Just coming out of Twitter retirement in preparation to tell @YouTube to unblock the Jennie Reed News. (Did you know the ONLY WAY to get @youtube to unblock things their robots decide are bad is to ask them on this stupid app?)
Mundane Halloween is back!
Japan does Halloween better than anyone, but best of all is the annual "mundane Halloween" contest sponsored by website @dailyportalz.
The point is to dress up as something super ordinary.
Here are some of my favorites from this year...
@nate_bowling Today in my library, 130 students engaged in thinking, writing, creating, discussing, and reading activities on their own time, because it was fun (also, chips). I helped a crying kid. I laughed. I DIDN’T HAVE TO GRADE AP ESSAYS. (You don’t HAVE to die on a hill, is my point.)
Fiona Apple has a story for you. And it’s incredible. Asked me to share.
She's become an avid, trained Court Watcher. Her observations helped people jailed pretrial file a civil rights lawsuit. Then came the retaliation. Shut off her access to court.
A video story in 8 parts:
explaining the emu drama over the last week like no babe there are two tiktok emu girls. the cool one has the mean emu. the racist one is the one who kept kissing her emu after the rest of her farm birds got bird flu. here's the twist he didn't even have bird flu, it was stress.
the fun part of pet ownership is that every now and then they'll start acting funny and the cure will either be that they need to take a dump or have a $3000 surgery and you just get to guess which one you're dealing with
When we’ve been through childhood trauma, a common coping mechanism is over-explaining.
Here’s what it looks like and how we can find healthier ways to express ourselves...
A THREAD🧵: