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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 29m

it's like arguing that adequate healthcare is aristocratic and therefore bad

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 29m

it's a mistake to argue that liberal arts education is aristocratic and therefore bad

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 6h

this is, in fact, what's happening

Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 6h

The bad scenario I see people talking about (MT Sweeney on here e.g.) is a real face to face liberal arts education for the children of the elite and intellectuals, religious/patriotic charter schools for the middle class, and basically kid jail/work programs for the poor kids

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 2h

When people make fun of the One Piece anime, they love to point out the reaction shots, but I'd take a year's worth of reaction shots if they got rid of the "multiple characters are running somewhere" episodes.

unhinged eldritch abomination @rhymeswithk.bsky.social · 8h

Friends, #weebwednesday is upon us once again! You know the drill - quote-post with your weebiest hot takes, nothing racist, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with it ♥

a girl with blue hair and a yellow hair tie in a red jacking, rearing back to punch someone with an angry expression on her face

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

this ballroom is the best evidence that trump doesn’t intend to leave

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 3h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

on.wsj.com

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merritt @merrittk.com · 21h

hell yeah dude fucking sue these dipshits trying to get like, Oryx and Crake and shit out of school libraries. ruin their lives. make examples of them to all the other lead-poisoned facebook users who have nothing better to do www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Activist's claims principal promoted child pornography are defamatory: lawsuit | CBC News

A southern Manitoba principal is suing a parent who sought to have books removed from school libraries, saying the woman wrote defamatory social media posts insinuating the principal promoted the diss...

www.cbc.ca

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Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 22h

granted, "what if the Over The Garden Wall crew did [any idea for any cartoon]?" does that to me

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Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 22h

i just let out an indecent spontaneous moan

Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 23h

What if the Over The Garden Wall guys did an animated Discworld series

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Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 23h

never came up in grad school. never came up in an eval. never came up in student teaching. never came up in a pep talk.

only now realizing it's what I've always wanted to hear about myself.

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Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 23h

if literally one person in an admin or support role said to me as a first-year teacher 'you really visibly enjoy student thinking and discussion' I would've probably stayed another 3-5 years.

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 23h

a thing about human teachers—it’s not just about having someone around who’s “nice” or “encouraging,” there’s no substitute for a teacher who likes ideas and enjoys being in a room full of thinking students

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Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 23h

centerpiece for @dboyfajardo.bsky.social's wedding

Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 1d

It’s very important to keep it all ice cold, for fear of awakening the taste buds and courting open revolt.

Vintage magazine ad/recipe for "Cold Ham Mousse", which looks like a circular wedge of ham surrounded by rolled tubes of meat and hard boiled eggs with a mixture of pink and green substance extruded into it like the decorations on a cake

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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 1d

This is why HS classrooms so often become contentless literacy workshops—even when they do not have to. There can be more than one reading-related problem to solve.

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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 1d

“K-12” as a category leads to claims like the one that solutions to problems with 3rd grade literacy are on a clear, coherent continuum with solutions to problems facing most high school English teachers. “Can kids read” and “How do we make kids care about books” are actually two different things.

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The CryptKeifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 1d

my first celebrity sighting in LA

randy’s donuts, a donut shop with a giant donut on its roof

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Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 2d

what do we do about the second thing, in practice?

Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 2d

so like I guess what I'm saying/asking/groping towards/responding to from your original point is -- yeah it sucks that we've totally changed what we read in k-12, but if it turns out that that shift was a function of *not* changing the insipid and float-y formats and audiences for student writing...

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Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 2d

those two 'wait, stop, re-cook the soup' moments happen all the time in real adult writing practices, but both the grading structure and -- more to your original point -- just the *genre conventions* i guess of the high school essay -- make them so so so rare in class?

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Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 2d

from like a purely realpolitik standpoint, why would you ever totally rework an essay in k-12? no one's gonna be like 'damn, that thesis was correct, but what if I changed to this one that's far more interesting?' or 'wait, I should change this section because my idea of my audience has changed'

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Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 2d

but also b. the 'literary analysis essay' as practiced in k-12 has no real audience or purposes and has always felt flaccidly divorced, to me, from why and how we read, and how to do it better, while also frankly providing no organic incentive to draft and redraft and truly wrestle --

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Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 2d

a. the disappearance of whole novels -- particularly anyone's definition of canon -- has been a disaster for endurance, wonderment, empathy, whatever goal we have.

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Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 2d

would love for you to say more here. I feel similarly estranged in that I believe in my bones that (sorry, this'll take a couple tweets to get out) -

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 2d

This G Willow Wilson run on Poison Ivy just keeps on going, luxuriating in multi-year long-form storytelling about a B-tier DC Comics character despite the fact that it’s not the 1990s anymore. It’s the world of possibilities I want to live in

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 2d

We rise, we fall, we rise again.

POISON IVY Annual 2025, an oversized issue with story by me, art by MARK EFFING BUCKINGHAM, colors by Lee Loughridge, and letters by Tom Napolitano. Final order cutoff is Oct 20, so tell your local comics shop to order a copy just for you!

A woman's hand reaching out of a body of water, holding a sword, with bursts of pink light in the background.

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ceej @ceej.online · 2d

caught my vampire neighbor creeping through my front door. he claims my saying “for sure dude, we should definitely hang out sometime” the other night counts as an invitation, but I disagree. we’re on hold with the etiquette hotline

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Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · May 1

I will take any excuse to post this again.

Astronaut meme. On the earth is a picture of all the Brassica oleracea cultivars:
Mustard, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, kohlrabi.

Text: Wait, it’s all Brassixs oleracea?
Always has been.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 4d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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