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I teach ESL, make music, and walk my dog Eslmysteries.com Epistemic Silence on Apple Music https://music.apple.com/us/artist/epistemic-silence/1782062224 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/7pKP1srGblezyMhQIKeqKi

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markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 3h

People say that but if you send it to them in an email they don’t read it

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 3h

Planning a meeting of one’s academic department is desperately trying to avoid anyone having the thought “this could have been an email”

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 10h

Unfortunately living up to several stereotypes about HS English teachers

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 22h

The demand that we see the new Tron movie on “the largest screen possible” seems like a challenge for @xkcd.com

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 23h

Who’ll be alive?

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 1d

Cam Skattebo finally found his vocation after years of rigging podracing for the Hutts

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markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 2d

Helloween and now Nelson? James Gunn is evidently a metal fan with some idiosyncratic tastes

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 2d

What is going on in the nfl this week

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 2d

This site helps detect AI writing, and for students, helps their writing avoid AI detection

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 2d

The statistical mean comment is “What do you expect with all the Commiefornian’s moving here they better not try that in my neighborhood 2A 🙏”

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 3d

Like inducing people in the general public or specifically the people taking the surveys?

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 4d

What’s with Park City and all the high-quality hummus

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 4d

I wonder how many respected periodicals from the 70s-90s are now reduced to publishing lists of their best Prime Day deals

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 4d

Typesetters need ɵ and ð way more than they need an interrobang #punctuation

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 4d

Reading this “Shady Characters” book and I also can’t get behind the interrobang #punctuation

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 4d

Idk who needs to hear this but don’t buy Hi-chew as treats for students (esp in ESL) - they contain gelatin

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 4d

教授、講師、外国語指導助手

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 5d

Stories like this remind me of Michael Moore’s prayer for hardship to befall Republicans or their loved ones because being directly affected is the only way they’re ever on the right side of a social justice issue

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 5d

Assuming a mischievous genie must have been involved

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 5d

I feel like Patrick Mahomes should have been more specific when he asked to be the best rusher on his team

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 5d

The Patriots and the Jaguars wow

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 5d

Of all the nonsense that animates the right-wing debatosphere, the idea that Democrats are importing pliant D voters is among the most transparently nonsensical

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 6d

“Fascist cringe is the particular legacy of the Trump era: their perception of what they look like to their specific audience, and what they actually look like, are radically divergent.”

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Fascist Cringe: A Theory

Why Pete Hegseth’s performance of shamelessly toxic masculinity rings so hollow

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markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 6d

Quoth Kate Manne:

“The effect is then what I am calling fascist cringe: a performance that teeters over the cliff of masculinity and does a spectacular, ignominious face-plant into the fascist escarpment of camp, kitsch, and similar.”

markujiro.bsky.social @markujiro.bsky.social · 6d

Where? Tiktok?