I don't know if anyone else out there has read There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom (by the author of Wayside School but much less lighthearted) but much as I loved it there are certainly parts that haven't aged particularly well ...

My windows are rattling My curtains are billowing My door just blew itself shut You all know where my mind went

Let other pens dwell on unblocking the Straits of Hormuz, I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can

This by the way was the climactic realization of The Feminine Mystique, a book which unfortunately has somehow not stopped being relevant more than 50 years later

Has someone ever made a playlist of recent pop songs that shamelessly interpolate and/or rip off old songs? I find myself needing that right now

Incorrect information does not magically start being correct because "it's in the textbook"

Also um yeah I've never really talked about it but I guess it's me too 🤷‍♀️

Still thinking about the person on threads who was like well you just have to embrace your 2-hour bus trip to work every day! As if being constantly sleep deprived from getting up that early and having to burn away so much of your daily non-work time isn't fucking miserable

How the fuck do people scrub shower floors without pain

Welp guess who learned the hard way today that the coating can come off of a rice cooker if you leave it in the dishwater too long 🤦‍♀️ whoops

Phonics training actually does help children read English, and 'sight words' should generally be limited to function words like is, the, and, to, so that beginners can actually enjoy reading a (short) poem or story while they wait to acquire more content words

Got someone in YouTube comments saying that the reason physical tasks never get easier for me is because I have to keep increasing the demand more and more or else of course I'll "plateau". Do you not first have to improve in order to plateau?

May I one day channel the energy of that taekwondo instructor who screamed at 10 year old me because I didn't call him 'sir'

I'm sorry but what do you mean 'Angel of the Morning' and 'Wild Thing' were written by the same guy

By the way, gents? We know when you're doing this. Don't think we don't notice when you hold the door open for every woman but not any men. Don't think we're ignorant of how you turn on a woman who thought you were her friend once it's clear that you're never going to fuck her.

In the last 24 hours I've seen uploads from both Tom Scott and PieGuyRulz and guys I think we've slipped into an alternate dimension here

Longest overall: Milwaukee to Rochester over the course of two days (stopoff at Cleveland) Longest single segment: Milwaukee to Detroit. Which lemme tell you feels a hell of a lot longer when the road is empty and it's the middle of the night.

I need payment platforms to please try and understand that most people don't just have "another card"

The Green Mile Also Southern Fried Rat & Other Gruesome Tales, which I remember sneaking into a donation box so I could never accidentally read it again And THEN there was that multipage, illustrated Smithsonian article about methods of capital punishment ...

Sir until you are equally ready to condemn the Christian prayer at the opening of the Commons you and your hypocrisy can fuck right off

I wonder if any of these 40-year-olds look back and think 'fuck, that chocolate bar idea coulda made me rich'

LOOK HERE'S ME WITH THE KITTY

"American propaganda is exaggerated political lies, ipso facto the other side's propaganda is unimpeachable gospel truth"

I'VE JUST SPENT THE PAST TWO HOURS PLAYING WITH ADORABLE KITTIES

Old World Wisconsin Cave of the Mounds Camp Whitcomb-Mason

It would involve the Cat in the Hat

Why are people like 'go see a medical professional when you're experiencing pain' bestie I am literally in pain all the goddamn time do you expect me to go and live at the fucking hospital

Ok my new favorite thing is 'curated lists of Thing That Should Not Have Enough Examples To Fill Any List'

That being said, one of these days I'm going to run into a kindergartener called Patty or Brenda and after that I may or may not emerge from the woods ever again

The letters that Cassandra Austen burnt

This is the only creationist content I want

Come to China, we have Lemon Braised Spicy Chicken Feet flavor

It was humbling the first time I realized that the middle schoolers I was teaching about fads are no longer old enough to remember Gangnam Style The ones nowadays wouldn't even have been born

I dreamed last night that you could use your camera to record an appropriate reaction for a post and the app would generate a reaction gif Also it would write up some meaningful alt text (That last bit is how you know it wasn't real)

@kebrightbill.bsky.social this sounds very scaremongery but what is the truth here

Having to explain to an average 5 different people on this day each year that we don't have women's day in the US and not ever being able to give any of them a satisfying reason why 🫠

Has anyone in this discussion thought at all about the impact on kids from shutting down basically every online space made for kids??

I love how he can only kick with one leg 🥺

Behold, it scanneth

As someone who's read Evelina, let me add: @shadowtodd.bsky.social once expressed amazement that this song had yet to appear in a Wes Anderson movie

Welp thought there was a sudden upswing of interest in NT apocrypha but no it's just some wrestler I am immeasurably disappointed

One was an elementary school art teacher whose career was hamstrung because he never wanted to "progress" into management (hard relate) The other was a PhD'd university professor in the education department who used to routinely travel to Japan (this may or may not have had an influence on me)

Did anyone else use to think that Oh You Beautiful Doll was about an actual doll?? 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 tell me I wasn't alone in this

I'll say it again There is NO good reason to require gender markers on IDs at all

I think a lot of us could stand to see this right now

Over the last couple days I've had three different students attempt to convince me that they got four thousand, ten thousand, and 𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥 RMB in their New Year's packets

Oh gods, I'm reminded of how eons ago my brother's high school had to cast Hodel and Perchik as a brother and sister, because she was the best singer in the school and he by far the best actor

There's no suitable gif in the collection so here y'all go youtu.be/y2CJ46XkwxA

Fuck another goddamn leg cramp (same leg I fucked up in the car last night)

My sister in Christ what in hell were you thinking