My dog is in the hospital overnight. I’m doing about as well as you would expect.

*awkwardly meeting a new gay couple* so which one of you is the rosencrantz

Having my years long nagging bad feeling about a subset of the Harry Potter fandom justified for a THIRD time in my life is wild.

Just so everyone knows, my class was set up with all of their work for today and I woke up in so much pain I couldn’t walk so I did call out.

Two of my kids ended up suspended for starting a fight with a classmate.

It is still always less work to go in.

Self contained middle school is truly wild btw, I went to school for theatre and yet here I am teaching geometry, biology, and US History every single day.

I know every teacher makes this point, but it’s less work to go in and feel miserable all day than call out and figure out sub plans. Being self contained makes it even worse. I’m having a flare up and the lowest energy option is to go in and do 8 different low effort lessons over the next 2 days.

Possibly helping with a local theater festival’s social media, very professionally did not mention any of my weird credentials

I was away but I’m back, I’m going to be in a play so that’s fun.

MUUUUUSSSSSSSSTTTTTAAAAARRRRRDDDD!!!!!!!!!

If I send this I’m on my way to become someone’s personal demon and worst nightmare

As I understand it as a very non-techy person, they add a couple spaces &/or tiny images & format quirks - things normally unnoticeable, which they use to identify shared copies as coming from individuals

They used this at Tesla

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“Peekaboo, bitch” - My student today as they entered the room.

Hey fellow middle school teachers how was today? How many kids did you have to explain that Nazi salute to? Was it also 3?

Like I am not grieving TikTok, I did that. I am furious that there are deals being made that are going to make it even worse, that they’ve fucked with people’s money for this month, and that they never even let users know what to expect. None of this is even my problem, still experiencing rage.

No you misunderstand me, I’m going to crash out because I hate it so much.

To be emotionally vulnerable here, I’ve been having a fucking *time*

The way that I’m healthily coping with what was actually an entire lifetime of my Dad’s financial abuse and being effectively homeless for a month and a half and continuing to do a good job as a special education teacher but TikTok is what has me feeling like I’m going to crash out is embarrassing

I think maybe I could delete all of my social media today and just like be cool with that. Maybe I do actually want to log off now.

Um no I’d like to make an insight check for whatever kind of cursed bargain was just struck.

When TikTok comes back from the dead, know that it is a reanimated corpse.

Changes have been made. Get VERY CLEAR on those changes as you go back into now tainted waters.

this. I've seen people argue tiktok doesn't have any suppression. folks can be mad about the ban without lying that the app was perfect.

the number of euphemisms for "white people" created alone shows how much Black folks had to self-censor on there

Oh I’m only rarely watching something because it’s actually good

I spent 6 years on and off struggling to get literal neo Nazis in my comments on that app banned. You not seeing them is not an indication they weren’t there and there in full force.

You not seeing the intense censorship that happened every day on that app to anyone who wasn’t white is not a knowledge gap I can fix for you man.

Trump is back. But a return of total resistance would be a bad strategy. A guide for how liberals should approach the next four years. By Yascha Mounk

There is an emerging conventional wisdom that resistance to Trump went too far and I am going to lose my mind.
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It was already remarkably bad on there and it’s about to be so much worse.

Okay fine I’ll finally watch Teen Wolf

y’all told me i was crazy when i downloaded all of tiktok and put it on blu-rays but who’s laughing now

You’re not understanding me, I was there for that. I’m saying it’s about to be larger, worse, and with essentially no avenues open for course correction.