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Margo
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She/her/hers. At the intersection of linguistics and IP law. Formerly in kidlit.
Would also love for apps to stop taking up so much dang space. My phone has 128gb, which should be MORE THAN enough, but I am forever running out of room!
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Similarly, my uncle once used cumin instead of cinnamon in pumpkin pie. (It was so nasty and I was so sad.)
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
My uncle cooks the turkey on Tuesday and we reheat it to eat Thursday. 🥴
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Please also remember that when a T&S team is extremely overworked and under-resourced, a massive write-in protest based on that one-sided presentation of the facts will do absolutely nothing but slow down the work even further, because now there's an extra 20,000 emails they have to weed out.
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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also the self-censorship people on here just sound Iike naive children to me

you can in fact viciously and highly effective criticize evil people without giving them needless points of vulnerability to get you back with
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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also I think it’s good actually that Bluesky isn’t really treating celebrities or high profile people differently from anyone else with regards to moderation, even if you don’t agree with those decisions
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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If people are moving out of your city because they can work elsewhere more cheaply, your problem is affordability, not remote work.
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The good way STARTS with phonics, does "sight words" that have to be memorized, and then plows forward and taps in "context clues" only once you've sounded out the word and it's new to you.
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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every time this happens people start going "what about this, huh" and getting suspended too, so may I recommend not doing that

at this point everyone should know what the policy is and "I'm going to go right up to what I think the line is and poke it with a stick" is asking to get got
November 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Thank you for explaining this, and so clearly!! I hate learning a word has changed so much as to make me look silly for thinking it meant the original usage, and it has happened A LOT in the last few years.
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Isn't incel "involuntary celibate"? How can you CHOOSE to be an incel?
November 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
seems like a lot of districts went hard on buying one curriculum that sucked (in part due to the total lack of phonics) & when Calkins got exposed, the reaction of some districts wasn't "we need to utilize a custom blend of curriculums" but rather "this OTHER curriculum will solve all our problems"
November 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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II. WHAT WE DO
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The sole purpose of this event is helping school-aged kids from lower income families eat during the 2-week school break in December

➡️ In the US, most food aid is school-based

➡️ In NC, access to that aid goes away when schools are closed

Dumb? Yes. But so it goes
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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the thing is that there are only two explanations for this and they are both utterly disqualifying for Dem leadership

1. you knew they would come for abortion and you already decided you were willing to give it up

2. you did NOT know, because you are too gullible for the job you currently hold
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM