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Ann Pham, MSEd
@soulandskin.bsky.social
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Educator, writer, semi-professional dilettante
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Early Antifa, not predicting the unprecedented times of today.
Still from a movie on a TV in the show Taken (2017). The WWII pilot on the right tells the pilot on the left, 'There have never been any people in history who wouldn't be free of a dictator if they could.' Still from a movie on a TV in the show Taken (2017). The WWII pilot on the right tells the pilot on the left, 'There have never been any people in history who wouldn't be free of a dictator if they could.'
October 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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October 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Happy Petrov Day to those who celebrate!
Today in History - September 26: Officer reprimanded for preventing the end of the world. Stanislav Petrov was the Russian officer who prevented a nuclear strike. A Soviet duty officer's caution saved the world from nuclear armageddon on September 26, 1983.
September 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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These kinds of sessions are my favorite.
My college student, who's taking econ this semester, was in tears at the end of our session because she was dreading going to her miserable job afterward. I really wanted her to take away two things from the ensuing conversation we had: - As her supply of suffering grows, the institutions of capitalism will find ways to pay her less and less in real wages. - She can always choose to say no. Below the text is a graph of unionism and inequality between 1917 and 2018. Inequality starts night, and unionism starts low. The lines approach each other in the 1940s and intersect in the 50s. After 1980, the slope for inequality rises sharply, and the slope for unionism declines sharply.
September 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Maybe the issue isn't *that* women are angry but the things they're angry *about*. Learn to recognize distractions from and distortions of main ideas so we can solve the real problems. #satstrategies
“It took me too long to realize that the people most inclined to say 'You sound angry' are the same people who uniformly don’t care to ask 'Why?' They’re interested in silence, not dialogue. This response to women expressing anger happens on larger and larger scales: in schools, places of worship, the workplace, and politics. A society that does not respect women’s anger is one that does not respect women—not as human beings, thinkers, knowers, active participants, or citizens.” ― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
August 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Quite a lot of his paintings are of scarves and umbrellas, but I love the mood and feel of Théberge's art.

'Confidence' by Claude Théberge
A bold, colorful painting of a woman in a purple coat and yellow scarf embracing a man in a magenta coat and green scarf. The woman is holding a magenta umbrella with some raindrops on its edges, and the scarves are billowing.
July 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Yes! True equality might require that *no one* has any power over another or greater than another's.
'The Human Contradiction held them. Intelligence at the service of hierarchical behavior. They were not free.' - Octavia E Butler. Background looks like a rocky inlet with sea mist blurring some mountains.
July 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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On the one hand, clearly LinkedIn doesn't know *everything* about me, and I'm okay with that. On the other hand, *no one* should be getting Vivek Ramaswamy as a recommended connection.

@linkedin.com
July 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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A gentle reminder:

No one has the right to wrongly imprison you or force you to leave your country.
An infographic of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948 and based on a draft by Eleanor Roosevelt.
July 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Capitalism.
A decision tree. At the top, it asks, 'Is it fun?' YES points to 'Can we weaponize it?' NO points to 'Is it a weapon?' Under 'Can we weaponize it?', YES points to 'WEAPONIZE IT!' and NO points to 'SELL IT!' Under 'Is it a weapon?', YES points to 'USE IT!' and NO points to 'Can we weaponize it?' Under that question, YES points to 'WEAPONIZE IT' and NO points to 'SELL IT!'
July 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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One more time for those in the back:
July 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Dumptruck and his minions inside Darvaza flaming hellmouth. Pretty sure they'll all fit.
July 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Every day is Pride Day!
June 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Hey!
June 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Michael Douglas in Falling Down, with the quote, 'I'm the bad guy? How'd that happen?'
June 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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I guess not a terrible day here.
Chocolate moose track ice cream in a dipped waffle cone with sprinkles. A skateboard with blue griptape with stylized treble clef in orange griptape.
June 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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I get that some students will inevitably go to AI, but I would really miss the rapport and interpersonal connections I form with my students. I hope they would, too.
June 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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I have a couple of suggestions for places they could be relocated to:

Nauru or that flaming hell mouth in Russia.
June 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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I understand why the SAT moved to shorter passages on the digital version, but I think students miss out not having longer reading passages. The information they interact with in the world should not come only in sound bites. Here, John Hossack argues against the Fugitive Slave Act. (Oct 2020 SAT)
Historical/persuasive reading passage from the October 2020 SAT wherein John Hossack argues that he should not be sentenced for violating the Fugitive Slave Act because it runs counter to the values professed in the Constitution.
June 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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This was my sign yesterday.
June 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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June 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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It was Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis series that persuaded me to see that hierarchy and power structures will be the downfall of humanity.
June 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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P1: MLK Jr says nonviolent decolonization allows a newly independent nation can stay on good terms with its former oppressor. P2: Frantz Fanon argues that decolonization dismantles not only the colonized people's internalized shame but also the colonizers’ illusion of moral rightness.
SAT paired reading passages: MLK Jr vs Frantz Fanon
June 9, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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You have the right not to be killed - not even by a policeman or an oligarch... or a J6 kidnapper.
June 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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June 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM