Daniel Withrow
@withrowdaniel.bsky.social
Teacher, baker, stupid-pun maker
Avid reader, compulsive gamer
Exhaustedly leftist
Avid reader, compulsive gamer
Exhaustedly leftist
Bureaucrats can be guards or guides.
A guard says, "These are the ways of my domain. Follow them or suffer the consequences."
A guide says, "These are the ways of my domain. I'll help you find your destination."
Guards are the reason people hate bureaucracy. Guides are worth their weight in gold.
A guard says, "These are the ways of my domain. Follow them or suffer the consequences."
A guide says, "These are the ways of my domain. I'll help you find your destination."
Guards are the reason people hate bureaucracy. Guides are worth their weight in gold.
May 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Bureaucrats can be guards or guides.
A guard says, "These are the ways of my domain. Follow them or suffer the consequences."
A guide says, "These are the ways of my domain. I'll help you find your destination."
Guards are the reason people hate bureaucracy. Guides are worth their weight in gold.
A guard says, "These are the ways of my domain. Follow them or suffer the consequences."
A guide says, "These are the ways of my domain. I'll help you find your destination."
Guards are the reason people hate bureaucracy. Guides are worth their weight in gold.
Humans often see vultures as base, filthy creatures. But to rodents and songbirds, they are the greatest and noblest of raptors.
April 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Humans often see vultures as base, filthy creatures. But to rodents and songbirds, they are the greatest and noblest of raptors.
There are dragons who are filter feeders, like baleen whales, who soar through flocks of birds with their mouths wide open.
April 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
There are dragons who are filter feeders, like baleen whales, who soar through flocks of birds with their mouths wide open.
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Proud member!! 🍎💪
After Notable Wins, Can NCAE Make the Case for Public Education?
The state association representing teachers is looking to leverage local wins into statewide gains. #nced #ncpol
www.theassemblync.com/education/no...
After Notable Wins, Can NCAE Make the Case for Public Education?
The state association representing teachers is looking to leverage local wins into statewide gains. #nced #ncpol
www.theassemblync.com/education/no...
After Notable Wins, Can NCAE Make the Case for Public Education?
Educators in Durham and Guilford secured big wins last year. Can NCAE leverage local wins into statewide gains?
www.theassemblync.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Proud member!! 🍎💪
After Notable Wins, Can NCAE Make the Case for Public Education?
The state association representing teachers is looking to leverage local wins into statewide gains. #nced #ncpol
www.theassemblync.com/education/no...
After Notable Wins, Can NCAE Make the Case for Public Education?
The state association representing teachers is looking to leverage local wins into statewide gains. #nced #ncpol
www.theassemblync.com/education/no...
People should be able to cross borders at least as easily as money can. If businesses can move to countries where wages are lowest, but people can't move to countries where wages are highest, the market is unfair.
Even diehard capitalists ought to support this.
Even diehard capitalists ought to support this.
March 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
People should be able to cross borders at least as easily as money can. If businesses can move to countries where wages are lowest, but people can't move to countries where wages are highest, the market is unfair.
Even diehard capitalists ought to support this.
Even diehard capitalists ought to support this.
One of the few pleasures I've found in world news lately has been watching share prices for Tesla, Amazon, and Truth Social plummet.
I don't want them to externalize the pain.
I don't want them to externalize the pain.
March 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
One of the few pleasures I've found in world news lately has been watching share prices for Tesla, Amazon, and Truth Social plummet.
I don't want them to externalize the pain.
I don't want them to externalize the pain.
Adopt a district: for every Republican who refuses to hold town halls in their district, the closest Democratic representative should adopt the orphaned district , setting up town halls in that district to listen to voter concerns and bring them to Washington and to the missing representative.
February 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Adopt a district: for every Republican who refuses to hold town halls in their district, the closest Democratic representative should adopt the orphaned district , setting up town halls in that district to listen to voter concerns and bring them to Washington and to the missing representative.
Starting a Greek mythology unit with my third graders, and pulled out the classic d'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths. This sentence is in the introduction, making me wonder exactly how comes up Ingri and Edgar d'Aulaire were.
February 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Starting a Greek mythology unit with my third graders, and pulled out the classic d'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths. This sentence is in the introduction, making me wonder exactly how comes up Ingri and Edgar d'Aulaire were.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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ahahaha these people...
So you're saying intellectual property should be protected www.ft.com/content/a0df...
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
www.ft.com
January 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
ahahaha these people...
It sounds like the AI companies worry they’ll lose income because someone figured out how to undercut them by using their labor without pay in order to train a new AI model.
I just wish Deepseek were named Karma.
I just wish Deepseek were named Karma.
January 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
It sounds like the AI companies worry they’ll lose income because someone figured out how to undercut them by using their labor without pay in order to train a new AI model.
I just wish Deepseek were named Karma.
I just wish Deepseek were named Karma.
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one of the most beautiful sounds you'll ever hear, and almost at times like an ecstatic and ethereal choir
I just got one heck of a welcome home. Volume up, but not too high.
The wolves were singing tonight. A few seconds in you’ll hear the closest howling wolf I’ve ever heard. I couldn’t see it, but it might have been at the end of my driveway. I went right back inside after this. 😊🐺🦊
The wolves were singing tonight. A few seconds in you’ll hear the closest howling wolf I’ve ever heard. I couldn’t see it, but it might have been at the end of my driveway. I went right back inside after this. 😊🐺🦊
January 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
one of the most beautiful sounds you'll ever hear, and almost at times like an ecstatic and ethereal choir
A thought about using Meta: it is free, because we are the products. So what if I paid a monthly subscription for it? Only instead of paying it to fascist bootlicker Zuckerberg, I paid my subscription to the ACLU? Ethical consumption under capitalism?
January 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
A thought about using Meta: it is free, because we are the products. So what if I paid a monthly subscription for it? Only instead of paying it to fascist bootlicker Zuckerberg, I paid my subscription to the ACLU? Ethical consumption under capitalism?
Interesting list. I'm not a big fan of Seanan McGuire or Charlie Jane Anders or Cory Doctorow, but they're just not to my tastes, not bad people or writers. Tchaikovsky, Valente, Vo, and Muir are among my must-reads.
Who should be added?
Who should be added?
Wanna fill your Gaiman shelf gap?
Nnedi Okorafor
Seanan McGuire
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Cat Valente
Sam Miller
Cory Doctorow
Max Gladstone
Nghi Vo
Alix Harrow
Becky Chambers
Ryka Aoki
Nick Harkway
Cass Khaw
Jeff Vandermeer
SA Chakraborty
Delilah Dawson
Tasmyn Muir
Charlie Anders
Seth Dickinson
C Stross
Nnedi Okorafor
Seanan McGuire
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Cat Valente
Sam Miller
Cory Doctorow
Max Gladstone
Nghi Vo
Alix Harrow
Becky Chambers
Ryka Aoki
Nick Harkway
Cass Khaw
Jeff Vandermeer
SA Chakraborty
Delilah Dawson
Tasmyn Muir
Charlie Anders
Seth Dickinson
C Stross
January 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Interesting list. I'm not a big fan of Seanan McGuire or Charlie Jane Anders or Cory Doctorow, but they're just not to my tastes, not bad people or writers. Tchaikovsky, Valente, Vo, and Muir are among my must-reads.
Who should be added?
Who should be added?
Frightful weather outside.
Vegetable soup, cheese biscuits, and cranberry cheesecake inside.
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
Vegetable soup, cheese biscuits, and cranberry cheesecake inside.
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
January 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Frightful weather outside.
Vegetable soup, cheese biscuits, and cranberry cheesecake inside.
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
Vegetable soup, cheese biscuits, and cranberry cheesecake inside.
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
New game: Werewolf Santa. Draw names from a hat and get presents for each other--but one of you is the killer.
December 21, 2024 at 2:04 AM
New game: Werewolf Santa. Draw names from a hat and get presents for each other--but one of you is the killer.
The fuel indicator is not on. You're imagining things.
December 13, 2024 at 11:37 PM
The fuel indicator is not on. You're imagining things.
This is a good time to read The Rhinoceros, Eugene Ionesco's play about how fascism spreads.
www.michaelrasbury.org/music/rhinoc...
www.michaelrasbury.org/music/rhinoc...
www.michaelrasbury.org
December 12, 2024 at 5:53 PM
This is a good time to read The Rhinoceros, Eugene Ionesco's play about how fascism spreads.
www.michaelrasbury.org/music/rhinoc...
www.michaelrasbury.org/music/rhinoc...
Experiment: pretest a cohort of adults to determine their knowledge of college-level astrophysics. Place the experimental group in a course two levels above their ability. Place the control group in a course at their level. Which cohort will make more growth?
Apply results to elementary students.
Apply results to elementary students.
December 12, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Experiment: pretest a cohort of adults to determine their knowledge of college-level astrophysics. Place the experimental group in a course two levels above their ability. Place the control group in a course at their level. Which cohort will make more growth?
Apply results to elementary students.
Apply results to elementary students.
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Don't assume maximalist outcomes for the Trump administration. That's a form of psychological surrender. We should attempt to exploit every stumble, failure, and misstep, and there will be stumbles, failures, and missteps.
December 9, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Don't assume maximalist outcomes for the Trump administration. That's a form of psychological surrender. We should attempt to exploit every stumble, failure, and misstep, and there will be stumbles, failures, and missteps.
Do you need a positive author to read? Try Becky Chambers: she's amazing.
Do you need a reason to stop eating cheese? Also Becky Chambers.
Behold the best food writing of all time:
blog.jverkamp.com/2022/06/22/t...
Do you need a reason to stop eating cheese? Also Becky Chambers.
Behold the best food writing of all time:
blog.jverkamp.com/2022/06/22/t...
Review: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within – jverkamp.com
blog.jverkamp.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Do you need a positive author to read? Try Becky Chambers: she's amazing.
Do you need a reason to stop eating cheese? Also Becky Chambers.
Behold the best food writing of all time:
blog.jverkamp.com/2022/06/22/t...
Do you need a reason to stop eating cheese? Also Becky Chambers.
Behold the best food writing of all time:
blog.jverkamp.com/2022/06/22/t...
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“My word to progressives and Democrats is to not try to have a left or a right agenda. Have a moral agenda. Look at what issues are a violation of our deepest moral values…Own the fact that the things we talk about — a living wage, health care — are highly popular in the public square.” #ncpol
This fiery evangelical North Carolina pastor offers a blueprint for Democrats’ revival in Trump’s second term #ncpol
www.cnn.com/2024/11/24/u...
www.cnn.com/2024/11/24/u...
This fiery evangelical pastor offers a blueprint for Democrats’ revival in Trump’s second term | CNN
The Rev. William Barber, the prominent Black spiritual leader who supported Kamala Harris, suggests a way forward for left-leaning Americans who are struggling in the wake of the election.
www.cnn.com
November 24, 2024 at 10:46 PM
“My word to progressives and Democrats is to not try to have a left or a right agenda. Have a moral agenda. Look at what issues are a violation of our deepest moral values…Own the fact that the things we talk about — a living wage, health care — are highly popular in the public square.” #ncpol
A question I think about a lot, as a "gifted" education specialist (hate that term, but it's what I have). Adults who were in such a program as a kid: did it serve you well? What do you wish your teachers had done differently, given their financial and supervisory constraints?
November 24, 2024 at 1:59 PM
A question I think about a lot, as a "gifted" education specialist (hate that term, but it's what I have). Adults who were in such a program as a kid: did it serve you well? What do you wish your teachers had done differently, given their financial and supervisory constraints?