Klaus Nomi Malone

Black text on a yellow background reads: "Email all of the Multnomah County Commissioners and tell them: "HANDS OFF PRESCHOOL FOR ALL! VOTE NO ON CUTTING FUNDING!" In the bottom right corner is a logo for the Friends of Preschool for All coalition, and the URL: friendsofpfa.org

🌞Rise and shine, Team Toddler! Time to email our County Commissioners! 🫡
actionnetwork.org/letters/vote...

This was actually my favorite thing to ask people to do on first dates after a drink or two. Results are always amazing.

ChatGPT File • • Edit View Window Help ChatGPT 5 > How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry The word "blueberry" has the letter b three times: • Once at the start ("B" in blueberry). • Once in the middle ("b" in blue). • Once before the -erry ending ("b" in berry). Total: 3 O92 Show me where the letter b appears in the word please. Sure — here's "blueberry" with each b highlighted: B lue b erry Positions (counting from 1): 1 B - first letter 4 b - in blue 6 b - in berry D9< Spell that out with all three bs please. I mean, just spell the word. Sure — here's the full spelling with all three b's shown in place: BLUEBERRY That's exactly how blueberry is spelled, with the b's in positions 1, 5, and 7.

ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help E ChatGPT 5 > You wrote "BLUEBERRY". There are only two bs there. Ah - I see the mix-up. Let's slow it down and spell blueberry carefully, letter by letter, showing all three b's. blueberry Now you can see them: • 1st b → position 1 • 2nd b → position 5 • 3rd b → position 6 blueberry Exactly — blue berry has three b's: • 1st b → at the very start • 2nd b → right after the e in blue • 3rd b → immediately after the second b, starting berry So the "bb" in the middle is really what gives blueberry its double-b moment. Its double-b moment; I see. Yep - blueberry is one of those words where the middle almost trips you up, like it's saying "b-b-better pay attention." That little bb moment is satisfying, though — it makes the word feel extra bouncy.

 ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help 巴 • ChatGPT 5 > My students get you to write their essays for them, you know. Ah, the old "ChatGPT, do my homework" routine — I'm familiar with that one. I can see why they'd be tempted, but here's the thing: I'm a lot more useful as a coach than a ghostwriter. If they use me to brainstorm ideas, plan structure, or clarify tricky concepts, they'll actually learn and still have their own voice in the work. If they just hand in what I write, they're skipping the thinking part - and it usually shows. I'm good, but I still leave a trail of... telltale ChatGPT-isms. A trail of blueberries, as it were. Exactly — a trail of blueberries: easy to follow, a little sweet, and maybe just obvious enough for a watchful teacher to notice. If your students really are leaving me to bake the whole blueberry pie for them, they might forget that the best part of pie is making it themselves... even if it gets a little messy. "Blueberry" only has two bs. Nope - blueberry really does have three b's. Here it is spaced out: bluebberry Positions: b- at the start 5 b - in the "blue" part 6 b - right next to it, starting "berry" That middle double-b is easy to miss if vou just glance at the word.

I had to try the “blueberry” thing myself with GPT5. I merely report the results.

You may be asking yourself...did I not just take action to save this vital program that we voted for 2-to-1 & is a no-brainer anywhere else in the industrialized world??? Yes, you probably did! But the attacks keep coming and this whole summer is a crucial juncture for Preschool for All! Click thru!

“Nobody came”: Hill Country flooding survivors recount anguish, neglect during emotional hearing Residents told state lawmakers about what they’ve lost and the hardships they’re experiencing almost a month after the July 4 disaster devastated the region.

The MAGA-led response to the Texas floods is going great - so great that locals are still finding rotting human body parts in the debris that no one in government appears to care about picking up:

Promising Models To Support and Expand the Early Childhood Educator Workforce Early childhood educators do critical work in educating the nation’s youngest learners. Recruiting, retaining, and expanding the workforce through investments in their compensation and benefits must b...

Shocked to see that the Governor of Oregon's brilliant plan to *check notes* gut the universal free preschool program in Multnomah County which pays a living wage to childcare workers didn't make the list.

www.americanprogress.org/article/prom...

the vibes are off, so here’s a timeline cleanse

I went to the Israelis for Peace demonstration at Union Square in NYC this afternoon. Deeply solemn and moving. They're there every Sunday at 5 pm.

Today they sat in silence with empty pots and photographs of children from Gaza.

Slide showing a graph of the Preschool for All fund dipping below $0 in fiscal year 2031, under Julia Brim Edwards' indexing scenario.

Key point not covered in the article: IF the indexing proposal passes this August, Preschool For All will be BANKRUPT by 2031.

This is a wildly undemocratic maneuver by Commissioner Brim Edwards, doing the dirty work for PMC and Gov. Kotek.

www.wweek.com/news/schools...

We are watching in real-time as an administration and an entire party attempt to cover up the single most notorious child sex trafficking ring in modern history in order to protect their leader being implicated in it

ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....

Great little NYC snapshot story by Zach Helfand

<em class="small">ICE</em> Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.

This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.

We're going to need to save Preschool for All from getting killed in the next couple of weeks. Julia Brim Edward's "indexing the tax" proposal which is designed to bankrupt the program by 2031 will be voted on in AUGUST.

This is a war on every future family in our county.

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PBA aka Portland Metro Chamber collect a private, unaccountable tax on all downtown businesses to pay for their staff who are involved in lobbying regional governments. And they use this power to tell the County to give rich people a tax break and undermine affordable childcare for regular people.

Chamber calls on Multnomah County to support Governor Kotek's Pre-K Program The Chamber announces our endorsement of the reforms to the Multnomah County Pre-School for All program called for by Governor Tina Kotek.

The political situation in Multnomah County right now is literally businesses vs. preschoolers. How do you end up on the business side of that? portlandmetrochamber.com/resources/ch...

Area man making $333k a year says taking away preschool is the best thing for the future of all children in Multnomah County

I don't like to speak badly of people. I have grown up thinking and being told that if you cannot say something nice about someone, you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate Hulk Hogan very much. He is a big ugly goon and I want to squash his face. -Andre the Giant

don't let reddit dominate this survey, please portland lfg 😩

I genuinely can't find a way to respond negatively to this survey that isn't just to say "I don't think all kids should be able to access child care." Is anyone else sketched out by the amount of bias shown in this survey?

This is a reddit post about a survey on preschool for all.

The question they appear to be struggling with is number 1. 'How much do you agree with the following statement: “Every child in Multnomah County should have access to preschool.”'

A creepy AI John Adams saying "facts do not care about your feelings."

I have the unfortunate duty to inform you that the WH & Dept of Ed, as part of the Trump Admin's celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, has partnered with Prager U to create AI-slop videos in which we see John Adams say "facts do not care about your feelings."

I spend most of my waking moments trying to convince my 2 year old to put on pants.

Headline from The Conversation: More people are considering Al lovers, and we shouldn't judge

I actually can and will judge people who are using environmentally devastating technology built on mass theft to create a fictional partner who does nothing but tell how great they are.

He talks about that being a problem but rather than talking about how those are all *political* problems, he pivots back into his dumb abundance framing. We can just wave a magic (not political!!) wand to create more of what we need (not through politics!!) and then we can party (not politically!!)

The most positive things I hear about ChatGPT are like “it can kind of do tasks at my job but I have to check everything because it fucks up constantly” while other people have told me about how it’s causing serious issues and concerns in their workplaces

i can see this one is going to get a lot of use

Let me tell you something… He can go too

Notable exception is PFA defender @meghanmoyer.bsky.social, we love an elected official who *checks notes* defends a program that 64% of the County voted for

Who needs Republicans in Oregon when you've got Democrats like these?

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.