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Kosjenka

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Autistic teacher • HoH • Education • Participatory Research • Books & Bibliotherapy • s/weary • she/her every day is a perfect day for bananafish 🏳️‍⚧️ you are loved Zagreb, Croatia

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Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · Jan 9

"People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales..."

Shadow M 🖤

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · Aug 25

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

Diagram titled 'Possible causes of your problems'. On the left hand side, subtitled 'Yes': Funding removed from local councils, growing gap between rich and poor, multinational companies not paying their taxes, lack of new affordable housing, government not investing sufficiently in schools and healthcare. On the right hand side, subtitled 'No': Picture of small boat, with arrow; 'People fleeing horrific situations that you and I can't imagine'.

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Sveto aka To(R)zo @zovumetozo.bsky.social · 5h

Kako se radilo u firmi Digitron Buje. Spašena arhiva i znam da će ono uredsko piskaralo @kile100.bsky.social već dojuriti da zabije nosište u papire.

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Mladen Erjavec @mladenerjavec.com · 7h

Kill the old me now

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 19h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 6h

‘Seasonal Nature of Existence

We are creatures of cycles and moods, and we forget that about ourselves.
We’re constantly mobile, we change.

There’s beauty in that, too.’ 🖤

Alain de Botton in conversation with Davina

Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 8h

So say the unsayable
Say the most human of things
And if everything is temporary
I will bear the unbearable
Terrible triteness of being

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The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows

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Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 8h

Cozy

A dimly lit room with soft golden light coming through a window. White curtains frame the window, and outside, the sky is partly blue with clouds. Inside, green houseplants and patterned pillows are visible, along with a red chair and a wooden surface catching the warm light. A faint reflection of a man’s face appears on the window, suggesting a movie or TV screen.

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Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 8h

A THERAPEUTIC NOVEL

A paragraph of white text on a dark gray background describing the confusion caused by mixed emotional signals from others—people who say “I love you” but act unkindly, or claim to desire or value us while causing emotional harm.

Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 8h

About today

Walk away.

True power shows in what you refuse to do.

A minimalist black background with white text reading “YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE” at the top and “Do not respond to attacks.” in large serif font below.

Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 15h

Beautifully dumb creatures 🖤

Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 15h

Afterwork 🎧

Laughter is the thing that fills the gap between hope and reality.

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Alain de Botton: How To Fall In Love Again

YouTube video by Begin Again with Davina McCall

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Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 22h

Something I've been thinking about lot about lately:

Reading Comprehension Is Not A ‘Skill’

Reading comprehension requires knowing a little (and sometimes a lot) about the topic you’re reading about.

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Reading Comprehension Is Not A ‘Skill’

By limiting students' reading to the topics and interests they already possessed, we imposed a form of illiteracy on them.

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Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 1d

Evo, rasplakao me. 😭

To znači imati hrabrosti.

Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s lunch experiment.

My old neighbour swears by it.

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Braised butter beans & leeks

Serve braised butter beans and leeks as a different side dish to a Sunday roast. They go beautifully with our roast chicken with dill and potatoes recipe.

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Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 1d

Growth

Close-up photo of a green fern with fresh, delicate fronds against a smooth, dark grey background. The central frond stands upright, showing small, newly unfurled leaves.

Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 1d

The work of love

Black text on a peach-colored background with abstract curved shapes reads: “THE SCHOOL OF LIFE” at the top, followed by the quote: “Much of the work of love is to do with imagination; the will to imagine what might be really be going on beneath the surface difficult behaviour of someone we care for.”

Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 1d

About today

Just breathe, just breathe

White text on a black background reads: “YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE” at the top in small capital letters, followed by a larger message: “You are here, breathing, and that’s everything.”

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Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 1d

"After decades of loneliness and depression, Cathleen Caffrey had come to think of herself as a bad person." 😭

One of the benefits of my official dx was exactly this:

No matter how much the men and jealous women in my life tried to portray me as 'not a lovable person', I’m not a bad person.

Dr Becky Wood @thewoodbug.bsky.social · 1d

Nice article about someone realising they are autistic in later life.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A new start after 60: I realised I had autism – and suddenly my life made sense. I have never been so happy

After decades of loneliness and depression, Cathleen Caffrey had come to think of herself as a bad person. Then she learned about others who had struggled to fit in …

www.theguardian.com

Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 1d

And the songs I sing in the shower…

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Spotify – Web Player

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Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 1d

Crises can reveal new sources of strength.

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Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

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Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing so important as an ethic is ever written…
It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.

"Ništa tako važno kao etika ne pojavljuje se
zapisano, ona se razvija u umu zajednice mislećih ljudi."

Aldo Leopold

Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 1d

Iznova mi se pokazalo da je potpuni prelazak na digitalne knjige koliko bolan, toliko i praktičan:

Jer nekome sam posudila svoju tiskanu kopiju Ljetopisa pješčanog okruga i sada kada mi treba malo Leopolda, na suhom sam. Grrrrrr.

(Naravno da nisam zapisala kome sam posudila.)

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 1d

Teaching is the only job where you nick things from home to take into work rather than the other way around. #EduSky

In related news I'm taking one of my giant pumpkins into preschool next week. 😂🌱

3 giant vif d'etampes pumpkins (very Cinderella style).

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Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 1d

"Imagine if we allowed people to engage with poetry the way we expect people to engage with music.

Nobody plays you a song they love or sends you a playlist and then says, get back to me with meanings of all of these songs."

Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 1d

Maggie Smith breaks down creativity into ten essential attention, wonder, vision, play, surprise, vulnerability, restlessness, tenacity, connection, and hope.

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Goodreads

Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.

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Kosjenka @kosjenka.bsky.social · 1d

Aging in reverse through creativity

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Maggie Smith: My Work is Play

Holly and Amanda chat with Maggie Smith, author of Dear Writer, about applying poetic license to writing and beyond, embracing the beginner's mind, and aging in reverse through creativity.

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