Going to work today knowing I'll be one of the few people in the building aware that we basically had a Cuban missile crisis yesterday and no one noticed, cared, or tried to do anything about it

liberal walking into the car dealership: i want the second shittiest car you have. i will buy it for literally any price

My kids will never understand how cool it was that I got to see the cranberries in concert.

I had a dream that my wife and I were at Pike Place Market in Seattle. She was getting fruit and I was pushing the cart. There was a stand with Italian cakes and foods and a counter for people to order cocktails. The most dreamlike element is that one of the drinks was named after an obscure..

First period English. Watching the first ten minutes of the 1997 Odyssey TV movie. Odysseus and his men are crammed inside the Trojan horse waiting quietly while the Trojans sleep. Some kid breaks the silence: "I bet it stinks up tharrr." The way he said it cracked me up bad- & if a student makes..

Just finished grading 90 student essays and there was an almost 0% rate of plagiarism because I had the students write them on paper in class first. Turns out kids won't use AI if they've already been forced to believe in their own abilities. It was a struggle but the end result is so worth it.

What people actually want is a boring-ass microblogging site that just works and stays the same forever. That doesn't excite venture capitalists, though, so they need to "innovate" making everything worse until the company collapses, then ride their golden parachutes to the next crime scene

*oscar isaac voice* paul, we have to work with these people; cultivate burger power.

A Moist Owlette is freshly showered at Owl Park San Vigilio, a zoological park in northern Italy 🇮🇹 via fb.com/816647270688... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

The Liberals have been accustomed to console themselves with constitutional illusions and phrases about the rule of law, and close their eyes to the real relation of forces, to the class struggle.

I just did a month's worth of computer science coursework in 7 hours 😵‍💫😵‍💫 The coding class is fun(learning Java) but the network structures class is really boring and kind of a pain- but I know that a lot of the questions on the licensure exam will come from that class

I'm in grad school to get my license to also teach computer science in addition to English. It's really cool!! But I wish I were taking the classes as a full time student in person instead of online modules while also being an overworked teacher. I'm getting a lot done during this spring break tho

So what are we gonna call it once it dawns on everyone what is happening? I'm thinking 'The Greater Depression.'

9th grader, in a questioning mood: Have we really been to space? Me: "Well yeah, I can show you a video of a lady in the space station." Various 9th graders, watching an astronaut lady float around with her hair flying around everywhere: "This looks fake, like they used special effects"

Gas prices are crazy. You should invest in a solar powered lawn mower.

The past two weeks have been surreal. It reminds me of the month before Covid hit the big time in the sense that I'm aware that these events will shape the next two years and beyond, but everyone I interact with at work is going about their business with very little idea.

You can't vibes your way out of this and end with "yeah idk but people saying I'm wrong are tedious doomsayers." You're paid a six-figure salary by the "I hate trans people" & "Maybe racism is good" outlet while journalists doing OG reporting have to beg for money from readers! Shut the fuck up!

Yesterday I pledged to teach until I'm 67 in order to make a particularly 6-7 obsessed student smirk. It's funny to see the backlash to 6-7 emerge among the kids. I'm doing my part to make it uncool!

taking inflation into account, if 3 Dog Night were founded in 2026 instead of 1967 it'd have to be 29.6 Dog Night

Yo La Tengo is so good. I didn't really get into them until recently, but their music is like exactly what I needed for this time in my life. A light in the darkness.

They might be banning dialectics in New Hampshire public schools legiscan.com/NH/text/HB17...

9th grade Students watching film version of Romeo And Juliet's dead bodies being carried on stretchers to the Prince in a somber funeral procession: Wouldn't it be funny if they dropped their bodies right now? Another student: yeah right now while they're on the steps, the bodies just slide off

Heh heh heh my wife made the mistake of telling me that she never watched Sliders in the 90's. Looks like we're in for a fun night

2026 basically

I campaigned for Rev Jackson in Michigan in 1988. When he won, the DNC went out of their way to undermine him. Seeing that forever destroyed my trust in the Democratic Party establishment - and they’ve repeated the same pattern my whole life.

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

The starship in TNG like a police station or hospital or other institutional setting. The space station in DS9 is like a frontier town. The starship in Voyager is like a small town car dealership run by the dumbest extended family you've ever seen

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Im literally getting a PhD on this subject, yet nobody wants to listen to me when I explain that AI doesnt work in the way people claim Ive even been passed over for jobs because they wanted a hype-man instead of a professional.

some people have an intense, I think harmful, impulse to be Reasonable in a vague sense – not to take stances guided by logic or empathy but to simply find some notional nuanced middle ground they can occupy by default

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

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Marxist Alan Wake Enemy: COMMUNISM can be a HOBBY and a JOB

an image flashed in my head of a discord exec seeing everyone get together in IRC in protest and rambling to himself like the grinch trying to figure out christmas: "they chat without exclusive unlock quests. they chat without memes. they chat without emojis, video chat, and streams."

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

the bushes were people 😂

No Kings includes Draft Kings

A strike on a large scale is the beginning of a political conflict, whether those engaged in the fight realise it or not.

The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.

We should call moisturizer "face mayonnaise"

One time John Lennon and Todd Rundgren got into a beef over something during the 70's and John Lennon wrote a letter to him and had it published in a newspaper and Lennon addressed him as 'Turd Runtgreen'

Fascism is the open terrorist rule of finance capital, a feature of advanced monopoly capitalism (aka imperialism)

Ever heard of the Washington Generals? The Harlem Globetrotters' rivals. They're paid to lose, because they're owned by the same people, and they abide by standard rules and will never interfere with Globetrotters' antics. They've lost 16,000 games. Anyway, hope Chuck Schumer's having a good day.

Moment of teacher joy today. 10th grade girl was beyond surprised to learn that bats are mammals. She kept asking questions like, "So there is bat milk?" Led to more questions. We ended up having to pull up hundreds of pics of mammals and kids asked stuff like, "So where are the nipples on a rhino?"

you think leftism is bad because you've been told your whole life to believe it by people who own factories and hate unions, by people who make money when your government spends money on the military and cops, by people who stand to make money as long as they can trick you into sabotaging yourself.

Whoa Parenti died. Rest in peace. His books changed my life.

I remember when the players wanted to strike during 2020 and Obama called them and got them to back down. That was really dumb!

Witnesses are being taken to Whipple. From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”