Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 5hI wish we weren't here, but it's a moment and we have to use the moment 061
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 5hto pin it on them in ways there never were before, especially as they're struggling to keep him from dragging them down. The best Susan Collins can do is "I got road salt exempted from the tariffs" for a reason. They have given him everything, voted for everything, confirmed every appointee 141
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 5hThis is a real high risk high reward moment for America in that everything is shit, and everything standing is in terrible danger but the nation did not get to see just how horrible Trump is the first time around because there were other people who stopped him. There's a chance - 141
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 10hI also flip the camera so the screen is pointing at me? Maybe it's my fancy iphone 12 or whatever but probably not 110
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 10hI basically put my phone on its side against the wall, really 100
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026What I like about this video is it shows me hitting like 7 or 8 threes in a row twice but also missing several of the easiest layups along the way which is about right 010
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is almost exactly what I say to my students. I don't have any use for your essays! You have use for your essays! 942363
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It also would have some negative effects! Like anything that is less regulated. But we've reached a point where the regulation has killed the thing but good 050
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026democrats are in love with consultants as well so there's a bipartisan consensus against this happening 150
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It is interesting though, because the same thing is going on everywhere, managerial culture has been about removing as much agency from employees as possible and either taking it themselves or passing it on to consultants and the way out is to trust people to do their jobs but 1111
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It's all out in the open now where outside experts think they can remove those pesky teachers from the equation, and that's a big part of what AI is supposed to do, too. The only problem is - everyone hates it and it sucks 1213
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The answer is probably the Alamo with John Wayne but mainly because of the years between 1990 and 1998 or so 030
Reposted by Andrew TobolowskyGodspeed You! BOOsky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 06/10/2026AHHHHHHHHHH *inhale* AHHHHHHHHHHHHH 183
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One unfortunate thing with AI in this regard is that now it can be blamed but so much money has been spent on ed consultants for such a long period of time and NO ONE would say the results have been good. Just don't spend it! Empower teachers! 0348
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Like sure the first dictator could be more efficient than our congress than the next one is making his horse a senator 081
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The other thing about this that is obvious is that the problem with a dictatorship is you don't get to pick the dictator 1131
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Spencer Jones - definitely down at New Amsterdam 110
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is what that counting crows song was about 461
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026in fact I prefer it," but everyone besides five 80 year old neocons made it through the last 20 years without worrying about it and could have gone on for some time to come 020
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Trump's problem with Iran is no one really cares that much if Iran has nuclear weapons. Many people would prefer otherwise, but it's not keeping anyone up at night. He's out here like "literally anything to stop this thing only i care about from happening, I don't care if they kill you personally 250
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's not even that they lie, right, like everyone knows they lie, it's that the defense of that used to be that it was good for them to be fact checked on air or challenged on their lies or whatever, I'm not so sure 130
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026one thing I would have to be convinced of anew is that there is value in interviewing republican spokespersons or politicians and having them on your show 170
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This time, the lesson of Brazil is that no blue wave, however big, in November is nearly enough to safeguard democracy and what we care about, and it is long past time that we thought past one or two elections 1267
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026One of the reasons this stuff happens is that only humanities faculty even RESEMBLE rw nightmares about the socialist university and we end up on committees with everyone else 010
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This (the Atlantic) is so many words to say "these racists found a way of saying racist stuff that sounded good to more normal people!" 050
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You'll notice I'm sprinkling in the occasional layup 110
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Psh, I'm a full professor now, this is just for... annual merit reviews 210
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Certainly I have a lot more dread about what would happen between Nov and Jan than I did before 020
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My grandfather was born in Dallas in 1922 and knew Stanley Marcus a little but I didn't know about any of this! 020
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This was not a judgment on the value or cash value of manual labor, but we weren't being motivated to succeed academically because we were too good for it, but because it was not considered a better life, all things considered 080
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026As a descendant of Jewish immigrants this whole discourse has been so weird. You explicitly grow up with "work hard and get a good education so you don't have to break your body." 3202
