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averypickford.bsky.social
Avery
@averypickford.bsky.social
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In my [REDACTED] year of #iteachmath. The way I teach ≠ the way I was taught. Wondering if #mtbos should now be #mbbos.

May also find me talking about photography, the outdoors, traveling, sports, SF, & hanging with my kids. Not necessarily in that order.
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Avery @averypickford.bsky.social · Nov 15
Made a Starter Pack of *current* K-12 math classroom teachers. Let me know if you should be added (or removed).

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averypickford.bsky.social
My initial response to seeing this headline was fear, but after reading the article this child most likely would have been killed if this had been a human driver.
January 29, 2026 at 10:41 PM
averypickford.bsky.social
I'd say one of my strengths is to have measured conversations with internet strangers who have different views from my own, where I genuinely try to understand where they are coming from.

But spewing racist junk and/or telling me to stfu? Block and move on with my day. 🤷‍♂️
January 28, 2026 at 6:32 PM
averypickford.bsky.social
A present for physics teachers.

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Impact testing
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January 26, 2026 at 4:16 AM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
January 24, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 11:45 PM
averypickford.bsky.social
Imagine...

San Francisco to Reno
Seattle to Portland
LA to Vegas
Boston to NYC
NYC to DC
Cincinnati to Cleveland
Indianapolis to St. Louis
Nashville to Memphis
Miami to Orlando
Atlanta to Charlotte
Houston to Dallas

...all under an hour by train.

www.euronews.com/travel/2026/...
The world’s fastest train line is being built between Tokyo and Nagoya
The L0 Series train being developed by Japan currently is likely to reach speeds of up to 603.5kmh, making it the world’s fastest train.
www.euronews.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:54 AM
averypickford.bsky.social
#iteachmath #edusky
yvonnezlam.bsky.social Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 11d
Reporters, if you wrote about learning loss due to covid school closures, you can write about learning loss due to state terror.
bakerdphd.bsky.social Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 11d
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
January 23, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Was it Sergio Romo who in the Giants 2012 World Series victory parade wore the t-shirt that said, "I just look illegal"?
January 22, 2026 at 2:16 AM
averypickford.bsky.social
5 calls didn't feel like enough today, so I made 6 calls.

@5calls.org
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
www.5calls.org
January 21, 2026 at 5:38 PM
averypickford.bsky.social
This happens *all* the time, and I'll never understand why the standard follow-up isn't "Oh, that's surprising. You should probably get up to speed asap and then get back to me with a response."
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13d
Mike Johnson tells me that he hasn’t seen Trump saying in Davos “what we have gotten out of NATO is nothing”
January 21, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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boltsmag.org
Congress could mandate that states use proportional representation, with parties getting a number of seats proportional to their share of the vote. Advocates are already pushing for some states to experiment with this reform.
The Escalating Race to Redistrict: Your Questions Answered
How are the new maps changing the midterms? Would proportional representation help? Why are courts not doing more? You asked, and we’ve got answers about mid-decade redistricting.
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January 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM
averypickford.bsky.social
Most people in the know would have told you two years ago that the only thing more unlikely than Indiana turning blue politically is Indiana football winning a national championship.

Keep dreaming.
January 20, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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physgal.bsky.social
RIP. We lost a great one. #WomenInSTEM 🎢 ♾️ 🧪
January 19, 2026 at 8:08 PM
averypickford.bsky.social
My humble idea:

The state with the highest % of registered Dems who vote in the 2026 midterm election gets to kick of the 2028 primary contest.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/u...
These Are the 12 States Vying to Kick Off Democrats’ 2028 Contest
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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therealnews.com
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on January 23.
'We are facing a tsunami of hate': amid ICE crackdown, unions and community groups call for Minnesota shutdown in 10 days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on…
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January 14, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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katalogued.bsky.social
Tonight my third grader had his grade-wide school concert. So many families were missing they had to set up a live feed for them to watch and sing along at home.
January 13, 2026 at 4:29 AM
averypickford.bsky.social
The cutoff for Generation X should be redefined as between 1965 and right after Aaron Rodgers was born.
January 13, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.
January 13, 2026 at 1:54 AM
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anniekp.bsky.social
I cannot stress how important it is that you read all of this. Spread it far and wide. Whipple is the building where people are being taken after being kidnapped in Minneapolis.
ziibiing.com ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 22d
just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday
Eyewitness account: Good morning, My name is Brandon Siguenza, and l am a US citizen from Minneapolis. Yesterday, while doing legal observation, ICE stopped their cars to harass my friend and me. They sprayed pepper spray into the vent of our vehicle. We held our hands in the air and told them we were not obstructing, that the car was in park and they were free to drive forward and away. There was no active immigration raid. They returned to their cars, and drove forward a bit, then decided to stop again. They surrounded us, smashed the windows of our car, opened the doors (they were unlocked), ripped my friend and I out of the car and arrested us on charges of obstruction. I was put in an unmarked SUV, separated from my friend. As I was put in the back seat an ICE agent tore the whistle off my neck and said "I'll be taking this, I might need it later." My phone was knocked out of my hand while being arrested. As we drove away I asked the driver and the passenger if they wouldn't mind buckling my seatbelt, as they were driving erratically. I was ignored. I asked them if I could have the handcuffs loosened, as I was losing circulation, and was told no. At one point the passenger realized his own driver's license was in the backseat next to mine, and tried to surreptitiously grab it without me seeing it. We were taken to the Whipple federal building, where I saw dozens of brown people being processed in an unheated garage. I was frisked, told of my charges, and saw buses and vans being prepped. I later learned that these were being filled with detainees and driven to the airport for deportation. As we were led in, I noticed that the building was very busy. I got the impression that one of the 2 agents bringing me around was being trained. At multiple points throughout my stay, government agents were unable to open doors, not sure where they were meant to be going, and overall confused and overwhelmed. They couldn't figure out how to use the building phones, or complai…
January 13, 2026 at 1:10 AM
averypickford.bsky.social
It doesn't help that we are fed a constant diet of crime, crime, crime by media, but I also wonder how many of these posts are coming from people who just don't walk anywhere beyond Target parking lots.
tressiemcphd.bsky.social Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22d
I’m in several online travel groups, mostly for typical European destinations. Without fail, 70% of the posts are white Americans asking about all the crime. How to avoid the crime. How to eat without being crimed. Crime, crime, crime.

What is wrong with people? Don’t answer that.
January 12, 2026 at 8:43 PM
averypickford.bsky.social
At some point in my adult life I realized that, as a profession, police officers' greatest skill should be the ability to deescalate tense situations. And the majority of the time this isn't even the reality in what should be boring-ass mundane interactions.
jennbinis.bsky.social Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 24d
To echo Nate's point, a while back, my husband and I pulled into a parking lot just before a tollbooth on the thruway to swap places before a long drive. A cop ON THE OTHER SIDE of the parking lot drove over to us and got out his car yelling at us. It was such a wild experience.

But also.
inthesedeserts.bsky.social Nate Bethea @inthesedeserts.bsky.social · 25d
I have to be honest. this isn't meant to downplay the seriousness of what's happening now, and this isn't meant to be glib. But this is also how ALL cops act. The first time I got screamed at like this by a cop, I was 16, because of a traffic jam in the school parking lot. Every single one of them
January 10, 2026 at 5:18 PM
averypickford.bsky.social
#iteachmath ♾️
January 10, 2026 at 4:36 PM
averypickford.bsky.social
The SEC won a total of 2 bowl games that weren't against another SEC team.
January 9, 2026 at 4:34 AM
averypickford.bsky.social
Hey @mathforlove.bsky.social, I just played Prime Climb with my 7yo for the first time. "That was really fun. Way funner than it should have been." 😂
January 9, 2026 at 2:18 AM
averypickford.bsky.social
Not sure this is even in the top 10 of egregious, undemocratic happenings, but WTF, CNN. Next week's headline: "Arsonist Helps Family Unhappy with Kitchen Layout"

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Trump’s controversial ballroom could actually solve a decades-long problem— and takes first formal steps for construction | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump’s sprawling new East Wing ballroom project has attracted widespread controversy — but promises to solve a problem identified by first families and their social secretaries on bo...
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January 8, 2026 at 4:52 PM