Triné
@tnbeana.bsky.social
Mom of 👦🏾👦🏾and 🐕🦺🐕🦺. Fueled by books 📚 💙, pop culture, politics, and a passion for education. Balancing work and entertainment, one random thought at a time!
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What's so strange to me, as a person who first read these books ages ago, is they have been incredibly popular. HR was one of the top recommended books in romance subreddits for years before the tv show was ever created. I'm not just buying a random book because there's hockey players on the cover.
I wrote about how Heated Rivalry is just the latest case of how publishers, with all their data, are still not able to predict what will be the next sensation. lithub.com/get-ready-fo...
Get Ready For Publishing to Chase the Heated Rivalry Phenomenon
Heated Rivalry mania has swept the world, and it’s been so fun to watch the stars of the TV series becoming A-list celebrities while the books upon which the show was based hit the bestseller list …
lithub.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:19 PM
What's so strange to me, as a person who first read these books ages ago, is they have been incredibly popular. HR was one of the top recommended books in romance subreddits for years before the tv show was ever created. I'm not just buying a random book because there's hockey players on the cover.
Relatable
Toad went back to bed.
He pulled the covers over his head and fell asleep.
He pulled the covers over his head and fell asleep.
January 10, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Relatable
Starting season one of Culinary Class Wars.
January 7, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Starting season one of Culinary Class Wars.
I was just thinking about this when I realized I’d started turning to Threads to satisfy my Heated Rivalry fixation. My pop culture, books, tv interests don’t quite hit over here.
i think this site really needs to figure out how to grow the non-politics verticals (the baseball moment was a good thing!) because i suspect a lot of the bad clusters come out of the political clusters driving 95% of ENG-lang posts
I'd be happy with big non politics accounts.
January 6, 2026 at 1:40 AM
I was just thinking about this when I realized I’d started turning to Threads to satisfy my Heated Rivalry fixation. My pop culture, books, tv interests don’t quite hit over here.
This winter interlude has been me doing the following:
1. Barely leaving the house
2. Consuming large amounts of cheese and sugar
3. Obsessing about the hockey show
Bliss
1. Barely leaving the house
2. Consuming large amounts of cheese and sugar
3. Obsessing about the hockey show
Bliss
January 5, 2026 at 4:31 AM
This winter interlude has been me doing the following:
1. Barely leaving the house
2. Consuming large amounts of cheese and sugar
3. Obsessing about the hockey show
Bliss
1. Barely leaving the house
2. Consuming large amounts of cheese and sugar
3. Obsessing about the hockey show
Bliss
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it is your DUTY as a parent to be basic and cringe. if your child says "6-7" and you do not say, loud enough for their friends to hear, "8-9?", causing profound silence and intense discomfort, you are neglecting your responsibilities. being cool is for kids. your days of being laughed WITH are over
January 4, 2026 at 10:42 PM
it is your DUTY as a parent to be basic and cringe. if your child says "6-7" and you do not say, loud enough for their friends to hear, "8-9?", causing profound silence and intense discomfort, you are neglecting your responsibilities. being cool is for kids. your days of being laughed WITH are over
This mirrors my exprience on a GLP-1. I thought going on one was a moral failing on my part. No. There are bodies that need meds to operate properly and mine is one of them.
I have posted before about how my GLP-1 pretty much saved my life after covid, but I also strongly believe that people taking them should have access to mental health support, because these medications & discussion around them & how folks treat you would make it so very very easy to hurt yourself.
One of the things I want people to take away from this is (CN: EDs): Anorexia doesn't look like you think.
Sometimes, yes, it does.
But a LOT of times it does not. 🧵
www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...
Sometimes, yes, it does.
But a LOT of times it does not. 🧵
www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This mirrors my exprience on a GLP-1. I thought going on one was a moral failing on my part. No. There are bodies that need meds to operate properly and mine is one of them.
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Please, PLEASE, I am begging you as both a parent and someone who is sick of all this THIS, go vote for your school boards. Even if you don't have kids, that's how these reactionary dipshits got their feet in, that's where the book bans and library cuts start.
November 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Please, PLEASE, I am begging you as both a parent and someone who is sick of all this THIS, go vote for your school boards. Even if you don't have kids, that's how these reactionary dipshits got their feet in, that's where the book bans and library cuts start.
Also why you should never use the anon feedback form at work.
I think some of you don’t realize that you have speech patterns and way you write things. So just because you’re anon, doesn’t necessarily mean you’re anon to me. That’s all I’ll say…
November 3, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Also why you should never use the anon feedback form at work.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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People do not like this opinion but I stand by it. Read a lot. Fall in love with reading. I have faith that most people who love to read will want to read good things and will find them.
Your life will not be less rich if you never read Great Literature and instead consume nothing but genre and trash/smut/junk. Quantity over quality!
(There's plenty of genre/trash/smut/junk books that are actually Great Literature, read enough of anything and you're find it.)
(There's plenty of genre/trash/smut/junk books that are actually Great Literature, read enough of anything and you're find it.)
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
People do not like this opinion but I stand by it. Read a lot. Fall in love with reading. I have faith that most people who love to read will want to read good things and will find them.
Open adoption is complicated and doesn't blunt the loss and trauma involved for all parties...it just makes it different.
If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.
When Adoption Promises Are Broken
Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.
www.theatlantic.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Open adoption is complicated and doesn't blunt the loss and trauma involved for all parties...it just makes it different.
The hits just keep coming for public education.
Education researchers warn budget proposals from the White House and House Republicans would impose steep cuts on some of the nation's most vulnerable students and disadvantaged school communities.
What schools stand to lose in the battle over the next federal education budget
Education researchers warn budget proposals from the White House and House Republicans would impose steep cuts on some of the nation's most vulnerable students and disadvantaged school communities.
n.pr
September 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The hits just keep coming for public education.
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would anyone like my recommendations of gay romance books i really liked. i have a bunch up my sleeve now, they are pretty much all fairly raunchy historical fiction
September 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
would anyone like my recommendations of gay romance books i really liked. i have a bunch up my sleeve now, they are pretty much all fairly raunchy historical fiction
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There's a good amount of historical fiction in the "lighthearted dramas" section of the Gentle TV Spreadsheet!
Crowd-Sourced Gentle TV List
docs.google.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
There's a good amount of historical fiction in the "lighthearted dramas" section of the Gentle TV Spreadsheet!
Nothing will test my marriage more than helping my 7h grader with his homework.
August 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Nothing will test my marriage more than helping my 7h grader with his homework.
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My job as a professor is not to create a serviceable worker. My job is to help foster thoughtful citizens or community members.
If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.
If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.
Do not accept the premise that education is to blame for abysmal jobs outcomes.
“The fantasy economy's framing of economic inequality… focuses exclusively on education…deflects attention away from decades of public policies and changing business practices that have…contributed to stagnating wages”
“The fantasy economy's framing of economic inequality… focuses exclusively on education…deflects attention away from decades of public policies and changing business practices that have…contributed to stagnating wages”
August 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
My job as a professor is not to create a serviceable worker. My job is to help foster thoughtful citizens or community members.
If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.
If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.
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This was the inevitable result -- corporations began to shift the cost of training workers to schools, demanding that colleges teach skills they would otherwise learn on the job. Universities caved, teaching students to be corporate employees, not thinkers and writers.
July 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This was the inevitable result -- corporations began to shift the cost of training workers to schools, demanding that colleges teach skills they would otherwise learn on the job. Universities caved, teaching students to be corporate employees, not thinkers and writers.
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers.
July 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers.
Parenting pro-tip be on time for pickup at drop off birthday parties. Your hosts really appreciate it.
June 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Parenting pro-tip be on time for pickup at drop off birthday parties. Your hosts really appreciate it.
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Your semi-regular reminder that reading should be fun and that there's actually no pressure or rules that say what you should read, how quickly you should read it, or that you should slog your way through a book you don't enjoy! - Michael
a man applauds in front of a sign that says schitts creek yes on it
ALT: a man applauds in front of a sign that says schitts creek yes on it
media.tenor.com
May 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Your semi-regular reminder that reading should be fun and that there's actually no pressure or rules that say what you should read, how quickly you should read it, or that you should slog your way through a book you don't enjoy! - Michael
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Every now and then I just pause and think that … we could have just elected Kamala Harris, and we’d still have an economy that was the strongest in the world; we’d still have an American-led trans-Atlantic order; we’d be assured that our universities would remain the envy of the world; … (1/x)
April 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Every now and then I just pause and think that … we could have just elected Kamala Harris, and we’d still have an economy that was the strongest in the world; we’d still have an American-led trans-Atlantic order; we’d be assured that our universities would remain the envy of the world; … (1/x)
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I found this an insightful thread.
The solution to making education better is staring us in the face: properly fund public schools, pay teachers well, tackle child poverty and social injustice. But instead, so many have bought the myth that the solution is to make tech bros richer.
The solution to making education better is staring us in the face: properly fund public schools, pay teachers well, tackle child poverty and social injustice. But instead, so many have bought the myth that the solution is to make tech bros richer.
I'm not teaching this term, so rather than working this out with my students I will subject you to it. My read of this (tentative) pronouncement on AI in K-12.
1) It see grift & profit-seeking for Trump & co.
2) Fed power in ed is limited, can incentivize > require.
&
3)THIS IS ABOUT WOMEN. 🧵
1) It see grift & profit-seeking for Trump & co.
2) Fed power in ed is limited, can incentivize > require.
&
3)THIS IS ABOUT WOMEN. 🧵
Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools
A policy under consideration by the White House and seen by The Post instructs federal agencies on how to incorporate artificial intelligence into classrooms.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I found this an insightful thread.
The solution to making education better is staring us in the face: properly fund public schools, pay teachers well, tackle child poverty and social injustice. But instead, so many have bought the myth that the solution is to make tech bros richer.
The solution to making education better is staring us in the face: properly fund public schools, pay teachers well, tackle child poverty and social injustice. But instead, so many have bought the myth that the solution is to make tech bros richer.
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I'm not teaching this term, so rather than working this out with my students I will subject you to it. My read of this (tentative) pronouncement on AI in K-12.
1) It see grift & profit-seeking for Trump & co.
2) Fed power in ed is limited, can incentivize > require.
&
3)THIS IS ABOUT WOMEN. 🧵
1) It see grift & profit-seeking for Trump & co.
2) Fed power in ed is limited, can incentivize > require.
&
3)THIS IS ABOUT WOMEN. 🧵
Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools
A policy under consideration by the White House and seen by The Post instructs federal agencies on how to incorporate artificial intelligence into classrooms.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I'm not teaching this term, so rather than working this out with my students I will subject you to it. My read of this (tentative) pronouncement on AI in K-12.
1) It see grift & profit-seeking for Trump & co.
2) Fed power in ed is limited, can incentivize > require.
&
3)THIS IS ABOUT WOMEN. 🧵
1) It see grift & profit-seeking for Trump & co.
2) Fed power in ed is limited, can incentivize > require.
&
3)THIS IS ABOUT WOMEN. 🧵
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"But even if they never created a single piece of art or simply existed, their life would not be a tragedy. There would still be joy. There would still be grace in their existence. Not because autistic people are naturally angelic, but because they are human beings with inherent value." Bravo.
April 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"But even if they never created a single piece of art or simply existed, their life would not be a tragedy. There would still be joy. There would still be grace in their existence. Not because autistic people are naturally angelic, but because they are human beings with inherent value." Bravo.