This morning's big meeting was 2 hours of training on trauma, and not only was it quite good (part one of two parts), they actually provided coffee! And creamer! And snacks! And the creamers & snacks were good & varied! Now that's how you get teachers to feel supported & engaged on a heavy topic.

Okay, silver lining: this year I've definitely improved my skills in catching cheating, preventing cheating, documenting cheating, and communicating with a variety of people (students, colleagues, supervisors, families of students) about cheating. Skill building, woo, right?

The typo discovered belatedly in one's widely shared post is the microblogging equivalent of the ancient "memento mori" whispered to a general in his chariot during a truumph, used to warn the general/poster against succumbing to hubris (also known as "poster's madness"). In this essay I will

Just started reading Kory Stamper's book on defining colors, and it's as much a delight as I expected. This will be a joy to read, and if I'm not careful, is gonna distract me until I miss my bus.

I have stolen 12T of KitKats that were in transit and which you were probably hoping to buy in Poland forgive me the world is stressful and I needed a break

Between the pressure shifts and the tree pollen this week, my sinuses are trying to invert. I knew going bipedal was a bad idea.

Finally got to introduce the passive voice to my Latin III students today. Properly, not some truncated little "We have perfect passive participles, and nothing else passive! cope!" situation like this book set us up with. Very exciting. --I'm not the only one who thinks that! Some students agreed!

this is the actual and IMO very good reason why social media platforms usually avoid edit buttons

MARYLAND COME GET YOUR CATS

an evergreen skeet

Riddles of the Sphinx by Meagan Cleveland🏛️🌿✨ (commissioned work)

“Victim Blaming and Slut Shaming in the Exegesis on the Soul (NHC II,6)” is out today with Harvard Theological Review—and is open access thanks to UVA! Please give it a read if you’re interested in ancient sexual violence, Coptic, or monasticism www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

DAMP BABY DRYER LINT

Gosh I love a good cuneiform thread.

Flame cannot believe that Dora is on the cover of today’s new york times magazine instead of her

Everything on Bluesky is 100% public and has been from day one, due to the nature of its design. Please use Signal for communications you need to keep private.

This this this. I’ve had a grown man come to the verge of tears yelling at me that this can’t be true. At a Christmas party, no less. An insane mix of fear and rage. Which are the two driving poles of rich white guys now, I guess.

It is entirely possible to think that both fascism and capitalism are bad without inaccurately claiming they’re literally the same thing

Climbing up the skyline to reskeet a few cat pics so that my friends know I'm still alive.

At home and being colonized by my cat

protesting in this outfit is a real “heads I win, tails you lose” moment when it comes to the optics

anyway good night (from this sleepy baby seal who rolled into my house or something)

Every spring I see someone chirping that if you haven't worn something in 6 months, you're probably not going to. My neighbor, 6 months ago it was LATE SEPTEMBER in MINNESOTA and now it is LATE MARCH in MINNESOTA but that doesn't mean I'll never need sandals again. This didn't START OUT a metaphor.

1. Moms are women that have their own hopes and dreams, newsflash 2. Even if you want to make this about their status as mothers - who else would protest for a better future than mothers of small children?!

If nothing else the 2020s should put paid forever to the idea that rich people are rich because they're smart.

Even with exegetical comments on the sword in the NT!

New comical heist just dropped

"If you’d like to support our efforts to continue developing Merlin Fight ID, please consider recording your next fight with your partner or parent and then uploading it to our database. No disagreement is too subtle or too savage to be identified and cataloged."

I said this privately to friends but I like it well enough to thread it here: Palm Sunday is Jesus anticipating 2000 years of narrative theory and observing that any story can be both comic and tragic, any moment within any story can contain ambiguities too complex to allow for resolution,

The MSP public transport system is valiantly struggling to meet the demands of today's protest activity. I hope everyone in an inflatable costume saves the inflation for after arrival, both for space reasons and to avoid being blown away in these winds

It has come to my attention that I don't actually know precisely what constitutes an 'indie' video game, beyond 'not AAA', and presumably there's a term (or terms?) for games between those two points. Assuming that's actually a spectrum, which perhaps it's not. Huh.

I'm glad I spent half the day yesterday on the aquarium trip, because now I have a dreadful sore throat that'll probably last the week. I usually get sick as soon as you have a break. But when it didn't happen the first weekend of spring break, I thought I'd escaped. Nope! It was just lurking.

I have taken many terrible photos at the aquarium, and will probably not post any because the alt text would be "blurry off-center shark with a blurrier fish in front of it" for all of them, occasionally swapping out some of the nouns.

The arapaima and river sturgeon in this aquarium are making me seriously reconsider ever again entering an undomesticated body of water. They are glorious.

I am walking through a busy mall while "Kiss From a Rose" plays overhead, carrying a small bag of books from B&N. If it weren't for the coffee in my other hand and the state of my knees, I would think I had traveled back in time 25 years.

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Desiring not to spend this entire spring break sitting on the couch playing video games, I am heading outside today to be cultural and stuff. I will finally go to the aquarium in, gods help me, the Mall of America.

lacuna metadata what a terrible phrase lacuna metadata ain't no trivial phase it means no data for far too many days lacuna metadata

omg the belly

A spring cartoon for @newscientist.com

The world does not need more undergraduate history essays but does need more people who can write good ones.

Yesterday at the dog run, Adverb met a very enthusiastic two year old Pomeranian, and I'm not sure he's quite recovered from the experience yet.

10 years ago today, the RRS Boaty McBoatface sailed into all our lives.

I would say that I'm stuck in a spreadsheet hell today, except that, however fiddly and tedious it is to enter all this data, I really am learning useful things thereby to use for helping my students get better at Latin. Like, we really need a dative of agent review. Desperately.

It's a staff work day, so I have my playlist of video games soundtracks going as I work through my lists. Wrote a recommendation for a fortitude award to the sound of "Determination from Within," and now I'm grading a test passage about poisoning a dinner guest to "Malevolence creeps from behind."

You know, this explains so much.

Had a lovely meeting with the schools director of curriculum about how to better prepare/support students who enter in high school, and don't have the skills they need to thrive in our classes. A lot of stuff that it's easy to not think of as a skill until seeing its lack: taking notes, forex.

Up until recently, that was often the case. My parents used to live in a fire-prone area, and we got so used to it, that there were times I wouldn’t even call them when there was a fire, I would just text.

The neighbor's cat wants to go for a walk with us and Banjo is very confused

"Hot, sexy, dangerous boys cannot be copyrighted."