he said “maximum lethality” and by golly he meant it

we talk a lot of trash about john fetterman but he's going to really come in useful when it's time to hold a big door shut in the season finale of america

I think Gritty not only respects savesies, but saves spots that aren't even HIS. puts a whole barcalounger in a spot he didn't even shovel on a block where he doesn't live.

I really loved The Woman Who Split The Atom, a graphic biography of Lise Meitner.

This year I’ve really leaned in to paper even more. I’ve had to completely retool my systems for grading & collecting work since I’m using so much paper. I wouldn’t go back. But it does make it a lot harder to figure out how to do “virtual learning” when we close for days in a row after a big snow!

This is great! Def planning to share w/ my colleagues. We started pivoting to analog last year not so much as a reaction to genAI but because our attendance numbers didn’t really rebound after COVID and we wanted to avoid giving the impression that students could just stay home & do work online.

honestly same!!! the enshittification of the internet has sucked for me too. if it helps bring a little levity to your day, a poem you helped me figure out how to evolve into its final form YEARS ago just finally got picked up somewhere after collecting double digit rejections.

honestly, same

YO @annieabrams.bsky.social this looks fireeee goodreader.hcommons.org

Reposting with alt text because this poem is hard and I think it just about sums up what we all feel right now

omg yes thank you so much this is perfect!!!!

@lydiakiesling.bsky.social maybe you’re the wrong person to ask but after reading Mobility I’ve really got a hankering for MORE LITERARY WRITING about the petrochemical industry. I have read Ducks by Kate Beaton and loved it as well. do you have any recs?

yessssssssss how exciting for you!!! reading/rereading Homer very slowly over the past five years or so has been transformative for me in ways I still don't fully comprehend. the Wilson translation is great and it's what I use when I teach it.

I’m a longtime fan!!!

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

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Address at the 1992 Democratic National Convention - July 14, 1992 [July 14, 1992 | New York, New York] I'm Elizabeth Glaser.

Today is World Aids Day. The current administration has barred federal offices from acknowledging it. In middle school I memorized Elizabeth Glaser's Address at the 1992 Democratic Convention for a forensic competition, and I've never forgotten it. awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2017/03/21/a...

I have discovered so much fantastic stuff from browsing the new fiction / new nonfiction shelf at the library. One book sent me down a years long rabbit hole of reading everything else I could get my hands on about heroic age
Polar exploration.

If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.

From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
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and I’m like, where did YOU go to school that you learned about him? …he went to Robert Smalls Jr High in Beaufort SC. Of course he knew about the hometown hero.

I saw someone’s post about Smalls a few years ago and went to my old man who is a Civil War history buff, all excited to tell him about this new guy I had heard about, and he sighed and rolled his eyes at me like, where did YOU go to school that you never heard of Robert Smalls?

“If a Negro should improperly approach a white woman his body would be hanging on the nearest tree…If the same rule were applied on the other side, and white men who insulted or debauched Negro women were treated likewise, this Convention would have to be adjourned for lack of a quorum.”

talked down and successfully de-escalated a lynch mob in his 70s!!!

Cover of Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio, a graphic history of the protests on Kent State campus that ended with National Guardsmen firing into a crowd of students, killing four and wounding nine more

@derfbackderf.bsky.social floored by this, an incredible feat of both storytelling and research!

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I do not believe Pulley is likely to face justice in this life. When I think about stuff like this I have to remind myself of the words of St Paisios, “What I see around me would drive me insane, if I did not know that no matter what happens, God will have the last word.”

Someone can go to jail and have their life basically upended for writing a bad check or running a small-time scam or shoplifting-- but Philip Pulley is walking around a free man, and living (presumably) in comfort, despite all the ways he's defrauded his tenants and scammed our communities.

Pa. AG sues over ‘deplorable’ handling of Philly apartment buildings The suit seeks to bar SBG Management Services from renewing lease agreements and collecting rent until all properties are repaired.

He was sued by the PA Attorney General's office in 2023 for his egregiously shady and retaliatory management practices. whyy.org/articles/phi...

Judge: No lockouts Monday at West Philly apartments up for sale While the intervention buys tenants more time, it could still mean the displacement of several dozen families from the neighborhood, where property values and rent are rising.

And I wouldn't blame you if you confused THAT incident with an earlier incident where he ALSO made people homeless (in this case, via illegal eviction / lockout in the building that later got torched). www.inquirer.com/philly/news/...