Robin Kimball
@robinkimball.bsky.social
Middle school science and health teacher in Southern NM; PG-13 vocabulary. Cooking, movies, dogs, eyebrows, and bodily autonomy. Make no machine in the likeness of a human mind.
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Robin Kimball
@robinkimball.bsky.social
· Oct 22
a man in a military uniform is standing in front of a building and says `` and i want my scalps '' .
Alt: In GIF form, Aldo Raine tells the Inglorious Basterds that they each owe him 100 Nazi scalps, "and I want my scalps."
media.tenor.com
I owe Aldo Raine a debt.
No, YOU'RE crying. 😭😭😭
Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
a man with a mustache says there be whales here in a dark room
Alt: Scotty from Star Trek Original Series (played by Jimmy Doohan) says there be whales here in a Klingon vessel's cargo hold.
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
No, YOU'RE crying. 😭😭😭
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If I may dust off an old chestnut: I want to go to there.
You see a place like this on the roadside, you know it's gonna be fire.
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If I may dust off an old chestnut: I want to go to there.
Lemme translate this into Middle School Teacher:
student: "mix, can I have some post it notes?"
teacher: certainly!
student: "mix, do you have some staples? I don't need the stapler, just the staples."
teacher: hang on, are you making ceiling darts?
student: "No."
teacher: okay! Here you go!
student: "mix, can I have some post it notes?"
teacher: certainly!
student: "mix, do you have some staples? I don't need the stapler, just the staples."
teacher: hang on, are you making ceiling darts?
student: "No."
teacher: okay! Here you go!
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Lemme translate this into Middle School Teacher:
student: "mix, can I have some post it notes?"
teacher: certainly!
student: "mix, do you have some staples? I don't need the stapler, just the staples."
teacher: hang on, are you making ceiling darts?
student: "No."
teacher: okay! Here you go!
student: "mix, can I have some post it notes?"
teacher: certainly!
student: "mix, do you have some staples? I don't need the stapler, just the staples."
teacher: hang on, are you making ceiling darts?
student: "No."
teacher: okay! Here you go!
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EVERYBODY BE QUIET.
KIRBY IS ASLEEP.
KIRBY IS ASLEEP.
November 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
EVERYBODY BE QUIET.
KIRBY IS ASLEEP.
KIRBY IS ASLEEP.
With some predictable regularity, I will say something like "Oh, I would love to move back to Chicago someday" and KChurch will say something that is basically YOU HATE BEING COLD IN THE DARK, SILLY and he's right, I do hate being cold in the dark, but ILU Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
With some predictable regularity, I will say something like "Oh, I would love to move back to Chicago someday" and KChurch will say something that is basically YOU HATE BEING COLD IN THE DARK, SILLY and he's right, I do hate being cold in the dark, but ILU Chicago.
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"Did Women Ruin Men Blaming Women For Ruining Things?"
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"Did Women Ruin Men Blaming Women For Ruining Things?"
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My oldest face-is-in-it selfie is from May 2010 and is a highly selective crop of me laid out mid-tattoo, and I will not be posting it, as it is simply too much of a thirst trap for a Woman Of My Years And Position.
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
My oldest face-is-in-it selfie is from May 2010 and is a highly selective crop of me laid out mid-tattoo, and I will not be posting it, as it is simply too much of a thirst trap for a Woman Of My Years And Position.
Old joke: what did Watson and Crick discover? ROSALIND FRANKLIN'S NOTES.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Old joke: what did Watson and Crick discover? ROSALIND FRANKLIN'S NOTES.
You know I'm in.
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
You know I'm in.
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Dear @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org: Please cancel your partnership with this evil company and stop pushing “A.i.” on teachers and students.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Dear @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org: Please cancel your partnership with this evil company and stop pushing “A.i.” on teachers and students.
Get 'em.
Two New Mexico lawmakers on Thursday outlined their proposal for a new "truth commission" to investigate what took place over decades at Jeffrey Epstein's massive Zorro Ranch in southern Santa Fe County — and the state's failures to hold Epstein and others accountable for any crimes.
'Failures of oversight': Lawmakers propose 'truth commission' to probe Epstein's Santa Fe County ranch
But what unfolded at Zorro Ranch has not been thoroughly investigated, said Democratic state Reps. Andrea Romero and Marianna Anaya.
www.santafenewmexican.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Get 'em.
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"Grief is not over once the body is neatly disposed of, the rubble of the house has been taken away in dumpsters, the final fit on the prosthesis is done, the law is passed and withstands legal challenges, or when the permanent peace is brokered."
So uh.
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
bookshop.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"Grief is not over once the body is neatly disposed of, the rubble of the house has been taken away in dumpsters, the final fit on the prosthesis is done, the law is passed and withstands legal challenges, or when the permanent peace is brokered."
1. Wow. Hhhhwwwwwoooowww.
2. Anyone who's ever been in choir knows about (not) locking yr knees and my money's on this guy having not been in choir.
2. Anyone who's ever been in choir knows about (not) locking yr knees and my money's on this guy having not been in choir.
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
1. Wow. Hhhhwwwwwoooowww.
2. Anyone who's ever been in choir knows about (not) locking yr knees and my money's on this guy having not been in choir.
2. Anyone who's ever been in choir knows about (not) locking yr knees and my money's on this guy having not been in choir.
"Some Pig."
November 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"Some Pig."
GawdDAMN do I miss being a New Yorker tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
GawdDAMN do I miss being a New Yorker tonight.
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TO GET TO ANY OF US YOU HAVE TO GET THROUGH ALL OF US
TO GET TO ANY OF US YOU HAVE TO GET THROUGH ALL OF US
TO GET TO ANY OF US YOU HAVE TO GET THROUGH ALL OF US
TO GET TO ANY OF US YOU HAVE TO GET THROUGH ALL OF US
TO GET TO ANY OF US YOU HAVE TO GET THROUGH ALL OF US
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
TO GET TO ANY OF US YOU HAVE TO GET THROUGH ALL OF US
TO GET TO ANY OF US YOU HAVE TO GET THROUGH ALL OF US
TO GET TO ANY OF US YOU HAVE TO GET THROUGH ALL OF US
TO GET TO ANY OF US YOU HAVE TO GET THROUGH ALL OF US
TO GET TO ANY OF US YOU HAVE TO GET THROUGH ALL OF US
Kamata-kun is such a sweetie pie.
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Kamata-kun is such a sweetie pie.
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RK is in ABQ for a science teacher professional development conference thing and Griff has decided that means he gets her pillows.
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
RK is in ABQ for a science teacher professional development conference thing and Griff has decided that means he gets her pillows.
Anyanka may have had a point. #Bunnies #ItMustBeBunnies
Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
November 3, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Anyanka may have had a point. #Bunnies #ItMustBeBunnies
..... That's my Grand Nagus.
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
November 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
..... That's my Grand Nagus.
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Snark alert.
I mean, feminism offered a few paths and models to help men escape the sucking, lonely, self-depriving and self-reinforcing pit that some visions of masculinity become, but like, they didn't want our help because we were girls, so you might as well try marketing, sure.
I mean, feminism offered a few paths and models to help men escape the sucking, lonely, self-depriving and self-reinforcing pit that some visions of masculinity become, but like, they didn't want our help because we were girls, so you might as well try marketing, sure.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Maureen Dowd asks: Can “cool male friendship ads” — Zach Braff and Donald Faison pushing T-Mobile, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson selling Salesforce, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro for Moncler — serve as positive examples amid an epidemic of male loneliness?
Maureen Dowd asks: Can “cool male friendship ads” — Zach Braff and Donald Faison pushing T-Mobile, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson selling Salesforce, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro for Moncler — serve as positive examples amid an epidemic of male loneliness?
Opinion | Bros Need Some Bros
Commercial camaraderie underscores how it’s lacking in real life.
nyti.ms
November 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Snark alert.
I mean, feminism offered a few paths and models to help men escape the sucking, lonely, self-depriving and self-reinforcing pit that some visions of masculinity become, but like, they didn't want our help because we were girls, so you might as well try marketing, sure.
I mean, feminism offered a few paths and models to help men escape the sucking, lonely, self-depriving and self-reinforcing pit that some visions of masculinity become, but like, they didn't want our help because we were girls, so you might as well try marketing, sure.
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This is it. We know exactly how to fix the climate crisis. We have all the technology and we know what actions we need to take. What people are hoping for is a technology that will fix everything without us having to change anything at all, and that's a fantasy. We have to do the work.
The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
October 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This is it. We know exactly how to fix the climate crisis. We have all the technology and we know what actions we need to take. What people are hoping for is a technology that will fix everything without us having to change anything at all, and that's a fantasy. We have to do the work.