barefootwriter, MA
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PhD candidate, Educational Studies. MA, Human Development, Learning, and Culture. gamer, budoka, NOLA girl.
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here are the 8 stages of genocide. tell me, which number is Trump's campaign on now?
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@Utwitily
I still remember/regret the time I asked for a lock on my bedroom door. my parents didn't knock, so I got very sensitive to the change in the sound of the TV when they opened the door and entered my room. I still get on edge sitting with my back to a door.
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@cassesque
a young child at Costco once asked me "are you a boy or a girl?"
"I'm a girl with short hair!"
"and jellybeans!" she said, noticing the bag of Jelly Bellies cradled in my arm.
"yes, and jellybeans!"
it's so simple, even an adult might be able to understand it.
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@powaqa00
@RipperMD41
@animoller
anyway, hating harmless things that young people do is no substitute for a personality.
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@bad_dominicana
as I've said before, "you use the term expat to differentiate yourself as a 'good' immigrant. that's all. it's not about love of countries, or anything else. it's about using language that sets you apart from and, more importantly, above other immigrants."
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reality: you may not be able to make it to the gym twice a week until you start SSRIs. thinking people need to "earn" meds is really fucked up. you are worthy of relief without having to do anything.
You shouldn’t be allowed SSRIs until you’ve tried going to the gym twice a week.
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@powaqa00
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@animoller
there's evidence that filler words help your audience pay attention to and understand what you're saying.
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@anne_theriault
I'm sorry, but why are the people who organized this not asking the parents to vet kids' choices?
time, effort, feasibility, and affordability can all be issues.
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@PriceMargaret
and that capitalism is doing such a good job it should be put in charge of *all the things*!
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@garncarlos
@Julie_C_Hwang
you understood the words though, yeah?
if so, they spelt them well enough.
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@BrandonLBradfor
the number of people who would try to deprive me of eggs and mayonnaise when I thought I had a dairy intolerance. . .
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@solomonmissouri
made me think of this sweet video.
“A Black man with his Black kindergarten class.”
🖤
[Description: he’s moisturizing their faces as they line up for picture day.]
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@jslftm
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@fluoroquinolo13
just like the baby bones, the kitten bones haven't fully calcified, which is why they look so "gappy."
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@1929stockcrash
Jared Leto looks like the kind of guy who starts a weird New Age cult in order to get vulnerable women to sleep with hi. . .
oh, wait, hang on <presses earpiece>. . . I'm, uh, being told I'm not that far off?
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@deborahbrian
@CrichB70
@behindyourback
friendship isn't a consolation prize. friendship *is* the prize. anything else is bonus.
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@VeganJohnW
@yumcoconutmilk
do you think the for-profit medical system sprung fully formed from the head of Zeus?
someone (lots of someones, actually) are enabling this specifically in the US. other developed nations do not structure things in this way.
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@heymrsbond
@wordblerg
in other words, when we momentarily pull the frog out of the slow boil, they realize how hot it was in there all along?
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@losgatosherman2
@choo_ek
then maybe you should ask the pandemic to be intermittent so we can mask intermittently.
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@ProfTags
@GBBranstetter
that was my thought too. that teacher is more likely to be autonomy supportive than controlling.
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@karamcnair
@herosnvrdie69
my father would Sharpie the statement date on his cards and rotate through them so he could use the credit card companies' money for free for as long as possible.
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if you've ever dipped your toe in trying to change things at a university, you quickly realize (and the change management literature affirms) that they are *very* conservative institutions.
And, let's be clear: one reason that right-wing attacks on higher education will continue to be so successful is because universities are, far too often, not courageous places.
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imagine thinking a man born in Bethlehem who adored children and got executed by the state for consistently causing trouble to empire would object to his "birthday" being used this way. they're putting the Christ back in Christmas.
The “Palestinians” in the United States and Western Europe are organizing “protests” to disrupt Christmas this year. Dear Christian friends, how do you feel about that? Do you go to Moslem countries to disrupt their Ramadan?
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@BrandonLBradfor
I knew I had a tweet for this!
qualifying for Mensa is no substitute for having a personality.
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@notcapnamerica
@KamalaHarris
Kamala Harris talking about the president like "I don't know if he understands that goldfish die and never come back if you take them out of water, so let's keep the fishbowl out of his reach" is just priceless.
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@primus_stan
@missfalasteenia
and "stop taking pictures of me." like, ma'am, if you just minded your business, and drank your coffee, this wouldn't be a problem.
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@AlexArrelia
I had a classmate in like 7th or 8th grade, at the turn of the decade, who was on Weight Watchers. checks out.
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@yoozernaym2
@DrStaceyPatton
when people on these apps are like, "yeah, my parents hit me and I turned out fine," I'm always, "yeah, but could you have turned out *better*?"
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@Maladroithe
I am so glad she has some actual adults in her life who are taking adult responsibility and shielding her from this so she can just be a kid again.
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@GregPacknett
@clapifyoulikeme
exactly! the driving your students nuts with an impossible problem and then punishing them for trying to come up with a solution strikes me as particularly sadistic.
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@Sheryl58
@JeremyLMoreland
@AsamiTerajima
@WilliamWoodsU
in a pandemic this is extra embarrassing, because this definitely won't have been the first time this has happened to a student there. who else has gotten screwed over by these draconian policies, but didn't have a platform from which to demand better?
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now I want to know what Ted Cruz thinks the Diet of Worms was.
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@deborahbrian
@CrichB70
@behindyourback
yep. being a humane person means looking out for folks without expecting rewards like relationships. you just take care of people who can't take care of themselves, no strings, and hope someday someone does that for you if and when you need it.
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@CascadiaDeepBay
@AishaMD_
or, and hear me out, not everything needs to turn into a job or a side hustle? folks can just look out for their neighbours without needing it to be a Thing.
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@Wesmanta
@garncarlos
@Julie_C_Hwang
rigid prescriptivism is no substitute for having a personality.
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if Christians wanted more liturgical celebrations, maybe y'all should have never stopped being Catholic instead of appropriating Jewish traditions.
they are *right there*.
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@BeezMcGhee
@pale_ginger35
@pb_and_garlic
@TheBelch86
@McConaughey
someone inquired into this matter!
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@Wesmanta
@garncarlos
@Julie_C_Hwang
1. genre matters: this is a meme-ish thing, not an academic journal article.
2. if you want to strive for good spelling for yourself, go nuts. imposing these standards on everyday others is ableist, classist, etc.
3. the OP didn't write it, so this must be annoying for them.
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I and every other good Catholic kid in New Orleans grew up going to Mardi Gras each year, so all this hand-wringing over children seeing things at Pride is pretty funny to me.
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@Imani_Barbarin
I. . . what options would she or any adult reasonably have to get her out *right now*? because that is what needs to happen. I hope she has someone she trusts -- a teacher, another relative -- who is trying on her behalf.
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@ThugstaNuffin
@rebeccanagle
I don't think the OP was implying it was anything more than a tool that made it easier (to justify). if I use a crowbar to break into your house and steal your shit, the crowbar isn't the "why," but you should probably still take away my crowbar.
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@Kingmaani
@ThisBeLi
@DeterminedSaito
or, and hear me out: we could work to change the parts we don't like.
convincing you that this is inevitable and inescapable is part of the scam, and you've fallen for it.
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@JunkieGeorgia
@bellabee13
so, promises made on his children's behalves that they had nothing to do with.
who says that, if he had a boy, that boy would be into those things either? who says a little girl won't be a tomboy? just stop. you're an adult. act like one.
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@VeritasSiempre
@notcapnamerica
"don't have emotions" says the guy who is shouting at us in all-caps.
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@Nimokaz
@unicornthorn
you know, it's not too late to stop the chain of abuse. if this is how you treat people who express vulnerability, I can only guess what was done to you as a child that you still believe you deserved.
but you're clearly not ok, not by a longshot.
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@FeministAgain
weaponizing my keys is not something I do anymore. but it's something I've definitely done.
the element of surprise matters. you're not brandishing keys to intimidate. you're hiding them so you have a shot at using them.
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@Wesmanta
@garncarlos
@Julie_C_Hwang
4. Everest isn't even the mountain's proper name. you think a mountain that tall had to wait for some English-speaker to come 'round and climb it for the naming rights?
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@Steph56Renee
"I have taught my children to cease emotionally connecting with a fictional character simply because her skin color has changed" is not a good look.
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@joannferg
@WesleyOnKeys
I could jump in here, as a stand-in, because I've had a long-term estrangement, and I bet I know why.
setting aside for a moment the claim to unconditional love, she fully recognizes, were she not your daughter, that you would hate her. you already act against her interests.
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@mattdkerr
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@RafiDAngelo
indeed. having grown up in NOLA, I put hot sauce on everything.
husband: <makes traditional Polish peasant food>
me: <adds a ton of hot sauce>
him: ...
me: it's fusion now.
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@kaileybreanne98
@boymama2x
@pnwmama2
silently judging kids' parents because of the things they can't afford is unbecoming of someone planning to be a teacher, and going to leak out in how you treat your students. you have a lot of work to do before you can be a good teacher to *every* kid in your class.
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@nameshiv
@RGibsongirl
my high school physics teacher and his wife, both vegans and animal rights activists, had a rooster who was driving them nuts with his crowing, so they got him a companion hen. . . who turned out to be another rooster. 😂
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@HamletHologram
@mike_sell
see also the prevalent notion that themes "emerge" from qualitative data.
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@NotABigJerk
cool. just gonna make the kids with continuous glucose monitors wonder whether their sugar is low, I guess?
saw someone say it's ableist to not let teenagers look at their phones in math class and i think it's time to put that word away for a while until we can all reflect on what we've done
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@celestialmami
@karamcnair
@herosnvrdie69
if you charge something early in the billing cycle, the payment doesn't come due for almost a month, so if you pay off your balance, you have used the credit card company's money without paying interest for nearly a month. if your bank account is collecting interest, you profit.
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when people tell you Palestine is a disability justice issue. . .
Like this? Looted canes of the elderly and disabled, held by the pillagers who grin and pose like children on holiday?
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I benefitted greatly from "gifted" education when I was younger. I am now deeply critical of the whole concept, and think all students would benefit from the kind of autonomy and individualized attention I received, not just the kids perceived as having the highest ROI.
I'll share it again.
The creator, lead writer and co-producer of
@AbbottElemABC
@quintabrunson
is from West Philly and attended charter schools her entire education. She reportedly loved it at the time, heaped praise on it. Once upon a time.
Guess money talks.
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@katiedimartin
@weedleeedle
yep. you plagiarized the whole sentence structure and the idea. all you're doing with synonyms is trying not to get caught.
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@Mistake87433616
@Imani_Barbarin
how does one "misread social cues" badly enough to accuse a guy who rescued some kids from a cave a pedophile, without any evidence to that end?
it's embarrassing for you and deeply harmful for autistic folks that you're trying to paint this as "just his autism."
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@HoarseWisperer
@BruceABaldwin2
@pamelacolloff
I'll take 100 babies on a flight over any one inebriated business jerk.
they may both be loud, but the baby is predictable and harmless.
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@TimeIsNotGiven
@AITA_reddit
also, what's wrong with the people around her who aren't staff? sometimes I've kicked myself for not intervening because it's hard to tell what's going on, or hard to wrap your head around what happened until after the fact, but this sounds super unambiguous.
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@filmstvandlife
@do_not_test_me
@jezheywood
a) they didn't ask for advice.
b) "I know the answer to your dislike of meal prep! take a class on meal prep" isn't it even if they did.
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@jessamyn
@cafreiman
also, one of the few places you can use the washroom and just plain sit where it's dry and temperature controlled without buying anything,
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@shan_no_nosays
@vvictorman_uel
and, like, aren't facial expressions an important part of the grammar?
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@BeerBottleBlond
Blues Brothers.
keep Cab Calloway.
Pick a movie.
Keep one actor.
The rest are played by muppets.
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@ElyKreimendahl
one of my fellow cardiac rehabbers described a recent Jewish holiday as "just another of those holidays where they tried to kill us, we won, let's eat."
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@AdamDeeDee
@Utwitily
I suspect there's only one psychologist in this conversation, and it's not you, so maybe cool it, cosplay Freud.
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@pirate_teddy
@Citizen09372364
"is it ethical to leave someone alone who has clearly stated his boundaries through shooting at you?" is a real colonizer question.
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@fiona_webster22
@jslftm
@SONYAlBO
@fluoroquinolo13
I imagine it's because the last bone is so small, it's all cartilage. where are the small round bones of the baby human's wrist between the radius/ulna?
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@TellyourselfIt
at that age, the "heart" is just a pulsing cluster of cells. the heart doesn't really look like an actual heart until 17-20 weeks. note that this is a site for people who *want* to be pregnant, describing the development of the heart.
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@anne_theriault
for someone like you, I presume the inconvenience is more humorous than anything, but, like, 12-year-olds are not always clued in to their family situation or reality as a whole.
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@thewarmvoid
I was telling a childhood story to the teenage boys I trained judo with, and one was like, "this scares me."
whoops.
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@SassyODaisy
@DrZedZha
@Tcvnurse
yes, but they look entirely different from the syringes used for both insulin injections and IV drug use.
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@Joe_Roberts01
@JoshuaPHilll
herding 1.5 million people into Rafah to get all of two hostages is a "highly coordinated rescue"?
you are not a serious person.
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@deonjonesintl
@DijahSB
it's not about "getting even." it's about teaching them their behaviors are unacceptable. the only reason they persist is that folks let them get away with it.
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@JenniferBulman
@Patricia_Ann_E
this is a rude and horrible question that is answered by the original tweet.
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@nevrgiveupeace
@SourceDuMal
boobs don't spring fully formed from our chests when we turn 18. please learn how to cope with girls having gone through puberty without sexualizing them.
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aren't eating disorders often about having some control over something in your life? how is a completely authoritarian environment going to help with that?
A friend who is a resident on an eating disorder treatment unit described forced bedrest, earning the “privilege” to take a 5 min shower/outside time, working up to a 30 min walk, no TV/music with food, no salt/pepper. Forced to stay in bed all day + eat. What are we doing?
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@Schnitzlinator
@AlexWattsBlog
@nytimes
I would, except your logical thought is based on incorrect premises, so your conclusions will also be incorrect.
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@mollyfleck
as I've said before, libraries are the only quiet secular indoor public space in urban areas.
your suggestion would negate that.
what you are looking for is a community center. we have a ton of them where I live (Vancouver, Canada). lobby for that.
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@theashleyray
many many years ago I worked with a guy at McDonald's, a real sweetheart, who had PTSD from childhood sexual abuse and he enjoyed the job because it kept his mind too busy to think about it.
worth keeping in mind that other people love jobs we might hate.
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@katiedimartin
I worked with a lot of international students on academic writing, and the results they got by doing this, or sometimes by passing things through translation a couple times, were often nonsensical, or just plain weird.
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@Ellie1469
@Joe_Roberts01
that doesn't negate that a lot of people *are* stealing formula to feed babies. even theft for resale happens because people can't afford it.
it's not ok to withhold empathy for those who deserve it because the overall situation does not 100% meet your moral standards.
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@KayGardiner
@kashanacauley
for the longest time after we moved to Canada, I needed reassurance from reception that I could just, y'know, leave after a doctor's appointment.
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@docdvr
@AnuheaNihipali
this is a misreading. "She added that more than one in four monkeypox cases in the United States are in New York" is something quite different from what you just said.
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@TymberDalton
@DabiStapIes
@eviejasper
I grew up with Mardi Gras. Pride parades seem wholesome by comparison.
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