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@geonz.bsky.social

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I'll say more if I decide to stick around -- I'm at Parkland College tryin' to help folks who want to figure out basic math. I ride my bike a lot. I'm still here for now.

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cognitively accessible math @geonz.bsky.social · 3h

OK: make it sustainable, though. Make it *connected* to the universe and time which is what holidays should do for us!!!!

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cognitively accessible math @geonz.bsky.social · 3h

Seriously, media... use the words!!! Tell the truth!!!

cognitively accessible math @geonz.bsky.social · 3h

I see the results of that when folks get to college and take our placement test and tank it because it is *designed to assess understanding.* (Happily, butterfly method is NOT a thing here. We may not be a minority.) resourceroom.net/devmath/ has my conceptual fraction build I use w/ my adults.

Developmental Math Poster Session Information 2023 Faculty Summer Institute Illinois

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cognitively accessible math @geonz.bsky.social · 3h

NPR - they say they're going to talk about the cost we "all" pay for cars and I hollered but hey!!! They were talking to you!!!!!

cognitively accessible math @geonz.bsky.social · 3h

I'd start with caffeine :) :)

cognitively accessible math @geonz.bsky.social · 3h

and erm, their abuse compared to oh, ONE example of wage theft ????? Who's the real criminal?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net.

In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:

SNAP benefits feed essential needs while still leaving many hungry for more

Journalist and author Adam Chandler explains what so much of the conversation about them gets wrong.

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Jonathan Leggo @jjleggo.bsky.social · 1d

« Oh no, my taxes »
I keep telling people, I like paying taxes — fuckin disability benefits, welfare, education — I love that shit.
What pisses me off is propping up corporations in this so-called free-market capitalist economy.

If Canada wants to give money to corps it should just own them

Ainz Ooal Goon @nemzero.blacksky.app · 1d

Real shit

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cognitively accessible math @geonz.bsky.social · 1d

Welp, the consequences might not be what was expected, either.

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Dorothy Murphy @nonnam.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus Christ!!! Invoke the 25th NOW!!!

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cognitively accessible math @geonz.bsky.social · 2d

whole language for the lose

cognitively accessible math @geonz.bsky.social · 2d

George Carlin agrees.

cognitively accessible math @geonz.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Loudon's kiddo? (feelin' old here...) Dead skunks and everything.

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LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 2d

One of my son’s roomates in nyc is a US park ranger. Been furloughed . My son works on broadway and is using connections to get him day work loading small independent shows

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Jeff Nelson @brewdude2112.bsky.social · 2d

A fellow furloughed coworker posted this. Laugh so you don’t cry.

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🇪🇺 @veertjephilips.bsky.social · 2d

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cognitively accessible math @geonz.bsky.social · 2d

where do I push?

cognitively accessible math @geonz.bsky.social · 2d

OK you were right. Crying.

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cognitively accessible math @geonz.bsky.social · 2d

car culture :P Ride a bike!

cognitively accessible math @geonz.bsky.social · 2d

part of me always thinks "I want yo uto think I'm not going to vote!!! Until I do on election day!!!"

cognitively accessible math @geonz.bsky.social · 2d

I was talkin' w/ a mom student who said she was scared and when I said riding by squirrels made me think of squirrel meat, said "Yes! I know!" (Really.)

cognitively accessible math @geonz.bsky.social · 2d

Disgusting. The neoliberals are shoving this down our throats.

cognitively accessible math @geonz.bsky.social · 2d

In my novel: 3 of us on bicycles drop bottlecaps and nonsense when that fire alarm is pulled and something to hold a bunch of stuff is just handy at the back door and they go out via sidewalk.

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cognitively accessible math @geonz.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. I have been thinking about this too.
I have been thinking that ... somebody with leadership skills could at least channel that energy to be more effective ... hoovervilles? or at least effective mass theft of big box stores.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

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