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Laurel Brooks

@mindwidth.bsky.social

HS Teacher, CTE Tech Ed, Adobe lately. I support DEI. I refuse to betray students. Hold the line.

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Have you posted your comment yet? I pasted mine below.

11.08.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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In the 50s NC banned masking in public to discourage the kkk. Amended during Covid it was outlawed again last year with a medical exception.

I’d like to know if ICE agents are masking in NC what local LE is going to do about it.

10.08.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

While I can see the obvious use with students, what made me smile was using this for faculty meetings

08.08.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's why a lot of AI 'art' has a lot of the same hallmarks. There is legitimately, many times, factors to it that innately read as 'this is AI.'

It's sampled so much the end result is generic.

There is nothing individualistic, nothing 'you' in there. It's 'everyone.'

08.08.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

β€œmistaking it for someone else’s β€œ
perfectly said

07.08.2025 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is all brilliant commentary. But β€œTemu Hitler” is on a level all its own.

06.08.2025 05:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

haha Im sorry, but I like this one!

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The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

03.08.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 7466    πŸ” 2894    πŸ’¬ 158    πŸ“Œ 230

It’s a golden age for Cassandras.

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β€˜Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions One of the detainees, Pedro HernΓ‘ndez, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named β€œAlligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

01.08.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2162    πŸ” 1256    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 91

A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book

23.07.2025 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2408    πŸ” 580    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 15

Awake, deep dark night
Hold the line, for the young ones
Watch every sunrise

01.08.2025 06:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Your art heals. Make more of it.

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secretly, quietly, I don’t give a flying fuck what the manosphere believes. so its pretty easy to invoke the loving crazy teaching high school and ignoring alla you while teaching the sweetness of collaboration

30.07.2025 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Video: We Get There Together For too long, immigration has been used as an issue to divide working people and protect the interests of corporations, billionaires, and politicians who profit from fear and division. Our new video, ...

Across the U.S., people can't afford to pay rent, buy groceries, or see a doctor. And yet, Congress just gave ICE a budget bigger than most militaries.

-How’d we get here?
-Who benefits from keeping us divided?

A better future is still possible. Watch, learn & share ⬇️
www.nilc.org/articles/vid...

22.07.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 8

Visual design teacher here agreeing, it is deeper than language.

22.07.2025 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

if you are finding it tough to balance in a world where discussion of raping girls is everywhere: you are not alone

22.07.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Adobe teacher gold πŸ†

22.07.2025 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Forgiving student loans would change the subject from epstein. just saying

21.07.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thats the real question isn’t it, how can we help our students to hold and nurture Hope?

19.07.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

18.07.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3766    πŸ” 1143    πŸ’¬ 66    πŸ“Œ 56

So many of us are making jokes, myself included, but holy hell what a time it must be for survivors right now πŸ’”

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oh. wow. πŸ’‘

17.07.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Artist Slams DHS for Stealing His Artwork for Their Racist Propaganda Morgan Weistling says the Department of Homeland Security ruined his vacation and used his painting with no permission.

Lawless people steal art for their propaganda campaigns.

newrepublic.com/post/198039/...

16.07.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

TeacherFriend midsummer convo: β€œits like we have to turn our brains off over summer, to reset”.

16.07.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Usually when I teach HS PremierePro students about metadata they are bored. I sense it’ll be different this coming year.

15.07.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My district is working on guidance for teachers in case of ICE raids. Good. But it seems like they’d want to ask us what we are willing/unwilling to do??

After 9 years of being taught how to kill a shooter with a chair to protect our students we might have thoughts.

12.07.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

from me? no. I see the connection in the voucher programs. Looks like shuffling all our immigrant students into public schools and CTE, while the privileged prepare for college.

09.07.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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