I made a mess on my floor to take these pictures for my slides

Parenting coaches: take my Lowering Demands to Peacefully Parent Your Deeply Feeling Spicy One Me: welcome to Clown Parenting

For averting/de-escalating intense kid meltdowns, no coach/parenting book/therapist/class has been as helpful to me as having done a bunch of improv. A PDA support group invited me to further explain and teach some games. It’s tomorrow, free on Zoom, anyone is welcome, just email them.

The youth long to RETVRN (to making zines)

I have now (except for some admin work) wrapped up year 14 of Latin teaching. This was the first time in awhile I’ve had elementary students, and I ended up writing a lot of libelli (tiny books) so they could have more input than their textbook provided.

My 10 year old told me “happy Mother’s Day, disarm, disarm!” because he gets it. (And also because he has an easier time understanding a protest-related holiday than a greeting card one.)

“Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of tears! Say firmly: ‘We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. +

just because it's gold doesn't make it a golden calf; have y'all forgotten Nebuchadnezzar

"Animorphs theme" "Atlantis theme" "Woodstock theme" "The Odyssey by Homer" "World War 1" "Vampires" "Poisonous Flowers" "Autumn Festivals and Holidays" "Insectoids" "the Pacific Northwest" "Russian folklore" "Just Flying Things" see I'm good at this

great thread (with terrific improvised prompts at the end)

Overheard this evening 7 year old, calling her brother: you are required for a meeting 10 year old: is this a military matter or a religious matter? 7yo, gesturing at pile of stuffies: military 10yo: I’ll change uniforms then

AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT i would die

The proposed icon for lab mice used in autism research. You will literally never find another podcast on the internet brave enough to suggest that autistic mice should be understood as martyrs for humanity.

The most Alyssa dilemma I could have is that it sure looks like the mime/clown workshops I hope to take this summer will conflict with the Latin immersion conference.

Christian parenting books foist impossible standards on the newest people, & tell adults to dole out punishments in God’s Name. Like the unforgiving servant, Christian adults give lip-service to grace while withholding it from the vulnerable children entrusted to our care.

"I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened," sighed Frodo. "Lol," Gandalf replied. "Well it did... So I guess you're going to have to figure that one out."

It is also necessary to conduct a criminal probe of all the other images of God smashed in Gaza, people whom Christ said were his brothers and sisters. God doesn’t care about the symbolic violence but the real violence.

hawking a line of branded Mountain Goats smart glasses. no matter where you look things look a little bleaker and also the wearer cannot remove the glasses once worn. I’m disrupting this sector

It feels to me at the end that Wilson is unaccustomed to people not fawn-chuckling at his ineffective jokes.

Another @alyssakaye.bsky.social has hit the podcast! In this one we discuss the experiences of autistic Christian parents that parent autistic children.

I feel like the Antichrist would be less obvious about it.

“It can be hard to discern between Spirit-led vision and a church’s ambition.”

*walks into a classroom, grabs a chair, flips it around, sits down in it backwards facing the class*

EGGS ARE 10 DOLLARS because of Archbishop Sarah Mullally

Since becoming a dad I've become a lot more aware of the presence of firetrucks. This is because in our evolutionary timeline an extinct predator that resembled a large truck used to hunt small children so parents developed the innate urge to find and identify them for the child.

The question everyone is asking:

“April is the cruelest month…” - TSA Eliot

Is this a prequel to The Sparrow

Photo of Mike Johnson and other House Republicans presenting to Donald Trump a golden "America First Award" they made up just for him.

A world where everyone has a world class education and loving parents is going to be a better world but it’s not going to be a world free from greed, selfishness, or even violence.

penal substitutionary atonement, but for technical debt is anyone looking into this?

You can’t take the sky from me, but it does not follow that you should give me additional sky.

People forget, it’s not about the stabbing, but rather the co-conspirators we make along the way. #IdesOfMarch

I appreciated the nuance here, and also the explanation that sometimes you can clock an autistic woman because she seems “like a woman wearing a woman suit” (me)

I do think it’s helpful to think of the CAT-Q as a measure of how much energy I expend attempting to mask, not how effective my masking is

I am confident in my social masking ability* *terms and conditions may apply, offer void where unavailable, results not guaranteed

One repaired telephone lines for Southwestern Bell, and later a driver of cars between dealerships. The other was a journalist, Methodist pastor, and journalism professor (but not all at once).

yeah, I'm about that FIRE lifestyle – my joints often Fail Independently and cause me to Retire from physical activity Early

It's probably fine that the executive branch of our government is Oops! All Wormtongues

“Farewell, John Piper” - surely someone, right?

how it’s been

So, I’ve been reading this guy named Origen and let me introduce you to this cool allegorical reading of Joshua I just discovered.

Feel as though tonight some of us had as near a direct experience of "two hours" itself as it's possible to have

I have been thinking of this story for days

I need people who comment on tv about law to enunciate that second t in "statutes" and be consistent. my psyche cannot otherwise deal with what my imagination does with all the rogue statues doin stuff

Try this One Weird Trick* to cut through medical system bureaucracy and get that time-sensitive appointment you need! *weeping while pacing the lobby until it disturbs the admin enough to call for a nurse who knows where the Secret Appointment Availability is hidden

I should go to sleep, but instead I’m thinking about a secondhand copy of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek that @martynwendell.bsky.social used to own, annotated by someone who was trying to impose the structure of an entirely different genre of writing upon Annie Dillard.

The Muppets and Margarita

tfw there is infinite hope but not for us