Libraries are an investment. Not an expense

Accidentally coined the phrase, "Even a gas lit lamp provides illumination," and I think it says a lot about the world at the moment.

*sigh*

Anyway, just create. Write shit, draw shit, build whatever you want, that's the important part.

There's no be-all end-all formula for the Perfect Work.

Just be YOU. No one can ever create what YOU create b/c it's you making it, and you are the only you.

Petition to name a post in @bsky.app a "Flutter?"

"The simple narrative taught in every history class
Is demonstrably false and pedagogically classist
Don't you know the world is built with blood?
And genocide and exploitation
The global network of capital essentially functions
To separate the worker from the means of production."

-Bo Burnham

Showed a movie in class today. Four out of five students were on their phones the whole time. In ten years of teaching, I have never seen tech addiction like this. We need more serious conversations about technology's effects on our children, especially where school is involved.

A friendly reminder: we all die at the end of this.

So...

Take a deep breath. Relax. Laugh at a fart joke.

Anyone who wants to be a diplomat should first be required to raise a toddler. Nothing will prepare someone to negotiate peace in the Middle East like leaving the house in the morning (or bath time).

I have so many pent up, useless thoughts since I was banned from that other app for accidentally dead naming them.

Imagine this post is inspiring without my sounding like a melodramatic teenager.