"Oh, and look at that, the Frenchman has stopped for hot cocoa––valuable style points in the Men's Downhill Chillout."

Olympic downhill skiers go too fast. There should also be an event for people who are the best at taking it easy and having fun on the slopes.

Weird how men like that don't like it when women decide how to use their own bodies.

Just saying.

Does everyone know that Bard is known for programs that let kids go to college after 10th grade? 15 years old.

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Some wear caps.

Dippers are the most adorable badasses

Olympics opening ceremony. Andrea Bocelli singing apparently a Free Britney anthem. Captions: BRITTANY. SURPRISE MI NAME CALLING FOR

Also these hot new #freebritney lyrics to Nessun Dorma.

Our family favorite was:

PRISON CURLING NELSON TIME

ALL RIGHT!

Our family favorite was:

PRISON CURLING NELSON TIME

ALL RIGHT!

Guess which set of skills is easier to teach?

WTAF

I've taught writing to poor students and rich ones, and guess what?

Talent, whatever that is, exists everywhere.

The rich kids tend to have better control of things like subject/verb agreement, for reasons everyone knows.

The poor kids kick their asses at critical thinking.

This is also frustrating from the perspective of white people trying actively to root out their own learned racist bias. Because it treats racism as something innate and unavoidable, instead of something you can Do The Fucking Work to become free of.

^for

Dang it.

A trip to the library has made a new girl of me suddenly I can see the magic of books!

A student's plagiarism of part of the Malawi entry has stuck with me. A lovely piece of writing. Not my student's, but I did not know that at the point that I chose that paragraph as the part of his draft he should read aloud to the class.

(I had figured it out by grading time.)

Yeah, sounds like the same guy. Sometimes I get a person at the NYC office. Not often.

Cats will disapprove regardless. It's freeing, really.

I think of this line of Bernice Johnson Regan's a lot:

If you are in a coalition and you are comfortable, your coalition isn't big enough.

Thought of this thread while watching a thriller on Netflix where the photographer has the usual well-lit darkroom with a row of prints clipped up on a line to dry.

Color prints. They are color prints.

The creation of the Apgar score improved neonatal health. Same general concept: give humans a scale for competition, and they will compete.

The Equalizer is the closest thing I can think of, and the whole point is that she's doing things the cops are not.

But she remains Kate McKinnon's fatal flaw.

It's the highest point in town. The penthouse of the shopping mall is the highest point in town. And you can live there. On top of the shopping mall.

This is why I had to leave the Midwest.

Idk. The toddler ate the dirt. There's only so many possible outcomes.

Is this...a literal shit post?

(Sorry.)

And also! Being literate in the way you describe (nice metaphor, btw) is FUN. It just plain feels good to have the tools to explore and learn. Because that's what human brains are built to DO.

Exposed. Sigh. I guess I do need the glasses.

I've made a hobby of finding cold weather and paying large sums of money to be taken to experience it on exposured mountain tops. Damp cold is absolutely the coldest cold.

It's funny. I am adrift in a sea of insecurities, but the one I don't have is any concern that I'm not smart. When people try that one, it's almost adorably baffling.