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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 3h

You see the same cycle whenever we're chided for not giving a comedian or a ballplayer a "second chance" when they never apologized for the first chance. What has changed? Nothing? An insignificant amount of time passed and nothing else? That's not how this works!

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 4h

I’m not even asking for a mention of repairing harm or what have you, I understand that is a far cry from these people. But at very least saying this is dumb but eliding the apology part of it is just gross, it’s just normalizing nazism (like, literally! directly!)

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 4h

I think what annoys me most whenever this happens (aside from calling adults “kids”) is diminishing the significance with absolutely no mention of even an apology, or why it was wrong.

I am a teacher. Kids say dumb stuff all the time, yes. Then: you make them apologize. That is like, the key step

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 6h

“You do not have to hand it to any American president” is a good rule of thumb

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 7h

Shit is grotesque

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 7h

They are doing Clear and Present Danger but instead of it being am top secret then a huge scandal, they’re proudly announcing it and releasing hype videos

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 7h

Greta is an immensely impressive human being and despite her well-intentioned downplaying of her experience what she endured was torture. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 7h

For a second I read this and thought No, not Paul Skenes!!

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 7h

Ah, lovely. Yeesh

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 7h

Did something bad happen with Twitter in the last two days? I rarely go there anymore, I didn’t know if there was new news or something? It feels like there’s been an uptick in dialogue about it being awful

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 22h

Wow this rules lol

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 1d

this thing: "Hi Ryan. It looks like you've played 5 straight franchise mode Madden 2003 games with full-length quarters. It is 10am. Are you sure—

me in college: "It is the AFC Championship game. Ignore"

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“Like a smartwatch reminding you to stand up or drink water, Evergreen will notice if a student who normally visits the fitness center hasn’t done so or encourage a student to leave the library after studying for six hours…”

Dartmouth Builds Its Own AI Chatbot for Student Well-Being

The undergrad-assisted research project will draw on students’ data to provide chatbot support and personalized plans for health and wellness.

www.insidehighered.com

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 1d

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 1d

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 1d

"For now, we'll call it mass murder, but let's wait until we get more information"

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 1d

the built-in teacher plagiarism detector has a track record of like, one wrong answer in 14 years. 99.999999999% accuracy

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 1d

I was talking to a teacher friend today who said that once, 14 years ago, early in the school-year they wondered if a student plagiarized an extremely well-written essay, so they had them handwrite a new one. It was spot on excellent—they actually HAD written it. In other words,

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 1d

What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.

Article (Nolan Feeney; TIME) excerpt reads: “Black Messiah is a hell of a name for an album. It can be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen, D'Angelo writes in a statement about the album It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them. Not every song on this album is politically charged (though many are), but calling this album Black Messiah creates a landscape there these songs can live to the fullest. Black Messiah is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.”

“D’Angelo’s First Album in 14 Years Is Finally Here, and It’s Surprisingly Timely” via TIME.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

All we wanted was a chance to talk
'stead we only got outlined in chalk
feet have bled, a million miles we've walked
revealing, at the end of the day, the charade
--D'Angelo

once in a generation? only if that generation is very lucky.

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 2d

*writerly captcha, damn it, phone

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 2d

Not being too serious but I think someone smarter than me could come up with a sort of writers CAPTCHA. I want voice kiddos

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 2d

I read my first AI essay of the year earlier, I might start requiring students to have a some grammatical errors and weird syntax/diction idiosyncrasies in their essays.

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 2d

This looks like a dog in a Studio Ghibli movie

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 2d

please post rare turing_polices

Turing Police @turing_police
when I was like 12 I went to the California science center which had a "drunk driving simulator" educational arcade type game and if you were too good at it the game would automatically crash the car after a while so you didnt undermine their message

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 2d

This is so adorable.

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Sarah Kelly @sarahkelly.bsky.social · 2d

I just discovered this really cute little girl who’s teaching her Guatemalan dad English and posting Reels about it and it made my whole day so here is a link if you’re interested www.instagram.com/reel/DOZuHFg...

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