iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jess Lifshitz @jess5th.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This year, for teacher appreciation week, maybe we can have less coffee mugs and candles and instead have more speaking up. Speak up to defend public education…

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Scott Bayer @lyricalswordz.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

We'll give AI human rights before we give actual humans human rights

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers) will be out September 2nd and is now available for pre-order. Can’t wait for you all to read it. Shout out to teachers. This is for y’all. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clint...

Cover of How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers)

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Victoria Thompson, M.S. is resting and relaxing! @victoriathetech.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I’m seeing an uptick in “transitioning teacher” content in ways I haven’t seen since 2021. So here are some friendly reminders that… 1.) This is an absolutely terrible job market and many companies, including edtech, have suffered from mass layoffs since October 2022. 1/

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Penguin School & Library @penguinschoollib.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

🎉🎉 Can’t wait for all the classrooms to meet Kareem and Shifa Saltagi Safadi’s wonderful novel in verse, KAREEM BETWEEN. #GRA25 #EduSky

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Scott Bayer @lyricalswordz.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

"They’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us."

A tweet that reads:

Cry more.

I lost 93% of my 401k fund and will gladly lose the other 9% if it means Making America Great Again.

I stand with Trump.

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Mattrkay @mattrkay.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I’ve never pushed back against a parent who doesn’t want their kid to discuss a book. Ghosts are a problem? Say no more. Language too intense? There’s always something else in the book room. You only become a problem when you fight to make decisions for *other* people’s kids.

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Dr. Sawsan Jaber, NBCT @sjeducate.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

It’s Arab Heritage Month Day One of 30 Days of Arab Voices Please read and share! www.consultwithsawsan.com/30daysofarab...

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A Link to Audio — Education Unfiltered Consulting

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Jes The Activist Teach @jessycamathews.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

A racist against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 did the longest filibuster. That same senator voted against the Civil Rights Act and Voting Act. So, yes, this filibuster is historic. No matter your feelings about Booker, you must applaud his passion and dedication to democracy.

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.” She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.

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Scott Bayer @lyricalswordz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Found this in the department office if you weren't sure how serious the Maryland hoops scene is

A men's NCAA tournament bracket where the University of Maryland wins the whole thing and every other line says "Who Cares"

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 21/03/2025

Emails to home adults is a career-defining, game-changing process.

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Christopher Lehman @ichrislehman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Reminder that tools exist to help you demand actions from your representatives. Use them. @resist.bot is messaging based tool that lets you email reps all at once or choose. Text RESIST to 50409 to start. @5calls.org lists issues, scripts and can connect you to reps easily to call

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Scott Bayer @lyricalswordz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Teaching has always been difficult—the last five years nearly impossible. And also I KNOW there are lots of problems in education. But if you are some sort of progressive who is amplifying this rhetoric, you are helping fascists destroy public education

A post from Alex Brown that reads "Seeing "acab includes teachers" being pushed by online leftists is not something I had on my bingo card."

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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

One thing non-disabled people can do to make things easier for disabled people: pause and manage YOUR anxiety about our health instead of spewing it on us. I know it's distressing to hear that someone isn't getting "better" or is in pain. But we don't need to end up comforting *you*

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

America's sweethearts the Detroit Pistons are capturing the nation's hearts!

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Scott Bayer @lyricalswordz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Hey @mitchnobis.bsky.social got my NBA notifications last night and thought "Wow America's team the Detroit Pistons are really putting in that work!"

A screenshot of Google notifications indicating the Detroit Pistons were beating the Thunder 107-0

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Scott Bayer @lyricalswordz.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Remember the part in Julius Caesar when they all stab Julius Caesar because they realize Julius Caesar needs to be stabbed #IdesOfMarch

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 15/03/2025

The government is about to give OpenAI the ability to legally steal if we do not flood this page in the next 12 hours. OpenAI will have immunity from all lawsuits regarding copyright infringement. All other AI companies will follow. Do you despise AI? Dissent, retweet. Do something. #furry #art

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Request for Information on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan

On behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the NITRD NCO requests input from all interested parties on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan ("Plan"). Th...

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PP @plainparanoid.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, vividly brought to life by E.M. Carroll, powerfully portrays a teen’s silence after (Trigger Warning) sexual assault. Haunting art and raw emotions make Melinda’s journey unforgettable. Must-read in finding one’s voice. 💙📚 #BookSky I wish I had the courage back then.

A vibrant pink book titled Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and Emily Carroll, featuring an illustration of a girl in black and white surrounded by other figures against a backdrop of walls.

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Scott Bayer @lyricalswordz.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Shout out to all the daylight we didn't save

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

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Kate Languages @katelanguages.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

During my Linguascope webinar last week, I gave some ideas for quick, low-prep starter activities, including using this type of “connections” game. In the chat, I was asked if there is a website where you can make up your own connections board and voilà here it is! The website is connectionsplus.io

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Christopher Lehman @ichrislehman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Linda McMahon is unqualified, unfit, and dangerous to our nation’s students and educators.

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Scott Bayer @lyricalswordz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I'm old enough to remember when certain people said taking down Confederate monuments was "woke" and "erasing history"

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.

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Christie Nold @christienold.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Watching the architects attempt to change our understanding of history in real time MUST be challenged. J6 was not peaceful. Ukraine did not start the war. We saw these things happen. We must call out the lies.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

If universities allow their students to be disappeared in direct contravention of all applicable laws for espousing the principles they have been taught in the classroom, then they have officially abandoned all pretense of mission. Something for those employed by Columbia to take under advisement.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

today it's the edgier portions of pro-palestinian activism, tomorrow it's "gender ideology", a year later maybe it's "the climate hoax". you draw the line here or not at all.

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Tracy Sangaré @tracysangare.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Friends, I have not been active on here and I do not have the reach that I had on the awful app. Mahmoud is my daughter’s friend. Right now, the Columbia students are asking that we sign this petition, share it widely and continue talking about Mahmoud. Please sign and share and keep talking.

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Please read and sign letter to demand for Mahmoud Khalil's release at this link: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Can you see this? REPOST

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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

This extreme escalation is an egregious violation of first amendment rights. Now is the moment to speak out and oppose this as fiercely and loudly as possible.

This weekend, DHS targeted and seized Mahmoud Khalil as punishment for his political speech, and indicated that they are revoking his green card. They have since handed him over to ICE where he is being detained — his location unknown — and held for deportation without due process.

This is what fascist governments do, and it will not stop here. This extreme escalation is the test case; the Trump/Musk administration is trying to see how far they can go without public outrage and legal checks on their power. Now is the moment to speak out and oppose this as fiercely and loudly as possible.

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Scott Bayer @lyricalswordz.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

They are trying to see if they can get away with it once so that they can do it again and again. Public outcry must be swift and loud against this.

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Scott Bayer @lyricalswordz.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

You know who doesn't care about clocks changing?

A precious white floofy bichon-poo sleeping with her toesies together

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Scott Bayer @lyricalswordz.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

"Listen, his mom is already furious and said you can't boycott him, okay?"

A bunch of cops standing in line in front of Tesla for absolutely no reason

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

It's a few weeks ago now, but I'm still feeding off the high that after 7-8 years of submitting, I'll have not one but two poetry collections come out this year. 🤘🏼

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Scott Bayer @lyricalswordz.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

When it's March and you're starting to see all your friends go on spring break but yours doesn't start until April 12

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