good lord, it's only Tuesday. 🫠

I had high school kids draw cards to choose an order for an activity and the face cards completely befuddled them.

WHAT'S THIS J mean??
WHY DOES Q GO BEFORE 7???

I think I need to teach some hearts or gin rummy to these clueless kids. History can wait. Smh.

The American War on Iran Living through the fallout from the US war on Iran and its larger regional impacts

@natebowling.com writes from Abu Dhabi about the illegal, immoral, deadly, and destructive war launched by the Trump regime in our name, killing adults and children and terrorizing a region with our tax dollars, with our military members, and fellow Americans left to their own abroad.

This is so exciting!! Congratulations, Tressie!

In case you missed it: recording of @yasser-tamer.bsky.social workshop with Alan Levine as part of #OEWeek titled: Designing With, Not Around, Disabled Learners.

See firsthand Yasser's experience with using a screenreader when material is inaccessible:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT_g...
#A11Y
#Ed

Most of the talk about OpenAI, Anthropic and “mass surveillance” neglected to mention that widespread scraping of the web is in itself mass surveillance.

Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.

Raffling mittens to support rent funds. Every $5 is an entry to win these.

What should the second mitten say?

Email entries to gtfoMNmittens@proton.me

"As long as we rely on screens rather than on forests and sunsets to soothe us, we will fight to defend the screens, not the forests. "

I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed

That's an excellent poster. No kidding. "for perverts" is *chef's kiss*

Stabby indeed!

she’s right and she should say it

there is nothing the white-dominated music industry would love more than to make a minimally marketable approximation of Black music without involving any Black people in any way

You know you are always welcome here. 🤗

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Wow, this genuinely surprised me! Thanks for sharing!

An Unconventional Seating Plan Designed to Benefit Focus and Learning After years of search and experimentation, this teacher finally hit on a room layout that allowed for efficient shifting between whole class, small group, and independent work.

And have to share two @edutopia.org posts in a row because this one from @mrrablin.bsky.social is SO cool! I have never seen this seating-arrangement strategy before.

www.edutopia.org/article/clas...

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

#BrainrotPropaganda: You take the patriotic imagery of the past and strip it of all content. There's no narrative left, no promise of meaning, only vibes. The total destruction of meaning is the content, no matter if it's AI generated or manually stitched together from YouTube clips
#MemeFascism

Given the scope and frequency of crimes it would beggar belief that suddenly such a cabal of depraved men and their assistants might have changed their brutally unsavory ways.

I may well regret bringing this up: Given the revelations arising out of the to-date disclosed Epstein files, I have to ask: who has moved into this void? Who of these wealthy, powerful men is doing the trafficking, connecting, embroiling now?
Because I bet it hasn't ceased.

I had to negotiate a basement waterproof to be redone and also didn’t like the way I was dismissed about it the first time around. Asked company for a 💯 female crew and it was heaven. And faster.

ICE drawdown may be too late for small businesses like El Sazon Operation Metro Surge kept many people of Latino and East African descent home, afraid to go to work or out to shops and restaurants. This caused a drastic drop in revenue for small businesses, which ...

I had really been sleeping on El Sazon. I’ve been dreaming about that burrito for DAYS now. Please support them so I can keep going there because oh em gee it’s incredible. Best camaron in town and it’s not close

i don't know how to teach people to be more curious but i think that's what we desperately need

Exactly. And shout out to editors specifically.

Whew, this is a word.

Donate to Support for Bruce’s Funeral & Family Care, organized by Georgina Kiersten My stepfather Bruce was an Army veteran who spent his entire adult life se… Georgina Kiersten needs your support for Support for Bruce’s Funeral & Family Care

I normally don't do this but my family is in dire need of help! My stepfather passed away last week and we immediately need money to not only cover his funeral expenses but living expenses as well for 5 kids and both my mother and I are disabled.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

How unfathomably tedious.

UAE emergency management and air defense have been spectacular

My own government has failed the 50,000 Americans that live & work in UAE and the nearly 200,000 others across the Gulf States