Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@bealeiderman

is "pretending to be dry grass" a lepidopteran euphemism?

paleo bars:

hobo habilis, trash-ape fabulous.
primates gonna wreck it
no homo. no erectus.
who let the ape in? you know it's the sapiens.

Quivering the boot, got a trunk full of loot.
bipedal back-acher?
Archie, shake that money maker.

@baltakatei @foolishowl @GhostOnTheHalfShell @nazgul

I thought this was going to be a dis track about substack.

And speaking of anyone wanna drop one?

I'm not sorry for ANY of the puns!

I will do it again!

via tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/twerklina/776702024532230144?source=share

I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE FOR PAIN CAUSED BY PUNS

@dawngreeter

I'm very much against that. I would be delighted to give all of my students As if they all learned the material and I felt confident about sending them along to the next class to do well again. (that is no one would say "how the heck does this kid have an A in algebra? they can't do it at all?")

@ExponentialGPs

The WHAT?

"the look" ... that's not something I can even imagine noticing let alone commenting on. Wow.

@eyrea

That's extraordinarily inappropriate to bring up.

@barrygoldman1 @draeath

I now need to draw a fire ant trucker girl in a plaid shirt and ball cap bonding with a leafcutter major over "hauling"

So, even though I think it's unhealthy that students see grades as reflections of their self-worth. I can't say that grades aren't important and to just use them as feedback to decide what to study next or to decide if they maybe need to spend more time working through a subject at a slower pace.

Because grades are also a competition for limited resources. They do matter.

And they often matter *more* for the students with the fewest outside resources to help them navigate the system.

Likewise it's also easy and possible for a student to get good grades, but only with the help of half a dozen tutors and coaches and because their parents are plugged in to the details of academic culture.

If your grading system is competent this shouldn't mean the As are "fake" -- but, it inflates expectations for all of the students. That's just inevitable.

And I think that's the foundational issue. Education is to some degree a competition because we don't choose to educate everyone.

As a teacher I kind of hate grades.

Grades are correlated with the things people try to use them for: do you know the topic? Can you follow directions & manage your time? Are you prepared for more advanced material?

HOWEVER

It's very easy for a student to have poor grades because: they were sick, they moved, a teacher didn't like them,* and/or one of a dozen different problems caused by not having enough money.

*naturally I never want to be this teacher, but I've seen it happen

OK not to keep bragging about this lamp, but when it is dark in the apartment I can put it on a super dim setting and it looks like the real moon.

I asked for the moon!

And now I have the moon. The moon is mine.

(Gotta film an ant exploring the moon. We will get to that soon enough.)

@barrygoldman1

Issue Titles

1. Mother
2. Picnic
3. Breakroom
4. Cyberants
5. Suburbia
6. 404
7. The Mantis
8. The Revolution
9. The Forest
10. Beyond

@calendsofapril

Those rooflines look like something out of the sims. They aren't really house shaped houses?

What it makes me think of is space habitats. These huge spaces enclosed with no regard for what the exterior looks like.

@cthulku PLA

hung a new lamp for the living room today. It’s a 3D printed moon and making it different colors is more fun than I thought it would be. Needed to put a good anchor in to hold it. It’s a little heavy.

(to be clear I didn't print this. I don't have a printer this big! But I did solder the plug and hang it... and really that was enough!)

@sbourne @Rycaut

About half of our students walk, but they do come from all over the city so many take the subway and busses.

That mostly starts in 8th grade alone, before that they come in little batches with a local parent who takes four or five of them in a group.

@MLE_online

That bike is made for long skirt days.

@draken

That must be a pattern deep in my mind that this is activating. The notion is so vivid and disturbing.