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Azmazing1

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Interested in languages and literacy and other stuff

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Lorraine Chavez @lpchavez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Opinion | Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I.
As A.I. capabilities accelerate, the technologist is shocked by the “complete lack of engagement” with the question of how to manage its risks.
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tomiko Santos has been a disappointing leader on education in the state legislature, where she has chaired the Ed Committee for 10 years+. On her watch, the state Supreme Court held the legislature in
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🤷 legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/09/1...
legrandcontinent.eu
L’armée américaine ne sait plus faire la guerre
Comprendre la longue érosion de la première puissance militaire mondiale
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Northwest Progressive Institute @nwprogressive.org · 28/09/2026
The Eastside moves differently now: Six months in, the 2 Line’s Crosslake Connection is delivering a mobility revolution From airport trips to evenings in Seattle, reliable rail service is making it easier to leave the car at home, offering a daily reminder of why the region must accelerate light…
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The Eastside moves differently now: Six months in, the 2 Line’s Crosslake Connection is delivering a mobility revolution
From airport trips to evenings in Seattle, reliable rail service is making it easier to leave the car at home, offering a daily reminder of why the region must accelerate light rail expansion to communities still waiting for it.
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I. Hernandez @hernando206.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How do these people not know such basic information about which agency is doing what? These are simple questions with simple answers. The Leschi Marina is a Parks project. The centrists on the council are not serious people.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 26/09/2026
How do you know this doc has Elon rattled? Because all of the other oligarchs are trying to protect his ego. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Arrogantly @arrogantly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's bewildering how much Rivera, Hollingsworth, and Saka claim expertise over subjects they have neither professional nor educational backgrounds in, then seek to claim "moderate" positions in opposition to folks who actually know what they are talking about. These clowns need to go.
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Education Week @edweek.org · 25/09/2026
Yes, Students Still Need to Develop Decoding Skills Beyond Elementary School (Opinion): "Without continued attention to advanced decoding, too many students hit a ceiling."
edweek.org
Yes, Students Still Need to Develop Decoding Skills Beyond Elementary School (Opinion)
"Without continued attention to advanced decoding, too many students hit a ceiling."
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CALDER Center @caldercenter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New CALDER brief: Researchers partnered with five WA teacher prep programs to examine who becomes a teacher, how candidates are selected, and how academic preparation in college relates to teacher effectiveness. 🔗 caldercenter.org/publications...
CALDER Brief: New Evidence from the Early Teacher Pipeline
Dan Goldhaber, Roddy Theobald, Amy Roth McDuffie, David Slavit, Jennifer M. Dechaine, John Krieg, Michael DeArmond

Few school-based factors matter more to student success than teacher quality. Because teachers are so important, the policies that shape the teacher workforce—teacher licensure, for example—are critical issues in education policy and research. But before prospective teachers can be licensed, they first need to choose to pursue teaching and complete an approved teacher education program. Largely because of data limitations, these early stages of the teacher pipeline have received relatively less policy and research attention. This is a problem because the decisions people make before entering teacher preparation programs ultimately help determine who is available to join the teacher workforce. 

To help learn more about the early teacher pipeline, a unique partnership between five university-based teacher education programs, the state of Washington, and researchers gathered a rich array of evidence on teacher preparation programs and their implications for the teacher workforce. This CALDER research brief summarizes the partnership’s findings in three sections:

Section 1 examines who enters teacher education programs and how this shapes the pool of potential teachers.
Section 2 examines the information teacher education programs collect about applicants, and the applicant attributes faculty consider most important, to better understand how teacher education programs make admissions decisions. 
Section 3 examines whether the academic preparation students receive in college predicts who eventually becomes a teacher and how effective they are at raising student test scores.
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@exantestephanie.bsky.social Knows more about this stuff I would hazard The overall skew 51% male/47.8% female/1.2% X is just the normal birth ratio difference, but enrollment has slipped under that baseline. A thread:
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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh look, another major urban school district full of drama and financial sketchiness after adopting Student Outcomes Focused Governance. www.wbtv.com/2026/09/22/l...
wbtv.com
Live stream: Former Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board members discuss current drama, moving forward
Watch live at 12:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 22
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Jessie Dugan @jessiedugan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
SOFG under the state takeover in Houston has drained HALF A BILLON DOLLARS from the general fund
texastribune.org
Houston ISD’s state takeover playbook is costing a fortune
Other Texas districts are mirroring HISD’s costly efforts to boost academics. Superintendent Mike Miles acknowledges tough cuts are necessary to pay for it.
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Overall this is great with the student involvement, but that instinct "not to poll the whole community" should be increasingly taboo in a district focused on greater transparency and engagement with families/communities. I would flag that as something for NH to work on
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The thing about these AI chat bot cases is that if the human had been chatting with another human that offered them the same conversation, advice, assurances, etc. they’d be charged as an accomplice. So let’s do that.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 25/09/2026
Why doesn’t anyone anthropomorphize the engineers who are creating the AI models? For example: “OpenAI engineers wrote a software program that illegally penetrated the protected systems of Hugging Face, a third-party company. It is unclear whether the company or the engineers will be held liable.”
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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The University of Alberta’s free online critical thinking and science literacy course to help people differentiate science from pseudoscience: www.ualberta.ca/en/admission...
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I. Hernandez @hernando206.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I make my wife go to the hardware store now. She's fine with that because she doesn't want me beaten and kidnapped by ICE goons any more than I do. Like honestly, I don't believe that I have full freedom of movement in my own country anymore. ICE must be destroyed and prosecuted.
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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
By the requirements of the Open Public Meetings Act, I believe they are supposed to let the public know ahead of time that a closed session is occurring and what the topic of that meeting will be. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm afraid if I go look it up they will start mid-search.
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is interesting to me that the founder of Soup for Teachers and Chandra Hampson’s handpicked successor both voted no on the CBA; what does this mean?
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Mary Dickson @marythought.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Director Rankin, thank you for your service, I say this as sincerely as possible please take this up in therapy we beg you
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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I saw a chat where parents reacted to a flu shot clinic, so after swearing profusely, your obligatory reminder that vaccines are amazing. Charts source: graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
WHAT IS GOING ON WHY IS SHE HOLDING UP A LIGHT Oh it's a reenactment!
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No teacher likes to hear this is happening, but I know firsthand this was going on in 4 classrooms in recent years and secondhand in many more
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 07/09/2026
This is a problem of curriculum and administration. New curriculum explicitly says to teach excerpts rather than novels. Then administrators crack down on teachers who try to assign whole novels. It’s happening here in Seattle too.
chalkbeat.org
‘The kids simply cannot handle it’: Why New York students are reading fewer books
Schools are shifting away from full novels to excerpts to prep students for state exams and accommodate lower stamina for reading.
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Pro tip: you don't need to buy a TV at all, pick up a dumb computer monitor and attach an HDTV antenna via a $50 tuner. Or, use a separate streaming box you trust or can deactivate the microphone on (physically or otherwise)
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
And more poop in the food. Somehow when the FDA was functional this was rare, now every food producer gleefully poops in the food
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We all need to remember that, at the very instant the FDA stopped functioning, food producers big and small literally started pooping in the food supply because they could, and didn't care - the very instant. Just no morality, ethics, sense of duty or care. Just money
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Very much agreed, and I’ll add that Dow Constantine has been too handsoff/very disappointing in his current role and should not serve another term
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A 46-post thread (so far) on recalled foods this year in the US. The TikTok song at #45 is catchy
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I rather the like the new vertical $20. The artist minimized the ears sufficiently. The architecture shown is not a rebel base in Star Wars but a new view of the Vimy Ridge WWI memorial where 3,500 Canadians died (NFL has a separate memorial because they didn't join Confederation until 1948)
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ugh.
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Utah has a “free-range kids” law now that prevents things like this. In Japan, young elementary students are expected to get to school on their own, even using a train. I don’t know why Americans are so weird about kids living their lives normally like all kids for the past 100k years
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem was an icon and a trailblazer. Her advocacy - from championing reproductive freedom, to fighting for workplace fairness - moved our country forward. All of us can and should draw on her legacy of leadership and advocacy to strive towards making America a better place.
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ever since the drama around the now-averted teachers' strike ramped up, the quality of posts and comments in r/seattlepublicschools has gone way down, it's much more like NextDoor now 😔
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The “Oregon model” published today offers some promising starting points. First, it suggests stopping the mailing of blank ballots approximately one week before election day (I would recommend 15 days). To scale up ballot access to 5 million people on such short notice, a combination of
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Jamesinclair @jamesinclair.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It was shocking/disappointing how that happened. It flipped from "no ridership increase" to "those people shouldn't ride" real fast
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
yall are gonna hear me say this a lot so here goes again: make plans to vote in person, and do it as early as possible. literally make turnout this election too big to steal.
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Wim Remysen @kwebek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Vous voulez éviter les produits américains? Cette application peut être bien utile
ici.radio-canada.ca
Achat canadien : l’appli Buybeaver aide à choisir | OHdio | Radio-Canada
Écoutez l’extrait de l’émission Votre retour : Achat canadien : l’appli Buybeaver aide à choisir
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It’s the Gulf of Mexico, it’s Lake Ontario. Presidents don’t actually have the authority to change geographic names unilaterally anyway
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If you're new to teachers' strikes in Seattle, here are some pro tips for childcare or short-term "homeschool" options. Seattle teachers almost always strike when there is a new contract, so expect this in the future at every cycle unless open bargaining ever happens. The longest recent
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Stephanie on Bluesky @exantestephanie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Is it really just SCPTSA coming to complain tonight that has led to a full hour of speechifying and apologizing over really nothing this organization has too much influence in our school district
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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is the last budget we got before structural change is necessary.
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
As usual, Washington state's ed institutions are at odds with the public. After Spanish, there is strong demand for Mandarin Latin & French, but there is no pipeline of qualified teachers. The SBE's new "FutureReady" grad requirements have even eliminated the 2-year language requirement
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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My position on possible SEA strike: Our system unfairly pits the teachers against the district. It's the Washington Legislature that effed them both over. Meanwhile you see just about every Seattle legislator happy to take pictures with the union without being held accountable for the whole mess.
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Lorraine Chavez @lpchavez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Check this out: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
thenation.com
Do We Need a New Approach to Our Origin Stories?
An interview with historian Ned Blackhawk on the United States’ contested founding.
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Vivian McCall @vivmccall.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton will be eulogized for her songwriting, her acting, her kindness, and her charity, but like many, many gifted women, her fantastic guitar playing is rarely celebrated. Keep an ear out as you listen to her music today. She ripped </3.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com
NASHVILLE, TN (August 25, 2026) – Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

 

Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000). 

 

A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact.

 

At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at www.dollyparton.com.         

 

In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com.
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A true national treasure whose empathy and compassion made even more difference than her music.
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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Inform those who may not follow this, especially seniors, teens, and 20-somethings. Verify you are registered in WA and get a replacement November ballot if you don’t receive yours by Halloween. Return by 8pm on election day in official ballot boxes only, do not use US Mail!
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