The last couple of times have had me wondering if I hallucinated the existence of the Philippines because I apparently don’t know how to spell.

ETA: like I immediately think for a minute it’s still like Guam and not its own thing?

They are also working on teenage girls with the “TERF” thing. Pink fascism and SAHM trade wife propaganda is huge on Pinterest.

They’ve been repeatedly using SpongeBob characters, the Pokemon theme, pretty much any song they like…

Can we just say copyright law doesn’t exist any more for a certain class of people?

I relate pretty heavily - weed is the only thing I’ve found after years of therapy etc that turns my brain off and lets me enjoy things. It’s just so goddamned nice to have the option to enjoy food and music and just being.

I do edibles mostly - it helps with the cost and stink factors. It helped in ruining my marriage but it was doomed anyway.

Fred Rogers is the bar I try and constantly fall short on.

The idea of “vices” there is really interesting to me. What about weed and video games is “bad,” other than that they’re pleasurable?

I have the kind of mental illness where I spent 20 years feeling genuinely bad for stealing a stamp in first grade, but I can’t really see me getting stoned as a “bad” thing.

The Science ACT kicked your ass, didn’t it?

My divorce.

He had asked me to quit my job to focus on supporting him in his career after he graduated college. Months where my life was cleaning up after him, making him breakfast, etc…

It really turned into a cult thing. My entire world was him, and then he tossed me out. Financially ruined, no support from family.

But I’m finally on the way up I think.

I had a friendship with very similar relationship dynamics to that between the protagonist and Crake, and it helped me understand it. I also think about the Snowman a lot in the context of being a teacher in a world that is dying.

Alias Grace is slept on, but Oryx and Crake fucked me up and changed my life.

Poutine is one of those foods that could be used as an argument for a benevolent creator deity.

I should put together a spreadsheet, but really just through a kinda memory palace thing. Same way I track my place in books.

I like the idea that Jesus is a trans man myself. No Y chromosome.

That idea comes from James Ussher, an Irish religious leader, based on his interpretation of the biblical genealogies.

Sure, let’s just “unschool” all the children. As adults, we are never expected to pay attention to things we don’t find interesting or do things we don’t want to do, so that’s not a skill we need to teach children.

Is Rattigan “conventionally attractive” by furry standards? I’m not a furry so I don’t really get what they are into.

Ah, so you work with ADULTS who PAY YOU MONEY. Not the same as K12 baby girl.

Again, go substitute. I am sure that there are tons of openings near you.

Your lack of critical thinking skills and ability to comprehend what you read might hamper you, but it would help you realize that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

Maybe I should come to your workplace and tell you how things work.

When children are being faced with algorithms designed by adults to literally addict them. Lootboxes, short form video content, slop… it’s tailor made to be irresistible to adults - why wouldn’t we expect it to be less so for children?

It does not matter how engaging your lessons are, there are children who will always choose the infinite dopamine machine over anything else when given the option. I’ve had lessons where students have thrown things off buildings, blown shit up for them, where we’ve launched rockets they designed…. and had kids fucking around on their phone.

When I was in college, I was in a program where they took my phone at all times except night for about two weeks and I survived.

I do not understand why everyone thinks they know how to do a teachers job. There’s a reason I got a degree. There’s a reason I studied child psychology as part of my program. Children are not tiny adults.

I am still absolutely fucking furious that you suggest that I hate my job or hate my students. I fucking love teaching and my students. This job is absolutely brutal and difficult and requires me to pay my own money for supplies and work outside my contract hours while paying me so little that I have two part time jobs alongside it. I have pour my heart and soul into this job, and what matters to me is what helps me help these children learn.

And what helps these children learn is not being constantly in proximity to something designed to hook you to an endless stream of short term dopamine bursts.

How about this? Since you are the expert on teaching, why don’t you go sub and show everyone how it’s done?