Rachel Ernst
@rachelernst.myatproto.social
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Teacher and librarian Tea lover she/her
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rachelernst.myatproto.social
"I'm not sure what you're saying."
"How nice for you."
audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
🎵 I tried to drink it away
I tried to put one in the air
screencap of mon mothma knockin back a shot at her daughter's wedding
rachelernst.myatproto.social
Exactly! White people learned helplessness making it weird like you have to have a PhD in Computer Science or Linguistics to migrate properly.

White people, just follow instructions! That's it! Ms. Purple Sharpie even made a video if you need someone to go step by step with you.
rachelernst.myatproto.social
I think they've added a song? What I've heard from superfans is that Act 2 is famously messy & lackluster (I've not seen it myself). I think the hope is that they've both cleaned it up and expanded the story. Film also allows for bigger scope so probably longer song sequences too.
rachelernst.myatproto.social
Reminds me of the show Little Mosque on the Prairie, an episode with a convert who comes to the mosque & causes havoc with his extreme rule adherence & arrogance. The punchline is, in the end, he's so sick of the community's "hypocrisy" that he joins the local church & replicates the same behavior.
rachelernst.myatproto.social
It so reminds me of kids who got to college right out of their fundamentalist churches and didn't know how to interact with people with different belief systems without insulting everyone.
The fundamentalist mindset for lots of people is still there, even if they left religion behind.
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rude1.blacksky.team
I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11
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rebeccamakkai.bsky.social
She was also hilarious. I wrote about her, and I promise it will make your day better if you take a minute to learn how driving a bus led to decades of activism and charity.
rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/we-needed-...
"We needed to do SOMETHING"
in memoriam, Lori Cannon
rebeccamakkai.substack.com
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
“Conversion therapy” is a euphemism for child abuse, and every mainstream medical and mental health organization has rejected this practice for decades. There is no evidence that it does anything besides harm children. It is one of the few subjects where there is an overwhelming medical consensus.
Conversion therapy is universally opposed as harmful by major medical organizations, including (but not limited to) the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, American Medical Association(AMA), American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association (APA), and the American School Health Association.
Links: https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/medical-experts-lgbtq-people-agree-conversion-therapy-is-no-replacement-for-health-care
rachelernst.myatproto.social
Principal, Assistant principal, IB coordinator
The coach of the KC Chiefs, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. From left to right they are wearing (1) a very normal grey suit with red tie, (2) a newsboy cap in brown with a shirt that looks like a bad motel wallpaper, and (3) a barbie-esque italian table cloth vest with pink tie
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gbrockell.bsky.social
Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
rachelernst.myatproto.social
Once again reminding people that this podcast was put out by a lobbying group that is promoting curriculum to sell to school districts. They literally sells journalists stories.
As educators, we know reading is more than phonics. This podcast is more fearmongering to get people to buy a product.
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adapalmer.bsky.social
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
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leftistlawyer.com
People really have no idea how violent, cruel, and intentionally torturous American jails and prisons are.

And most people in American jails have never been convicted of a crime.
rachelernst.myatproto.social
I'm a practicing Christian & this is 100% accurate for Christian Zionists. Also a lot of people who call themselves Christian Zionists don't actually think through the implications of their beliefs. Explicitly stating what this entails is good because they have to face it.
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
ok I didn't mention this in my piece on friday but one of the things the judge asked about was whether the guardsmen were going to get paid during the shutdown

the doj was like "idk"

the state of oregon was like "we looked into it and the answer is no"
harmancipants.bsky.social
I keep forgetting the government is shut down bc Trump admin is so focused on sending troops to US cities
rachelernst.myatproto.social
My grandparents retired to a city in California that was notorious for providing town-specific driver's licenses to people who had lost theirs elsewhere.
Instead of the city investing in transportation options that would make it easier for everyone, we just had constant car crashes.
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dahliaiterations.com
One of the foundational laws of conservativism is that parents own their children, and the concept of a minor to them is one of earning the right to self-ownership (which remains a privilege in their eyes even after adulthood) rather than guardianship as a means to cultivate natural self ownership.
rachelernst.myatproto.social
. My memory is hazy but one of the original AI girlfriend sites first updated the coding & all the "girlfriends" personalities changed. Then they sold the website and another company took on the data or something and people had to transfer over to keep their account that housed their "girlfriend".
rachelernst.myatproto.social
I unabashedly cry every rewatch when Buzz tries to fly and gets a broken wing and Randy Newman in his schmaltzy voice sings, "Clearly I will go sailing...no more."
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heymrsbond.com
Reasons to Teach High School English when the World is on Fire

Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.
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dryad.technology
The function of the waffles joke is an in-group signifier. Singal, Graber, and Oppiliappan are showing in-group solidarity; they're all in on a joke. The joke is they have institutional power, and you don't, and they feel contempt for you, that you still want to have opinions about how power's used.
rachelernst.myatproto.social
After years of terribly themed weeks, I thought this one was great because for the British audience there was a lot of nostalgia and for the rest of us it was like wait...what's *that*?