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Today it was warm, so the kids were running around at recess in tee-shirts, while there was still three inches of standing snow on the ground.

Fucking peak New England.

Okay, but that is kind of the BEST description of author earnings EVER? @peterclines.com @stephenblackmoore.com @lishmcbride.bsky.social @charishkristi.bsky.social @djangowexler.bsky.social Look at this fucking gem.

Dear lord, that is just GORGEOUS!

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

My late Mother tried to open a bank account in her own name, with her own money here in the town where she lived her whole life. But the bank wanted her to put my Father's name on the account. Because she was a married woman, the bank thought she was not entitled to HER OWN MONEY.

Oh my god... are the scammers now trying NEG authors?

I am about to have to engage in a Zoom call that absolutely could've been an email, and I need to try to reduce my saltiness about this level of epic administrative bullshit.

I suppose I can spend 15 minutes in Crusader Kings II assassinating my enemies.

The drawing for this (and some other pieces are) up now at: www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

It's only Regime Change if it comes from the NeoCon region of Washington. Otherwise it's Sparkling Restructuring.

Hawkeye (and the writers room) knew.

It was really awful all around.

That's a really great program -- I wish community colleges here had that kind of thing. There are so many students who we are just fundamentally unequipped to help, and a lot of times we can't even hire people who specialize in teaching developmental skills.

It was a really tough situation.

I truly don't think her parents really understood the situation -- after MANY meetings, someone from the administration sat down and broke the news to her parents that, yes, she had a high school diploma, but even a community college was in no way prepared to give the kind of support she needed.

And, I am not kidding, it took her professors (I was her comp professor) and the entire tutoring department about FIVE WEEKS to figure out just how bad this was, because she had gotten incredibly practiced at covering just how far in the dark she was about anything we asked her to do.

What happened after that was just a long, painful trainwreck. She had a high school diploma, but it turned out that she had never been required to read anything longer than a paragraph due to her need level, and she could add and subtract basic numbers, but could not multiply or divide.

--someone at the registrar's office just happened to look again at her transcript, and realized that she was in special education classes. So there was a quick discussion, and she was told she would have to take the basic intro composition and math classes -- fine, she registered for them.

We had a situation a few years ago at the community college I teach at -- a student arrived and registered for classes and had a really strong high school GPA (she graduated with honors, I think her GPA was around 3.8s), so she didn't have to take the basic composition course. THEN--

............so many steps were involved to get to that insane setup, and the first one was "gosh, I really want to have this guy rape an unconscious chick, but I can't make it rape-rape. what's a good reason to rape her? ooh, I know!"

Oh my god, GRASS is incredible!

I once bent so far over backwards to include SINGER FROM THE SEA in a dystopian fiction class that I was teaching just because of how much I love Tepper. No regrets -- I think my students were deeply traumatized.

I haven't read or thought about that series in about three decades, but I had a very visceral "uh oh" feeling just now.

"Listen, you should've SEEN the racist stuff I cut out!" is definitely a bold choice.

Oh my god, there are so many layers to what is happening in that reply. LAYERS.

There are going to be SO MANY articles about how Trump is breaking with typical norms when he's in his fourth term.

IT IS CONFIRMED.

This is so true. I have pestered many people to read this book, with its deeply excellent classical dick jokes. @lishmcbride.bsky.social and @charishkristi.bsky.social can confirm.

Why hasn't Emperor Palpatine released the unredacted Jedi Youngling massacre files? The Corellian Stock Exchange is over 40,000 and you have Palpatine Derangement Syndrome! Is Leia even your real daughter?

Make the Empire Great Again

#MEGA