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Cari
@impalpable.bsky.social
HS English teacher, photographer, mom, wife, not in that order.

📖 CR: Martyr, Kaveh Akbar
🎧CL: The Pairing, Casey McQuiston
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I don’t care about Taylor cosplaying as an English teacher. It’s the best job in the world!

What I do care about is the silence of multi-millionaires & billionaires as actual teachers consider how to pay for groceries while praying we’re not gunned down at work or arrested for teaching books.
August 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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They’re depoliticizing women’s subjugation.

Every “day in the life” video of a 20-year-old laying out her husband’s socks, and every magazine spread of a stay-at-home mom with five kids in matching beige outfits, take women’s subservience and make it…cutesy.

jessica.substack.com/p/princess-t...
We Need to Talk About the Pink-Pill Pipeline
You can't slap a tiara on a human rights crisis and call it the 'princess treatment'
jessica.substack.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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I’m so excited to sit in a room full of adults and be talked at for days, absorbing content will be neither differentiated nor will the delivery be best practice, in hopes that it’ll inspire and prepare me to be the teacher my students need and deserve 🙃
August 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
July wrap up! We’ll see if I can finish any books with back to school season upon us. #booksky
August 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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I maintain that while high school is meant in part to help prepare kids for the world in general, we are not doing job training. It's my job to get kids to think critically, not teach some janky-ass computer program that requires no skillset.
I hate the argument that AI is being used in lots of jobs so students have to learn how to use it in school. AI is not that hard to use. Lots of jobs also use job-specific convoluted enterprise software and we don't teach them how to use those in school.
July 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Got caught crying (sobbing) in the club by my youngest while listening to Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez today 😅 Damn that was good
July 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Sleepy photo editing pal
July 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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🎉Announcing the 2025 Inkubator Writing Conference 🎉

#CleInk25 is one of the largest free writing conferences in the country and this year we have made it bigger and better than ever!

Events September 5-14. Registration opens August 1.
inkubator.litcleveland.org
July 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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You know where lonely kids used to find solace and comfort in order to learn about themselves and the world?

Books.

AI “friendships” are yet another symptom of an absence of books in our schools. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/m...
What Would a Real Friendship With A.I. Look Like? Maybe Like Hers. (Gift Article)
Chatbots can get scary if you suspend your disbelief. But MJ Cocking didn’t — and wound up in a relationship that was strangely, helpfully real.
www.nytimes.com
July 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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until everyone got hooked on chat gpt and the like i don’t think i understood what my teachers meant when they said ‘when you cheat, you’re only cheating yourself’
July 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
He better not say one word in that movie.
Benjamin Evan Ainsworth has been cast as Link in the upcoming live-action ‘THE LEGEND OF ZELDA’ movie.
July 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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July 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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I teach @lenakt.bsky.social’s “Running Orders” and it’s important to contextualize the poem: it wasn’t written in 2023; it was published in 2017, so the experience is deeply rooted in a LONG history of displacement and violence. It’s not new; students MUST know this.

#PoemADayJuly
"They call us now, / before they drop the bombs."

We're beginning Week 2 of #PoemADayJuly with "Running Orders" by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and, yes, this poem is so much and too much and, because of that so much and too much, very worthy of conversation.

@thevogelman.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Poems about ongoing, current, unimaginable pain like this are hard to talk about. What a stunning poem, running down the page in anger and grief, not fear. The word choices at the ends of lines work to convey the situation—“closed,” “worthless,” “sentence,” “narrow,” “house,” “place,” “nowhere.”
"They call us now, / before they drop the bombs."

We're beginning Week 2 of #PoemADayJuly with "Running Orders" by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and, yes, this poem is so much and too much and, because of that so much and too much, very worthy of conversation.

@thevogelman.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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July 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Child of Omelas? That’s thinking too small. What if like eight billion people suffered so a few dozen guys could live lives so insane they convinced themselves it’s more likely they’re inside a computer simulation
July 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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each year on this day i find company in this poem

“No Explosions”
by Naomi Shihab Nye

To enjoy
fireworks
you would have
to have lived
a different kind
of life
July 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
June 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM