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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Well, you’re a real glass-half-full ray of sunshine there, aren’t ya.

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I don't usually join in for the Oscars watch... but I am all in on #Sinners so I'm planning to join #HATM next Sunday.

I think it was set in 1977. #HATM

Stick around for the credits... they play the track from the record with the children's greetings. #HATM 🤓

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#TroopZero #HATM

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"My name is Christmas Flint. I am a human female... can you hear me Major Tom."

#HATM

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O f' yes, it is delivering. 🤣😎🤓 #HATM

We've made some comments re underplaying of racial issues in Troop Zero, but I think the movie is somewhat accurate as to the class issues in a small working class rural Southern town. The white/black divide could get more fungible in certain smaller communites. Doesn't disappear, but fades. #HATM

A better world, Miss Massey.
A better world. #HATM

"Jesus wept."

That was a great use of that quote at that moment by Miss Rayleen. #HATM

We do what we can. Take to the streets to buck up those who have the power to oppose the fascists. #HATM
#March28 #NoKings

I think there outta be a "Standing up for our friend" badge. Troop Zero would own that. #HATM

Honestly, I'm okay with that tax expenditure... considering... 🤷‍♂️

On a related note. How many flags do you think you will be adding to your profile before all this 🤷‍♂️ is over. 😒 #HATM

I have a sudden craving for the Girl Scout cookies that we brought home this morning. 🤔 #HATM

"Give me four dollars for my cookies so I can be a woman of substance."

Effective sales pitch... especially with Smash punching her fists together on the side. 😂 #HATM

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Miss Rayleen is my hero.

#HATM

Yes! Analog life was so cool 🤓
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I loved the story that stamp cards in library books used to tell... I used to wonder about the older stamps. Who were they, why did they check out the book? What did they get from it? Did we find the same things in the book? #HATM

1978 NASAFacts Space Shuttle Poster.

I did a 4th grade report on the Space Shuttle. I was a NASA junkie from way back.

The Troop Zero girls are about 3-4 years ahead of me, but I recognize this time and the NASA/space obsession. #HATM

The boots! 😍 #HATM

@wendylrouse.bsky.social is one of the few BlueSky mutuals that I've met IRL and she is the real deal! 🫡 #HATM

Game recognizes game and white men have been doing the “unearned confidence” bravado since the dawn of time.

When they see the LLM chatbots rolling out wrong answers with the same sort of confidence, white men be like “I see you, bro.”

I’m sure there is a more sociological way to describe this…

Dialing in for an escapist fun watch tonight with #HATM. Rolling back to the 1970s for Troop Zero... hey, we're going back to the 70s just like the oil markets. Woot. 😬

Typos are how I am warking to thwart the AI takeover. Kidding, not kidding 🙃 #HATM

I had a student legit ask about the draft in class on Friday. We had a brief discussion about the history of selective service and the mechanisms for activating a draft in 2026 (Congressional action).

But that was a teen trying to better understand the world around him. Idk what Fox is pushing 🤷‍♂️

Happy International Women’s Day! 💜

#WomensDay #WomensDay2026

I devoured the Graves book multiple times in my ill-spent youth as well 😉

I had forgotten that Patrick Stewart was in the mini-series. I think I may have to go back for a rewatch 🤔

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On an unrelated note, that scene, the staging and dialogue, feels like a mid-1970s BBC drama. 🙃

Haven’t seen the English get shelled on the Gulf Coast like this since the Battle of New Orleans.