abbeyej.bsky.social
Lists are for writing (and losing) before you go to the grocery store.
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I've blocked so many pure AI meme accounts in the last few days. Some are just sickly sweet nonsense and others are political pablum. They're popping up like mushrooms.
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In his philosophy, all bad health outcomes are the fault of the patient. If these women had simply chosen to be born men, this wouldn’t have happened. Or maybe if they had climbed the right mountain or eaten the right organ meat. Definitely on them though.
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Very simple ones — like oral blending games, letter tile switching, etc — to help kids move from individual letter sounds to blending words. I find most libraries have the book. The first half can get tedious about how great their program is, but the second half is very practical.
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Reading Reflex for you (lots of games and activities the develop phonemic awareness and a speech-to-print progression to reading) and Explode the Code workbooks for him. (If he knows all his basic consonant sounds, start with 1; if he needs more time on those, the Get Ready/Set/Go pre-level)
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I don’t know you, but I would like you to plan my family vacations…
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No likes! No likes!!!
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I really never needed to Live in a video game apocalypse…
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He has been so careful about which animals go where — as all of us who follow you would expect!!
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So many young kids do this — and almost none of them need any intervention. (Many of their parents survive too! Well, you know, some do…)
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How embarrassed is Buffalo? Soooooooo embarrassed.
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Yeah, I’m surprised the geese haven’t injured them already. It’s certainly coming.
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I don’t suppose it would help the fomo to tell you how much I hated mine? Truly, nothing about it worked well.
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This school is unrelated to UT — and also brand new. If you graduated 4+ years ago, you didn’t miss it — it didn’t exist.
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This is an entirely different university. The names are similar, that’s all.
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Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword is pretty wonderful
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“Free”! No strings! Totally out of the goodness of their hearts!
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I read books about dogs to my kids, so we’re all dogs.
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(This is not true.)
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Yes, but it’s very shiny.
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Truly not much better than muddy puddles and a few treats with friends.
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Wait— It has a name?? And if you used it, would anyone know what you were talking about? Didn’t we all read down to “Marvel’s Incredibles” before nodding sagely?
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I attended an elementary talent show last year where, among a wide range of talents (and cartwheel attempts), one student stood up to share dinosaur facts. It was great!
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I mean, I’ve never heard of a baby dropping a fighter jet into the sea, so maybe it’s fine?
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Does someone need to do a wellness check on whoever suggested this? Because clearly that person is not well.
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Oh, um, are you done having babies? Because that is the kind of declaration that gets you cursed when the next baby arrives…
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I block with great abandon. And joy.
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He’s an archeologist. (He … digs up bones. Get it, get it? Because see, he’s a …)
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“I don’t care what you are, just stop poking your classmate with a pencil and turn to p. 147 — we have state testing next week!”
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I am happy to embrace this conspiracy theory…
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I think that only ever applied to fictional blonde English-speaking children…
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I’m so sorry. The world needed him so much.
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My youngest child has me learning the various kinds of banjos and mandolins and going to concerts where people sing about civil rights. I know the time signature of a jig vs a reel now. Crazy stuff. And it’s Wonderful. ❤️
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I feel like there Must be an Easter / @tkingfisher.com What Moves the Dead crossover deal happening here…
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I think “way of life” works insofar as it’s code for racism, xenophobia, and a belief that anyone different (in any number of ways) deserves to suffer. Including anyone in-group who gets “uppity” or expresses a desire for anything more or different.
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(*sole. But maybe soul works too, in an anti poetic sort of way…)
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The rest of us just out here having babies because we like them (and the adults they grow into)... It doesn't really count unless your soul purpose in having the babies is to smear your dna around. I guess.
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So often I'll work with kids and when I meet the parents I think, "Ooooooooh, yes. I see now." And no, the parents weren't diagnosed 20-40 years ago and they aren't pursuing diagnosis now. But if they did... Mmhm.
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I’m ok with dunking-on-NdGT never being truly over.
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I’ve gone out with people dressed like this. Where “gone out” is to the grocery store and “people” are 2yos who reeeeeeally needed to select their own outfit for the day…
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Any time someone says such things, I assume they haven’t met children.
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Toddler baths are an excellent coping mechanism. And cartoons. Add popsicles (in the bath!), and you're at peak Survival Parenting.
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Preparing for tariffs consumed her day.
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Joke's on us. They aren't going to have kids.
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After each of my kids, I was Terrified of heights — like open stairways, second floor hallways that were open to courtyards, escalators… Very normal spaces took tremendous willpower to navigate for a few months. At least by the third kid, I could just chant to myself that it would get better.
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I fear we’re going to be seeing a lot of six-fingered images today though…
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I had certain weird things that happened every time -- like an extreme fear of heights for a couple of months after each baby -- but just knowing what was normal for me and that it would pass helped a lot with the later kids. You've done this before! You survived!
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What perversity causes the NYT to ruin so many decent recipes by naming them things they are not and can never be?!
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We have a couple in our neighborhood and familiarity doesn't really dampen the effect. Every single time I'm stunned by how ugly and stupid they are.
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Ballet teachers have been deeply committed to this task for as long as I can remember — which is pretty long at this point.