sweatybikedad.bsky.social
Teacher, randonneur, dog person, citizen
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Waiting for the inevitable conflict between our newfound concern about kids and screen time at school and the fact that our tech overlords are obviously hell bent on turning school into an AI-powered app and getting rid of people altogether.
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I teach 8th graders and not a single one is this self-centered and ridiculous.
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I really hate the concept of antifragility. I read that whole damn book, it is fuzzy from beginning to end, and it just gets picked up by weirdos who are like “Why do we need society? Be antifragile instead.”
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My wife’s cousin has an 8th grader who talks openly about getting leg lengthening surgery. He’s 5’7” and 13.
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As an Iowa native, sometimes I re-read Gilead and sigh at what might have been.
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They probably see staffing crises in schools as an AI opportunity.
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What a pathetic, sniveling little twerp.
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These people need to retake middle school civics. Of course Republicans can fix this. They don’t want to.
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Does he have any thoughts on the $4.5 trillion tax cut the other president is proposing?
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This is pathetic, Phil.
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Has Musk fired the engineers running the asteroid deflection program yet?
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This is fabulous. I nordic ski behind an 18 pound Parson Russell terrier and people frequently shout “Balto!” as we bomb downhill.
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A few more:
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If even a handful of Republican lawmakers decided they were a coequal branch of government they could end this madness for good.
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Make Diarrhea Great Again
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Listening to Vance blather at European leaders the other day really helped emphasize the fact that Republicans are now actively hostile to Europe. What a world.
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Fwiw Zion is busy even in the winter. The high season will be a disaster.
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Our idiot leaders are salivating for chaos on public lands. It helps support the idea that the feds can’t manage them, they need to be turned over to states, etc.
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Snowmobiles haven’t been to noisy at night, though they you can definitely hear them from the Rendezvous trails. XC skiing is fabulous here, even for a total amateur like myself.
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The culture here is quietly hilarious. It’s half overweight snowmobilers with mountains of gear blasting around everywhere and half extremely fit nordic skiers quietly exercising, all trying to inhabit the same space.
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My one beef with this place is that there is no provision for walking. It’s tiny, totally walkable, but they bury sidewalks in snow so you have to share the road with pickups and snowmobiles. The latter are so numerous the air outside in town smells like exhaust.
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There’s absolutely going to be a big fire this summer that goes unchecked because of staffing cuts. Meanwhile Republicans will argue that it’s further evidence we need to turn national forests over to logging companies. What’s cut cannot burn, etc.
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I’m a lefty teacher married to a DEI professional and I have no idea what this guy is talking about.
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Did Barron intervene on their behalf?
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The first few months with this dog were rough. One squirrel or cat and she’d spend the next half hour in hunter-killer mode. Now she turns it off on command.
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Hard for tech-brained weirdos to understand that the average human child does not in fact want to spend their whole day staring at a screen.
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He can barely hide his glee.
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Been working on an essay about Catholic theology and masculinity. I went to Catholic schools for 19 years, but I've been incredibly anxious about getting it wrong. Then I remembered that even if I miss a minor detail I will never be as wrong about this stuff as JD Vance, and I finished the piece.
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On a related note, I used some of the classroom book budget to get a box set of The Broken Earth trilogy, and it’s already checked out. Nice job, 8th graders. #edusky
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Thus began a twenty minute discussion about the white American version of this statement (legs felt like jello) versus Okorafor’s
diction, and suddenly everyone is noticing all these little details (jollof rice, etc) that are included with no explanation. Blew the concept wide open.