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Effect Not Affect

@effectnotaffect.bsky.social
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High school teacher by day, idiot 24/7.

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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Man, watching MAGA dudes talk about fatherhood is fucking sad. The constant repetition that being a father means not caring about your kids in favor of maximizing your capitalism is a bummer.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So, what are people using for long-form screaming into the abyss these days?
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is weird, but has anyone else noticed AI summaries replacing the perfectly good summaries that were already on Apple podcasts?
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There are a lot of discussions that I really want to have about justice and rehabilitation that I think I'm largely going to skip because a lot of those discussions feel like they get too easily weaponized by people who pretty much suck.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y’know, it sucks that Krakoa ended but the X-men comics have been on fucking fire for the last little bit. Uncanny and Adjectiveless are both gonna end up as favorite runs of mine, and the solo titles have ranged from “that was fun” to “I really hope this is an ongoing.”
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Y'all, the fucking desperation of AI companies to devour shit is insane. I've gotten scams about submitting MY terrible work to these things! My work! I wrote ONE thing. Fifteen years ago. And I think it sold less than twenty copies! What the hell could AI learn from that?
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Anyway being a teacher is really hard and maybe I'm going to do something else soon.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Man, if you’ve tried waiting at a doctor’s office, you should try waiting in three. I am beyond pain now. I have become one with agony.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So my boss knows we're going to have a really rough day with parents and he sent us an "encouraging" email. HE LEFT IN THE GODDAMN CHATGPT PROMPT. I need a new job.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I think one of my most hardline old man traits is that I absolutely will not read an email if it has an emoji in the subject line.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I think the biggest accomplishment of my professional career is that it's not blatantly obvious how goddamn angry I am every minute of every day.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Okay, no one gives a shit but I’m gonna whine: I’m in a fucking John Henry contest with AI this year and I am exhausted. My school has gently mandated the use of AI in classes and I’m not doing it, but that means I have to keep pace with my colleagues who are. And I am…
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dear Canadian friends, because we can just rename shit now, I recommend y'all rename Florida "Donny's Li'l Pedo Shack".
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'm from Tennessee, and let me tell you...Dolly's death is being reacted to by my students like Santa Claus and the Pope and the President all died at once. She was so important here - one of the few people we were all proud to say hailed from our state.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It’s so hard to explain how thoroughly AI companies are infiltrating all levels of education. Virtually every fucking thing I get emails from or invited to has AI bullshit sponsoring it somewhere.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I don’t know how widely Bluesky is being adopted, but it hasn’t hit “blocked in high schools” yet.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Anyway, I’m pretty stoked about this.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I keep hearing that Millennials are "afraid" of phone calls, but that's not quite right. We just know that mandatory phone calls are either going to be inefficient or they're going to involve bad news. Most of us just agree that making a phone call is probably going to suck.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Today, we celebrate not the establishment of a nation but the Declaration of the principles upon which it, at its best, would build. I want to talk a little bit about what the Declaration was, and why it's worth celebrating today.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
At what point during the writing of any kind of self-help or advice work do authors really hone in on how to turn the book into a horrifying grift? Because lemme tell you, I’m a few thousand words in and I can see the con already forming.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
None of the Supergirl reviews are centered on whether a 13 year old girl will like the movie, and that’s frustrating as shit.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I have started putting together a little book on private school teaching, and I have found it astonishingly difficult to give a lot of advice without swearing.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
So...if anyone knows anyone who wants to teach high school history to kids with learning differences in the Nashville area, hit me up. Yes, this is a reach. Yes, I will be your boss. Yes, I will let you be woke as fuck.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I like Pride for the same reason I like when my friends have birthday parties - it’s lovely to see them celebrated. Note that in this case, it would also be insane for anyone to complain that they too are not having a party at this time.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
After much deliberation, I have decided that my high school punk band Stray Whoosis will not be performing at the Freedom 250 celebration. None of us have talked in 20 years, but I feel comfortable speaking for the whole band on this.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
If you have ever studied the Holocaust, this is going to look achingly familiar.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/05/2026
This is real. www.whitehouse.gov/aliens/
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Anyway I’m pretty sure most people on here don’t engage as much because they are adults with shit going on in their real lives.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Shout out to the bros complaining that Bsky is bad because they can’t engagement farm here. You’re the real ones.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I love how all these commencement speakers shilling AI are being booed. Turns out that we as a species don’t want this shit.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I feel like there is are two super obvious predictors of academic success that, as a teacher, I am always forbidden from mentioning but are just absolutely fucking true. Alas.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I know that no one gives a shit, but I'm pretty radically pro-transgender so...y'know, let's get that on the record if we're gonna have one.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Hey, so why the fuck do people say Lion King is just a Hamlet ripoff? It is nothing like Hamlet. Have people not read Hamlet?
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Do you notice how I don't get upset when you people wish me a "May the Force Be With You"? Of course you don't. But god forbid I hope you Live Long and Prosper; then there's gonna be boycotts.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Apparently AI might have trained itself on a book I wrote, which I think is doing a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to making AI shittier at writing.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I only kinda wanna run for office but I REALLY wanna do a public debate with an incumbent.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Hey, so we're gearing up for election campaigning season for midterms real soon. Where's my dudes at telling us that the best thing a leftist can do is to not vote because Democrats and Republicans are the same?
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
If there was a podcast version of microblogging, I would be all over that. I sound like I know what I'm talking about for like ten minutes, but I'm insufferable after that.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Nothing, and I do mean nothing, has made me confront my own mortality more harshly than planning my kid’s graduation. I don’t have a joke, it’s just that fucking sobering.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Oh no, I’m in this. I’m so sorry.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I contacted my Congressperson in my deep red state. It did fuck all, but I did. Then I consoled actual teenagers who are afraid of what's happening, because that's my job.
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Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Dante’s Inferno with Adam Williamson They say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, but in this case, it’s paved with quick‑time events and awkward platforming. Step back into 2010, when grim determination, button mashing, and a suspicious amount of artistic license gave us Dante’s…
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Dante’s Inferno with Adam Williamson
They say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, but in this case, it’s paved with quick‑time events and awkward platforming. Step back into 2010, when grim determination, button mashing, and a suspicious amount of artistic license gave us Dante’s Inferno on the PS3 and Xbox 360, the game adaptation no one asked for but we secretly loved anyway. Joining Chris this time is Adam Williamson. You know, that guy who’s somehow managed to pop up in both past and future episodes of Play Comics. It’s like he’s got his own metaphysical time loop going, except with fewer torturous souls and more witty banter. So grab your favorite medieval poetry anthology (or just pretend you’ve read it. No judgment), crank up the over‑the‑top orchestral soundtrack, and prepare to descend through nine circles of beautifully rendered weirdness. Let’s find out how a centuries‑old Italian masterpiece got a glow‑up full of demons, guilt, and surprisingly good level design.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
What's something you desperately want to do, but probably won't? I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I'm not talking about "achievable, but life is in the way" but like "it would take astonishing luck for this to happen" stuff. I'd like to go on Jeopardy or be in the audience for SNL.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Man, no one cares what I have to say but I just want to loudly say that, as a teacher, I don't use AI because I'm actually good at my job.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Right now, I'm teaching about my high school students about genocide, and how genocide includes the forcible erasure of a people not just through murder, but also through the destruction of their culture. It's a hard lesson to go through, but it's also probably the only time I talk about MY family
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This js a weird and random thought, but I distinctly remember growing up and having the aspirational message for boys being that being a man meant like…not giving a shit what other people thought about you. How did we get to the Manosphere bullshit from that?
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Fuck man, I hope they subpoena my shit for hating ICE. Enjoy the nonsense and ennui, I'll enjoy getting to say I was on a list for not supporting fucking fascism.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Holy shit. Y'all, if you think that national politics are insane, I beg you to get involved in small town local politics. I cannot even begin to describe how batshit nutburgers this stuff is.
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Okay, so how can a nation that grew up with Desi fuckin’ Arnaz have a problem with this halftime show?
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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I went to a funeral for a kid today. If you're feeling like you have no way out, please reach out to someone. Fuck, shoot me a message and I'll hear you out. No one deserves to feel like there's not a way forward.
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