Joe Courchesne

“Shut up English teachers, why would we ever need to learn about symbolism?”

Meanwhile:

So much of the “don’t tread on me” crowd celebrating getting tread on today.

You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

How can a human person say this with a straight face?

Hey, Western Mass people: there's a Zine Fest in Holyoke May 3. flywheelarts.org I need more subversion in my life.

Massachusetts English folks: this Saturday, the Western Mass Writing Project presents the Best Practices in Teaching Writing conference.

Teacher-led sessions on writing for social change, grading for equity, using mentor texts, and more!

Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I very much owe George Lucas an apology for mocking just how big of a role “the taxation of trade routes” can play in the downfall of a society. My bad, dude.

There was a time in history when the President of the United Statest threatening to deport US citizens to secret prisons in South America for vandalizing his buddy’s car company would be a huge, headline-grabbing scandal.

Now, it’s just a Friday.

Trump to create religious office in White House, target 'anti-Christian bias' U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would create a White House faith office and direct Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead a task force on eradicating what he called anti-Christian bias within the federal government.

I hear they’re setting up a hotline that you can use to report seeing Goody Proctor with the devil.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Europeans on democracy’s frontlines offer advice to Americans: never give up With the new Trump era likely to pose unprecedented challenges the message from Europe’s fragile democracies is: stay united and safeguard your institutions

“US still has strong institutions and vocal opposition, but watching these watchdogs be dismissed makes me wonder: is this how it starts?””

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Lots of people in favor of getting rid of “the illegals” until who is considered “illegal” changes to include them.

Please stop telling me to focus on the the useful and practical applications of AI in the classroom.

I know about them. Great! Wonderful.

I also know students are using AI to do less reading, writing, and thinking. Stop trying to get me to stop thinking about how to combat that. Please. Please?

Bringing out the trash on this extremely cold morning I thought to myself, “huh… I’m pretty sure *I* had to walk to school in temperatures like these.”

I realized in that moment, to my horror, that my transformation to middle aged guy had begun. Does this mean I have to start watching Fox News?

I have a lot of new followers, and I hear bluesky has a lot of new users!

Welcome, friends!

I belong to the Bluesky School of Thought that when we see someone being trash, we do the thing that will upset them most: we immediately block them and forget they ever existed.

Trust me: they HATE IT.

AI-fabricated 'junk science' floods Google scholar, researchers warn AI-generated research is a threat, both in terms of society's knowledge and public trust in science. This was the conclusion made by the researchers from the Swedish School of Library and Information ...

The shockingest shock that ever shocked.

phys.org/news/2025-01...

Hi!

Something about this has really got to me. It is just such a slap in the face - this is what we're worth, is it? Arguably the largest connector of human beings in the world, flooded with literal friction between each and every one by a billionaire addicted to growth. Death cult shit. Disgraceful.

What’s the psychological term for cleaning your living room for Santa as if you’re actually having a guest over?

Nobel Laureates Urge Senate to Turn Down Kennedy’s Nomination Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. “would put the public’s health in jeopardy,” more than 75 laureates wrote.

More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr.

The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

BREAKING: NYPD has located the tunnel the assassin used to escape the city but found it to be merely a painting on a brick wall and smashed up several squad cars upon trying to enter it

“Our propensity to lose track of the diverse set of interpretive judgments packed into every instance of data collection, and accordingly to diminish the socially situated conditions in which data is created, extends even where data collection appears tightly controlled.”

How does Musk not see this is going to end with Donald Trump flying away in a rocket ship, leaving Musk alone in their burning fortress as the good guys close in while Elon yells “but maaaaster, what about me???”

For the first time in my life, I held on to a debit card long enough for it to expire. Small wins.

Considering the direction the US is headed, I find it necessary to get ahead of it and state publicly that I, Goodman Courchesne, did not traffic with the devil.

My neighbor though…

I’m pretty sure that if some CEO got fired from his job & on his way out he told a mob of crazies to show up with zip ties, flag poles and tasers and to bash in the windows & smear poop on the walls, that he wouldn’t get hired back a few years later, but what the hell do I know.

There is no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
--Will Rogers

Hello Bluesky people!

In these dark times, we must cling to whatever poetic justice comes our way.

wait why does the dept of government efficiency have two co-chairs