Julia Fisher

English teacher, @UVaEnglish PhD, sometime reporter. Bad Millennial. Email me at [email protected].

[Julia Fisher @juliajfisher]

Wrote about what AI, "whole language" reading, and our bad political discourse all have in common https://t.co/zNmhcIWkXu

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

When @juliajfisher’s students learned to read, many schools had moved away from traditional phonics. Instead of sounding out words, the new approach had students rely more on guesswork. She writes about what happens when students start thinking like bots: https://t.co/2UKpMIwda3

[Foul Territory @FoulTerritoryTV]

"It's one of the cooler things I think we've seen in a long time actually in a baseball park because it shows people banding together..."

@Ken_Rosenthal explains the reverse boycott Oakland A's fans are holding tonight and why he supports it. #OAKtogether

#FTLive ▶️ https://t.co/HGpH9jmHUV

[Julia Fisher @juliajfisher]

For the record, no relation.

[Ben Ross @BenRossTweets]

“Fisher sucks”

[Julia Fisher @juliajfisher]

I grew up for the first 14 years of my life in a town whose team had left—feeling deep sympathy and admiration for Oakland tonight. This is pretty special, and they deserve better.

[Ben Ross @BenRossTweets]

This has the energy of a playoff game

[Julia Fisher @juliajfisher]

I finally saw Past Lives but I've been thinking about it for a day and I don't get the SparkNotes Macbeth book placed prominently next to her computer during a Skype call. A flaw in an otherwise excellent movie (the mountains in "Montauk" the other flaw).

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

There is a 100% chance that this graph is a core reason for America's surge of anxiety and depression.

Time spent with other people has plummeted—for every age group, ethnicity, gender, geography, and income level.

https://t.co/trjGX8kYKo

[Julia Fisher @juliajfisher]

@gmail I already did! Is there any chance that could lead to a fix?

[Julia Fisher @juliajfisher]

The new @gmail design is horrible. Why do draft emails at the bottom of the page now have a white background so you can't see them? Can anyone help change that? (I know I can't change the hideous font and rounded edges.)

[Julia Fisher @juliajfisher]

@scriblerian "Mark Twain and Sholem Aleichem," Edward Field

[Julia Fisher @juliajfisher]

Hey Lerners, you know it's a bad sign when other teams' players have no move but to take pity on your fans. You could have taken pity, too.

[Marcus Stroman @STR0]

Is the Soto deal official? Hosmer wave his no trade clause? Crazy to think about the amount of superstars that Washington couldn’t keep over the last 4-5 years! Generational talent they allowed to walk to other teams. Ridiculous! Gotta feel for that fanbase!

[Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann]

By the way, it's probably time for @mlb to take the Washington franchise back from the Lerners and operate it until owners are found willing to spend money to make money.

The Nats were under better ownership as the Expos.

Soto, Turner, Harper, Scherzer, Rondon, etc #Shameful

[Julia Fisher @juliajfisher]

@zachblank It'll just be the Zimmerman bloom jerseys that they for some reason seem to be making. No other options.

[Julia Fisher @juliajfisher]

My favorite players on the Nats are now Lane Thomas and Yadiel Hernandez and can Tyler Clippard please come back soon? (Devastated.)

[Julia Fisher @juliajfisher]

At the ballpark now and just wanna say they should have brought Terrance back for Ryan Zimmerman Day.

[Washington Nationals @Nationals]

Terrance says "Hi" over on Snapchat. Follow us: Nationals 👊

[Julia Fisher @juliajfisher]

Everything here is right. QR code menus are an absolute abomination. The good news is that most of the time when you ask for a real menu they'll happily give it to you. Everyone should do that all the time, to build social pressure.

https://t.co/DksbwyeyLq

[Julia Fisher @juliajfisher]

Just realized that the reason I've only been to one Nats game this year isn't just, as I'd thought, that they've been so dreadfully bad. It's also that my desire to watch AL baseball in an NL ballpark is fairly low.

[Julia Fisher @juliajfisher]

Would be surprising if Bell is still a Nat by the All-Star break.

[Navy Yard Nats @NavyYardNats]

Josh Bell deserves to be an All-Star.

Nationals fans are going to have to work it hard to get him there.

[Julia Fisher @juliajfisher]

We should be yelling this from the rooftops, but what's amazing is that, even granting the fact, it's not clear everyone agrees it's a problem to be much worried about. It's not clear that everyone believes that school and learning are necessary goods. https://t.co/4Hm1qoFvPU

[Julia Fisher @juliajfisher]

Thanks to Gerardo Parra for Baby Shark, for his Nats debut grand slam, for the sunglasses, for clutch hits, for revivifying the 2019 team when they were bad, for the World Series, and also for this, one of the greatest things a baseball player has ever said

[Cut4 @Cut4]

"A baseball for the hockey" is how we will be referring to hockey pucks from now on.

(via elyologp8/IG)