As a teacher, students access to AI for assignments has increased my workload significantly, trying to figure what content is theirs and what is not. They don’t try to think for themselves anymore. It’s made my career an entirely different, less inspiring, job.
Waterfall under sunshine in forest
Blue lake surrounded by forest
Small white flowers of the currant plant
3 fern fiddleheads in a row
Photos from a hike I took yesterday to Annette Lake 🌲💚
Literally wtf
Yes, Packwood! Love from Everett 🥰
Totally normal
Watching this on repeat how is your day going?
"In the winter I am writing about, there was much darkness. Darkness of nature, darkness of event, darkness of the spirit. The sprawling darkness of not knowing. We speak of the light of reason. I would speak here of the darkness of the world, and the light of— But I don't know what to call it. Maybe hope. Maybe faith, but not a shaped faith—only, say, a gesture, or a continuum of gestures. But probably it is closer to hope, that is more active, and far messier than faith must be. Faith, as I imagine it, is tensile, and cool, and has no need of words. Hope, I know, is a fighter and a screamer."
"Hope, I know, is a fighter and a screamer."
Hi friend
Cluster of little brown mushrooms in a dead tree stump in a forest near Snoqualmie, WA
Small gray magical paper wasp nest in the palm of my hand
Cloud formation that looks like a wave washing into a sky of foam (or cottage cheese, if you’re peckish).
Small trash bandit spying on me from up in my cherry tree at night
Might as well start posting my random nature pics
7th grader holding up a print they made in the colors of the trans flag.
Hi Infa! I’m a Biology teacher in WA and, in the summer, I do fish prints at a science camp for 7th grade girls & trans kids! The one in the picture was a squid print!
Some fish in the deep sea are gelatinous blobs because hard skeletons aren’t practical under pressure. In the abyss, the rule is: be soft, adapt, or stay shallow. #marinelife www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/n...
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