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Ann Pham, MSEd

@soulandskin.bsky.social
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Educator, writer, semi-professional dilettante I do educational trouble‑shooting for humans. Critical thinking + empathy = well‑being as a single system.

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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Applying to college involves a lot of planning, prioritizing, time management, persistence, and other executive functioning skills that a lot of my students struggle with. Part of what I do is help them figure out what strategies help them get it done anyway.
A timeline for the college application process from junior to senior years of high school. The image is high resolution and can be downloaded for zooming in. To download the original file, please go to: https://akpacademics.com/getting-ready-for-college/
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I would describe some people the same way, and I would argue that's partly how we all got here.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My roster this week is dealing with: ADHD severe anxiety bipolar disorder autism medication instability mental health recovery EF deficits substance abuse conceptual learning challenges and learning: anatomy & physiology college-level study skills SAT strategies critical thinking skills biology
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I always look forward to the Warren Peace Report.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The irony.
Before the printing press, reading was limited to elite/religious classes. Afterwards, it still took a century or two for poorer people to access books. Since then, centuries of investing in education and promoting literacy have passed, and now, when it's easier than ever to read - *now* is when people don't want to??
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I have my fingers crossed for future history books that have chapters on the Portland Frog and Will 'Spiderman' Love.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What I really want to know is what percentage of other countries' histories have they been at war. sheets.works/data-viz/yea... www.warcosts.org/war-calendar
https://sheets.works/data-viz/years-of-peace

A map of the world showing by color when each country was last at war. Dark red shows countries currently at war; orange shows countries that were at war five or more years ago; yellow shows countries at war 25-49 years ago; light green 50-99 years ago; dark green 100-149 years ago; darkest green 200 years or more (Sweden); striped green never (as a state - Eswatini).https://www.warcosts.org/war-calendar

A chart of years that America has been at war. It's mostly red, because we've mostly been at war.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
An image of a burning $100 bill. The words read 'Just say no to capitalism'.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I miss finding cash in my pockets.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Please, please, no coffee recalls...
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It's funny how we talk about 'worth', because I'm fairly certain that I could not trade one Elon Musk for $800 billion dollars worth of goods and services.
A screenshot from https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/ show Elon Musk's current net worth (as of 19 August 2026) as $863.5 billion and a practice mug shot.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I have worked for parents who are not this patient with or attentive to their own kids.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I am very existentially exhausted right now.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Today's earworm is 'Glamorous Sky' by Mika Nakashima. It's from the movie Nana, which I saw on a plane going to London with my brother a couple of decades ago, and while I don't know what she's singing beyond 'glamorous sky' and the days of the week, I always feel the yearning I hear in this song.
youtube.com
中島美嘉「GLAMOROUS SKY」Music Video(4K Video)
YouTube video by 中島美嘉 Official YouTube Channel
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hello! I used to be a teenager who stepped into the street to avoid overhanging shrubbery and nearly got hit by a speeding car, but now I go by Ann.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Which makes it into the DSM first: CPTSD or disorders from climate trauma?
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
If your kid (or you) would like some tutoring or academic coaching help but can't afford premium rates, please contact me (akpacademics.com/contact/) to see if I can help you anyway.
akpacademics.com
Contact – AKP Academics
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
As a nontheist, I did not know that I would like God @thegodshow.com so much. He was completely misrepresented to me at church.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
At least two things that you cannot identify.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We need to have a social conversation about reaching that stage in life where you can't remember whether or not celebrities from your childhood have already died.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I tell my math students that half of problem-solving is just organizing information in a way that makes it easier for you to track your thinking. Organizing skills are transferable. 'We gotta get up and organize.'
youtube.com
Lo Fidelity Allstars - Battleflag
YouTube video by Skint Records
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I'm working on a hypothesis that some people fear losing power because humans tend to think that, if we can control everything, we don't have to fear unpredictable suffering befalling us; thus, it appears to me that the ones who most want/cling to power are the most afraid. 1/2
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I think often about why nothing happened back then.
indiewire.com
Sacha Baron Cohen Sent Cut ‘Who Is America?’ Interview to FBI Over Fears of Las Vegas Pedophile Ring
The comedian says the interview led him to believe there could be "a pedophile ring in Las Vegas."
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I'd vote for most of my middle school students before I'd vote for most of the people over 50 I've seen running for office this year.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
... ... Isn't kind of *everyone* illegal on stolen land?
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I'm looking forward to the new subgenre of produce horror that will undoubtedly emerge after this year.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I love pie. Thank you for agreeing with me.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Is it possible for health care providers to go ahead and provide treatment, even if the insurance company doesn't cover a procedure? I mean... it seems like we should save the life first and then work out how it gets paid for afterward, so I assume there's a reason that's not what happens already?
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
So, that reminds me - I'm developing a six-week one-on-one tutoring series that teaches students how humor uses critical thinking skills. If that sounds interesting to you, please let me know.
cdn.bsky.app
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
If you don't have enough profits to share with the whole class, then maybe no one should have any profits.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I wonder if dumptruck and Bibi will have joint or separate war crimes trials.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My annual income has never exceeded what I made 25 years ago shortly after I finished my master's degree, when I still struggled to make rent in Brooklyn.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Six and a half years ago, Musk's net work was $27 billion.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
To me, humility is the confidence that being wrong will not annihilate you.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Again, I point out that our baseline for dignity in America is not where it could be.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Remember that David Bowie, Steven Tyler, Jimmy Page, Anthony Kiedis, and a lot of other still-popular white men have also had sex with/raped young girls.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Why did Superman drill through the sidewalk of Metropolis when he could've used any nearby manhole cover to get underground?
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The baseline for dignity in other parts of the world are higher than it is here in America. The base price tag for dignity is what's higher here.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade last year, I hypothesized that what people love is recognizing stuff. And I wonder where the delight meter would ping if everyone recognized everyone else's humanity.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
These are things we could choose to reclaim.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
American-style capitalism is humanity's collective mental illness.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I have a 30oz Takaya travel mug I drink coffee from daily. I take a sip whenever I'm done talking and it's the student's turn. If it's a good session, I should have finished at least half of it because I think the student should talk more than the tutor.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I honestly enjoyed reading this, remembering that the first thing I ever saw Sam Neill in was The Omen III.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Her refusal of the million-dollar package and the Bezos offer is what tells me she's a genius.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Meet Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, Harvard’s ‘next Albert Einstein’ who has rejected million dollar offers from the likes of Jeff Bezos
While most teens her age were buried in homework and distracted by their first crushes, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski was aiming for the sky, literally. She had built her own single-engine plane and was ...
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Seems like the time to get into political advertising, since that's where all the money is going to go now. Then we can figure out how to redistribute it.
apnews.com
Supreme Court strikes down limits on party spending in federal elections, backing Republican appeal
The Supreme Court has erased limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president, striking down a federal election law that's more than 50 years o...
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Included on the list of pedophiles are a lot of people who got passes because they made music we like.
theguardian.com
Look Away review – horrifying stories of abuse at the hands of male rock stars
These interviews with the so-called ‘baby groupies’ of the 70s and 80s reveal why the music industry desperately needs its own #MeToo moment
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Fiat Money - a government-issued currency that is not backed by a physical commodity, such as gold or silver, but rather by the government that issued it.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Sea shells in a red county.
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Ann Pham, MSEd @soulandskin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The company that produces the MQ-9 Reaper drone that killed 12 people in Somalia does not identify who owns it. Even pharma companies are willing to show you who's overseeing the manufacture of their products.
The 'about us' page for General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, makers of the MQ-9 Reaper drone, with no information about executives, management or investors. It says:

We Are

The world leader in unmanned aerial systems.

We invent and pioneer modern solutions for military, security, governance, environmental operations and more.

We support our customers with the greatest medium-altitude and small unmanned aircraft systems, and cutting-edge mission payload and exploitation technologies.

 
Our Vision

Enabling information dominance.

 
Our Mission

Provide persistent, versatile, affordable airborne surveillance and effects, and turn surveillance data into actionable intelligence.from https://www.actiniumpharma.com/about/management-team

An 'About Us' page for Actinium Pharmaceuticals showing some of the management team.
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