Also prolly good to specifically mention that trans rights are fucking non-negotiable given how hard the regime is going after trans folks rn.

DOOMERS ARE NOT REALISTS! That is so true and so important. They’re not more realistic; they’ve just decided to obey in advance.

Still not over the time one of these guys chased me barefoot trying to steal my ice cream while my mom laughed at me. But, you know, I’m happy for them. Good lil’ guys. Don’t take off your shoes. Don’t let them see your ice cream.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

REAL ACTUAL SPERM WHALE VS GIANT SQUID FOOTAGE? Can we be so lucky?!?! 😍 I dreamed of this as a kid! 🐋🦑

Phonics obviously gets a lot of attention in this convo, but it’s important to also discuss the impact of standardized testing and the decades long push against literature and longer works to prioritize “more practical” kinds of reading which has sucked both joy and nuance from classrooms.

The thing is, I’m pretty sure these all majority black cities and I’m worried that Trump will eventually try to occupy them too at some point. The fact that they are in Republican-controlled states isn’t a gotcha so much as evidence of how they’ve been maligned by their state governments.

This summer was the longest I’ve gone w/o working with kids directly in a while & one day back in the classroom reminded me that a lot of the invasive questions I’m afraid of being asked are actually NOT distorted social anxiety fears, they’re just things only middle schoolers ask.

First day with kids and my job is truly SO MUCH BETTER. Like that’s obvious and it happens every year, but it’s always shocking how much better teaching is once there are actually children. Who would have thought that teachers prefer working with kids?

Every person who says "of course there are some uses for LLMs" should be forced to immediately list what those uses are, taking into account that: a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs

I know better than to read reviews for MG books but apparently I woke up today and chose violence. Love the idea that themes of grief and death are not appropriate for elementary age kids?? Cool, I’ll go let the universe know I guess.

ACTION OPPORTUNITY: Public Comment Period for urging CDC to restore old guidelines that everyone get COVID vaccine access, opposing new restriction to high-risk only (which will reduce number of places stocking it & make it easier for insurance to deny coverage). Commenting takes literally 1 minute!

Sea Level xkcd.com/3135/

Executive function is so stupid bc for a week and a half I’ve been deeply panicked and unable to do tasks and then I got a shelf to put all of my binders on and did like 16 tasks in a row. The binders are watching me now and they are safe.

Regular laundromat is closed for Labor Day but I am a fool who did not foresee this so I am now in a new laundromat. Objectively it is nice but I do not know it and so am very afraid.

My main movie buddy is my brother and he has a strong no snacks before the movie starts rule. Respect the movie, respect the snacks. Anyway I am currently unsupervised and this movie is like almost four hours long, my snacks are limited and I am not rationing accordingly.

Happy birthday Mary Shelley! Congrats on passing on another boring threesome with Byron and inventing science fiction instead!

My co-teacher has leant me her label maker and I am mad with power.

I am also seeing this. This 22 post thread, which you should read all of, is a more eloquent and detailed layout of what I've meant lately when I say only "feels oppy." I know I have a lot of very blue folks around and, seriously, give this some thought, please.

ICYMI, PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! We can't wait to read your stories!!! buff.ly/xB0IZOX

Truly wild to watch someone respond like an adult who’s in touch with reality. Revelation.

The scavenger hunt is using NYC mayoral history to paint Mamdani as firmly within the mainstream of that history. On age. On DSA membership. On public transportation policy. It's such a smart way to launch the general election campaign.

You can tell I’m white AF bc I was genuinely upset about the Cracker Barrel rebrand. But it’s interesting that these conversations are never about corporate enshitification and are instead about culture wars. It’s almost like they’re trying to distract us from something.

The important thing to remember around age verification & most “save the children” campaigns is that the US truly does hate children with the passion of a thousand suns and it is very rare that politicians will ever do anything to genuinely help or protect them.

The CVS is already decorated for Halloween and I’m not mad about it

Just had my first truly unstructured day in like three months and wow, I hate it so much. I am so bad at this. I should not have moved that meeting.

Not about teaching slavery specifically, but I think a lot about the time a parent wrote in because we were using that 1892 photo of hunters with a mountain of bison skulls 30 feet high and bc he was outraged that we were making things up.

I knew intellectually that I was going to be stepping back into my super pro-AI workplace today and I was intellectually prepped for it, but boy was I not emotionally prepared.

About to reach my favorite part of the flight: crawling around on the ground like a maniac looking for my headphone case because somehow I dropped it AGAIN.

Still not over my German classmate writing a horrific sci-fi work contract with 30 days PTO every year and all of the Americans were like “hi I know this is set up to be impossible to take but it still feels too aspirational.”

There’s disempowerment in filling kids’ lives w/ stories in media whose vast production costs mean kids have nearly no chance of ever creating one in response. Consuming mainly screen media then trying to reply in prose leaves one floundering w/ unfamiliar tools. Reading empowers reciprocal creation

I want to do a 🧵 about the Sidney Sweeney thing, because it's *extremely* revealing & educational. First, to be clear: I could not give less of a shit about the details -- the ad, the rhetoric, the jeans, her boobs, whatever. Good lord, who cares. Let's look at the *structure* of the episode.

Opens up my story hours before the workshop deadline knowing it’s still a mess, 400 words over limit, with several unnamed proper nouns. My stupid ass brain: well you’ve just used the word derail in a world with no trains so we better spend at least five minutes finding a synonym for that.

Cis people being weird about trans people makes me think about king crabs. Bear with me for this one because it will make sense. You know king crabs, right? Giant crab, lives up north, has long legs, very expensive and tasty, featured on many a mukbang Did you know they are technically not crabs? 1/

This video is fun as hell and as someone who grew up outside of comics, Princess is always my first pick to contextualize DC stuff

Just figured out that prunes are dried plums and I’m genuinely shocked? What is the prune PR team doing? Plums have such a good rep and then prunes are seen as a sad lame food for old people and pooping? Should I try prunes again?

This is so exhausting. No one's having a "meltdown" over Sydney Sweeney's ad American Eagle deliberately made a weird dogwhistley ad knowing everyone would "engage" about it online, right-wingers would buy AE, stock number go up This is not a real controversy, it is the cycle of corporate life 🧵

Obsessed with the metaphor in this thread

My fault for still fucking with the google suite, but google docs spell check has reached the point where it will tell me to change the spelling of a word and then will immediately flag the changed version as misspelled. Anyway, I love it here. Having a great time with this digital infrastructure.

takeout has always been a thing because human beings have always known it’s unsustainable to Do It All All of the Time™

34. No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality and I’m tired of pretending otherwise

*taps sign*

I would like to talk for like five hours about the workplace camaraderie in Luthor’s control room. one of the most chilling parts of the movie was how many other people it takes to execute evil on this level and all those people were deliberately normie-coded

I have yet again chosen a name for a character that I can tell I will consistently spell four different ways. For the record, it is not a complicated name, I am just very bad at attention to detail. I look forward to being dunked on in critique by people who are capable of noticing spelling.

TELL THEM!!

Only 103 days to Halloween.

horror movie posters but with muppets: thread

Currently in a college dorm w/ a bunch of programs for teens & I would like credit for avoiding teacher mode. The number of times I have fought the urge to clarify instructions I just overheard or managed to avoid telling a kid that’s a complete stranger to not skip dinner is low key heroic.

Excellent thread. We have an obligation to continue fighting against voter suppression just like generations before us. Never easy but necessary.