Brian Tenney

High school English teacher. Sometime theatre person. Drinker of coffee. Purveyor of snark. Views my own. He/him

[Brian Tenney @NHSTenney]

I can't replace the green light with an actual photo of me.

If you don't understand why, you have to go read Gatsby again.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I need everyone who uses AI to generate art & text to notice what Vince Gilligan says here. You're surrendering your brain, your creativity, the divine spark within you to a machine. Someday you'll wake up and find you're no longer capable of writing or thinking. And for what?

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

There's something very sinister about a world where everything is entertainment. Kids no longer encounter works like Beowulf or Canterbury Tales in popular culture because it might bore them - and increasingly they don't encounter them in school for the same reason.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

In Fahrenheit 451, the abolition of reading began with tech companies simplifying books into summaries that you could read in five minutes. Because people no longer engaged with the texts, they forgot how to think. Then came the book-burnings.

[Jacob Rubashkin @JacobRubashkin]

The existence of Chicago Pope implies the existence of MLA Pope and APA Pope

[adam @resurrecti0ns]

so many people (not just students) have this idea that a university is somehow trying to exploit or trick or punish you when it assigns you work. they're trying to help you! they can't teach you anything if you refuse to do any work!

[Brian Tenney @NHSTenney]

English is really not a serious language

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

‘Sound’ (loud sound), ‘sound’ (safe and sound), and ‘sound’ (water) are not related.

‘Sound’ (loud) comes from Latin ‘sonus.’

‘Sound’ (safe and) comes from Old English ‘gesund,’ meaning "healthy."

‘Sound’ (water) comes from Old Norse ‘sund,’ meaning “strait."

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

medal = 🥇

metal = 🤘🎸

meddle = 😈

mettle = 💪

[Newtown High School @NHS_TWEETS]

Join Newtown High School students as they bring Hello, Dolly! to the stage next week (March 13-15 7pm, March 15 & 16 2pm).

Get your tickets today at https://t.co/Wa0HwCEjUs or at the door
$20 general admission
$15 students/seniors

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

the same folks who spent the last twenty years saying “what is the point of books and art” are now saying “here’s a machine that makes bad books and art” and frankly I don’t feel we’re under any obligation to take them seriously.

[Brian Tenney @NHSTenney]

*slowly reaches for copy of Gatsby*

[Encyclopaedia Britannica @Britannica]

Sweet timeline cleanse:

Daisy is a nickname for Margaret because “marguerite” is the French word for the oxeye daisy.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

pole = 💈

poll = 🗳️

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

Top 2024 Halloween costume ys Gen A.I. Pretende to be yourselfe but wear clothes you wolde nevir wear, saye random nonsense about a "poignant tapestrye of emotions," and make up fake facts about your friendes.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘hallowed.’
https://t.co/0I48L2nkC3

[Newtown High School @NHS_TWEETS]

SALT
NHS’s Literary Magazine is holding our Introductory Meeting on Monday, 9.30.24 at 2:40 in room B236. All are welcome!
Join our editorial staff or consider sending art or writing in any genre to [email protected] to be considered for publication in the Spring 2025.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

ascent =🚀

assent = 👍

accent = Ȁ

[SparkNotes @SparkNotes]

guys will be like "sorry i have a lot on my plate right now" and it's literally just staring at the green light across the bay

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘futile.’
https://t.co/KVzNZzsACs

[Brian Tenney @NHSTenney]

I'm trying to be cool about AI but every time a new article comes out comparing it to a paintbrush I become marginally less cool about AI

https://t.co/BgQ5oVCU52

[Newtown High School @NHS_TWEETS]

On Friday, 31 Newtown High School students competed in Poetry Out Loud, a national poetry recitation competition. The NHS Poetry Out Loud school champion is Victoria Kordik, pictured here with runners up Sadie Baimel and Maddie Roe! https://t.co/tjePnscfUt