Charlie Kirk claims gun deaths are 'worth it' to protect second amendment YouTube video by The Independent

RIP Charlie Kirk, who said that some gun deaths are 'worth it' in exchange for preserving the second amendment.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVc9...

It has been a long long long 7 months but we're now operating at a far more manageable 62k, and all I had to do was rewrite the novel from scratch #writing

yes but i'm not telling in order to increase your paranoia

do you know about lafufus yet?

Before and after finding out citations are included in word count

Just had someone tell me that they know more about feminist theory because they've read "Bell Hooks"
1) didn't know it was a competition
2) they spelt bell hooks like that
I'm finding it very easy to disengage from discourse when the other side hasn't even read it

Giving my students this presentation to prep them for giving a speech on something their classmates won't care about

JK Rowling setting up a fund for anyone who wants to create a group that targets trans people is the kind of evil they talk about in Greek myth

Which is a coincidence as she's named it after Athena, on the basis that she protects women. Which... she doesn't.

That's Artemis.

footnote of the day #writing

They all got 7-9s.
I opened the lesson with 'okay so who can tell me what chicken jockey is?'
It took 17 minutes and multiple mutes to get them back in line.

Horrified by the UK Supreme Court ruling yesterday.

As Oscar Wilde said, 'to define is to limit', and I refuse to allow my womanhood to be defined by a court made up of 8 men and 2 women who are invalidating trans women to appease a group of radical extremists funded by JK Rowling and her ilk.

Convinced my GCSE (ages 14-16) students that I have absolutely no concept of Gen Alpha slang, and promised them that if they all get at least a grade 7 (B) in their next assessment they can teach me all the slang they want.

Reader, I have never seen them study so hard.

we get some handholding today #TheMuseofVienna

Editing time! Once more unto the breach...

Alma's going through it today #AlmaMahler

Long 19th century composers waking up and deciding how to be evil little men today

I went to a few bookshops with my friends the other day and said I was limiting myself to 3 books. I bought 11.

wearing this so people argue about whether my dress is green or purple as i walk past

Just found out that my KS4 students have a bingo card for me, which contains items such as 'Miss references someone who died before 1960', 'Miss tells us to watch a musical version of a book' and 'Miss says a love story isn't as problematic as the one in Wuthering Heights'. Is this my brand?

Teaching the same class about Pride & Prejudice

Me: so thoughts on Wickham?

Student: he has a type?

Me: ... yes, if that type is people who are too young to legally be left home alone overnight

it exists in the context of all that came before it

The New Orleans one is a bit clearer - if you lived in that area, at that time, and had a surname that you could make, essentially, sound more French, you would, given the historically French upper class. It's an attitude that still exists today.

In the eras and areas indicated, 'ah' would be the more common pronunciation for NY at the time, and the French inflection would be more popular, and was actually an indicator of class in that area/era.

Unfortunately we can't know for sure, unless they have any relatives knocking around today(?). The only one I'm certain on is Gendel because of the Ashkenazic origins - that's the *only* way they would pronounce it. The others, it's safer to go on name trends at the time.

These ones are from etymology rather than anecdote:
Ottarson would likely be ah-tar-son given his NY origins
Gendel would def have a hard G as it's Jewish (see Hendel, Engel, Mendel)
Boster would probably have the French inflection as that would be more common in the area

I have heard someone say that name before and they said it like Uzhner (as in 'what's up?' 'the uzhe'-ner)

quote with the one tv show you’ve never broken up with

Me: okay mum as we're ordering matt's card to come to the house can you list the recipient as, like, a nickname, so when we see the envelope addressed to an unusual name we know it's matt's card and he doesn't accidentally open it early?

Mum: sure, leave it with me

The moonpig confirmation email: