Rebecca
@wordyanchorite.bsky.social
Teacher/coach, English language arts with L2 students in the tropics.
Talk to me about: Linguistics, Jesus, fiber arts, justice.
Learning: Drawing, photography.
CN: Michigan football
Talk to me about: Linguistics, Jesus, fiber arts, justice.
Learning: Drawing, photography.
CN: Michigan football
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In other news, the whole thing about Calibri v. TNR isn't about a font face, it's about the fact that Calibri is easier for people with some disabilities to read.
They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
December 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In other news, the whole thing about Calibri v. TNR isn't about a font face, it's about the fact that Calibri is easier for people with some disabilities to read.
They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
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But that's not the question. The question is "If you could speak to a badly crafted superficial simulacrum of your dead grandmother and pay for the privilege, would you?"
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
But that's not the question. The question is "If you could speak to a badly crafted superficial simulacrum of your dead grandmother and pay for the privilege, would you?"
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CRYING at how ChatGPT has interpreted the prompt for one of my finals. It was super low stakes, write about your feelings for 30min, don’t stop writing. But SOMEHOW I have MANY students whose roommates were SECRETLY WARLOCK CULT LEADERS & every one ends with, “I promise this really happened” ☠️
December 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
CRYING at how ChatGPT has interpreted the prompt for one of my finals. It was super low stakes, write about your feelings for 30min, don’t stop writing. But SOMEHOW I have MANY students whose roommates were SECRETLY WARLOCK CULT LEADERS & every one ends with, “I promise this really happened” ☠️
Anyone else catch chicken pox at Sunday school? Feel like this was predictable.
“Of the state’s 27 new cases, 16 were linked to exposure at a church, the Way of Truth Church in Inman.”
".. A measles outbreak that began in South Carolina at the start of October is showing no signs of slowing as officials on Tuesday reported 27 new cases since Friday. Those cases bring the outbreak total to 111."
@arstechnica.com @aaronsojourner.org
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
@arstechnica.com @aaronsojourner.org
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
December 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Anyone else catch chicken pox at Sunday school? Feel like this was predictable.
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Houses are expensive because billionaires gobble up homes and fix the rent or turn them into Airbnbs. The billionaires want you to think immigrants are buying up all the property.
Secretary Scott Turner: "We need to continue to deport illegals that are taking houses from the American people"
December 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Houses are expensive because billionaires gobble up homes and fix the rent or turn them into Airbnbs. The billionaires want you to think immigrants are buying up all the property.
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Writers now: what a rich period of borrowing from Norman French into English!
1440, Bokenham hating on the youth:
"They barbarize them both and speak neither good French nor good English"
allthingslinguistic.com/post/1502816...
1440, Bokenham hating on the youth:
"They barbarize them both and speak neither good French nor good English"
allthingslinguistic.com/post/1502816...
December 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Writers now: what a rich period of borrowing from Norman French into English!
1440, Bokenham hating on the youth:
"They barbarize them both and speak neither good French nor good English"
allthingslinguistic.com/post/1502816...
1440, Bokenham hating on the youth:
"They barbarize them both and speak neither good French nor good English"
allthingslinguistic.com/post/1502816...
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The questioun ys "Are we ther yet?" Thys questioun ys divided ynto three partes...
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The questioun ys "Are we ther yet?" Thys questioun ys divided ynto three partes...
Remember when the president was just, on a fundamental level, a kind human being?
I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.
December 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Remember when the president was just, on a fundamental level, a kind human being?
Reminds me of the course I used back in the day, called "Learn Bash the Hard Way".
Because the hard way is the only way that works.
Because the hard way is the only way that works.
Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
December 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Reminds me of the course I used back in the day, called "Learn Bash the Hard Way".
Because the hard way is the only way that works.
Because the hard way is the only way that works.
Imagine having to flee to another country in order to be baptized.
Via me and @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social: CBP posted a pic of two detained Iranians, saying, “No fun in the sun when you are unlawfully present.”
According to their Episcopal priest, they’re Christian converts seeking asylum, and deporting them may be a death sentence religionnews.com/2025/12/09/b...
According to their Episcopal priest, they’re Christian converts seeking asylum, and deporting them may be a death sentence religionnews.com/2025/12/09/b...
Priest says sisters slated for deportation are Christians who could face persecution by Iran
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘We all feel a wound in our body of Christ, knowing what’s happening to them,’ said the Rev. Fran Gardner-Smith.
religionnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Imagine having to flee to another country in order to be baptized.
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Via me and @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social: CBP posted a pic of two detained Iranians, saying, “No fun in the sun when you are unlawfully present.”
According to their Episcopal priest, they’re Christian converts seeking asylum, and deporting them may be a death sentence religionnews.com/2025/12/09/b...
According to their Episcopal priest, they’re Christian converts seeking asylum, and deporting them may be a death sentence religionnews.com/2025/12/09/b...
Priest says sisters slated for deportation are Christians who could face persecution by Iran
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘We all feel a wound in our body of Christ, knowing what’s happening to them,’ said the Rev. Fran Gardner-Smith.
religionnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Via me and @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social: CBP posted a pic of two detained Iranians, saying, “No fun in the sun when you are unlawfully present.”
According to their Episcopal priest, they’re Christian converts seeking asylum, and deporting them may be a death sentence religionnews.com/2025/12/09/b...
According to their Episcopal priest, they’re Christian converts seeking asylum, and deporting them may be a death sentence religionnews.com/2025/12/09/b...
Conducted by the Water is Wet Department at Catholic Pope University
New research has found high levels of stress and burnout among teachers.
High levels of stress and burnout among teachers - report
New research has found high levels of stress and burnout among teachers.
www.rte.ie
December 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Conducted by the Water is Wet Department at Catholic Pope University
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The asbestos analogy is the best one I've heard for talking/thinking through Generative AI usage. Because yes! There are good uses! Fireproofing and uh, fireproofing! But just look at what it cost us.
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The asbestos analogy is the best one I've heard for talking/thinking through Generative AI usage. Because yes! There are good uses! Fireproofing and uh, fireproofing! But just look at what it cost us.
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OH MY GOD MY PHOTO IS ON THE FRONTIER GRIZZLY BEAR PLANE. I TOOK THAT IN GRAND TETON, THEY MUST HAVE BOUGHT IT FROM ONE OF THE STOCK SITES I USE.
MY BEAR PHOTO IS ON AN AIRPLANE. I FLEW ON IT.
MY BEAR PHOTO IS ON AN AIRPLANE. I FLEW ON IT.
December 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
OH MY GOD MY PHOTO IS ON THE FRONTIER GRIZZLY BEAR PLANE. I TOOK THAT IN GRAND TETON, THEY MUST HAVE BOUGHT IT FROM ONE OF THE STOCK SITES I USE.
MY BEAR PHOTO IS ON AN AIRPLANE. I FLEW ON IT.
MY BEAR PHOTO IS ON AN AIRPLANE. I FLEW ON IT.
<Rockwell_guy.jpg> It should be illegal to charge different people different prices for the same product or service
The only difference was the price they were offered: $3.99 for a couple of lucky shoppers. $4.59 or $4.69 for others. And a few saw a price of $4.79 — 20 percent more than some others, for the exact same product.
#iTeachMath
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
#iTeachMath
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
<Rockwell_guy.jpg> It should be illegal to charge different people different prices for the same product or service
Four staff members of the school down the street have been charged with involuntary manslaughter for overseeing a field trip where a child was drowned. It seems to be retribution for a perceived coverup by the school.
December 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Four staff members of the school down the street have been charged with involuntary manslaughter for overseeing a field trip where a child was drowned. It seems to be retribution for a perceived coverup by the school.
looooóoool
Para sustituir a los arquitectos por inteligencia artificial, los clientes tendrán que describir con precisión lo que quieren.
Estamos a salvo.
Estamos a salvo.
December 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
looooóoool
Cannot stop thinking about this
Here is a true story that just happened to me that will be *most* appreciated by any Math Twitter escapees who are here. #ITeachMath #mtbos
December 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Cannot stop thinking about this
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V. annoying thing about oralist/eugenicist arguments in deaf ed is how the counter is reduced to amorphous cultural protectivism, which, OK culture is great, but also your way doesn't work! 80% of US deaf kids have CIs and 70% of US d/hh experience language deprivation. Math ain't mathin' babes!
December 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
V. annoying thing about oralist/eugenicist arguments in deaf ed is how the counter is reduced to amorphous cultural protectivism, which, OK culture is great, but also your way doesn't work! 80% of US deaf kids have CIs and 70% of US d/hh experience language deprivation. Math ain't mathin' babes!
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my publisher told me that for the next three days, God's colorful kingdom will be on sale for 15.99 (36% off). If you are looking for a Christmas present for the littles, this is a great option!
www.amazon.com/Gods-Colorfu...
www.amazon.com/Gods-Colorfu...
God’s Colorful Kingdom Storybook Bible: The Story of God’s Big Diverse Family
God’s Colorful Kingdom Storybook Bible: The Story of God’s Big Diverse Family [McCaulley, Esau, Coelho, Rogério] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. God’s Colorful Kingdom Storybook Bible: The Story of God’s Big Diverse Family
www.amazon.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
my publisher told me that for the next three days, God's colorful kingdom will be on sale for 15.99 (36% off). If you are looking for a Christmas present for the littles, this is a great option!
www.amazon.com/Gods-Colorfu...
www.amazon.com/Gods-Colorfu...
Anything chiropractors do that works is called "physical therapy", just go to PT
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
How Chiropractors Became the Backbone of MAHA
Why they love Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and he loves them.
www.politico.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Anything chiropractors do that works is called "physical therapy", just go to PT
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
9 pm is not a good time to realize your head hurts because you forgot to drink your second cup of coffee this morning
Hoping black tea is enough to nix the headache but let me sleep
Hoping black tea is enough to nix the headache but let me sleep
December 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
9 pm is not a good time to realize your head hurts because you forgot to drink your second cup of coffee this morning
Hoping black tea is enough to nix the headache but let me sleep
Hoping black tea is enough to nix the headache but let me sleep
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I feel like Commander Adama warning people he won't have a network on the Galactica when I tell my family that under no circumstances will I allow a smart device into my house. No internet connected doorbells, washing machines, air fryers, lightbulbs. None. Not during my watch.
December 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I feel like Commander Adama warning people he won't have a network on the Galactica when I tell my family that under no circumstances will I allow a smart device into my house. No internet connected doorbells, washing machines, air fryers, lightbulbs. None. Not during my watch.
liminality
the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status
the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status
December 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
liminality
the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status
the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status