Gretchen
@offgridteacher.bsky.social
•Edu MA • Teach Plus Fellow Alum • Peace Corps 🇸🇳 in Agro-Forestry • Veteran Wife + Caregiver • Stay At Home Mom
I talk about education, running, nature, caregiving, California, cats, and health.
I talk about education, running, nature, caregiving, California, cats, and health.
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In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
There’s nothing like being on vacation and scouring pharmacies for the life saving immunosuppressants your husband takes because he’s effectively out of them (rationing at this point) and the local pharmacy f’ed up his prescription and underfilled it for months and now insurance won’t cover more.
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
There’s nothing like being on vacation and scouring pharmacies for the life saving immunosuppressants your husband takes because he’s effectively out of them (rationing at this point) and the local pharmacy f’ed up his prescription and underfilled it for months and now insurance won’t cover more.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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It may not be woke to say that an infidelitous antisemitic heroin addicted activist who is using anabolic steroids and psychedelics shouldn’t be determining the fate of US children, by my lord, someone’s got to say it.
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 AM
It may not be woke to say that an infidelitous antisemitic heroin addicted activist who is using anabolic steroids and psychedelics shouldn’t be determining the fate of US children, by my lord, someone’s got to say it.
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
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There are mass layoffs and the cost of coffee went up 41%. People are being told to go back to the office four or five days a week, which means increased costs for commuting, lunches, clothes, hair, makeup and childcare again.
Q: Would a $2,000 tariff dividend check going to people be inflationary?
Bessent: Maybe we could persuade Americans to save that.
Bessent: Maybe we could persuade Americans to save that.
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
There are mass layoffs and the cost of coffee went up 41%. People are being told to go back to the office four or five days a week, which means increased costs for commuting, lunches, clothes, hair, makeup and childcare again.
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In 48 other states, new moms have access to Medicaid for up to one year after they give birth. Not in Wisconsin.
There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
He Vowed to “Protect the Unborn.” Now He’s Blocking a Bill to Expand Medicaid for Wisconsin’s New Moms.
Splitting with anti-abortion members of his own party, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has refused to join 48 other states in ensuring that vulnerable women have access to potentially lifesaving ...
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
In 48 other states, new moms have access to Medicaid for up to one year after they give birth. Not in Wisconsin.
There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
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I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
Scenes from Forest School yesterday. There was a lot of water, and we played in it. I’m thankful for something that makes me get out of the house with my child even when it’s warm and cozy at home.
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Scenes from Forest School yesterday. There was a lot of water, and we played in it. I’m thankful for something that makes me get out of the house with my child even when it’s warm and cozy at home.
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Any teachers out there? Ramping this back up again and figured I would advertise.
I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Any teachers out there? Ramping this back up again and figured I would advertise.
I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
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This relative advantage means that, even if they are relying on government programs like welfare or Medicaid, Trump supporters can see themselves as the "deserving" poor while disparaging others who are worse off than they are for being "lazy" and making "bad choices." 1/
Here's what I wish people understood: Trump supporters in poorer areas are generally the wealthy people in those areas -- the people who have kept their neighbors poor.
The tribune of the poor, the downtrodden? Studies clearly indicate that Trump’s most ardent supporters, especially in poorer areas, are, by local standards, quite wealthy / financially stable. Economic anxieties are mostly downstream from anxieties over racial and cultural status.
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This relative advantage means that, even if they are relying on government programs like welfare or Medicaid, Trump supporters can see themselves as the "deserving" poor while disparaging others who are worse off than they are for being "lazy" and making "bad choices." 1/
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This is where the U.S. is for kindergarten vaccine exemptions.
If every state allowed only medical exemptions from childhood vaccine requirements for school entry, as it should be in my opinion, this problem would disappear.
And it’s not just the overall rate, it’s the clustering of exemptions.
If every state allowed only medical exemptions from childhood vaccine requirements for school entry, as it should be in my opinion, this problem would disappear.
And it’s not just the overall rate, it’s the clustering of exemptions.
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is where the U.S. is for kindergarten vaccine exemptions.
If every state allowed only medical exemptions from childhood vaccine requirements for school entry, as it should be in my opinion, this problem would disappear.
And it’s not just the overall rate, it’s the clustering of exemptions.
If every state allowed only medical exemptions from childhood vaccine requirements for school entry, as it should be in my opinion, this problem would disappear.
And it’s not just the overall rate, it’s the clustering of exemptions.
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Things like this will become increasingly common as billionaires increasingly treat low earth orbit like their personal playground and garbage dump
The only craft docked at Tiangong space station has been damaged and “does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return.”
A Collision with Space Debris Leaves 3 Chinese Astronauts Stranded in Orbit
The only craft docked at Tiangong space station has been damaged and “does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return.”
wrd.cm
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Things like this will become increasingly common as billionaires increasingly treat low earth orbit like their personal playground and garbage dump
Woohooo, today is Forest School with the toddler; it’s been raining for a solid week and we’ve been warned to be prepared for mud.
a little girl is jumping into a muddy puddle ..
ALT: a little girl is jumping into a muddy puddle ..
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Woohooo, today is Forest School with the toddler; it’s been raining for a solid week and we’ve been warned to be prepared for mud.
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
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I hated these as a teacher.
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I hated these as a teacher.
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a reach of stream this morning
change your focus
change your life
change your focus
change your life
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
a reach of stream this morning
change your focus
change your life
change your focus
change your life
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
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Is "learning science" being appropriated by Big Tech to justify its expansion into education? Absolutely. Here's Microsoft calling the new "Teach" mode of Copilot "learning science" - which means of course an "advanced agent" it will push at schools like it or not.. www.microsoft.com/en-us/educat...
New AI experiences and academic offering for Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft Education Blog
Explore new AI-powered experiences at no additional cost for educators and students—plus an academic offering for Microsoft 365 Copilot.
www.microsoft.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Is "learning science" being appropriated by Big Tech to justify its expansion into education? Absolutely. Here's Microsoft calling the new "Teach" mode of Copilot "learning science" - which means of course an "advanced agent" it will push at schools like it or not.. www.microsoft.com/en-us/educat...
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
Spotted during this morning’s run: Egret + a freshly chewed on tree trunk. Come out, come out wherever you are! A couple on the trail reported seeing the beaver 🦫 earlier this morning.
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Spotted during this morning’s run: Egret + a freshly chewed on tree trunk. Come out, come out wherever you are! A couple on the trail reported seeing the beaver 🦫 earlier this morning.
I’m worried too. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I’m worried too. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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November 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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