I don’t know anything about this guy but I went back to look, and that is a guy who looks like his name is Toss Grumley.

Oh, this is a tough one…I might go Document because it feels slightly more like an album only REM could make, idk.

This looks amazing. I totally want to see your process. My daughter and I are 3/9 bags into the Going Merry (pirate ship from One Piece) - it’s my first major build and I’m loving it.

You know, it feels like when I was a teen ~30 years ago, nobody talked about support in men’s underwear - and now it’s something that gets advertised but with totally different…frames for thinking about men’s bodies, I guess?

Oh, no worries, I find this shit *fascinating* lol. Both the Very Gay and the Very Manosphere versions!

Every so often I, a cis-ish butch, get ads for underwear with advanced ball-related technology and I’m so mystified.

See, I call those days “the sun is a liar” days, because when I look out the window I say “what a beautiful day!” And then I step outside before I put on my gloves and start swearing.

But don’t you know that only quantitative data can allow us to verify theories and guarantee causality?? /s

As a political scientist I am and remain embarrassed for my discipline.

Oh, absolument - c'est insupportable à n'importe quel niveau. Et si les étudiants arrivent à l'université sans avoir eu l'experience de participer dans un débat ou avoir su qu'il y a des théories différentes dans les SES, ils auront beaucoup de difficulté dans leurs études post-secondaires.

C'est étonnant, ça. Je ne comprends tres bien les structures d'enseignment français - c'est pour les enseignants-chercheurs universitaires, cette politique-la? Ou au lycée?

(My parents threw a fit and I got more time, and also was not failed for poor coloring skills. When I finished third grade I compared it to when Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, which tells you what an overdramatic nerd I have always been.)

Looking at it pedagogically: what is the purpose of the time constraint? Maybe to force memorization of the times tables. In that case, I could have done it orally, or typing, or the teacher could have not been an asshole and accepted versions with bad handwriting.

Whereas: I have a mild-to-moderate fine motor skills disability. In 3rd grade, I was given timed multiplication tests. I could either write slowly and legibly, and not complete the test on time, or complete it on time, but fail for handwriting. My teacher refused accommodations.

For example: I was just talking with colleagues about using time constraints to deter students from asking ChatGPT for exam answers. That’s a reasonable purpose, and you can then use a variety of tools to manage accommodations and/or build a UDL (universal design for learning) assessment framework.

The key question should be “what is the pedagogical purpose of a timed test?” (Actually, “what is the pedagogical purpose of a test in general is prior, but anyway.) Once you have determined the purpose of the time limit, you can plan how to make the test accessible while meeting that goal.

That was aaaaabsolutely my daughter. (At 11, she is meaningfully more chill. Although that might be because the autism won the cage match and we homeschool her now…)

And it creates expectations for mom (of course mom) to, like, move the elf every night to surprise the kids. And then document it for the ‘gram. So it’s gender nonsense and performative parenting on top of surveillance nonsense.

Yes!! I love picking through random bags.

First, you have written so much book! Second, oh boy do I feel the “this chapter is 3k words too long and still has holes” problem. Third, this spreadsheet is amazing. Great idea.