My dog is in the hospital overnight. I’m doing about as well as you would expect.

*awkwardly meeting a new gay couple* so which one of you is the rosencrantz

Having my years long nagging bad feeling about a subset of the Harry Potter fandom justified for a THIRD time in my life is wild.

Just so everyone knows, my class was set up with all of their work for today and I woke up in so much pain I couldn’t walk so I did call out. Two of my kids ended up suspended for starting a fight with a classmate. It is still always less work to go in.

I know every teacher makes this point, but it’s less work to go in and feel miserable all day than call out and figure out sub plans. Being self contained makes it even worse. I’m having a flare up and the lowest energy option is to go in and do 8 different low effort lessons over the next 2 days.

Possibly helping with a local theater festival’s social media, very professionally did not mention any of my weird credentials

I was away but I’m back, I’m going to be in a play so that’s fun.

MUUUUUSSSSSSSSTTTTTAAAAARRRRRDDDD!!!!!!!!!

If I send this I’m on my way to become someone’s personal demon and worst nightmare

As I understand it as a very non-techy person, they add a couple spaces &/or tiny images & format quirks - things normally unnoticeable, which they use to identify shared copies as coming from individuals They used this at Tesla www.ndtv.com/world-news/e... 💻 /1

“Peekaboo, bitch” - My student today as they entered the room.

Hey fellow middle school teachers how was today? How many kids did you have to explain that Nazi salute to? Was it also 3?

The way that I’m healthily coping with what was actually an entire lifetime of my Dad’s financial abuse and being effectively homeless for a month and a half and continuing to do a good job as a special education teacher but TikTok is what has me feeling like I’m going to crash out is embarrassing

I think maybe I could delete all of my social media today and just like be cool with that. Maybe I do actually want to log off now.

Um no I’d like to make an insight check for whatever kind of cursed bargain was just struck.

When TikTok comes back from the dead, know that it is a reanimated corpse. Changes have been made. Get VERY CLEAR on those changes as you go back into now tainted waters.

this. I've seen people argue tiktok doesn't have any suppression. folks can be mad about the ban without lying that the app was perfect. the number of euphemisms for "white people" created alone shows how much Black folks had to self-censor on there

There is an emerging conventional wisdom that resistance to Trump went too far and I am going to lose my mind. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/19/o...

Okay fine I’ll finally watch Teen Wolf

y’all told me i was crazy when i downloaded all of tiktok and put it on blu-rays but who’s laughing now

There’s about to be a huge shift toward the right in online content creation and it’s going to poison an entire generation

RIP TikTok. It should’ve been Twitter

ok but how am i supposed to fall asleep without watching one or two hundred 20 second videos

How it started / how it’s going

My students learned the word caulk today so that’s making my life significantly worse

i can think of one word for a dude too scared to say his words with his whole chest

Lives on Xiaohongshu hit different

Xiaohongshu user is correct unfortunately

Everyone who is mad at Polygon today is justified in their frustration at this media ecosystem But also you should go read and comment on all of my articles I've published on Polygon featuring indie RPGs so they do more of it. Writers there are beholden to the bullshit restrictions of Executives

This platform has to embrace shitposting more, I feel like we aren’t embracing our jesters.

The fact that I got both my period and norovirus on the same day is not helping me but I keep crying about how much history (particularly about 2020) we’re about to lose because it’s on some random small account, never cracked 1,000 views, and the owner of the account wouldn’t think to download it

Instagram Blocked Teens From Searching LGBTQ-Related Content for Months ⤵️

The new TikTok doesn’t exist yet, it won’t think of itself as the new TikTok, and users will spend years using it in ways the app never intended it to be used. Please remember TikTok became what it is on the backs of online content creators who forced it to become a cultural juggernaut.

My high rate of reposting is a marker of heavy Tumblr usage AND ALSO the way we should be using this platform because of the way recommendations work here therefore I am not ashamed.

I don't really use TikTok that much, but I find it fascinating that our government is on the verge of banning an app for national security reasons that are still unclear in the same week that Meta, the largest social media company, says it's now fine to hate LGBTQ people and call us mentally ill.

i would say i am not scared but i am extremely scared i just am not stopping

internally at Meta: -trans and nonbinary themes stripped from Messenger -enforcement policy now allows for the denial of trans people's existence -tampons removed from men's restrooms -DEI programs shuttered -Kaplan briefed top conservative influencers the night before policy changes were announced

I hate the extent to which public life takes place via corporations.

Anyway, deleted my Facebook

I didn’t expect Dads doing tax evasion to be such a common experience

The groveling worked

Let's gooooooooooo Hit up your senators ASAP. If Trump wants the NLRB he can fight in the courts for it. @resist.bot petition you can use to message them/for language:

But Facebook gets to stay

TikTok Ban Real

No I love looking for apartments I love groveling in front of a corporation and begging to pay them half of my monthly income and having them say actually they can’t let me live there unless it’s more like one third of my income

Guys, I promise it's okay. You can just say Patreon. You can say OnlyFans. You can say whatever other payment platform you use. It's alright. The algorithm isn't going to punch your cat and eat your cereal if you utter a payment platform here.

Phases of Sadie asking to get on the bed with me

K/S is basically canon now though so there’s that