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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 9h

No, no, it actually rules that no matter how many times the Duolingo guy openly says his goal is to ensure language teachers don’t have jobs because we’re all unnecessary freeloaders and replaces people with the Bullshit Machine, we still can’t get people to stop fucking using his shit app.

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 1d

pilgrim guy finishes reading a big book, leans way back in his chair and loosens the belt on his hat

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 9h

thank god the red zone channel started running commercials. when it was commercial-free i'd get to 7:30 p.m., look at how i'd spent my day, and realize i'd burned through an entire sunday without growing or developing at all as a consumer. and if i'm not a consumer i'm nothing at all

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 10h

That’s what I said to the blue jay!

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 10h

A blue jay legitimately just tried to eat my house, so I guess we’re a Mariners house now. #TridentsUp, Big Dumper &c. &c.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 12h

Over the time I’ve been teaching we’ve adopted pretty much every tech tool possible, and the sum total of their contributions to my career has been to increase how much paperwork I have to do. No amount of information availability changes that the whole responsibility of communication is on our end.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 12h

I bang on about this all the time, but I’m going to keep doing it, because it hasn’t changed: right now, there are thousands of teachers in this country being told they aren’t just less effective educators, but that they’re bad human beings, for not just happily bending the knee to Silicon Valley.

Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 13h

The first time I went to a NYSCATE regional conference, which was entirely about using ed tech, the theme was literally superheroes vs. supervillains, with the latter all named things like “the Delayer” or “the Questioner,” as if the only morally-good stance was uncritical acceptance. Horrid stuff.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 12h

I get that we don’t have the expertise in the building to do all of this, but it’s so cool to have to sign up for a million potential data breach points (though at least they’re on a separate email address) just to do my job.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 12h

The thing about the Phillies is that they had one job (save us all from Dodgers fans being even more insufferable than usual) and they couldn’t get it done.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 13h

The first time I went to a NYSCATE regional conference, which was entirely about using ed tech, the theme was literally superheroes vs. supervillains, with the latter all named things like “the Delayer” or “the Questioner,” as if the only morally-good stance was uncritical acceptance. Horrid stuff.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 13h

This one especially drives me up the wall, because there’s been a ton of opposition to this from a humanist, pedagogical point of view, from educators who saw the writing on the wall years ago, and we got dismissed as cranks at best and ableist tinpots who didn’t want to give up control at worst.

Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 14h

Something I didn't appreciate until my kids started school was just how enmeshed the tech industry is in public ed. Attendance, school lunch, communication, calendars, testing, teaching tools--everything has its own app. There's a lot of money to be made there.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14h

Meanwhile, ed tech companies are salivating--eager to sell "solutions" to families whose schools will now struggle (even more than they already have) to meet their kids' learning needs.

(Here are a few of the ed tech ads I've been tracking over the past few months)

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jdm2 🇵🇷 @jdm2.bsky.social · 13h

People not treating Google AI Overview as Gospel challenge: impossible.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 1d

technically any white wine pasta is a grape sauce

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 1d

Between Leo and Kyle Tucker, Chicago’s really cornering the market on secret Hispanics these days.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

LMAO

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Oubao Moin 𓆏𓆌𓆉𓆈𓆚 🇵🇷🇱🇧|🍉🌻🌿 #VivaPuertoRicoLibre @astrophobia.bsky.social · 2d

Puerto Rico es un país diseñado con el sumo propósito de ser hostil contra las personas con discapacidades y contra los peatones. Son las últimas personas que se toman en consideración ante todo. Esta sociedad de carro maligna e híperindividualista será nuestra tumba.

Metro Puerto Rico @metropr.bsky.social · 2d

Atropellan a mujer en silla de ruedas en Toa Alta

https://www.metro.pr/noticias/2025/10/11/atropellan-a-mujer-en-silla-de-ruedas-en-toa-alta/

Atropellan a mujer en silla de ruedas en Toa Alta

La mujer fue transportada a una institución hospitalaria, donde posteriormente se certificó su muerte

www.metro.pr

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 1d

You know something? Neither can I.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 1d

generational photogenic talent

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 1d

If I could choose one superpower, I would obviously want it to be absolute mastery over life and death.

But if that’s not forthcoming, summoning guacamole at will would be a close second.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 2d

Her Majesty, the Queen.

Blue Cream Minnie, my extremely adorable tortoiseshell cat, gazes with her green eyes up up and away as she lies on her pink pillow, ears alert.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 2d

belly rubs

On a dusty pink pillow (that’s the color, the pillow is clean, shut up), my cat Minerva—an adorable dilute tortie, gray with latte swirls around her left eye, down her chest and stomach, and circling her paws—purrs contentedly, her eyes closed, as I scritch her furry tummy.

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Kevin Abel 🇵🇷🍉💖 #PUERTORICOLIBRE #BlueskyPR @kevinabel.bsky.social · 1d

Le quiero agradecer a Hatsune Miku por la canción de gasolina 🙏🏽

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 1d

you’re like

James Franco, with a noose around his neck, says “first time?” to someone else.

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 1d

I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 2d

“Machado’s politics are steeped in violence. She has called for foreign intervention, even appealing directly to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the architect of Gaza’s annihilation, to help ‘liberate’ Venezuela with bombs under the banner of ‘freedom.’”

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize | Common Dreams

As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention...

www.commondreams.org

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