Forest service

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CTE teacher life: Writing a safety test for box knives, because your new curriculum has your 8th graders carving windmill blades out of balsa wood using them. 8th graders. Hashtag wtaf?? #EduSky

Budget office nominee Russell Vought has stated veterans' disability benefits should be means-tested—Sen. Blumenthal calls him out.

BlueSky user shanley tucci @markpopham.bsky.social Raw milk is one of those ideas that can really only take hold when people haven't seen a cow. if you see a cow from let's say ten feet or less you immediately understand the problem that pasteurization is solving

MLK assembly at school today, and the Leadership kids made a huge poster. This may become my mantra for the next few years. (Student faces cropped out of the picture; that's why it's cut off weirdly.) #EduSky

Got a survey from the WEA (Washington Education Association) today. For the first time, Bluesky was one of the choices when asking about social media I use. Woot!

Department leads at district are encouraging us to use AI to help us create rubrics as we transition into Standards-Based Grading districtwide. But we know how much power & other resources AI uses. It's a time-saver, but what are the ethics of it? Discuss. #EduSky

Hot take that's actually not so hot, from a 27-year veteran middle school teacher: Perfect attendance awards are ableist and encourage the spread of illnesses. Instead, reward kids for showing compassion, respect, and effort. #EduSky

Nana has the time and the facts.

Mood.

#Oathbreakers is "historical writing at its finest." - @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. A top-10 new release in history from Amazon Books. It's got swords, sex, witchcraft, demons, betrayals, one irritating dude named Bernard, and the fate of Charlemagne's empire hanging in the balance. Out today!

Teacher/wrestling mom life: running the clock for the home wrestling match.

This is 12-year-old Éowyn (gray) and SEVEN-MONTH-OLD Thorin (black). I am uncertain of my initial belief that this is a photo of two cats. I suspect it's actually a cat and an incipient moose. #caturday

Dear self: Repeat after me. "Disaster movies are not scientific documentaries, and nobody wants to hear you explain why the science is wrong. Especially not your long-suffering, but beloved, husband." Love, Me

I managed to turn on my classroom Keurig WITHOUT the cup to catch the coffee today. On the plus side, nothing was ruined that couldn't be tossed without a worry, and the room now smells like coffee. On the minus side, I'm short a couple of ounces of coffee. Sigh.

$600 in groceries at WinCo today. Granted, we had to fill in a bunch of staples that we'd run out of, and we did buy some fun stuff. But we weren't even buying for a Thanksgiving meal; it was stuff like fruit, vegetables, cheese, lunch meat, canned goods, etc. Just wait til the tariffs hit.

Who has two thumbs and has finished EVERYTHING on her to-do list today? THIS GAL.

Oh, look. They're here, too. "Boreal rainforest." 😂

As has become traditional in my extended family, I'm responsible for bringing the pies to Thanksgiving. I usually do two pumpkin and an apple, though I'm considering a berry pie of some sort. What are your favorite desserts of the autumn/winter holiday season?

Voyager news! Because Sam made a creative doc about the two Voyager spacecraft after he graduated (‘The Voyager Diaries’), screened at juried festivals, we still feel a family connection to them. And yes, there’s some personification bias. Those two gallant, plucky journeyers… flip.it/ANsQfQ

Holy crap! I slept until after EIGHT! I'm usually up in the 6:00 hour when I sleep in. 😳😳

The old gray lady and her baby brother.

The scammers and bitcoin bois and "helping people to retire" accounts are starting to find me. I check the profile, then block if I need to. No engagement, no warning. Go bother someone else.

Talk about self-owns! This is rather amazing news on the abortion rights front.

What’s the T?

Anyone else needing dopamine? Here's my contribution.

Tooth update! Not cracked. Woot! But the location of the cavity (under a previous filling, and very near the nerve) means that I will probably still need a root canal and crown. Whee. Oh, and it's infected, so amoxicillin 3x/day for seven days. Could be worse, but still less than fun.

My school sent out an email asking students for things for which they're thankful about their teachers. I got this one today. I'm DYING.

In other exciting news, I have a cracked molar that hurts like a mofo. I was FINALLY able to get an appointment for 9:30 tomorrow. I don't even care if I have to have another root canal; I just want it to stop hurting. Even talking hurts. Bah.

Hey, PNW friends! Big storm coming. Batten down the hatches! #PNW cliffmass.blogspot.com/2024/11/extr...

When the King is getting impatient with the white ceremonial robes you told him to wear

Some evil entity somewhere told me giving a KickStart to my ADHD kid was a good thing to do, and now I have created a 12-year-old gas molecule.

Greetings! For my new SCA friends, I'm Æffe Michælesdohtor: Bard (mostly singing and storytelling), Kingdom Livestream co-lead, player-with-string, occasional voice Herald, former Webminister, and general volunteer-er. I live in the Barony of Blatha an Oir in the Kingdom of An Tir.

I received a call from an unknown number yesterday, and was feeling mischievous. "Hello?" "Hi! I'm ___ with ___ Realty. We'd like to buy your house. For cash!" "Great! I want $2 million." ... [Tap tap tap of a keyboard] "Are you still living at [address]?" "Yep!" [Continued]

Who made this? Ahahaha

Vanity Fair reports: “Trump transition team had a meeting today to discuss sexual assault allegations against Sec of Defense nominee @PeteHegseth.” They are, after all, a job prerequisite these days for the Trump White House.

Food drive totals, plus administration who are awesome about being silly for the kids. 2600+ donations!

the only activity as stressful as dismantling a bomb is trying to quietly open cheese in your house without your dog hearing

What I'd rather be doing than going to YET ANOTHER meeting. Sigh.

First post, feeling like this memory from a few years ago is a pretty good indicator of how things are right now.