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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun...
@sonnet130.bsky.social
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Never accused of being intentionally funny. Definitely too earnest for social media. She/her
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Look y'all, this was what happened the last time I was at Costco and I was fucking despondent. So I wasnt about to let a damn thing happen to my prize today
Sign on the costco rotisserie chicken warmers saying "ROTESSORI ITEMS ARE TEMPORARILY NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL SATURDAY, 11/15. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE"
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Aw! Its nice to know you're thinking of me, babe 🥰
@swolecialism's display name change to "beef : beeves: dwarf : dwarves; milf : milves;"
November 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Forth Worth people: Last I heard, there was a good push against being taken over and some reassurances? Now it looks like TEA is staying the course and planning to announce the takeover of Fort Worth ISD today at 9 am?
www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/f...
The Texas Education Agency is expected to announce a state takeover of Fort Worth ISD on Thursday, multiple sources and officials have told CBS News Texas. During a recent Texas Senate Education Committee hearing, Education Commissioner Mike Morath confirmed the agency was looking at the district's future. "We are actively evaluating that decision now," Morath said. "I will say this fall, we will have a resolution on that one way or another. S
October 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles took center stage Wednesday morning at NRG Center in an elaborate production with acting, dancing and singing gearea toward challenging critics and energizing educators for the first school vear under his watch. Miles began the convocation ceremony by performing in a musical alongside students and teachers from various HISD fine arts programs. Then he delivered o keynote speech about preparing students for the future and making systemid changes to public education, punctuating his points with movie clips and old-school diner who counsels his young customers as they get ready to heac back to school. The performers acted out a scripted play with flashing lights and blasting music, launching into choreographed dances and belting out several well-known hits, including "I Dreamed a Dream' from Les Miserables "Brave" by Sara Bareilles and "For Good' from Wicked The musical concluded with a song written and produced by Miles' son callec "Find a Way." It was unclear whether the district sought permission to use the songs. A video of the convocation ceremony was later blocked on YouTube on copyright grounds. HISD did not respond ta questions about copyright issues or the cost of producing the event
October 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Big pants
A fat white woman in a pair of giant cotton pants. Pants have a geometric print of black white and umber. They are printed with teak Fat white woman wearing big pants
October 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Mine are partially that big because they are probably a size too large. But I love them so much.

They only have this and one other print left.

Gonna warn that they are pricey pants at 190. But they are running a sale today. Also fair trade etc

oseiduro.com/products/nan...
Nana Trousers by Osei Duro. The model is thin, but they go up to a 4x. Images show the model wearing a white shirt and large cotton pants which are gathered at the waist. High wasted, paint drop/splatter print in bold primary and secondary colors
October 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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So these nails are also a built in fidget/stim and im loving them
October 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Saddle up, y'all! IT IS TIME TO FRY!
Big pot of boiling oil on a stove top next to a pan of already fried chicken tenders. The tenders are a beautiful deep gold. And yes, they are seasoned because wtf is wrong with you if you dont season your batter.
October 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Howdy, from Houston, Texas! Kids couldnt hang that long, but we made it out here for a few hours! And found some Axolotls and a chicken and this sign that made me bust out laughing. At least 5000 people were out, but Im guessing many more

#NoKings
Youngest with a sign saying "Kindness is strong! Meanness is weak!" in front of some axolotls and a chicken. Kids sitting on a curb. Oldest's sign says "Stop hurting science! Someday I want to be an astronaut!!" Youngest's sign says "Kindness is strong! Meanness is weak!" Kids wearing red white and blue and have American flags stuck in the signs. Image of a kid kicking trump in the nuts in front of an American flag. The sign says "That's my rights! I dont know you!"
October 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Found it. They increased the basic allotment by $55.

www.texastribune.org/2025/06/04/t...
Schools will receive restricted funds for operational expenses School districts will not see a significant increase to their base funding per student known as the basic allotment, which grants them flexibility to tackle their campuses' particular needs, from building maintenance to fine arts programs. That pot of money will only go up by $55 per student.
October 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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It is bleak here, friend! You should see our basic allotment from the state. They recently "raised" this, or promised to? Imma have to check
tea.texas.gov/finance-and-...
Baisc allotment for students in Texas is 6,160.
October 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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HISD has 274 schools. Had I guess, we lost at least one so far this year (it was one specifically for recent immigrants).
The district halved the number of librarians in its second year of unelected leadership: 23 librarians this May, down 2 from 45 in May 2024, according to HISD records. There are alSO 46 fewer media services specialists. This is a stark reversal of former Superintendent Millard House Il's prior initiative to put a librarian or media specialist on every campus. He invested millions of pandemic relief dollars into new library books Schools emptied out libraries under a district directive to create "team centers" with desks for students to complete worksheets. Photographs by Almeda E|ementary School's former librarian, Brandie Dowda, showed contractors taking out center shelves. Advocates said library books at some campuses were lost during these removal processes. It is unclear to what extent campus map showcasing open and closed libraries on HISD campuses is displayed during an event hosted by a group of advocates for HISD libraries who are gathered to celebrate the district's libraries and award a librarian, Library Program of the Year, at United Way of Greater Houston on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 in Houston. Raquel Natalicchio/Staff photographer According to the advocacy organization Friends of HISD Libraries, there are 83 , staffed libraries and 28 librarians. . There are 175 campuses with no staffed librarians.
October 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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We can never get these stolen years back. My oldest will not get a re-do of kindergarten. Miles claims that teachers who defy him are lazy, or stupid, or lying. They are not. These teachers are heros! They know this curriculum is developmentally inappropriate, insane, and cruel.
We're not losing teachers because they don't like change - as Mike Miles often claims. We're losing them because they don't like change that hurts kids. A curriculum that denies actual books ta children cannot be healthy, no matter what the test scores purport to say. Rose iust wanted to read a riveting novel about a brave little mouse. Her teacher shouldn't have to risk her iob to make that happen
October 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Do not let charlatans like Mike Miles take your children's joy of learning from them. Do not let them take your libraries, your books, your kindergartener's storytime.

HELP US FIGHT THIS INSANITY!
PLEASE, NATIONAL REPORTERS, START PAYING ATTENTION BEFORE IT COMES FOR YOU KID'S SCHOOLS TOO!
Miles and his enforcers didn'tjust take the libraries. Or the cozy book nooks. Or the textbooks from laptop- dependent middle schoolers. They took story time from kindergarteners.
October 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Kids are so unfamiliar with their teacher reading real books to them, that students dont even recognize what this teacher is doing when she managed to sneak a book into her classroom during testing craziness
"They were asking me what I was doing,' she told me. "I said 'I'm going to read you a book.' They asked me why. I said 'this is what it should look like. This is what reading in the morning looks like. I should be holding a book, I should be reading to you, you should be looking at the pictures.'" They asked when they could read a book again. She didn't know. Teachers following all or part of the NES curriculum are expected to keep a tight schedule, often policed by a buzzing timer, with scant room for deviation. Not even for Dr. Seuss.
October 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Not one, not two, but thousands of HISD teachers have lost their jobs under Miles's authoritarian "leadership" because they have dared to buck his requirement to teach the district-created, NES curriculum "with fidelity." How, you ask? Well, they've had the audacity to read real books, sing, draw 🧵
Knowing the stakes, Rose and her classmates at their west-side elementary practiced the drill iust as their teacher instructed. The third graders kept a stack of worksheets tucked underneath their chapter books at all times as they took turns reading aloud with their teacher. At any moment, they knew, their teacher might get an urgent text that district officials were on campus. Rose's mother says a staffer apparently sent alerts using a secret code of emojis to signal which classrooms the officials were coming for. Rose always placed her book with the open side down so as not to lose her page. She was smitten by the gallant, non-conforming little mouse who takes on the cunning dungeon rats in Kate DiCamillo's book "The Tale of Despereaux." The 8-year-old never thought she'd be part of a daring plot in her own classroom. "I just wanted to read the book,' Rose, now 9, told me in a recent interview. Books - actual books, with dust jackets spines, whimsical illustrations. and characters and cliffhangers - are ncreasingly unwelcome in the land of worksheets and slide shows. Teachers say that, with few exceptions, the only stories allowed in the early qrades of state-appointed HISD Superintendent Mike Miles' New Education Svstem are minced into dry text that teachers reac from manuals. The few approved books focus on phonics. f district evaluators had walked into the classroom of Rose and Max last year and found every desk spread with paperbacks, the teacher could have faced reprimand, lost points in her spot review and, if she'd repeated the indiscretion, lost her iob
October 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Yes-ish. But they also compare Trump to Sadam Hussein (negatively) and follow that paragraph with "Healthy democracies are more likely to win wars."
Finally, a government focused on the enemy within will hire and fire leaders based on political loyalty instead of technical or tactical competence. In a world where military technology requires complicated training and maintenance, this expertise deficit has direct implications for military technology and power. In a 1996 study of Iragi air defences, political scientists Stephen Biddle and Robert Zirkle found that Saddam Hussein's focus on political loyalty directly degraded air defence units' ability to operate surface-to-air missiles Healthy democracies are more likely to win wars. A huge part of why that occurs is that their militaries are focused on external threats instead of a "war from within?. $o. no. the
October 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Here is what they said. Not 100% sure who Friends of Libraries works with.
Local Messaging Join 50501-Houston, Communities at Work, Party for Socialism and Liberation-Houston, Cat Ladies for America- Space City Chapter, Houston Democracy Project, Indivisible-Houston and more for a protest and march in downtown Houston. We will host a book drive to donate to local Friends of the Libraries. Please bring new or gently used books with you and look for our Banned Books booth to drop off your donations and learn about the issues facing our libraries, and how you can help. Recommendations: Bring a large water bottle, power snack, dress for the weather, and come ready to make your voice heard. Bring a protest sign, too! Houston Coalition: https://www.htxcoalition.us Merchandise: https://linktr.ee/ProgressHive
October 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Making my kid some Rumi boots. I am unreasonably pleased with this gold spray paint.
1 gold painted sole in the foreground. Boots masked and taped into plastic bags so I can spray paint the soles. 2 gold painted boots masked and taped into plastic bags so I can spray paint the soles.
October 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Everyone look at my beautiful butter beans!
A blue and white (mostly blue) patterned ceramic bowl with marry me+caramelized shallots+lemon zest and lemon juice butter beans in it.
October 13, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Having a tough one but reminding myself of good things. Here is my 5yo's drawing of a spider. Hope it makes you happier too.
A pencil drawing on white paper of a puff ball spider with crossed eyes, smiling mouth with fangs, and 8 squiggly legs
October 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Working on a garden sign for the youngest's class. Not gonna show it finished (cause names), but here is the background. The teacher loves purple.
A wooden board eith purple dahlias painted on it. Deep blue background. On a painting drop cloth
September 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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So, I dont entirely know how it will lie on her, but I'm pleased with this as, at least, my first attempt. The gold looks like just a line when she wears it. The shirt on the right is what I started with--cropped it, cut off the sleeves, gave it a colar, "invisible zipper"/custom pull, gold trim
2 shirts on a cutting pad. Both are made of iridescent yoga/stretch material. Shirt of the right is sleeveless cropped, has gold trim, a collar, and a star pull. Shirt on the right is a regular long sleeve shirt. I made that! Closer to cropped shirt. Hand behind edge of cropped shirt to show the gold trim
September 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Dug the baby out of the closet. Getting closer to actually getting to start working on youngest's costume!

My mom bought this in Jan of 85 and she says it was old then, so let's see if the old workhorse has any power left in it (and if it can sew modern stretch fabric 😬)
A white NECCHI sewing machine bought in 1985, sitting on a stone tabletop. A pile of laundry (fml) is visible in the background.
September 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Why must children be like this?
Bar soap sitting on a metal grate in a ceramic soap dish. The soap has been dug into and cracked to the point where it has valleys and mountains and what looks like a deep crevasse being carved down its center.
September 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM