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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 13m

Stories and Totalitarianism by Václav Havel -

"On the surface of things, everything goes on just as it does anywhere else: people work, have fun, make love, die. Beneath this surface a destructive disease is gnawing away.

'Call me when the man dies.'"

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Stories and Totalitarianism by Václav Havel

A friend of mine who is heavily asthmatic was sentenced, for political reasons, to several years in prison, where he suffered a great deal because his cellmates smoked and he could scarcely breathe…

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 18m

In this "warzone" the person next to the priest they shot is dancing.

Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 22m

Every American I've known who has received medical or emergency treatment in a country with socialized healthcare sings its praises. Apparently some of them return without internalizing that lesson...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 35m

Free healthcare to all residents of the US regardless of immigration status would rule, actually. Universal benefits for universal problems (having a body that can get sick or hurt)

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 52m

Thank you!

Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 2h

Does anyone have any good recommendations for middle school nonfiction books about gender norms?

My 10yo loves books like Lumberjanes, The Moth Keeper, A Song for You and I, and many other fiction/graphic novels that explore gender themes, & I'd love to get something that explains them!

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 2h

My last 3 years of full-time work would not be possible at all if not for Twitter, though social media in general feels less dynamic and more like a liability these days. The ecosystem is entirely different than it used to be.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 2h

Shout out to the Captain Planet of our time:

epic handshake meme where one arm reads depression, the other anxiety, and they shake hands on not able to do anything and feeling bad about it the whole time

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 18h

1913

Civilization Rather Than Suffrage That's to Blame
Trouble Is Not That Women Are Growing Less Feminine, but Men Less Masculine

By HELEN DARE

So much is being said about feminine unrest that the fact that there is a very considerable masculine unrest is being overlooked; or is it that our attention is being artfully and deliberately diverted therefrom?
Men are conspicuously discontented and noticeably uneasy. They don't seem to like, even a little bit, the way things are going. So -- faithful to the example set for them by Adam -- they are laying th eblame for the changes on womankind.

--San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Oct 1913

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 18h

1936

Men Are Becoming Less Manly, Scientist Thinks

Men today are not as roughly masculine as they used to be, according to Dr. Edward K. Strong, of Palo Alto, California, noted psychology professor at Stanford University. He set forth this conclusion in an article in the current issue of the Journal of Social Psychology.

The only he-men are engineers and farmers, he stated in an account of a survey of divisions of interest among the sexes.

But if you are a minster, a lawyer, a doctor, a writer or a newspaperman, you have feminine interests, which have become stronger with each generation.

--The Bonne Terre Register, 7 Feb 1936

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 18h

1949

Men Becoming Less Manly, Says Speaker

"One of the symptoms of our age is that men are becoming less manly and that women are becoming less womanly," asserted Rev. Gerard J. Murphy SJ, during the third in a series of nine lectures on marriage at the Catholic Youth Center.
--The Jersey Journal, 14 Feb 1949

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 18h

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 19h

Love living in a country where I pass roadside signs for GUN SHOW to pick up my kids from school the same day they bring home gun locks and a notification about upcoming ALICE training.

Talk about mixed messages.

Red gun lock with Veterans Crisis Line information attached to it

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 23h

10/10, would see in a sketchy basement house show.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

Dang I really do not want to fly again next week.😅

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Furloughed federal workers are not guaranteed compensation, Axios reports reut.rs/48ewnov

Furloughed federal workers are not guaranteed compensation, Axios reports

The White House is not guaranteeing compensation for hundreds of thousands of federal workers who are on forced time off during the government shutdown, Axios reported on Tuesday, citing a White House memo.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

Rat Selfie, also great band name. Here's the self-titled debut:

Rat Selfie album cover of a rat taking a selfie

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

Rat Selfie, also great band name. Here's the self-titled debut:

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

I had to drop everything and share this incredible public domain photo on Wikimedia Commons called rat_selfie_1:

"A rat in an operant conditioning chamber presses a button to take a selfie."

"A rat in an operant conditioning chamber presses a button to take a selfie."

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

And every time it's like a waking night terror.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

This is true for students too. Yes there are many factors impacting student reading, but working 30+ hours a week to be able to afford college is definitely one of them.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 1d

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 1d

Did this today and it was a 10/10—could not have gone better, could not be more excited to lean into it for our upcoming unit!

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 4d

Okay @mraleosays.bsky.social, diving into literary theory on Monday and have absolutely no clue how it will go!

(That said: it is really, really fun as a teacher sometimes to try something 100% new and outside of your wheelhouse)

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Covid-19 linked to higher vascular dementia risk. A new study found adults over 50 who had Covid-19 were more likely to develop vascular dementia than those who never had it. Those with prior mental health conditions faced the greatest risk. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years - npj Dementia

npj Dementia - COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

And it's not always going to be the case that what works to triage the lowest performing system is necessarily what works for better functioning systems! Of course some patients are going to need the triple bypass, but that should not become the new standard of care.

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Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault @drtlovesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Installed my new “windows” today! So many compliments! Nd it makes such a different to have some (simulated) daylight in my concrete bunker!

#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLSkyChat #SchoolLibrary

Picture of a lighted window with a desert view.

Picture of a lighted window with a dessert view that doesn't photograph well but looks nice IRL.

Picture of a lighted window with a waterfall view.

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