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🌎 The Bronx, NYC πŸ“– Teacher of English, Reluctant Dept Chair 🎼 Dolly Parton Historian πŸͺ Baker of cookies πŸ–Š Writer of nonsense

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Tyler Childers - Bitin' List (Live From Dinosaur World (Audio))
Tyler Childers - Bitin' List (Live From Dinosaur World (Audio)) YouTube video by TylerChildersVEVO

Friend, you have a new anthem. I listen to it almost every day for the pep talk at the beginning 🀣
youtu.be/x-oOj3A1Q8E?...

09.03.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Have I waxed poetic to you about "Bitin List" by Tyler Childers?

09.03.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I really want the vest they put on aggressive dogs 🀣

09.03.2026 12:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a cartoon character says i am not nice while holding a staff Alt: a cartoon character says i am not nice while holding a staff

Me at everyone on the train

09.03.2026 12:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Reading your emails is a professional responsibility. It's part of the teaching gig. We can't complain about the meeting that should have been an email, if the email has to be a meeting because you just. Don't. Read. It.

09.03.2026 12:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

SPOTTED: Mister Softee
Spring is coming 🌞

08.03.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Coffee pot is prepped. Spring ahead will not get me this year.

08.03.2026 05:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If a diet coke is a fridge cigarette, then a diet Dr. Pepper is a fridge cigar. I will not be elaborating further.

08.03.2026 03:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know about y'all but I'm praying Psalm 109 over that man's life every day

07.03.2026 21:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Frog pushed Toad out of bed.

07.03.2026 14:37 πŸ‘ 120 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 5

It would be great if the Chess Bwy cast album could be released today. Tomorrow. As soon as possible.

06.03.2026 12:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Made soup with some leftover rainbow carrots from our farm box. The broth is now bright red. Oop.
I will still be eating it.

05.03.2026 22:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

honestly there's no worse reflection on the AP tests that somehow their scores go up even as students read & write less, both self-reported on their own time, and in their classes. How can people who read less and write less be getting MORE proficient at written reasoning and complex text analysis?

05.03.2026 18:44 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The DOE is small... but I guess not that small! Haha
Found myself at a college board "educator summit" and they've been hard core trotting out the numbers.

05.03.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, hi. Get out my head. Are we sitting in the same AP session today? 🀣

05.03.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My very American opinion is that pain au chocolat should have a candy bar's worth of chocolat. Tysm.

05.03.2026 14:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this is one of those phrases that I’ll probably quote forever

04.03.2026 14:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ty subway stranger for helping me with my sneakers 🀣πŸ₯²

04.03.2026 11:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Somebody was saying how E.D. Hirsch was not a progressive, and i just need some of y'all to hear it again.

04.03.2026 04:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty sure the author of this book I'm reading about the Bible just made a Fresh Prince reference when talking about the Ammonites?
And that's the kind of scholar that I like.

01.03.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey Mr. Mayor, can you please have that intern make another newspaper in Canva but this time it says OUR IDIOT PRESIDENT DOES NOT START ANOTHER ENDLESS WAR?!?!? Kthxbai

28.02.2026 23:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Whatever the fragrance is of my aesthetician's office, I need it for my everything. It might actually cure me.

26.02.2026 01:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lord, I don't know what your plan is but im gonna stay shut and do my little work while I wait for You to tell me

25.02.2026 22:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So anywho... I just took the recycling out. Looking like a whole lot of nothing out there?

23.02.2026 05:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sorry, I won't be participating in the blizzard tysm

22.02.2026 16:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My rage at all the people outside right now- STORM'S ACOMING! GO. AWAY.

22.02.2026 03:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mayor Mamdani Breaks His Promise to NYC Public Libraries The Struggle Against Defunding Libraries Continues...

I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician β€” ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.

18.02.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 3058 πŸ” 1018 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 56
anti-AI β€œcredo”

I have a religious exemption from using all generative β€œA.I.” I am not a member of the Silicon Valley sect. Their beliefs and practices are an affront to my sensibilities. The tech is trained on stolen intellectual property. The output is riddled with mistakes, and it is incapable of comprehending the weight of its errors. It is not even an β€œit.” But sometimes, it is filtered and massaged by unaccountable human sweatshop workers and bad actors. I am not required to use β€œA.I.” any more than I am required to join Amway, buy black market rhino horn, or attend the Fyre Festival. As a human, I have a duty and right to limit my carbon and water footprint and protect my fellow human. As a union worker, I have a duty and right to oppose tech that is used to threaten workers or cheapen our product. As a tech consumer, I have a duty and right to oppose scams that lower the quality of our tools. As a scholar, I have a duty and right to oppose anti-intellectualism. As a taxpayer, I have a duty and right to oppose the misallocation of public funds and data. As a grown up, I have a duty and right to protect young people from predators. As a person with a conscience, I am appalled at the decadent disregard for user safety, the callous dismissal of responsibility for lives ruined and slaughtered. My religion is related to my identity, geography, and family, making it an irrelevant accident of birth. What matters is that I was born. I have an exemption from their digital rapture, their cultural austerity, their intellectual poverty. I practice wholesome hedonism and First Do No Harm. 

CS 12/9/2025

anti-AI β€œcredo” I have a religious exemption from using all generative β€œA.I.” I am not a member of the Silicon Valley sect. Their beliefs and practices are an affront to my sensibilities. The tech is trained on stolen intellectual property. The output is riddled with mistakes, and it is incapable of comprehending the weight of its errors. It is not even an β€œit.” But sometimes, it is filtered and massaged by unaccountable human sweatshop workers and bad actors. I am not required to use β€œA.I.” any more than I am required to join Amway, buy black market rhino horn, or attend the Fyre Festival. As a human, I have a duty and right to limit my carbon and water footprint and protect my fellow human. As a union worker, I have a duty and right to oppose tech that is used to threaten workers or cheapen our product. As a tech consumer, I have a duty and right to oppose scams that lower the quality of our tools. As a scholar, I have a duty and right to oppose anti-intellectualism. As a taxpayer, I have a duty and right to oppose the misallocation of public funds and data. As a grown up, I have a duty and right to protect young people from predators. As a person with a conscience, I am appalled at the decadent disregard for user safety, the callous dismissal of responsibility for lives ruined and slaughtered. My religion is related to my identity, geography, and family, making it an irrelevant accident of birth. What matters is that I was born. I have an exemption from their digital rapture, their cultural austerity, their intellectual poverty. I practice wholesome hedonism and First Do No Harm. CS 12/9/2025

i included this in my syllabi this year

21.01.2026 22:10 πŸ‘ 873 πŸ” 295 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 32

Am I making a Benito themed Read Across the Americas board instead of grading? Yes. This is fine. Let me live.

11.02.2026 20:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Me levantΓ© contenta, me levantΓ© feliz

11.02.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0