Will Slattery
@wjaslattery
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Joined November 2011
An Israeli sniper from Chicago, after killing a 19-year-old and then shooting his brother for trying to retrieve the body: "What was so important about that corpse?” Those were 2 of the 4 members of the same family killed by Israeli snipers on a single day in Gaza, Nov 2023.
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Ma’am we tried to save your dog from the fire but your house had too many puzzle elements
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every day a new horror
insufficient friction seems easily solvable: have an application fee + security deposit eg $30 to apply, $25 refunded upon rejection why don't companies do this? payment systems have *too* much friction?
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at the end of each year at the school I teach at we do “project week”, where teachers run a skill-or-activity-based group project to close out the year; mine was a cooking class and here’s a bunch of stuff the high schoolers made
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losing my CDL because my essay on homoeroticism in whitman is too shallow and derivative
WHITE HOUSE: TRUMP WILL SIGN ORDER ON ENGLISH LITERARY TESTS FOR TRUCKERS IN U.S.
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This week is Hater's Week in my Intro to CNF class, and I'm teaching, along with Sei Shōnagon (of course!), Ben Metcalf's great tirade, "American Heartworm" from @thebafflermag, which you should read if you haven't: https://t.co/oeHf4r631O
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The Ministry of Health in Gaza has just published a 649-page document with the the name, age, gender, ID number of every Palestinian killed in Gaza from October 7 to August 31 that it has info for (over 34k out of 40k). The 1st 14 pages the age is listed as 0 (under 1 year old)
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Shakespeare between 1604-1606. Nothing can compete with this.
define “locked in”
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student diagram of the day: thought processes of Orestes, Elektra, and Klytaimestra as circuits
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student diagram of the day: Elektra’s response to the false news of Orestes’ death in Sophocles’ funeral urn sequence as an “emothermic”{exothermic} reaction
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student diagram of the day: “RIP Hamlet & Electra, they would have loved MCR”
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grateful for all the Tucson teachers, organizers, and families who came out this Labor Day morning to support our union’s fight for better teacher pay & transparent pay scales at BTN
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