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Part of fighting back is being both intentional, accurate, and forceful with our language.

So anti-woke, anti-DEI efforts and activists? Especially when those efforts result in demonstrably lower numbers of qualified Black people the ranks?

Start calling these folks pro-segregation.

Indeed.

As we head into tomorrow’s #SCOTUS arguments about #trans youth medical care, a reminder that all major medical organizations oppose bans on endocrine treatment for adolescent gender dysphoria.

My 21st birthday, at grandparents’ house. There’s a knock at the door. Mom & grandma say “you get it.” So I open the door. There’s a middle-aged woman in a pink Miss Piggy costume. She sings me happy birthday or something. For a while. I dunno, I blacked out from embarrassment.

My mom has a long string of Christmas lights. She puts it on the tree & gets out a rubbery black remote, size of a small wallet. She squeezes it & the lights change their pattern (chase, blink, fade, etc). Thing is, the remote has no batteries or electronics. Just a small puff of air. She loves it.

I was 15, my cousin was 3. His parents were excited to give him pizza for the first time. They open the pizza box & he starts screaming & crying. They finally pull it away & ask what’s wrong. Between sobs he says “mouse pizza!” It had chopped up mushrooms on it. He thought it was bits of mice.

Growing up, my mom had to look at every Christmas tree before picking one. When I was 13, we bought one & took it home, strung up lights & hung ornaments. She stood back and said “is it leaning?” I didn’t think it was. We couldn’t fix it so she decided we had to take everything off & return it.

When I was 19, cooked Thanksgiving dinner for uncle & aunt at their house. I was in kitchen, they watched TV. I pre-heated broiler for garlic bread; minutes later smoke everywhere. Inside oven, plastic cutting boards on fire. People store things in broilers? Calmly walked over: “um, there’s a fire.”

Quicksaaaand! Producer Soren Wheeler introduces us to Dan Engber, writer and columnist for Slate, who ran across a strange fact: kids are no longer afraid of quicksand.

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Thermoformed Pattern 3D Bracelets Thermoformed Pattern 3D Bracelets: A few years back when I taught middle school CTE I was asked to teach an art class. Not knowing much about art I did my best to teach the class while incorporating w...

Oops, accidentally wrote “terraformed.” This thermoformed 3D printed bracelet was so fun to make! It prints flat and then you dip it in boiling water and shape it around something the size of your wrist. When you run it under cold water, it keeps its shape.

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Terraformed 3D printed bracelet! I’m making samples for my upcoming 3D Style Studio elective.

I was just teaching my 3rd graders this during our Virtual Pet project. Thanks for making a video explanation! I was just about to make one and now I don’t have to.

I'm glad to have found #EduSky, a community of educators.

I’m going to be teaching a 3D Style Studio elective for 7th and 8th graders to make jewelry using 3D printers. These are my first attempts to make sample beads, charms, and pendants.

What a stunning photo!

Glad to see you here!

Me too. I found about half of them.

Blue sky and Mt. Tam. And rain clouds, of course.

Just doing the same today.