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Fifth-generation Floridian fascinated by just about everything, especially teaching, humanities, sciences, and coffee | Advocate for public schools | Retired educator and policy wonk | Sometime artist, writer, and poet
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Goin. (2022). "PɇaceMaker" at Maison de la Paix (House of Peace), Geneva, Switzerland. Artist site: goin.art

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My eyes are dilated for an eye exam. One surprising side effect is that I can see into the souls of everyone here. This would have been useful when I was teaching.

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"The Brutalist" is a hell of a ride. Here's my take. www.jeffmccullers.com/2025/02/revi...

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If you live in Florida, this will make you even more furious at state leaders than you probably already are.

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Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights explained how it would now work to undermine civil rights in our nation's schools and colleges. Here's a closer look. #edusky www.jeffmccullers.com/2025/02/dear...

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Happy International Darwin Day! Celebrate by thanking a science teacher — or encouraging a science major to consider a teaching career. #edusky

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1. The raids on federal agencies have come to the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, unlawfully "canceling" millions of dollars of in research contracts. #edusky www.propublica.org/article/depa...

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That halftime show was ferocious, y'all. 10/10. No notes except that THE REVOLUTION 'BOUT TO BE TELEVISED. Game over. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDor...

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Remembering Tom Robbins (1932-2025), who honored us by keeping it extremely weird the whole time. www.npr.org/2025/02/09/1...

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I'm not usually willing to slog through a podcast or Internet video because I find most of them too slow, too ponderous, too difficult to quote and annotate. Having said that, this one is pretty good if you want to hear a calm analysis of WTAF is going on and why.

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Rockwell Kent. (1942). "Nightmare." Lithograph.

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Once again, we are reminded that schools should be run by professional educators and not by politicians. The Independent Florida Alligator has been exemplary in reporting the ongoing calamities at the state's flagship university. Kudos to them. #edusky www.alligator.org/article/2025...

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January has given way to February, which means there are just forty-seven months of this left to endure. For now, do what you can to protect yourself and others, mitigate harm, and keep hope alive.

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Remembering Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025), the iconic singer, actor, and writer who seemed to be on the crest of every wave for generation after generation. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

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I am still in my week-long break from Meta, and I no longer use the hellsite at all. I've never snapped a chat or tokked a tik. Reddit's glory days are in the past. Therefore I want to thank you for being here with me and for making Bluesky so informative, engaging, civil, and — you know — social.

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MacLachlan's tribute is moving and personal, but also describes the wondrous strangeness of the creative process in general and of cinema in particular. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/o...

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Sigh. Beware of "convincingly scientific-looking content" on Google Scholar and elsewhere that is actually fraudulent horseshit created with AI tools, optimized to be attractive to search engines, and difficult to remove from reputable sources. misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-...

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Blocking helps us all. When I evaluate a new follower, I am more likely to block them when: * The bio sounds machine-generated; * They follow more than a thousand people; * The posts are frequently low-effort. My aim is to suppress bots, reward good faith effort, and support real humans.

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Hell and damnation. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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The Christmas tree is packed and ready to go to the storage unit we use as our holiday mausoleum. Father Christmas will then be well and truly dead. His rebirth cycle will begin anew when we break the seal to re-open the holiday mausoleum later in the year. After the hurly-burly's done.

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The entire DOGE effort must always be ridiculed, because it is inherently ridiculous to imagine that a billionaire could possibly have something useful to contribute to studying if, when, or how to restructure government.

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