Mandy Zerillo 🦋 💻🍎

I thought the Raptured folks were to ascend directly upstairs. Wouldn’t the left overs be more comfortable in Hell, MI than in New Haven?

Connecticut Department of Education refuses to sign Trump administration’s DEI order In a statement, Lamont and Education Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker said the state “already does and will continue to comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”

I’m proud of my state! connecticut.news12.com/connecticut-...

I can’t stop thinking about tariffs.

Alcohol drinking makes male fruit flies more attractive Alcohol increases the release of chemical sex signals and makes males more attractive to females.

What the hell are the drunk scientists doing to the fruit flies? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Camera set up to catch Loch Ness Monster unearthed No sign of the famous monster was found on the camera that had been in Loch Ness for 55 years.

We were so close to a headline reading “Boaty McBoatface discovers footage of the Loch Ness Monster” for April 1st. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Do you doomscroll the news while watching movies with your kids? It’s not healthy.

Signal war plans chat: Five takeaways from leaked US top military meeting What was discussed in the top-secret group that a journalist was accidentally added to?

I legitimately texted the wrong person a drawing of a cat butt without context last week. I feel a little better about the few days.

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The fearless lionfish huntresses of the Caribbean Two women are working to save the coral reef from the invasive lionfish, using it as a sustainable teaching tool and cooking it into everything from tacos to fish and chips.

When people tell you you can’t just eat away your problems, show them this article about eating invasive species. www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

This year, respond to the Trump admin by burying my head in #education policy and technology. Just to ACT.
As exec orders passed that 1st week freezing funding for accessibility, my son was diagnosed with #autism. Politics is so personal.
It is strange to be so motivated and so, so tired.

Concerns at Bridgeport schools prompt CT officials to intervene The state’s concerns include a $38M budget deficit, inadequate special education services and conflict among the local board of education.

Some state oversight coming to the rescue in Bridgeport. Good stuff!
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Thank you for sharing this uplifting bit of news!

Connecticut is a little chilly today.

Design idea: an ouroboros (snake devouring its tail) with the caption “don’t tread on me for I am also you”. Printed on a gigantic flag and flown from the back of a really shitty truck.

Thank you for sharing this. I have heard of this only because of historians I follow online, and never once in a textbook.

It is a problem of focus. Think of what is happening like a magic trick on stage. A skilled illusionist knows how to distract. If you’re in a seat where you can see the sleight of hand, it’s very frustrating to watch an audience fooled over and over again

Adding this to my resources!!!

Again, I encourage you to examine why you are analyzing a random woman who upset you in the context of her being a married woman and how she might talk to her husband. I don’t mean to obsess but it looks like you have a following, and I think this examination would benefit the conversation

I would like to encourage you to sit with the discomfort that you seem very rocked by some woman who called you sexist.

There’s a fantastic statistics lesson in this

How Changes in K-12 Schooling Hampered the Preparation of College Students Accountability and test-based reforms, pandemic-era disruptions, and larger social and economic pressures have fostered ineffective habits.

The rise of accountability testing, the teacher shortage, the ubiquity of smartphones and social-media platforms — all contributed to Gen Z's academic habits. Then the pandemic arrived, adding new challenges and worsening existing ones. chroni.cl/426IMb4

Hello and welcome!

Obviously I wrote the poem myself

Photo by @pixabay

A morbid thought as LA burns and half the country was just buried in snow:
Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to parish twice
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice

The most satisfying part of a story, for me, is the change in perception of reality. Horror puts that at the front and center of the plot and I am here for it!

Meta to replace 'biased' fact-checkers with moderation by users Meta says its platforms will instead rely on "community notes" from its users, an approach pioneered by X.

www.bbc.com/news/article... I saw this article and thought-oh it is high time I deactivate this account, and then thought about opportunity to absolutely FLOOD Facebook with liberal content and document whether or not it lands people in “Facebook Jail”. #socialmedia #censorship

Is there a word for this? Like, I know what a haiku is and what a limerick is, and I feel like thee should be a word for this

I miss him.
And news.

If this is any indication of what parenthood does to your peace, “please don’t throw Cheerios in my wine” was a sentence I said today.