Find me a piece of ed tech from the past thirty years that's genuinely more about student learning than it is about extracting more labor from fewer teachers. Can't be done!

My son’s present to me was getting my books stocked in Barnes and Noble 🥹

By this logic, we're about to see departments bursting at the seams with public health historians. Honestly, good for them.

If you teach the US survey, I offered Rachel's book as one of the options for my students to write their term paper on, and it was *quite* popular.

Wild because without a coupon that I have to create a new email account for every 60 days, my life-saving blood thinners are $700 a month.

1) I loved him on New Girl 2) Taquitos #hatm

Today I learned that my husband has never read The Outsiders. Excuse me while I ponder the most appropriate way to introduce this emotional trauma into his life.

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

I swear we have this argument about race and hiring in academia every year, and every year a fresh new group of mediocre white boys pops up to tell on themselves.

OH WAIT YOU MEAN THE ONE THEY BLAMED ON DEI??!!?

Proud to announce that for the SECOND time in my life, I finished a tube of chapstick without losing it first.

“What I said was pretty damn factual, and I’m free to have an opinion."

Today I finished the paralegal program that I started 18 months ago, knowing that I needed to make a career change. What a wild ride!

YYYEEESSSSSSS

1) John Krasinski 2) Chicken and cilantro bowl #hatm

AI everything should be labeled. Someone find Tipper Gore.

In case you’re wondering where the state of healthcare is, United HC says my hospital stay for multiple pulmonary embolisms isn’t covered because “You could have gotten the care you needed without being admitted inpatient at the hospital.” Which is funny…because that’s not what the hospital said.

As someone who has had to request accommodations repeatedly - the idea that large numbers of people are just walking in and “taking advantage” of getting buried in paperwork is seriously laughable.

This is good advice. I have sent anonymized student work to colleagues for them to grade. Not because I thought my own grading was necessarily bad, but because I wanted to have a record of what average grading of it would look like for the appeal.

Bought some merch yesterday and I’m so excited for it to arrive 🐶🥰

My book is about drug addiction in the U.S. from 1776 to 1914, when it was (generally) legal to sell addictive drugs. Addiction increased rapidly, but people didn't associate drug addiction with crime. global.oup.com/ushe/product...

It's #smallbusinesssaturday friends! Say no to faceless corporate crap and say yes to the shops in your community. As for me, I'm heading over to @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social to pick up my order and probably buy more stuff. Books are better when bought at independent bookstores!

Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores? We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.

1) Amelia Earhart 2) Had 3 bites of a subway sandwich and a cookie #hatm

So many thanks to @phdrachel.bsky.social for taking care of our doggos and bringing me new clothes while I was in the hospital this weekend ❤️ Discharged this afternoon and heading home!

This is not the worst book we've ever read but it is the meanest episode we've ever done.

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

TEA says that key topic examples were sent to the board. Student testifier: importance of including world history in key topics. Educated electorate requires world history and world geography. Necessary to understand world events. Using the Middle East as a specific example.

A lot of historians, because he kinda sucks? Often does national hagiography more than actual history. For example, Civil War has a lot of Lost Cause, brother-against-brother slop therein. I recommend Eric Foner's essay "Ken Burns and the Romance of Reunion." Some excerpts below:

Do we think they just stuck him in the machine for a few hours to get some peace and quiet?

If you’d like to donate to purchase hygiene packs for Texas inmates with dad’s old ministry, here’s the link: lessthantheleastministries.networkforgood.com/projects/243...

I cannot stress enough that you should not in any circumstances be using an AI-generated summary when you are signing contracts of any kind DocuSign scrambling onto the anxiety-fuelled AI slop festival.....

Hit one of my 2025 Bingo items!

The administrative nightmare alone of collecting money from students is enough to prevent 70% of educators from taking part in stuff like this.

I know this is *wild* to suggest, but what if we made history accessible by charging students $0?

Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s the general state of nations and global affairs.

I watched this a few days ago and was hella mad at it, so can’t wait to watch again 🤣 #hatm

🎶 Jesus take the yoke 🎶

Happy FSTL day to all who celebrate

My latest on Republicans playing Russian roulette with people’s food: Let White People Be the Face of Trump’s Hunger Crisis rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/11/04/f...

Waiting for dementia Don to post about how none of tonight’s winners are invited to his massive, massive ballroom.

So close.

WHY IS IT SO EARLY

Never been to Congo, but the Kenyan hills were absolutely stunning when we were there #hatm

Sorry, it’s been 10 months since my last Christmas sermon. Can someone remind me what people thought about Mary?

This Halloween, it’s good to remember proper bad-guy stabbing safety: hold the knife with the blade facing away from your wrist

Out of curiosity, I looked to see if Chewy had a pet food donation program, and they do: www.chewy.com/g/give-back Enter your location and it lists area organizations, including pet food pantries, and their needs. Also seems to be a good place to start if you are in need of pet food too.

I’m not watching tonight because I was at an event, but this is accurate. #hatm