Amy Boo’d 👻

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.

Keep thinking that many high school juniors read Gatsby and next year some of them will be able to vote.

Time to do some high school voter registration drives.

I had a stack of old Goosebumps books that my youngest had outgrown to give away tonight and every single 4th-5th grader that came to my door trick or treating chose Goosebumps over candy. All 10 books gone in about 20 min. 👻❤️

Best we ever did was Barky McFly

This is how a teenager passive aggressively loads a dishwasher in the hopes that you will be so unbelievably annoyed that you never ask them to do it again.

Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.

Did a new one

Anyway, I don't know who needs to hear this right now but faculty, grades are NOT there to take students down a peg, put them in their place, or determine a student's value

They should reflect student learning, if they must be given at all

Are we going to completely destroy the planet with A.I.? Yes. Great.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Carved turnip with eye sockets and a red mouth with teeth

I know it's harder and more dangerous to carve a turnip but the effect is so much more disturbing, and thus in keeping with the season

Step inside the secret lab where America tests its nukes A thousand feet beneath the desert, the United States conducts experiments to verify that its weapons work. But some fear a live test could come soon.

Now is a GREAT time to learn about nuclear testing. As it happens, earlier this year I published a story from the very tunnels where America's most top-secret tests are done. First time journalists had been inside since the 1990s.

www.npr.org/2025/01/29/n...

With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.

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What the sign says 🗣️🏳️‍⚧️

NEW: Devastating imagery from Jamaica, before & after Category 5 Hurricane Melissa.

Black River — near total destruction.

Love that they have prime spots and are using it for good

Macario is so fun, she makes so many things happen when she’s on the field.

USWNT: I like this line up, I think this midfield can cause a lot of damage with that front line, and I love seeing Wesley get the start.

Love this for her

Fire The Consultants The Democratic party must move on from the same old stale, carefully poll-tested politics and get back to solving voters' problems. There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Democra...

For my newsletter, I took a deeper look at the electoral record of WelcomePAC, a centrist group that produced that 352 page document advising Democrats to moderate once again.

Turns out the campaigns they work for aren't winning. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...

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For the first time in 16 years, someone stole some of our Halloween decorations. My youngest son takes immense pride in designing the spooky scene on the lawn, and loves to hear people comment on the work when they walk by. He’s going to be heartbroken when he gets home from school today.

Every time I watch the clippers I think, “James Harden’s on the Clippers?”

Every time.

When I scroll social media I mostly think so much of the world has been driven various levels of totally fucking crazy, and that sane and logical and even moral things are sliding away almost everywhere you look. I really don't care for it, but boy it makes me value good people and ideas even more

We (very white as well) call my dad’s best friend from high school our uncle. My cousin is called aunt by my kids. My best friend from high school is called aunt by my kids. Elders get the title if they fill the role.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

I don't think we should talk about climate change anymore, we should talk about kitchen-table issues. Like how climate change will destroy your kitchen table and everything else you have

I want to go to bed but I also want to see the Dodgers to lose…

A silver lining of never ending baseball

Boy, Dodgers fans sure do LOVE warning track fly ball outs!