ok this is a totally niche question but... does anyone know where to get a good weekly family planner #calendar in the US? we've used this one for a few years but it's no longer available here. And our family's gonna implode without it. www.a-journal.nl/p/a-journal-...

see, this is what happens whenever I sit down and try to write a literature review.

what's it called when standard lexicon of a field consistently conflates the meaning of one term for another one, to the detriment of understanding of anyone outside the field? like saying "improve safety" when you mean "reduce liability" or "demand" when you mean "consumption"

Randomly remembering the kid in my high school who got a perfect score on the SAT and then went on a church burning spree

OpenAI Co-Founder Donates $25M To Trump Super PAC

Lots of VIPs at the #Davidson basketball game tonight

Ah yes, the old "I know you therefore you cannot be an expert" logic

We are up to 3. Three #ticks from one short traipse in the woods in late December in NC, two weeks after a very hard freeze.

Make that two of us. Two ticks in two days in December.

One of us pulled off a tick. In December. In North Carolina.

I grew up hating Nebraska. Anyone from Nebraska could not be trusted. Anyone who voluntarily went to Nebraska could not be saved. I didn't spend time thinking about Nebraska, but any mention of the state got my spidey senses up. 🧵

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

I am enjoying watching the niblings trying to wrap their heads around the fact that I have the Muppets Christmas Carol on VHS. #LightTheLampNotTheRat

What if we all just keeping telling gmail's spam filter that emails from gemini are spam

Admittedly small sample size, but my research suggests 6th graders vastly prefer icing, off-brand m&ms, and gummy Lifesavers to homemade chocolate chip cookies, high dollar cake, and fresh fruit

Three 6th graders are attempting to make gingerbread houses in my kitchen without adult supervision

NHTSA released estimates of traffic fatalities in the first half of 2025, so I made a quick visual to show that bicyclists are one of only two categories with increasing fatalities Data: crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/V... Visual: www.datawrapper.de/_/EFpSk/

Giving a 10 year old a Chromebook with constant WiFi access and saying, "only use this for school work" is like giving a dog a steak and saying, "just nibble around the edges" If you're not prepared to be their guardrails, you can't expect them not to eat the whole steak.

one of the coolest parts about all this #AI stuff is when it emails you a paper in a pay-to-play journal that is basically your paper but with someone else's name on it, on a topic in which you are the seminal author, and doesn't cite any of your work #AcademicSky

We need more of the kind of people who can singlehandedly wrangle 3 middle school orchestras and 4 middle school bands into one 90 minute concert

Of all of the #LinkedIn #spam, this kind is my favorite

A lot of things are going wrong right now, but sitting on the front steps waiting on the school bus while having a Lucinda Williams sing-a-long with my almost-12-year-old is definitely not one of them

My bike for tonight. Be at Carrboro town commons by 7:30 and let’s finds some of Carrboros best Xmas lights

I was just presented with a reference to a paper on COVID-19...from 2018. #AI is great.

Meanwhile, have a little dog refusing to come in from the cold until the school bus brings his small human back

My PC needs to shut down and restart but My PC is running and preventing My PC from shutting down and restarting

So much car brain “I'm okay with asking someone to drive two more miles to save 50 percent of the cost... ” Friedman said. “We all know teachers and state employees don’t make a lot of money. This will help save them money, and will help save us even more money.” www.wunc.org/health/2025-...

The amount of slop on FB now is alarming. I go only to check a local grapevine and a weather account, and when I'm not specifically on those pages it's just firehose of AI-generated click bait make believe. #meta

Being able to tie a bow without having to wait for someone, literally anyone, to amble over and lend me a finger. Just one finger. For two seconds. All I need.

Um, #ChapelHillNC look outside. There's white stuff. Falling. From the actual sky.

Teach like a Luddite! In which I join @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social to argue for a Luddite praxis in education grounded in three elements: embracing strategic playfulness; developing localized tactics; and building networks of resistance. Read the article at Kappan:

I will never stop being impressed at this dog's ability to snuggle with all four of his feet at once.

I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism. A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count. If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!

Hear me out what if everybody drove slightly slower when it's dark out

no fewer than 5 "motor vehicle used as weapon" incidences on the #ChapelHillNC crime radar for today, and it's barely lunchtime. #CarsRuinEverything

the best is when the business owner parks in the bike lane with a bike rack on his car. lookin' at you, Purple Bowl guy.

best part of the holiday road trip was getting to drive through an actual bomb plant, where they made actual bombs, because that's where the road went and it was the cold war. soldiers searched every car. it was awesome. i'm sure my parents LOVED it too. /s

Taking things back to the way you remembered them when you were 12 doesn't make you 12 again. You're still whatever age you are today, dealing with the things people your age have to deal with.

Ahhh, the a Wednesday after Thanksgiving... otherwise known as "the day I come up with a suitable reply to my politically opposite extended family member's Thanksgiving dinner insult."

The dead guy's chocolate has arrived.

The purpose of higher education is not to tell students what to think, nor even to fill their heads with information. The purpose of higher education is to help students develop the skills to think for themselves, and to freely decide what information gets to fill their heads.

Scientific/enviro communities are starting to get this -- just talking AT ppl because you have good data isn't a convincing argument. And the communities are rightly starting from a place of mistrust. Building that trust in coalition takes time and I'm not sure targeting groups helps that endeavor.

Not every job requires a college degree. But higher education is about so much more than job training, and every kid deserves affordable access to it. Public support of higher education is an investment in a shared future that we all benefit from.

Why am I not surprised. “Senate Republicans in January plan to criticize requirements for safety technology, arguing they are ineffective and will unnecessarily drive up the cost of cars, according to people familiar with the situation.” Pedestrian lives, on the other hand, are cheap

hypothetically, if one were to find google chrome refusing to load sites after a windows update, one might fix the issue by exiting and restarting chrome. purely hypothetically. we're all smart enough to figure this out on our own, of course.

In today's episode of "The more insistent the windows update notifications, the shittier the windows update," chrome is now labeling all websites as unsafe. Firefox and Edge are fine, but Chrome refuses to load anything. What gives? #windows #chrome #question

Oh so evidently there's this shady thing where baby formula companies try and guess if you are pregnant by buying smart watch data which is funny because no one in my house has a smart watch and it's addressed to someone who doesn't appear to exist

For years UPS has delivered a dead man's chocolate to us at Christmas. No return address. Today they just dropped off a box of baby formula. No return address. I honestly have no clue.

"Safety" means one of 3 things in most of transportation policy: 1. Ignorance: Reducing congestion and thinking it makes streets safer 2. Cover story: Doing something unpopular but calling it safety so ppl can't oppose it 3. Gaslighting: Refusing to take responsibility for making things unsafe