Tam not Lin

vestigial degrees in Middle English. inept at birding in three different continents. accidental historical researcher. read too late last night. she/her

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@Thee_Uncool @CoordNest @luxemiaa Exactly what I was thinking. Bet they’re not grabbing fistfuls of cake with both hands…

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@RtrnSanity Yeah no—politicians’ kids should be out of bounds for criticism until they’re adults. I hated my scratchy white tights and Mary Jane’s and uncomfortable formal dresses when I was little—that was not my poor mother’s fault.

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@TheJacobTurner My kid loved every sport he got to try. One of those high-energy kids. His sport got him acceptance to a lot of highly-selective academic schools, and his final pick was based on his ambitions to coach one day. Going pro is not the only goal.

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@itsWillGram @dieworkwear In the case of my field (history), the AI answers are usually bad, poorly-sourced or just plain wrong.

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@ClayHorshimer13 @GabbyGabby222 @teachthemx3 In my generation, lots of folks who didn’t get their diploma went back and did their GED a few years later when they were ready to actually work. That is still an option rather than reducing the high school diploma to a meaningless rubber stamp.

[Jon Baskin @BaskinJon]

"I do not think anyone over the age of 23, even if you are a teacher, graduate student, or professor, understands the extent to which AI usage affects every appendage of the university system." https://t.co/ovnW4lQAQZ

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@svjoonX @deaflibertarian Yep. If you’re dropping your child off at 7.30 am and picking them up at 6.30, you have time for a hasty dinner and bedtime and that’s it. Weekends are crammed with grocery shopping and all the chores you couldn’t get done during the week.

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@hulsey_ryan @lawdog1911 @MissesDread In our town, they concreted the public pool in after the local Black families went to court in 1965 to require them to integrate it. They won in ‘66, so it was concreted in.

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@Ange8D @JoshPhillipsPhD Babysitting, apparently. Workers gotta work.

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Rule of thumb for A.A. Milne ‘quotes’: if it doesn’t sound like an emotionally-repressed and sardonic Englishman from the 1920s wrote it, it wasn’t him. If it’s cutesy and twee, it’s almost always from an American made-for-TV movie.

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” – A. A. Milne

As we mark the 100th anniversary of the beloved Winnie-the-Pooh stories, The Queen has presented a very special gift to the New York Public Library, reuniting baby Roo with his friends from the 100 Acre Wood.

The Library is home to the original collection of toys owned by Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne, which inspired the characters in the beloved Winnie-the-Pooh series. The collection is missing Roo, the baby kangaroo who was lost in an orchard in the 1930s.

The new addition of Roo was created by Shropshire-based company Merrythought, who also created the original toys.

👀 Watch Roo’s great adventure travelling from Buckingham Palace onboard Their Majesties’ flight to his new home in New York.

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” – A. A. Milne

As we mark the 100th anniversary of the beloved Winnie-the-Pooh stories, The Queen has presented a very special gift to the New York Public Library, reuniting baby Roo with his friends from the 100 Acre Wood.

The Library is home to the original collection of toys owned by Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne, which inspired the characters in the beloved Winnie-the-Pooh series. The collection is missing Roo, the baby kangaroo who was lost in an orchard in the 1930s.

The new addition of Roo was created by Shropshire-based company Merrythought, who also created the original toys.

👀 Watch Roo’s great adventure travelling from Buckingham Palace onboard Their Majesties’ flight to his new home in New York.

[Tam not Lin @WriteTam]

@FreddieForThis @JosieStratman Yeah, there’s no way to return it to one of these nations without kicking off a massive diplomatic furore.

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@RoyalFamily This is not an A.A. Milne quote. It’s from a much later Disney movie.

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@vast_differ3nce @FixingEducation Every year, flu, strep, some vomiting bug and now COVID whip around my kids’ schools. It’s not that hard to hit 10-20 days off if you keep your kid out for 24 hours after a fever or vomiting episode. So tired of contagious kids going in.

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@greg_ashman Studies show that if you put an advanced kid, two average kids, and a kid below class standards in a group together, the latter three will perform better. I’m convinced that’s because the gifted kids wind up doing 90% of the work to the detriment of their own learning.

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@0Beanie05923291 let’s hear it for those Florida online MEd degrees

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@coach_kevin_m My son got picked out for an elite soccer travel team. Then I visited the UK where I watched a bunch of scrawny Scouse kids kicking around a ball on the verge of a motorway, and realized they had far superior ball control and skills than any of the ‘elite’ US kids I’d seen.

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@upstatefederlst The little old baseball field within walking distance of us has been turned into pickleball courts for Boomers and Gen X.

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@Messinadress1 Was homeschooled competently (by two people with college degrees, one of whom was a teacher). I can confirm that I knew kids who weren’t homeschooled well enough to get them close to the GED level. What happened to them was educational neglect. As adults, they struggle.