You know, "Why is this assignment that you have turned into me actively wet?" is a question I have to ask way too often for my taste.

Damn, lost my Connections and Strands streaks yesterday because for some reason the NYT app doesn't have a "don't lose your streak" push notification. That's on me.

@janecoaston.bsky.social Good news, more historians coming around to one of your points of view www.americanheritage.com/woodrow-wils...

www.maptap.gg April 30 100🎯 100🎯 98🎯 100🎯 100🎯 Final score: 996 MapTap celebrating Charity Bowl wins too :)

The extended discussion on @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social this week of Frank Military reminds me that he plays a pivotal role as a guest star in "Past Tense, Parts I and II" of DS9.

Of course it happened again [bullpen]

This Paolo / Cade duel has been fun (fun pending a hopeful Pistons victory.)

One of the single greatest Simpsons sequences ever: www.instagram.com/reel/DXslplc...

skkkkkkkub 😮‍💨

OK, SVG and I both enjoying "Puts the bank in Banchero"

Noting while I watch the Pistons: Kevin McGonigle has hit safely in 13 consecutive games and has reached base safely in 26 consecutive starts with his single against the Braves tonight.

I liked the basketball better when the Michigan-based team started running away with the game, the longer it went on.

IN NO ORDER "Bad (live)" - U2 "Slide Away" - Oasis "Superstition" - Stevie Wonder "Love Spreads" - Stone Roses "In the Living Room" - Maggie Rogers "Til I Hear it From You" - Gin Blossoms "Baba O'Riley" - The Who "The Weight" - The Band "Freedom '90" - George Michael "In the Meantime" - Spacehog

If you aren't on Twitter, you might not have seen this! @marc-gregor.bsky.social and @byazuniga.bsky.social are putting together a photo book chronicling the 2025-26 Michigan men's basketball national championship season. It should be fantastic. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

Hey, coding folks, there should be a simple way to prevent a rich text input field from automatically turning typed hyperlinks into clickable links, right? Because someone's gonna need to figure that out by Monday, or there's gonna be issues.

The CEO of Cure Auto Insurance is sitting courtside in Detroit, so congratulations to the Magic on advancing to the second round.

So, today I was walking through the exemplar DBQ responses I had written in the past because I thought that having excellent, structured essays helps my classes get the rhythms of what this process. HOWEVER, they are not "you have to reach this level to get full point."

Michigan content! Kim Barnes Arrico is here cheering on Jordan Hobbs

JPF, say something positive about tonight’s Pistons game challenge: Well, at least our collective suffering will come to an end?

Big day for noted Michigan man and Charity Bowl donor Brian

Ticonderoga is running a contest where you can win up to 1000 pencils if you tell them why you love them in an Instagram post, so naturally, I had to drop a "not so fast my friends" on them.

Tim Walz explains the perfect social media relationship: - person I’ve never met - calls himself ‘norm’ but I don’t know if that’s his real name - follow him because he’s usually talking about sports

"DO NOT PUT YOUR VENMO IN YOUR DBQ RESPONSE! IT WILL NOT WORK!"

Underrated 90s banger: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dwu...

www.maptap.gg April 29 99🎯 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 92🏆 Final score: 975

Apparently, we're having a secret staff-only Star Wars Spirit Week next week, and I really really wish I had a Trek comm badge but next week is also Exam Week and I'm too tired to pull that off.

OK Mister Wenceel!

@stefanielaine.bsky.social Thanks to an effort by our student leadership, kids today, which I was helping with (by teaching them about the PhotoScan app), the 1987 edition of the SHS yearbook allowed me to introduce some current seniors to the "People were just older in the 80s" theory.

Oh right, the Atlanta baseball team, very good.

And McGonigle reaches base safely again, hit streak at 12!

Oh come on, now McGonigle is getting looked at by the trainers, BUT...he may be OK, so...

If you want to talk about well deserved flowers, @normcharlatan.bsky.social , my goodness, deeds not words (but keep the words coming, they're generally very funny!)

Blooper just lurking in the background of the shot, and the Braves score a third run.

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

Walz: “He calls himself Norm … I follow him on social media and he usually posts about sports”

Dang, McGonigle nearly left the yard or at least had extras, but Acuna makes a great catch at the brick wall in right.

And shit, now Javy's writing on the ground near first base.

So, um, Casey Mize got hurt throwing the ball to first in the bottom of the third, so it's Georgia Tech's own Brant Hurter

Jason Benetti just talked about how they have time for shenanigans on TV thanks to “their producer Thomas Foolery” Protect this man

Hey, Braves threaten but do not score!

Dammit, I'm happy for the folks who will enjoy wearing it, but, dammit, I wanted a Perry jersey www.boxlunch.com/product/disn...

In a 76 team field, you give the conference bids to the regular season champs and call it a long weekend.

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

It's Tigers at Braves in Cobb County, and everyone is wearing their regular home/road uniforms, two classics!

Does pitching in ATL count as a sort of homecoming for Springville, Alabama's Casey Mize?

So one of the better things I've ever done for AP Review is "DBQ Live" which is when I would take one of the released Document Based Questions and then write it live and explain my thinking as I went to my class, one per hour.

on top of everything else, adding 8 NCAA Tournament games on Tuesday and Wednesday is going to make bracket pools a mess

OK, can the NCAA announce that the men's hockey tournament is expanding to 18 for the 2027-28 tournament so Michigan can win the damn thing next season? (Michigan is now 2 for 2 on winning titles the year before tournament expansion in the 2020s.)

Last ten minutes of my fourth hour, one of my former students busts into my room because she has a complaint, waits patiently for me to finish what I am doing, tells my APUSH class it's OK if you get a 2 on the exam because she still got into an honors college, and Mr. B still likes me.

For the sake of completeness, OO back! (I presume that this was delayed by Michigan WBB NIL donations being rerouted to the Charity Bowl last week.)