I’m mostly off of other social media, and not really missing it. Yet I feel kinda out of loop if I’m not on something. Otherwise what am I supposed to do? Talk to friends irl? Write in my notebook? Please.

When I was student teaching, the university observer asked me if I realized how much I sigh during instruction. She asked “what’s that about?” I told her to pull up a chair. I don’t think she laughed. Nowadays I can’t imagine what my ratio of sighs:class must be.

Thinking about the Jill Lepore “students got difficult in 2016” thing: there’s a point for all of us when “youth opinion,” such as it is, no longer feels intuitive. It happened for me in the last few years. To understand where they’re coming from, you might have to do a little research.

This AFT state council delegate agrees 1000%. Historically, one drawback to the "union of professionals" branding is that it has often provided cover for collaborations with management that are bad for education and bad for education *workers*. No need for my union to boost AI in this way.

A message from the striking municipal workers of Philadelphia:

I found a great spreadsheet template to track my running. Managed to mess up *something* and it may be the event that triggers a complete mental breakdown. Stay tuned.

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

Starting to hear fireworks

Anne Hathaway #GoBirds

Still mad we don’t have a delay tomorrow!

Philadelphia, I love you.

"They are the apotheosis of the American project, of settler-colonial patriarchy... the only way they can think to show they love something is by owning it; the only way to own something, they understand deep in their bones, is by killing it." -Vicky Osterweil www.cawshinythings.com/we-will-outl...

At tonight’s Philly School Board meeting, they tried to make people show ID to get in, tried to say only registered speakers could sit in the auditorium, and I believe they set up rows of 6 chairs compared to previous meetings having 8-9.

BREAKING: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been formally indicted. Yoon is the first sitting South Korean president to be indicted and criminally investigated. This is a breaking story that will be updated. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Some of my colleagues were in buildings that couldn’t warm up past 50 last week

every single president should be arrested

Ohhhhh my god china is going to steal my data? should we tell Kaiser Permanente? Should we throw a party?should we invite ticketmaster

#AHA25 resolution against scholasticide in Gaza passes 428 to 88!!

The president has used his final days in office to guarantee the continuation of Israel’s genocidal assault in Gaza.

This is an unbelievably shameful list to appear on.

There’s no “responsible incorporation” of a technology that demonstrates every single bad habit that education is supposed to wean out of students - from making things up to citing sources you haven’t read to using other people’s work without proper permission to even just reading broadly.

Ignoring my typo-- are there any historians/philosophers of education on here?

Say his name: Mohamed Baalusha.This one really hurts. He discovered the massacred babies as Al Nasar hospital. Many months ago Mohamed was shot. Then, he was unable to move w an infection. He bravely returned to reporting , only to be killed today. He is abt the 200th journalist killed by US-Israel

Yo @jay.bsky.team @support.bsky.team why did you content block author and organizer Vicky Osterweil’s account??? Free @vickyacab.bsky.social!

wild that we've got an actual poll on this

Are there historians and philosophers of history on here?

1. A teacher in Ohio who has worked at the same public school for 34 years was suspended without pay and threatened with termination for offering four books in her classroom library that contained LGBTQ characters. She's fighting back.

📣FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NYU Faculty Arrested for Supporting Students in Peaceful Pro-Palestine Protests. Faculty Also Declared Personae Non Grata and Banned from Campus. NEW YORK, Dec. 12, 2024 –

Conservative party comments on president's declaration today that he will not step down: "Is he insane" "Is he asking us to impeach him" "It's like he just confessed to insurrection"

Yoon denied all of his own responsibility and said he would resist to the end. Han, the ruling party leader who had been expecting Yoon to voluntarily resign, announced immediately after the address that they should vote to impeach Yoon.

Reader Sean McDonnell emailed me these photos of the statues at Fitler Square Park who received fancy custom-knit sweaters (he writes: "Note that the bear's sweater has a goat, tortoise, and bear pattern!"). Does anyone know who the mystery Fitler Square knitter may be?

Looks like the School District of Philadelphia changed their policy around board meetings in response to teachers, students, and community demanding transparency and accountability.

the national assembly's defense committee questioned the military generals that carried out yoon seok yeol's coup and everything they are uncovering is absolutely batshit

I’m very lucky to have a strong community of teachers around me, but to call this year challenging is a major understatement.

I just reposted a link to a gofundme by a Palestinian family that was validated by @mommunism.bsky.social among others and two minutes later Bluesky deleted their entire account, for the fourth or fifth time. @moderation.bsky.app - you are causing great pain and suffering. Please stop.

They’re talking about Among Us

Shapiro is such a nerd…and never beating the Obama-wannabe allegations.

well if there's a silver lining, it's that since he has incoherent right-leaning politics, the media can't blame the left for all this. lol just kidding

Daniel Penny, the man who held Jordan Neely in a chokehold, has been acquitted

More than other bleak aspects of this job*, I often feel like AI is going to be the thing that makes me leave. *there are good things, too, obviously, but let’s not pretend like it’s all a breeze.

This is pretty incredible. State troopers appear to have just stopped enforcing the law. Now there is an investigation to determine exactly why.

i just emailed NYPD:

The IDF just announced it will begin combat operations in Syria

Hankyoreh publishing the names and photos of the 105 members of the National Assembly who did not show up for the impeachment vote on their cover

Hearing that NYPD plans to include spot the difference puzzles from Highlights for Children in upcoming trainings.