JOE Houde, Ed.D.
@jhoude.bsky.social
Teacher of leadership and resilience. Educational design consultant. Occasional writer and podcaster. Collaborative Musings on substack and Mandatory Cocktail Hour wherever you find podcasts. Self-declared polymath. Ed.D. before it was political. HE/HIM
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It really is that fucking simple, friends.
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
It really is that fucking simple, friends.
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days
August 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days
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Have I told you the line I use with students?
“Your professors are gigantic nerds and we just want an excuse to nerd out with you”
“Your professors are gigantic nerds and we just want an excuse to nerd out with you”
November 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Have I told you the line I use with students?
“Your professors are gigantic nerds and we just want an excuse to nerd out with you”
“Your professors are gigantic nerds and we just want an excuse to nerd out with you”
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He's a 10 but his life, his love, and his lady is the sea
November 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
He's a 10 but his life, his love, and his lady is the sea
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Last thing for today: if you truly are progressive, that means you don’t leave any vulnerable person behind. Even vulnerable ppl who live in the South. And if you have an exception to that rule, you aren’t actually progressive.
We fight for all vulnerable ppl. Period.
We fight for all vulnerable ppl. Period.
November 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Last thing for today: if you truly are progressive, that means you don’t leave any vulnerable person behind. Even vulnerable ppl who live in the South. And if you have an exception to that rule, you aren’t actually progressive.
We fight for all vulnerable ppl. Period.
We fight for all vulnerable ppl. Period.
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"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
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Hannity: When did you notice Biden’s cognitive decline?
Miller: I think it was through all of the times that Trump has fallen asleep in public and talked about magnets getting wet.
Miller: I think it was through all of the times that Trump has fallen asleep in public and talked about magnets getting wet.
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Hannity: When did you notice Biden’s cognitive decline?
Miller: I think it was through all of the times that Trump has fallen asleep in public and talked about magnets getting wet.
Miller: I think it was through all of the times that Trump has fallen asleep in public and talked about magnets getting wet.
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Citation is how we knit the world.
Was listening to the new ep of the Allusionist this morning, and Helen was interviewing So Mayer who promptly name-checked @carriem.co.uk because the Internet is a tiny tiny village
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Citation is how we knit the world.
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Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
Personally, I will be trying to avoid the notice of Joyce Carol Oates and Kendrick Lamar for the rest of my natural life
I need Joyce Carol Oates to be mean to me online so I can get my life together
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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Every day I understand the Butlerian Jihad more and more
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Every day I understand the Butlerian Jihad more and more
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Relating to Spider-Man at 19: I too am underemployed, unsure how to pursue girls, and trying to find my place in the adult world.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Relating to Spider-Man at 19: I too am underemployed, unsure how to pursue girls, and trying to find my place in the adult world.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.
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Hey can we put together a bank of student papers from the last ten or fifteen years with no identifying info or dates and then see if we can grade them and accurately guess their dates of composition so we have some kind of data to justify the refrain of how much worse writing/thinking has become
November 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Hey can we put together a bank of student papers from the last ten or fifteen years with no identifying info or dates and then see if we can grade them and accurately guess their dates of composition so we have some kind of data to justify the refrain of how much worse writing/thinking has become
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Physically in gerrymandered AL, spiritually at the gay club with Mayor Mamdani
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Physically in gerrymandered AL, spiritually at the gay club with Mayor Mamdani
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Phew managed to make it another day without getting a nazi tattoo. It’s hard out here. Just nazi tattoos roaming the streets attaching themselves to people. Stay woke
October 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Phew managed to make it another day without getting a nazi tattoo. It’s hard out here. Just nazi tattoos roaming the streets attaching themselves to people. Stay woke
I have left this tab open so whenever I refind it I laugh again.
This minimalist, paper-based to-do manager can help you focus on completing your important tasks while staying offline. nyti.ms/4h8ijiC
October 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I have left this tab open so whenever I refind it I laugh again.
Calling @mranthropology.bsky.social
The Jacket Potato Jacket. “Supermarket chain Aldi has teamed up with London fashion brand Agro Studio to create a puffer coat that resembles a giant baked potato.” [dezeen.com]
Aldi unveils jacket potato jacket complete with silver foil poncho
Supermarket chain Aldi has teamed up with London fashion brand Agro Studio to create a puffer coat that resembles a giant baked potato.
www.dezeen.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Calling @mranthropology.bsky.social
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one of the worst fucking things in the world is the move to call sincerity and care "cringe"
fuck that shit. let's build a political community based on care for one another.
fuck that shit. let's build a political community based on care for one another.
November 5, 2024 at 12:57 PM
one of the worst fucking things in the world is the move to call sincerity and care "cringe"
fuck that shit. let's build a political community based on care for one another.
fuck that shit. let's build a political community based on care for one another.
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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”