@marcusluther.bsky.social I SUCK at bulletin boards and the last two years I have fully intended to do this and it just…stayed blank thru June. but this is gonna be the year! finally got it populated! will let you know how the youth respond!

me at 20: ugh I can’t imagine spending my life writing criticism about Homer that nobody outside the academy will read, what else can I do w/ my classics degree

me at 40: yesss it’s my leisure time, can’t wait for my weekly Iliad zoom and then gonna crack open this new book of Homer criticism

BARS from @mattrkay.bsky.social, an educator I respect a great deal.

@pftlocal3.bsky.social a beautiful day to support the DC33 strikers on the picket line! the workers where I was at had a lot of appreciation for our union—one that I talked to was a former PFT para.

this banya poem, by @rudemechanical7.bsky.social, slaps

the entire federal government:

For…reasons, I’ve been thinking about the snowstorm last January when the Archdiocese schools and a bunch of surrounding districts were closed, and Philly public schools were open, incomprehensibly, on a regular schedule. Anyway I hope I don’t have to bring this meme out of retirement #phled

I didn’t think that feeling of infinite wealth you get when you walk into the public library could get better BUT IT CAN: when you walk into the library to pick up the batch of cards for your students, & the librarian says “some of these kids had old fines…we, uh, took the liberty of waiving em.”

This was really alarming until I clicked thru and saw this.

I HAVE ARRIVED. I am a PRESTIGIOUS POET now. NOTIFY THE RUTH LILLY FOLKS

Honorable mention goes to this sign outside the canteen. “Service You Deserve” —only between the hours of 7 am and 3 pm.