It turns out that a cortisone injection in your wrist can give you a bit of brain fog the next day.*
*Not to be confused with fog of war, because this is real
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It turns out that a cortisone injection in your wrist can give you a bit of brain fog the next day.*
*Not to be confused with fog of war, because this is real
"He reached for the boat. I thought it was a weapon."
04.12.2025 18:31 — 👍 59 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0"The fight" = staying alive
04.12.2025 18:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The "fight" they were trying stay in was being alive
04.12.2025 18:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And "the fight" they were trying stay in was being alive
04.12.2025 18:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Murdergate
04.12.2025 18:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Murdergate
04.12.2025 18:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0All crimes now legal.
04.12.2025 17:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s 2025. We all need something.
04.12.2025 17:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Last day for me as well. At least I can start 2026 with the optimism of a Kafka course.
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04.12.2025 15:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sean Duffy bring back the Ford Pinto you coward
04.12.2025 13:50 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 5I will carry this to my grave like everything else
04.12.2025 15:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0If my phrasing was ruder than that, I apologize
04.12.2025 14:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It was not a sneer. I was explaining that my response was more about the post you shared than the one you wrote. That post was specifically about students. (Your post said you were seeing a lot of this from faculty.)
04.12.2025 14:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That's why I started with "Fair"
04.12.2025 14:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My first full-time teaching job 26 years ago was as an adjunct at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, four sections MWF of back-to-back remedial grammar review that I took over 2 weeks into the semester because the instructor couldn't do it (illness or something).
04.12.2025 14:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fair, but the post you shared was about students.
04.12.2025 14:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My fiction writing students this quarter were as engaged as I've ever had (except for the couple who weren't), but that's a course they're excited about taking in the first place.
04.12.2025 14:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I've found over the years that individual classes can vary widely at the same school in the same semester. Sometimes you just get a group that doesn't want to be there (especially if it's a required course outside of their major). Sometimes you get students who give you hope for the future.
04.12.2025 14:37 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0bsky.app/profile/sste...
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04.12.2025 13:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sean Duffy bring back the Ford Pinto you coward
04.12.2025 13:50 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 5too many "they" but you get the idea
04.12.2025 13:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Secretary of Transportation Clark Griswold
04.12.2025 13:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The mission they were they continuing was trying to stay alive
04.12.2025 13:23 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0It's the last day of class for my undergrad Writing Fiction course. Anyone have words of wisdom about writing or publishing they think I should share?
04.12.2025 13:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A bad Monty Python bit.
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