I hate to break it to you, but you don't have the intellectual hardware to do your own research.

Defeating a Virus That Killed Half a Billion People – The Plea YouTube video by Neil Halloran

What a horror show to have put that man in charge of anything. The documentary is very short and very good. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybVZ...

Watching the red carpet with @gloriapanzera.bsky.social is always my favorite part of awards season! Happy Oscar Night to all who celebrate 🥂🥂🥂

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Oh no 🔥

Man, #paradise on Hulu is great.

What in the fancy nightgown…

How lovely!

After having the flu last week, I want to Clorox my entire life.

YES

@gloriapanzera.bsky.social

Same 😭

Essay Grading as an English Teacher Two weeks, 150 essays graded, lots of thoughts

Posting this essay again from last year in which I documented how much time it took me to grade essays in a particularly burdensome stretch of the grading calendar.

Not about solutions, either—just about documenting + naming what this work is like:

thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/essay-grad...

when I was a kid I heard another kid arguing about why he had to do service for others in the gurudwara and his parent was like "if you won't help others what is the point of you" and I've never forgotten that line.

Public Domain Day 2025 is Coming: Here's What to Know A new crop of copyrighted works enters the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2025. Here's what it all means.

For those of us interested in copyright

copyrightlately.com/public-domai...

Trouble puffs 😂

"What is distinctive about our time is that its monsters consist not only of political extremists of all kinds, but also of weather events that could not have been conceived of in Gramsci’s lifetime: supercharged storms, megadroughts, catastrophic rain-bombs and the like."

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Just had the most fantastic long winter’s nap. 10/10 Thanksgiving break starts now 🦃 😴

Congratulations!! It’s gorgeous 🥂🥂🥂