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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Rode my bike to work yesterday and Two separate times I was stopped at a stop sign and had a cross traffic car (who didn’t have a stop sign) come to a complete stop for me to go. I know you’re tying to be polite, but the safest thing you can do for everyone is be predictable!

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Just started to feel worried about all the visitors coming to TX towns (Houston and Dallas) this World Cup thinking they can just go on and cross a street where there’s a crosswalk.

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Glad this came to me from the library when it did. A love letter to the great people of Minneapolis and books and native people. Gut wrenchingly topical.

A screen shot of the cover of the novel The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

With the nation’s weather forecasting all wonky these days, it’s a good thing our senator is such a consistent piece of garbage so we know how bad to expect this weekend to be Ted Cruz spotted fleeing Texas for Laguna Beach ahead of winter storm: 'Here we go again' www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-267...

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Ted Cruz spotted fleeing Texas for Laguna Beach ahead of winter storm: 'Here we go again'

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) appears to be yet again fleeing a potential weather crisis in his state after being spotted Tuesday on a flight to the seaside resort city Laguna Beach in California, political st...

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I don’t understand how every Fredrik Backman book is the most beautiful book I’ve ever read or how a book that is so sweet can also so precisely describe so many different types of abuse and trama that children experience. If I could, I’d make it mandatory reading for anyone who works with teens.

Cover of Fredrik Backman’s My Friends. Picture shows 3 friends swimming.

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

First book finished (tho started in 2025) of 2026. Cried so much during the last two chapters my dog had to come check on me a few times. #booksky

Picture of Barbara Kingsolvers, book Pigs in Heaven

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Wild to wake up and think that I wish I had the president from Wag the Dog who pretend started a fake war to distract from his sex crimes against children instead of the president we do have who really started a real war to distract from his sex crimes against children.

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

My husband who generally doesn’t like movies and who hasn’t seen It’s a Wonderful Life: didn’t realize it was gonna be so lefty. Me: I told you you’d like it. Him: yeah

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

A few years ago the NYT published a story about Houston’s housing first and supporting our unhoused population under mayors Parker and Turner. Now they publish a story about how much our mayor hates bike lanes, folks who live outside, and his own political party. How fucking embarrassing.

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I went to a meeting today that my city council person hosted & it was just an unrelenting onslaught of my neighbors talking about how we need more police presence to “clean up the homelessness problem.” One guy called folks who have to use the bathroom outside animals. It was gut wrenching.

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Business idea: a bakery called ‘Just Desserts’ where some of the proceeds go to the ACLU. And maybe like a little reading nook with books about prison reform.

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

TLC and Destiney’s Child had it right. We need more songs that explain and define hip insults for men who suck.

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Me justifying every bandle I don’t get: I don’t feel like I missed out not knowing this song.

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Pride & hurricane season are both reminding me that we that we only have each other. With anti-LBGTQ violence up & NOAA & FEMA all but dismantled, we do what we can to prepare, check on our neighbors, step in where we can and hold each others hands in solidarity. This is what community looks like.

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social Not sure if Jon Gordon is big outside of the education world, but despite not being explicitly education themed, his toxic positivity garbage has been pushed on me at multiple different districts. Would def listen to an IBCK episode about him.

Stack of Jon Gordon books in a teacher work room with titles including “The Energy Bus,” “Training Camp,” “Soup,” “The Carpenter,” “The Positive Dog,” and “The Shark and the Goldfish.”

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Living in a country where folks at different income levels almost never know each other combined with people blindly mistrusting news that doesn’t “seem” true means there’s a bunch of financially comfy white people who are like “I don’t know what you’re talking about, things are fine”

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Can I take my whiskey neat, my coffee black but my bed at like 10:30 pm?

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Torrenting Andor as its creators intended.

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Finally watched Anora and good god did I not realize how much I needed for a movie to normalize screaming bloody murder when you’re being fucking attacked.

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

“The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it” - that boy from Andor. Can’t tell if I’m excited that Disney let this exist or if I’m furious that they thought it would placate us. #starwars

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Rewatching Andor in preparation for season two and boy howdy does it feel bleakly real.

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Currently furious that I have to plan for both the potential end of the US economy as well as end of year standardized testing for my students.

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Got a student and every time I see him in the hallways and say “hey bud, it’s great to see you” he goes “yeah, it is” and that’s the energy I want to move through life with.

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Great thing about libraries: when I get a book recommendation I immediately put it on hold. Not only does the delayed acquisition help me not get overwhelmed by too many books, but by the time I get the book I can’t remember who recommended it to me and figuring it out is like a fun little puzzle!

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Student A to student B: No shit Sherlock Student B: who’s Sherlock? Me, the teacher: *laughs uncontrollably*

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Not surprised. Haven’t trusted her since she made fun of the “other woman” for not being able to shoot whiskey which is objectively the worst way to drink whiskey.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I'm surprised that y'all are surprised about Carrie Underwood.

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

For a band called Fun. some of their songs are awfully sad.

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Me: this student was being real difficult today Husband: I’m sorry Me: it’s fine, she really wanted to roam the halls and I wouldn’t let her Husband: oh, so you deserved it Me: obviously

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Resolution this year is use longer phrases on my to do list for more arduous tasks. Like instead of “figure out lunches” say “spend 3 hours meal prepping and freezing all your lunches for the next 3 weeks.”

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Going through my emo phase about 17 years later than I should have…but I can now tell the difference between panic at the disco and fall out boy.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

The best kind of feature journalism: the writer disappears entirely, and brings you into the lives of their subjects as you were in the room with them. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/u...

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His Family Voted to Support Trump’s Deportation Plan. That Includes Him. (Gift Article)

His friends and family members in Rome, Ga., voted to support mass deportation. Now he’s scrambling to stay in the country.

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Primary difference between 25 and 35. When you’re 25 and you sing along to a pop song about someone not treating you right, you’re all “yeah, fuck my ex!” But the same song at 35 you’re all “yeah, fuck my boss!”

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Hadley Ellen @hadleyellen.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

If we talked about other infrastructure the way the right talks about the education system: this road is full of potholes and poorly maintained. Let’s tear up the roads!

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