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had to go to the mall with the 5-y-o the other day, and he asked if we could "go to the gift shop." folks, he was pointing at Dillards. "gift shop" is the word he has for referring to the now archaic category of a STORE.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

important insight into the future direction of the civ series

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

No one is “replacing” teachers with AI. People are redistributing money to tech companies for AI and replacing permanent salaried workers with contingent, poorly paid ones whose labor is to patch together the system that is being broken by AI.

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

somehow my university has set up two-factor authentication so that I have to log in twice every time I check my email and it makes me unfathomably mad. please do not alert the texas legislature to this strategy.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

more like cuo-less!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I get how aggravating social media must be right now for anyone who doesn’t live in nyc, but unfortunately it’s reminded me of what I love about this stupid place. a city full of people who are too annoying to live anywhere else and simply will not shut up and I love all of us so much sorry!!

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Always nice to remember that when politicians attempt something totally insulting it can sometimes fail

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I'm not worried. New Yorkers have ALWAYS chosen the best mayor for the job.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

i’ve been doing some calculations and I think my workday would look best with four lunch breaks and a snack

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i'm writing, by which i mean i'm being as irritatingly glib and twee as i can in hopes that someone shoots me

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

why is thinking so hard

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

somewhere along the way, teaching fiction and poetry became a kind of squishy thing to do, as opposed to drilling "real skills," but for centuries reading literature was at the heart of serious education and it's a mistake to dismiss it

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Time, that is intolerant Of the brave and innocent Worships language, and forgives All of those who by it live. Pardons cowardice, deceit Lays its honors at their feet. Perhaps a tweak of the algorithm is in order.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Another sonnet opener from Edna St. Vincent Millay that goes borderline too hard: "Your face is like a chamber where a king Dies of his wounds, untended and alone"

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I’m helping students set up a food pantry at the high school where I teach. I know some of y’all have done this before; I’d love resources for best practices and guidelines as we move forward

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

people keep replying to that AI porn post as if i'm the original writer, which means every few minutes a stranger tells me just write your own smut, man just deduce what cranks your own hog just jerketh thyself frenetically and independently world's worst distributed pep talk.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

i keep cracking up at this post on AI writing

submitted 8 days ago • 99 comments

Yes, but what of the hog cholera?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

web.archive.org/web/20250106...

submitted 164 days ago • 9 comments

broke down and googled the weird antitrinitarian billboards popping up everywhere

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

getting this on a bumper sticker

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

live every day like you gave blood

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You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

submitted 13 days ago • 61 comments

i was in Amiri Baraka's way once.

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