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Erik the PhDad

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A dad working on a dissertation in curriculum studies. RE Education and School: you're not mistaken, we've been doing it wrong for a very long time.

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Erik the PhDad @phdad.bsky.social · Jan 18

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Erik the PhDad @phdad.bsky.social · 14d

Otherwise, all that fear and resentment will just feel justified, leaving farmers in despair with no place to turn and no trust or inclination to contribute to enacting the repairs we all desperately need to see made. 4/4

Erik the PhDad @phdad.bsky.social · 14d

Right now, soybean farmers need to know that American resistors realize they really do give a sh*t about agriculture and that the righteous anger is properly directed toward the man and his minions who took advantage of farmers' fears and resentment for decades while Democrats sat on their hands.

Erik the PhDad @phdad.bsky.social · 14d

True learning and change doesn't result from being shamed in the midst of crisis and pain.
As farmers have always known and rightly felt has been ignored is that the soybean industry is essential to all of us in the US and many abroad. 2/4

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Erik the PhDad @phdad.bsky.social · 14d

*An ask for empathy*
Right now, Soybean Farmers are seeing their industry and livelihood crushed by the conman many of them voted for.
BUT... dragging them publicly for contributing to the crisis right now won't teach anyone anything or encourage them to resist and repair the harm being done. 1/4

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Erik the PhDad @phdad.bsky.social · 17d

Not all heroes wear capes

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Erik the PhDad @phdad.bsky.social · Sep 6

A question I'm hearing from U.S. parents, now in total seriousness:

At what point does requesting asylum from other countries (or something similar) on behalf of children at risk from the current administration become something actually possible?

Erik the PhDad @phdad.bsky.social · Aug 23

Totally worth it! That face cannot be denied!

Erik the PhDad @phdad.bsky.social · Aug 20

HEYJOHN! ME AND JIMMY WERE BIKING AROUND AND FOUND COOL STUFF BY THE OLD FACTORY WITH THE HOLE IN THE ROOF AND BUILT A RAMP TO JUMP OVER STUFF AND THEN JIMMY WIPED OUT ON A PUDDLE AND SCRAPED HIS LEG AND THEN HIS VOICE CHANGED AND HE SAID HE FEELS SUPER STRONG AND WE GOING TO DO GREAT THINGS!

Erik the PhDad @phdad.bsky.social · Aug 2

Of course you do! Why wouldn't you?

Erik the PhDad @phdad.bsky.social · Jul 11

#Superman being #woke isn't new. SMFH

Erik the PhDad @phdad.bsky.social · Jul 10

very Cool! you have every reason to be proud! keep up your amazing work!

Erik the PhDad @phdad.bsky.social · Jul 10

When filling out medical intake forms does anyone else feel like you might need to list "inability to turn off my give-a-fuck" as a medical condition?

#ADHD #Neurospicy #Education #Activism #Democracy #anti-authoritarianism #Dissertation #PhDLife #TeachersofBluesky

Erik the PhDad @phdad.bsky.social · May 26

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As we memorialize those killed, may our celebrations not lead us to forget the many more casualties that simply k¡ll combatants more slowly than their breathren fallen on the field of battle.
And may we take a moment to remember why we have lost so much and say "F**k War Forever"

Erik the PhDad @phdad.bsky.social · May 26

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Meanwhile the visible casualties of bodies ruined receive token attention with few reparations or accomodations.
And the ubiquitous invisible injuries arising from violence in extremis are excluded, stigmatized and ignored in the face of nationalistic pride and flag-waving celebrations.

Erik the PhDad @phdad.bsky.social · May 26

Thinking of my father on Memorial Day

Violence takes many forms.
But state violence is unique in the manner it is memorialized.
The lives of persons conscripted into conflict thus cut short, are celebrated as sacrifices for "G-d and Country." 🧵/1

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Erik the PhDad @phdad.bsky.social · May 13

The text should actually read "Stay awhile and Listen."

Erik the PhDad @phdad.bsky.social · May 13

For all the folks who know what it means to 'Leeroy Jenkins' things up. The original video is 20 years old now. Just take a moment to recognize that you are among those esteemed wise old nerds to whom the aspiring young should know to "stay and listen". 😜

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Erik the PhDad @phdad.bsky.social · May 11

For Mothers' Day I present
A parent's prayer:

May I one day truly be as unnecessary to your existence as you believe I am now.