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submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

submitted 64 days ago • 619 comments

Beyond unbelievable. The world is literally burning in three fires around us, we're in a state of emergency, major events are being canceled left and right, and the email is just an outright denial of danger while flames are visible and everyone breathes ash. I moved my class online.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

I feel for folks who feel they have to explain to strangers why they are on x or y or z social media platform. You actually don't have to explain yourself. There are a myriad of reasons people stay on all of these deeply flawed platforms. People have professional reasons, family ones, community ones

submitted 64 days ago • 27 comments

“Will pay any amount.” Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.

submitted 64 days ago • 2501 comments

Starting again at or around 1:30pm PT today (1/8), I will begin a NEW livestream to discuss the ongoing catastrophic wildfire events in Southern California. The link is different from AM session! #PalisadesFire #EatonFire #CAfire #CAwx youtube.com/live/uRn...

submitted 64 days ago • 3 comments

Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

submitted 68 days ago • 215 comments

As someone struggling with what I want to share with students when the term starts, reading this was immensely helpful. Also, what lovely treat to be listening to Workers Playtime while reading Billy Bragg's 2025 words almost 30 years after the album's release.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

As someone born in the Oregon Trail Generation where Gen X and Millennials meet I can't remember ever being taught about the idea of consent in either high school or college.

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

If you work with young people, do your part to emphasize the importance of signatures! www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

An OC Register article lists 2024 restaurant closures around the county, but misses a big one: Old Vine Kitchen & Bar (aka Old Vine Cafe 2007-2019). I was behind the scenes at Old Vine for 13 years and if you were part of our community, then you know what a loss this was for Costa Mesa. ❤️

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

The stack of unread books on my desk can confirm that they are releasing booxytocin, just like their friends, the books about to be delivered and lovingly added to said pile.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Writing is an act of rebellion. Writing is an act of creation. Writing is an act of salvation. Writing is an act of exploration. Writing is an act of emotion. Writing is an act of confession. Writing is an act of speculation. Writing is an act of reflection. Keep writing.

submitted 87 days ago • 385 comments

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

submitted 87 days ago • 1120 comments

An elderly friend in her 80s who's been an activist for her entire adult life recently told me that this is the most pessimistic she's felt about the future ever. When I asked why, she said: "I don't think there are enough fighters. I see too many people giving up w/out ever having actually fought."

submitted 90 days ago • 42 comments

Almost all "How to use ChatGPT in the classroom!" advice I see starts with the premise that it doesn't matter if students learn anything or demonstrate any skills in a course.

submitted 91 days ago • 8 comments

I’ve been holding this in but… seems remiss not to recall the assassination of the abortion doctors? The bombing of clinics? Why act as if this is without that context?

submitted 91 days ago • 152 comments

Writers Guild Calls on Studios to Take “Immediate Legal Action” Against AI Companies: The union is arguing that tech companies "looted the studios’ intellectual property" while Hollywood's major companies stood by Via THR

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

This box haunts my 2nd grade memories. Bleak, but using SRA was the first time I remember feeling competition, individualism, and ranking as important in the classroom. We learned to tie our worth in education to quick card completion and next leveling. I kind of get the chills thinking about it.

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

#Edusky friends: I’m a child of the 80s with vivid 2nd grade (?) memories of a box of what I can only describe as large reading cards with colors denoting different levels. Each kid was on a different level depending on how quickly they completed the cards. Do you remember this? What was it called?

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

#Edsky friends: I’m a child of the 80s with vivid 2nd grade (?) memories of a box of what I can only describe as large reading cards with colors denoting different levels. Each kid was on a different level depending on how quickly you completed the cards. Do you remember this? What was it called?

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨Excited to see this piece out which looks at the work journalists undertake to manage audience hostility--through rank-and-file journalists as well as audience editors in 🇺🇸and 🇨🇦. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2UH6R...

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

This. Exactly why I stopped playing Two Dots. Watching anxious and terrified animated characters on ads between rounds, and then realizing their suffering is the story line of other games was just a hard pass. Since I refuse to pay to bypass ads of their distress, I stopped playing.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

You can find the SOUL! episode where Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin are in conversation on YouTube, and you should watch it.

submitted 93 days ago • 3 comments

Them: "As a writer, you should never--" Me:

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

ICYMI, this was one of the best things I read all week. Reminded me of being a teen reading 1990s Sassy Magazine and wanting to be IRL friends with Angela, Rayanne, and Rickie so bad.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Made the mistake of logging into NextDoor and someone was trashing a small POC-owned restaurant. The person claimed she was mistreated, the place wouldn't accommodate her modifications, and then admitted she threw a plate of food on the floor and yelled at the owner to clean it up. (continued in 🧵)

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

I'm on sabbatical this fall, which means this is the first semester since 2013 that I'm not drowning in papers while living out my Joy Division grading playlist: Isolation, A Means to an End, She's Lost Control, Twenty Four Hours, Disorder, Something Must Break... #EduSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

Exactly right. I’ve been told I shouldn’t offer extensions because students “need to learn about consequences.” No. They understand punitive driven education. I want them to learn how to ask for an extension when they need it, and to learn grace — how to accept it and how to extend it to others.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

YES. Giving my brain permission to sink into deep slow thinking sometimes feels like a daily task!

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

hot takes about why it's not respectful to make jokes about the murder of the United healthcare CEO do not require any actual reporting, unlike @propublica.org's multiple investigations into the company's mass denial of healthcare coverage claims: www.propublica.org/article/unit...

submitted 97 days ago • 26 comments

At that stage of writing where I have to remind myself that thinking is writing. Thinking is writing. Thinking is writing.

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment