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Polyglot, parent, partner, fickle reader, recovering academic, Community College professor/devotee, stitcher, quilter, semi-colon enthusiast; easily amused. She/her
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Made a little tee out of vintage fabric just in time for Pride Month! Free Agustina tee pattern is from Fabric Store and hence designed for linen, but I was pleasantly surprised how well it worked in jersey. #sewing

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Seriously, pull yourselves together and knock it off with the doomerism. Lotta folks out here doing free advertising for the Nothing from the Neverending Story. Everything is terrible enough without us running around pooping our nihilism, anxiety and misplaced scrupulosity on one another.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE TO PROSPER TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE TO LOVE TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE TO MAKE MISTAKES AND BE FORGIVEN TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE EQUALITY JUST SAYING THEY SHOULD EXIST IS WEAK IN 2025. THEY DESERVE TO HAVE THE FULL SPECTRUM THAT LIFE OFFERS PASS IT THE FUCK ON!!! 🩵🩵🩷🩷🤍🤍🩷🩷🩵🩵 🩵🩵🩷🩷🤍🤍🩷🩷🩵🩵

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This little bag has some secrets: 1. It's got two compartments, one just for stinky cleats. 2. I freestyled it out of stuff I found at yard sales, using techniques I've picked up recently. And 3. I'm pretty sure I ripped out every seam on it at least once #sewing #handmade #craftiverse

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

In a world of Riley Gaineses, be an Anelise Feldman

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

Nothing, and I mean nothing, prepared me for how much of my success as a parent hinges on my ability to tune out the sound of things being dropped on the floor. Incessantly. Intentionally.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

We need 200 people to donate £50 and we’ll reach the goal! Our target is £500 we’re so close! Donate if you can and repost🥹🙏 : chuffed.org/project/1302...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

This semester was a slog, but I had one group whose creativity, authenticity, and willingness to risk mistakes was life-giving. Every time ChatGPT had me ready to take a sledgehammer to my laptop, their unhinged and hilarious work proved that everything is not, after all, computer. Bless these kids

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I hate it when strangers wish me a happy Mother's Day when my kids aren't with me. Like thanks for shoving me in the mom box and reminding me of my value to society as a Woman of a Certain Age. What if I'm just a carefree gal with a fulfilling career? What if I chose to have an abortion this a.m.?

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Tell me your kid was raised by teachers w/o telling me. Shall I go first? If you insist: 10-yo made this template for 8-yo to help him write some cards for his teachers today. We've given 10-yo templates like these for thank-you notes and apology letters in the past; this one was all him, though

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Multiple things are true here. 1. AI can do a lot of college-level work. That's why it's incumbent on instructors to give work that feels meaningful and requires human discernment...

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Not usually a big garment-maker, but I've scored some fun vintage fabrics at estate sales recently and this one wanted to be a wrap skirt. #memademay #upcycle #sewingsky

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

My helperer has arrived to do the helpering #craftsky #sewsky

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Happy "Kicking France's butt long enough to ennervate fledgling democracies around the world and defund the confederacy" day to all who celebrate!

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Classrooms are inherently political. Every time a teacher covers a topic or historical figure or literature, they are being political. The politics of those they leave in and those they leave out.

submitted 37 days ago • 64 comments

I'd choose the 100 gorillas

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Ok I am completely broken by this. The Hague and UN need to see this. #Texas

submitted 40 days ago • 603 comments

youtube.com/watch?v=Xbt1... A couple-three years on, this remains my favorite album of real songs attributed to a fictional band, recorded by real musicians for a TV version of a novel disguised as a rockumentary.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments