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Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 1d

Me but instead of making a baby dress it's literally all of my ambitions

Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 1d

I want sew a dress for Thea but I refuse to use a pattern or learn what im doing in any way

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Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 2d

I jinxed it! Sub that's been in place for weeks canceled at 6:30am.

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Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 2d

Making sub plans stress me out. What if everything falls apart without me? Or, what if everything goes so well without me that everyone realizes they don't need me?

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Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 4d

When the cheesemonger plies me with samples to help me decide on a cheese, they are actually incentivizing me to never decide on a cheese. Infinite sample hack.

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

does any body else just kind of freeze up when u see this much cheese like it suddenly becomes impossible to choose and then the cheese monger starts plying you with delicious cheese samples to help u decide

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Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 4d

"Do I have to wear pants?" but to the tune of "oops I did it again"

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Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 4d

A kid pointed to the Spock sticker on my laptop and said, "I have the same haircut. But mine looks better."

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 4d

Peter Fonda saw Pablo Picasso paint. I know this because he told me when we were in a Thomas the Tank Engine movie together.

Yes, it’s as surreal as it sounds.

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Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 4d

No babe, I think this too. But I always thought I just have a very broad idea of what constitutes "attractive"

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Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 5d

I just realized tomorrow is picture day. Maybe I should call my mom and have her pick out my outfit.

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Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 5d

Kids and young people need to have grownup-cool people in their lives so they know that life doesn't peak in adolescence. When we try to hold onto our youth with both hands, it makes us look desperate, and it makes aging look undesirable when it's actually wonderful to be able to do it.

Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 6d

It’s actually fine to still care about being cool, but you have to pivot to grownup cool. Don’t worry if you’re impressing people younger than you. Don’t try to keep up unless that comes naturally.

Grownup cool is just being confident and interesting. Just be yourself and don’t worry.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 8d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · 7d

If you're of the right age range: Stop for a second, close your eyes, and think of the sound of a modem connecting. It's still in there, isn't it? Still screaming. Always screaming.

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Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 7d

me writing reflections for grad school and this is what i hear in my head youtu.be/m5A8IG0FpmE?...

Applejack - I didn't learn anything!

YouTube video by CaptainAlliance

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Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 7d

I am taking a coding class right now and I'm really enjoying it. But I am extremely hesitant to use AI for it because I want to embody this learning in order to keep utilizing it. If I outsource the thinking, am I going to retain this knowledge, these skills for myself?

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Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 7d

I'm an early elementary school teacher working towards a computer science endorsement for my teaching license, and I am so grateful that social media allows me the opportunity to "eavesdrop" on experts having authentic conversations.

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 7d

this is a very good question; why is "prompting" considered qualitatively different from "just communicating clearly"

猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 7d

The appeal of GenAI is supposed to be that one doesn’t need to be skilled in using it because it understands what you want.

…so why focus so much on training to use it?

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Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 8d

I assume when a British person goes "oh my giddy aunts" they are talking about Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding

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Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 8d

This is the way

Micah @rincewind.run · 8d

the single best decision I’ve made about how I use this website is that I do not argue in my replies

I ignore it or I block people, nothing good ever comes of it

and I am just some guy and not the sin eater for every moderation decision

Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 8d

I love grad school because I love the work but I might love yapping about the work even more, and that's a lot of what grad school is so far.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 8d

[Jeff Goldblum voice] infrastructure, uh, finds a way.

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Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 8d

The most consistent aspect of my personal belief is that I want to fist figh it the apostle Paul

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Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 8d

"People you don't like get to be here" is not just an America problem. It's a planet Earth problem and I'm betting it's a heaven problem as well.

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Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 8d

Me: My name is kind of hard for kids to learn. There's a kindergartener who calls me Ms. Squiggle.

First grader: Yeah. I can kinda see it, though?

Me: Huh?

First grader: You ARE kind of squiggly.

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Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 10d

I'm going in a clean direction... literally. Hanitizer. It means "hand sanitizer."

Caitlin @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 10d

The dictionary's got jokes AND hands (and the definitions for both of those words and more)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 10d

Grownups should not be born after 2000- it’s confusing for everyone

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Courtney Ellis @courtneyellis.bsky.social · 11d

If you’ve been personally victimized by the numbers 6 and 7, you may be entitled to compensation.

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