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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 6h

For real. Also, I will never be certain that I’m not the person on Reddit Platner said this thing to, because a lot of disgusting people have said something similar to me.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 9h

To be clear, I liked Platner until yesterday and I’m not thrilled with the idea of another ancient senator but apparently Maine can’t come up with anyone else, so I guess I’ll take the old woke person over the young asshole.

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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 6h

You should be ashamed of yourself.

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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 6h

“Safety standards exist for a reason” says the guy whose factory regularly fails safety inspections because he doesn’t like yellow warning signs.

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 6h

As an online MAGA discussion continues, the probability of a laudatory reference or comparison to Hitler or to Nazis all-too-briskly approaches 1.

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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 6h

But they are trying to tear down the existing colossi: wind turbines

◥◤CDFI, Frankenstein @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 14h

Conservative-leaning tech investors are racing to build a new American colossus, and they want something much, much bigger than the Statue of Liberty. Meet the new monuments men of the tech right and their plans for statue-maxing:

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues

With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.

www.bloomberg.com

Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 6h

Do you think you’re a butthead?

(See how that clearly suggests that I think you are a butthead? And do you understand how such a response is a bad-faith non-sequitur?)

Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 6h

You said “no” when I described it as a non-sequitur and you agree that the person you were replying to didn’t actually suggest that Black people were a monolith, so what’s the connection I’m missing here?

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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 6h

An inquiry unrelated to what that person said (non-sequitur) that, to me, seems intended to imply that the person said something they didn’t and/or change the topic to make them defensive (bad faith). What am I missing here?

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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 6h

But you admit that the post you were replying to didn’t suggest that Black people were a monolith, so how else would someone characterize your insistence that that poster need to answer a question about if Black people are a monolith?

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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 7h

So it was a bad-faith non-sequitur?

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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 7h

The comment you are replying to does not say Black people are a monolith, it simply points out that Stancil regularly condescends to specific Black woman (Imani in particular) who certainly know more than him about this topic.

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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 7h

In general, I don’t read a lot of fiction, so most of the fiction I’ve read ties back directly to stuff I encountered in school. Even when I hated the assigned text (catcher in the rye), it opened me up to other works that I did like (raise high the roofbeams…)

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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 7h

Are you worried about being demonetized on … Bluesky?

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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 7h

My 8th grade Language Arts teacher recommended Mists of Avalon to me and I devoured it (we didn’t know what we know now then!!!) and I sometimes think about how much of an impossible risk it would be for a teacher today to do the same.

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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 7h

I definitely have books from middle school that I still cherish, but my 6th grade reading class took like 6 months to get through Old Yeller, and I’m still a bit pissy about that.

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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 7h

So many of my favorite books are either books I read in high school or by authors I first encountered in high school classes.

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 9h

Not one, not two, but thousands of HISD teachers have lost their jobs under Miles's authoritarian "leadership" because they have dared to buck his requirement to teach the district-created, NES curriculum "with fidelity." How, you ask? Well, they've had the audacity to read real books, sing, draw 🧵

Knowing the stakes, Rose and her classmates at their west-side elementary practiced the drill iust as their teacher instructed.
The third graders kept a stack of worksheets tucked underneath their chapter books at all times as they took turns reading aloud with their teacher. At any moment, they knew, their teacher might get an urgent text that district officials were on campus. Rose's mother says a staffer apparently sent alerts using a secret code of emojis to signal which classrooms the officials
were coming for.

Rose always placed her book with the open side down so as not to lose her page. She was smitten by the gallant, non-conforming little mouse who takes on the cunning dungeon rats in Kate DiCamillo's book "The Tale of Despereaux." The 8-year-old never thought she'd be part of a daring plot in
her own classroom.
"I just wanted to read the book,' Rose, now 9, told me in a recent interview.

Books - actual books, with dust jackets spines, whimsical illustrations. and characters and cliffhangers - are ncreasingly unwelcome in the land of worksheets and slide shows. Teachers say that, with few exceptions, the only stories allowed in the early qrades of state-appointed HISD Superintendent Mike Miles' New Education Svstem are minced into dry text that teachers reac from manuals. The few approved books focus on phonics.
f district evaluators had walked into the classroom of Rose and Max last year and found every desk spread with paperbacks, the teacher could have faced reprimand, lost points in her spot review and, if she'd repeated the indiscretion, lost her iob

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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 11h

But you still need steps 2 through ~499.

Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 11h

Honestly, I superimpose a map of the US over whatever area I’m thinking of. Towards the pacific is west, towards the Atlantic east.

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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 11h

I prefer Douchehat

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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 11h

The real question here.

Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 11h

No hostility directed at you, btw!

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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 11h

Well, since they obviously aren’t, maybe he should revisit that?

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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 11h

This is exactly how I feel too.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 12h

I've been a big booster of Pritzker when I think he's been right on stuff (and I'll still say when I think he's in the right), but he needs to take action here. People should be able to protest ICE without getting manhandled or pushed into a "free speech zone."

Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 1d

This is a great line. Holy smokes

SH😮CK-tor Benway @docbenway.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani rebuts Cuomo: You just heard him acknowledge that rent prices are too high and his solution is to evict me and my wife. If you think my rent is too low vote for him. If you think your rent is too high vote for me

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