Thinking about how my high school students are all in on using LLMs to brainstorm and edit and make PowerPoints and (sometimes, some of them) even write their work for them but they also rib each other mercilessly when they catch someone using it and hate when they can tell that their teachers have

thoughts on outlander, the most popular un-influential important minor tv show www.vulture.com/article/outl...

The most shocking thing to me about the heated rivalry phenomenon is that, almost 4 months into this, there are still so many people who say words on tv for a living and can’t pronounce “rivalry”

from the people who brought you "Destroying Public Education in Favor of Test-Based Accountability," we present "School 2: What We Previously Dismantled Was Actually Good It Turns Out"

I profiled Cat Sebastian aka your favorite romance author’s favorite romance author for @nytimes.com ❤️‍🔥🎬

as we approach the Oscars I need to state right up top that every time someone says “this is Timmy’s year” this is the Timmy I picture

I want to shake people and be like, teachers WANT to assign whole books. you don't need to make it a legislative mandate! just give us appropriate autonomy and an incentive/evaluation structure which won't punish use of complex, long readings and full works - most teachers will jump in w both feet.

Oh, do romance readers read too much? Of the wrong kind of books, you say? In the wrong kind of language, you say? Are they too easy, too sexy, too fun, too silly? And we’re pretending this is not The argument that people have made against romance since (checks library) 1785?

Change your clocks tonight! Change them into doves. Release them into the cold March sky. A single feather drifts down, but your clocks are gone. Hold onto the feather, keep it safe. One day the clocks will return, if they love you.

It’s time to get REALLY SERIOUS about paperwork flow in my classroom. That’ll show ‘em (‘em is me)

That clip of Timothee Chalamet being like “no one watches the opera or ballet” is wild and I am dying over every ballet and opera acct (correctly) being like “we’ve been here for hundreds of years before you and we’ll be here for hundreds of years after you” lmao

I believe the romance genre deserves the respect of robust, knowledgeable critical engagement, and you'll see me RTing amazing romance critics who do that! ....AND, I do not want my work to be used to bolster any "yeah! romance sucks!" arguments. romance doesn't suck. it's great.

anyone in education who supports this needs to leave right now and not look back

I wrote the most romantic scene of my entire romance career today: a man clearing everyone out of a woman’s room so she can sleep off a hangover undisturbed

This question brought to you by the slow-rolling mental breakdown John and Michaela’s lack of Scottish accents have induced in me (okay so if the Scottish aristocracy is culturally and by education English, as their accents suggest, then… )

spent an afternoon with bridgerton's yerin ha www.vulture.com/article/brid...

Drop whatever you’re doing and read the opener to this right now and then CRY that you can’t write this good (And then go back to making Hamlet Act III slides)

the primary reason technology has broadly not helped education in the last 20 years is because the motivation behind putting technology in the classroom wasn't spurred by or thought of by teachers, but instead by people trying to profit off of schools buying shit

I just taught “the second coming” to my least interested freshman and was feeling bad that i didn’t do enough scaffolding with poetry annotation last week to get them ready but then I told myself I’ll treat it as a formative benchmark rather than a summative and now I dont feel bad anymore

Another evil pairing

Diabolical match up. I hate you

[Enter Valentine.]

It’s Valentine’s Day. I don’t care who you are or where you’re from, you should be reading a romance today. And The Somerset Sins has 5 extremely messy siblings all finding their love stories in the same volume, so it should be this one! books2read.com/u/4jVOel

This is a terrific article about respecting the romance genre, particularly relevant at the moment given all those stupid valentine's day articles highlighting "best of" lists that are mostly not romances.

Sarah made this helpful flowchart for people thinking about writing romance think pieces for Valentine's Day. It's not too late to turn back!

The first two weeks of February are the cruelest month for romance people

Five interconnected romance novellas coming out Friday. Duke daddy demands his kids find spouses by the Valentine’s Day Ball… or else. We’ve got “good boy” and sapphic pining and freaks turned on by rage-baiting each other about canals. Something for everyone!

Five interconnected romance novellas coming out Friday. Duke daddy demands his kids find spouses by the Valentine’s Day Ball… or else. We’ve got “good boy” and sapphic pining and freaks turned on by rage-baiting each other about canals. Something for everyone!

It’s the 100th day of school this week, so you know what that means! (I’m counting out office supplies in quantities of 100 for my child to put inside an empty water bottle)

As I prepare to move into my fourth temporary classroom in 18 months (classroom #5, we’ll be together soon!) I am giving thanks for my rampant, unmedicated adhd. It may take me 3 weeks to grade a single piece of homework but I also can freak a last minute lesson plan with no warning or supplies

The assumption that romance is not worth protecting from scammers is also wildly insulting considering how romance practically props up the book industry with its sales numbers.

Literally the other day I had to add 17 “I’m not telling you a political opinion right now” caveats before answering a kid’s question about if I saw what the president posted and was it racist. But yeah. Cool. Pray in class. Awesome.

but also just... the conversation outside Romancelandia is NEVER as interesting as what we're talking about they're all still stuck on "is it bad when books are about happiness?" and always will be

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”

Too many fantastic insights/turns of phrase to quote. You just have to read it (I love when we get formalist about romance)

I’m constantly in awe of the willingness of teenagers to show me little pieces of their hearts every day. I’m lucky to have my job

i once bought a new blazer for a schitts creek panel, and when i walked into the green room, catherine o'hara complimented me on it, and also noted that i had forgotten to cut all the threads off the vents. and then she leaned in and said, "it's because you're going to return it, isn't it"

Don DeLillo’s Lord of Scoundrels Don DeLillo’s Fourth Wing Don DeLillo’s Flowers from the Storm

A thing I can highly recommend is driving around with your 12-year-old daughter and belting Olivia Rodrigo’s vampire at the top of your lungs

Such a good season so far; such a treat to have someone as smart as KVA take it seriously

The take I’ve been waiting for! HR is the first tv show I’ve watched that felt like reading a great romance novel: an emotionally absorbing and almost hallucinatory focus on the trajectory of the love relationship. Romance is good! It doesn’t need to be elevated or rescued or redeemed!

Lit’rally the best news I’ve received since the dawn of Trump 2

"It's less harmful to me to make sure that they can do the things without the AI than to try and push the AI into my classroom knowing that, at least for some of them, it's going to mean that they don't get to acquire the skills that they need." This this this this this this this this this this 🙏

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

when I talk about how this is truly the only show to have a romance novel structure, this is what I mean: every other romance adaptation turns the fundamentally, crucially narrow focus of a romance novel into a broader tv world. this show feels different because it does not.

a fellow Jesuit pointed out to me recently that whenever Jesus is angry in the Gospel, it's always because he is also grieving. and while I will never claim to know the mind of God, I'm confident in saying that the state murdering people in the street would be something that drove him to deep grief.

Good morning to all the superintendents who know they are going to cancel school on Monday but won't call it yet so they look tough. Let parents and teachers plan for this emergency, effers.

I would be so fine living in interesting times if this was the kind of wild, unprecedented shit going on