Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 8hat turbulent times like these it's important to remember the Royals have still won a World Series more recently than the Yankees 120
Reposted by Ryan ⚾️🌪️NPR @npr.org · 15hA 7-year-old girl was injured riding her new bike. A stranger came to her rescue and gifted her an origami crane with a hidden message she would only discover years later. n.pr/4ycsKINn.prA childhood bike crash led to a stranger's gift — and a hidden messageA 7-year-old girl was injured riding her new bike. A stranger came to her rescue and gifted her an origami crane with a hidden message she would only discover years later. 419028
Reposted by Ryan ⚾️🌪️Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 22hUChicago, like any other college, gets vastly more women applicants than men. And yet, its undergrad student body is disproportionately male. chicagomaroon.com/53804/viewpo...chicagomaroon.comCreating a Manosphere at the University of ChicagoWhy does the University of Chicago reject so many women? 412144
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 07/10/2026it's never possible to cheer for atlanta the way they keep panning to the chop 000
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 07/10/202611 out of 29 done as of today. I both do and don't want one more request, for reasons of symmetry. 120
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026impossible to convey how cool this was in real time 080
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This was what I came up with re: the question of the Tralfamadorians! docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comSocratic Seminar // Asked and Answered // Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, Chapters 1-2, The TralfamadoriansSocratic Seminar: Kurt Vonnegut Name: “Asked and Answered” This is a question-asking-and-answering seminar. The goal is to dialogue with the text, and with fellow scholars, about a complex passage an... 000
Reposted by Ryan ⚾️🌪️Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) @peeweebigadventure.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I don't have to see it, Dottie. I lived it. 0176
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026they should do a Bark at the Park during the playoffs 100
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Turned on KEXP only to hear one of my top 5 all time favorite songs. 110
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no one else did.” I think the first time I read this line in Things Fall Apart I immediately committed it to memory. I think it about an unhealthy amount in teaching. 110
Reposted by Ryan ⚾️🌪️Big Wonderful Wyoming @wydot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Wind River Lake, 10/5/2026, 9:06:44 AM 061
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If I could just plan the block period today, I would fix my whole life 000
Reposted by Ryan ⚾️🌪️ceej @ceej.online · 03/10/2026ME: So that’s the full list, basically. If you get started now you can prevent millions of deaths and achieve world peace by 2015. EIGHT YEAR OLD ME: Got it. For sure. And just confirming— ME: Yes. In the future you can watch cartoons any time of day. EIGHT YEAR OLD ME: (raising the roof) Cowabunga! 541139
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Immediate all timer reaction image in today’s @cashbrowns.bsky.social Nancy 040
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My Crossplay tiles right now are lined up like one of those “Pass It On” billboards 110
Reposted by Ryan ⚾️🌪️Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Well. That was a five star movie. 1122
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This scene in Gun Crazy in particular was gobsmacking to me the first time I saw it. “Wow I have never seen this in a noir before, good Lord!” I love Peggy Cummins’ acting in this scene, too. So natural. (I think? I read or heard somewhere the conversation in the cat was also largely improvised?) 360
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I have had my fill of this cutesy liberal bullshit lately, I have to say. Retire this forever 120
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A student told my colleague she feels like she can’t ever be late to first period because she likes my enthusiasm too much 😂 I have made it. My kids are a gift this year 030
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Test results in my life I’m proud of: - getting a 3 on AP Calc AB in high school, which successfully got me out of math for the rest of my life - running 1.53 miles today in my own makeshift Cooper Test on my 43rd birthday 220
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Every teacher I encounter: Wow I’m completely overwhelmed this year, I can’t remotely find the time to do all the things I’ve determined are necessary, and that you have hired me to perform Admin: hm better not look into it 👍 🙌 🌊 040
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026tired: there should be a quiet car on the metro wired: there should be a teacher’s lounge car on the metro inspired: I should be paid to ride on the same metro car as kids 010
Reposted by Ryan ⚾️🌪️amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 30/09/2026remember to block @m-tracey.bsky.social and move on. there is nothing you can say to him that will be crueler than his lonely little life 20635115
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026For my 💰 it’s less a literacy and more a noise/attention crisis. Just relentlessly bombarded all day long with five second algorithmic shiny objects. Reading becomes difficult because it requires sustained attention. There are actual culprits in this scheme, corporations feeding us this garbage… 141
Reposted by Ryan ⚾️🌪️Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable. 393752600
Reposted by Ryan ⚾️🌪️Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do 4435143
Reposted by Ryan ⚾️🌪️regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026HELL YEAH GET EM 201504363
Reposted by Ryan ⚾️🌪️Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 653023990
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026An essay I would love to read: yes we have a reading crisis, but not from a sad bastard ‘the world is fucked’ angle but instead a ‘let’s roll up our sleeves and fix this’ angle 020
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My seventh period this year has the vibe of Welcome Back Kotter 110
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hypothesis: Teaching multilingual learners in English courses should not involve taking great texts and simplifying them into plainer language. Multilingual learners deserve great texts prepared by great writers and not edited by non-writers. If finding the texts is time consuming, it should be. 120
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Thought it might be fun to keep a thread of stuff I have written on the back of my hand at the end of a school day. Today it’s: - flu - 1311 - 1308 - SpongeBob - July 9 120
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I don't believe in saying no to recommendation letters, but, I'm going to have to force myself to say no to editing college essays. I simply cannot feasibly do it, which is bad because our district cut composition assistants. 150
Reposted by Ryan ⚾️🌪️UFO Sighting Bot @ufoskies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A brilliant, slow moving light, sped up and disappeared! 051
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 27/09/2026[do not] love to read districtwide emails clearly developed with AI. 000
Reposted by Ryan ⚾️🌪️Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.socialsammatey.substack.comHappy Stanislav Petrov DayTake five minutes to not destroy civilization 252123938
Reposted by Ryan ⚾️🌪️Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843441194
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Once, ages and ages ago, I saw a stray tweet of someone complaining about a teacher grading in public, at a coffee shop, as if this were unprofessional. This tweet took up permanent residence in my brain. It’s like the crotchety neighbor to all my normal, sane thoughts, and it’s never moving. 250
Reposted by Ryan ⚾️🌪️pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Me: I voted for Donald Trump because I had him confused with that other guy. Donald Duck. NYT reporter: Are you sure you want me to print that next to your real name and a drawing of you? Me: Yes. 67105321640
Reposted by Ryan ⚾️🌪️Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedlemonde.frAmnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedIn a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States. 390198446369
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Watching these videos of ICE protests in places like Dodge City and Liberal, KS, and man, if the opposition party doesn’t seize this moment to abolish ICE, they just don’t want it done. 140
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think people with power appreciate the 🤝 of A) people who can project intelligence and B) abject sycophancy 021
Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“Nirvana’s Nevermind at 35”static.klipy.comMatt Damon: Ageing TransformationAlt: Matt Damon: Ageing Transformation 030
