Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 1hgetting a parent permission slip signed by someone you used to teach is wild 120
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 10hshout out to @eluberoff.bsky.social for coming through on a random request and making a bunch of kids feel cool for knowing Mr Desmos 050
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026@eluberoff.bsky.social shot in the dark, but could you send me a video saying “hi it’s Mr Desmos” my students are convinced that’s your name 130
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026@davidkbutler.bsky.social @nomadpenguin.bsky.social I teach IB now, our books are Australian so yesterday a kid looks at me and asks why they keep spelling it “metres” 110
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I only ever get the urge to listen to two Dave Matthews songs, you know exactly which ones, no, not Satellite or Crash Into Me 000
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026a lot of this could have been avoided if we had saved more of the turtles in 2019 001
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I stumbled into the prom committee room on accident this afternoon and suggested it be girls only, “YASSSSSS and old Taylor Swift only!” I got in reply 000
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026after peaking in 2018 and slowly bottoming out in 2025, I can finally say my career enthusiasm is rising once again 000
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026the entire AL West should be relegated to banana ball next season 000
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026S: I only know 3 Green Day songs T: such as… S: Basketcase, 21 Guns, American Idiot T: well if you’re only gonna know three… 000
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I’m extremely unbothered and yet also very bothered simultaneously 000
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I know you can markup tables in LaTeX but like, why though 001
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I have give a kajillion tests and today I think I deployed one of the most stressful questions ever, which I didn't even write! It was about mortgages, which, you know, fair to be stressed about that. 000
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026T: oh that's missing a 0 S: you're right T: I usually am 000
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026S: I love numbers but I hate math *glares* T: you think you’re the first person to tell me that 010
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026there’s no such thing as a lesson plan, only lesson hopes and dreams 031
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026there was an UNO game for the iPhone in like 2008 that had local multiplayer that got panned because it was like “well assuming you have five friends who can afford an iPhone” 000
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026twenty years ago I did not foresee that I would have six highly powerful computing devices casually strewn on my kitchen counter 000
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026children if your teacher ever “generously” designates a class period as a catch up day it’s because they’re catching up on stuff too 010
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026my biography will be titled “Perpetually Unqualified” given the extremely random path of my career 020
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026is it weird a top 5 proud moment as an educator is when one student started to crack a joke about me and another stopped him saying “just don’t, you aren’t ready for the comebacks” 010
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026everything I’ve said as a teacher has been ingested by an agent that passes knowledge on to new generations of itself which can recite back to me at random and unexpectedly direct quotes from any point in time, sometimes from 10-15 years ago this agent is children 000
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026you would think “oh September that’s probably not so bad” friends September is the worst month because it’s STILL 95 with 80% humidity 000
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026S: I haven’t decided who my favorite teacher is yet T: uh but I’m standing *right here* 030
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026[the exponential growth/decay lesson occurs] [time goes by] S: my dad said our mortgage rate is 3% T: sounds like you’re never moving then 001
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026getting a flu shot on a school night seems to have been ill advised 😵💫 000
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026based on my current work vibe, it’s like I went into a coma in 2019 and just now emerged 010
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026my favorite part of lesson delivery is “well I could’ve done that better, try again in a year I guess!” 020
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026you don’t need an extreme close up to know I’m teaching live, I teach live eight periods a day 001
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I have always and forever come up with things to say at very odd times of day, but now that you can delay send texts/emails you have *no idea* what goofy hour I came up with whatever I asked you 010
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026counterintuitively when he rains here it just gets hotter 000
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026teaching a new prep is just endless beta testing all day long, I’m this close to offering answer key typo bounties 030
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026in my brief, but fun, time doing math conferences, this is a perfect quote “But strangely enough, every time I interact with any of these geniuses, the feeling I get is never an awe-filled “golly this person’s intellect dwarfs mine,” but instead an unblinking “wow this mfer really loves math.”” 120
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026there’s a tropical storm on the way tomorrow, and everyone’s mad that it won’t rain *enough* 010
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026teach the medium square vs deep square controversy (yes Texas is used as a branding term on everything around here) 010
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026"an error has occurred, our team has been notified" no they haven't, stop saying that 110
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I have no idea what kind of work load requires spinning up a dozen agents at once, it all feels very performative productivity to me 010
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026T: Friday is your day to take care of business Ss: LET’S GET DOWN. TO. BUS-I-NESS. 010
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026if you write km/hr as km*hr^-1 you’re either being pretentious or a math professor, though that’s the same thing lol 110
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026is it a hot take if the albums are 20-30 years old? 1. Maroon 2. Stunt 3. Gordon/Born On a Pirate Ship 4. Everything to Everyone 5. Maybe You Should Drive 000
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026note to younger self: selling out is fine, it’s great actually 010
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026but if my enemies don’t know I’m living well how is it proper revenge 100
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026a kid told me I had "elite ball knowledge" for playing Karma Police which is cultural appropriation I think 010
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026yeah but have you ever hit “typeset” and have it render on the first try? 020
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026the whole TMC scene introduced me to people who worked at all kinds of interesting little boutique schools and I was like “how do you get that job” and now I have that job 060
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026talking about perpendicular bisectors which prompted my classic question “would you rather be bisected down the middle or at the waist?” which kicked off a raucous discussion 150
Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026you have permission to pass out in your bed at 4pm on Friday the first week of school 050
