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Ale Checka
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· Mar 7
FWISD Teachers Speak Out Against Abbott's Voucher Bill and What We Know About School Closures
Podcast Episode · 817 Podcast - Fort Worth's Monday Morning Show · 03/03/2025 · 1h
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Y'all, I was on the 817 Podcast to talk about Texas school vouchers. They are disastrous policy! Give a listen -
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These devil children made my tall chair TOO TALL while I was absent so now I can’t teach anymore
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
These devil children made my tall chair TOO TALL while I was absent so now I can’t teach anymore
This is cool
A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire
go.nature.com/4nHZmoM
go.nature.com/4nHZmoM
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
Nature - A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
go.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is cool
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
I use this as an example in engineering class
I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I use this as an example in engineering class
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This was a fun interview! And they let me point out that museums, full of colonial loot, are both victims and perpetrators in the black market for stolen art… www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
BBC Audio | The Global Story | The Louvre daytime heist that shocked the world
How thieves stole France’s crown jewels and what they could do with them
www.bbc.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This was a fun interview! And they let me point out that museums, full of colonial loot, are both victims and perpetrators in the black market for stolen art… www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
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am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
This time they’ve gone Too Far
THESE KIDS
THESE KIDS
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This time they’ve gone Too Far
THESE KIDS
THESE KIDS
Et tu, Shakespeare? ET TU
Look you bring me in the names of some six or seven
November 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Et tu, Shakespeare? ET TU
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and then turn to the green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land
November 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
and then turn to the green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land
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Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Today I discovered that a colleague is not just a poet but a really talented poet. A delightful discovery
October 31, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Today I discovered that a colleague is not just a poet but a really talented poet. A delightful discovery
Good
Breaking News: Andrew, the younger brother of King Charles III, is being stripped of his title as prince, Buckingham Palace said. nyti.ms/4oQeykJ
October 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Good
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We work by the month, or by the job, or by the profit; not for us to ask the why and wherefore of our work
October 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We work by the month, or by the job, or by the profit; not for us to ask the why and wherefore of our work
I’m IN
My 8yo told me she had a dream that she went "taco treating," which is where you go door to door and people give you tacos
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I’m IN
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No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education:
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
October 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education:
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
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The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings. n.pr/4ntG3PR
White House fires entire commission that reviews designs for federal buildings
The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings.
n.pr
October 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings. n.pr/4ntG3PR
Lol at this being the year I was going to work less
October 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Lol at this being the year I was going to work less
Do people not have aunties?? Because my only sibling does not have kids but I am Tía Ale/Auntie Checka to plenty of kids in my life
i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days
October 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Do people not have aunties?? Because my only sibling does not have kids but I am Tía Ale/Auntie Checka to plenty of kids in my life
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But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
October 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
I swear all my classes are having secret meetings with each other to calendar out a rotation to take turns on who will be the hardest class and easiest class on any given week
October 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I swear all my classes are having secret meetings with each other to calendar out a rotation to take turns on who will be the hardest class and easiest class on any given week
I spent hours and hours and hours putting together a lesson and then spent almost the whole class period trying to do crowd control and I feel pretty defeated
October 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I spent hours and hours and hours putting together a lesson and then spent almost the whole class period trying to do crowd control and I feel pretty defeated
I have never been more nervous to teach a lesson in my life
October 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I have never been more nervous to teach a lesson in my life
I gasped. Breathtakingly evil
If you are a teacher who reports your student or their parent/guardian to ICE, you are a terrible human being and have no business being an educator. cdt.org/wp-content/u...
October 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I gasped. Breathtakingly evil
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Well, when you put it all together that way, yeah that doesn’t sound good…
Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
October 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Well, when you put it all together that way, yeah that doesn’t sound good…