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nicole 🪻 (she/her)
@kingcrookback.bsky.social
educator, crocheter, (occasional) writer
Seeing these computer science majors using AI without a second thought genuinely feels like watching someone bloodletting in a shark tank

But I'm just some English teacher, what the fuck do I know, right
October 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Day 13141 of existence and I still haven’t used ChatGPT to answer a goddamn question I’ve ever had.
May 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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oh no (oh no)
April 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
yeah yeah yeah combating the devaluation of the humanities for the sake of promoting compassion and critical thinking in academia, the workplace, and daily life, sure. but also for me. my sanity. i'm crashing out over these kids' papers.
March 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
it's just as well that first-years never come to office hours, i made this place into a massive memento mori
February 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.

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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
www.nps.gov
February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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the discourse on whether the economy is actually good or bad is ridiculous to me bc even if you showed me a graph that somehow conclusively proved the economy was Good i could still walk through my city and see people living in tents on the side of the road and in every public park
February 13, 2025 at 4:32 AM
i really would like a birthday where i don't feel at least vaguely bummed lol
February 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
this job is an endless cycle of "wtf did they teach you in high school" (derogatory) and "wtf did they teach you in high school" (complimentary)
February 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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oh no (oh no)
February 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
chancellor makes a thousand, i make a dime, i write fiction during my kids' in-class essay time
February 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
sometimes in their assignments my students will mention like. their underage drinking. completely unprompted. and i never get on their cases abt it but why would you narc on yourself like that.
February 6, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Your Rights With ICE

Sus Derechos Con La Migra

🔁 Share. Enseñar. 🔁
January 21, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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We've finally defeated cancel culture. Now people only get fired for criticizing the government
January 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
ah returning to the teacher-specific flavor of madonna/whore complex that is "mommy/bitch"
January 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
December 4, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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That disabled people should have access to everything should not be a debatable proposition.
December 2, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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turns out i'm living in a horror film where i'm both the killer and the final girl, so who, who are you?
November 25, 2024 at 4:05 AM