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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

CTE teacher life: Writing a safety test for box knives, because your new curriculum has your 8th graders carving windmill blades out of balsa wood using them. 8th graders. Hashtag wtaf?? #EduSky

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CAP Action @americanprogressaction.org · 15/01/2025

Budget office nominee Russell Vought has stated veterans' disability benefits should be means-tested—Sen. Blumenthal calls him out.

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Gouda Sofia @updrafter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

BlueSky user shanley tucci @markpopham.bsky.social Raw milk is one of those ideas that can really only take hold when people haven't seen a cow. if you see a cow from let's say ten feet or less you immediately understand the problem that pasteurization is solving

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

MLK assembly at school today, and the Leadership kids made a huge poster. This may become my mantra for the next few years. (Student faces cropped out of the picture; that's why it's cut off weirdly.) #EduSky

Poster says, "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." At the bottom is a drawn portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Got a survey from the WEA (Washington Education Association) today. For the first time, Bluesky was one of the choices when asking about social media I use. Woot!

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Department leads at district are encouraging us to use AI to help us create rubrics as we transition into Standards-Based Grading districtwide. But we know how much power & other resources AI uses. It's a time-saver, but what are the ethics of it? Discuss. #EduSky

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Hot take that's actually not so hot, from a 27-year veteran middle school teacher: Perfect attendance awards are ableist and encourage the spread of illnesses. Instead, reward kids for showing compassion, respect, and effort. #EduSky

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Nana has the time and the facts.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

#Oathbreakers is "historical writing at its finest." - @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. A top-10 new release in history from Amazon Books. It's got swords, sex, witchcraft, demons, betrayals, one irritating dude named Bernard, and the fate of Charlemagne's empire hanging in the balance. Out today!

A gold book on a red background. Oathbreakers in red letters. In white letters - Our names, and the subtitles: The War of Brothers that Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe. And a sword.

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Teacher/wrestling mom life: running the clock for the home wrestling match.

An electronic control board for a school scoreboard.

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

This is 12-year-old Éowyn (gray) and SEVEN-MONTH-OLD Thorin (black). I am uncertain of my initial belief that this is a photo of two cats. I suspect it's actually a cat and an incipient moose. #caturday

A gray cat, asleep and stretched out. Next to her, an extremely long black cat, also asleep and stretched out.

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Dear self: Repeat after me. "Disaster movies are not scientific documentaries, and nobody wants to hear you explain why the science is wrong. Especially not your long-suffering, but beloved, husband." Love, Me

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I managed to turn on my classroom Keurig WITHOUT the cup to catch the coffee today. On the plus side, nothing was ruined that couldn't be tossed without a worry, and the room now smells like coffee. On the minus side, I'm short a couple of ounces of coffee. Sigh.

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

$600 in groceries at WinCo today. Granted, we had to fill in a bunch of staples that we'd run out of, and we did buy some fun stuff. But we weren't even buying for a Thanksgiving meal; it was stuff like fruit, vegetables, cheese, lunch meat, canned goods, etc. Just wait til the tariffs hit.

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Who has two thumbs and has finished EVERYTHING on her to-do list today? THIS GAL.

A to-do list with 13 items, all of them checked off.

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Oh, look. They're here, too. "Boreal rainforest." 😂

Conversation with a random guy who messaged me out of nowhere, started off asking about the weather, then told me it's "Very nice out here in the woods with my team out here in Boreal Rainforest." My response is a laughing emoji, followed by "Right. Ok. Sure. Have fun with that. Bye."

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

As has become traditional in my extended family, I'm responsible for bringing the pies to Thanksgiving. I usually do two pumpkin and an apple, though I'm considering a berry pie of some sort. What are your favorite desserts of the autumn/winter holiday season?

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Voyager news! Because Sam made a creative doc about the two Voyager spacecraft after he graduated (‘The Voyager Diaries’), screened at juried festivals, we still feel a family connection to them. And yes, there’s some personification bias. Those two gallant, plucky journeyers… flip.it/ANsQfQ

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Voyager 1 Just Activated a Radio That's Been Offline Since 1981

Last month, NASA briefly lost Voyager 1 in the expanse of interstellar space, and when the craft reappeared it was communicating with a transmitter it hasn't used in more than 40 years.

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Holy crap! I slept until after EIGHT! I'm usually up in the 6:00 hour when I sleep in. 😳😳

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The old gray lady and her baby brother.

A large black kitten and an elderly gray cat are cuddled up on opposite shoulders of a man with long gray hair and a long white & gray beard.

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The scammers and bitcoin bois and "helping people to retire" accounts are starting to find me. I check the profile, then block if I need to. No engagement, no warning. Go bother someone else.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Talk about self-owns! This is rather amazing news on the abortion rights front.

Post by Taniel:

A Wyoming judge just struck down WY's abortion bans.

Get this: Judge invoked a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... that was passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Just backfired.

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Anyone else needing dopamine? Here's my contribution.

Thorin, a seven-month-old black kitten, asleep on a red plaid blanket.

Thorin, a seven-month-old black kitten with gold eyes, hiding in a box.

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Tooth update! Not cracked. Woot! But the location of the cavity (under a previous filling, and very near the nerve) means that I will probably still need a root canal and crown. Whee. Oh, and it's infected, so amoxicillin 3x/day for seven days. Could be worse, but still less than fun.

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

My school sent out an email asking students for things for which they're thankful about their teachers. I got this one today. I'm DYING.

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

In other exciting news, I have a cracked molar that hurts like a mofo. I was FINALLY able to get an appointment for 9:30 tomorrow. I don't even care if I have to have another root canal; I just want it to stop hurting. Even talking hurts. Bah.

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 17/11/2024

When the King is getting impatient with the white ceremonial robes you told him to wear

To the king, my lord (Esarhaddon), from your servant Marduk- šākin-šumi: Much good health to Your Majesty! May the gods Nabû and Marduk bless Your Majesty. In reply to Your Majesty's writing to me concerning the white ceremonial robes: "How many days should I keep on wearing them?" the king should wear them on the 20th and the 21st; two days are more than enough. On the 22d he can dress normally (again). And Your Majesty should, as he usually does, act exactly as directed. As to the written order of Your Majesty, Kēnu-na'id will cer- tainly die from bitter rage when he reads it. Indeed, Bēl and Nabû have extended their gracious hands toward Your Majesty. Yesterday I wrote a report concerning my failure to make an observation; today, I am still afraid and dejected.

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Some evil entity somewhere told me giving a KickStart to my ADHD kid was a good thing to do, and now I have created a 12-year-old gas molecule.

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Greetings! For my new SCA friends, I'm Æffe Michælesdohtor: Bard (mostly singing and storytelling), Kingdom Livestream co-lead, player-with-string, occasional voice Herald, former Webminister, and general volunteer-er. I live in the Barony of Blatha an Oir in the Kingdom of An Tir.

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I received a call from an unknown number yesterday, and was feeling mischievous. "Hello?" "Hi! I'm ___ with ___ Realty. We'd like to buy your house. For cash!" "Great! I want $2 million." ... [Tap tap tap of a keyboard] "Are you still living at [address]?" "Yep!" [Continued]

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Who made this? Ahahaha

Meme with side by side pictures of Marco Rubio and RFK, Jr, labeled “Marco” and “Polio.”

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Vanity Fair reports: “Trump transition team had a meeting today to discuss sexual assault allegations against Sec of Defense nominee @PeteHegseth.” They are, after all, a job prerequisite these days for the Trump White House.

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Food drive totals, plus administration who are awesome about being silly for the kids. 2600+ donations!

A middle-aged school principal dressed as a turkey and dancing across a gym floor.

2600+ food donations for our local food bank!

A middle-aged assistant administrator dancing across a gym floor in a pumpkin outfit.

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

What I'd rather be doing than going to YET ANOTHER meeting. Sigh.

A black kitten lying on a red tartan blanket. His nose is buried in the blanket, and he's sound asleep.

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Lissa Dee @lissadee.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

First post, feeling like this memory from a few years ago is a pretty good indicator of how things are right now.

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