The thing every teacher knew would happen with these trash digital curriculums is indeed happening with them. www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

Thinking a lot about how the NYT helped push a moral panic about trans youth into the mainstream yet failed to include interviews with actual trans youth in their reporting. It's because if allowed to speak, they'd show how much gender affirming care has allowed them to not only survive but thrive.

Oh please please please let them do a full year of Education books... open.spotify.com/episode/4WUR...

If you are a word or book person, I have an Instagram account where I just post lines that grab me from things I've read for no reason other than that words are pretty neat. If you have lines that you read that fit together nice, I would love to read them. www.instagram.com/favoritesent...

I made a little zine about the data fallacies that drive me the most nuts (pun intended... you'll see). You can grab pdf's to share and print on my website, www.mrtomrad.com/library or read it on my medium page medium.com/@mrtomrad/th...

Working on my first ever zine today...

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

@mrtomrad.bsky.social quoting the one properly-reticent executive on an AI panel a year ago: “We can only transfer a portion of reality into computational language.” Pretty sure that take is still a good one. mrtomrad.medium.com/i-went-to-30...

I've been quite hard on myself lately, but in the last couple of days I bussed and trained and metro'd from Bilbao to Barcelona by myself using only my limited Spanish and I posted a piece I've been working on for a year. So... maybe I get a little treat today.

I've been engaging in a bit of a double side-project. First, I've been trying to build a relationship with visual art that I've never really had; and second, writing without masking my neurodivergent patterns. This piece is one I've been building for about a year. medium.com/p/c6cb848c0a...

This is golden. danmeyer.substack.com/p/rip-khanmi...

I like Edutopia because they so often come at Ed topics with nuance. Like... anyone TEACHING knows we have to take a little bit from everything and anyone trying to tell you there's one right way that works every time is selling you something.

Over the course of a single day, the President moves between declaring victory and hinting at dramatic escalation; between touting negotiations and claiming there is no one left to talk to. He is both erratic and in over his head and the usual guard rails are gone. buttondown.com/natebowling/...

It's wild how "I am friends with some of the coolest and best people I've ever met in the world and they legitimately like me" can exist at the same time as "I suck and am fully unlikeable" can exist in my brain at exactly the same time.

Oh cool... 'heat islands' around data centers.... thank god ai is totally worth it. www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/c...

Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:

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"To complete, as art historians and experts have called it in whispers and dreams, ‘A Full Ninja Turtle,’ I have to wake up early on my last day in London..." mrtomrad.medium.com/the-shudderi...

"To complete, as art historians and experts have called it in whispers and dreams, ‘A Full Ninja Turtle,’ I have to wake up early on my last day in London..." mrtomrad.medium.com/the-shudderi...

Last week, I went to two of the most impressive art museums I've ever been in and had a profound experience standing in front of the art of masters... but have also been thinking ever since of all the art and thought we missed by only paying white dudes to make it.

There's a few good reasons that selling books (or even getting attention for one) is very hard. And yet, like 4 million of us were dumb enough write one anyway. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Love that Fetterman has ALREADY announced he'll vote for Mullin's confirmation. I'm not even sure Noem knows yet... that fuckin' guy.

I've been thinking, as I often do, about Kurt Vonnegut. There's this scene in Slaughterhouse Five where Billy, who is having some time-traveling issues, watches a war movie backwards. It's just such a powerful example of speculative fiction, of imagining a world that could be better... here it is:

Worth remembering that many of these students spent high school under Florida's education censorship laws allegedly meant to protect them from learning "divisive" material or feeling a bit sad or icky about the history and current state of race relations in the US.

I think Nate and I had a great conversation here... and also my audio is awful and depression had slowed my speaking down by about 60%... but still... got to give lots of love to all (not Jacob Frey) of Minneapolis.

Love this!

1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration: Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure. Its a horrifying escalation.

Before the US started another dumb war in the Middle East, I had a great conversation with my friend @mrtomrad.bsky.social about his decision to move his family to Spain and the ICE siege of his beloved Minneapolis. open.spotify.com/episode/2Y4R...

So many words in one headline signaling just how much danger we're in as a society. People are BETTING ON BOMBINGS. www.npr.org/2026/03/01/n...

“The persecution is the point,” said Rep. Abi Boatman, Kansas’ only trans state legislator, in a statement to the Star on Wednesday. “It tells me that Kansas Republicans are interested in being on the vanguard of the culture war and in a race to the bottom.”

Today, I'm excited to launch SmrtTails, an AI-driven boutique hard mocktail disruptororporation. We're taking the health and popularity of the mocktail movement and adding alchohol to make those mocktails really POP. With AI, also. AI will be super involved and scaleable. Agents. Growth. .

Bush era war monger Bill Kristol continues to run absolute circles around Democratic Congressional leadership in standing up for democracy and fighting against authoritarianism

This is about @ziibiing.com , who has been doing important and beautiful acitivism work since forever. It's inspiring, but that one piece is one I'll be thinking about... building a helper reflex. How do we build our own, how do we help others build theirs?

"We’re building a helper reflex where instead of encountering a problem and saying that we can’t do anything, we’re just trying to do it. Anyone could start with something like this, by collecting together where they see people asking for help in their community." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Oh boy, as a trans person, if this doesn't hit home right now

So if 90% of tariffs were paid for by U.S. consumers, and if $134-billion dollars of that money could now be sent to businesses... then America will be great again? fortune.com/2026/02/13/n... www.bbc.com/news/article...

I've been reading about DaVinci and have found two reasons why I feel some sort of kindred spirit that connects us. For one, my guy started about 10,000 projects based on a sudden fascination that he never finished. "this pattern of noncompletion was to become a feature of his career as a painter"*

This is giving me an undue amount of hope: "The Thames Valley Police said in a statement that it had 'arrested a man in his sixties from Norfolk on suspicion of misconduct in public office and are carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk.'" Just a man. Just an ordinary criminal.

SHOCKING. I am SHOCKED they had plans to use this against people. Next, we'll find out that all the surveliance tech that ICE purchased might be used against U.S. citizens as well! (also, thank you 404 for your reporting and for being a sanity harbor in this storm of WTF)

Look, I'm sorry I missed the funeral, but the company I bought my new cell phone protector screens from seemed really desperate to get my review of their service.

This could be very helpful to educators

Me: Surely if I was just a better person or doing work that is more meaningful and helpful to the world around me I would be able to make enough money not be so worried all the time... The World:

What did people do before the internet? Much better things: www.mylondon.news/news/nostalg...

This story is not surprising to a lot of us but also hugely important, especially for 🔭 because this is who the space sciences are being handed to 🧪 "Musk’s posts repeatedly echoed prominent white supremacist narratives and ideologies"

I wish university presses would try to get some physics textbooks by women published Too much push for memoir, not enough push for “write about the thing you do”

A few folks in my life with "chronic decision paralysis" are increasingly telling me "well, I asked Chat or Gemini and it said...." Habibi, there is literally no faster way to get me to stop listening to you than uttering that sentence.

Working on something in In Design and clicked the font button. Instead of a list of fonts I've been using, it said "describe the font you want to use." Anyway, that's it. That's the end. If you want me, I'll be using typewriters and tape or just shouting from my window from this point forward.