I borrowed the Hollywood issue of Vanity Fair from my digital public library because I was curious about Olivia Nuzzi's "abstract nude" and that's 5 minutes of my one wild and precious life my curiosity stole from me.
December 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I borrowed the Hollywood issue of Vanity Fair from my digital public library because I was curious about Olivia Nuzzi's "abstract nude" and that's 5 minutes of my one wild and precious life my curiosity stole from me.
Wait until The Atlantic learns about Universal Design for Learning. I just give *everyone* time and a half on my exam now. Because how fast you can finish does not measure anything I want my students to learn. (There are learning outcomes where speed matters, but they are few).
Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Wait until The Atlantic learns about Universal Design for Learning. I just give *everyone* time and a half on my exam now. Because how fast you can finish does not measure anything I want my students to learn. (There are learning outcomes where speed matters, but they are few).
This is a good article, but left me wondering why achieving in school is framed as a competition, and whether it must be. Why do you have to win or lose to learn? (This is why my undergrad college discouraged talking about grades).
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
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time.com/7335723/auto...
The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This is a good article, but left me wondering why achieving in school is framed as a competition, and whether it must be. Why do you have to win or lose to learn? (This is why my undergrad college discouraged talking about grades).
She all leg. Just the one.
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 AM
She all leg. Just the one.
First Sunday of Advent! My favorite liturgical season arriving *just* when I was thinking I need to practice hoping more.
November 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
First Sunday of Advent! My favorite liturgical season arriving *just* when I was thinking I need to practice hoping more.
Softening butter when you have radiant in-floor heating and a cat.
November 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Softening butter when you have radiant in-floor heating and a cat.
I relate to so much of this. Especially “remember when expectation meant something other than dread?” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/o...
Opinion | I Was Once a Broken Reader. I Found My Way Back to Books.
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I relate to so much of this. Especially “remember when expectation meant something other than dread?” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/o...
Headed into the final (half) week of teaching with a pile of grading I’m behind on, so of course it’s my weekend to bake cookies for church.
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Headed into the final (half) week of teaching with a pile of grading I’m behind on, so of course it’s my weekend to bake cookies for church.
I love this poem, and often read it with students!
November 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I love this poem, and often read it with students!
Christmas trees arriving at the hardware store. It smells amazing on this corner.
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Christmas trees arriving at the hardware store. It smells amazing on this corner.
I don't know, when I look at this chart, I think "We can pay now or pay even more later." I am mad about all of this, and yes I pay property taxes.
Vancouver's 2026 draft budget has PASSED.
Approved on a 7-4 vote on party lines, with ABC in favour and councillors Fry/Bligh/Orr/Maloney opposed.
Property tax freeze, $50 million more for VPD, and cuts to Arts, Culture, Planning and Sustainability departments, among others.
Full story to come.
Approved on a 7-4 vote on party lines, with ABC in favour and councillors Fry/Bligh/Orr/Maloney opposed.
Property tax freeze, $50 million more for VPD, and cuts to Arts, Culture, Planning and Sustainability departments, among others.
Full story to come.
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I don't know, when I look at this chart, I think "We can pay now or pay even more later." I am mad about all of this, and yes I pay property taxes.
Two things I look forward to as end of year grading looms: 1. The projects and research papers that students really poured their hearts into; 2. Sampling new to me music from Best of 2025 lists while I work.
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Two things I look forward to as end of year grading looms: 1. The projects and research papers that students really poured their hearts into; 2. Sampling new to me music from Best of 2025 lists while I work.
“Oh, that modem is old and has been decommissioned.” Then why didn’t you replace it before it died and I have to be without home internet for a week? What do we pay these fucking companies for? (Also while they have me on the chat, magically there is a cheaper plan they can offer me).
November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“Oh, that modem is old and has been decommissioned.” Then why didn’t you replace it before it died and I have to be without home internet for a week? What do we pay these fucking companies for? (Also while they have me on the chat, magically there is a cheaper plan they can offer me).
My internet is out, I have tried all the obvious things, and I am really looking forward to spending most of my day tomorrow trying to get tech support from my service provider. (Tomorrow because I can finally be home during the hours when there is theoretically human tech support).
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My internet is out, I have tried all the obvious things, and I am really looking forward to spending most of my day tomorrow trying to get tech support from my service provider. (Tomorrow because I can finally be home during the hours when there is theoretically human tech support).
Today in class (in both sections!) when I asked my students if they knew anything about John Wayne someone said “Oh, John Wayne Gacy?” Which I guess says something about who is getting a cultural afterlife right now, at least for young Canadians. Or about what they are into. 😂
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Today in class (in both sections!) when I asked my students if they knew anything about John Wayne someone said “Oh, John Wayne Gacy?” Which I guess says something about who is getting a cultural afterlife right now, at least for young Canadians. Or about what they are into. 😂
Can’t wait for my first student paper with a weird bamboo metaphor.
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Can’t wait for my first student paper with a weird bamboo metaphor.
A lot more people need a Honey No friend. A Better Just Zip It friend. A Don’t Press Send friend. A Don’t Air That In Public Friend. I might start a rent-a-friend business. For a small fee, run that by someone who will tell you “Oh hell no.”
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
A lot more people need a Honey No friend. A Better Just Zip It friend. A Don’t Press Send friend. A Don’t Air That In Public Friend. I might start a rent-a-friend business. For a small fee, run that by someone who will tell you “Oh hell no.”
Nuzzi’s piece coming out alongside the emails between Summers and Epstein feels clarifying. Guessing one reason this dreck got published is that a lot of men want to hear that their hitting on young women in professional contexts is a) welcome & b) interesting/important/worthy of breathless prose.
November 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Nuzzi’s piece coming out alongside the emails between Summers and Epstein feels clarifying. Guessing one reason this dreck got published is that a lot of men want to hear that their hitting on young women in professional contexts is a) welcome & b) interesting/important/worthy of breathless prose.
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This is the best thread you'll read today. #SpreadLove
THREAD. In her exclusive interview in today's Daily Telegraph Magazine, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world...
November 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This is the best thread you'll read today. #SpreadLove
I had some second thoughts about the novel I assigned this semester, which is new to me and which TBH I skimmed pretty quickly before choosing, but now that I'm rereading it and starting discussion in class I am enjoying it. The students so often make the book for me.
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I had some second thoughts about the novel I assigned this semester, which is new to me and which TBH I skimmed pretty quickly before choosing, but now that I'm rereading it and starting discussion in class I am enjoying it. The students so often make the book for me.
So much about this episode is funny but maybe my favorite part is that in Musk’s original post (embedded here) the image is of the Odyssey, not the Iliad.
Elon Musk pretending to have read the Iliad (and learned important lessons from it!) when chatting with Marc Andreessen reminds me of how Nick Klegg said tech elites all “claim to read the same books.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
November 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
So much about this episode is funny but maybe my favorite part is that in Musk’s original post (embedded here) the image is of the Odyssey, not the Iliad.
Ugh, I just read some really vacuous advertorial content about how a school my kids once attended is working with AI.
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Ugh, I just read some really vacuous advertorial content about how a school my kids once attended is working with AI.
It can be hard to look forward these days, so the news that there will be a Season 2 of Deadloch in 2026 is very welcome!
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
It can be hard to look forward these days, so the news that there will be a Season 2 of Deadloch in 2026 is very welcome!
I finished an actual, physical book last night for the first time in months. It was Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd, a quirky, funny-sad mystery. Deciding what to try next to keep busting the slump.
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I finished an actual, physical book last night for the first time in months. It was Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd, a quirky, funny-sad mystery. Deciding what to try next to keep busting the slump.
I adopted Ramona in April so she is only now learning about the joys of in-floor heating.
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I adopted Ramona in April so she is only now learning about the joys of in-floor heating.