🎶 Government government shut down; Furloughed employees. MAGA wants to burn everything, to please a big orange bay-bee🎶 Sung to the tune of N*Sync's "Digital Get Down"

There's a reason the autocrats don't want you to read. There's a reason they don't want information to be created and recorded by actual humans.

I love @epistemiclit.bsky.social! Everyone should check out the work they publish.

🗣️THIS is the message!! Brava, Congresswoman @aoc.bsky.social!!

Once again, this perfect @zeboydgames.bsky.social post comes to mind:

Some days your 3yo throws up in the middle of the night so you stay home coloring pictures.

Joy is a scarce enough resource that it feels super wasteful to put it in our bar soap.

"slow your roll" - judgemental - discouraging - negative "In order to dance the Bamba, it's necessary to have a little grace" - erudite - sensual - clear and direct instruction

I have a new favorite "translated product manual" artifact.

The OT economy was designed to avoid wealth concentration: sabbath rest, no-interest loans, debt cancellation, year of jubilee, return of lands, no harvesting all of your field, etc. It brings to mind: "It's not that Christianity has been tried and found wanting; it's been found hard and not tried"

Authors, homeroom attendance is about to be taken! Get your written assignments of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More in before #SciFanSat submissions close at 11:59 PM EST tonight at scifansat.com/landing.html and be saved by the bell! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

Me, wishing this post were about the upcoming autumnal equinox and the shortening of days.

On Friday I ordered Thai Hot, But a young man of 20, I'm not. The spice that I eat I must also excrete, So my "business" this morning was fraught. #LimerickSunday

I sometimes order my curry Thai Hot, but as I get older I'm increasingly saddened by my body's decreasing ability to handle it.

I love this. I love love love this. The subtle shift away from certainty and belligerence, towards curiosity and humility.

Tomorrow I teach my students A Modest Proposal. Which pun is a better title: Infanibalism: Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal Or Nobody Called It Can't-ibalism: A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

Students were eating lunch when they heard the gunshots. It’s yet another horrific school shooting, and every time my heart breaks for the kids, parents, and communities shattered by gun violence. We can’t stop demanding change. Congress can and must pass gun safety legislation.

Slightly diminish a book: 1983

Beliked by Toni Morrison

Ok blooskee froends, what's a joke you thought would kill but went largely unseen?

Gordon laughed at the maxim, a laugh empty of joy, filled instead with bitterness. He wiped the sweat from his brow and set his chisel once more. "It falls to us to rebuild the world, so you better believe I'm going to reinvent the wheel."

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

The anti-vax elephant in the room is that if 99% of children ARE vaccinated: your child can be unvaccinated & there's no one to spread it to her. It's exceptionalism. Non-vaccinated children REQUIRE the safety of mass vaccination. Each new anti-vax convert destroys the illusion of that safety. 1/

2Passionate 2Christian

The Once-ler tonight: "I don't think we are currently in a Truffula Tree crisis"

Dallas Texas

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

Absolutely. I don't love the idea of Adam being handsome, as his physical appearance is a huge part of why people reject him without a second thought, but Frankenstein's creation is absolutely supposed to be the most sympathetic character in the book.

Texas has recently passed similar laws, specifically related to teachers. I cant legally tell a depressed student "hey, please don't hurt yourself. Let me help you find professional help" unless a parent has said it's ok. Children will die because idiots think children are property of parents.

Cheerwine but pronounced so it rhymes with heroine.

I know this is weird, but... I've been praying that Trump and his ilk will have a miraculous change of heart and begin trying to undo their damage. Maybe he's in a time of intense self reflection and he's about to 180 and begin setting things right?? Unrelated, is optimism a mental disorder?

Fantastic question. I feel it's too complex for a "basically good" or "basically evil" answer. We are (imo) designed with incredible capacity for good and also afflicted with a natural limitation to our own perspective. That limitation often looks like wickedness or selfishness... (1/?)

There's a few differences between teaching third graders and ninth graders, but this is mostly accurate. I don't struggle to get my students to read even when I allow them absolute freedom to choose their own book, so you can imagine how easy it is to make them read The Communist Manifesto.

All this time I've been wearing them on my gings... How embarrassing.

This thread

To see little poems like this This ongoing limerick bliss Brings me delight It makes me feel bright Folks write 'em despite weeks I miss. #LimerickSunday

My kids love to line up all their plastic dinosaurs and zoo animals to play "ultimate rumble" going down the line and making them fight in pairs, with winners moving to the next round.

Worried about being criticised, ostracised or blacklisted because you used genAI tools in your writing? Here's a great hack to make sure it never happens to you: Do the writing yourself, like a grown-up.

In summary, the average child sexual predator’s profile is: married, male, white, heterosexual, religious, surrounded by friends and family, and a parent.

Pleased to have a flash fiction piece published again this month.

I got cheated! This isn't a fortune, it's just polite advice!

It's Friday morning and tomorrow starts Labor Day Weekend. Anyone else feeling some Les Mis?

Aaaaanything to avoid blaming the prevalence of guns and the ease with which people obtain them.

Mitochondrial challenge sounds like a TikTok trend in which students film themselves being punched in the face by "powerhouses"

To break this down, you are a member of this class as an author if: (A) you are the legal copyright owner, and (B) the work is in LibGen or PiLiMi and was downloaded by Anthropic, and (C) the work possesses either an ISBN or an ASIN, and (D) the work was registered with the US copyright office.

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature