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Jennifer Glensdottir

@jecathre.bsky.social
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Middle school science teacher, writer of snarky alt-text, firm believer in the inherent worth and dignity of every human person. She/her

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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 23h
It really is the intersection of adolescence. Not for everyone, but I love it.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 23h
Seventh grade
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Told a class how many college chemistry classes I'd taken to assure them I really did know what exothermic means. Student asked "If you're so qualified, why are you a teacher?" I asked him which of his teachers he wanted to be unqualified.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
More of this please. royalstgeorgescollege.substack.com/p/a-commitme...
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A commitment to not remain silent
Prompted by media coverage of the allegations at Cornell University, the Headmaster spoke to the Senior School during an assembly on the imperative of not remaining silent when voice is required.
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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 09/10/2026
There was a kind of rhetorical move to try to say that Christianity must somehow “own” “Christian” Nationalism, but it’s worth noting that *they* don’t think I belong to the same religion as them and I’m willing to affirm that belief.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Me, trying to calculate how much vinegar I'll need for a year of middle school science:
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The Limit Does Not Exist
Alt: Lindsey Lohan delivers her classic line in Mean Girls: The Limit Does Not Exist
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's giving AI, but if it is AI there was a human involved. I see a lot of AI posters in my line of work and this has to much white space to be the first thing ai spat out.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Who the fuck is obliged to play fantasy football? These boys need friends.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
These are the same people who take their trees down on the 26th.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Shout-out to the man reading a well-loved copy of When in Rome on the subway this afternoon.
Cover of the romance novel "When in Rome" by Sarah Adams, featuring an illustrated man and woman making pies.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's beautiful!
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Someone is going to object and their reasons will be insane.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My church goes all out for potluck and our community lunches, but none of us think of coffee hour as lunch. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was trying to describe plexiglass to someone the other night. But it was the end of a very long day and the word plexiglass completely escaped me. The only thing I could think of was "transparent aluminum." Apparently my #StarTrek nerdery intensifies when I'm tired.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When I was a kid every public space smelled like cigarettes. When I was a young adult public spaces were mostly smoke free. Now everything smells like weed. I hate it.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I did eat both. Good thing I'm doing a lot of walking today.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Inside of a pita or a cave on an alien planet?
The delicious inside of a perfect pita
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was just going to eat the white bean salad, but it came with pita still steaming inside. I'm only human. I had to eat it.
A freshly baked pita, in a basket on a restaurant table, with a piece torn out to reveal the steamy, craggy interior
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The man just likes hugs.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition."
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
". . . a kind of notice which served to imprint on Elinor the remembrance of a person and face, of strong, natural, sterling insignificance, though adorned in the first style of fashion." Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen at her most vicious and I love it.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lots of jobs are easy if you don't care about doing them well.
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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is Prince, my Amazon Milk tree frog as a froglet. He's almost an adult now. He was resting in the mossy waterfall, but prefers the canopy since he is arboreal. #naturephotography #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #amphibian #frogs #herps #eastcoastkin #photography
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Possibly the most beautiful frog I've ever seen.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Are you an American who doesn't follow football and feels left out of Monday morning work conversations? Try one of these two phrases based on the vibe of the person who asks if you saw the game last night: "Crazy game right?" Or "They were never going to win that one."
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Writing dialogue come easily to me, but it occured to me that one of my characters needs to be more taciturn, so I set the goal of limiting his dialog to no more than 6 words at a time. It's not a comfortable restriction, and I might loosen it to 10, but it's an interesting challenge. #writersky
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Also, if the interview is long enough to require refreshments then the host should provide them.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes, actually, it is unprofessional to bring an iced coffee to a job interview. Did you bring enough for everyone?
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have "an excellent grasp" of the first amendment. I like to think my US History teacher would be proud.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well now you've given it to me so maybe you'll be free of it.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This HAL can't lock the pod bay doors without help, but it is very finicky about opening them again. It's the panic lock we use to secure classroom doors in lieu of sensible gun control laws.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Name something more American. I'll wait.
A Safebolt brand panic lock with lever handle on a wooden classroom door. The door is locked by pressing the big red button which sends a deadbolt into the door frame. I can't speak for its behavior in a real emergency, but it does stand up to a vigorous jiggling by an administrator during a lockdown drill.
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The Princess Bride (1987) @princessbride1987.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You mean he wins? Jesus, Grandpa, what did you read me this thing for?
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Last light on the Bay at Ropewalk in Ocean City, Maryland.
The last rays of the sun light up wetlands and the Chesapeake Bay beyond. The marsh grasses in the foreground are lit by electric lights under the pier.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Rewatching Sleepless in Seattle, and honestly: justice for Walter. I hope he found love.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Kennedy Center’s Grand Foyer is 630' long and 63' high. The 6000 elements in the crystal chandeliers were hand-blown by Orrefors and an official gift by the Kingdom of Sweden in 1971. The 60' tall mirrors at left were a gift on behalf of the people and nation of the Kingdom of Belgium.
view down the grand lobby of the red carpet and features described in the post text.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/09/2026
In a bitter May runoff, Texas Republicans nominated Bo French, an investor with only the vaguest glimmer of industry experience and a mostly irrelevant and racist political program that calls for deporting 100 million people, purging the nation of Muslims, and emulating a defunct apartheid state.
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Bo French sent a tweet so racist, his own party finally took notice. It's just the tip of the iceberg.
How a regulatory agency you've never heard of became a test case for Republican extremism.
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The Princess Bride (1987) @princessbride1987.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If I somehow got bored of that, I would still love the looks on their faces when it happens.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Burning a test tube full of hydrogen in front of the class is way cooler than anything on tiktok. #edusky #AICouldNever
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cringe is the only true cool.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"He didn't single handedly carry the team to the championship, therefore he's garbage," is an all too common baseball fan opinion.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Earl was three angry possums in a trench coat and we loved him for it.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We're already there.
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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Excellent oped in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social by my @harvard.edu colleague Jill Lepore. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
But of course, the machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends. Not to mention, supervising student researchers is our job.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Education is a fundamentally human endeavor.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good morning #GenX
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Alito and Thomas would allow it but Bishop Mariann and Dean Hollerith would not. #TEC
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Doubling teacher salaries would solve a lot of problems. A lot of other problems would have to be solved to get the political will to double teacher salaries.
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