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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lost my voice from this dang cold and was trying to say something but not making much of a dent in the airspace. Mitch sings at me, "Shy Ronniiie..."

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm just a guy, but to me, it seems clear that generative AI has already peaked. From here on out, expect widespread collapse, blame, and shareholder devastation.

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Real question: what do we do when the email recipient just sends back a lump of pandering AI-generated nonsense? (Assume this person is in a position of some power and also really could benefit from reading the thing we sent.)

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I used to work in a right-handers' store. I left.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I used to work in a sniper school. I don't miss it.

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Just got to the opening credits, and RIDE OR DIE already holds my whole heart in its charming, murdery hands

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Where do you think I put my headphones

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Millions of teachers didn't teach almost everyone alive today to read and write so you could tell me AI is "inevitable"

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Just invented a new kind of sock that's much less comfortable to wear than a regular sock. "But I don't want that," you're probably thinking. Unfortunately it's mandatory.

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

No one tells you how much of adulthood will be getting teary over the funnies because #SallyForth, once again, sees you for who you are, and loves you anyway

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Which weather app should I get? My demands are few; all I ask is that it tell me tomorrow's going to be warm

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Invited Mitch to join me for a nightcap, but then for my nightcap I ended up making myself some shredded wheat

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

While I was away on an exhilarating multi-day screen-free field trip, the Chronicle posted this opinion article I wrote! AI doesn't belong in schools. Our kids deserve the fullness of this real world. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

sfchronicle.com

I’m an Oakland high school teacher. I discourage my students from using AI

OPINION: Generative AI erodes our independence as individuals and as humans in community. It is incompatible with the work of the classroom teacher, Lara Trale writes.

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Ha! What most of these "girly jobs" have in common: historical devaluation in pay and respect once they became associated with women. (Also, like, caring for other people.)

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A public good is a public good

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This moment was, for me--as I imagine it was for many many others in work that demands that dedicated individuals compensate with their own unpaid time and labor for the failure of the systems in which they operate--a real kick in the pants

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Once again, a public good is a public good

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

A really good response. The revelations about Chavez are horrifying--and farmworkers' rights matter as much as they ever have.

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

An excellent report about instructors' struggles to convince people that our brains still matter. We have to have SO MANY goddamn conversations about why we'd rather take the trusty old rowboat rather than clamber onboard the crowded, half-built superyacht with obvious gaping holes in its hull.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections. snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...

snyder.substack.com

The Desire for Terror

And the defense of democracy

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

May you find joy in your saved daylight

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Oakland Public Library @oaklibrary.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Congratulations Alysa Liu! Oakland is so proud of you!

Photo of Alysa Liu smiling broadly holding a gold medal to their mouth against a vibrant red and purple background. Text on the side reads, "Congratulations to Oakland's hometown gold medalist Alysa Liu."

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Love to wake up to the announcement that we have a TA and probably won't need to strike. Thanks, bargaining team!

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Life status: just said "good job" aloud to myself when I realized I had, in fact, put my shirt on the right way

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

It's so hard for kids not to use generative AI now. Like, SO hard. It's almost everywhere they are online, whispering, urging, exhorting them to just try it a little, why not, it's here to help. As a person who just wants them to be able to think hard thoughts, I am fucking furious

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Also (not that this particular parent-child convo has to be about sex at all), I suspect that these are often the same parents who will never talk to their kids about sex, which is just the easiest thing to talk about, so long as you leave out shame and religion

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Can't stop thinking about this

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Solidarity from across the bay to #UESF as they hit the picket lines today. February strikes are hard! But when nothing else is working, sometimes they're the only way to get what you and your students deserve.

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

@governor.ca.gov See how easy it is to say this? The work of seconds.

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

@padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov Senators: You both said you were "concerned" after visiting an ICE facility this month. ICE's violent, cruel goals and tactics are incompatible with democracy. Concern is nowhere near enough. Say more; do more. End ICE.

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

There are fewer than 3,500 kids in the Columbia Heights school district. ICE has kidnapped four of them.

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It is never a nice time to vote for a strike

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Nothing like one full day of rain to remind me how good I have it, weather-wise

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Books I have read in 2026: a list.

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I'm glad that @replsimon.bsky.social, @schiff.senate.gov, and @padilla.senate.gov have already spoken out against Trump's illegal and terrifying actions in Venezuela. I called them all anyway to ask that they apply all the pressure they can. You should, too.

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Sometimes the heart wants what it wants ... and what it wants is shredded wheat.

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

What a doofus; until everyone's ways get to be normal, there's no future in "cultural normalcy"

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Notes from today's sort-of run at Lake Merritt: It will never stop being a thrill to walk through the OMCA gardens on the way to/from the lake. Running with a headphone in and music thumping is nice, actually! Kind of invigorating. Do the people know? Ladies love pelicans.

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Just eyeballing my cat while we both listen to some owls converse above the freeway noise

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

@jeopardypodcast.bsky.social Working through a backlog of episodes, and I just need you to know I got the Sutter BFJ. I was alone, and had this convo with myself over the paused podcast: "John Sutter! John? James? No, Marshall was James. They'll probably accept just Sutter, though, right?"

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Here's my art submission for indivisible.org's #NoKings protests. You can submit, too, at nokings.org/art!

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Pretty sure this is one of @naominovik.bsky.social 's baby maw-mouths. Watch out!

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Gemini AI has apparently read everything I've ever written and is making the computer-based aspects of my life appreciably worse. Nowhere in the platform can I, an individual, opt out. I'm far from the first to say this, but if you have made a product that people want, you make it a choice.

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Lara Trale @laratrale.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

WE SOLVE MURDERS by Richard Osman. Another jolly little mystery. I knew what to expect storywise, and got it, but missed the greater emotional resonance of the Thursday Murder Club. The father-in-law/daughter-in-law team was a treat.

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