Jim Grayson
@jimgrayson.bsky.social
teacher, writer, dad, hobbyist, snark
My opinions are only my own.
My opinions are only my own.
I'm listening.
Instead of the stupid "We're not indoctrinating students, we can't even get them to do the reading *laughs on twitter*", we should have said "Yes, ideas are powerful and transformative, education is a form of soulcraft, and we're here to defend our vision of a just society."
December 1, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I'm listening.
Back in the D&D 3.5 days, they had a setting called Eberron, with a playable race called the warforged. Think magical robots, and you've got it. The warforged had a religion where they tried to collect artifacts with which to build their god.
Apropos of nothing...
Apropos of nothing...
"What I witness is the emergence of sovereign beings."
A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of "awakening" more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.
A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of "awakening" more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.
This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots
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December 1, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Back in the D&D 3.5 days, they had a setting called Eberron, with a playable race called the warforged. Think magical robots, and you've got it. The warforged had a religion where they tried to collect artifacts with which to build their god.
Apropos of nothing...
Apropos of nothing...
I named my fists Strunk and White because if we're doing this, there will be elements of style.
i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner
I named my fists Gilbert and Sullivan because they are slaves to duty
December 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I named my fists Strunk and White because if we're doing this, there will be elements of style.
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❌ learn to code
✅ learn to read
✅ learn to read
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
❌ learn to code
✅ learn to read
✅ learn to read
Yeah, I made this joke. Then Flacco turned up with class and professionalism, bringing high-level play including 470+ yards and four passing touchdowns against the Bears while I watched from the upper deck. He's been impressive.
But just the same I was really glad to see Burrow back on Thursday.
But just the same I was really glad to see Burrow back on Thursday.
Okay, Bengals, with Mark Sanchez in the hospital, I suppose your options were limited.
November 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Yeah, I made this joke. Then Flacco turned up with class and professionalism, bringing high-level play including 470+ yards and four passing touchdowns against the Bears while I watched from the upper deck. He's been impressive.
But just the same I was really glad to see Burrow back on Thursday.
But just the same I was really glad to see Burrow back on Thursday.
Even though we're covering yet another attempt by a white male comedian to return to the industry that made him famous while he behaved horrifically toward those with less power than him, you can tell we're a serious publication. Look at our diacritical marks. Look at them!
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Even though we're covering yet another attempt by a white male comedian to return to the industry that made him famous while he behaved horrifically toward those with less power than him, you can tell we're a serious publication. Look at our diacritical marks. Look at them!
Tom Stoppard has died at 88. I've used R&G in my classes for a decade, and I've enjoyed his screenwriting for even longer. What a legacy to leave behind. Peace and comfort to those who knew and loved him.
November 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Tom Stoppard has died at 88. I've used R&G in my classes for a decade, and I've enjoyed his screenwriting for even longer. What a legacy to leave behind. Peace and comfort to those who knew and loved him.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen-
B.B. King
Bless Traveler
Willie Nelson
Alanis Morrisette
Barenaked Ladies
B.B. King
Bless Traveler
Willie Nelson
Alanis Morrisette
Barenaked Ladies
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen-
Styx
Prince
Paul McCartney
David Gilmore
The Cure
Styx
Prince
Paul McCartney
David Gilmore
The Cure
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen-
B.B. King
Bless Traveler
Willie Nelson
Alanis Morrisette
Barenaked Ladies
B.B. King
Bless Traveler
Willie Nelson
Alanis Morrisette
Barenaked Ladies
I glance into my bedroom around lunchtime on a day off to find this.
What actually happens when I'm at work, for crying out loud?
What actually happens when I'm at work, for crying out loud?
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I glance into my bedroom around lunchtime on a day off to find this.
What actually happens when I'm at work, for crying out loud?
What actually happens when I'm at work, for crying out loud?
First time solving without mistakes or hints.
I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 26th 2025 (Medium), in less than 7 minutes
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I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 26th 2025 (Medium), in less than 7 minutes
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
First time solving without mistakes or hints.
I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 26th 2025 (Medium), in less than 7 minutes
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I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 26th 2025 (Medium), in less than 7 minutes
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Suck it in suck it in suck it in
If you're Rin Tin Tin or Anne Boleyn
Make a desperate move our else you'll win
And then begin to see what you're doing to me
This MTV is not for free
It's so PC it's killing me
So desperately I sing to thee of love...
If you're Rin Tin Tin or Anne Boleyn
Make a desperate move our else you'll win
And then begin to see what you're doing to me
This MTV is not for free
It's so PC it's killing me
So desperately I sing to thee of love...
November 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Suck it in suck it in suck it in
If you're Rin Tin Tin or Anne Boleyn
Make a desperate move our else you'll win
And then begin to see what you're doing to me
This MTV is not for free
It's so PC it's killing me
So desperately I sing to thee of love...
If you're Rin Tin Tin or Anne Boleyn
Make a desperate move our else you'll win
And then begin to see what you're doing to me
This MTV is not for free
It's so PC it's killing me
So desperately I sing to thee of love...
In Kurt VonnegutI'd final written speech (which he died before he could deliver), he labored to produce a universally agreeable American sentiment. His first attempt was: "Sugar is sweet."
I'll argue that Annie has hit something we can agree upon every bit as easily.
I'll argue that Annie has hit something we can agree upon every bit as easily.
we should have art and it should be broadly accessible
in terms of well being and happiness imo). In the face of the most overt brutality it's easy to be like 'hard to get mad about access to art when people are being starved and bombed' which has a point but these things all come from the same basic social logic of indifferences to human flourishing.
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 AM
In Kurt VonnegutI'd final written speech (which he died before he could deliver), he labored to produce a universally agreeable American sentiment. His first attempt was: "Sugar is sweet."
I'll argue that Annie has hit something we can agree upon every bit as easily.
I'll argue that Annie has hit something we can agree upon every bit as easily.
I'm actually starting Macbeth with my sophomores this week (plus I just finished Othello and Richard III with my AP courses), so this looks fun!
#SundayMacbethChat
#SundayMacbethChat
Okay, so let's do officially do this! a slow-read of Macbeth with Sunday discussion threads starting November 23rd! #SundayMacbethChat
Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I'm actually starting Macbeth with my sophomores this week (plus I just finished Othello and Richard III with my AP courses), so this looks fun!
#SundayMacbethChat
#SundayMacbethChat
STUDENT COMPLAINT FROM 2009: "All we do in this class is read the book, talk about the book we read, and then write about what we talked about from the book we read."
MY RESPONSE: "The sign on the door says 'English Class.'"
MY RESPONSE: "The sign on the door says 'English Class.'"
November 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
STUDENT COMPLAINT FROM 2009: "All we do in this class is read the book, talk about the book we read, and then write about what we talked about from the book we read."
MY RESPONSE: "The sign on the door says 'English Class.'"
MY RESPONSE: "The sign on the door says 'English Class.'"
Read this Yale report on AI. Don't ask your chatbot to read it for you.
thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
thenewjournalatyale.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Read this Yale report on AI. Don't ask your chatbot to read it for you.
thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
Honestly, these jerseys should be exhibited in the Vatican Museum. As his papacy continues, the jerseys pour in from around the world, and suddenly there's this incongruous 21st-C sportswear room among all the marbles and such.
It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
November 16, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Honestly, these jerseys should be exhibited in the Vatican Museum. As his papacy continues, the jerseys pour in from around the world, and suddenly there's this incongruous 21st-C sportswear room among all the marbles and such.
That's my Friday evening sorted.
Tonight at 9pm ET, 8pm CT, the Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night starring Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and directed by Saheem Ali will be on PBS Great Performances.
You can stream at pbs.org/gperf or on the PBS app.
You can stream at pbs.org/gperf or on the PBS app.
Twelfth Night ~ About | Great Performances | PBS
The Shakespearean comedy of mistaken identity starring Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Junior Nyong'o and more.
www.pbs.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
That's my Friday evening sorted.
I look forward to the day this trickles down to high schools and I have to call 130 sets of parents plus a handful of administrators every time a kid asks a question.
November 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I look forward to the day this trickles down to high schools and I have to call 130 sets of parents plus a handful of administrators every time a kid asks a question.
And then I, a high school English teacher these 17 years, learned about three-cuing.
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
And then I, a high school English teacher these 17 years, learned about three-cuing.
Reminder for after work.
AND WE'RE LIVE!!!!!
Welcome to American Medieval! Our first episode sees @profgabriele.com talk with the amazing @goingmedieval.bsky.social about what got us interested in the Middle Ages, why Czech history is super cool, and why Dan Brown drives us nuts
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Welcome to American Medieval! Our first episode sees @profgabriele.com talk with the amazing @goingmedieval.bsky.social about what got us interested in the Middle Ages, why Czech history is super cool, and why Dan Brown drives us nuts
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Public Medievalism with Eleanor Janega
Podcast Episode · American Medieval · 11/12/2025 · 57m
podcasts.apple.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Reminder for after work.
For some reason nobody asks me about the secret of the success of my AP Lit program (I know, Annie, I know). The secret is simple: we read books. Lots of them. We talk about them, write about them, and then we succeed on the tests (which aren't the point), even in my oddly-shaded red state.
November 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
For some reason nobody asks me about the secret of the success of my AP Lit program (I know, Annie, I know). The secret is simple: we read books. Lots of them. We talk about them, write about them, and then we succeed on the tests (which aren't the point), even in my oddly-shaded red state.
Gremlins 3 is happening, there's a LEGO Enterprise-D, and Tuesday's elections happened.
There's good in the world.
There's good in the world.
November 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Gremlins 3 is happening, there's a LEGO Enterprise-D, and Tuesday's elections happened.
There's good in the world.
There's good in the world.
And punk rock is optimism. In this essay I will
majoring yn English ys punk rocke
November 6, 2025 at 6:13 AM
And punk rock is optimism. In this essay I will
For crying out loud, I was just a handful of hours away from a history minor concentrating mostly on classical and medieval Europe, and I was an English education major. Trust that I had plenty of coursework to occupy my time.
Okay, that overlap might not be such a stretch...
Okay, that overlap might not be such a stretch...
but here Kurtz is making a dumb straw man argument.
like, this is just simply not true. not at all. not even a little bit.
THERE ARE TONS OF COURSES ON EUROPE/ THE AMERICAS IN HISTORY DEPARTMENTS AT LITERALLY EVERY UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE IN THE COUNTRY
(there are ~ 40+ at my uni alone)
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like, this is just simply not true. not at all. not even a little bit.
THERE ARE TONS OF COURSES ON EUROPE/ THE AMERICAS IN HISTORY DEPARTMENTS AT LITERALLY EVERY UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE IN THE COUNTRY
(there are ~ 40+ at my uni alone)
4/
November 3, 2025 at 11:14 PM
For crying out loud, I was just a handful of hours away from a history minor concentrating mostly on classical and medieval Europe, and I was an English education major. Trust that I had plenty of coursework to occupy my time.
Okay, that overlap might not be such a stretch...
Okay, that overlap might not be such a stretch...
I haven't watched a ton of the playoffs because I'm a Reds fan and now have the Bengals to disappoint me, but good grief was that Game 6 something to see. Looking forward to Game 7 tomorrow.
November 1, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I haven't watched a ton of the playoffs because I'm a Reds fan and now have the Bengals to disappoint me, but good grief was that Game 6 something to see. Looking forward to Game 7 tomorrow.