Excited to give up on packing and instead abandon all my belongings and go live into the woods until I eventually die of exposure.

We’ve reached the point where my phone autocorrects murder to murderbot and on the one hand, wow autocorrect is really fucked up, but on the other hand, fair enough.

Packing is going well.

Obsessed with this background check that wants me to list all the places I’ve lived in the past TWENTY YEARS and has also given me four spaces to put an address.

Why must the cat climb onto me at five in the morning to repeatedly touch my face with his damp paw? Does he not know it is the first day of summer break?

The cat has once again shit on the floor in an act of psychological warfare and you know what? She wins. I give up. I accept her dominance.

As a middle school teacher, I really believe that one of the most important things parents can do is have a sense of the media teen boys are consuming and be in regular convo w/ their sons. The level of propaganda being aimed at kids is fucking unreal (also so many gambling ads).

It’s raining, like proper thunderstorm rain and I’m so happy. Missed this shit.

Anyway my main take is that the eastern time zone is objectively the worst time zone. Everything ends so late all the time. It is a curse.

Ngl I would be happier for the Knicks if I hadn’t had to spend all day listening to rich ass white people make jokes about how San Antonio isn’t part of the US. At least Abbott is sad.

Anyway I think the best part of the AMC app is that it features movies that are no longer showing & also to find a showing you have to click on each individual day & scroll through all the theaters to see if any are showing the movie. It’s like the app is laughing at you for believing it.

For someone who left the door open so the cats could come in I sure am easily jumpscared by the cats coming in.

Just heard a kid describe Steamboat Willie as “straight up peak” and “better than Mickey Mouse.”

Dammit now they have me kinda invested in this thing and I wanna go to bed but I can hear cheers every time the other guys score. Which apparently I care about in this vague way now? New York cares SO MUCH about sports man, it’s wild.

Should be way further along in my evening routine by now but there’s gonna be yelling and singing for the next 2+ hours so why make good choices? Anyway, I think the Knicks just scored again.

Thus begins my life as a person who does not care about sports but lives in New York next to an outdoor bar.

"Teach kids to use AI responsibily" and "kids should only use it to give them inspiration or do research" means kids aren't learning. The essay is the final productand what they get the grade on, but 90% of the learning happens in the spaces where we're shifting kids to LLMs.

every company from june 1st until june 30th

This flouf is one of 15 healthy California condor chicks to hatch at our conservation center this season. A new record! #Condorable #KeepCalmAndCarrion

Accidentally stood up right as the cat walked in and she sprinted from the room screaming in protest.

Imagine!! Teaching kids about the past?! Or about how books are made?! The cruelty, the inhumanity! Kids, as we know, are fundamentally incapable of learning new information or adjusting to new situations. That’s why they’re so static and closed off to change.

As a middle school teacher, I redirect some out of pocket shit. Sometimes we’ll have a real convo but 90% of the time the best responses are like “nope” “that was weird” “we’re not doing that” etc. It’s often pretty straightforward to ban antisocial behavior bc that shit sucks & pple don’t like it

Ken Paxton always looks like ur drunk uncle who has just been drug outside to talk to the cops and it’s never not funny.

We just saw Little Shop of Horrors and it was super fun. Excellent production. But my main takeaway is that more art should have clusters of teens sitting on a stoop watching shit go down. More loitering teens. Infinite teens.

I was photographing a great blue heron on the Red River when a beaver suddenly popped up out of the water and scared the absolute s*** out of the heron. I swear the beaver did it on purpose, it felt targeted. 😭 #Photography #BirdOfTheDay #Birds

I have watched like two basketball games in my life but I can tell whenever the Knicks score based on the shouts I can hear from my window. Glad we’re doing well.

Always fun when you finally get around to a task you’ve been procrastinating and it turns out the task is actually as ruinously challenging as you’d feared.

Remember when right-wing trolls tried to "invade" Bluesky, but the blocklists were so effective that it nuked the entire thing from the offset? We must return to our old ways.

Two very loud people have just sat down in what was previously an otherwise silent room in this coffee shop where everyone was working. I am annoyed but also impressed at the confidence.

I have this hat that 7% of the time is the cutest item of clothing I own and the other 93% it time is mid at best. Can’t figure it out. Anyway I just put it on. We’re in the 93%. No one is confused.

Here are some nice mushrooms

The people who refused to allow Muslim people onto their political stages and who supported the bombing of Muslim-majority countries and who supported continuous civil rights violations against Muslim families are going to say “that ain’t mine” and frankly I do not think we should let them

My brother is coming to visit this week. We JUST realized his ticket was on Spirit bc that’s who we are as people. My partner then found a new flight for $37 in like ten minutes of looking. I am both impressed and intimidated.

Was wondering what these handles on the ground in the park were for and the terrifying answer seems to be handstands and then doing a kind of upside down push-up while in a handstand.

Editing this flash like I’m trying to park a giant-ass car I don’t know how to drive. Finish a draft. It’s 200 words over. Cut. Realize there’s something interesting over to the left. Revise again. Am once again 200 words over. Repeat. Fricking 50 point turn over here. Hopefully I figure it out.

The rush that I get going to bed with a book knowing that I could instead be out instead is unreal. Imagine being in public. Imagine being perceived. Imagine having to get home at the end.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

very good and it zeroes in on a really important dynamic: the way the professionalization of the court and the industry around it serves to insulate the justices from democratic feedback as well as contribute to the idea that the justices are law wizards to whom we *ought* to defer.

Anyway my favorite thing is when you’ve spent hours trying to make yourself do a scary thing and then the moment you psych yourself up your browser crashes and you have to restart your computer.

D&D style warlock who is a very neurotic verbal processor and needs validation every time they cast a spell. Their patron literally just provides reassurance.

For some who should have gotten up ten minutes ago, I really am spending a lot of time helping this cat find the comfiest way to sit on me.

Victor Frankenstein literally out here as the quintessential warning against a 20 CHA, 6 WIS build Truly the worst, stupidest man alive and then every boy he meets is like “He had the most compelling eyes I’ve ever seen in my life. He’s beautiful. I’d die for him.”

The other day I watched the original nyan cat video with a couple of kids who were born post-nyan cat After a couple of minutes listening to it loop, one of these nine year olds was just like “the internet was good once” in the most wistful tone and the other one nodded.

Rereading Frankenstein and all of the frame stories make it really funny. Like I love the idea of Viktor Frankenstein remembering random neighborhood gossip from a letter years earlier and then he tells that gossip to Robert Walton who carefully transcribes it verbatim in his letter to his sister.

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

One thing about life is that you’ll just be going around doing shit & someone will cite something Freud once said as definitive truth. No caveats, no contextualizing, just “as Freud teaches us: some random statement that’s prolly 20% accurate.” Anyway, it’s always really weird when they happens

Why am I getting ads for baby books with a QR code that you scan and then it reads the book to your baby? What the fuck? Like I don’t have a baby but if I did, I’d want to read to it myself? Why would I have a baby if I didn’t want to interact with it?

One thing you can do right now if you are mad is find a place like @voteriders.bsky.social (or another local group if you can) and sign up to volunteer. We're fighting on a million fronts right now but one no-brainer is to help people who would vote if they could figure out how.

This is key to why most SFF readers start in childhood, and it can be a struggle to learn how to read SFF as an adult if you didn’t start teen you still knew how to read like a kid.

Currently teaching in NYC and today kids were asking me about the state of public transit in Austin (my hometown) and they straight up did not believe me. They kept being like “but it’s a major city” and I was like yeah bruh, I know. “But how do you get around?!”