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One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
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"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
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POV: you are two mini muffins in a breakfast buffet and I am nearby
The zoomers can’t comprehend how big this pose was in the early 2000s
March 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
POV: you are two mini muffins in a breakfast buffet and I am nearby
I knew this was coming, but this is just so f*ing depressing.
Why Some Schools Are Rethinking ‘College for All’ (Gift Article)
The idea that every student should aim for a four-year college motivated a bipartisan movement for decades. Now even enthusiastic promoters of the idea are reconsidering it.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I knew this was coming, but this is just so f*ing depressing.
This reality is not sufficiently accounted for in the postsec access/success space.
How many of the people pushing trade school have ever worked a physical job, let alone worked one after age 40?
Bodies can only tolerate so much driving road graders, climbing ladders, or contorting under sinks. Often they wear out long before there's enough money to retire. Then what? Pop pills?
Bodies can only tolerate so much driving road graders, climbing ladders, or contorting under sinks. Often they wear out long before there's enough money to retire. Then what? Pop pills?
November 26, 2024 at 1:25 PM
This reality is not sufficiently accounted for in the postsec access/success space.
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,679,317!
September 19, 2024 at 3:44 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,679,317!
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"Ai is coming for your jobs". I'd like to see ai take a southwest flight with 3 layovers to open for hoobastank at a county fair
August 13, 2024 at 11:05 PM
"Ai is coming for your jobs". I'd like to see ai take a southwest flight with 3 layovers to open for hoobastank at a county fair
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please sign my petition to post the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition on the wall of every Louisiana classroom
June 21, 2024 at 12:52 AM
please sign my petition to post the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition on the wall of every Louisiana classroom
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Mark Entertainment Smith
February 9, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Mark Entertainment Smith
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About to get some answers.
February 3, 2024 at 1:59 PM
About to get some answers.
“Consider shifting away from liberal arts programs to programs that are more career specific, particularly if the institution serves a large number of low-income students.”
If the liberal arts have no value, why reserve them only for high-income students? The motives are so transparent.
If the liberal arts have no value, why reserve them only for high-income students? The motives are so transparent.
UW System president privately suggested chancellors ‘shift away’ from liberal arts programs
In an email to chancellors of UW campuses, UW System President Jay Rothman privately suggested schools “shift away” from liberal arts programs while making large, one-time budget cuts.
www.dailycardinal.com
November 30, 2023 at 2:33 AM
“Consider shifting away from liberal arts programs to programs that are more career specific, particularly if the institution serves a large number of low-income students.”
If the liberal arts have no value, why reserve them only for high-income students? The motives are so transparent.
If the liberal arts have no value, why reserve them only for high-income students? The motives are so transparent.