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well now I am not doing it
Joined October 2012
“Education is for the student’s benefit, not for the benefit of their future employer, and that students go to school not merely to acquire skills but to develop an entire social and intellectual life: to have something good and to have it forever” @dwaldenwrites
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One of my 7th grade students asked who my favorite band is and came back to school the next day with this! @blink182 We’re keeping punk alive in English class 🫡 (and kids are making friendship bracelets again!!)
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Dating is hard for me bc if I feel like I'm smarter than you I start subconsciously expecting you to dance for me and if I feel like you're smarter than me I turn you into my father
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something that really confused me as a kid was the fact that there’s a dragon in a book named eragon and then a giant spider in harry potter named aragog and a hot guy in lord of the rings named aragorn
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“you think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. it was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
A common assumption is that throughout history, people have experienced the same basic range of emotions. A radical field of history now challenges this assumption, Gal Beckerman reports. https://t.co/JU7kzzJXJ5 People tend to imagine that other people “have the exact same set
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Being in your 30s is wild because every woman you know is becoming the most beautiful version of themselves meanwhile every guy you know is losing cognitive function at a rapid rate
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"An empty gnaw behind my too-soft ribs / Feels safer than that plate of hash browns / And the casual indifference of one man / More familiar than the love of another." 'I Call It Sabotage' Poetry by @k_spence_
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Issue 19: https://t.co/gk2QLcaL0S FICTION: Aaron Barreras NONFICTION: Pearl Bogdan POETRY: Alec Matthew, @k_spence_ , @CamelliaDarwish , Hailie Cochran
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I wrote a poem, people liked it (??), people published it, people paid me for it (???), and I got an actual piece of fan mail from it! An unspeakable gift that hasn’t stopped giving. Thank you for making me a published poet @TheBloodPudding 🖤 https://t.co/ebWgWKwjdW
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Me, between sobs on Christmas Day: “iT sAyS mY nAmE PaNtS knOwS mY nAAaAaaMe” @pants, your art sings volumes to my soul, and this gift from my brother made the whole year. Here’s to another full of diarrhea, rats, dairy, plants, and buttcheeks. Thank you.
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LMAOOO y’all I bought my ex courtside Jazz tix, booked us a nice hotel, and purchased all of his favorite snacks for the trip This dude not only used the ol “your present comes later”, but he cancelled ON THE DAY OF THE GAME I’ve said it before but it bears repeating: men.
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