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In the classroom, just before I arrived at the school for my event... Small boy: Can we pat the author? Teacher: Er. No. Small boy: Awwwwww 😭 (turns out he'd confused 'author' and 'otter')

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Back in 2021, I did a podcast with @shannongaitz.bsky.social on applying mathematical game theory to Survivor. If you're a Survivor contestant from any country and you listened to this podcast (whether before or after you played), would you mind DMing me? robhasawebsite.com/mathematical...

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“can’t wait to see this show i’m at right now later!” — audience member filming a show

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Say what you will, I don’t believe that anyone counted the dalmatians

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It's better to do something a teeeeeny bit better every day than to make a massive unsustainable change overnight.

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WHAT ROSA BROUGHT and PRINCESS UNLIMITED are both eligible. If either book was meaningful to you and your kids, would you consider nominating it? (NOTE TO MEMBERS OF MY FAMILY: Not you! That would be cheating!)

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Have a favorite read aloud? You can nominate up to five picture books, published in the last five years (2020-2024) in the United States, for the Anna Dewdney Read-Together Award!The deadline to submit a title for consideration is February 7, 2025. everychildareader.net/anna/

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Back in 2021, I did a podcast with @shannongaitz.bsky.social on applying mathematical game theory to Survivor. If you're a Survivor contestant from any country and you listened to this podcast (whether before or after you played), would you mind DMing me? robhasawebsite.com/mathematical...

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"Love must certainly come first for our kids. Not through hiding people and history and facts. But by inviting them into age-appropriate truth, with support. May we teach children love the same ways we learn it: by example. By stories."

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The US Supreme Court will hear a case brought by parents who object to books with LGBTQ+ characters. This is a remarkably calm and thoughtful response by my friend Charlotte, who wrote one of the books in question.

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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

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Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

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I am overwhelmed with gratitude! Thank you @slj.com for boosting our efforts so that we can get as many books to as many LA teachers and readers as possible. Please keep sharing so we can get to all of them! ❤️‍🩹🙏 www.schoollibraryjournal.com/story/YA-Aut...

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Great news! Last night, I won a lot of very important arguments inside my head as I lay awake at 3AM. You can now expect everybody else in the world to stop being wrong.

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I'll take it!

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A thread of silly videos I've made (most of which are over a minute long, so have to be posted via YouTube links) The final dance in Dirty Dancing, but they’re dancing to The Muppet Show theme tune. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9v6...

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You can’t tell it from the first post, but this thread has some of the best writing advice I think I’ve ever given.

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When I was a kid, I always thought it was "Don, we now are gay apparel." I never figured out who Don was, or why people were transforming into clothes.

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Peace on earth, good will to menorah.

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This German meme was just brought to my attention and I feel obligated to reshare it here Frohe Weihnachten

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Happy Chanukah to all who celebrate, and Happy Hanukah to all who struggle to make that “chhhh” sound.

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Merry Christmas to my Christian friends, Happy Channukah to my Jewish friends, and Joyous Isaac Newton’s birthday to my friends who remain at constant velocity unless acted on by an external force.

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I’ve eaten figgy pudding. Trust me: you should go before you get some.

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I just learned a useful Scrabble word: "jehu." It means a fast, reckless driver. And it comes from the biblical king Jehu, who was a proverbially reckless chariot driver. So I've decided: Every name in the Bible should become a noun when written without a capital letter.

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Annual reminder: Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders. Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.

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This is a lovely interview, and echoes my own feelings about the escape room community. I've met up with strangers in multiple countries to play escape rooms, and it's almost always been a fantastic experience.

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It's important to have a plan for how you'd make a living if you accidentally time-traveled to a previous century. Mine involves traveling from town to town, scamming people with a dictionary. www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

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I'm writing my own eulogy in Mad Libs form. Whoever is in attendance may fill it in as a group. If you don't know the difference between an adverb and an adjective, please remain silent; people are grieving.

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One day, as the Queen walked through Leicester Square, she encountered some jeicester who spilled beer on her cheicest. She exclaimed, "I'll be bleicest!" and then hanged him because he distreicester. #poetry #limerick

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I wrote some thoughts on Bluesky since coming here, and how I found joys in smaller connections. www.cnet.com/news/social-...

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