Schoolhouse Modern 🇨🇦
schoolhousemodern.bsky.social
Schoolhouse Modern 🇨🇦
@schoolhousemodern.bsky.social
“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”
Pinned
I’ve decided to do my 1990s project and my 1970s project at the same time. Who knows? Maybe they end up becoming one awesome project.

Perhaps one ends up dominating and the other falls away.

I couldn’t decide. A.I. couldn’t decide for me (said my interest is balanced) so both it is.
My homework is not going well tonight and I have an exam on Friday 🥺😢😭
May 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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May 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Image of library book display labeled:

“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”

Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World

~TAiLS of a Bookworm
May 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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For two years in the 1970s, the government of New Brunswick hoped to alleviate unemployment through the production of a unique car.
Over the course of two years, 2,854 cars were built before it came to an abrupt end.
This is the story of the Bricklin SV-1.

🧵1/10
May 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Seconded.

If you’re an American and you work in healthcare, here’s your chance to get away from the hellscape of America and come to Canada for awhile.

And you won’t have to become a citizen.
Any 🇺🇸 nurses and doctors want to come north to 🇨🇦? BC has just made it much, much easier and faster for you to move here to work in a healthcare system that doesn't run on profit...

vancouversun.com/news/bc-scoo...
B.C. has recruited over 100 U.S. nurses in just over a month after streamlining credentialing
1,200 American-trained workers have expressed interest, including 573 physicians and 413 nurses.
vancouversun.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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My friend and mentor, @levarburton.bsky.social, gave the commencement address at Howard University yesterday, and it is just magnificent. I can't believe how lucky I am to know, love, and be loved, by LeVar.

www.youtube.com/live/YlUBZhP...
157th Commencement Convocation
YouTube video by Howard University
www.youtube.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I want to knit this sweater. Judging by the sweatband she’s wearing, I’m going to guess 1984 or 1985.
May 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I’ve decided to do my 1990s project and my 1970s project at the same time. Who knows? Maybe they end up becoming one awesome project.

Perhaps one ends up dominating and the other falls away.

I couldn’t decide. A.I. couldn’t decide for me (said my interest is balanced) so both it is.
May 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Coolest couple in the neighborhood. Photo from my collection, 1937.
May 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I have sympathy for the groups of Americans coming to Canada to beg Canadian tourists to visit the U.S. again.

But honestly, the fix isn’t going to be found on our side of the border. The call is coming from inside the house.

The White House.

You need to get Trump out of office.
May 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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I say this without a hint of sarcasm. The Armageddon DVD commentary is the finest work of Ben Affleck’s career.
May 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Brilliant 💡

Finally a reason to be excited about A.I.

🥬🫑🫛🥒🍏🥑🫒🥕🍑🍅🍉🫜🍓🍇🍒

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This lettuce is grown with AI. Some believe it's the future of Canadian produce | CBC News
A farmer and entrepreneur in King City, Ont., is making a pitch to help Canada become less sufficient on vegetable imports; a fully automated greenhouse, controlled by AI.
www.cbc.ca
May 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
My brain was wandering from paying attention to my studies, like brains do, and I suddenly came up with a a good structure for my 90s reading challenge.

Hot damn.

#booksky
May 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Hopefully this gets the attention of the oil & gas companies who made deals with indigenous peoples to put oil sites and drilling equipment on indigenous land.

Maybe they’ll smarten up and stopped funding Danielle Smith and her separatist nonsense.
Smith has touched off a firestorm!

Today Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation called for all resource exploration to cease, citing First Nations responsibility to the crown under treaty and questioning who Smith was exploring for.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
May 7, 2025 at 5:24 AM
This may me tear up (for real). Sesame Street was a beacon of light in America post-Civil Rights Act of 1964.

I’m 49 yrs old and grew up with Sesame Street. I recently read ‘Sunny Days: The Children’s Television Revolution that Changed America’ by David Kamp.

What a loss. What an embarrassment.
May 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Wow. I’m speechless. This is probably one of their best.

youtu.be/mJSkbeQhuE4?...
Die With A Smile - Postmodern Jukebox (Bruno Mars / Lady Gaga 1940s "Fallout" Style Cover)
YouTube video by PostmodernJukebox
youtu.be
May 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Crystal Ball by Styx is one of my favourite songs from the 1970s.

This live version is amazing.

youtu.be/QjjZ9biMgIs?...
Styx - 1996 - Crystal Ball (Live)
YouTube video by P4MU
youtu.be
May 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Sticking with the 80s theme, I have my pre-study hype music, and hot tea.
May 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Going ALL the way back to 1983 with my current post-study audiobook:

Wow. Hard to believe I was 7 yrs old when this book was released. Good times.
May 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
@chriswarcraft.bsky.social recently saw you mention Discworld and remembered I had made it a goal to read them. Picked up “The Colour of Magic” and am going to start tonight.
May 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Don’t normally read celebrity articles but this caught my eye while reading up on Trump’s film tariffs.

The article is well written and dare I say, lovely. Insightful.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
A child on thin ice: EA Hanks on life with her abusive mother – and world-famous father
One half of the author’s early life was spent with a mother who struggled with addiction, her mental health and caring responsibilities. The other was with her father Tom on film sets and in a house f...
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I did like, 11 hours of trigonometry homework tonight, and feel like I barely scratched the surface.

And I’m only doing basic trig appropriate for trade school carpentry.

It’s a very deep rabbit hole to fall down into…
Turns out…

I like trigonometry 🤓
May 4, 2025 at 5:03 AM
2008 is vintage now.
May 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I’m using AI for the first time to learn trigonometry. Oddly, I find it a useful learning tool BECAUSE it makes so many mistakes.

I have to critically look at each explanation of an attempted answer and decide whether it’s right or wrong and ask AI to double check or fix its calculations.
May 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM