote for gavin newsom is a such a pressing question. like would you drink gutter water or eat a lightbulb. sir, that question has not arisen today.

LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not. 12/12

AI is the sputtering, belching engine of modern fascism. Do not use it, do not accept it.

imagine telling politicians right off the bat that you will expect nothing from them and accept all their policies without question as long as someone stamps the correct letter after their name. they're supposed to have to do things to earn your vote, dumbass

hold on i gotta take this