Artemis is a hopeful reminder that government can be a good thing if we staff it with passionate, skilled, and honorable people.

Reminder to next dem government: take all of SpaceX’s federal contracts and give the money back to NASA.

Electric or no? I NEED AN ELECTRIC MINIVAN

All this brings me to my next ask: have any of y'all had any success with in-class essay writing? And would mind sharing your syllabus/plan/etc for me? I've been trying to think of how to do that and I am not trained to teach ENG101 in a history classroom. Help?

my moment this semester was showing a Tom Lehrer video. I suspected Weird Al wouldn't hit, so went modern and said he's like Bo Burnham. NOPE Bo Burnham is for old people too apparently!

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I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

How can therapy be regulated as an evidence based therapeutic intervention if therapists have a First Amendment right to say anything to any client? If therapy can't be regulated as a therapeutic intervention, why would insurance pay for it any more than it pays for newspaper subscriptions?

Trans rights are human rights. This Transgender Day of Visibility, we honor the resilience of transgender and nonbinary Americans and celebrate their incredible courage.

Me on social media vs me in the classroom

another morning grading reading responses means another morning longing for the destruction of generative AI

what people sound like when they say i asked claude

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

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I know it's been said a million times but I cannot get over how much he seems to enjoy doing the job of mayor (not just "being" mayor)

This is the type of behavior St. Peter reminds you of right before he pulls the lever that opens the trapdoor to Hell.

Cybertrucks have a polar opposite and this is it.

Okay, so: 1) fertilizers are in shortage; 2) E15 comes from corn fed with fertilizers; 3) land used to grow corn for ethanol produces 3.2% of the energy generated by covering the same amount of land with solar panels. With all respect, what are we doing here?

less talk about cold plunges and jawlines, more building your wife a table and your kids a playset

Sorry folks you’re going to have to be sincere and earnest and uncool and otherwise lame if you want to defeat fascism

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

if you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean; get this man a mop and bucket

Portland pothole artists are seriously my favorite people. If you know one or are one and would be willing to talk about your craft, please DM

Your reminder that John Cena holds the record for granting the most wishes for the Make-a-Wish Foundation by a considerable margin.

Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity.

I was an energy/environment reporter for four years and spent what felt like half my time writing explainers about how no, the president does not unilaterally make gas prices higher, so needless to say this is all pretty embarrassing

I was raised by a weirdo so I have been concerned for most of my life that we're wasting a finite resource (helium) in fucking BALLOONS, when it's crucial to medical technology.

next president is almost certainly going to have to deal with a debt crisis, an inflation crisis, and a recession crisis, and senators who pretend none of this is anything they need to worry about are setting everyone up for reactionary anger

it was a great article too, May’s Cold War Warm Hearth!

grading reading responses with fake quotes in them *will* turn me into the joker.

getting old is such bullshit. stretched my neck wrong in the night and now I'm in batman mode.

"This is probably Pittsburgh's fault somehow." — everyone in Cleveland

Today I'm showing "Somewhere That's Green" to kick off my lecture on postwar suburbanization. Any bets on how many of them have heard of/seen Little Shop of Horrors? fwiw Tom Lehrer last week got blank stares (and so did Bo Burnham, when I tried to explain Tom Lehrer)...

Volunteers from three continents are set to converge in Havana this weekend, with more than 20 tonnes of food, medicine and solar equipment for Cuban communities hit by a brutal US blockade. #cuba

Wait, they're saying Sam Walton didn't think about his larger influence and impact and just woke up every morning focusing on the business? The Sam Walton from War-Mart? The Sam Walton from TO SERVE GOD AND WAL-MART? That one?

I am going to join the Women's Christian Temperance Union bsky.app/profile/josh...

“your poor planning is not my emergency” diplomacy

love to pay 25 bucks to download the police report from being in a hit and run. incredible system we have here.

Sheriffs across the country make it a point to publish booking photos of every person they arrest and they run them in the local paper.

Man. The Democratic Party is cooked if their one big idea in this moment is tax cuts.

The Teller Amendment is technically still on the books, it's never been repealed. 30 Stat. 738 (Joint Res. 24) "the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island..."

Spotted this on a pole behind independence hall. I recently saw someone say they found collage to be the best way to work through things and I didn’t really see it at the time but

okay doing a gender reveal with a video from a recently-deceased relative has got to be a new low in reality TV…

UPDATE: A tense, day-long standoff outside a South Burlington house ended Wednesday night with federal immigration agents removing three people inside and a series of violent clashes between police and hundreds of activists who tried to impede the apprehension. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):

once again telling people to read The Intermediaries by @bschillace.brandyschillace.com

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

Teaching Lindbergh's "America First" speech from American Yawp and I gotta say it's hitting a bit different this go around given the current context...

not too late to switch to an EV! prospect.org/2026/03/06/e...

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