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I teach history sometimes

[trytoholdmedown]

Cannot

The people in this city are all for trump and I can’t stop crying in private today.

I feel so helpless.

FUCK

Fuck donald trump. Fuck mitch mcconnell. Fuck bill barr. Fuck stephen miller. Fuck lindsay graham. Fuck rudy guilliani. I yearn for the day when my phone notifies me that they have died.

I want to hit someone. I want to strike them down. I have never felt hatred like this. It BURNS. It burns my chest. It burns my stomach. It burns my heart. I’m not even affected in any major way with this election. I’m white, approaching middle age, with resources I can draw on. Other people have so fucking much to overcome just to come to the port of entry.

I have always taught my students empathy and sometimes put them in situations that forced it. The past 5 years, it’s been rejected with vitrol and fox news talking points. Coming from 11 year olds!

I’ve asked them afterward, “it sucks to be someone else, doesn’t it? To be the immigrant. To be the person of color. To be the ‘them’? So what are you going to to about it?”

The answers I have gotten since 2016 have been cruel and frightening.

[trytoholdmedown]

I’m not okay.

None of this is okay.

I don’t see a way out. I don’t see this improving. It will just get worse. I don’t want to be here anymore.

I’m the thing that holds people back from being happy.

[rockhardgeologist]

A prodigy

[sindri42]

You missed the best part. They weren’t even their sheep. This good pupper gathered up a bunch of random sheep it found somewhere on the countryside and brought them home for its human.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

*whispers* the countryside is full of free sheep

[theleafriday]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[amuseoffyre]

My money says that’s what plesiosaurs were like: fast underwater, extra padding for buoyancy, long neck. Look at their skeletons!

It’s just like this:

They’re basically large horizontal penguins with a long tail and spiky teeth.

[autumngracy]

OH SHIT THEY PENGUINS!!

[v0idbird]

OH SHIT PLESIOSAUR PENGUIN!!!!!!!!!

[uncle-beanbag]

This is the inherant problem with most reconstructions. It’s just unknown how much fat the animals really had.

[dankmemeuniversity]

[klinger4yossarian-deactivated20]

I haven't met my OTS (one true sandwich) yet : /

[trytoholdmedown]

Steak sandwich at the Asylum restaurant in Jerome, AZ

[teachermisery]

Raise your hand if this could be about YOUR school! 🙋‍♀️ https://www.instagram.com/p/CDz994PHus4/?igshid=1841dsueqrg3n

[100493503004422]

do u guys understand how creepy the pledge of allegiance is though like every day when ur a kid everybody just chants how great america is every morning it’s creepy

[holmes-sweet-holmes-deactivated]

You do that every morning???

[jolivet-deactivated20190306]

EVERY MORNING.

[youblowuponesun]

wait

wait

is this a real thing i thought that was just in the simpsons

[jolivet-deactivated20190306]

no son

[you-are-talking-about-this-deac]

Wait, other countries don’t do this.

[sleepybiflinge]

*whispers* Not even Russia

[bemusedlybespectacled]

I remember when my dad had a conversation with me

because I asked him what the Austrian pledge of allegiance was (because he’s from Austria)

and he said “we don’t have a pledge of allegiance”

and I said “why not?”

“honey, think about what training your children to mindlessly pledge to a flag, without really knowing what they’re talking about, sounds like to Austrians”

“oh. hitler.”

“exactly”

[foxanddanapetrie]

RE FUCKING TWEET

[dailypattondoodles]

You don’t realize just how creepy it is until you are the only one not doing it

[jules-morales]

And both the school and other students will relentless try to bully you back into doing it if you stop

[ginger-snap-talkin-nonsense]

Teachers too

[thestaplesofteaching]

This is so true, and also why I do not say the pledge each morning. Many of my homeroom students don’t say it either.

[trytoholdmedown]

I make up alternate lyrics to the chant

[why-d0-i-exist]

[chilewithcarnage]

[kaity--did]

If you are a woman has had a doctor completely ignore their debilitating symptoms for the excuse that you're just fat or menstruating clap your hands

👏👏

[trytoholdmedown]

CLAP FUCKIN CLAP

[utwo]

Life along the C O A S T

Campbell River - British Columbia

© T. Parker

[trytoholdmedown]

My husband’s home town wowsers

[mysharona1987]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[thestaplesofteaching]

Reminds me of my favorite rejected New Yorker cartoon

[thebestoftumbling]

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

If you guys have ADD/ADHD, autism, OCD, or something else that affects your ability to concentrate, I highly recommend the chrome extension Mercury Reader. You just open whatever link you're using, then click on the MR icon (it should look like a rocket) and it'll simplify the page so that it's in a focus-friendly layout. Instead of having random pictures and word boxes all over the screen, it'll be in a vertical format with nothing to distract you so you can focus on what's important. You can also adjust the text size (small, medium, large), font (serif, sans), and theme (light, dark). And the best part is, it's completely free! It's honestly one of the best things I've ever downloaded.

This is an article without the extension. See that messy format, and how the actual article content only takes up a fraction of the page? It's no wonder it took me 7 hours to write that paper.

The same article, this time with Mercury. The user-friendly settings are at the top, and the rest of the article is formatted vertically down the middle with no free-roaming pictures or words. How nice.

[mxc-vstheworld]

Love this extension! Especially for my students with distraction issues

[ampervadasz]

Unmute !

[menomica]

[anxietyproblem]

[noxsanguius-deactivated20250519]

Due to personal reasons,

It is now Halloween

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