Have been hit with a sudden urge to Knit Lace. I don't know if my fingers can manage tiny needles anymore, but I have this cotton thread...
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Have been hit with a sudden urge to Knit Lace. I don't know if my fingers can manage tiny needles anymore, but I have this cotton thread...
Someone who can't understand why you're hurt when they hurt you
E-and-a-half: a perfectly good 3/4 hymn smashed into 4/4 time in order to accommodate said neo-bridge
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
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And this place also helped out countries who couldn't afford this kind of testing for themselves.
The argument the authors of this paper seem to be making is that if you make Sweller's cognitive load theory the central pillar of your pedagogy, you're actually *not* being responsive to scientific developments of the last 30 years that really should be informing teaching & learning in school.
Elsa’s mom Queen Iduna is an autism mom (pejorative). Tarzan’s adopted mom Kala is an autism mom (complimentary). I will not be taking questions at this time.
I'm pulling 3 out of each term to get 3*5*3*8 (3*3)*(5*8) 9*40 I can't remember 9*4 so 9*20*2 180*2 360 phew
JUST IN: DOJ says all children on planes that were supposed to fly to Guatemala today have been unloaded and are being returned to custody of HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement. Drew Ensign says missed deadline earlier was bc DOJ wasn't aware. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NEW: Trump administration lawyers say children have been "deplaned" after a federal judge temporarily blocked their deportation in an order affecting hundreds of other unaccompanied minors from Guatemala.
I understand that when It Happens, the movement will not go away. But I think it will at least be more predictably evil, as opposed to spinning like an Olympic figure skater to align with every deranged social media post, and that will be a kind of relief.
A colloquial Swedish word for giving a confident answer to something you know nothing about is killgissa, or “guy-guessing.” Conversely, the lesser-known word tjejveta (meaning “girl-knowing”) can describe elucidating (shelucidating?) on a topic you have expertise in.
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
A federal judge in D.C. now says DOJ has missed its deadline -- by an hour-and-a-half -- for confirming that it has removed unaccompanied children it planned to deport from the aircraft that were to carry them to Guatemala. The judge also ordered DOJ to explain why it missed the deadline.
Definitely trying to discredit whatever the woman is about to say
NEW: Judge Sooknanan acted quickly to block as many as 600 Guatemalan children from being deported by the Trump administration without due process. A judge in Illinois took a similar step for 4 children whose lawyers sued Saturday. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
I have grip issues, especially now that the screen goes all the way off the side of the phone. There is no hope for me any more.
As the DoJ tells the court that it will not remove unaccompanied minors to Guatemala, we can only hope they’re telling the truth.
Teachers don’t need self care they need time to set up their classrooms
This wouldve been handy when I lived in California and people in Ireland thought I could easily drive from San Francisco to Hollywood
Waiting for them to find a way to make that one targeting too
GRR
Fumble recovery for a TD to ejected for targeting is the biggest uno reverse possible
B1G officiating back at it 🤬
That was not t-word!!!
Ah, I guess that makes sense
The first passing touchdown of the Bryce Underwood era
What is with the skinny little Ms on the logo gear? Why did they switch the famous block M for like some Garamond nonsense?
THERE we go. Had to change the mood before halftime.
I survived the App State game, I will never take these early games for granted, and I don't like this quarter.
Knowing nothing about him, I think Bryce Underwood is just a promising name for a QB. Looks pleasing on a jersey. Sounds sorta folksy but dignified. Half jock, half Austen gentleman.
It does feel like classic children's TV!
This isn't doomscrolling, it's schadenfeed.
How nice it must be to have enough time and money and lack of problems and work to be able to invent goofy things like this
Hey, you did more than lay concrete blocks out lego-style, which would be the limit of my skills
3yo, playing with the food on his plate at lunch, and (rightfully) demanding our attention: "Okay, everyone, look, look! I turned my pizza into PEAS-za!" This kid is going places.
Turns out today's major activity is just ~*~ embracing horizontality ~*~ and enduring allergies
At this rate I'm going to be fast asleep before the football even starts No college football should start past 3:30 pm local time of the easternmost team (granting an exception for Hawaii)
What is unsuccessfully toasted marshmallow?
Ran out of jelly. Bought two jars of jelly. Set them on the table. They promptly rolled off the table. That crunch is the sound of quiet despair.
It reminds me of the difference between unschooling and just neglecting to educate your kids.
Did he finally find someone to rake the forests?!
To be clear: I am not asking about teaching math to ELLs; I'm asking for resources for people who know the math to learn how to talk about it in English
Math teachers: I need your best recommendations for acquiring math-related English at the middle and high school level. Is there an ELL playlist that teaches you how to say things like five point three seven to the power of nine?
My son, since pre-k, has been taught to place his hand over his mouth so the killer doesn’t hear him crying… They were led into classroom supply closets, or against the door wall and told to place their hands over their mouths so they are reminded to be silent. As a mom…😔…it rips my heart out
“Why are the younger generations so anxious? Why are they such snowflakes?”
We started on a Monday for the first time I can remember and our Labor Day is in May and I slept like 15 hours because WOW the first week is hard
Nobody likes getting harassed by sales staff, Dole
That’s the honesty I want to see
Teaching passive voice in a bathrobe counts, right?
Just noticed this on the checkout notification I get from the Chicago Public Library. I think it’s new and I love it!
Concerned that we are losing the necessary ratio. 15% of teachers/faculty should be irretrievably strange eccentrics. Every learning experience should have some element where in later life you can reflect with former classmates about how bizarre at least one (1) class per year was.
I’m reading Victor Klemperer’s diaries now, which describe waves of rumors and years of changes in emotional atmospherics, sometimes within the same day. So I assume the current rumor is more indicative of life under authoritarianism than anything else.
I'm potentially mad that those blue wave propagandists got to my networks enough to get my hopes up.
This made me realize that I actually don't know how we teach little kids to dial 911 in case of emergency now. It was easier when I was in preschool and it was physical buttons to find and push
Wow. Much graphic. Very design.
I go to bed early, wake up at 3 am, and find everyone joking about It having Happened? Y'all better not be getting my hopes up for nothing
It took about thirty seconds for my students to find out about who does and doesn't get the money in academic publishing and decide that whole system needs to begone, stat
I absolutely do not know how to go about researching such a thing, because I'm for sure not going to put "ass synecdoche" into Google to see what comes up 🙈
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Listening to Ed Zitron losing his mind about Sam Altman on the podcast this morning had me wondering about the linguistic phenomenon of "ass" synecdoche (e.g. "talking to his clammy ass") and whether any other body parts work like this (I think "face" synecdoche died in the aughties?)
Hmm, lemme think abouYES YES PLEASE MAKE THE FOOTBALL PRETTY
It doesn't help clarify the relationship between any of those things to me
GOOD MORNING.
I remember I packed up my fabric masks, thinking it was all going to be over in two months lolsob
When I, a priest, offer prayers in the wake of a shooting, part of what I am praying for is policy action by the people who are abdicating their responsibility by offering “thoughts and prayers”
Isn't she married to Danny from West Wing?
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
We're working on developing study skills as a school. My new teaching routine is to have the class read a portion of a textbook, then have us develop our *own* comprehension questions. It forces them to think: What was I supposed to have learned from this text?
Sometimes I think about how, when Carrie ten Boom was in the concentration camp, she was so happy to be doing meaningful work she was good at that someone had to remind her the radios she was making were for the Nazis, so be less good at it
That last one is meeeeeeeeee 🤣
If I with my little Google machine can find two medicines they would give to stop galactorrhea if you *hadn't* had a baby, my BS detector is pinging. They may have good reason that they *won't*, but I think they're lying that they *can't*
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
Hey would you look at that... The magic deskilling machine is deskilling people
Angels full of eyes still sound more scientific than whatever RFK Jr is doing here
If he next proposes to enter the mitochondria of these children to fight the evil creatures causing these illnesses we have officially entered the plot of A Wind in the Door, the second book in the A Wrinkle in Time book series
JFC, this keeps happening. So many schools and parents freak out about kids on social media, but then shuttle them toward a sociopathic yes-man robot who helps them design their own suicides.
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something I think about almost daily is how @prisonculture.bsky.social says "knowing who to be mad at is praxis."
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Insurance? They've already talked about sending people to camps for some of these conditions. Now we have to weigh the risk of going without a vaccine versus what a bunch of eugenicists are going to do with our health histories.
The newest class of reasons people on here don't like phone bans: parentification. Dear one, I am so sorry that your family was in a position where you were on 24/7 call to deliver lifesaving medication to your parent. But that was not supposed to be your problem.
I’ll also add: we have decided to make it very easy to be a very mediocre teacher. And too many folks are okay with that.
Did you see this one? It's a mishmash of Latin and Cyrillic letters, used to more or less represent the sounds of the English words. bsky.app/profile/ryan...
Which one is the "interferes with the WiFi" band? Or am I showing my age? :D
Though honestly, I don't see the point of a machine where I have to do the same work it purports to do for me anyway and we're kidding ourselves if we think humans, let alone young humans, are going to do that
I found an analogy that helped today. Teaching kids to use AI to "help" with thinking or research before they have learned to do it themselves, but warning them to check its work is like giving them a faulty calculator before they can add and subtract, but warning them to check its work
It's a song that became a TikTok thing, it seems.
AUX SANDWICHS, CITOYENS! Open carry of and self protection with a delicious hammy-cheese is now vaguely legal. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence
I let my students think that we were going to pilot of new tool that would adjust their final grade up or down based on an LLM trained on 25 years of student data and which could predict how they *should* do in my course. The WAY they paid attention to what I said next about AI, ya'll...
Travis Swift is going to be such a great football player name
Update: it got funny again
I thought human reproduction worked through the air, like pollination, which is why it involved sleeping in the same bed
There’s not much left to tell people about what is going on. This is it.